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[arch-general] only root can select/copy text using gpm
by Juan R. de Silva 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

I installed and configured gpm daemon. The daemon starts and the mouse works fine, including copy-and-paste. But only in a console were I log as root. When I open another tty and login there as a normal user, the mouse cursor is available. I mean, it is visible and moves as desired. But I can neither select nor copy anything, since drugging does not work. The whole point of installing gpm for me was to facilitate the use of Arch Wiki sources and instead of typing large pieces just copying and pasting them. Having this problem I would be forced to run 'links' in a root environment that does not seem very safe to me. Is there any solution for this, please?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dnsutils-9.8.0.P4-2
by Thorsten Töpper 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:50 -0700 Gaetan Bisson <bisson(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > [2011-08-29 10:40:27 +0300] Evangelos Foutras: > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Gaetan Bisson > > <bisson(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > An update to dnsutils is in [testing]; it implements: > > > - FS#25801 (move nsupdate to bind) > > > - FS#25048 (make binaries smaller) > > > > > > Please test and signoff. > > > > Signoff x86_64. > > Somebody for i686? > signoff i686 -- Jabber: atsutane(a)freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4

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[arch-general] [signoff] b43-fwcutter-015
by Tobias Powalowski 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hi guys, bump to latest version. Please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] ettercap new upstream
by Timothy M. Redaelli 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Hi, some month ago I decided to become the new ettercap upstream maintainer. I released a fixed 0.7.4 version - https://github.com/drizztbsd/ettercap/tarball/NG-0.7.4 - that is included in debian testing and sid. Should I flag the ettercap package as old? -- Timothy M. Redaelli IT Consultant Email: timothy(a)redaelli.eu Mobile: +39 (338) 1187273 Skype: redatim

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.46-1
by Tobias Powalowski 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Latest LTS kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] btrfs & Arch
by Gour-Gadadhara Dasa 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

Hello! After package manager which can server both official repos & AUR,there is another thing which I consider before returning back to Arch - filesystem. On FreeBSD I now use zfs running on two 1TB disks in mirror (raid-1) mode. I'd like to have similar setup on Arch, but without using lvm2+raid-1 (if possible), so I did research a bit about zfs on Linux and it looks that the 'real' name for it is Btrfs. Afaics, btrfs will soon get fsck tool for repairing the fs, but I wonder what's the plan for btrfs support in Arch, iow, when it can become 'official' ? Sincerely, Gour -- “In the material world, conceptions of good and bad are all mental speculations…” (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu) http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810

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[arch-general] Pacman and package signing
by Myra Nelson 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

I'm going to plead ignorance hear and have not been able to find the solution. I've done a google search, read the man pages, read the help documentation for gpg, and I still have a problem. If I sign the package with makepkg or manually with gpg --detach-sign, it creates a it creates a detached signature, .sig file. I have my key using pacman-key. When I attempt to install the package I get an error message "invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)". If I manually sign the package with gpg --sign, every thing is fine. I quite sure this is something I've done wrong but I don't seem to be able (nice way of putting it) to be able to find this solution. WTF am I doing wrong. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] ip route sort order
by Damjan 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

Does anyone know, when and why the results of "ip route" in recent times are not sorted by netmask specificness? I remember previously routes were sorted most specific first by the netmask. -- damjan

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[arch-general] resource limits, unable to run apps
by Marek Otahal 28 Aug '11

28 Aug '11

Hi guys, in last days i'm severely bugged by some resource limits on my machine..my applications fail to run etc. I'm running on a netbook that is slow by default, but i've been on it for a few years and it was ok. I'm running normal KDE, IM client, kmail, firefox (with a lot, cca 30) tabs open, a konsole and netbeans ide. The thing is I remember I once played with some limits to avoid forkbombs etc..so my question is if you could point me to some files to check for configs? This is my top output: $ top top - 22:19:59 up 1 day, 7:19, 3 users, load average: 1.06, 1.56, 1.34 Tasks: 199 total, 1 running, 196 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie Cpu(s): 1.8%us, 2.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 95.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2055224k total, 1748036k used, 307188k free, 13632k buffers Swap: 2561304k total, 938420k used, 1622884k free, 1119728k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 20689 marek 20 0 223m 60m 17m S 4 3.0 2:08.92 skype 1322 root 20 0 113m 21m 4552 S 1 1.1 65:50.10 X 3385 marek 20 0 6124 840 604 S 1 0.0 15:13.67 scdaemon 6421 marek 20 0 936m 137m 16m S 1 6.9 0:59.12 java 6832 marek 20 0 2576 1032 756 R 1 0.1 0:01.37 top 3216 marek 20 0 115m 12m 7156 S 1 0.6 31:17.96 konsole 22696 marek 20 0 177m 8828 5240 S 1 0.4 6:52.92 kget 2707 marek 20 0 5576 344 212 S 0 0.0 2:52.82 gpg-agent 3275 marek 20 0 119m 5124 3136 S 0 0.2 2:36.09 kleopatra 3449 marek 20 0 101m 4280 2720 S 0 0.2 0:57.63 klipper 6451 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:23.52 kworker/0:2 1 root 20 0 1880 24 0 S 0 0.0 0:19.49 init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.06 kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:03.84 ksoftirqd/0 6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 13 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset 14 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 15 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 netns 16 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.25 sync_supers 17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 bdi-default 18 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd 20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.14 khungtaskd Ulimit says $ ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority (-e) 30 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 16028 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 80000 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 75 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 250 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited and I use pm-utils, should that matter? I used to run the system under similar load and it was ok, now eg. my compiles in netbeans fail, says OutOfMemoryException or sometimes cannot create a new native thread. (openjdk), also command line tools fail with things like $ man scdaemon man: fork failed: Resource temporarily unavailable I wonder is it the memory consumed by netbeans or some number of process/open files limit or something? I'm glad for any suggestions, as now if i want to develop in java, i have to shut down browser, chat and even though... Thank you, Mark PS: i know..but now i'd not like to hear suggestions like using a lighter DE or buying better hw ;) -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] system slowing down when copying files.
by Madhurya Kakati 28 Aug '11

28 Aug '11

Hi, My system tends to slow down a lot when I copy files to and from a pen drive or even from one hard disk to another. Even my mouse cursor slows down. The system becomes almost unusable. I more than enough RAM and I am using a tiling window manager. So I am not even using a lot of RAM. Why is this happening? I can't work on my system if I run any large file copy/move operation. Please help. Thanks.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] the storage group
by Myra Nelson 28 Aug '11

28 Aug '11

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 17:43, Tom Gundersen <teg(a)jklm.no> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg(a)jklm.no> wrote: >> I'm refactoring our support for the "storage" group, due to a recent >> bug report about it being incomplete: >> <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22337>. I thought I'd ask for some >> input. > > I did a bit more digging and asking around, and it seems that my > previous suggestion, basically to make "storage" work correctly with > more devices, is not a good one. > > I tried pushing the fix into udev upstream, but Kay argued against it, > and even the Debian maintainer agreed that this should probably not go > upstream. > > Their reasoning (which I guess I agree with) is that giving users > access to usb sticks (among other things) causes security probems (the > user logged in over ssh can access the usb stick of the logged in > user). > > Furthermore, (and this I did not know) in addition to taking care of > mounting, udisks has support for most of what fdisk does, so there > goes the main argument in favor of giving user access to these > devices. > > To make a long story short; in stead of fixing the "storage" group, I > intend to remove support for it from udev, and direct people to use > udisks instead. If anyone have any objections, pleas let me know. > > Cheers, > > Tom > Pardon the interruption but from a former MS user and basically an end user I thought I would chime in. Auto mounting is evil and the autorun feature associated with it is worse. I think removing it from udev is an excellent idea and I laud your suggestion. It will definitely improve security and, IMHO, make things easier to setup. One only has to learn one method, preferably the "correct" method, to do something. I use the word correct because their are at least 3 right ways to do things. Your way, my way, and the next person's way. None of which may be the correct way. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] Removal of jre/jdk and jre6/jdk6 from [community]
by Thomas Dziedzic 27 Aug '11

27 Aug '11

Oracle recently decided to remove the DLJ (Operating System Distributor License for Java) from their license on their own proprietary implementation of java [1]. For a good article explaining the situation, please refer to [2]. This means that you will have to use openjdk6 from [community] or get jre/jdk (java 7) and jre6/jdk6 (java 6) from the AUR. My personal opinion is that although openjdk6 is more buggy, I encourage everyone to use it and report bugs against it from now on. This will be better for linux in the long run. I will not be maintaining these packages in the AUR anymore. Oracle's original blog post [1] - http://robilad.livejournal.com/90792.html Article explaining the move [2] - http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2011/08/26/sun_java6_packages_re…

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[arch-general] Keycode kernel patch doesn't change keycodes anymore
by Marcel Korpel 27 Aug '11

27 Aug '11

Hi all, As I do not get replies to my forum post [1], I'll try asking this question here. Up until recently, I used to get the zoom slider on my Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 working by following the instructions in a Gentoo Wiki page [2]. In short, by applying a small patch [3] to my custom compiled (ZEN-)kernel the keycodes of the slider are changed to values below 255, enabling the X server to process those keycodes. Unfortunately, after a recent kernel update I get different keycodes, as if the patch isn't applied at all, although I can confirm that include/linux/input.h is still changed. My keycodes now read: $ showkey keycode 418 press keycode 418 release keycode 419 press keycode 419 release I flipped through latest kernel changes of 2.6.38.x [4] and 2.6.39.x [5] (that I currently use) but was not able to find a change that might have influenced the (translation of these) keycodes. Anyone here that has an idea what might cause this issue? Kind regards, Marcel [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=125259 [2] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Microsoft_Natural_Ergonomic_Keyboard_4000 [3] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/w/images/1/17/Kernel-2.6.34-msnek.patch [4] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.38.y.git;a=short… [5] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.39.y.git;a=short…

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[arch-general] [signoff] nfs-utils 1.2.4-3
by Tobias Powalowski 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

Hi guys, - fixed start scripts to not start nfs-common from nfs-server and rpcbind from nfs-common #20903 greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] samba-3.6.0-3
by Tobias Powalowski 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

Hi guys. - using the waf building system - reduced package size 80Mb - changed to gamin depend instead of fam Due to the big changes, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Git for the repos
by Lukas Fleischer 25 Aug '11

25 Aug '11

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:35:47AM -0300, Ángel Velásquez wrote: > 2011/8/24 Florian Pritz <bluewind(a)xinu.at>: > > So it came up in IRC again and I'll try to sum up the discussion: > > > > SVN checkouts tend to break, some people only use it for our repos and > > not anywhere else, it's slow. > > > > We agreed on one git repo per package because you can't do partial > > checkouts in git and you hardly need the history of all packages anyway. > > > > To keep track of released packages, dbscripts maintains it's own (git?) > > meta database which contains only the package version and pacman repo of > > the package. The version corresponds to a tag in the package's git repo. > > > > We can't use tags like "testing-i686" because you can't reuse tags in git. > > > > I'd like to hear some comments about this. > > > > -- > > Florian Pritz > > > > > > First I need to ask some questions (understant that I don't get why is > this getting proposed) > > Well, why are us needing of git? what goal we want to achieve? .. > > Devtools have some complications (X number of commits for package i.e) > but, this will change with git? how? .. it will git increase the speed > or the workflow of our devtools? why git, not hg, darcs or another > DVCS? Dan and me worked on some patches to reduce the number of commits recently [1], [2], [3] and devtools-git only commits twice per commitpkg invocation. First commit to push changes to trunk, second commit to release to the repositories. Note that this has some impacts on speed. This is mostly related to SVN and the way we need to create tags when releasing to the repositories with a single commit. I pointed that out in a separate thread on arch-projects [4] but I sadly didn't get any feedback yet. Maybe this should be considered, also. Not that I have a strong feeling about it. I just thought I should mention it. [1] http://projects.archlinux.org/devtools.git/commit/?id=8384ad84 [2] http://projects.archlinux.org/devtools.git/commit/?id=6ef4d5f3 [3] http://projects.archlinux.org/devtools.git/commit/?id=61010062 [4] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-projects/2011-August/001748.html

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Git for the repos
by Lukas Fleischer 25 Aug '11

25 Aug '11

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 01:41:50PM -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Andreas Radke <andyrtr(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > Am Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:53:55 +0200 > > schrieb Florian Pritz <bluewind(a)xinu.at>: > > > >> So it came up in IRC again and I'll try to sum up the discussion: > >> > >> SVN checkouts tend to break, some people only use it for our repos and > >> not anywhere else, it's slow. > > > > Latest devtools changes break some commits not copying files into the > > repos directories. > > > > There is a patch in arch-project ML to fix that. Pierre pushed that patch some hours ago [1], so this should be fixed with the next devtools release. [1] http://projects.archlinux.org/devtools.git/commit/?id=c2420902

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[arch-general] Unable to use tape drive
by Vitor Garcia 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

Good morning. I have been trying to my Dell LTO-120 SCSI Tape Drive on Arch without success. I have tried to run $ modprobe st, but still, I have no /dev/st0 and neither /dev/nst0. dmesg | grep -i tape shows nothing too. Is there anything I'm missing here? Dell's user manual says that the drive should work out of the box on linux. Best regards, Vitor

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Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3 Always in Fallback Mode
by Max Xie 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Sorry, but I can't understand what's 'top posting'... Is that to say I shouldn't post the mail before? Well, I've installed mesa-demos, and gnome says my Graphics is 'Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe'. 1) Umm, I've attached them in attachments. I don't know how to find what's wrong by reading the log... 2) I log into my user in text mode and type 'startx' to start gnome I used the latest core img for installation, I think the KMS should be enabled as default.. I'll try to follow the wiki to enable it during bootstrapping... ---- Mail by Max Xie

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[arch-general] replacement for clyde
by Gour-Gadadhara Dasa 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Hello! Some months ago I switched my desktop from Arch to FreeBSD to experiment a bit. Soon I may buy a new netbook and I believe that with ATI graphic, Arch is better choice, but looking at forums yesterday I saw that both bauerbill & clyde are gone. :-( Considering that decent package manager is very vital part of OS's ecosystem, I wonder what would be decent replacment having e.g. clyde-like features? Before clyde I used yaourt (which now has C-back end, afaik), tried paktahn (which has some quirks) and now I see pacaur (with cower). What can you recommend so I can read more about it? Sincerely, Gour -- “In the material world, conceptions of good and bad are all mental speculations…” (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu) http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810

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[arch-general] Gnome 3 Always in Fallback Mode
by Max Xie 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Hi, Sorry for my bad English. I've just bought a new computer about 1 month ago and I tried to install archlinux as second OS on it yesterday. But when I got everything done and started the Gnome, it took a minute and, started in Fallback Mode with a dialog box telling me maybe I have not got proper driver for the graphic card. It appeared just the first time I start Gnome, nerver I got that dialog box further, still in fallback mode. My graphic card is Intel HD 2000 integrated in CPU. I'm using xf86-video-intel as the driver. I can't check what's wrong. Thanks, ---- Mail by Max Xie

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.88-1
by jwbirdsong 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

On 08/22/2011 01:41 AM, Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Dave Reisner <d(a)falconindy.com> > wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:13:45PM -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.88-1 are in testing for upstream >>> update. Please test and signoff. >>> >>> Eric >> >> I can still boot. Signoff x86_64. >> >> dave >> > > Bump. Anyone for i686? > Signoff i686 since no one else will. :D

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[arch-general] Canon MP280 turboprint
by R7h0re4 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

I have a canon MP280 printer and am unable to print using turboprint, as well as a regular cups using gutenprint drivers or Turboprint drivers or the .ppd files downloaded from Canon's site. When I check the aur most of the packaged drivers are outdated and when I check the bug reports it seems that I am not alone in this respect. A few of the bug reports list something about 64 bit issues, I am also unable to compile some of the files from the Canon tar balls you can get from Canons site. When I check the cups error log file it gives me back end failures and list a few files, when I link the file nothing prints. This also applies to Turbo-print but does not give error messages in that program. Just wanted to know what other options I may need to pursue, the printer works with Debian 32 bit on a net-book, and of course Windows but it would be nice to get it working under Arch. R7h0re4

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[arch-general] Issues with Firefox 6 not starting after update
by Samuel Baldwin 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

The topic says it all. I recently pacman -Syu'd and firefox has refused to start after this. I've tried rolling back to firefox 4 (and xulrunner 2) but I just get an error about XPCOM not loading. Trying to start firefox 6 just yields hanging. I've tried running firefox with LD_DEBUG=all and I've uploaded it here: http://lusitania.logik.li/files/firefox.log . Any help would be appreciated. Pointers about how successfully rollback to firefox 4 are also an acceptable substitute. Thanks, -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

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Re: [arch-general] new TalkingArch ISOs available!
by Kyle 21 Aug '11

21 Aug '11

Getting it now. Thanks for the great work you put into this. ~Kyle Sent from my Wishdroid! :)

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[arch-general] new TalkingArch ISOs available!
by Christopher Brannon 21 Aug '11

21 Aug '11

Hi all, I'm proud to announce the latest edition of my TalkingArch project. TalkingArch consists of modified Arch Linux ISO images, customized for the blind. Both Speakup and Brltty are provided. Assuming that there are no issues with your sound card, your machine should start speaking as soon as TalkingArch finishes booting. While it is typically used to install Arch Linux, it also makes a handy rescue CD. You may obtain TalkingArch from my website: <http://the-brannons.com/tarch/>. TalkingArch is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Arch Linux. I created it for my own personal use, although I sincerely hope that others will enjoy it. TalkingArch comes with absolutely no warranty. If it breaks, I'm sorry about your bad luck! -- Chris

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[arch-general] mkinitcpio: WARNING: deprecated 'install' function. This should be renamed 'build' for custom hook
by Marek Otahal 21 Aug '11

21 Aug '11

Hi, I have a custom hook [1] (opencrypt to setup encrypted partitions for me) and last days (well, a couple of months maybe:P) I'm getting this on every mkinitcpio generation: -> Parsing hook: [opencrypt] ==> WARNING: Hook 'opencrypt' uses a deprecated 'install' function. This should be renamed 'build' -> Parsing hook: [resume] Fortunately, the system still works ok, I am just curious what's the complaint about? I checked the official hooks in /lib/initcpio/hooks and none uses build(), they do all run_hook(). Thanks, Mark =================== [1] custom hook opencrypt # vim: set ft=sh: # marek for encryption run_hook () { echo "opencrypt hook" # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda6 preDevice ## handled by cryptdevice=/dev/sda6:preDevice boot cmd line # sda7 now, +1 shift mkdir -p /mnt/pre mount -n -t ext4 /dev/mapper/preDevice /mnt/pre echo "swapDevice: " cryptsetup -d /mnt/pre/swap.key luksOpen /dev/sda8 swapDevice echo "homeDevice: " cryptsetup -d /mnt/pre/home.key luksOpen /dev/sda10 homeDevice echo "storeDevice: " cryptsetup -d /mnt/pre/store.key luksOpen /dev/sda6 storeDevice umount /mnt/pre cryptsetup luksClose preDevice echo "[ok]" } -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] Ethernet stopped working after update
by dmbuce＠gmail.com 20 Aug '11

20 Aug '11

My card: # lspci | grep -i ethernet Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03) After doing pacman -Syu, ethernet on my desktop stopped working. The card on my laptop is the same, at least according to lspci, and is working fine. When I upgraded, there was a change in syntax in rc.conf for defining the network, but I'm just attempting dhcp for now before I try to set up a static ip: interface=eth0 address= netmask= gateway= I've tried resetting the router and switching from the kernel's r8169 driver to the r8168 driver from the aur. I compiled the aur driver on my laptop and transferred to the desktop on usb -- as long as they're both x86_64, this shouldn't be a problem, right? Regardless of my choice of driver, ethernet on the laptop works fine, and doesn't work at all on the desktop. If I set up ethernet manually using ifconfig to define the address/netmask/broadcast/etc (making sure the routes are correct), everything appears to work fine until I try to ping the router and get "Destination Host Unreachable". And the kicker is that the light on the router for the port I have my ethernet cable plugged into will light up for the laptop, but not the desktop. Given this and the other behavior, I'm inclined to think it's a hardware issue, but this hardware is only several months old, and having this happen right after an upgrade seems unlikely to be a coincidence. Anything else I can try short of reinstalling or getting a replacement from the manufacturer?

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[arch-general] problems with vim
by Uli Armbruster 20 Aug '11

20 Aug '11

Hi list I wanted to ask here first, because it might be a configuration problem on my side, which I tried to, but couldn't figure out. My problem is, in vim the right and left arrow keys don't do anything in command mode (in insert mode everything's normal). The up and down arrow keys work as expected. I know in vim it makes more sense to use hjkl to navigate, which I prefer most of the time, but sometimes - I don't really know why - I use the arrow keys. To investigate further I moved ~/.vim and ~/.vimrc, still the same. I tried it with a new user, still the same. Is this a bug? Can somebody confirm this behavior? Best Army

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[arch-general] Pacman get stack when updating the kernel!!
by Hector Martinez-Seara 20 Aug '11

20 Aug '11

Hi, Today when I have tried to update the kernel pacman got stack: >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ... >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait... ==> Building image from preset: 'default' -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img ==> Starting build: 3.0-ARCH -> Parsing hook: [base] -> Parsing hook: [udev] -> Parsing hook: [autodetect] After this point nothing happen. In everything.log I get infinite amount of the following message: " Aug 19 15:18:03 localhost kernel: [608984.681025] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: WARN: Stalled endpoint " Does anybody know what is going on? Hector -- Hector Martínez-Seara Monné mail: hseara(a)gmail.com Tel: +34656271145 Tel: +358442709253

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[arch-general] PHP: Dropping Suhosin patch and PEAR
by Pierre Schmitz 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

Hi all, The recent PHP 5.3.7 packages will be shipped without the Suhosin patch and there also wont be a PEAR package. While I like the suhosin project I have to assume that this is stalled at best. There are no new releases since PHP 5.3.4 was released. I also wasn't able to contact the author to ask about the current state. Even though porting the patch to new minor php releases is quite easy, I don't feel comfortable about this; doing so wont also be "the Arch way". If anybody knows more about the current state of Suhosin, please let me know. Note: I'll keep the Suhosin extension as long as it works though. In addition to this I removed the php-pear package. The main problem is that the recent version of PEAR does not support the installation to a destination directory. There are quite a lot of bug reports about this; some of them are very old.* I am not really interested to add any hacks to make it working. This has to be fixed upstream once and for all; unless they really don't want to have pear redistributed. For anybody interested in using pear I'd suggest creating a separate PKGBUILD and put it into AUR. The Fedora spec file might be a good start: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=php-pear.git;a=blob;f=php-pear.spec Greetings, Pierre *) https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=18568 http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=6154 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50509 https://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=17067 -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-general] mounted samba shares causing hang on shutdown/reboot
by David C. Rankin 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

Guys, I'm wondering if I need to change the order of the processes in the DAEMONS line in rc.conf to prevent a hang on reboot/shutdown if smb shares are mounted. It is almost a 3 minute hang: Aug 19 16:42:01 providence postfix/qmgr[1316]: A178EA64CD: removed Aug 19 16:43:13 providence smbd[29587]: [2011/08/19 16:43:13.608240, 0] printing/print_cups.c:110(cups_connect) Aug 19 16:43:13 providence smbd[29587]: Unable to connect to CUPS server 192.168.7.15:631 - Connection refused Aug 19 16:43:13 providence smbd[11057]: [2011/08/19 16:43:13.623014, 0] printing/print_cups.c:487(cups_async_callback) Aug 19 16:43:13 providence smbd[11057]: failed to retrieve printer list: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL Aug 19 16:44:49 providence shutdown[30753]: shutting down for system reboot Aug 19 16:44:49 providence init: Switching to runlevel: 6 Apparently, the unmount attempt happens immediately after the postfix shutdown and the total time between the time of hang and time of shutdown is 2:48 seconds which seems like forever. (it's probably actually a 2:30 sec. timeout, with 18 secs burned somewhere else) The DAEMONS line I'm using is: DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng network hal @netfs @ntpd @sshd @crond !avahi-daemon @mysqld @postfix @cups @samba @apcupsd) From the error, it looks like smbd attempts to contact cups and gets a connection refused (I have 1 smb printer defined). I don't know whether this is a bug or a problem with the shutdown order. If I manually unmount the smb drives before calling shutdown, then there is no hang. However, I shouldn't need to manually unmount the smb drives as that should be handled automatically. I can obviously write a simple script that is called on shutdown that does the unmount, but I would rather see if I can identify and fix the issue correctly. Anybody have any thoughts on whether I should move things around in the DAEMONS line? Anybody else seeing this with mounted smb shares? The shares I have are these: //phoenix/config on /mnt/phx-cfg type cifs (rw) //phoenix/samba on /mnt/phx type cifs (rw) //phoenix/david on /mnt/phx-david type cifs (rw) Any thoughts? This isn't something that just started today. It has existed for a number of months, but I've just lived with it as this box is rarely rebooted except for kernel updates... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Framebuffer Reset
by pants 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

Hello, I run my desktop from the framebuffer, and often use the fbdev mplayer video output to watch video. I generally do this by sshing in to the machine via my laptop, running # export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 to get video to output to my desktop's display. Occasionally, while watching something, my ssh connection gets killed. My dhcp might renew on a reconnect, or the shell running mplayer might get killed, but the mplayer process dies without closing correctly. As a result, the last frame rendered by mplayer is stuck on the screen. Changes to the framebuffer will remove this image locally, but areas that can't be cleared (like a small strip on the bottom of the screen) retain the image indefinitely. Furthermore, using fbdev again with mplayer causes each subsequent final frame to become similarly stuck, regardless of how mplayer is quit. Is there some way to 'reset' the framebuffer and stop this without restarting? Cheers, pants -- jaron `pants' kent-dobias pants(a)cs.hmc.edu 425 999 1948

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Re: [arch-general] replacement for clyde
by Kyle 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

I've been using pbfetch, and it works pretty well for me. I'm of course open to trying some of these other packages as well. The really great thing is that you can have them all installed, and then uninstall the packages you don't need once you've made your choice. ~Kyle Sent from my Wishdroid! :)

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[arch-general] Looking for latest iso for AMD64
by Leonenkov, Roman 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

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[arch-general] CD eject as non-root user
by Norbert Zeh 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

Hi folks, I have a strange problem with ejecting CDs from my CD drive. As root: eject and eject -t work flawlessly eject -T gives ioctl: Input/output error As non-root user: eject -t closes the tray as expected eject gives eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device eject -T gives the same result as for root It doesn't matter whether I do or do not specify sr0 as the device to eject. The non-root user that I try to execute this command as is in the optical group. I have the same problem on two different machines: my trusty old desktop and a Dell Latitude E6510. Also, all this did work before and stopped working some time not so long ago. So, given that it did work before and happens on two rather different machines, I suspect it to be a result of some package upgrade. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly when this started happening. Does anybody else experience this type of problem? Does anybody have any pointers what may be wrong with my setup? Thanks, Norbert -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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[arch-general] Java 6 back in [community]
by Thomas Dziedzic 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

As a result of problems oracle has faced with java 7, it has marked it for developers only: http://java.com/en/download/faq/java7.xml This is why I have decided to bring back java 6 into [community] and it will coexist with java 7 for the time being. jre/jdk - java 7 jre6/jdk6 - java 6 java 6 packages conflict with java 7 packages, so you will not be able to have them both installed at the same time. Note, this is only temporary until Oracle announces yet again, that java 7 is available for general use. I expect this to be at around the time update 1 or 2 comes out for java 7. After they announce this, java 6 is going back into the aur. Happy hacking!

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.0.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] unable to run emacs through VNC
by D. R. Evans 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

I have arch running on a machine that I access through vnc. I just installed and tried to run emacs on the arch machine in an xfce terminal window, but I get the following error: $ emacs logcfg.dat Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1.0". Undefined color: "black" $ Every other program I've tried (which admittedly is not many) has worked fine. What do I need to do to resolve this issue and run emacs? Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.45-1
by Tobias Powalowski 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

Latest LTS kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.0.2-1
by Tobias Powalowski 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] vpnc 0.5.3-4
by Thomas Bächler 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

Fix FS#25002 (add net-tools dep for now), FS#23452 (fix path, add optdepend) and FS#25095 (add supplied patch). Please sign off. I also want to mention that I don't use vpnc anymore, and haven't done so for years. I don't want to keep maintaining it, so if there are takers among the devs, please step up.

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[arch-general] Atheros WiFi only working after reboot from windows
by Vic Demuzere 15 Aug '11

15 Aug '11

Hi there, I have a really strange issue with my Atheros WiFi card since re-installing Arch. It doesn't manage to connect to my wireless AP, except when I first boot windows and then reboot to Arch. So it looks like Arch doesn't manage to start the card properly. Output from dmesg is the same in both cases, and the card correctly shows up in lspci. [sorcix@morpheus ~]$ dmesg | grep ath ath9k 0000:01:0b.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x30 ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map ath: Country alpha2 being used: AM ath: Regpair used: 0x30 ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'ath9k_rate_control' Registered led device: ath9k-phy0 I tried netcfg, networkmanager and manually using wpa_supplicant. When I didn't boot windows first, the card seems to connect to the AP, and then disconnect again. wlan0: deauthenticating from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx by local choice (reason=3) It then starts looping trying to reconnect. After first booting into windows, it simply connects and stays connected. Everything works fine then. Note that it always works fine in windows, so it isn't a hardware problem. Does anyone else have this problem, or knows how to fix it? -- vic(a)demuzere.be :: http://vic.demuzere.be :: PGP: 0x6690CF94 My software never contains bugs, it just develops random features.

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[arch-general] [signoff] Netcfg 2.6.8-1
by Rémy Oudompheng 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

Hello, netcfg 2.6.8 is released. It is a bug fix release for bugs FS#25514 [1], FS#25473 [2], FS#25530 [3]. Please sign it off and move it to [core] when possible. [1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25514 [2] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25473 [3] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25530 Regards, -- Rémy.

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[arch-general] lost+found is quite big, although I haven't lost anything?
by Karol Babioch 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

Hi, since the free space on my system is getting less and less, I was about to clean it up when realizing that my "lost+found" directory on this ext4 formatted partition is about 37G big. The system hasn't crashed so far, wasn't shutdown improperly (as it is attached to a UPS), so its seems quite strange to me. I immediately unmounted the partition and ran an fsck (both with and without the force parameter), but it hasn't reported anything wrong, nor cleaned up the directory. I'm now a little bit concerned as to why this happened and what to do about the directory. Can it be safely removed? Where do this 37G come from? Best regards, Karol Babioch

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Pacman 4.0.0 RC1 "release"
by Myra Nelson 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:28, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > For the daring, pick your poison (by architecture): > > * pacman -U http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz > * pacman -U http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz > > Allan, Dave, and I (and probably a few others) run pacman-git on most > of our systems with no problems, so their should be no real shockers > or problems if you give this a spin. There are no database upgrades or > changes this time so downgrading later should work fine if truly > necessary. > > What we're looking for feedback on: > > * any build failures in makepkg you may see > * if you manage a custom repo, how does repo-add work for you > * does pacman behave as it did before > * if you want to sign packages, does the functionality in makepkg and > the documentation make sense > * same for signing repos- does it work for you > > What we know isn't there yet: > * translations > * a developer keyring (or keyring package)- if you delve into this, > you will need to look at pacman-key for now > * great error messages on verification failure, or ability to import > keys on the fly if it is unknown > > Note that we'd love testing even if you don't plan on touching any of > the new signing stuff- there were 500+ commits worth of changes in > this release, including a switch to curl as the download library, so > anything out of the ordinary should be reported. Please choose -git as > the version in the bugtracker if you do it that way, otherwise email > pacman-dev. > > Happy testing! > > -Dan Daring is fun. I haven't noticed any problems with normal, whatever that is, usage or with makepkg. At least so far. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] gnutls 3.0.0 pushed to testing
by Andreas Radke 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

We've just moved the gnutls 3.0.0 rebuilds to testing. Please check if anything is broken and report bugs or give us your ok to move them all to extra/community. -Andy

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[arch-general] [signoff] device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.87-1
by Eric Bélanger 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

Hi, device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.87-1 are now in testing for an upstream update. Please test and signoff. Signoffs from users are welcomed. Thanks, Eric

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[arch-general] Weird behaviour A/C vs battery
by Manolo Martínez 13 Aug '11

13 Aug '11

Hello everyone, I would like to ask you for help with a weird piece of behaviour of my arch box (now 3.0, but it was the same with older kernels): * Shutdown works OK when on A/C, but, when on battery, the computer ends up with fans on and the On button light on. In this state it is totally unresponsive -- it looks much as it does when it fails to suspend. * But, on battery (and A/C too), it reboots perfectly well. So I've resorted to rebooting when I want to shutdown on battery, and then plugging it off once it gets to the bios screen. I'm sure these will be tell-tale symptoms to more enlightened arch users. For my part, I am totally clueless. I would have suspected an acpid problem, but I have no shutdown event or action enabled. I don't see anything interesting in the logs either. Any piece of advise will be very welcome. Cheers, Manolo

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[arch-general] [signoff] openvpn 2.2.1-1
by Thomas Bächler 13 Aug '11

13 Aug '11

Upstream update, fix FS#24797, FS#19376. Please sign off.

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[arch-general] Ignored configuration settings in .gtkrc-2.0
by Bastien Dejean 13 Aug '11

13 Aug '11

Hi, I've added the following lines to my .gtkrc-2.0: gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" gtk-can-change-accels = 1 But they seem to be ignored... Thanks, -- Bastien

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[arch-general] 2011.08-2 archboot "2k11-R5" ISO hybrid image released
by Tobias Powalowski 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

Hi Arch community, Arch Linux (archboot creation tool) 2011.08-2, "2k11-R5" has been released. To avoid confusion, this is not an official arch linux iso release! Homepage and for more information on archboot: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archboot Forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=124293 Summary: - merge in linux 3.0 changes, plain bugfix release. Hybrid image file and torrent is provided, which include i686 and x86_64 core repository. Please check md5sum before using it. Hybrid image file is a standard CD-burnable image and also a raw disk image. - Can be burned to CD(RW) media using most CD-burning utilities. - Can be raw-written to a drive using 'dd' or similar utilities. This method is intended for use with USB thumb drives. Please get it from your favorite arch linux mirror: - https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/archboot/2011.08/ - <yourmirror>/iso/archboot/2011.08/ Have fun, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Writing my mother tongue in LibreOffice.
by Madhurya Kakati 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

Hi, I was quite surprised to see a language pack for LibreOffice for my mother tongue in the extra repo(libreoffice-as). I was wondering as to how to write it? Do I need to buy a special keyboard or will this qwerty keyboard work? Thanks

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[arch-general] Connochaet OS buildung on Arch technology
by Mathias Huber 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

Dear Archers, looking at the first stable release from http://www.connochaetos.org I realise they use pacman, archboot and PKGBUILD. Best, Mathias

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[arch-general] [signoff] samba-3.6.0-1
by Tobias Powalowski 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

Hi guys. bump to new major samba series. http://samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.0.html please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Pacman 4.0.0 RC1 "release"
by Bjørn Øivind Bjørnsen 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > For the daring, pick your poison (by architecture): > > > > * pacman -U > http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz > > * pacman -U > http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz > > > > Allan, Dave, and I (and probably a few others) run pacman-git on most > > of our systems with no problems, so their should be no real shockers > > or problems if you give this a spin. There are no database upgrades or > > changes this time so downgrading later should work fine if truly > > necessary. > > > > What we're looking for feedback on: > > > > * any build failures in makepkg you may see > > * if you manage a custom repo, how does repo-add work for you > > * does pacman behave as it did before > > * if you want to sign packages, does the functionality in makepkg and > > the documentation make sense > > * same for signing repos- does it work for you > > > > What we know isn't there yet: > > * translations > > * a developer keyring (or keyring package)- if you delve into this, > > you will need to look at pacman-key for now > > * great error messages on verification failure, or ability to import > > keys on the fly if it is unknown > > > > Note that we'd love testing even if you don't plan on touching any of > > the new signing stuff- there were 500+ commits worth of changes in > > this release, including a switch to curl as the download library, so > > anything out of the ordinary should be reported. Please choose -git as > > the version in the bugtracker if you do it that way, otherwise email > > pacman-dev. > > > > Happy testing! > > Darn it- forgot to link to this if you want to see the glorious changelog: > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2011-August/014039.html > Being daring is fun. I got some rather amusing results on my work machine with this release, please see FS #25527 :) I also observed that pacman failed to remove the lock file when killed by ^C, I'll file a bug-report on this if I manage to reproduce it. Regards, Bjørn Øivind

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[arch-general] cups+avahi+iphone AirPrint - works like a charm on Arch!
by David C. Rankin 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

Guys, Just dropping a note about using Arch to print to virtually any printer from your iphone/ipad. All you need is cups and avahi-daemon and a printer definition in /etc/avahi/services and it works flawlessly. Howto and example avahi printer.service file at: http://hartlessbydesign.com/blog/view/197-airprint-with-ubuntu-1010 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dash-0.5.7-2 and filesystem-2011.08-1
by Matthew Monaco 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

On 08/09/2011 08:03 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Dave Reisner<d(a)falconindy.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 01:49:42AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> This removes dash from base group, and adjusts the standard >>> /etc/shells accordingly. This file will now be updated on >>> install/remove of dash. >>> >>> Please test and signoff. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Tom >> >> There's also a change to /etc/fstab in here which encourages mounting >> /tmp as a tmpfs. > > Indeed. It also discourages mounting /dev/{pts,shm}. Sorry for not > mentioning that. > > Cheers, > > Tom Are these deprecated or now handled in the initscripts? I've always wondered why /proc, /sys, etc can't be in fstab too just so everything is clear, so I'm wondering if there's just a trend to move system type mounts from fstab to initscripts.

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[arch-general] no Boot after last kernel update
by Daniel Germer 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Hi, I could not boot after the last kernel update yesterday, I have no idea what happened, my screen stopped at the bootsplash, I could not even shutdown the machine from here. - Hard-Reset I had to use a live-CD to fix my system I have found that the syslinux.cfg was not automatically updated to see the new kernel. I moved /sda1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg to another place and mv /sda1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg.pacnew /sda1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg shouldn't this be done automatically? I don't remember this happening after the last kernel update...

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[arch-general] Alsa/Pulse not using sound cards?
by Nikhil Bysani 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Hi, My system's sound is no longer is working. No, it's not muted, the sound modules are loaded, and there are pcm's in /dev/snd but no /dev/dsp. Also, while alsamixer does show the sound cards, it is only using the null device, and pulse audo doesn't see the sound cards either. Anyone know why alsa might not be using the soudn cards?

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[arch-general] Wiki entry for GPGPU / OpenCL / CUDA
by Vojtěch Král 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Hey everyone,... From recent discussions about troubles with OpenCL as well as comments in AUR, forums, etc.. I got the impression that the whole thing is pretty confusing for an outsider... and for an insider too for that matter. So I put up a wiki entry. So far it's a wip article on my wiki profile here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Kralyk/GPGPU I'd like you to + have a look at it and tell me what you think of it ;-) + check if my wording is tolerable enough - English isn't my native language, feel free to correct + See if you know anything about the (missing) Nvidia/CUDA parts I myself am not really acquainted with CUDA and Nvidia-flavoured OpenCL so I'd like to ask if someone CUDA-savvy out there would be so kind as to help out and fill in those gaps. Regards, ~kralyk

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[arch-general] hylafax PKGBUILD contains typo - '$spkgdir' line 55
by David C. Rankin 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Guys, The hylafax pkgbuild needs to be fixed. (/var/abs/extra/hylafax/PKGBUILD) There is an extra 's' in $spkgdir on lines 54-55. Reads: install -D -m 755 $srcdir/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/util/notify.awk \ $spkgdir/var/spool/hylafax/bin/notify.awk Should read: install -D -m 755 $srcdir/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/util/notify.awk \ $pkgdir/var/spool/hylafax/bin/notify.awk Currently it tries to remove the real '/var/spool/hylafax/bin/notify.awk' resulting in the error: make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/tmp/hylafax/src/hylafax-6.0.5/po' install: cannot remove `/var/spool/hylafax/bin/notify.awk': Permission denied ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package(). Aborting... If you build with write permission for /var/spool/hylafax (i.e. root) you would have removed the notify.awk file from the installed version of hylafax. (who builds as root :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] cups not starting on boot after last 2 kernel updates? -- where to put it in the DAEMONS line?
by David C. Rankin 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Guys, Cups has been working like clockwork for the past year - up until the last 2 kernel updates. Now after boot, a manual '/etc/rc.d/cupsd restart' is required to get it working again. Would moving it in the DAEMONS line make sense? Currently I have: DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng network named @netfs @ntpd @sshd @dhcp4 @crond @mysqld @postfix @dovecot @httpd @samba @cups @vsftpd @sensors @spamd) When cups fails to start, I get the following warnings and errors: W [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Duplicate listen address "[v1.::1]" ignored! W [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Duplicate listen address "127.0.0.1" ignored! W [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Duplicate listen address "[v1.::1]" ignored! W [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Duplicate listen address "127.0.0.1" ignored! W [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Duplicate listen address "192.168.7.15" ignored! W [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Duplicate listen address "192.168.7.15" ignored! W [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Duplicate listen address "192.168.7.15" ignored! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3225! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3235! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3245! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3255! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3265! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3275! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3285! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3295! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3305! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3315! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Bad File number 1 on line 3325! E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Unable to bind socket for address [v1.::1]:631 - Address already in use. E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Unable to bind socket for address 127.0.0.1:631 - Address already in use. E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Unable to bind socket for address 192.168.7.15:631 - Address already in use. E [08/Aug/2011:10:53:39 -0500] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported I have no idea what the Bad File number errors are, but the warnings are just from the multiple explicit listen designations in the cupsd.conf for client access: # Only listen for connections from the local machine. Listen localhost:631 Listen phoenix.rlfpllc.com:631 Listen phoenix:631 Listen www.rlfpllc.com:631 Listen 192.168.7.15:631 I think the real issue is the 'Address already in use' errors, but that doesn't explain why it cups starts just fine with a manual '/etc/rc.d/cupsd restart'. If the address/port was actually already taken, then I would expect the restart to fail as well. The the ACL error is fine - cups isn't using acls on my box and I don't want to set the acl mount option in fstab, so I can live with that error. I've been through the forums, google and bug tracker task/22895, but still no solution. Should I move cupsd earlier in the DAEMONS line? Anybody else seeing cups fail to start on boot, but starting fine on a manual restart? Thanks for any thoughts or help you can give. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Xfce, Thunar and USB stick
by F.Gr. 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Hi, I'm using Xfce and Thunar. My USB stick is mounted without write access. I've set the hints for PolicyKit (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PolicyKit) https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Thunar#Thunar_Volume_Manager, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Thunar#udev_Automounting, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Mount_under_.2Fmedia.3B_use_parti… TIA -- While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government. ―Robert Kennedy. Jr.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.44-1
by Tobias Powalowski 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Latest LTS kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] removing cryptsetup from base group
by Lukas Fleischer 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 03:37:15PM +0300, Ionut Biru wrote: > Hi, > > this package brings in our clean chroots libgcrypt dependency. > > Until recently, gnutls had libcrypt as dependency but now it relies > on nettle. That means that packages linked to gnutls and relied on > libgcrypt dependency from it, will be broken. > > We have a gnutls 3.0.0 rebuild in progress in staging and because > libgcrypt is in our clean chroots, everything is fine, functionality > wise but I noticed that we skipped adding ligcrypt to dependency > mostly because namcap and us assume that everybody have base group > installed. > > Please check your packages to see if they link to libgcrypt and add > it to dependency if they do. -1 to removing cryptsetup from base. Note that cryptsetup is an essential tool for setups with system encryption enabled and is required during boot time. It should also stay on our CDs (not only as available package but also installed on the root-image to allow for using the CD as a Live CD, even if partitions are encrypted; AIF probably depends on it as well). Additionally, removing cryptsetup from base will require users to install it manually when using mkinitcpio's "encrypt" hook. If you decide to remove it anyway, keep in mind to: * Keep it on our Live CDs. * Add a note to our default "/etc/mkinitcpio.conf". * Maybe also add some note in AIF.

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[arch-general] OpenGL in KDE 4.7 on Nvidia card
by Eugene Burtsev 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Hi All, I am tried to update from kde 4.7 rc1 to 4.7 today, but OpenGL compositing does not works (but XRender works fine). I run my system on the nvidia 8600GT card with proprietary drivers. Best regards, Eugene

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[arch-general] May be add /etc/rc.d/vboxtun to Virtualbox package?
by Joker-jar 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

What you think about it? Or create additional package with this script, that depend from uml_utilities

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[arch-general] Intel Graphix und WebGL in Firefox 5?
by Daniel Germer 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Hi I am trying to use WebGL in Firefox 5 on my machine without dedicated GPU, I just have the HD Graphic Card included in the i7 2600 (sandybridge) Chip # lspci -vv 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7678 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 46 Region 0: Memory at fe000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Region 2: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 4: I/O ports at f000 [size=64] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Address: fee0f00c Data: 4191 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features AFCap: TP+ FLR+ AFCtrl: FLR- AFStatus: TP- Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 #uname -a unam Linux daniel-desktop 3.0-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jul 28 13:37:15 CEST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux #packages intel-dri 7.11-1 xf86-video-intel 2.15.0-2 mesa 7.11-1 mesa-demos 8.0.1-1 libgles 7.11-1 libglapi 7.11-1 libegl 7.11-1 gtkglext 1.2.0-6 python-opengl 3.0.1 lib32-libglapi 7.11-2 lib32-libgl 7.11-2 Am I missing any packages for this to work, or what else do I need? I want to use http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/ Of course I have read https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Graphics_Drivers where it says that intel-drivers are blocked, however, this info might be old enough to be outdated... maybe using firefox 6 or 7? cheers, Daniel

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[arch-general] Archlinux in Vmware Workstation 7.1.4
by Tong Zhang 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Hi, All! I am now using Archlinux this is my `uname -a` result: Linux myarch 3.0-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Aug 6 16:18:35 CEST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linu In vmware workstation 7.1.4, and several days ago, when I was still running kernel 2.6.39, my open-vm-tools worked OK, I can access my shared folder, but when I updated the kernel to 3.0, the shared folder mount point disappeared, someboy help! Thanks very much! --Tony

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[arch-general] More urls in PKGBUILD or on package details page
by Sergej Pupykin 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Hi All, what if we add somehow direct links to "report upstream bug" and may be link for easier checking new version (RSS link, sf.net/project/..., another download page or something else)? I think direct link to upstream bugtracker should be usefull.

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[arch-general] The OpenCL ICD problem
by Ionut Biru 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

Forwarding discussion to arch-general mailing list. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: The OpenCL ICD problem Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 15:48:52 +0200 From: Vojtěch Král <kral.vojtech(a)gmail.com> Hello, I'm writing to you because of a problem which has arisen with the OpenCL Arch packages. To introduce myself shortly: My name is Vojtech "kralyk" Kral (Czech Rep., EU) and I currently maintain AMD APP SDK (aka amdstream) and Intel OpenCL SDK in AUR. I'm sending this to maintainers who maintain involved pkgs. People that might be also interested are in Cc, please let me know should you find this mail too spammy/annoying :) The problem in question is a conflicting file, namely /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so (and possibly so version symlinks too). This file is currently provided by these packages (that I know of): nvidia-utils [extra], lib32-nvidia-utils [multilib], amdstream [AUR], intel-opencl-sdk [AUR], lib32-nvidia-utils-173xx [AUR] and lib32-nvidia-utils-beta [AUR]. The thing is this conflict should be resolved so that it would be possible to install OpenCL implementations from multiple vendors at the same time on the same system (as requested by the standard from Khronos) while still providing this so file to satistfy dependencies for other either existing pkgs (such as pyopencl) or possible funture ones. This should be done in compliance with the ICD standard, see http://www.khronos.org/registry/cl/extensions/khr/cl_khr_icd.txt However, it should hopefully not be that difficult, since most of the packages already comply to the standard by providing appropriate *.icd file in /etc/OpenCL/vendors. And those that don't should be updated accordingly (lib32-nvidia-utils-beta maybe? Not sure.) Also, the standard requests the ICD loader - which is in fact usually the libOpenCL.so library - to be able to enumerate all the ICDs on its own. So this so file is pretty much independent on the vendor it is supplied by, providing the vendor a) follows the standard correctly b) is sane :-) Therefore, a sollution might be to simply pick one of available ICD loaders (a thin one preferably) and make it a dependency for other pkgs. I'm not saying this is an optimal sollution, I'm merely leaving it to your consideration. Feel free to suggest other possibilities. Let me know what you think... Best Regards, Vojtech "kralyk" Kral

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.0-2
by Tobias Powalowski 07 Aug '11

07 Aug '11

Hi guys, please signoff 3.0 series for both arches. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Archlinux Changes: - Rename the package kernel26 -> linux - Added replaces everywhere - Removed old comments and vercmps from .install file - Removed old comments and replaces from PKGBUILD - added compatibility symlinks for vmlinuz26 and initramfs filenames in PKGBUILD, in order to not break bootloader entries. - removed System.map file, not needed anymore we provide /proc/kallsyms Now stuff to discuss before uploading to testing: - kernel name: vmlinuz-linux - initramfs name: initramfs-linux.img same for fallback of course. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] nfs-utils 1.2.4-2, libgssglue 0.3-1 libtirpc
by Tobias Powalowski 07 Aug '11

07 Aug '11

Hi guys, new kernel needed to bump everything to latest version, please signoff nfs-utils, libgssglue and libtirpc-0.2.2-2 greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Fwd: [PLUG] The World's Easiest Arch Linux Manual
by Shridhar Daithankar 07 Aug '11

07 Aug '11

-- Regards Shridhar

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[arch-general] [signoff] pam-1.1.4-1
by Tobias Powalowski 07 Aug '11

07 Aug '11

Release 1.1.4 * Add vietnamese translation * pam_namepace: Add new functionality * pam_securetty: Honour console= kernel option, add noconsole option * pam_limits: Add %group syntax, drop change_uid option, add set_all option * Lot of small bug fixes * Lot of compiler warnings fixed * Add support for libtirpc Hi please signoff both arches, - added the libtiprpc support. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux 3.0.1-1
by Thomas Bächler 06 Aug '11

06 Aug '11

Hi, please signoff the 3.0 series for both architectures. Note: the upgrade path from 3.0-2 to 3.0.1-1 is not entirely smooth if you rely on the vmlinuz26 compat symlink. However, the upgrade path from core/kernel26 to this version is smooth. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Arch Linux Changes: - Rename the package: kernel26 -> linux - Added necessary replaces=(...) - Removed old comments and vercmps from .install file - Removed old comments and replaces from PKGBUILD - added compatibility symlinks for the old kernel and initramfs filenames in order to not break existing bootloader entries (only affects upgrades, not new installations) - removed System.map file, not needed anymore as we provide /proc/kallsyms

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[arch-general] quiet kernel parameter
by Meyithi 06 Aug '11

06 Aug '11

Does anybody know the difference between the quiet kernel parameter and loglevel=4 parameter? All of the info I can find states that they should be identical, and /proc/sys/kern -- Jason Steadman http://www.meyithi.com/ http://twitter.com/meyithi

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel26 -> linux move compat symlinks
by Heiko Baums 06 Aug '11

06 Aug '11

Am Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:54:07 +0200 schrieb Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org>: > 3) As it is now, new installations will end up with compat symlinks. > This is only supposed to be for updates, not for new installations. Wouldn't it be better to put it to post_upgrade instead of post_install? Heiko

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel26 -> linux move compat symlinks
by cantabile 06 Aug '11

06 Aug '11

On 08/06/2011 12:19 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > If you want it to be KISS, let's not provide any backward compatibility > and add an install message telling people to change their bootloader. > Excellent idea. ;) Users are expected to read pacman's output anyway (or suffer the consequences). -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River

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[arch-general] Arch dumping more info than before during boot after updating.
by Madhurya Kakati 06 Aug '11

06 Aug '11

Hi, I ran pacman -Syu and now I am seeing more info than shown before during boot. VERBOSE is set to 3 in rc.conf. Whats happening? Any changes to boot process? Thanks

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[arch-general] Emacs version error?
by XeCycle 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

There seems to be something wrong about the Emacs version number. > ----------------------------------------- > $ LC_ALL=C sudo pacman -Syu --ignore octave > :: Synchronizing package databases... > core is up to date > extra is up to date > community is up to date > catalyst is up to date > :: Starting full system upgrade... > warning: emacs: local (23.3-1) is newer than extra (23.3a-1) > warning: octave: ignoring package upgrade (3.4.2-1 => 3.4.2-2) > there is nothing to do > ----------------------------------------- -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591

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[arch-general] FYI: https-everywhere 1.0 supports Arch Linux
by Thomas Bächler 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

I just noticed that after updating the firefox plugin https-everywhere to version 1.0, Arch Linux is supported by default. We already redirect the bbs, wiki and bugs site to https by default. With https-everywhere, firefox will also use the https versions of aur, www, projects and all other *.archlinux.org sites. This is a good addition and I hope people appreciate that we offer https for all our sites.

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[arch-general] Enforcing CFLAGS in PKGBUILDs
by Lukas Fleischer 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

In the course of a discussion with the xwax [1] developer, I was asked the question why we would override CFLAGS (optimization levels, in particular) if upstream already provides them. Given that there are in fact loads of packages in our repositories that seem to follow this practice (`grep -- '-O[0-9]' /var/abs/*/*/PKGBUILD` reveals some of those), I'm forwarding this question to the ML. My own opinion is that we shouldn't patch anything here. While using the same optimization flags for all packages might result in some kind of consistency, one of our main guidelines - not to do any unnecessary modifications - is kind of violated here. We should trust upstream having chosen any explicit optimization flags with care (in some cases, enforcing optimization flags might even lead to heavy performance impacts - although this is unlikely to happen). I am aware that there are some corner cases for sure, for which I'd say overriding CFLAGS is okay. However, this shouldn't be common practice, imho. Opinions? Link to the original thread (for clarification) [2]. [1] http://www.xwax.co.uk/ [2] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1108042258340.847%…

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Re: [arch-general] Plasma-desktop in KDE 4.7 can not start up [Solved]
by Leon Feng 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

2011/8/3 Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie(a)gmail.com> > On Wednesday 03 Aug 2011 22:25:37 Leon Feng wrote: > > 2011/8/3 Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie(a)gmail.com> > > > > > Are you getting a crash report from KDE? Also, have you checked for > > > relevant > > > information in the xorg-server log? > > > > No everything is ok in xorg-server. After kill plasma-desktop, I can > login > > kde. Start krunner ,Firefox and other application can star up. Alt + Tab > is > > used to switch them. So X is working normally. > > > > And KDE is not crashed. It seems plasma-desktop is runnig into a infinit > > loop. It takes 100% CPU power with nothing output to console. > > You may find strace helpful in figuring out what it's trying to do, or > maybe > attach to it with gdb to get a backtrace? > > What video driver are you using, by the way? > After debuging by gdb, problem is caused by digital clock plasmoid not handle zh_CN locale very well. Remove it or change Locale to "C" fix the problem. Bug reported as https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279434 Thanks for all people helped. Leon > > Paul >

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Re: [arch-general] Enforcing CFLAGS in PKGBUILDs
by Kyle 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

It seems to me that CFLAGS should only be overridden on a per system basis in the makepkg configuration. Of course they could also be set in a local PKGBUILD or in AUR, but packages in the repos should stay as close to upstream as possible. It should also be noted that suggesting working optimizations upstream can also yield good results. Sent from my Wishdroid :)

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[arch-general] Installation of libreoffice
by Hector Martinez-Seara 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

Hi, I'm aware that recently there has been some changes in libreoffice package. The problem is that yesterday I updated my system and surprisingly only libreoffice-common was updated. By that I mean that I mean that not base, writer, impress... were available after the update, they dissapered. Moreover, if I make "pacman -S libreoffice" only "libreoffice-common" is targeted and there is no traces of libreoffice-calc, libreoffice-base, libreoffice-draw.... The thing is that there seems to be a container called libreoffice which it is suppose to contain all this basic packages but in my case only installs "libreoffice-common". What I'm doing wrong? I hope it is not expected that we install one by one the components we want. Thanks in advance, Hector -- Hector Martínez-Seara Monné mail: hseara(a)gmail.com Tel: +34656271145 Tel: +358442709253

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[arch-general] liberoffice 3.4.2 strange behaviour with odt files
by Shridhar Daithankar 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

Hello, I just faced a strange problem with libreoffice 3.4.2. An old odt file, created with libreoffice 3.4.1, around jul 20. Today when I went to open it with libreoffice 3.4.2, I was asked for filter selection, the available options being - Help Content - ODF chart - Openoffice.org 1.0 chart Clearly it is somehow confused and unable to open the file. kword can open the file just fine. Of course the formatting is not the same and I don't want to reformat it. Google didn't have much to offer on this. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. -- Regards Shridhar

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[arch-general] Fwd: Corrected tarballs for Emacs 23.2 and 23.3.
by Bernardo Barros 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chong Yidong <cyd(a)stupidchicken.com> Date: Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:05 PM Subject: Corrected tarballs for Emacs 23.2 and 23.3. To: info-gnu-emacs(a)gnu.org GNU Emacs 23.2 and 23.3 were released absent grammar files from which the parsers used in its CEDET component were generated. These grammar files should have been included, as they constitute part of the real source code. New versions of the tarballs that include these files have been uploaded to the GNU FTP server at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-23.2a.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-23.2a.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-23.3a.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-23.3a.tar.gz All redistributors are urged to upgrade to these revised releases. Their md5sums are: 981cd3764b71115835801b3f4ef081c1 emacs-23.2a.tar.gz 3bb6d13489610c9c105625a89d689485 emacs-23.2a.tar.bz2 20aef9ea5b5bf8050d39f8b1e96a1c04 emacs-23.3a.tar.gz f2cf8dc6f28f8ae59bc695b4ddda339c emacs-23.3a.tar.bz2 Note also that the FSF has granted permission to distribute the old Emacs 23.1 and 23.2 releases, notwithstanding the absence therein of the grammar files. This permission extends to versions with unrelated modifications, provided those versions comply with GNU GPL version 3 in all other respects. See Richard Stallman's message at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-08/msg00035.html Thank you, and sorry for any inconvenience caused. _______________________________________________ Info-gnu-emacs mailing list Info-gnu-emacs(a)gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu-emacs

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[arch-general] [signoff] lilo-23.2-2
by Tobias Powalowski 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

Hi guys, - fixed kernel and initramfs name for linux 3.0 please signoff both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] Installation of libreoffice
by Vince Baldwin 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

I ran pacman -Syu on two different machines yesterday, one with KDE and one with xfce. Neither asked me for anything to do with the language and it reverted to German until I installed libreoffice-en-US. The default US English had worked fine prior. I also had to do "pacman -S libreoffice-{base,calc,impress,writer,math,draw} to get everything running again as per the wiki on libreoffice. -Vince

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[arch-general] [signoff] pcmciautils-018-1
by Tom Gundersen 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hi guys, I pushed an update to pcmciautils mainly to remove our custom udev rules file, which is no longer correct (after my recent changes to udev), and replace it with the upstream one. Since I was at it I also updated to the latest upstream release. I don't have the hardware to test this, and neither does tpowa, so I encourage signoffs also from general in the hopes that someone still cares about pcmcia. Please signoff both arches. Cheers, Tom

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[arch-general] Plasma-desktop in KDE 4.7 can not start up
by Leon Feng 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hi, After upgrade to KDE 4.7, plasma-desktop can not start anymore. Login in from kdm will stop at the splash screen. Switch to console by ctrl + alt + F1 and then run "top" plasma-desktop is using 100% CPU. Run "pkill plasma-desktop" , Login continue. But screen is black. I check .xsession-error file and found nothing special. Does anyone encounter the same problem? How to find more info to track down this problem? Thanks.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Installation of libreoffice
by Heiko Baums 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Am Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:09:06 +0200 schrieb Jan de Groot <jan(a)jgc.homeip.net>: > As pacman will happily install multiple replacement packages, I would > suggest removing the provides= line from libreoffice-common and adding > replaces=libreoffice to the split packages that should get installed > when upgrading. And 'libreoffice-langpack' needs to be removed from depends of libreoffice-common. It doesn't make much sense to have it in depends and in optdepends anyway. I think it's better to keep it in optdepends, maybe with a post install note that no language package has been installed. Because of this someone got his language pack been uninstalled and replaced by a different one by pacman -Syu. See the bug report I have mentioned earlier. Heiko

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[arch-general] tunneling help needed (ssh?)
by Philipp 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Hi there, I know this isn't very arch specific but I lack ideas on where else to ask. Problem: A server situated in a network that can't be reached from the outside, all ports are blocked. I want to give specific outside users simple ftp access to a directory on this server (password protected). I'm in control of the server inside the network. I'm in control of another server inside this network that can be reached (at least port 80) but I'd like to avoid using this server. I may have some control over outside servers. So, what can I do?

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[arch-general] finger error
by sacarde 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Hi, I am trying out "finger" command I have an error when I run: finger sacarde I have: finger: /dev//лM-^D: No such file or directory Login: sacarde Name: (null) Directory: /home/sacarde Shell: /bin/bash On since Wed Jul 27 08:12 (CEST) on :0 (messages off) On since Wed Jul 27 08:12 (CEST) on pts/0 from :0 12 hours 17 minutes idle On since Wed Jul 27 08:13 (CEST) on лM-^D from :0 (messages off) No mail. but I dont understand the first line : .... /dev//лM-^D ecc...... for other users it does not appear thank you sacarde(a)tiscali.it

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[arch-general] xinetd services
by sacarde 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

hi, I found in my arch64, into xinetd package, 2 daemon: "servers" and "services" they are using 9098 and 9099 port, and are disabled I dont understand what they are for thank you

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[arch-general] New cron hourly messages as of 8/1 - Usage: /usr/sbin/run-cron crondir ??
by David C. Rankin 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Guys, Beginning 8/1 at 01:59, I began getting emails regarding "cron for user root job sys-hourly" that contain: Usage: /usr/sbin/run-cron crondir Looking at the logs, I haven't had any cron updates since: [2011-05-04 14:34] upgraded dcron (4.4-2 -> 4.5-2) The cron log shows the system is just mailing the hourly output like it should: Aug 1 23:06:01 phoenix crond[797]: FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root PID 24811 job sys-hourly Aug 1 23:06:01 phoenix crond[797]: exit status 1 from user root job sys-hourly Aug 1 23:06:01 phoenix crond[24812]: mailing cron output for user root job sys-hourly But for some reason it is now telling me that it gets an exit status of 1 from the fetchmail script that calls spamassassin (which is normal): "fetchmail: normal termination, status 1" Which I confirmed with: 09:34 phoenix:~> spam-cron 09:39 phoenix:~> echo $? 1 The script is a very minimal fetchmail script: #!/bin/bash ## Retrieve and Process Spam & Ham from 'spam-learn' & 'spam-unlearn' folders /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -s -n --folder spam-learn -m '/usr/bin/vendor_perl/sa-learn --spam' &>/dev/null sleep 2 /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -s -n --folder spam-unlearn -m '/usr/bin/vendor_perl/sa-learn --ham' &>/dev/null I didn't make any changes to cron or the fetchmail script to generate the hourly message. The script still runs exactly like it always has, but now I'm getting messages from cron each hour. Anybody know what changed to cause this or how to stop the hourly notifications? The only thing in the pacman.log that looks possibly relevant is: [2011-08-01 22:32] warning: /etc/rc.conf installed as /etc/rc.conf.pacnew [2011-08-01 22:32] VERBOSE= in rc.conf no longer has any effect. [2011-08-01 22:32] Please append 'quiet' to your kernel command line. but I have appended quite to the kernel line in menu.lst, and that hasn't solved it. What say the gurus? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] mpop & msmtp
by Bastien Dejean 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Hello, Why is there an official arch pkg for msmtp but not for mpop? -- Bastien

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Re: [arch-general] recording video with ffmpeg
by Buce 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:24 PM, 清显 <bfsc.yb(a)gmail.com> wrote: > it's working well for normal uses, just want to ask is there any way > to record the sound of the microphone as well as the sound that the computer > is playing at the same time? > thanks a lot. > ps: i'm using alsa as my sound system. > > I stumbled across this link a few months back. Never did anything with it, didn't even test it, but saved it for future reference. Maybe it will help. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=554d2eb653caed029802217ffa97e849&t… Looks like it uses pulseaudio, but read through the entire discussion, I think a few people offered alternate implementations towards the end. Don't recall if they were specifically alsa.

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[arch-general] extra/libkipi conflicts with Trinity libkipi - How? (one is in /usr one in /opt/kde)
by David C. Rankin 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Guys, The kde4 updates today conflict with Trinity libkipi. I can't figure out why? :: libkipi and kdemod3-libkipi are in conflict. Remove kdemod3-libkipi? [y/N] error: unresolvable package conflicts detected Trinity 3.5.12 installs libkipi in /opt/kde, while KDE4 (ABS-extra/libkipi) installs in /usr -- so why is pacman throwing a conflict? 15:03 providence:~> pmql kdemod3-libkipi /opt/ /opt/kde/ /opt/kde/include/ /opt/kde/include/libkipi/ /opt/kde/include/libkipi/batchprogressdialog.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imagecollection.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imagecollectionselector.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imagecollectionshared.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imagedialog.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imageinfo.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imageinfoshared.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/interface.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/libkipi_export.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/plugin.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/pluginloader.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/uploadwidget.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/version.h /opt/kde/lib/ /opt/kde/lib/libkipi.la /opt/kde/lib/libkipi.so /opt/kde/lib/libkipi.so.0 /opt/kde/lib/libkipi.so.0.1.1 /opt/kde/lib/pkgconfig/ <snip> [15:11 providence:/home/david/tmp/libkipi] # cat PKGBUILD # $Id: PKGBUILD 132586 2011-07-25 00:13:06Z andrea $ # Maintainer: Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org> pkgname=libkipi pkgver=4.7.0 <snip> build() { cd "${srcdir}" mkdir build cd build cmake ../${pkgname}-${pkgver} \ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr make } [15:11 providence:/home/david/tmp/libkipi] # cat libkipi.install post_install() { xdg-icon-resource forceupdate --theme hicolor &> /dev/null } <snip> Anybody see where the conflict could be? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] blacklisting issue, perhaps initscripts or kernel 3.0 related
by Heiko Baums 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Am Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:30:27 +0200 schrieb Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalowski(a)googlemail.com>: > In the past people had more than one soundcard in the pc, the problem > by autoloading modules with udev, could change the order of this > sounddevices. This is not that much a problem anymore, modern systems > mostly have only one soundcard installed. At least regarding soundcards this is not true. Also loading the soundcard modules by using the MODULES array can lead to different orders. The only way of having them loaded in a specific order is to using the index parameter in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf. I don't know how it is for other modules like network cards. There are several modules which don't have an index parameter. Heiko

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Re: [arch-general] iniitcpio root device check [SOLVED]
by Dwight Schauer 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Dave Reisner <d(a)falconindy.com> wrote: >>Ok, I renamed "9p_mount_handler" to "ninep_mount_handler" and updated >>mount_handler= accordingly, and rebuild the initcpio images. >> >>Still no joy... :) >> >>I went so far as to rename 9p to ninep in >>/lib/initcpio/{install,hooks} and the HOOKS string, and rebuilt the >>initcpio images, but that did not help. >> >>Dwight > > Let's try this one more time. You're missing a pointer to your install > script. Part of the build function needs: > SCRIPT=ninep > > or whatever you're calling it... > > d > That did it! Thanks. Now I can start the session automatically without intervention. Dwight

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[arch-general] iniitcpio root device check
by Dwight Schauer 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

I have an arch linux install running in qemu using a 9p virtual root filesystem (root filesystem is just a sub directory on the host). This is the line I use to launch it: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -virtfs local,path=$(pwd)/wn-root,security_model=mapped,mount_tag=wn-root -smp 2 -m 1024 -kernel ./wn-root/boot/vmlinuz26 -append 'rootfstype=9p rootflags="trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L" root=wn-root ro rootdelay=10' --initrd ./wn-root/boot/kernel26-fallback.img -net vde -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=52:54:00:00:EE:03 Immediately after "::Running Hook [resume]" though I get: Root device 'wn-root' does'nt exist. Attempting to create it. ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device 'wn-root'. At that point I'm dropped into the recovery shell, I exit that, it complains, but continues to boot fine as it the existence in /dev/ of a 9p filesystem source is not needed. I did not find anything in mkinitcpio.conf to disable this check, which in this case is not needed, as the root filesystem is mounted without any problem. Using 9p for a kvm root filesystem is useful for cases where something like Linux containers (LXC) is not sufficient to accomplish some task. For the most part this is working fine, still have some 9p filesystem oddities to work through. For instance, syslog-ng won't start and using makepkg on some packages results in "cat: -: No such file or directory" (that error does not occur when that arch install is chrooted into and build run from inside the chroot). The 9p issues are not relevant to the initcpio workaround I'm looking for though. Dwight

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[arch-general] [signoff] netcfg 2.6.6-1
by Rémy Oudompheng 30 Jul '11

30 Jul '11

Hello, I have prepared the netcfg 2.6.6 release. I have let go the previous signoff thread because of several outstanding issues, which I think are now resolved. NEWS except ----------- version 2.6.6 - fix wrong rc scripts names in suspend hook (FS#20330) - fix wireless failure when using wpa-config and a custom ctrl_interface path (FS#24949) - bash-completion: add -r to option list (FS#25188) Regards, Rémy.

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[arch-general] 2011.07-3 archboot "2k11-R4" ISO hybrid image released
by Tobias Powalowski 30 Jul '11

30 Jul '11

Hi Arch community, Arch Linux (archboot creation tool) 2011.07-2, "2k11-R4" has been released. To avoid confusion, this is not an official arch linux iso release! Homepage and for more information on archboot: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archboot Forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=123412 Summary: - bump to latest kernels, plain bugfix release. Hybrid image file and torrent is provided, which include i686 and x86_64 core repository. Please check md5sum before using it. Hybrid image file is a standard CD-burnable image and also a raw disk image. - Can be burned to CD(RW) media using most CD-burning utilities. - Can be raw-written to a drive using 'dd' or similar utilities. This method is intended for use with USB thumb drives. Please get it from your favorite arch linux mirror: - https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/archboot/2011.07/ - <yourmirror>/iso/archboot/2011.06/ Have fun, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] virtual memory exhausted
by Jorge Almeida 30 Jul '11

30 Jul '11

I'm not sure this is an Arch issue, but I can't figure out what else can be. I'm trying to compile non-Arch stuff in an arch host. I tried Binutils (of LFS) and Buildroot (of uclibc). Both failed with the "virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory" error. The computer is a one-user workstation, which wasn't doing anything else worth mentioning... I tried both as root and as common user, same problem... # pacman -Q gcc gcc 4.6.1-2 # cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 2056484 kB MemFree: 1356260 kB Buffers: 74324 kB Cached: 551824 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 148888 kB Inactive: 506268 kB Active(anon): 10624 kB Inactive(anon): 5716 kB Active(file): 138264 kB Inactive(file): 500552 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB HighTotal: 1178888 kB HighFree: 593112 kB LowTotal: 877596 kB LowFree: 763148 kB SwapTotal: 996024 kB SwapFree: 996024 kBDirty: 84 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 10592 kB Mapped: 5868 kB Shmem: 5748 kB Slab: 31360 kB SReclaimable: 25156 kB SUnreclaim: 6204 kB KernelStack: 1112 kB PageTables: 1476 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 2024264 kB Committed_AS: 61648 kB VmallocTotal: 122880 kB VmallocUsed: 14672 kB VmallocChunk: 80164 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 4096 kB DirectMap4k: 20472 kB DirectMap4M: 888832 kB # ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) 58593 scheduling priority (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 16046 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 58593 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 16046 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) 58593 file locks (-x) unlimited Maybe there is some arch-specific configuring to do? I have no idea whether these limit parameters require tweaking... TIA Jorge Almeida

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[arch-general] KDE 4.7 hits [testing]
by Andrea Scarpino 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Hi arKers, KDE 4.7 has been released[1] and our packages are ready in [testing]. As you already know KDE is (slowly) moving to GIT. With this transition some KDE module has been splitted into subprojects, and the remaining modules should be splitted before KDE 4.8. The result of this is that some package (e.g. kdegraphics-libs) is now splitted in several packages and each new package conflicts with the old kdegraphics-libs, so you have to remove it when pacman asks for its removal during the update. Here some info about the splitted modules: - KDE Workspace: wallpapers are now in a separate package named kde-wallpapers, this reduced the kdebase-workspace package download size by 70%. - KDE Graphics: kdegraphics-libs is now splitted in kdegraphics-ksaneplugin, kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer, kdegraphics-svgpart, kdegraphics-thumbnailers, libkdcraw, libkexiv2, libkipi, libksane. Our official packages which depends on kdegraphics-libs have been updated to depend on the new libraries; the upgrade should work without any issue, otherwise please report it to our bug tracker. - KDE Edu: kdeedu-libkdeedu and kdeedu-data have been dropped and libkdeedu will replace them. - KDE Bindings: every subproject has been splitted in two parts: one for the qt bindings and one for the KDE bindings. The old packages have been remove and the new one are: kdebindings-kimono, kdebindings-kross-java, kdebindings-kross-python, kdebindings-korundum, kdebindings-perlkde, kdebindings-perlqt, kdebindings-qtruby, kdebindings-qyoto, kdebindings-smokegen, kdebindings-smokekde, kdebindings-smokeqt. - KDE Accessibility: kdeaccessibility-colorschemes and kdeaccessibility-iconthemes are dropped and replaced. Have a nice update! [1] http://kde.org/announcements/4.7/ -- Andrea

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[arch-general] shouldn't the java-sun package be named java-oracle?
by Auguste Pop 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

hi, the binaray version of java has been in repo with the name jre and jdk for a long time. i noticed that a split package of java-sun is now in the community repo. i don't know if java-sun is newly created or has been there also for a long time. anyway, the -sun suffix is not appropriate as the upstream java is branded oracle now. i have been using openjdk since the beginning. so, basically, i pointed this out just for curiosity's sake. best regards,

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[arch-general] pulse audio auto stop
by Juan Diego Tascón 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Good day, Does anyone knows why is pulseaudio being shut down every time X is shut down? why cruel world? why? PS: I don't want to use pulseaudio system-instance Thank you

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[arch-general] bad login attempts not written to /var/log/btmp
by Renato 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Hello, maybe I don't understand how the command "lastb" should work, but no matter how many times I try to login inputting a wrong password I still get nothing but this: $ sudo lastb btmp begins Fri May 6 23:40:14 2011 cheers renato

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[arch-general] kdeartwork-wallpapers --- Why i686 and x86_64 seperated ?
by goodmenzy＠gmail.com 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

Hi, all I don't understand kdeartwork-wallpapers pkg are in different arch ? It should be a pkg with "-any" arch suffix, in my opinion.

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[arch-general] Installed 3Com 3c595 rate dropped from 11.59MB/s to 3.27MB/s -- howto fix?
by David C. Rankin 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Guys, This is a new one on me. I have been using the onboard LAN (RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)) for several years and always got great transfer rates: 01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VM400M/7VT600 Motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 I/O ports at 8000 [size=256] Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: 8139too Kernel modules: 8139too, 8139cp 10:02 providence:~/arch/pkg/new-110718/virtualbox_bin> rsync -uav --progress virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz phoenix:/srv/http/dl/arch/i686 sending incremental file list virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz 55685508 100% 11.59MB/s 0:00:04 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1) sent 55692427 bytes received 31 bytes 10125901.45 bytes/sec total size is 55685508 speedup is 1.00 I was having intermittent lockups during large file transfers (memtest is fine), so I thought I would change the NIC. I installed a 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex] card and tested the throughput. The throughput is 1/3 what I was getting with the Realtek card: 01:07.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 248 (750ns min, 2000ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19 Region 0: I/O ports at 8000 [size=32] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 80000000 [disabled] [size=64K] Kernel driver in use: 3c59x Kernel modules: 3c59x 12:47 providence:~/arch/pkg/new-110718/virtualbox_bin> rsync -uav --progress virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz phoenix:~/tmp sending incremental file list virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz 55685508 100% 3.27MB/s 0:00:16 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1) sent 55692427 bytes received 31 bytes 3182426.17 bytes/sec total size is 55685508 speedup is 1.00 I searched the forums and I've tried ethtool in setting speed, duplex and autoneg, but it makes no difference. i.e.: ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off What else can I try to get this card working correctly? All light indications on the card and the switch it is connected to show a 100TX connection is being made. What say the gurus? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Installed 3Com 3c595 rate dropped from 11.59MB/s to 3.27MB/s -- howto fix?
by David C. Rankin 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Guys, This is a new one on me. I have been using the onboard LAN (RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)) for several years and always got great transfer rates: 01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VM400M/7VT600 Motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 I/O ports at 8000 [size=256] Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: 8139too Kernel modules: 8139too, 8139cp 10:02 providence:~/arch/pkg/new-110718/virtualbox_bin> rsync -uav --progress virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz phoenix:/srv/http/dl/arch/i686 sending incremental file list virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz 55685508 100% 11.59MB/s 0:00:04 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1) sent 55692427 bytes received 31 bytes 10125901.45 bytes/sec total size is 55685508 speedup is 1.00 I was having intermittent lockups during large file transfers (memtest is fine), so I thought I would change the NIC. I installed a 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex] card and tested the throughput. The throughput is 1/3 what I was getting with the Realtek card. I searched the forums and I've tried ethtool in setting speed, duplex and autoneg, but it makes no difference. i.e.: ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off What else can I try to get this card working correctly? All light indications on the card and the switch it is connected to show a 100TX connection is being made. What say the gurus? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] CD / DVD Drive - Issues and a really sloppy solution
by Zanterian 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Hello fellow arch enthusiasts, I had a friend who wanted me to burn an audio disk for him. What I thought would have been an easy task turned into a nightmare. I use Brasero on Gnome 3. Everything I tried would end in disaster, and nothing would get written. Then it would give me a log saying could not find burn:// directory After looking around, I noticed I don't have a /dev/cd or a /dev/dvd Finding that strange, I did the command dmesg | grep ide with this as the result [ 5.287548] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray So this is where I made the sloppy solution: I manually made two symlinks (/dev/cd & /dev/dvd) that point to /dev/sr0. This gave me back the ability to burn disks. So my main question is what do I do from here? Is this a bug? I don't want to have this solution as it was just me writing educated-guesses-for-links and then trying to burn a disk with my fingers crossed. My arch system is up to date and does not use any of the [testing] repositories. Thanks, - Eric

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.07.1-1
by Damjan 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Evangelos Foutras: > I'd say in initscripts, because before that only the kernel prints > messages. When initscripts kicks in, its output gets combined with the > kernel messages and creates a visually unappealing result. :p You should also be aware of this development: http://karelzak.blogspot.com/2011/07/dmesg1-changes-for-util-linux-220.html there are new features in dmesg that'll help you filter out (or in) needed information. -- дамјан

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[arch-general] X terminal redraw problem
by Jon Gjengset 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Hi fellow archers! This is my first post to this mailing list, so please excuse my behavior if I have picked the wrong list =) For a couple of months now, I have been experiencing occasional "flickering" in my terminal emulator (urxvt, but also happens with xterm, roxterm and gnome-terminal). There are several forum threads on the same issue: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=118648 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117202 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117423 The latter seems to be the biggest one... The problem is that every now and then, the terminal seems to "forget" to draw some of the text on the screen, leaving a mangled output consisting of some stale text cells (as in the character that was previously in that position is still visible) and some empty cells (the previous character was a space, and the new character was not printed). The problem seems to occur sporadically, but happens often enough to be a real nuissance. Highlighting any text in the terminal window causes the text to be immediately corrected. The problem also appears when using vim or terminal-based emacs (i.e. curses interfaces). Seems the problem is quite widespread, and affects both nVidia, AMD/ATI and Intel graphics drivers.. A bug in X perhaps? Could someone with a bit more know-how than me please have a look? Any help is greatly appreciated, Jon

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] texlive-bin 2011.1-1 and texlive-* 2011.*
by Calvin Morrison 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

> On 24 July 2011 20:37, Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, >> > TeXLive 2011 has been officially released. Packages in [testing] have > been updated to reflect this. Hey, While updating I got some weird output from texlive updating. here is the terminal output: >>> texlive: updating the filename database... mktexlsr: Updating /etc/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf-dist/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Done. recreating all formats...Error: `pdftex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *latex.ini' failed Error: `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdflatex.ini' failed Error: `pdftex -ini -jobname=mllatex -progname=mllatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx -mltex mllatex.ini' failed Error: `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed Error: `pdftex -ini -jobname=etex -progname=etex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini' failed Error: `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdfetex -progname=pdfetex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed Error: `xetex -ini -jobname=xetex -progname=xetex -etex xetex.ini' failed Error: `xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini' failed ############################################################################### fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully. Visit the log files in directory /var/lib/texmf/web2c for details. ############################################################################### This is a summary of all `failed' messages: `pdftex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *latex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdflatex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=mllatex -progname=mllatex -translate-file=cp227.tcx -mltex mllatex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=etex -progname=etex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdfetex -progname=pdfetex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed `xetex -ini -jobname=xetex -progname=xetex -etex xetex.ini' failed `xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini' failed done. (logs are under /var/lib/texmf/web2c/<engine>/<formatname>.log) (11/12) upgrading texlive-core [################################] 100% >>> texlive: saving updmap.cfg as /tmp/tmp.KZ3lzxKsIJ... >>> texlive: regenerating updmap.cfg (custom additions shoud go into /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap-local.cfg >>> texlive: updating the filename database... Anyone have an idea about this? also, does it matter? Calvin Morrison

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Re: [arch-general] Panic - no sound devices after upgrade
by Fons Adriaensen 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 01:14:30AM +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote: > > > Fons (or anyone else who could reproduce the problem), > > > > > > If you want to try out Adrian's patch, I uploaded a kernel with the > > > patch applied here: > > > <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/kernel26-2.6.39.1.3-1.1-i686.pkg.tar.xz>. > > > > Installed on two machines so far, more tomorrow. > > Seems to have solved the problem :-) :-) > > Good to know. I'll wait for your final confirmation and then commit it. More news, not all good. After trying out all combinations and doing it again to be sure it seems that: * kernel26-2.6.39.1.3-1.1-i686.pkg.tar.xz and its hdspm driver work well on the five machines that have cards with firmware revision CC. * With newer cards (they arrived just two weeks ago) with revision CF things seem to work but there are crackles in the sound - not loud but clear enough. Sounds like single samples being modified every now and then. - Older cards on the same machine with the same kernel work fine. - Kernel 2.6.37 on the same machine with the new cards works fine as well. So there must have been some regression. For now I have to revert two machines (those using the new cards) to 2.6.37. Ciao, -- FA

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[arch-general] Note: WDC Carvair Black 6 Gbps drives require jumpers on pins 5-6 to be recognized as SATA-II
by David C. Rankin 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

Guys, Just a note. The newer Carvair Black 6.0 Gbps drives do not come with jumpers. However, in order for the drives to be recognized as SATA-II on some controllers (the default is SATA-I at 1.5 Gbps), you must install jumpers on pins 5-6 for the drives to initialize at 3.0 Gbps: 13:23 nirvana:~> sudo dmesg | grep ata <snip> [ 1.363358] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 1.370543] ata1.00: ATA-8: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0, 05.01D05, max UDMA/133 [ 1.372815] ata1.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) [ 1.380018] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 1.386960] ata3.00: ATA-8: ST3750528AS, CC35, max UDMA/133 [ 1.389290] ata3.00: 1465149168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) [ 1.389303] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 1.406937] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 1.853354] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 1.860937] ata2.00: ATA-8: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0, 05.01D05, max UDMA/133 [ 1.863299] ata2.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) [ 1.877002] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 Without the jumpers, the drives are limited to SATA-I -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 3.0 enters testing
by Matthew Monaco 24 Jul '11

24 Jul '11

On 07/24/2011 04:34 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > first try with 3.0 kernel, > nvidia legacy is not building, due to some makefile conftest > restriction, patches are welcome. > > Have fun and find issues. > > greetings > tpowa I have no sound out of the hdmi cable with a radeon card. radeon.audio defaults to 0. When I set it to one manually, still no sound.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 3.0 enters testing
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 24 Jul '11

24 Jul '11

On 07/24/2011 05:34 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > first try with 3.0 kernel, > nvidia legacy is not building, due to some makefile conftest > restriction, patches are welcome. > > Have fun and find issues. > > greetings > tpowa I dislike with the kernel image filename "vmlinuz-linux". Is not friendly for plain ISO 9660 filesystem. Of course is not a big issue, should be referenced as "vmlinuz_linux" in config for isolinux. Maybe the same applies for grub2 (if them does not support Rock-Ridge or Jouliet extensions) -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1

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[arch-general] virtualbox-archlinux-modules depends on kernel26
by Aljosha Papsch 24 Jul '11

24 Jul '11

Hi, virtualbox-archlinux-modules still depends on kernel26. I wanted to copy the package directory from the abs tree, but it's not there. How is this possible? (Of course I synced it before) Aljosha

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[arch-general] git bisect module against -ARCH kernel
by Matthew Monaco 24 Jul '11

24 Jul '11

I'm trying to bisect an issue with the microphone not working on my usb webcam. See the forum posting [1]. I cloned the Linus' git tree and checked out v2.6.39. I zcat /proc/config.gz > .config and did a make modules. I did this to get the symbol table and all that set up correctly. After that, I did git bisect start v2.6.39 v2.6.38 -- sound/usb (Everything worked fine in 2.6.38). Then for each iteration I intended to do make ${MAKEFLAGS} M=sound/usb. This rebuilds snd-usb-audio.ko just fine, but when I copy it to updates, gzip it, and run depmod, I cannot load it because modprobe says it's an invalid format. My only guess is that this has something to do with a version string somewhere, but I kept assuring it was 2.6.39 in Makefile (no extraversion). Any other ideas? [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121607

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[arch-general] dmraid - Array failed - installed new pair of drives - any shortcuts for reinstall on new array?
by David C. Rankin 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Guys, I thought I would drop a line and see if anyone had done this recently. On a server I had a 2 disk array of 750G drives. One failed and I ran with a degraded array until the new pair of drives arrived. I installed the new drives and moved the good disk from the failed array to /dev/sdc. I rebooted, marked /dev/sdc (the sata disk in the BIOS) as bootable and deleted the old array and created a new one in the BIOS (for the new drives) and the box booted right up on the old drive. Where I'm needing help is reconfiguring dmraid. Currently, the box is still booting using the old dmraid designation for the degraded array even though I deleted the array in the BIOS. (which is pretty amazing). Here is how the system is currently running: 19:29 nirvana:~> df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev run 10M 152K 9.9M 2% /run /dev/mapper/nvidia_ddddhhfhp5 23G 13G 9.4G 57% / shm 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/nvidia_ddddhhfhp10 608G 380G 198G 66% /home /dev/mapper/nvidia_ddddhhfhp7 122M 34M 82M 30% /boot /dev/mapper/nvidia_ddddhhfhp8 23G 6.0G 16G 28% /var /dev/mapper/nvidia_ddddhhfhp9 33G 8.1G 23G 27% /srv What I need to do is install Arch on the new array and then get rid of the dmraid config on the old drive so it just runs as /dev/sdc. After I have the base Arch install on the new array, I can simply move the information from /dev/sdc to the new array. Is there any shortcut to install Arch since I have the old install currently running? Or is it just easier to stick the install CD in and go through the base install on the new disks and then copy the old /var/cache/pacman/pkg to the new arrays to complete the package install with local packages? I'm fairly sure the dmraid designation with the old drive will take care of itself when I do the install on the new array, but I'm not certain. Any pointers or hints? Thanks -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] Creating an Arch chroot on a non-Arch
by Aurélien Chabot 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

There is some premade stuff on archlinux.fr : http://wiki.archlinux.fr/Install_chroot ( google translate will do the job if you don't understand french ) Here is the script use to create the chroot : http://calimeroteknik.free.fr/arch-guide/install-chroot.sh Aurélien Chabot

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 3.0 changes
by Heiko Baums 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Am Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:18:46 +0200 schrieb Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalowski(a)googlemail.com>: > But I don't know exactly how pacman will handle the replace. pacman does nothing. I tried it with my linux-fbcondecor package which I took from your SVN linux package. pacman just let my kernel26-fbcondecor package installed and installs linux-fbcondecor parallel. I think if you want pacman to uninstall kernel26 you need to add a conflicts=('kernel26') to the linux PKGBUILD. But I'm not sure if this is necessary. And for that reason I would suggest not to creating the symlinks to the old image names. Better let the people edit their bootloader config. If they won't do this they'll just boot their old kernel26 if they didn't uninstall it before. So nobody will get an unbootable system. Heiko

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Re: [arch-general] Panic - no sound devices after upgrade
by Fons Adriaensen 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 01:14:30AM +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote: > > > If you want to try out Adrian's patch, I uploaded a kernel with the > > > patch applied here: > > > <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/kernel26-2.6.39.1.3-1.1-i686.pkg.tar.xz>. > > > > Installed on two machines so far, more tomorrow. > > Seems to have solved the problem :-) :-) > > Good to know. I'll wait for your final confirmation and then commit it. One problem: the gain settings have changed, now having a range of 0..64. How do these values map to the internal ones (0..0xffff) ? I *hope* there is value corresponding to EXACTLY 0x8000 (gain = 1) !!! The reason is that MADI is bit-exact and is used to tranport other values than just audio samples. This works of course only with exact unity gain. BTW, why was this change made ? For pro users (are there other of this card) this is a regression. Ciao, -- FA

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Re: [arch-general] [signoff] dash 0.5.7-1
by Grigorios Bouzakis 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Pierre Schmitz wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:29:15 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: >> Upstream new release. >> >> -Dan > > Imho the base group could be removed as it is not needed by anything. > Its been requested : https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22483 PS. For the filesystem package but relevant: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23746 Greg -- () against html e-mail | usenet & email communication netiquette /\ www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

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[arch-general] Creating an Arch chroot on a non-Arch system?
by Magnus Therning 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Is there something available out there that makes it easy to create an Arch chroot on a non-Arch system, e.g. Ubuntu or Fedora? /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] PKGBUILD.proto improvements
by C Anthony Risinger 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

i wanted to share a couple of loose thoughts on the standard practices for PKGBUILDs ... specifically development ones ... with an immediate focus on git ones (for this instance, but applies to any) awhile back i tried to make a super cheap way of doing git checkouts for builds: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86366 (and this would have worked if i would have thought to make git use itself as an alternative object pool ...) ... the motivation of this message is to encourage adding some routines to the makepkg library, similar to msg/msg2/warning/etc, to handle development checkouts. basically i see people using _gitroot and _gitname for different stuff ... namely _gitname. i'd like to see a routine that pulls the repo to a known location so it doenst get blown away every update, and so the user doesnt have to manually manage this. everyone does it differently, puts the repository in all sorts of different locations/etc, and it just isnt very pretty IMO. ... so, i suggest a permanent setup based off my out setup and experiences, in reference of this PKGBUILD in particular: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pyjamas-engine-pythonwebkit/PKGBUILD ) allow _git* variables to be altered by the environment ) add _gitspec variable which supercedes _gitname for checkout stage (so you can do relative checkouts or SHA1 based checkouts) ... in the routine ... ) use a targeted fetch command instead of a blind clone. not only is this more flexible, but it can significantly reduce download size (for kernel its a ~50% reduction IIRC). the methoud from my builds are very simple, greatly resembling --mirror mode in git, but ONLY for the exact branch you are building ) store repositories in a known list of locations. my PKGBUILD searches these: /var/abs/PKGBUILD.devel/${pkgname}.git /var/abs/local/PKGBUILD.devel/${pkgname}.git ${SRCDEST}/PKGBUILD.devel/${pkgname}.git ${startdir}/PKGBUILD.devel/${pkgname}.git ~/PKGBUILD.devel/${pkgname}.git ... and chooses the first one that already exists (PKGBUILD.devel location only BEFORE appending repo name), OR the first one with write access to parent dir (it will create PKGBUILD.devel for you if it can). i personally used the first one (/var/abs/PKGBUILD.devel), with `chmod 1777` to sticky bit it like /tmp. this not only allows for reuse, but also allows for safely+easily+consistently bind-mounting into a chroot for use with mkchrootpkg ... ) use a proxy mechanism in the event a repository is found but it is read-only. this lets you read-only bind mount a repo (think mkchrootpkg), and it will simply create a new repository, copy the refs, and setup the object directory as an alternative for the proxy repo. thus the proxy has the ability to download new objects as needed, but starts from the same spot as the bind-mounted repo. these techniques save me a great deal of time and pain. that package in particular is a custom webkit build, requiring over 1GB to clone ... mkchrootpkg tried to blow it away once, bit it was read-only :-) ... i intend to possibly improve on this process by reducing a targeted fetch to a *shallow* targeted fetch , ie. the minimum amount of objects required to build. i have seen "clones" go down to 50%, sometimes even 10% or less, by using this over a naive `git clone $xyz`. i'd like to see *something* adopted so we can end the madness :-) ... below are a couple key excerpts from the noted PKGBUILD, for your reference. C Anthony ------------------------------------------------- [locate repo] ------------------------------------------------- # Devel directory fragment : ${_dir_devel:=PKGBUILD.devel} # Local/custom repo? if [[ -z ${_gitrepo} ]]; then search=(/var/abs{,/local}/"${_dir_devel}" "${SRCDEST%%/}/${_dir_devel}" "${startdir%%/}/${_dir_devel}" ~/"${_dir_devel}") for d in "${search[@]%%/}"; do if [[ -e ${d} ]] || [[ ! -e ${d} && -w ${d%/*} ]]; then mkdir -p "${d}" 2>&- && _gitrepo_proxy="${srcdir}/${pkgname}.git" && _gitrepo="${d}/${pkgname}.git" && break fi done fi ------------------------------------------------- [create new repo, or new proxy, if needed] ------------------------------------------------- mkdir -p "${w}" if [[ ! -e ${g}/objects ]]; then msg "[git] Creating NEW repository ... " git --git-dir="${g}" --work-tree="${w}" init elif [[ ! -w ${g}/objects ]]; then warning "[git] Repository read-only, setting up proxy ... " git --git-dir="${_gitrepo_proxy}" --work-tree="${w}" init echo "${g}/objects" > "${_gitrepo_proxy}/objects/info/alternates" cp -r "${g}/refs" "${_gitrepo_proxy}" g="${_gitrepo_proxy}" fi ------------------------------------------------- [perform targeted fetch] ------------------------------------------------- msg "[git] Syncing ... ${_gitroot} -> ${g}" git --git-dir="${g}" --work-tree="${w}" fetch -fu "${_gitroot}" "+${_gitname}:${_gitname}" msg "[git] Reading ... ${_gitspec:-${_gitname}} -> ${w}" git --git-dir="${g}" --work-tree="${w}" read-tree --reset -u "${_gitspec:-${_gitname}}" -------------------------------------------------

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Re: [arch-general] Panic - no sound devices after upgrade
by Tom Gundersen 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Adrian Knoth <adi(a)drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> wrote: > On 07/21/11 15:00, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > Hi! > >>>>>>> * The driver for my card (RME HDSP MADI, snd_hdpsm) is loaded. >>>>> [ 48.057757] HDSPM: unknown firmware revision cc > >> firmware revision is 0xCC, which is not recognised. If your card is >> MADI, the kernel expects the firmware revision to be 0xD2 (or starting >> in 3.0, it also accepts 0xCF). > > Exactly. > >> I guess this can be fixed easily by adding your firmware revision to >> the list of accepted revs. > > I hope so, too. Please try the attached patch. Fons (or anyone else who could reproduce the problem), If you want to try out Adrian's patch, I uploaded a kernel with the patch applied here: <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/kernel26-2.6.39.1.3-1.1-i686.pkg.tar.xz>. Cheers, -t

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[arch-general] usb webcam no audio
by Matthew Monaco 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

I haven't been able to get audio on my webcam for a while. My initial guess is that it has to do with all of the udev changes. I'm using gnome w/ pulseaudio. The audio properties show the device on the input tab, but it doesn't detect any activity. everything.log: Jul 21 23:54:08 newguy kernel: [11606.472285] usb 4-5: new high speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd Jul 21 23:54:09 newguy mtp-probe: checking bus 4, device 2: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.2/usb4/4-5" Jul 21 23:54:09 newguy mtp-probe: bus: 4, device: 2 was not an MTP device Jul 21 23:54:09 newguy kernel: [11607.089065] Linux media interface: v0.10 Jul 21 23:54:09 newguy kernel: [11607.121723] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 Jul 21 23:54:09 newguy kernel: [11607.129054] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Hercules Dualpix Exchange (06f8:3005) Jul 21 23:54:09 newguy kernel: [11607.134791] input: Hercules Dualpix Exchange as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.2/usb4/4-5/4-5:1.0/input/input6 Jul 21 23:54:09 newguy kernel: [11607.134938] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo Jul 21 23:54:09 newguy kernel: [11607.134943] USB Video Class driver (v1.0.0) Jul 21 23:54:09 newguy kernel: [11607.197743] 2:3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84 Jul 21 23:54:09 newguy kernel: [11607.198679] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio Jul 21 23:54:09 newguy kernel: [11607.251849] 2:3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84 Jul 21 23:54:09 newguy kernel: [11607.276979] 2:3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84 Jul 22 03:54:09 newguy rtkit-daemon[1012]: Recovering from system lockup, not allowing further RT threads. Jul 22 03:54:09 newguy rtkit-daemon[1012]: Recovering from system lockup, not allowing further RT threads. Jul 22 03:54:09 newguy rtkit-daemon[1012]: Recovering from system lockup, not allowing further RT threads. Jul 22 03:54:09 newguy rtkit-daemon[1012]: Recovering from system lockup, not allowing further RT threads. Jul 22 03:54:09 newguy rtkit-daemon[1012]: Recovering from system lockup, not allowing further RT threads. Jul 21 23:54:45 newguy kernel: [11643.290970] 2:3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84 dmesg: [11606.472285] usb 4-5: new high speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd [11607.089065] Linux media interface: v0.10 [11607.121723] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 [11607.129054] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Hercules Dualpix Exchange (06f8:3005) [11607.134791] input: Hercules Dualpix Exchange as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.2/usb4/4-5/4-5:1.0/input/input6 [11607.134938] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo [11607.134943] USB Video Class driver (v1.0.0) [11607.197743] 2:3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84 [11607.198679] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio [11607.251849] 2:3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84 [11607.276979] 2:3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84 [11643.290970] 2:3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84

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[arch-general] Moving qgis from [community] into the AUR.
by Thomas Dziedzic 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

QWT was bumped to 6.0 and qgis is currently incompatible with the new version. In order to update qwt, we will have to drop qgis into the aur. I have looked into patching qgis to be compatible with qwt 6. I managed to get an initial patch accepted, but there is a lot more work to be done, on code that I'm unfamiliar with. upstream bug report: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/3562 -Thomas Dziedzic

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[arch-general] makepkg and its dependencies, how to create a good build chroot?
by Magnus Therning 21 Jul '11

21 Jul '11

For a while now I've been using some scripts to handle the details for creating build chroots, updating them, and triggering builds in them. It's all part of my work with building Haskell packages for Arch. To create a chroot I used this line: mkarchroot -f -C ${pacman_conf} \ -M /usr/share/devtools/makepkg-${arch}.conf ${CHROOT_ROOTDIR} \ util-linux-ng pacman sudo wget file grep base-devel ghc Well, that is, I used that line up until yesterday, and it worked fine until then. Yesterday I ran into the problem that the command `find`, which is used by `makepkg`, was missing in the chroot. A little while later I found the same to be true for `gzip`. So, I added `findutils` and `gzip` to the list of packages to be installed. Now, `makepkg` comes in the `pacman` package, and it doesn't have any dependencies on either of these packages, not even an optional dependency. This leaves me with three questions: 1. Why does `pacman` (the package) not depend on `findutils` and `gzip`, when `makepkg` clearly needs both those packages to function properly? 2. Are there any other packages I ought to install in a build chroot besides those I've listed above? 3. Dependencies of packages change over time, so is there a shortcut to making sure I always create a good build chroot (a group maybe)? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

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[arch-general] Panic - no sound devices after upgrade
by Fons Adriaensen 21 Jul '11

21 Jul '11

After a routine upgrade it seems I don't have any sound devices any more. More in detail: * The driver for my card (RME HDSP MADI, snd_hdpsm) is loaded. * aplay -L tells me there is only the 'null' device. * (re)starting /etc/rc.d/alsa doesn't change things. * There is *no* /dev/pcm at all. * /sys/class/sound only has a link to a timer device. * No traces in dmesg or /var/log/messages of anything going wrong. I suspect udev fails to do the right things. * /etc/udev/rules.d is empty * /etc/udev/udev.conf contains only the line udev_log="err" This is a professional studio and I'm expecting clients tomorrow at 09:00. Any ideas ? TIA, -- FA

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[arch-general] how to compile and run 32 bit apps on a 64 bit os?
by Madhurya Kakati 21 Jul '11

21 Jul '11

Hi, I want to install the bluediving application from AUR but it is only for 32 bit arch. How can I compile and run it in my 64 bit arch? Thanks

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[arch-general] Not a good time for ProAudio work? WAS: Panic - no sound devices after upgrade
by Bernardo Barros 20 Jul '11

20 Jul '11

All those issues regarding sound cards and lv2 plug-ins right now. This all mean it will take time until Ardour3 (stable) come out and udev fixes and updates? I tried to figure out the differences between my fedora and arch boxes, I cound not find an easy explanation why the firewire soundcard works on fedora and not on arch. I tried different kernels (including lts), udevs and everything I could think of, including editing the rules.d folder. Or we can try some kind of concentrated effort to find and fix those problems (specially sound card problems) until they hit more users? Sorry, maybe that's just a couple of us, one or two people. I don't really know how many.

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[arch-general] X cursor problem on new install
by D. R. Evans 20 Jul '11

20 Jul '11

I just installed arch for the first time (trying it out since I am unhappy with the state of Kubuntu). I have, I think, followed the installation instructions carefully. Everything seemed OK until I tried to run X. The cursor is offset from where it should be. If I move the mouse to the right, the cursor stops about 2/3 of the way across the screen and won't go any farther. If I move the mouse to the left, the cursor disappears off the left hand side of the screen and reappears on the right hand side. It stops moving to the left a short distance from the right border on the screen. The display of windows on the screen looks fine; it's just the cursor that seems to be wrong. 1. I have tried two mice; both behave the same way. 2. I used wgetpaste as instructed at wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide#Graphical_User_Interface: ~/.xinitrc does not exist /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not exist /var/log/Xorg.0.log is at paste.pocoo.org/show/428974 /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old is at paste.pocoo.org/show/428976 Obviously, I need to get this resolved before proceeding any further with installing a desktop environment. Doc Evans -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR

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[arch-general] shh SOCKS proxy
by Daniel Hilst Selli 20 Jul '11

20 Jul '11

I trying to set a ssh proxy.. For tests matter I'm using my local desktop, as I can change sshd configurations all in one place I do this: http://pastebin.com/g26A9imj Then set my firefox proxy to localhost on port 8080 (all protocols) and checked the SOCK5 buttom selected. Once I enter www.google.com on firefox and it justs show me a blank page

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[arch-general] testing splitted LibreOffice 3.4.2rc1
by Andreas Radke 20 Jul '11

20 Jul '11

It's done. LibreOffice has been split into libreoffice-common and application packages -writer,base,calc,... For better look'n feel you should also install libreoffice-gnome for use in any gtk desktop and libreoffice-kde4 if you want. The en-US language is no more included in the -common pkg. So everyone will have to install at least one language pack,e.g. libreoffice-en-US. I hope I've covered the deps all well. Please test fresh installations and also upgrading from last 3.4.1 release. The new 3.4.2rc1 should be already safe for daily usage. Recommended way for new installations should be to either install libreoffice-common the should ask for a langpack or directly install the langpack of your choice that will pull in the -common pkg. Then you install the application packages you want. It's also possible to install the "libreoffice" group package. If you upgrade you should get libreoffice-common installed showing the needed infos. So get it from the testing repo and report bugs. -Andy

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[arch-general] virtualbox additions package naming
by Ionut Biru 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

I've been criticized a lot because I choose poorly the name for guest additions. Right now the packages are like this: virtualbox-addtitions - contains the iso with guest additions for linux/windows/etc and is installed on host virtualbox-guest-additions - contains guest additions only for an arch linux system as guest. virtualbo-guest-modules - modules only for an arch linux system as guest. Now that virtualbox 4.1 is released I need help choosing this names. -- Ionuț

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[arch-general] SSH Tunnel doubts
by Daniel. 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

I have some doubts about traffic forwarding Supposing that my IP is 192.168.1.100 and the remote is 192.168.1.200 is this -> ssh -R 1000:192.168.1.200:22 the same as this: ssh 192.168.1.200 ssh -L 1000:192.168.1.100:22 ??? -- *"Do or do not. There is no try"* * **Yoda Master*

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping tcp_wrapper support
by Thomas S Hatch 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

> > > I would say the same, but a todo list isn't a to-done list, so keep > that in mind. He also pointed out that I got little to no feedback > when I asked about this both a year and six months ago, so > expectations are pretty low this time around. I'm sure if there were > serious objections people would raise them and we could address them. > > This is worthy of a news article once we move packages to core only > because it could expose some services people didn't previously expect > to need to protect. > > -Dan > As far as feedback goes, I have used tcp-wrappers a great deal in the past, but not for many years. And the fact that it needs to be so heavily patched suggests that we should not be using it anyway. I agree that we should not have to maintain it anymore, it is an outdated security system that usually gets in the way, and Arch is the only distro I use that turns it on by default. +1

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Re: [arch-general] virtualbox additions package naming
by Kwpolska 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

On Jul 19, 2011 4:12 PM, "Ionut Biru" <ibiru(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > I've been criticized a lot because I choose poorly the name for guest additions. > > Right now the packages are like this: > > virtualbox-addtitions - contains the iso with guest additions for linux/windows/etc and is installed on host > virtualbox-guest-additions - contains guest additions only for an arch linux system as guest. > virtualbo-guest-modules - modules only for an arch linux system as guest. > > Now that virtualbox 4.1 is released I need help choosing this names. > > > -- > Ionuț I'd suggest: * virtualbox-additions-iso * virtualbox-additions-guest * virtualbox-additions-guest-modules -- Kwpolska (sent from Android)

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Fwd: Move kdelibs3 to [community]
by Calvin Morrison 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

On 18 July 2011 12:57, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey(a)gmail.com> > Date: 18 July 2011 12:50 > Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] Fwd: Move kdelibs3 to [community] > To: kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net > > > On 18 July 2011 06:36, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >> Am 18.07.2011 12:25, schrieb Stéphane Gaudreault: >>>> Sergej offers to maintain it so I thought we can move it in [community], but >>>> if you are interested you can adopt qt3 and kdelibs3. >>> >>> Maybe we could follow the kdelibs from Trinity [1]. I have no experience with >>> this project, but they seems to be active. Or at least their svn repos [2] >>> could be searched to find useful patches. >>> >>> Stéphane >>> >>> [1] http://www.trinitydesktop.org/ >>> [2] http://websvn.kde.org/branches/trinity/kdelibs/ >>> >> >> This sounds like a good idea, better than trying to build the broken >> kdelibs3 code like we do now. >> >> Hey Guys, I am a developer and member of the Trinity Desktop team. I wanted to clear up a few points here about what the differences between old kde and trinity are as far as you are concerned. Kde3 and Trinity are NOT the same. At this point our sources and contributors have changed completely. One of our goals is to pull all of the disparate Qt3 patches to create a central, up-to-date Qt3 repository that can then be extended as necessary, and we are ready to provide upstream support for qt3. Even with our patches and addons, our qt3 is fully compatible with any qt3 programs, no API breakage whatsoever. I think it would be a great id Link to webgit of qt3: http://git.trinitydesktop.org/viewgit/index.php?a=tree&p=Trinity%20Desktop%… Kdelibs3 on the other hand won't be so simple. There have been significant changes in the API, because we have written a abstraction layer for the Qt3 code to work with "TQt". The TQt interface will allow us to continue using the trinity desktop with newer versions of Qt. We currently are underway porting it to Qt4 too keep up to date. However for arch that means it is likely that some programs would not compile unless patched against the tqtinterface. Therefore I must recommend you do not use our kdelibs3, because we are currently unstable until the next release (due sometime in the fall) What I think would be best for everyone, is that once we release our next version, arch should look into switching to the Trinity Desktop provided kdelibs3, kdebase, kde* packages. They are more up to date and stable. I think the fact you are having trouble building old kde3 shows that it might be time to start considering other options. As far as Qt3 goes, we are completely ready and happy to provide upstream support for all distros, especially my favorite Arch. :) On behalf of the Trinity Project, Calvin Morrison

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] DNS and SSL Cert
by Matthew Monaco 18 Jul '11

18 Jul '11

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Two things are coming up here, and I just want to bring this > discussion up again. > > * DNS > > Our everydns account is going away. According to their site > (http://www.everydns.com/) we have 43-ish days to get everything moved > off. > > We have a handful of options, some free, some not. > > a) https://pointhq.com/ - I use this personally. Maybe not the > snappiest DNS servers in the world, but the interface is easy. > b) http://reflected.net/ could host our DNS, but we'd need to manually > contact people to change things > c) Use our registrar (godaddy) > d) Other? > > * SSL Cert > > Our StartCom cert is expiring. I need to reconfirm my identity with > them, but I can get to this as early as tomorrow. Have we had any > major issues with using a cert from these people? Now would be the > time to switch, if so. > > Cheers, > Aaron > I'm really happy with my dyndns service.

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Re: [arch-general] News draft for dropping tcp_wrappers
by Grigorios Bouzakis 17 Jul '11

17 Jul '11

Dan McGee wrote: > Dropping tcp_wrappers support > > Due to upstream not having released a new version since April 1997, we > are dropping `tcp_wrappers` support from all packages and removing the > package from `[core]`. In addition, newer daemons and applications are > inconsistent in their support for libwrap, leading to confusion as to > whether an application supports the library. > > If you currently use `/etc/hosts.allow` or `/etc/hosts.deny` for > security or logging purposes, you will need to adjust accordingly and > use another tool such as `iptables`. > Why has this been announced since it hasnt happened yet? Isn't that the point of news? Announce something thats taken place. But this is still in testing which isnt a news worthy place. Greg -- () against html e-mail | usenet & email communication netiquette /\ www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

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[arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" is "strongly discouraged" BUT???
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 16 Jul '11

16 Jul '11

It would appear that on 2011-05-02, www.archlinux.org/news/initscripts-update-1/ did say: > We now strongly discourage the use of HARDWARECLOCK="localtime", as this > may lead to several known and unfixable bugs. However, there are no plans > to drop support for "localtime". And it would appear that /etc/rc.conf now does saith: > # HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime", any other value will result > # in the hardware clock being left untouched (useful for virtualization) > # Note: Using "localtime" is discouraged. Since I multi-boot AND do keep my hardware clock set to local time, I'm a little bit concerned by this statement. It gives me two questions. 1) just what "Known" bugs that this could lead to are "UNFIXABLE"??? 2) While putting something like 'HARDWARECLOCK="DoNotMessWithMyLocalTime"' would evidently result in the hardware clock not getting overwritten by the system time on shutdown, How would any value except 'HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"' tell Arch not to expect the hardware clock to be set to UTC on startup??? I guess I could install ntp and put ntpd -qg & in rc.local with the above non-standard rc.conf HARDWARECLOCK definition to nearly simulate the previous NON-NTP localtime behavior where the hardware clock was read {at start-up} AND written {at shutdown} BOTH with a conversion from/to local time... In that it while it would {I think} incorrectly initially set system time on boot by interpreting the hardware clock's value as UTC, it would then use ntp to correct itself to approximately the same time as was indicated by the local time value that was already in the hardware clock. And then go away. Then since HARDWARECLOCK wasn't set to either "UTC" nor "localtime" It shouldn't actually overwrite the hardware clocks localtime with UTC... My hardware clock may need to be manually reset a little more often But that's no big deal. The problem is if for some reason I should boot up when the internet isn't accessible, there would be no ntp server to correct Arch's misconception that the hardwareclock was already in UTC which would result in bogus timestamps on any files I modified during that time (not to mention bogus clock displays...) -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>>

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[arch-general] anyone success with compilation of cyanogenmod7?
by dejfson 16 Jul '11

16 Jul '11

Hi All, has anyone success to compile CM7 under Archlinux? I'm new to Arch, before user of Gentoo, so I'm still in learning phase. In my case the issue seems to be missing perl's "Switch.pm" module. Looking for arch package on the web was of no success. Any help appreciated d.

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[arch-general] docs in Octave package?
by XeCycle 16 Jul '11

16 Jul '11

Hello, I read from the package database that Ronald van Haren maintains the package "octave", but I cannot contact him, so I'm asking here. I need the documents of octave, but it's not in the current octave package, so I need to compile it manually after each update. However the compilation is very time and power consuming, it can drive my CPU to 100 degrees --- which is not very fine for a laptop. Could you please build a separate "octave-docs" package? -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591

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[arch-general] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.86-1
by Eric Bélanger 16 Jul '11

16 Jul '11

Hi, lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.86-1 are in testing for an upstream update. Please test and signoff. Signoff from users are welcomed. Eric

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[arch-general] Content of new text file
by Squall Lionheart 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hello, When using Dolphin in KDE4 to *Create New > Text File...* the new file is not empty, it contains a space and a newline character. I have looked for some kind of setting or template file that controls this default and have not been successful. I was wondering if anyone knows how to modify this behavior or can provide a link to a how to. My goal here is to simply create an empty file just like if you used *touch newfile.txt*. Thank you -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual

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[arch-general] [signoff] netcfg 2.6.4-1
by Rémy Oudompheng 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hello, I have just released netcfg 2.6.4. As I think the amount of outstanding bugs inside is pretty negligible, I suggest starting a signoff thread for inclusion into [core]. Then I will start working on including pending new features for 2.7 release. Highlights of netcfg 2.6.4 are a shining new netcfg-profiles(5) man page, that gathers the (previously non-existent ethernet(5) and wireless(5) man pages). - The netcfg(8) man pages has been translated back to markdown/pandoc syntx for easier updates. - The netcfg-profiles(5) man page documents many options of the various available connection types, and should complement the provided examples. It should plug the usual criticism about netcfg's documentation being very hard to find. It is expected that the 2.6.4 release is the final one in the 2.6.x series. This release works for me in standard ethernet and WPA modes, using DHCP, so I sign it off. -- Rémy.

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[arch-general] bpython/bpython2 in community-testing
by Thomas Dziedzic 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

I've renamed the current community/bpython to community-testing/bpython2. bpython is now the python3 version in community-testing. The reason for the wait is because of a crash that should be fixed in python 3.2.1: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23536 Please test and thanks for your time!

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[arch-general] howto properly disable sound device pulse/alsa?
by Matthew Monaco 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

I think since Gnome 3 / pulseaudio, I've had an annoying system beep when shutting down. The pcspkr module is not loaded. I've found that I have the following device: $ dmesg | grep Beep [ 10.594164] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input7 And that the following command will disable the beep: $ amixer -c0 set Beep 0% mute How should I go about making this persistent? I think avoiding that device would be best, can it be done by adding (or disabling) some udev config? Or, can I somehow make the 0% mute persistant in asound.conf? Thanks

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Re: [arch-general] iptables not working well?
by Javier Vasquez 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Robert Marmorstein <rmmarm(a)sdf.org> wrote: > ... > > It might help you to LOG packets that are REJECTED. Then if you continue to > have issues, you should be able to see more directly what's going on. > > To do that, add rules like directly before the ones with -J REJECT: > > iptables -A INPUT -j LOG -m limit --limit 3/minute > iptables -A FORWARD -j LOG -m limit --limit 3/minute > > Then you should look in /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog (depending on > which logger you have installed) to see which packets are being dropped. > > You probably don't want these rules enabled all the time -- the log files > can get pretty big quickly -- but they are very helpful for debugging. > > If you continue to have issues, posting the LOG messages would help us know > more about what's going on. > > Robert Hi Robert, I tried the loging rules, but they didn't work as proposed: % sudo iptables -A INPUT -j LOG -m limit --limit 3/minute Password: iptables: Invalid argument. Run `dmesg' for more information. % sudo iptables -A FORWARD -j LOG -m limit --limit 3/minute iptables: Invalid argument. Run `dmesg' for more information. What dmesg shows is: x_tables: ip_tables: limit.0 match: invalid size 40 (kernel) != (user) 48 x_tables: ip_tables: limit.0 match: invalid size 40 (kernel) != (user) 48 I didn't find anything under: /var/log/messages.log /var/log/syslog.log The dmesg messages come from: /var/log/kernel.log Not sure if that helps any way to get some light, :-) Thanks, -- Javier.

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[arch-general] iptables not working well?
by Javier Vasquez 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

Hi, I've configured a 2-nics gateway (one internal nic and an external usb nic hooked to the adsl modem). I configured iptables as I'm used to do: ++++++ iptables-restore < /etc/iptables/empty.rules iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -F iptables -t nat -F iptables -t mangle -F iptables -X iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -m state --state NEW ! -i ppp0 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -i ppp0 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o ppp0 -j ACCEPT iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE iptables -A FORWARD -i ppp0 -o ppp0 -j REJECT /etc/rc.d/iptables save /etc/rc.d/iptables restart ++++++ Notice that I have IP forwarding enabled through: ++++++ % 'grep' forward /etc/sysctl.conf net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1 ++++++ And also through: ++++++ % 'grep' FORWARD /etc/conf.d/iptables IPTABLES_FORWARD=1 ++++++ But I can confirm by: +++++++ % cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 1 +++++++ This is based upon: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/23 And it's working on a debian box. I remember some time back it also worked on a arch box, only thing I was not using pppd directly but wvdial instead... OK, on machines at the internal side of my LAN, I can ping everywhere. But I can not use the browser with all addresses, for example I can't get to www.archlinux.org through frirefox or midori, neither www.debian.org. Weird thing www.google.com, and some other sites can be reached through firefox on machines inside the LAN. When I try accessing those sites on the gateway (not the machines inside the LAN) of course I have no problem. I checked /etc/resolv.con, and it's OK, besides ping has clear access everywhere. I have no clue what's going on. I noticed the following under /var/log/messages.log: +++++++ Jul 9 23:32:33 mini-0 pppd[1974]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. Jul 9 23:32:33 mini-0 pppd[1974]: RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.5 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 10 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: PPP session is 45128 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: Connected to 00:12:7f:33:eb:3c via interface eth1 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: Using interface ppp0 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: Connect: ppp0 <--> eth1 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: PAP authentication succeeded Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: peer from calling number 00:12:7F:33:EB:3C authorized Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: kernel does not support PPP filtering Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: local IP address 201.200.139.27 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: remote IP address 200.91.104.9 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: primary DNS address 200.91.75.6 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: secondary DNS address 200.91.75.5 Jul 9 23:32:35 mini-0 kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team Jul 9 23:32:35 mini-0 kernel: nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (7628 buckets, 30512 max) +++++++ It sounded curious that kernel does not support PPP filtering, but I'm almost certain that's not the issue, given that on the gateway (not the forwarded internal LAN), I can access all pages through firefox... Any help you can provide is very welcome... It might be the iptables is not working well. I missed to indicate this is running on a lemote mini-pc (archloong on mipsel), which of course has no official support, but I wanted to see first if I'm missing any configuration particular to arch (as I said this worked before also on a x86 arch box, but things change), so just in case perhaps someone identified the miss... Thanks, -- Javier.

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[arch-general] Xorg not working on AMD C-50 Fusion (Radeon HD 6250)
by Nicolás Adamo 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Hi all! I'm having trouble installing xorg on a Gateway Netbook which has a fusion AMD processor model "C-50". It has micro+graphics in one chip. I've googled that many people succeded with catalyst drivers, though I haven't been that lucky. I added the [catalyst] repo mentioned at the arch wiki, installed all xorg, xorg-utils, catalyst, catalyst-utils, etc. but I can't start x When running startx, nothing happens. It shows the prompt again. fglrxinfo returns "unable to open display (null)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log is empty , however, the same file with .old is at http://pastebin.archlinux.fr/433086 If helps, /etc/X11/xorg.conf is at http://pastebin.archlinux.fr/433085 Removing it makes no change. Well, any clue will be appreciated. Regards, Nicolás

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[arch-general] Still perl issues
by Joel Hatsch 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Hello *, still having perl issues after update. Saw on the mailing list that I'm not the first, but the suggested workarounds don't work for me. Code : #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use GD::Graph::lines; results in the already known Not a CODE reference at /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/DynaLoader.pm line 213. END failed--call queue aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/GD.pm line 213. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/GD/Graph/lines.pm line 18. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/GD/Graph/lines.pm line 18. Compilation failed in require at ./test.pl line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./test.pl line 6. 1) adding push (@INC,"/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl"); didn't help 2) renaming vendor_perl to vendor_perl-old didn't help (was suggested in june) 3) remove perl/gd/perl-gd & reinstall didn't help neither I was hoping that a subsequent update of the packages would help, but in the meantime it's more or less 1 month that I can't execute perl programs and it's getting annoying Any hints/pointers for future investigation ? Thanks Joel

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[arch-general] Arch base system snapshot available?
by Herb Miller Jr. 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Where can I find a snapshot of the Arch base system to facilitate deployment in a chrooted environment? Is such a thing available? Thank you, Herb

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[arch-general] Outdated install media (2010-05)
by Darkbyte 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Is there anything we could do about the extremely outdated install media? I right now got used to installing systems with the most recent iso's from http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/2011.06.10/ and they worked for me. Is there any tests that need to be performed? - Armin

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[arch-general] Alsa buffer_size without dmix?
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Hello everypony, I want to increase my default alsa buffer_size of 8192 to 32768 because I'm sometimes getting small skips in my audio. Now, usually people use dmix for this. I'm using the upmix plugin, however, to listen to stereo music on my 7.1 system. Could any alsa wizards share the wisdom on how to increase the buffer_size without dmix or how to chain dmix into this? My also asound.conf: pcm.upmix71 { type upmix slave.pcm "surround71" channels 8 } pcm.!default "plug:upmix71" Now, I tried something along these lines: pcm.upmix71 { type upmix slave.pcm "buffer" channels 8 } pcm.buffer { type dmix slave { pcm "surround71" period_time 0 buffer_time 0 period_size 2028 buffer_size 32768 } } pcm.!default "plug:upmix71" but apparently I don't grok alsa configuration syntax. It doesn't help that alsa-project.org is down (which is why I'm posting here rather than on their mailing list). I don't even need dmix itself, I just want to increase the buffer size but apparently dmix is the only plugin capable of doing just that. Help appreciated. -- Sven-Hendrik

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Re: [arch-general] iptables not working well?
by Javier Vasquez 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Dr. Robert Marmorstein <robert(a)narnia.homeunix.com> wrote: > If you have a static IP address on your ethernet card, you probably want to > use SNAT rather than MASQUERADE. > > Also, I find it odd that you are using MASQUERADE on traffic TO the ppp0 > interface. Usually, ou MASQUERADE traffic FROM the ppp0 address. You might try > "-i" instead of "-o" in that rule and see if it makes a difference It's workin like I showed on a debian box. But I'll try of course. > > Your state rules also look a little odd to me. On your INPUT chain, you are > accepting traffic that is established or related. But you only accept new > connections if they are not from ppp0. I think I would delete the "! -i ppp0" > from that line unless you have a very good reason for it to be there. ppp0 is my connection to the external world (ISP through PPPoE), so the idea is not to accept new connections from the outside. That seemed logical to me. And has been working on the debian box for quiet a while. However I'll remove conditional acceptance, just plain accept new connections both from inside as from outside. > > Furthermore, there should be an equivalent line that alow the FORWARD chain to > accept NEW connections, but that seems to be missing. > > Since you don't seem to really have any real security rules in your firewall > anyway, I suggest something like this: > > iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT > iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT > iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT > iptables -F > iptales -t nat -F > iptales -t mangle -F > iptales -X > > iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT > iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED, RELATED -j ACCEPT > iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED, RELATED -j ACCEPT > iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT > iptables -A FORWARD -ippp0 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -i ppp0 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE > iptables -A INPUT -j REJECT > iptables -A FORWARD -j REJECT > > Of course, since I'm not on your system, I can't test these. But I think this > is more or less what you're trying to do. I'll experiment a bit with your settings, I hope you're right, :-) Notice that even though my setting look a bit dated, they're still working for me on an old debian box (which I'm trying to replace)... > > In terms of security stuff, I strongly recommend you think about adding some > limit matches -- at least for SSH and HTTP ports if you have them open. Yes, I haven't set a firewall, just a transparent gateway, I mean a plane router between my ISP and my internal LAN. So far I don't have any service, like web or mail, so it hadn't been much of a constrain, but I can learn how to do things and implement them. Perhaps you can share later on more on your suggestions for more security, :-) > > Hope this helps, Yeap, I'll try, and then will let you and the list know... > > Robert Thanks a lot, -- Javier.

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[arch-general] Nvidia?? (About to do pacman -Syu but:)
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 10 Jul '11

10 Jul '11

In preparation for a pacman -Syu I peeked at the "main page" and read: > The nvidia-173xx and nvidia-96xx driver packages have been removed from > our repositories as they are incompatible with newer xorg servers. This > can only be fixed by an upstream update, which has not happened yet. > > For most video cards, the best alternative should be xf86-video-nouveau Since I know for a fact that my integrated Nvidia GeForce 6150 LE is very incompatible with the nouveau driver I'm suddenly concerned... according to pacman -Q nvidia I got: nvidia 270.41.19-1 Should I worry about it? That is should I find out how to prevent pacman from messing with the video driver, or does the "270.41.19-1" mean the above will have no effect on my nvidia driver? Thanks -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>>

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[arch-general] grub-legacy-fedora-git package
by KESHAV P.R. 10 Jul '11

10 Jul '11

Hi all, I have created a PKGBUILD for Fedora's GRUB Legacy fork, grub-legacy-fedora-git https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47959 . It includes support for GPT boot (not tested) and supports ext4 /boot (tested using the UEFI package). It does not include any of the patches used in core/grub package. It compiles fine with the binutils in Arch repos (unlike the current core/grub and aur/grub-gfx packages). It also supports splashimage (gfx) option. Although I maintain that package, I do not use it. I use grub2-bios-bzr which I maintain). Important info :- 1. The menu config file is /boot/grub/grub.conf, not /boot/grub/menu.lst . 2. The syntax for splashimage is (for example) - splashimage (hd0,0)/boot/grub/image.xpm.gz 3. The package builds fine in x86_64 with gcc-multilib. I have not checked whether it compiles without gcc-multilib (grub2 1.99 compiles without multilib in x86_64). Would be helpful if someone confirms whether it compiles in x86_64 without multilib. I request current core/grub and aur/grub-gfx users to test this package and give your comments/suggestions. Regards. Keshav PS: The equivalent UEFI package is grub-legacy-efi-fedora https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47979 .

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[arch-general] About a modprobe command before /etc/rc.sysinit
by F.Gr. 10 Jul '11

10 Jul '11

Hi, during boot process, I'm getting the following (it seems there's a problem with some modprobe command) before the script '/etc/rc.sysinit' is run: --- Usage: /sbin/modprobe [-v] [-V] [-C config-file] [-d <dirname> ] [-n] (cut) --- I'm running the latest kernel version 2.6.39.3-1 on x86_64. -- The era of manufacturing consent has given way to the era of manufacturing news. Soon media newsrooms will drop the pretense, and start hiring theater directors instead of journalists. —Arundhati Roy

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[arch-general] gnome2.32
by Sergio de Almeida Lenzi 10 Jul '11

10 Jul '11

Hello, If any of you, still misses the gnome 2.32 with ffmpeg, mplayer, mencoder, dvdstyler, and all the stuff that comes with, I have setted up an archlinux server at: archlinux.k1.com.br ======================================== howto: 1) edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist to have only one line Server = http://archlinux.k1.com.br:81/$repo/os/x86_64 2) edit the /etc/pacman.conf and uncomment the code to fetch from community, multilib, lzt lzt is the "private" packages brought from FreeBSD 8.2 3) do the command pacman -Syu the system will bring the codes from the k1 archlinux repository 4) pacman -S abs will rebuild the /etc/abs.conf to point to the K1 abs 5) command: abs will fetch (via rsync) the abs and put it in the /var/abs ======================================= for now, there is a complete gnome 2.32 working with gdm 2.18 (the old one) that have gdmsetup. libreoffice is version 3.3.3 and the pt-br package is libreoffice-pt-BR I have tested on several old notebooks and seems OK Just in case some of you need the old gnome. Sergio

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.7.2-1
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 09 Jul '11

09 Jul '11

On 07/09/2011 11:05 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Another bugfix release for the 0.7 series. Please sign off. > > Dave Reisner (11): > mkinitcpio: refactor BASEDIR resolution > unify error messaging, both in grammar and output > manpage: wrap at 80 columns, add a vim modeline > manpage: clarify behaviors, add example, fix typos > functions: do not null delimit modalias data > fix module installation issues with BASEDIR > mkinitcpio: include version in help msg > Makefile: allow git-describe to determine version > cleanup devel PKGBUILD > autodetect: check for /sys/devices before autodetecting > lsinitcpio: fix logical error in reading compression > Sign-off. Now archiso builds/boot fine. 0.7.2 to core! -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1

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[arch-general] libreoffice 3.4.1-2 "General Error" on open and save
by David C. Rankin 09 Jul '11

09 Jul '11

Guys, Since updating to libreoffice 3.4.1-2 I get a "General Error" on opening any document and on saving any document for the first time. (i.e. save a new document or 'save as' new name on existing documents) Libre seems to work. After closing the error dialog, the document opens and after closing the error dialog on save, the document is saved, but this gives some concern when working on critical documents. A screenshot of the error on save dialog is here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/arch/bugs/libre/oo-general-error-on-save.jpg Is anyone else seeing this? If so, any idea what needs to be done to fix it? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Alternative for Xyne's makerepo?
by Vic Demuzere 09 Jul '11

09 Jul '11

Hi there, I used to host a pacman repository on dropbox, for myself and a few friends. The easiest way for me to update this repo was Xyne's makerepo. That project isn't supported anymore, so I'm looking for an alternative. Something simple that can build and update a repository (with AUR packages) using a package list. Suggestions? Thanks, Vic Demuzere

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[arch-general] Objective C ABI version
by Sergej Pupykin 08 Jul '11

08 Jul '11

Hi, I have a small question about ObjC ABI. (See openvpn-authldap-plugin: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30584) This package can be built only with export OBJCFLAGS=-fobjc-abi-version=2 As I understand gcc-objc uses ABI version 0 by default, but this ABI support already dropped from libobjc. So I get "undefined reference to `objc_msgSend'" errors in default build. (like this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvpn-auth-ldap/+bug/771029) Is there any way to fix default gcc-objc ABI version?

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[arch-general] Introducing pacweb, another pyalpm demo
by Rémy Oudompheng 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

Hello, I am currently working on another toy example use of pyalpm: beside pycman, the command line utility that comes with pyalpm, I have now pacweb, a browsable Web interface to pacman. http://projects.archlinux.org/users/remy/pacweb.git/ It is not suitable for public consumption, but offers an alternative display of the pacman database. Intrepid users might run it as root, to allow performing some actions (changing package install reasons, add/remove individual packages), as well as wide opening seurity breaches on their systems. It is currently based on jinja (recently added to repos for Python 3) for templating, and steals Archweb style for the current appearance. I have also made a PKGBUILD available on the AUR. The amount of actual Python source code is very small and should be easily readable. -- Rémy.

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[arch-general] upgrading postfix - newaliases: error while loading libdb-5.1.so -- ignore?
by David C. Rankin 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

Guys, This may just be on i686, but I'm trying to figure out what happened. During update this morning, postfix refused to start. The upgrade error was: (41/46) upgrading postfix [#######################################] 100% newaliases: error while loading shared libraries: libdb-5.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Attempting to start postfix without the &>/dev/null gave the same error (duh..) [09:27 providence:/var/cache/pacman/pkg] # /usr/sbin/postfix start /usr/sbin/postfix: error while loading shared libraries: libdb-5.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Looking for the file, I find it here: [09:27 providence:/var/cache/pacman/pkg] # locate libdb-5.1.so <snip archroot dirs> /usr/lib/libdb-5.1.so Looking for ownership -- it looks like the file is just gone: [09:28 providence:/var/cache/pacman/pkg] # pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libdb-5.1.so error: failed to read file '/usr/lib/libdb-5.1.so': No such file or directory [09:28 providence:/var/cache/pacman/pkg] # l /usr/lib/libdb* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2277786 Jun 14 19:30 /usr/lib/libdb-5.2.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1789876 Jun 14 19:30 /usr/lib/libdb-5.2.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jun 14 19:30 /usr/lib/libdb-5.so -> libdb-5.2.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2277786 Jun 14 19:30 /usr/lib/libdb.a <snip> OK, it looks like a missing link from db 5.2.28-1. On x86_64, I have the same thing, but postfix restarts just fine. What do we need to do to get postfix to look for libdb-5.2.so instead of libdb-5.1.so on x86? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!
by Steve Holmes 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

I think when perl was upgraded to 5.14, something broke with one of its libraries. Whenever I type 'automake' or attempt to recompile several perl packages from AUR, I get the following error message: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/List/Util/Util.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Istack_sp_ptr Thoughts anyone? I see this as a show stopper for any development right now. Thanks.

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[arch-general] fbsplash fails to start after pacman -Syu
by Madhurya Kakati 06 Jul '11

06 Jul '11

Hi, After a recent system upgrade fbsplash fails to run during boot. However while shutting down i can see the splash. Its only during the start up that I can't see it. This is the /var/log/boot some days before the upgrade http://pastebin.com/EbdYYb32 and this is the log after the upgrade http://pastebin.com/MkxLbRsT Please notice the "/etc/rc.d/functions.d/fbsplash-extras.sh: line 780: /lib/splash/cache/steps_sysinit: No such file or directory" and "/etc/rc.d/functions.d/fbsplash-extras.sh: line 795: /lib/splash/cache/steps_sysinit: No such file or directory" and "/etc/rc.d/functions.d/fbsplash-extras.sh: line 796: /lib/splash/cache/steps_bootup: No such file or directory" errors that occur during boot(after upgrade). These didn't occur before. Also after booting i did ls in the /lib/splash/cache dir and found that the files are already there in the dir. Thanks.

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[arch-general] netcfg: complete documentation available?
by XeCycle 06 Jul '11

06 Jul '11

Hello, I am now trying netcfg for managing network connections, however I encountered some problems, and I didn't find the solution in the manual or the ArchWiki. So I wonder whether a complete documentation is available. The two problems I encountered are: 1. Ad-Hoc wireless lost ESSID. I used this (working) script to connect: > #!/bin/bash > NET_ESSID="ssid" > NET_KEY="passwd" > NET_GATEWAY="192.168.0.1" > NET_MYIP="192.168.0.3" > iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc > ifconfig wlan0 up > iwconfig wlan0 essid $NET_ESSID key "s:$NET_KEY" channel auto > ifconfig wlan0 $NET_MYIP > route add default gw $NET_GATEWAY I tried to do the same with netcfg. Here is the profile: > CONNECTION='wireless' > DESCRIPTION='Wi-Fi at home' > PRE_UP="ip link set wlan0 down; iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc" > INTERFACE='wlan0' > SECURITY='wep' > ESSID='ssid' > KEY='s:passwd' > IP='static' > ADDR='192.168.0.2' # Please ignore this difference, I'm sure it's unused > GATEWAY='192.168.0.1' > DNS=('8.8.8.8') > # Uncomment this if your ssid is hidden > #HIDDEN=yes However, I cannot connect it. I've configured my conky to monitor network connections, from what it showed, the ESSID is associated first, then lost after a few seconds. 2. PPPOE won't start by itself. Here's the simple profile: CONNECTION='ppp' INTERFACE='eth0' PEER='provider' PPP_TIMEOUT=10 When I run `sudo netcfg ppp`, it just got stuck there. Then I opened another terminal, and ping some IP, then it got connected. Thank you. These two problems have been bothering me for a week. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591

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[arch-general] Default sound card
by Christian 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

Hi all, Well, I have been trying to specify my Soundblaster Audigy ZS2 as my default sound card, but no luck. Here is what I do. I typed: cat /proc//asound/modules 0 snd_intel 1 snd_emu10k1 So I then created the alsa.conf file under /etc/modprobe.d and typed: options snd slots=snd_eme10k1x0 I know that there is something wrong here, but what am I doing wrong? Any help is really apreciated, many thanks! Christian

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Re: [arch-general] netcfg: complete documentation available?
by joseph.mitchd＠gmail.com 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

I added a section in the wiki just the other day: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg#Configuring_a_bridge_for_use_wi… -Mitch On , Alper Kanat <tunix(a)raptiye.org> wrote: > Hey There, > In addition to these, I can't find any documentation regarding bridged > connections need for such cases like openvpn and virtual machine needs. > --- > Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 17:45, XeCycle xecycle(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, I am now trying netcfg for managing network connections, however > > I encountered some problems, and I didn't find the solution in the > > manual or the ArchWiki. So I wonder whether a complete documentation is > > available. > > > > The two problems I encountered are: > > > > 1. Ad-Hoc wireless lost ESSID. > > > > I used this (working) script to connect: > > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > NET_ESSID="ssid" > > > NET_KEY="passwd" > > > NET_GATEWAY="192.168.0.1" > > > NET_MYIP="192.168.0.3" > > > iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc > > > ifconfig wlan0 up > > > iwconfig wlan0 essid $NET_ESSID key "s:$NET_KEY" channel auto > > > ifconfig wlan0 $NET_MYIP > > > route add default gw $NET_GATEWAY > > > > I tried to do the same with netcfg. Here is the profile: > > > > > CONNECTION='wireless' > > > DESCRIPTION='Wi-Fi at home' > > > PRE_UP="ip link set wlan0 down; iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc" > > > INTERFACE='wlan0' > > > SECURITY='wep' > > > ESSID='ssid' > > > KEY='s:passwd' > > > IP='static' > > > ADDR='192.168.0.2' # Please ignore this difference, I'm sure it's > unused > > > GATEWAY='192.168.0.1' > > > DNS=('8.8.8.8') > > > # Uncomment this if your ssid is hidden > > > #HIDDEN=yes > > > > However, I cannot connect it. I've configured my conky to monitor > > network connections, from what it showed, the ESSID is associated first, > > then lost after a few seconds. > > > > 2. PPPOE won't start by itself. > > > > Here's the simple profile: > > > > CONNECTION='ppp' > > INTERFACE='eth0' > > PEER='provider' > > PPP_TIMEOUT=10 > > > > When I run `sudo netcfg ppp`, it just got stuck there. Then I opened > > another terminal, and ping some IP, then it got connected. > > > > Thank you. These two problems have been bothering me for a week. > > > > -- > > Carl Lei (XeCycle) > > Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University > > OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 > > Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591 > >

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[arch-general] Important changes for mongodb 1.8.2-2
by Thomas Dziedzic 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

In response to the following bug report https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24983 I have applied the attached fix to mongodb and as a result there have been some backwards incompatible changes. dbpath has been changed to /var/lib/mongodb logpath has been changed to /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log There have been other minor fixes, please check out the bug report for full details.

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[arch-general] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.7.1-1, device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.85-3, cryptsetup 1.3.1-2, dmraid 1.0.0.rc16.3-2, mdadm 3.2.2-2, v86d 0.1.10-2
by Thomas Bächler 03 Jul '11

03 Jul '11

A few fixes to mkinitcpio. One regression was fixed regarding 64 bit kernels with a 32 bit userspace (slows down image generation a bit again), and there were further speedups regarding add_module. Please sign off. Dave Reisner (17): bash-completion: complete -k on kernel images bash-completion: match style to rest of code bash-completion: use a PE instead of sed function: return with 0 if we reach the end of add_binary functions: reduce calls to modinfo avoid touching the linker directly mkinitcpio: use msg instead of echo for hook help lsinitcpio: append, not overwrite found hooks lsinitcpio: add optional colorized output function: fix whitespace errors functions: call _add_file directly from add_module always exit from cleanup functions: reorg, no code changes install modules all at once base/install: rewrite the config to sanitize it cleanup rarely and unused variable declarations functions: remove cruft from in_array Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (1): Fix -k /path when -b is used Thomas Bächler (4): init_functions/default_mount_handler: use -l option for blkid to avoid syntax errors in a later mount command Trim leading spaces in MODULES and earlymodules to prevent error messages when one is set to " " Merge branch 'working' of https://github.com/falconindy/mkinitcpio into working Release version 0.7.1

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[arch-general] Vodafone HSDPA key
by Fons Adriaensen 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hello all, Is it possible to use Vodafone's (Italy) HSDPA USB key with Archlinux ? I'd want to use it without depending on any 'desktop' tools - just netcfg and whatever other command line tools it takes. Ciao, -- FA

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[arch-general] The need for /lib64 - testing please
by Allan McRae 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hi all, I was looking at the /lib64 folder and wondering what it is really needed for... It just seems clutter to me on a pure x86_64 system (or even with a multilib in lib32 folders like we have). As far as I can tell, most things are perfectly fine without that folder and its two symlinks. I would like some help testing removing this so I can get an idea of what issues people run into. There is bound to be some software that makes assumptions about /lib64 in its installation and I would like to know (a) how widespread that issue is and (b) how hard it is to work around. If you want to try it out, just remove the /lib64 folder (after making sure it only has symlinks to ld-2.13.so and ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 in it. Run your system as usual for a while and report any issues you come across. Thanks, Allan

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The need for /lib64 - testing please
by Emmanuel Benisty 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Am 01.07.2011 06:48, schrieb Allan McRae: >> Hi all, >> >> I was looking at the /lib64 folder and wondering what it is really >> needed for... It just seems clutter to me on a pure x86_64 system (or >> even with a multilib in lib32 folders like we have). As far as I can >> tell, most things are perfectly fine without that folder and its two >> symlinks. >> >> I would like some help testing removing this so I can get an idea of >> what issues people run into. There is bound to be some software that >> makes assumptions about /lib64 in its installation and I would like to >> know (a) how widespread that issue is and (b) how hard it is to work >> around. >> >> If you want to try it out, just remove the /lib64 folder (after making >> sure it only has symlinks to ld-2.13.so and ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 in it. >> Run your system as usual for a while and report any issues you come across. > > First of all, /lib64/ld-2.14.so is unnecessary, only > /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so must exist. > > The problem is quite simple: The ELF binary hardcodes the path to the > interpreter (which is the linker). Binaries that were compiled for other > distributions or generic binaries distributed by third parties will have > the path "/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2" hardcoded as their interpreter - > I don't know where this convention comes from and why they didn't choose > /lib (choosing /lib would be no problem, as the file names for the 32 > and 64 bit linkers differ, the former is ld-linux.so.2). Just FTR, it most likely comes from http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#LIB64

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[arch-general] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.7-1, device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.85-3, dmraid 1.0.0.rc16.3-2, mdadm 3.2.2-2, v86d 0.1.10-2
by Thomas Bächler 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

This is a huge release and should stay in testing for a while. I want to point out two significant changes: 1) We now have a build() function instead of an install() function - the latter was an unfortunate conflict with the install utility. The hooks in the repository have been adjusted, but backward-compatibility code is in place (a deprecation warning will be printed). All these packages have conflicts=(mkinitcpio<0.7). 2) We now use bsdcpio instead of gen_init_cpio. This obsoletes the gen_init_cpio package and adds a dependency on libarchive. This also speeds up the image generation considerably. Other changes include massive cleanups and fixes, code refactoring, and changes that should finally make the -b (basedir) option useful. Please test and sign off. Here comes the full shortlog: Dave Reisner (52): init: don't attempt modprobe if $MODULES is empty mkinitcpio.conf: s/raid/mdadm/ mkinitcpio: deprecate install() in install hooks dmesg: remove install/hook functions: cleanup and refactor add_binary functions: refactor add_module functions: remove add_device functions: remove add_symlink2 use bsdcpio to create images functions: refactor add_file functions: document hook API mkinitcpio.conf: note implicit support for lzop mkinitcpio: use simple PEs instead of externals mkinitcpio: allow specifying kernel ver as path to image lsinitcpio: new utility to dump contents of images Makefile: refactor and simplify mkinitcpio: bashify preset build loop use consistent vim modelines declare all variables in mkinitcpio mkinitcpio: refactor and bashify early path calculations declare SAVELIST, QUIET, SHOW_AUTOMODS as faux booleans mkinitcpio: remove cruft in getopts loop overhaul output, introducing color functions: refactor add_symlink functions: simplify parse_hook mkinitcpio: bashification, part 1/2 mkinitcpio: bashification, part 2/2 add -t option to specify alternate build directory install/keymap: refactor and bashify mkinitcpio: declare usage as a heredoc remove support for -m to add a startup message install/base: cleanup and simplify functions: remove get_module_name init: declare PATH, remove absolute paths init: remove unnecessary variable declarations mkinitcpio: allow overriding the compression method mkinitcpio: only show usage on request mkinitcpio.5: alphabetize options for easier nav README: update copyright year, add self as author mkinitcpio: catch errors in parse_hook add a PKGBUILD for easier testing from the repo mkinitcpio: allow absolute paths to preset files install/{sata,pata,scsi}: cleanup and simplify properly support $BASEDIR install/autodetect: refactor and simplify hook functions: support $BASEDIR in modprobe Makefile: the Makefile itself is a dep for the manpage functions: add missing 'command' before install functions: s/basedir/BASEDIR/ functions: fix pathing issue with $BASEDIR install/base: use private API call to add config mkinitcpio: fix resolution issues with RTLD Eric Bélanger (1): Added usbinput to default hooks (implements FS#19328) Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (3): Fix some install hooks due recent change in all_modules() Add missing /etc/bash_completion.d in Makefile Add asciidoc as makedepends in private PKGBUILD. Sebastien Luttringer (6): Add bash completion to mkinitcpio Fix printing of bash usage when asking for a bad hook Print pretty message if no help is defined in hook Use error function instead of echo Add lsinitcpio bash completion Use _get_comp_words_by_ref in bash completion Thomas Bächler (7): Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/seblu/arch-mkinitcpio into working Remove old '-m' option from bash completion. emove old '-a' option from bash completion and fix '-s' option. Merge branch 'working' Add .gitignore file install/keymap: fix installation ($buildroot -> $BUILDROOT) Release version 0.7

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[arch-general] Warning - Thunderbird 5 Breaks Access to pop accounts
by David C. Rankin 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Guys, This may just be on my box, but after update to thunderbird 5, all access to new messages on pop accounts broke. The error message said: Please send PASS command. It looks like the mailer wasn't responding properly to the server communications. I rebooted, I tried everything. Finally I had to downgrade to thunderbird-3.1.11-1 to restore access to my pop accounts. Anyone else see this? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Synaptics Gesture Suite on Arch?
by Karol Babioch 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Hi, I've got a Synaptics Touchpad capable of recognizing gestures. After using this quite heavily on Windows I got used to it and would like to have it available on Linux also ;). After some research I found that there is a Synaptics Gesture Suite for Linux ([1]), which looks quite useful. However there is no direct download available, and it seems that you have to be some sort of OEM in order to get it. I couldn't find any package in the repositories, so I'm wondering whether anyone knows more about it. Best regards, Karol Babioch [1] http://www.synaptics.com/solutions/technology/gestures/touchpad-linux

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[arch-general] python2-zope-interface - failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
by David C. Rankin 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

Just FYI, This may be my fault, but on each box I have updated, I get the following error: (13/13) checking for file conflicts [#######################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) python2-zope-interface: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zope.interface-3.6.3-py2.7.egg-info/ exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. I just -f'ed it... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Java 7 is now in [community-testing] and needs testing.
by Thomas Dziedzic 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

Hi, Java 7 is getting released on July 28th so I thought it would be a good time to let users test it out. I have just pushed jre/jdk 7 build 147 into [community-testing] so that users can have a month in advance to report bugs, and notify upstream projects if they are incompatible with java 7. You should be able to install jre/jdk 7 without the need to enable any of the testing repos. I have tested it on my computer with a couple of browser games which seem to work fine. The only program that doesn't work with Java 7 afaik is minecraft, the specific problem can be tracked here: http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/minecraft_doesnt_work_with_java_7 Hopefully we can have enough users complaining that the devs will take notice. A summary of the changes that come with Java 7: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/ Bugs that are not packaging bugs should be submitted to http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/ The Java 7 feedback forum is located at http://www.java.net/forums/jdk/java-se-snapshots-project-feedback?force=259 Cheers!

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[arch-general] KDE 4.6.4 when?
by Lukáš Jirkovský 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

Hello, I'd like to ask what is keeping KDE 4.6.4 from moving to [extra]? I'm using it for some time without any problems, neither I can find any bug report specific for 4.6.4 Have a nice day, Lukas

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.39.2-1
by David C. Rankin 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

On 06/27/2011 03:10 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Upstream update, please sign off. > responding on the general list: Signoff - both (2-x86_64, 4-x86) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Post-processing of packages?
by Magnus Therning 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

I'm in the situation where some of the information that I really would like to have in the pkgver/pkgrel isn't available until after the build step. Also, some information about the dependencies is clearly much easier to extract during the build process (due to the tools I have available to me). So, in short I'd like to massage the typically static values usually found in the head of the PKGBUILD as the build progresses. So, is there some way of either modifying this information during the PKGBUILD, or doing some post-processing from the PKGBUILD on the built package (like processing of the .PKGINFO)? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay

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[arch-general] xf86-input drivers in xorg group
by Luštický Josef 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

Is anyone still using xf86-input-mouse or xf86-input-keyboard driver? These packages are member of xorg group in repos but http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-mouse/tree/README says: "This driver is mainly used on non-Linux operating systems such as BSD & Solaris, as modern Linux systems use the xf86-input-evdev driver instead."

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[arch-general] Amarok fails to start after upgrade
by Dominik Cermak 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

Hi list, after upgrading amarok today I get following error after trying to start it: Amarok could not find any collection plugins. It is possible that Amarok is installed under the wrong prefix, please fix your installation using: $ cd /path/to/amarok/source-code/ $ su -c "make uninstall" $ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` && su -c "make install" $ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental $ amarok More information can be found in the README file. For further assistance join us at #amarok on irc.freenode.net. Can anyone confirm this? Is this one considered a packaging bug? Greetings Dominik

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[arch-general] Is 'network' daemon needed when using netcfg?
by XeCycle 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

I recently tried netcfg, and have setup automatic connection at boot. However during the startup, it says something like "This functionality is deprecated". In my /etc/rc.conf, I have these for networking: > HOSTNAME="XeCycle" > NETWORK_PERSIST="no" > NETWORKS=(profile) > DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus network net-profiles netfs crond sensors \ > sshd hddtemp dictd cdemud) So, should I remove 'network' from the 'DAEMONS'? Thank you. PS. Is the process of starting daemons logged? When I ran into problems about daemons, usually I can't know exactly what had happened, because before I could read the error messages, they disappeared.

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[arch-general] Makepkg. Disabling automatically aborting on any errors during packaging
by Joker-jar 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

Hello. As you know makepkg since 3.4.0 has feature "automatically aborting on any errors during packaging". Sometimes this feature makes me cry, for example, if build() function has: rm [non-existent file] 2> /dev/null This problem is not critical if you are author of the build()'s code (you can adapt code for the capricious makepkg). But i encountered the following situation: i maintain psi-plus aur package. This project has bash library libpsibuild.sh for making (because it is a complex process). I use this library in the build() function of the PKGBUILD. If i run build() function just under the bash, program builds great, but with makepkg it falls with error. I can do patch for this library, but it is not good solution, because of this library updates literally every day. So i requesting something like boolean variable in the PKGBUILD, which can switch automatically aborting. If author preferred to disable this feature, he will take care of error handling in the code directly. As i know, gentoo portages has somesing like this.

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[arch-general] Should ctrl_interface in /etc/wpa_supplicant be changed?
by Oon-Ee Ng 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

Hi all, wondering if ctrl_interface in /etc/wpa_supplicant needs changing to /run instead of /var/run. See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=952351#p952351

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[arch-general] Anything to manage user daemons?
by XeCycle 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

Hello. I need to start several programs after login and after startx. Now I write these directly in my .bash_profile and .xinitrc; but I'm not satisfied with this. They cannot be easily stopped after logout. To do that I think I'd record their PID and kill them in .bash_logout, also need to take care when they're manually stopped, and all these related problems. So I think a set of scripts like the daemon managing from initscripts will be nice. But I can't write /etc/rc.d daemons, as they must be executed by a normal user. Has anyone written such a tool? Thank you. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591 Facebook: Carl Lei Twitter: XeCycle Blog: http://xecycle.blogspot.com Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:04:17 +0800

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[arch-general] Systemd! [WAS: arch-dev-public] Welcoming Dave Reisner to the dev staff
by Oon-Ee Ng 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Please welcome Dave to our development team. He has been a frequent > contributor (and reviewer of patches!) to Pacman, has been a TU for a > little bit, and has taken initiative on a lot of > initscripts/mkinitcpio/systemd type stuff. I think I've given him all > the right permissions and such, and signed him up for the relevant > mailing lists. > > -Dan > Systemd to come? =)

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[arch-general] 2011.06-1 archboot "2k11-R3" ISO hybrid image released
by Tobias Powalowski 21 Jun '11

21 Jun '11

Hi Arch community, Arch Linux (archboot creation tool) 2011.06-1, "2k11-R3" has been released. To avoid confusion, this is not an official arch linux iso release! Homepage and for more information on archboot: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archboot Forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121338 Summary: - bump to latest kernels and introduce pacman 3.5.3 Hybrid image file and torrent is provided, which include i686 and x86_64 core repository. Please check md5sum before using it. Hybrid image file is a standard CD-burnable image and also a raw disk image. - Can be burned to CD(RW) media using most CD-burning utilities. - Can be raw-written to a drive using 'dd' or similar utilities. This method is intended for use with USB thumb drives. Please get it from your favorite arch linux mirror: - https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/archboot/2011.06/ - <yourmirror>/iso/archboot/2011.06/ Have fun, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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