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[arch-general] util-linux 2.19 release
by Dave Reisner 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Attached is a changelog and a PKGBUILD for the recently released util-linux 2.19. Changes I've made to the PKGBUILD: - name change: the project is once again called util-linux. I've updated the conflicts accordingly, and removed the ancient reference to linux32. I think its worth keeping the versioned conflict with e2fsprogs. - remove install scriptlet: this info file is no longer provided - use autogen.sh script instead of manually invoking autotools - remove --enable-rdev flag. this has been non-existant since 2.17 - no need to rm stuff in package() -- these files are no longer part of util-linux Other thoughts: If we build this with --enable-libmount-mount, we can do away with /etc/mtab and make it a symlink to /proc/self/mounts. It is, however, marked as experimental in the release notes. I've been running the -git version of util-linux for about a month now, and have had no problems with low level functionality e.g. booting or mounting. thanks, dave

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[arch-general] gcc: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
by David C. Rankin 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

Guys, Has anyone else experienced a segmentation fault with the current gcc? I received the following: In file included from /home/david/tbld/kdebase/kcontrol/konq/fontopts.cpp:387:0: /home/david/tbld/kdebase/src/kcontrol/konq/fontopts.moc: In member function virtual void KonqFontOptions::load(bool): /home/david/tbld/kdebase/src/kcontrol/konq/fontopts.moc:136:93: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions. From the error, I take it this is a gcc issue and I'll submit it there, but I wanted to see if anyone else had seen it (or something like it) and what, if anything, else the Arch devs would like to see on the issue. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.28-4
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

Latest LTS kernel is in testing, - rebuild against latest binutils/glibc 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] streamtuner2 - python developers please have a look
by Andreas Radke 12 Feb '11

12 Feb '11

I'd like to replace streamtuner with streamtuner2 in extra. But there's one major bug that is a stopper to me. http://sourceforge.net/projects/streamtuner2/forums/forum/1173108/topic/377… Upstream is aware of it but seems unable to fix it. I know we have some python coders around. Maybe you can have a look at it. -Andy

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vi package
by David Campbell 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of 2011-02-10 17:12:54 -0500: > Is the current vi package actually usable for an install by someone more > familiar with it? Yes, I have used it a few times, and prefer it over nano. -- David Campbell

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[arch-general] Laptop beeps after resuming from suspension
by Thomas Dean 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

Hi folks, I have an encounter with a small but annoying problem. After typing pm-suspend and then resuming my laptop, it sometimes beeps, which never happens if I haven't ever suspend it. For example, when I type too much backspace in VIM, it beeps; when I push the shutdown button, it beeps; when I type Page Down button at the end of the text, it beeps, too. Could you please tell me how to shut its beeping? Thanks, Thomas

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[arch-general] A repo-add replacement?
by Magnus Therning 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

I've noticied that repo-add will blindly overwrite the entry of an already added package with whatever you point it to. Even if the existing entry is for a version that is newer. It basically means that "repo-add repo.db.tar.gz *.pkg.tar.xz" doesn't work that well :-( Is there some other tool for building a a repo db that doesn't follow my instructions so blindly? ;-) /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] glib2 2.28 from testing
by Ng Oon-Ee 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 00:52 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > Hi, > i was a bit to excited by the new gtk3 released and i moved it to > testing without realizing that the new application lookup that comes > with it would break gnome 2.32 handling applications badly. > > Please revert back to core/extra with pacman -Syuu if you managed to > upgrade. > Sorry to ask a simple question, but the recommendation to revert is for glib2 or gtk3?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vi package
by Loui Chang 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

On Wed 09 Feb 2011 11:23 -0500, Stéphane Gaudreault wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking at FS#20778 and was wondering what we should do with it. > > While it is true that the "traditional vi" is buggy and not user > friendly. It does not seems that BusyBox is a good alternative. > > There are options here: > > 1) Statu quo > Pro : > * Support for multi-byte character encodings like UTF-8 > * Small size > Cons : > * Did I said that it is buggy ? > * Use of this old software in the installer may give a strange > impression to new users as they are faced with an editor from the > '70 on a distro where everything is up to date. > * Appears to be no longer be updated upstream. > > Opinions? I'd say stick with the status quo. I don't find anything too wrong with the traditional vi. There's the file size and line length limit and those aren't really that bad. The wide terminal issue has been worked around by changing the config header. If you want to do heavy editing other programs are more appropriate in our modern age. Vi is more appropriate for light editing like when doing installation or configuration. Are other bugs that you mention documented somewhere? I'm interested in learning about them. If you can use vim you probably should be able to use vi without too much difficulty. I guess you could argue that having two basic editors (vi and nano) is unnecessary, vi is usually expected to be on a basic system, and nano just bugs me. :D

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vi package
by Marek Otahal 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

On Thursday 10 of February 2011 17:59:26 Pierre Schmitz wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:52:16 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 17:24 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > >> we did had vi being a stripped vim package in the past. We got rid of > >> it > >> because upstream vim started to not helping arch users because "it > >> was > >> broken". That impression was given by our users who didn't understand > >> that python and other crap that vim support is in vim package and not > >> in vi. > >> > >> now the same situation is now. Some users don't understand that vi is > >> nvi and what they want is in vim. > > > > I don't think we should go back to a fucked vim package with /etc/virc > > like we had it in the past. We switched from that to nvi, which fucked > > up files if they contained unicode stuff (it would just segfault in the > > middle of a save operation, leaving you with a broken file). > > After that, we decided to go for busybox, which works fairly well as vi, > > is maintained, but doesn't do anything that looks like vim. > > > > IMHO vi is totally useless on most systems. I prefer to uninstall it and > > do ln -s vim /usr/bin/vi instead. Users who complain about vi being too > > limited should do that too. > > I wonder the same. I cannot imagine why anybody would want to use vi. > Personally I would not mind if nano was the only interactive editor in > [core]. But keeping the current busybox vi is also fine. Hello, first, I apologize for off-topic, but i seek help on vim. Reading this thread I decided I want to learn how to get more from vim, so I started with vimtutor. So far I ran into two issues that were incompatible with the vimtutor, *) 7G moves you to line 7, I had to do 7gg instead *) " Lesson 5.3: SELECTING TEXT TO WRITE ** To save part of the file, type v motion :w FILENAME ** 1. Move the cursor to this line. 2. Press v and move the cursor to the fifth item below. Notice that the text is highlighted. 3. Press the : character. At the bottom of the screen :'<,'> will appear. 4. Type w TEST , where TEST is a filename that does not exist yet. Verify that you see :'<,'>w TEST before you press <ENTER>. 5. Vim will write the selected lines to the file TEST. Use :!dir or !ls to see it. Do not remove it yet! We will use it in the next lesson. "...this doesn't work for me, I switch to visual mode, after : the '<,'> doesn't appear though. Can somebody enlighten me, is this behavior -some config in vim -- where and how can I set it? -mistakes in the tutorial (could be updated) -mistakes in vim Many thanks, mark the vimmer :) -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] trinity pkgbuild: rewrite to dl svn - Use fixed svn rev or latest?
by David C. Rankin 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Guys, I'm rewriting a set trinity pkgbuilds to download the trinity/<module> code in the pkgbuild instead of using the existing source in the local copy of the complete trinity svn tree. This will also allow the packages to be built in an archroot and get around the empty src problem I was having with makechrootpkg using the code in the existing tree. My PKGBUILD question is can I use the latest svn revision to build from, or do I need to use a fixed svn revision for $pkgver? The examples I've looked at do something like: pkgver=123456 <snip> build() { cd $srcdir msg "Connecting to $_svntrunk SVN server...." if [ -d $_svnmod/.svn ]; then (cd $_svnmod && svn up -r $pkgver) else svn co $_svntrunk --config-dir ./ -r $pkgver $_svnmod fi <snip> I want to vary this to use the latest revision instead of a fixed revision: pkgver=123456 <snip> build() { cd ${srcdir} msg "Connecting to SVN server...." if [ -d ${_svn_module}/.svn ]; then (cd ${_svn_module} && svn up) [[ $? -eq 0 ]] || _co_failed=1 else (svn co $_svn_trunk ${_svn_module}) [[ $? -eq 0 ]] || _co_failed=1 fi cd ${_svn_module} pkgver=$(getsvnrev) <snip> Is this OK, or should I avoid using the latest version to prevent potential inconsistencies? Also, if you see anything else that will bite me, let me know. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Fwd: [arch-dev] [signoff] ppp-2.4.5-2
by Dave Reisner 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 03:26:29PM -0500, Eric Bélanger wrote: > Forwarding to public ML. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Stéphane Gaudreault <stephane(a)archlinux.org> > Date: Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:23 PM > Subject: [arch-dev] [signoff] ppp-2.4.5-2 > To: arch-dev(a)archlinux.org > > > * Rebuild of old package > * Tidy up PKGBUILD > * Fix build error with recent kernel > * Fix permissions on libs > > Please signoff both as I do not run this pkg. > Thanks > > Stéphane I recall last time there was a new build of ppp around, it came down to user signoffs. In case it comes down to that again, I can still connect to my VPN, so I'll sign off for x86_64. dave

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[arch-general] xinitrc.d framework
by Yclept Nemo 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

I hacked an "xinitrc.d framework". The details are at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinitrc.d_Framework. I'm only one person, so I'd appreciate any comments.

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[arch-general] Package update : hplip 3.11.1
by Rémy Oudompheng 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

HPLIP 3.11.1 was released several days ago : it includes support for new printers and scanning support for several printers (e.g. the one I bought last week, HP Deskjet 2050). I thought the package was not very critical so that I could update it directly in [extra]. I can at least print and scan (hp-scan still doesn't work with my printer, but scanimage does). Now you know who you can blame if your printer suddenly stops working at next update. -- Rémy.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] makepkg bug with epoch code
by Ng Oon-Ee 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 20:52 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 09/02/11 20:46, Allan McRae wrote: > > Have not had time to look into this, but I get this error with the > > kernel26 PKGBUILD in Arch Linux [core] repo: > > > > umm.. wrong list :P > Allan broke it!

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[arch-general] Crazy devs....
by Ng Oon-Ee 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

I saw a pidgin update (2.7.10) and while downloading I thought I'd check the changelog. Go to pidgin.im, and the most recent version is 2.7.9. Its official, Arch Linux devs are faster than upstream! Shout-out to Ionut Biru and indeed to all the devs who make Arch Linux great =)

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[arch-general] Trinity on Arch - I need a mentor
by David C. Rankin 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Guys, My project to develop PKGBUILDs for Trinity on Arch has made good progress, but I have hit a couple of snags where I could really use an experienced mentor who is good with complex package builds on Arch. I have a current status on the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trinity I'll do the heavy lifting, I just need someone to point me in the right direction and bounce ideas off of. Anybody interested in looking over the status and helping move me off high-center? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.

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[arch-general] makechrootpkg - not using cmake environment from PKGBUILD - help?
by David C. Rankin 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Guys, I am having 2 difficulties building in my archroot environment. I have created the archroot in /home/david/chbld/root. I have managed to build trinity-qt3, trinity-pyqt3 and trinity-tqtinterface in the archroot, but now when I start building packages that rely on the installed package environment, I am encountering errors: (1) The pkgbuilds use exports to set the cmake environment. eg.: export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/qt export CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=/opt/qt/include:/opt/qt/include/tqt this works fine in the virtualbox clean environment, but fails in the mkarchroot. For example, building trinity-arts: [100%] Building CXX object qtmcop/CMakeFiles/qtmcop-shared.dir/qiomanager.cc.o cd /build/src/arts-bld/qtmcop && /usr/bin/c++ -Dqtmcop_shared_EXPORTS -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fPIC -I/build/src/arts-bld/qtmcop -I/build/src/arts-bld/mcop -o CMakeFiles/qtmcop-shared.dir/qiomanager.cc.o -c /build/src/arts-bld/qtmcop/qiomanager.cc In file included from /build/src/arts-bld/qtmcop/qiomanager.cc:23:0: /build/src/arts-bld/qtmcop/qiomanager.h:33:22: fatal error: tqobject.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make[2]: *** [qtmcop/CMakeFiles/qtmcop-shared.dir/qiomanager.cc.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/build/src/arts-bld' make[1]: *** [qtmcop/CMakeFiles/qtmcop-shared.dir/all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/src/arts-bld' make: *** [all] Error 2 Aborting... tqobject.h is right where it should be in the rw chroot structure: 20:20 providence:~/chbld/tbld/trinity-arts> l ~/chbld/copy/opt/qt/include/tqt/tqobject.h -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1139 Feb 8 17:49 /home/david/chbld/copy/opt/qt/include/tqt/tqobject.h The PKGBUILD I'm attempting to use is here in full: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/arch/svn/dependencies/arts/PKGBUIL… Why is makechrootpkg not respecting the cmake environment variable for CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH? (2) The archroot isn't handling dependencies from the custom local repository requiring that packages be manually installed with makechrootpkg -r <chrootdir> -I <package> I'm a bit bewildered here. (happens) I have created the chroot repo in ~/chbld/root/chrepo and used repo-add to create the index: 20:49 providence:~/chbld> ls -1 ~/chbld/root/chrepo/ chrepo.db chrepo.db.tar.gz chrepo.db.tar.gz.old trinity-pyqt3-3.18.1-9-i686.pkg.tar.xz trinity-qt3-3.3.8-20-i686.pkg.tar.xz trinity-tqtinterface-9999-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz I've added the entry to ~/chbld/root/etc/pacman.conf: <snip> [core] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist # mkarchroot repo [chrepo] Server = file:///chrepo [extra] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [community] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist <snip> The repository index is read during the makechrootpkg call is for all things -- looks fine: 18:51 providence:~/chbld/root/home> sudo mkarchroot -u /home/david/chbld/root/ :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date chrepo 1.0K 8.7M/s 00:00:00 [#####################################] 100% extra is up to date community 427.8K 586.7K/s 00:00:01 [#####################################] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... there is nothing to do But when a PKGBUILD lists a package in chrepo as a dependency, the build fails with: 17:23 providence:~/chbld/tbld/trinity-tqtinterface> sudo makechrootpkg -r /home/david/chbld ==> Making package: trinity 9999-1 (Tue Feb 8 23:23:28 UTC 2011) ==> Checking Runtime Dependencies... ==> Installing missing dependencies... error: 'trinity-qt3': could not find or read package ==> ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies. Build failed, check /home/david/chbld/copy/build Any reason makechroot is not installing dependencies from the local chrepo stand out? Thanks for any help you can provide on either issue. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.

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[arch-general] awn-notification-daemon
by Simon Stoakley 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Hi all, I'm having problems with the awn notification daemon recently. It was working fine up untill recently. I have managed to get it working again by downgrading all of the recent gstreamer update, but wont be able to look into it any further until later on today. The only other thing I have tried is to just downgrade gstreamer-python on it's own I'm not sure if this is a problem unique to me, an Arch problem, or an upstream one, but any ideas/pointers are appreciated Running x86_64 with an otherwise up to date system, gnome desktop & compiz. Problem occurs with, stock, -ck and -pf kernels *********** CLI output when awn called from CLI ** (avant-window-navigator:4068): DEBUG: Spawned awn-applet[4233] for "notification-daemon.desktop", UID: 1297152677, XID: 60817461 GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_debug_add_log_function: assertion `func != NULL' failed aborting... ** (avant-window-navigator:4068): DEBUG: Spawned awn-applet[4236] for "notification-daemon.desktop", UID: 1297152677, XID: 60817461 GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_debug_add_log_function: assertion `func != NULL' failed............. [snip] *********** awn-notification-daemon working: gstreamer0.10-0.10.31-1 gstreamer0.10-base-0.10.31-1 gstreamer0.10-bad-0.10.20-1 gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins-0.10.20-1 gstreamer0.10-base-plugins-0.10.31-1 gstreamer0.10-good-0.10.26-1 gstreamer0.10-good-plugins-0.10.26-1 gstreamer0.10-python-0.10.18-3 gstreamer0.10-ugly-0.10.16-2 gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins-0.10.16-2 awn-notification-daemon not working: gstreamer0.10-0.10.32-1 gstreamer0.10-base-0.10.32-2 gstreamer0.10-bad-0.10.21-1 gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins-0.10.21-1 gstreamer0.10-base-plugins-0.10.32-2 gstreamer0.10-good-0.10.27-1 gstreamer0.10-good-plugins-0.10.27-1 gstreamer0.10-python-0.10.21-1 gstreamer0.10-ugly-0.10.17-1 gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins-0.10.17-1 Thanks Simon --

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[arch-general] Howto properly set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /opt/trinity/lib from PKGBUILD (postbuild)
by David C. Rankin 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Guys, After building trinity-kdelibs, I need to create an entry and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /opt/trinity/lib. I manually created: '/etc/ld.so.conf.d/trinity.conf' containing "/opt/trinity/lib" and then ran ldconfig. That worked. What I need to know is how to properly do this from the kdelibs PKBUILD. I can do it by creating the file in $pkgdir, but is there a standard way to do it? Also, what about calling ldconfig after install? Is there a standard (post-install) snippet to add? Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.

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[arch-general] vbox PUEL: copy/pate Arch host - Arch guest not working: VBoxclient-all started
by David C. Rankin 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Guys, I have setup Arch in virtualbox to provide a clean environment for the trinity build. Xorg+fluxbox for the environment. One problem I'm having is copy/paste between the host and guest does not work. I have the LinuxAdditions installed and shared folders (mounted uid,gid), X, flux, and copy/paste within the guest works fine, but I can't get it to copy/paste from host-to-guest or guest-to-host. xorg.conf is: 22:18 alchemy:~> cat cnf/vbox/linux-guest/xorg.conf # VirtualBox generated configuration file # based on /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "vboxmouse" Option "Device" "/dev/vboxguest" Option "CorePointer" "yes" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor[0]" ModelName "VirtualBox Virtual Output" VendorName "Oracle Corporation" EndSection Section "Device" BoardName "VirtualBox Graphics" Driver "vboxvideo" Identifier "Device[0]" VendorName "Oracle Corporation" EndSection Section "Screen" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x800" EndSubSection Device "Device[0]" Identifier "Screen[0]" Monitor "Monitor[0]" EndSection ~/.xinitrc is: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/VBoxClient-all & startfluxbox No display manager installed. I've been through https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox and updated a few areas, but I still couldn't find the trick for making host/guest copy/paste work. Anybody know a way to get this working. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] AIF talk at Fosdem 2011
by Dieter Plaetinck 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

I gave an AIF (related) talk at Fosdem this year. For more info, video and slides: http://dieter.plaetinck.be/can_we_build_a_simple_cross-distribution_install… Dieter

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[arch-general] [testing] protocol - {WAS: [arch-dev-public] WARNING - glibc-2.13-2}
by Ng Oon-Ee 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 20:10 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > I have removed the glibc-2.13-2 package until a fix is committed to > upstream git. All users should downgrade to the version in [core]. > > Allan While I understand why Allan did this, shouldn't this be unnecessary for the [testing] repo? Those who use it know what to do, after all....

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[arch-general] ArchBang and other derivates resemblance to Arch
by Olivier Keun 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

On the forums, we see an increasing number of threads about ArchBang. Understandably so, since not only does it carry "Arch" in the name, it also uses the same styling [1], and supposedly users are told there to use the Arch wiki and forum for support. People are asking if ArchBang is an official Arch project [2], which it obviously isn't. ArchBang is more a one-click or no-config install which goes against the Arch philosophy. Also our Forum Etiquette states that community support is _only_ given for installations done from official Arch installation media [3]. While ArchBang (and probably some other spin-off distros) are very similar and sometimes almost identical to Arch, they are _not_ Arch and in my opinion this should be made more clear to avoid any damage to the Arch project as a whole. What are your thoughts about this? I'm hoping to get an official reaction from our dev-team, so we can avoid some of the confusion that is present now. [1] http://archbang.org/ [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=889066#p889066 [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Forum_Etiquette#How_to_Post

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[arch-general] build help needed, Trinity kdebase - 2 issues on Arch
by David C. Rankin 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Guys, After getting kdelibs done, I have run into a wall with the building kdebase: http://websvn.kde.org/branches/trinity/kdebase/ (see bottom of page for admin and cmake links) There are 2 issues I'm having on Arch: (1) If kde4/Qt4 is installed, cmake fails when it uses /usr/include/QtCore/qfile.h instead of /opt/qt/include/qfile.h. I cannot figure out how to tell cmake to ignore the /usr/include. I have tried the cmake arguments: cmake ../ \ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${trinity_prefix} \ -DWITH_QT3=ON \ -DQTDIR=/opt/qt \ -DBUILD_ALL=ON \ -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON and I have set the environment as: [[ ${PATH%%:*} =~ /opt/qt/bin ]] || export PATH=/opt/qt/bin:$PATH export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/qt export CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=/opt/qt/include:/opt/qt/include/tqt export KDEDIR=/opt/trinity export KDEDIRS=/opt/trinity:/usr export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/opt/trinity/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/trinity/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/qt/lib/pkgconfig export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg:/opt/trinity/etc/xdg:/opt/trinity/etc/xdg export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/:/usr/local/share/:/opt/trinity/share:/opt/trinity/share However, the kdebase build still fails due to grabbing the wrong qfile.h: [ 11%] Building CXX object kicker/libkicker/CMakeFiles/kickermain-shared.dir/kickerSettings.cpp.o cd /dat_e/david/bld/trinity/kdebase/src/kicker/libkicker && /usr/bin/c++ -Dkickermain_shared_EXPORTS -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DUSE_QT3 -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -include tqt.h -fPIC -I/dat_e/david/bld/trinity/kdebase/src/kicker/libkicker -I/opt/trinity/include -I/opt/qt/include -I/opt/qt/include/tqt -o CMakeFiles/kickermain-shared.dir/kickerSettings.cpp.o -c /dat_e/david/bld/trinity/kdebase/src/kicker/libkicker/kickerSettings.cpp In file included from /usr/include/QtCore/QFile:1:0, from /dat_e/david/bld/trinity/kdebase/src/kicker/libkicker/kickerSettings.cpp:7: /usr/include/QtCore/qfile.h:53:1: error: ‘QT_BEGIN_HEADER’ does not name a type /usr/include/QtCore/qfile.h:62:27: error: expected initializer before ‘:’ token make[2]: *** [kicker/libkicker/CMakeFiles/kickermain-shared.dir/kickerSettings.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/dat_e/david/bld/trinity/kdebase/src' make[1]: *** [kicker/libkicker/CMakeFiles/kickermain-shared.dir/all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/dat_e/david/bld/trinity/kdebase/src' make: *** [all] Error 2 Aborting... I don't know if this is due to checks in the admin/acinclude.m4.in that look for kde4 before looking for kde3 and set QTDIR or what, but I need help find a way to have cmake ignore the Qt4 /usr/include. (2) On boxes without kde4, the kdebase build proceeds fine until it hits 29% building kcontrol/iccconfig/iccconfig.cpp. From talking to the folks on the trinity list, it looks like something related to the xrandr package. Looking at the error, it looks like the build doesn't understand the type ‘KRandrSimpleAPI*’. The full build error is: [ 29%] Building CXX object kcontrol/iccconfig/CMakeFiles/kcm_iccconfig-module.dir/iccconfig.cpp.o cd /home/david/arch/pkg/tbld/kdebase/src/kcontrol/iccconfig && /usr/bin/c++ -Dkcm_iccconfig_module_EXPORTS -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DUSE_QT3 -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -include tqt.h -fPIC -I/home/david/arch/pkg/tbld/kdebase/src/kcontrol/iccconfig -I/home/david/arch/pkg/tbld/kdebase/src -I/opt/trinity/include -I/opt/qt/include -I/opt/qt/include/tqt -DKDE_CONFDIR=\"/opt/trinity/share/config\" -o CMakeFiles/kcm_iccconfig-module.dir/iccconfig.cpp.o -c /home/david/arch/pkg/tbld/kdebase/kcontrol/iccconfig/iccconfig.cpp /home/david/arch/pkg/tbld/kdebase/kcontrol/iccconfig/iccconfig.cpp: In member function ‘void KICCConfig::load(bool)’: /home/david/arch/pkg/tbld/kdebase/kcontrol/iccconfig/iccconfig.cpp:289:38: error: expected type-specifier /home/david/arch/pkg/tbld/kdebase/kcontrol/iccconfig/iccconfig.cpp:289:38: error: cannot convert ‘int*’ to ‘KRandrSimpleAPI*’ in initialization /home/david/arch/pkg/tbld/kdebase/kcontrol/iccconfig/iccconfig.cpp:289:38: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘;’ /home/david/arch/pkg/tbld/kdebase/kcontrol/iccconfig/iccconfig.cpp: In member function ‘virtual void KICCConfig::save()’: /home/david/arch/pkg/tbld/kdebase/kcontrol/iccconfig/iccconfig.cpp:359:37: error: expected type-specifier /home/david/arch/pkg/tbld/kdebase/kcontrol/iccconfig/iccconfig.cpp:359:37: error: cannot convert ‘int*’ to ‘KRandrSimpleAPI*’ in initialization /home/david/arch/pkg/tbld/kdebase/kcontrol/iccconfig/iccconfig.cpp:359:37: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘;’ make[2]: *** [kcontrol/iccconfig/CMakeFiles/kcm_iccconfig-module.dir/iccconfig.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/david/arch/pkg/tbld/kdebase/src' make[1]: *** [kcontrol/iccconfig/CMakeFiles/kcm_iccconfig-module.dir/all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/arch/pkg/tbld/kdebase/src' make: *** [all] Error 2 Aborting... Solving this type of build issue, I will need a bit of expertise from the list. I have googled until I'm blue trying to find a trick to get past these issues, but I'm stuck. Any ideas from the cpp/cmake/make experts? Even narrowing down what I need to look for will help. Current PKGBUILDs for tqtinterface, arts, kdelibs and the current one I'm using for kdebase are available on the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trinity#Trinity_PKGBUILDs Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Trinity wiki updated to include links to 'file lists' of all completed packages
by David C. Rankin 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Guys, Just a note, I've updated the Trinity wiki to reflect current progress in the 'clean build environment'. I have also added links to 'file lists' of all complete packages under the PKGBUILD Status section: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trinity#Trinity_PKGBUILD_Status eg. http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/arch/flist/trinity-arts-list.txt ------------------------------------------------------------ Package: trinity-arts 1219157-1.1 ------------------------------------------------------------ /opt/ /opt/trinity/ /opt/trinity/bin/ /opt/trinity/bin/artsc-config /opt/trinity/bin/artscat /opt/trinity/bin/artsd /opt/trinity/bin/artsplay /opt/trinity/bin/artsrec /opt/trinity/bin/artsshell /opt/trinity/bin/artswrapper /opt/trinity/bin/mcopidl /opt/trinity/include/ /opt/trinity/include/arts/ /opt/trinity/include/arts/anyref.h <snip> -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Syslinux Installer / Update Script - Testers Needed
by Matthew Gyurgyik 06 Feb '11

06 Feb '11

Hello Community, Over the last few weeks I have been working on Syslinux support for the installer. With the help Thomas and Dieter I am nearing the completion of this project. As part of this project, I have written a script that will help install and update Syslinux (similar to that of grub-install). Some key features of the script: syslinux-install_update.sh * Install Syslinux to the FS + Partition Boot Loader (extlinux --install /boot/syslinux) * Install Syslinux MBR * Detect and optionally set the boot flag on the boot partition * Update Syslinux – copy files and execute (extilnux --update /boot/syslinux) * Support for GPT disks * Support for RAID configurations The goal is to include this script in the official Syslinux package. Therefore we need your help to test it. syslinux-install_update.sh -i -a -m ..... install Syslinux, set the boot flag (if needed), and install the MBR We need tests for the following setups: / + /boot on the *same* partition / + /boot on the *same* partition - RAID /boot + root on *separate* partition /boot + root on *separate* partition - RAID All of the above using but using the GPT partition layout NOTE: This is an alpha/beta stage script. The script modifies the first 440 bytes of the disk (using dd) and the partition table (using either sfdisk or sgdisk). Although the script should be safe to run, I am not responsible for any data loss that may occur. Let us know the following: * Did the script work for you? * What was your partition setup? (see above) * What version did you use? * If the script did not work, please provide as much information as possible Get the script here: https://gist.github.com/772138 Syslinux Sample Config File: http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/syslinux/trunk/sy… The Syslinux package in testing includes the above configuration file. Cheers, pyther

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[arch-general] PKGBUILD work
by Bernardo Barros 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Hey all, How to have access and change PKGBUILD variables? Is there command-line tools for this kind of job, so one could easily check, for example, the version number, change it and update the checksum? thanks a bunch, Bernardo

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.28-3
by Tobias Powalowski 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Latest LTS kernel is in testing, - changed to gzipped modules to safe disk space. 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] Need help understanding meta-PKGBUILDs
by David C. Rankin 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Guys, We have made good progress refining the basics for Trinity PKGBUILDs. The trinity/dependencies PKGBUILDs are working for tqtinterface and arts. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trinity#Development_PKGBUILDs They have been reworked to conform with the kde4 (kde-meta) PKGBUILD structure. But, I'm having trouble understanding how to 'tie' the meta-PKGBUILDs together with the actual PKGBUILDs for the individual trinity modules. Here are the questions I have: (1) can I have 3-levels of PKGBUILDs? Example: the trinity directory structure is: trinity applications dependencies arts tqtinterface <snip> Following the kde4 layout, I was trying to create something like this: trinity <PKGBUILD pkgbase=trinity-meta> applications dependencies <PKGBUILD pkgbase=trinity-meta> arts <PKGBUILD pkgbase=trinity> tqtinterface <snip> I have the arts and tqtinterface level PKGBUILDs done, but I don't know how to tie them to the trinity-meta PKGBUILDs above. Looking at the kde4 examples, I have the following: under trinity: pkgbase=trinity-meta pkgname=('trinity-meta-applications' 'trinity-meta-dependencies' <snip> package_trinity-meta-applications() { <snip> } package_trinity-meta-dependencies() { pkgdesc=('Meta package for trinity-dependencies') depends=('cmake' 'python2-sip' 'pyqt3' 'pykde3' 'qt3') replaces=('trinity-dependencies') conflicts=('trinity-dependencies') } under trinity/dependencies: pkgbase=trinity-meta pkgname=('trinity-meta-tqtinterface' 'trinity-meta-arts') pkgver=$(getsvnrev) pkgrel=1.0 arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url='http://www.kde.org' license=('GPL') groups=('trinity' 'trinity-bld') package_trinity-meta-tqtinterface() { pkgdesc=('Meta package for dependencies-tqtinterface') depends=('cmake' 'python2-sip' 'pyqt3' 'pykde3' 'qt3') replaces=('tqtinterface') conflicts=('tqtinterface') } package_trinity-meta-arts() { pkgdesc=('Meta package for dependencies-arts') depends=('cmake' 'python2-sip' 'pyqt3' 'pykde3' 'qt3' 'tqtinterface') replaces=('trinity-arts') conflicts=('trinity-arts') } under trinity/dependencies/arts: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/arch/dev/dependencies/arts/PKGBUILD under trinity/dependencies/tqtinterface: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/arch/dev/dependencies/tqtinterface… What I don't understand is how does calling the trinity level PKGBUILD invoke the trinity/dependencies level PKGBUILD and so on.... (2) I googled using arch meta pkgbuild, but I haven't come up with a good reference. Does anyone have a good link or reference? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Creating_Packages and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg don't really explain it. (3) Lastly, if anybody has interest, please look over the PKGBUILDs and let me know where I'm doing something stupid. I have done quite a bit of reading trying to digest PKGBUILDs and how to apply them to a large project like Trinity. I don't claim to be an expert on them, so I know there are places where they need improving. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Unicode in chromium?
by Magnus Therning 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Any pointers to how to get proper Unicode support in chromium? Currently it looks like this: http://therning.org/magnus_files/unicode-chromium.png My current font settings (which I think match my gnome font settings): Serif font: Serif Sans-serif font: Sans Monospace font: Monospace Default encoding: UTF-8 /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus

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[arch-general] howto debug why package() make install doesn't copy one file to $pkgdir?
by David C. Rankin 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Guys, The PKGBUILD for tqtinterface I'm working on seems to omit placing the file 'uic-tqt' in the $pkgdir when calling 'make DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install'. What is strange is it seems all other parts of the package get put in $pkgdir. The qtinterface Makefile.am specifies uic-tqt should be part of the install: install-exec-local: test -z "$(bindir)" || $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)" cp -Rp "$(srcdir)/tqt-replace" "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/" cp -Rp "$(srcdir)/tqt-replace-stream" "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/" cp -Rp "$(srcdir)/moc-tqt" "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/" cp -Rp "$(srcdir)/uic-tqt" "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/" cp -Rp "$(srcdir)/mcopidl-tqt" "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/" cp -Rp "$(srcdir)/dcopidlng-tqt" "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/" cp -Rp "$(srcdir)/dcopidl2cpp-tqt" "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/" cp -Rp "$(srcdir)/convert_qt_tqt1" "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/" cp -Rp "$(srcdir)/convert_qt_tqt2" "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/" cp -Rp "$(srcdir)/convert_qt_tqt3" "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/" sed -i '$(QT_VER_REPLACE)' "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/tqt-replace" sed -i '$(QT_VER_REPLACE)' "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/tqt-replace-stream" sed -i '$(QT_HVER_REPLACE)' "$(srcdir)/tqt.h" cp -Rp "$(srcdir)/tqt4/" "$(DESTDIR)$(includedir)/" Looking at the $pkgdir/usr/bin, all others make it, but not uic-tqt: 10:26 archangel:~/arch/pkg/trinity-notes/tqtest/pkg> ls -1 usr/bin convert_qt_tqt1 convert_qt_tqt2 convert_qt_tqt3 dcopidl-tqt dcopidl2cpp-tqt dcopidlng-tqt mcopidl-tqt moc-tqt tmoc tqt-replace tqt-replace-stream The list above corresponds to each file specified in the install-exec-local definition, ...except uic-tqt. How do I go about debugging why this file is omitted? As a workaround, I can just do a manual copy in the PKGBUILD, but that seems like a hack. What I want to do is fix the issue so we get a clean set of PKGBUILDs. Any suggestions where to look? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] autowifi can not use
by doherty pete 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

after pacman -Syyu and get the new kernel 2.6.37 and start kernel . said no wl module can load so reinstall wl.ko at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19514 but start daemon autowifi ,show that ioctl[SIOCSINMODE]:operartion not supported ioctl[SIOCSINWRAINGE]:operartion not supported ioctl[SIOCSINWAP]:operartion not supported ... ... -- pete_doherty

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[arch-general] pacman -S xfce4-goodies fail
by doherty pete 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

when i input pacman -S xfce4-goodies many information like this xfce4-xkb-plugin-0,5.3.3-4_x86_64.pkg.tar is invalid or corrupted ... ... how to resolve this? -- pete_doherty

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.37-5
by Tobias Powalowski 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Hi guys, now with fixed module-init-tools please signoff 2.6.37 series for both arches. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Features included: - modules are now gzipped, this saves 70MB disk space - added CONFIG_EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED=y - aufs2.1 latest snapshot - added crypto headers - added xen headers greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.82-2
by Thomas Bächler 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Changes: - Add a hotfix for lack of udev synchronization on --ignorelockingfailure (and --sysinit). - Use --sysinit in lvm2 hook. - Remove 'vgscan' from lvm2 hook. - Do not add dmeventd to the initramfs. Please sign off.

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[arch-general] [signoff] sqlite3 - 3.7.5-1
by Andreas Radke 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Upstream update. Packaging changes: Oldschool configure/Makefile are no more supported upstream and thus deprecated. Upstream ships new tarballs called "amalgamation", that are kind of optimized for common C preprocessors: http://sqlite.org/amalgamation.html - we had a request for this FS#21508. The tcl extension is now split out and a separate pkg. The sqlite3-tcl pkg files are now located in a different directory. There's nothing linked to it in our repos. If you think this way the lib is not found and needs to be fixed please tell me. I can try to hack the Makefile to use the old location. It should be also of minor usage and a News shouldn't be necessary. old: /usr/lib/tcl8.5/sqlite3/libtclsqlite3.so /usr/lib/tcl8.5/sqlite3/pkgIndex.tcl new: /usr/lib/sqlite3.7.5/libsqlite3.7.5.so /usr/lib/sqlite3.7.5/pkgIndex.tcl If anybody uses the tcl extension please test it. For other upstream release changes see below. Then please signoff. -Andy http://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_7_5.html SQLite Release 3.7.5 On 2011 February 01 (3.7.5) Changes associated with this release include the following: * Added the sqlite3_vsnprintf() interface. * Added the SQLITE_DBSTATUS_LOOKASIDE_HIT, SQLITE_DBSTATUS_LOOKASIDE_MISS_SIZE, and SQLITE_DBSTATUS_LOOKASIDE_MISS_FULL options for the sqlite3_db_status() interface. * Added the SQLITE_OMIT_AUTORESET compile-time option. * Added the SQLITE_DEFAULT_FOREIGN_KEYS compile-time option. * Updates to sqlite3_stmt_readonly() so that its result is well-defined for all prepared statements and so that it works with VACUUM. * Added the "-heap" option to the command-line shell * Fix a bug involving frequent changes in and out of WAL mode and VACUUM that could (in theory) cause database corruption. * Enhance the sqlite3_trace() mechanism so that nested SQL statements such as might be generated by virtual tables are shown but are shown in comments and without parameter expansion. This greatly improves tracing output when using the FTS3/4 and/or RTREE virtual tables. * Change the xFileControl() methods on all built-in VFSes to return SQLITE_NOTFOUND instead of SQLITE_ERROR for an unrecognized operation code. * The SQLite core invokes the SQLITE_FCNTL_SYNC_OMITTED file control to the VFS in place of a call to xSync if the database has PRAGMA synchronous set to OFF.

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[arch-general] [signoff] initscripts 2011.02.1-1
by Thomas Bächler 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

This is a bugfix release to the previous 2011.01-1. Also fix the versioning scheme, it is now: YYYY.MM.R where R is a release number - we should not abuse the pkgrel for versioning, that is what pkgrel is for. Shortlog: Thomas Bächler (7): Remove all copyright and license hints. Allow setting the locale during boot and daemon startup. Fix run_hook and add_hook definitions. Suppress the output of cryptsetup isLuks. Fix crypttab option column processing. Only call activate_vgs a second time if any logical volumes have actually been activated. Check whether crypttab contains anything before processing it. Please sign off.

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[arch-general] PKGBUILD - howto handle 'src' when svn source is already in PKGBUILD dir?
by David C. Rankin 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Guys, I'm trying to figure out the best way to create a set of PKGBUILDs for the Trinity svn tree. I already have the svn source on my computer. I can check for the latest version or svn up each module and I can have makepkg 'redownload' the latest rev in $startdir/src, but HOW do I setup the PKGBUILD to just use what is already in the svn tree? Example: arts I have the following in the dependencies/arts directory: .svn admin artsc cmake doc examples flow gmcop libltdl mcop mcop_mt mcopidl qtmcop soundserver tests x11 CMakeLists.txt COPYING COPYING.LIB INSTALL Makefile.am.in Makefile.cvs arts.lsm arts.pc.cmake config.h.cmake configure.in.bot configure.in.in Since I already have the source, I don't want to create a new $startdir/src/arts under the dependencies/arts directory by simply calling makepkg in that directory. (unless there is some out-of-source trick using links or the like) I'd like to find a way to just do a PKGBUILD to use the source in the current directory and then create the pkg directory in another location. Is there a standard way of handling PKGBUILDs for each module in a large tree that can do this? It's almost like I want to use --noextract while creating a link from src -> ./, but that just seems screwy. Anybody got a trick for doing this? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] wiki page for Building Trinity on Arch - You want it here or on the trinity site?
by David C. Rankin 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Guys, As I work through building the pkgbuilds for Trinity on Arch, I have been keeping notes, etc. on what has to take place. I will put that information up on a wiki. My question to the Arch devs is "do you want it here on the Arch wiki, or do you want it over on the Trinity wiki?" It doesn't matter to me. It makes more sense to have it here, but there has been so much rancor over 'kde3 is dead' that I don't want to go to the effort here if somebody is just going to nix it. For the interested, Trinity is no longer kde3. It is currently actively developed, and is moving to cmake and qt4. There are current builds for Debian, Ubuntu and Slackware being maintained. My goal is to create a set of pkgbuilds for Arch (which will obviously take a bit of time). But if I can get them working from the svn tree, it should be a great resource for Arch. So what say the powers that be? Do the wiki page here or at Trinity? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Frequency of abs updates, would increasing frequency cost much?
by Ng Oon-Ee 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

This is more a general question, I understand abs is updated every 24 hours. Would more regular updates (say, every 1 hour or so) be better? Currently, for those (like me) who compulsively update, abs is pretty much guaranteed to be behind the latest packages in any mirror (by a max of 24 hours). If it doesn't cost (resources etc.) too much for abs to be updated every 1 hour, wouldn't this mean that most mirrors are likely to be in sync with abs just about all the time? Obviously I've got self-interest in this, since I auto-patch (using bauerbill) some packages from the repos. Its not a huge priority (I can manually access the SVN interface, but I think it'd be useful.

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[arch-general] [pam/consolekit] Help needed for desktop permission handling
by Andreas Radke 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

While packaging Xfce 4.7 I had to find a way to allow the desktop user to shutdown/reboot(consolekit), hibernate/suspend(upower),mounte removable devices(udisks). Recent display managers (gdm, kdm and lxdm) can handle their own polkit/consolekit session through pam access. The gnome/xfce4-session packages only have basic access to consolekit and since the consolekit 0.4.2 in testing they can't deal with it anymore. As a workaround I have plans to ship files in xfce4-session as proto files where the admin can add users or groups to allow certain actions: /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.upower.pkla and /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.consolekit.pkla and maybe one for udisk something like https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42669 . This could also be done each in the consolekit/upower/udisks packages. But all this is crap working around some nasty bugs in our pam pkg not allowing direct access to consolekit. Please have a look at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17188 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21391 Pam has an update pending (also fixing security related issues) and quiet a lot open bugs: https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=pam&project=1&search_name=&type… So please someone with time and knowledge may have look (Tobias P. doesn't seem to have the time for this). If we can't menage to fix this until the Xfce release I'd like to know what you think could be a good and safe workaround (recommending power/storage groups?). Note: Gentoo seems also running into this pam/consolekit issue. Not sure about Ubuntu and Fedora(that does heavy pam configurations). -Andy

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Re: [arch-general] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.82-1
by Thomas Bächler 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Am 26.01.2011 11:38, schrieb Eric Bélanger: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Jan Spakula <bender02(a)archlinux.us> wrote: >> Excerpts from Eric Bélanger's message of Mi Jan 26 05:16:44 +0100 2011: >>> lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.82-1 are in testing for minor upstream update. >>> Please test and signoff. Users signoffs are welcome. >> >> Hi, I have problems with both 2.02.81 and 2.02.82: >> I have encrypted root (normal partition) + some extra encrypted partitions on >> lvm via crypttab. The ones in crypttab don't unlock, the error message is >> something along the lines of "... /dev/vg/swap doesn't exist or access >> denied" (it gets overwritten immediately, so I don't see the beginning of the >> message). This is right after lvm2 hook is run. >> Then a bit later in the emergency shell, the /dev/vg/* links are already >> there; so perhaps there's some extra delay until the symlinks are created in >> /dev/ with the newer lvm2? This is weird. I think lvm2 is supposed to wait for udev to finish creating all links before returning. Inserting a 'sleep 1' or '/sbin/udevadm settle' in rc.sysinit after the vgchange call should fix this, but it shouldn't be necessary. >> Downgrading to lvm2-2.02.79-1 "fixes" the problem. I took a quick look at >> the lvm2 changelog, but I didn't notice anything unusual... but admittedly I >> don't understand things too well. >> > > Is it related to https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22351 ? > I don't know much about encryption. Better add your experience in the > links above if related or open a new bug report. I don't think there is a relation.

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[arch-general] How to encrypt /home, so it gets mounted during boot
by Karol Babioch 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Hi, I've encrypted my /home partition (which lays on a raid), basically just for the fun of it ;). I'm now encountering a problem, which isn't that easy to solve as it seems to me :(. I've got the following setup: /dev/sda1 -> /boot /dev/sda2 -> encryption -> lvm -> / /dev/sdb1 -> encryption -> lvm -> /home Now I want to get /home mounted during the bootup. However I have the following order of hooks, which works fine for my root partition: "[...] encrypt lvm2 resume filesystems" Now, while the root lv gets mounted, the initscripts then tries to mount anything within /etc/fstab, but here lies the problem, because the lvm2 hook hasn't unlocked /dev/sdb1, because it is encrypted, and gets unencrypted only afterwards (/etc/crypttab). So what is the procedure here? Is there any easy workaround? How do you solve these issues? Best regards, Karol Babioch

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 75, Issue 85
by Frederic Bezies 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

On 30/01/2011 08:58, arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org wrote: > Send arch-general mailing list submissions to > arch-general(a)archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > arch-general-owner(a)archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of arch-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Cannot install grub2 update from testing repo. (fredbezies) > 2. Re: Cannot install grub2 update from testing repo. (Allan McRae) > 3. Re: New GRUB2 packages - any comments ? (Kirill Churin) > 4. [signoff] kernel26-2.6.37-5 (Tobias Powalowski) > 5. Re: [signoff] kernel26-2.6.37-5 (Sergey Manucharian) > 6. Re: wiki page for Building Trinity on Arch - You want it here > or on the trinity site? (David C. Rankin) > 7. Re: wiki page for Building Trinity on Arch - You want it here > or on the trinity site? (Thomas Dziedzic) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 08:30:04 +0100 > From: fredbezies<fredbezies(a)gmail.com> > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: [arch-general] Cannot install grub2 update from testing repo. > Message-ID: > <AANLkTikBOepeYHUZDbuM_XSLmJ4-HzemYY_b0oC9uU=V(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I cannot install this update. > > I have this version of grub2 installed : > > [fred@fredo-arch-xfce ~]$ pacman -Qi grub2 > Nom : grub2 > Version : 1.98-5 > > And when I try a pacman -Syu, here is the error message I get : > > [fred@fredo-arch-xfce ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu > :: Synchronisation des bases de donn?es de paquets... > testing est ? jour; > core est ? jour; > extra est ? jour; > community-testing 12,0K 146,3K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100% > community 419,9K 921,9K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100% > :: D?but de la mise ? jour compl?te du syst?me... > :: Remplacer grub2 par testing/grub2-bios ? [O/n] o > R?solution des d?pendances... > Recherche des conflits possibles entre paquets... > Erreur: un conflit de paquets impossible ? r?soudre a ?t? d?tect? > Erreur: la pr?paration de la transaction a ?chou? (conflit de d?pendances) > :: grub2-common et grub2-bios sont en conflit (grub2) > > In english : grub2-common and grub2-bios are conflicting. > Indeed. I reported this issue and it is fixed now. -- Frederic Bezies - fredbezies(a)gmail.com Weblog : http://frederic.bezies.free.fr/blog/

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[arch-general] Projectm rebuild
by Jesse Juhani Jaara 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

Projectm seems to need rebuilding as projectm-libvisual-alsa won't work whit the curretn build. When running it will give this: libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_plugin_get_references(): Cannot load plugin: /usr/lib/libprojectM.so.2: undefined symbol: __glewDeleteFramebuffersEXT libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_plugin_load(): assertion `ref != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_plugin_environ_add(): assertion `plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_actor_get_supported_depth(): assertion `actor->plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_actor_get_video_attribute_options(): assertion `actor->plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_actor_realize(): assertion `actor->plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_actor_video_negotiate(): assertion `actor->plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_plugin_get_eventqueue(): assertion `plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_event_queue_add(): assertion `eventqueue != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_event_queue_add(): assertion `eventqueue != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: get_actor_plugin(): assertion `actor->plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_actor_run(): The given actor does not reference any actor plugin libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_plugin_get_eventqueue(): assertion `plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: get_actor_plugin(): assertion `actor->plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_actor_run(): The given actor does not reference any actor plugin libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_plugin_get_eventqueue(): assertion `plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: get_actor_plugin(): assertion `actor->plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_actor_run(): The given actor does not reference any actor plugin But after recompiling projectm from abns it will work.

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[arch-general] New GRUB2 packages - any comments ?
by KESHAV P.R. 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

Hi all, I (skodabenz) and Ronald Van Haren (pressh) have put together a split PKGBUILD for grub2 including UEFI support (apart from standard BIOS firmware). The first PKGBUILD (all links at the end of this post) builds grub2-common which contains the utilities common for all the platforms/firmware, grub2-bios containing grub2 bios firmware specific modules and grub2-efi-i386 containing grub2 i386 (32-bit) UEFI firmware specific modules. The second PKGBUILD builds grub2-efi-x86_64 containing grub2 x86_64 (64-bit) UEFI firmware specific modules. This is in a separate PKGBUILD as grub2-efi-x86_64 requires an x86_64 build system to compile. The firmware specific packages are dependent on the firmware but independent of linux kernel arch. Therefore they are built as any. If the present problem in the website regarding mixing arch and any packages in a single PKGBUILD is resolved, the PKGBUILDs will be used unmodified. The current grub2 1.98 package will be replaced by grub2-common and grub2-bios 1.99~rc1 . The packages also include modules from grub-extras project (part of upstream but maintained in a separate repo due to legal issues) like lua parser, gPXE modules etc. BTRFS support exists in grub2's experimental bzr branch but the 1.99~rc1 released tarball ( release info at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2011-01/msg00082.html ) does not include btrfs support. However ZFS support is included. For a full Change Log for 1.99 release please go to http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/grub/grub2-bzr/view/3072/NEWS . For those who are using the skodabenz-arch-grub2 repo, please remove it from pacman.conf (repo will not be maintained) and update your grub2 packages with the below ones (pkgver and pkgrel not updated). As usual these packages conflict with both the old grub (grub-legacy) and grub2 1.98 package. Comments are welcome. Regards. Keshav PS: Due to text folding the hyperlinks may not work. In that case copy-paste the links in your browser to download the packages. LINKS :- PKGBUILDs (mostly finished - waiting for comments) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/grub2_sources/grub2-1.99~rc1-1.src.tar.gz http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/grub2_sources/grub2-efi-x86_64-1.99~rc1-1.s… Compiled packages (x86_64 and 'any' only - sorry no i686) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/skodabenz-arch-grub2/grub2-common-1.99~rc1-… http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/skodabenz-arch-grub2/grub2-bios-1.99~rc1-1-… http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/skodabenz-arch-grub2/grub2-efi-i386-1.99~rc… http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/skodabenz-arch-grub2/grub2-efi-x86_64-1.99~… Shell script used to create the tarball snapshots of grub-extras modules (defined in source array) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/grub2_sources/grub2_bzr_export.sh

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[arch-general] Cannot install grub2 update from testing repo.
by fredbezies 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

I cannot install this update. I have this version of grub2 installed : [fred@fredo-arch-xfce ~]$ pacman -Qi grub2 Nom : grub2 Version : 1.98-5 And when I try a pacman -Syu, here is the error message I get : [fred@fredo-arch-xfce ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu :: Synchronisation des bases de données de paquets... testing est à jour; core est à jour; extra est à jour; community-testing 12,0K 146,3K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100% community 419,9K 921,9K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100% :: Début de la mise à jour complète du système... :: Remplacer grub2 par testing/grub2-bios ? [O/n] o Résolution des dépendances... Recherche des conflits possibles entre paquets... Erreur: un conflit de paquets impossible à résoudre a été détecté Erreur: la préparation de la transaction a échoué (conflit de dépendances) :: grub2-common et grub2-bios sont en conflit (grub2) In english : grub2-common and grub2-bios are conflicting. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.37-4
by Tobias Powalowski 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.37 series for both arches. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Features included: - modules are now gzipped, this saves 70MB disk space - added CONFIG_EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED=y - aufs2.1 latest snapshot - added crypto headers - added xen headers greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] pacman-g2?
by Mathias Huber 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Dear Archers, Joey Hess's tool etckeeper <http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/etckeeper/> claims it works with 'pacman-g2'. Does anyone know what kind of pacman version that is? Cheers, Mathias

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[arch-general] PKGBUILD depends - howto specify alternate packages that can satisfy? possible?
by David C. Rankin 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

Guys, I am trying to create a PKGBUILD that needs qt3, but I want to make it flexible enough to accept either 'qt3' or 'qt3-enhanced' as a dependency. Can I do that? I looked over https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD and I either missed a way to do it, or I'm just confused. What say the gurus? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] should imagemagick-doc really be i686/x86_64
by Auguste Pop 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

Hi, I am not aware of the package until I saw it listed on the home page of Archlinux today. Just out of curiosity, I skimmed the contents of the package and find out that they are mainly html files. Shouldn't it be "any" rather than i686/x86_64? Should I file a bug report or this is just my ignorance of imagemagick? Thank you for your kind attention. Yours,

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[arch-general] [RFT] initscripts 2011.01-1
by Thomas Bächler 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

Okay, this has been sitting in git for a loooong time, and I am throwing it out there. This should receive lots of testing, as there has been major rewriting done. We need to make sure there are no regressions. It should also fix a small number of bugs. New known bugs: When netcfg's init scripts are called, these lines are printed: /etc/rc.d/functions: line 320: declare: add_hook: readonly variable /etc/rc.d/functions: line 320: declare: run_hook: readonly variable This happens when rc.functions is loaded twice, I'll look into fixing that. This is the shortlog: Dan McGee (1): Unify capitalization of 'Udev' Dave Reisner (2): rc.sysinit: condense calls to mkdir and chmod Use modprobe's --all flag instead of looping. Florian Pritz (1): restrict NETWORK_PERSIST to runlevel 0 and 6 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (1): Add support for serial console Heiko Baums (3): cryptsetup: read keys for non-root LUKS partitions as raw data from block device cryptsetup: abort if LUKS is found on swap partition cryptsetup: print name of device being opened Thomas Bächler (5): Remove a redundant subshell, see FS#20016 Fix two typos introduced by the latest patch series Change SWAP sanity check to use blkid in favor of cryptsetup Fix isLuks check Change copyright and license information Tom Gundersen (9): udevadm: trigger events of type subsystems as well as devices udevadm: retry failed udev events after filesystems have been mounted udev: do not copy /lib/udev/devices/* to /dev locale: set the sysfs value default_utf8 rather than enabling/disabling utf8 in locale.sh mount: forbid suid,exec,dev from /proc and /sys lvm: run vgchange in sysinit mode lvm: enable/disable monitoring of lvm2 groups cryptsetup: fix indentation PATH: export a standard path in rc.sysinit Victor Lowther (15): Bashify initscripts. A little creative parameter expansion simplifies stat_die(). Clean up status() function. Simplify in_array. Finish bashifying functions. Bashify rc.multi Bashify rc.single. Both rc.single and rc.shutdown use the same code to kill everything. Bashify rc.shutdown Bashify rc.sysinit, part 1 Rewrite /etc/crypttab processing. Bashify netfs Bashify adjtime.cron Trivial bashification of network script. Add a PKGBUILD for building initscripts-git for testing.

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Re: [arch-general] should imagemagick-doc really be i686/x86_64
by KESHAV P.R. 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 16:17, Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On Thursday 27 January 2011 18:41:58 Auguste Pop wrote: >> I am not aware of the package until I saw it listed on the home page >> of Archlinux today. Just out of curiosity, I skimmed the contents of >> the package and find out that they are mainly html files. Shouldn't it >> be "any" rather than i686/x86_64? Should I file a bug report or this >> is just my ignorance of imagemagick? > Cannot be 'any' because it has been merged in imagemagick PKGBUILD and makepkg > yet does not support different architectures for splitted packages. (Or maybe > the support is missing in db-scripts). > > -- > Andrea > Does this mean the new grub2 packages that I (skodabenz) and Ronald (pressh) have worked on, may not show properly in the website? PKGBUILD at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/grub2_sources/grub2-1.99~rc1-1.src.tar.gz - has grub2-common-{i686,x86_64} and grub2-bios-any grub2-efi-i386-any and makepkg builds fine without any problems. - Keshav

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[arch-general] about pacman -S nvidia
by doherty pete 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

i input pacman -S nvidia that reslocing dependenies ... looking for inter-confictes... ::linux-firmware and kernerl26-firmware are in conflice.Remouve kernel-firmware?[y/N] ... ... if i choose all yes and display ndiswrapper: requires kernel26 < 2.6.34 tiacx: requires kernel26 < 2.6.34 i use the kernel 2.6.37 because i need the new driver for wireless. -- pete_doherty

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[arch-general] how to add autowifi to rc.conf
by doherty pete 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

To start *autowifi*, run /etc/rc.d/autowifi start If you want to start it at boot, add it to rc.conf. but how to write in rc.conf and any other to write my wpa_supplicant works well -- pete_doherty

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[arch-general] When will Arch switch to Systemd
by C Anthony Risinger 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

so-and-so has already embraced it (plus it's super awesome/useful :-) Any ideas when will Arch switch to systemd based booting system ? http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=96316 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-1.html http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-2.html http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-3.html http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-4.html http://netsplit.com/2010/04/30/on-systemd/ Thanks, :-)

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[arch-general] Anyone getting 'Forbidden' on oxygen-icons-4.6.0-1-any from mirros.kernel.org?
by Ng Oon-Ee 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

I can't download it from the website either. Probably the mirror didn't completely sync?

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[arch-general] [AUR] Please, orphan the xdg-user-dirs-gtk
by Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Please, orphan the package - xdg-user-dirs-gtk http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14273

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[arch-general] xarchiver patch
by Ivan Puntiy 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Hello, I have patched extra/xarchiver to support xz compression using Slackware's patch. It is working on my system, and I uploaded it to AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45726 What is the procedure of requesting it to be applied to original package? Ivan

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel-2.6.36.3-2
by Tobias Powalowski 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Upstream update. This package is NOT in testing (2.6.37 currently resides there), but at: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/kernel26/ fixed udev crash #22343 fixed ext3 default mount option #22544 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] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.82-1
by Eric Bélanger 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Hi, lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.82-1 are in testing for minor upstream update. Please test and signoff. Users signoffs are welcome. Thanks Eric

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Re: [arch-general] udev slow to start up
by Ty John (sand_man) 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

> Hi, > > I'm concerned about this line: > > Am 10.01.2011 09:44, schrieb Ty John (sand_man): > > ata2.00: failed command: IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE > > Either your device is not behaving normally, or there is something weird > going on. Have you the latest firmware on your drive? Is the problem > gone, when you disattach the drive? > > Best regards, > Karol Babioch > >

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[arch-general] Question on repository
by Grzegorz Rumiński 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

Hi lads, Can I selectively install apackage from [testing] repo or do I have to uncomment it in pacman.conf, update database, install it and then comment it again? Is there a way to install it more quickly/with less messing around with conf file? I do not have access to my arch box for a few weeks now but started to wonder... Thanks, Greg.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.28-2
by Tobias Powalowski 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

Latest LTS kernel is in testing, fixed udev crash #22343 fixed ext3 default mount option #22544 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] Using libalpm with Vala
by Rémy Oudompheng 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

Hello, I became recently interested in Vala, and I did several experiments to try interfacing it with libalpm. Vala is an object-oriented language created to be used mainly with glib2/gtk, and writing Vala bindings is especially lightweight : it is only a matter of writing a "dictionary" between C functions and methods. I think it might be a nice alternative to C when writing small command line or GTK utilities. I have put an example of how the C version of pactree would be written in Vala, at http://github.com/remyoudompheng/libalpm-vala Memory management is especially tricky, as I am new to Vala, and not very familiar with the internals of libalpm. So for the moment, only a very small set of functions are wrapped and this version of pactree does not segfault. Feel free to make any comments. Regards, Rémy.

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[arch-general] xfce4 notifications w/ compositing
by Ricky Thomson 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 My notifications stopped working in xfce4, i eventually found the cause was enabling compositing in xfce's "window manager tweaks". If i open the notification dialog, clicking "preview" results in a segfault every time when compositing is enabled: xfce4-notifyd[2428]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000000406a99 sp 00007fffcbc4f610 error 4 in xfce4-notifyd[400000+c000] As soon as compositing is disabled, notifications work perfectly again. Am i missing a library, or is this happening to everyone else? Thank you in advance. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNPmiSAAoJELNK3mdFMzj60yoH/jQ5f/snHSvj0edc/mLHtVbM jxwlftQrCGGJYa38yEOFyJ/KXkK+1OkyQ/xoydxBqpG24dB7Zuf1oM3nM8QOU3Uf EFfv6StAbtDLMjkr0JYzk2cOFpSPbKhkcZQ8C7lltJHq5muv33vaI1kC2Lkmqyhr 3DiUq9jhAESnIIgKPKENCeouXj0qWWDmXQ3g0uE3gj3RYvYIudy6vSYSyfoyqmEo 4AjcdRIOQhm5nMgWADHH15UAKmwtUTOjLHKdJtGUxdc025ASNjYSvmeCkHbnCWI7 KgDWXi4qxO+eydSetyMPTwXoIBz3n6EOVR43y0v9eelS+jAbpP9W6la5puqzvBU= =SYGZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] libx11 1.4.1-1 and touchpad issue
by killall_humans＠lavabit.com 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

With last update of libx11 my touchpad initialises as a ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse. Have no ideas how to solve, google push me a lot of stories about this, but in fact i haven't find any solution. evdev.conf: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/326556/ synaptics.conf: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/326558/ xorg.log: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/326560/ libx11: 1.4.1-1 xorg-server: 1.9.2-2 synaptics: 1.3.0-2 Any ideas would be great. -- With best wishes or hundreds of hate.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Integrity Check x86_64: core, extra, community, multilib 14-01-2011
by Karol Babioch 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

Hi, just out of curiosity: What is the application doing this output called? Is it available for the public? I guess it is, so could you point me to the right direction please? Another thing that would be quite interesting: How long does it take to run it, and how much of RAM does it take? And is actually anyone going to fix these issues, or do we have to live with them :)? Best regards, Karol Babioch Am 14.01.2011 22:01, schrieb repomaint(a)archlinux.org: > Warning : the repository multilib does not exist in /srv/abs/rsync/any > > =========================================================== > = Integrity Check x86_64 of core,extra,community,multilib = > =========================================================== > > Performing integrity checks... > ==> parsing pkgbuilds > ==> parsing db files > ==> checking mismatches > ==> checking archs > ==> checking dependencies > ==> checking makedepends > ==> checking hierarchy > ==> checking for circular dependencies > ==> checking for differences between db files and pkgbuilds > > Missing PKGBUILDs > ------------------- > /srv/abs/rsync/any/multilib > > Missing Dependencies > ---------------------- > community/perl-ppi --> 'perl-params-util' > > Missing Makedepends > --------------------- > community/ogmrip --> 'gpac' > community/virtualbox --> 'makeself' > community/virtualbox-guest-additions --> 'makeself' > community/virtualbox-guest-modules --> 'makeself' > community/xmobar --> 'haskell-parsec>=3.1.0' > > Repo Hierarchy for Dependencies > --------------------------------- > community/winetricks depends on multilib/wine (72 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/miro depends on community/python-pycurl (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > > Repo Hierarchy for Makedepends > -------------------------------- > community/virtualbox depends on multilib/gcc-multilib (6 extra (make)deps to pull : binutils-multilib gcc-libs-multilib gcc-ada-multilib lib32-glibc gcc-multilib lib32-gcc-libs) > community/virtualbox depends on multilib/lib32-glibc (6 extra (make)deps to pull : gcc-multilib binutils-multilib gcc-libs-multilib gcc-ada-multilib lib32-glibc lib32-gcc-libs) > community/virtualbox-guest-additions depends on multilib/gcc-multilib (6 extra (make)deps to pull : binutils-multilib gcc-libs-multilib gcc-ada-multilib lib32-glibc gcc-multilib lib32-gcc-libs) > community/virtualbox-guest-additions depends on multilib/lib32-glibc (6 extra (make)deps to pull : gcc-multilib binutils-multilib gcc-libs-multilib gcc-ada-multilib lib32-glibc lib32-gcc-libs) > community/virtualbox-guest-modules depends on multilib/gcc-multilib (6 extra (make)deps to pull : binutils-multilib gcc-libs-multilib gcc-ada-multilib lib32-glibc gcc-multilib lib32-gcc-libs) > community/virtualbox-guest-modules depends on multilib/lib32-glibc (6 extra (make)deps to pull : gcc-multilib binutils-multilib gcc-libs-multilib gcc-ada-multilib lib32-glibc lib32-gcc-libs) > core/binutils depends on extra/dejagnu (3 extra (make)deps to pull : expect dejagnu tcl) > core/ca-certificates depends on extra/python2 (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/ca-certificates depends on extra/ruby (156 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/crda depends on extra/python-m2crypto (60 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/e2fsprogs depends on extra/bc (3 extra (make)deps to pull : dejagnu expect tcl) > core/gcc depends on extra/dejagnu (3 extra (make)deps to pull : expect dejagnu tcl) > core/gcc-ada depends on extra/dejagnu (3 extra (make)deps to pull : expect dejagnu tcl) > core/gcc-fortran depends on extra/dejagnu (3 extra (make)deps to pull : expect dejagnu tcl) > core/gcc-libs depends on extra/dejagnu (3 extra (make)deps to pull : expect dejagnu tcl) > core/gcc-objc depends on extra/dejagnu (3 extra (make)deps to pull : expect dejagnu tcl) > core/glib2 depends on extra/python2 (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/groff depends on extra/ghostscript (156 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/groff depends on extra/netpbm (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/groff depends on extra/psutils (156 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/iputils depends on extra/docbook-xsl (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/iputils depends on extra/libxslt (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/iputils depends on extra/opensp (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/kernel26 depends on extra/docbook-xsl (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/kernel26 depends on extra/xmlto (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/kernel26-docs depends on extra/docbook-xsl (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/kernel26-docs depends on extra/xmlto (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/kernel26-headers depends on extra/docbook-xsl (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/kernel26-headers depends on extra/xmlto (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/lilo depends on extra/sharutils (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/links depends on extra/libpng (3 extra (make)deps to pull : dejagnu expect tcl) > core/links depends on extra/libtiff (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/links depends on extra/libxt (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/pam depends on extra/docbook-xml (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/pam depends on extra/docbook-xsl (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/pam depends on extra/w3m (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/sqlite3 depends on extra/tcl (3 extra (make)deps to pull : dejagnu expect tcl) > core/sqlite3-doc depends on extra/tcl (3 extra (make)deps to pull : dejagnu expect tcl) > core/udev depends on extra/gobject-introspection (61 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/udev depends on extra/gperf (3 extra (make)deps to pull : dejagnu expect tcl) > core/udev depends on extra/libxslt (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/udev-compat depends on extra/gobject-introspection (61 extra (make)deps to pull) > core/udev-compat depends on extra/gperf (3 extra (make)deps to pull : dejagnu expect tcl) > core/udev-compat depends on extra/libxslt (59 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/bigloo depends on community/jdk (2 extra (make)deps to pull : jre chrpath) > extra/gnome-speech depends on community/espeak (1 extra (make)deps to pull : portaudio) > extra/grml-zsh-config depends on community/txt2tags (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/libiodbc depends on community/chrpath (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/libreoffice depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/libreoffice-extension-ct2n depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/libreoffice-extension-diagram depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/libreoffice-extension-hunart depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/libreoffice-extension-nlpsolver depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/libreoffice-extension-numbertext depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/libreoffice-extension-oooblogger depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/libreoffice-extension-pdfimport depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/libreoffice-extension-presentation-minimizer depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/libreoffice-extension-presenter-screen depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/libreoffice-extension-report-builder depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/libreoffice-extension-typo depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/libreoffice-extension-watch-window depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/libreoffice-extension-wiki-publisher depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/libreoffice-sdk depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/libsmbios depends on community/chrpath (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/opengtl depends on community/llvm (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/openoffice-base-beta depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/openoffice-base-devel depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/openoffice-sdk-beta depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/openoffice-sdk-devel depends on community/cppunit (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > extra/speech-dispatcher depends on community/espeak (1 extra (make)deps to pull : portaudio) > extra/vigra depends on community/python-sphinx (2 extra (make)deps to pull : python-pygments python-jinja) > extra/xfconf depends on community/chrpath (0 extra (make)deps to pull) > > Circular Dependencies > ----------------------- > audacious>extra/audacious-plugins>audacious > lib32-gcc-libs>multilib/gcc-libs-multilib>lib32-gcc-libs > > Packages found in db, but not in tree > --------------------------------------- > community/perl-params-util > community/polipo > community/xulrunner-oss > extra/libreoffice-dictionaries > > Summary > --------- > Missing PKGBUILDs: 1 > Invalid PKGBUILDs: 0 > Mismatching PKGBUILD names: 0 > Duplicate PKGBUILDs: 0 > Invalid archs: 0 > Missing (make)dependencies: 6 > Repo hierarchy problems: 74 > Circular dependencies: 2 > In db, but not in tree: 4 > In tree, but not in db: 0 > >

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[arch-general] how to perform selected gnome installation with pacman?
by Juan R. de Silva 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

I'd like to install GNOME for my freshly installed base system following instructions provided on this page 'https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ GNOME#Base'. As you can see it reads: "Install the base GNOME desktop" # pacman -S gnome And then: "This is a meta-package; which is a group of packages. An option will be given to install all or some of the packages in this group." When I run the command above, the list of all files in group is displayed and the only option given to me is to answer Y/N to install the entire list of packages, that I would like to avoid. I've read through man pacman carefully a couple of times and I've not found any option allowing to filter out undesirable file/s while installing a group. Tried to search arch wiki without any success. Could anybody provide me with a hint here, please?

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Re: [arch-general] [pacman-dev] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox
by Ray Rashif 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

On 24 January 2011 04:36, Yaro Kasear <yaro(a)marupa.net> wrote: > On Sunday, January 23, 2011 02:34:45 pm Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto wrote: >> Sorry ! >> >> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Kaiting Chen <kaitocracy(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Dropbox <no-reply(a)dropboxmail.com> wrote: >> >> Robson Peixoto wants you to use Dropbox to sync and share files online >> >> and across computers. >> >> >> >> Get started here: >> >> http://www.dropbox.com/link/20.Ud2UoA8Uk3/NjYxNDQ4MDkyNw?src=referrals_a >> >> b_bulk6 >> >> >> >> - The Dropbox Team >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________ >> >> To stop receiving invites from Dropbox, please go to >> >> http://www.dropbox.com/bl/359c9af48b34/pacman-dev%40archlinux.org >> > >> > Wait, did this dude just try to invite everyone on aur-general to >> > Dropbox? --Kaiting. >> > >> > -- >> > Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/ > > Accidental? Guys..I don't think anyone has to tell you this but such invites are _always_ unintended. E-mail services have a bad tendency to automatically insert contacts into your friends' list, mailing list or not. So please, ignore e-mails like this and keep them reply-free in the future, so that they may just annoy people _once_. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD

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[arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox
by Dropbox 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

Robson Peixoto wants you to use Dropbox to sync and share files online and across computers. Get started here: http://www.dropbox.com/link/20.Mud84jNR4I/NjYxNDQ4NTE1Nw?src=referrals_ab_b… - The Dropbox Team ____________________________________________________ To stop receiving invites from Dropbox, please go to http://www.dropbox.com/bl/2bc1384beb66/arch-general%40archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Rail Model font for coders
by hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_hare＠lavabit.com 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

There is a font for coders called Rail Model, please include it with Linux distributions: http://code.google.com/p/railmodel/downloads/detail?name=RailModelFont.zip&… Copyright: Copyright (c) 2010, Copyright (c) Holder for the commissioned (Unicode 0915) devanagri glyph design as the new 11th english and european glyph and the cancellation of the previous k / K is (His Divine Grace) Prabhupada, Founder Acharya & Permanent Sole Initiator of the Panca Tattva / Caitanya Mahaprabhu / Vaisnava Movement, the permanent person not the estate, state, representative/s or representative organisation/s etc. All Rights Reserved. (full and also other copyright information at accompanying font files) Description: November 20 2010 (Hrant H Papazian) Version 1.1 Ð k/K (Unicode glyphs /006B and /004B) exchanged through Unicode glyph / uni0915 Ð released as N: Hrant H Papazian E: hpapazian..... W: http://www.themicrofoundry.com D: Designer Ð Unicode glyph /uni0915 upper and lower case Best, Meeku

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Re: [arch-general] Rail Model font for coders
by hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_hare＠lavabit.com 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

I am using this email address for both sending and receiving certain emails without technical problems. Best, Meeku ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: [arch-general] Rail Model font for coders From: "Guillaume Brunerie" <guillaume.brunerie(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, January 20, 2011 3:45 pm To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011/1/20 Peter Lewis <plewis(a)aur.archlinux.org> > On Thursday 20 January 2011 14:15:32 CÃ©dric Girard wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Jesse Young <jesse.young(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama > > > _hare_hare(a)lavabit.com wrote: > > > > Do you really believe this is a serious request ? > > Heh - but that is one cool email address. > The funny thing is that this is not even a valid email address. The local part (everything before the @) should be at most 64 characters long, and there itâs 84 characters long.

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[arch-general] GPT slower than MBR, although both are properly aligned?
by Karol Babioch 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

Hi, I'm about to setup a new Arch box and wanted to use GPT instead of the (old) MBR partition scheme, just for the fun of it ;). I've read through the various articles in the wiki, but it seems that something strange is going on here. I'm about to install the system to a SSD (Kingston S100), therefore I also have to consider proper alignment. I've created the partition scheme with gdisk (alignment set to 2048 boundary, although I've tried it with different values (up to 8192), too), which basically looks like that: Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 264191 128.0 MiB 0700 Linux/Windows data 2 264192 31277198 14.8 GiB 0700 Linux/Windows data Take a look at the start sectors, they should be properly aligned to 2048, as 264192 is dividable by 2048. In order to check the proper alignment I've run hdparm -tT over both partitions, here are the results: /dev/sda1: Timing cached reads: 12026 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6017.15 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 128 MB in 0.64 seconds = 201.56 MB/sec /dev/sda2: Timing cached reads: 12086 MB in 2.00 seconds = 6047.19 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 278 MB in 3.02 seconds = 92.02 MB/sec Quite a huge discrepancy considering the fact that a SSD should have roughly the same speed everywhere. Well, after fiddling around with it a little bit, I've finally tried the same setup with the old MBR partition scheme, using fdisk, which gave me the following partition scheme: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2048 264191 131072 83 Linux /dev/sda2 264192 31277231 15506520 83 Linux So the partition scheme is the same, despite the fact that the second partition is a little bit bigger with MBR as there is no copy of the partition table. With the MBR partitions I get the following results using hdparm -tT in order to measure the speed: /dev/sda1: Timing cached reads: 11578 MB in 2.00 seconds = 5793.15 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 128 MB in 0.63 seconds = 202.22 MB/sec /dev/sda2: Timing cached reads: 11896 MB in 2.00 seconds = 5952.79 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 604 MB in 3.00 seconds = 201.16 MB/sec So, both partitions are, as to be expected, equal in speed. I'm quite astonished by these results, which confuse me totally. Is it possible that GPT is slower than MBR? Is there something wrong implemented within gdisk? Is there any explanation to that? Right now the only thing I can do to get full speed is to use MBR once again :(. Best regards, Karol Babioch

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[arch-general] Gnome Sound Events and Settings
by Steve Holmes 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

What tools are needed in Arch to configure the login and logout sounds for GNOME? When I go into the Volume control, I can only change the alert sounds and that, I can do OK but right now, I cannot get any sounds to work for Login, Logout, e-mail, etc. I've seen references in google for other distros having something called Sound-Preferences or something but I don't see anything like that for Arch. Google also pulled up some forum references to this same question but no answers were ever given. What do other GNOME users do about this in Arch? I'm not aware of how to specify the paths for the right files. Ifound the sound files themselves in /usr/share/sounds but can't figure out where to go from here. Any ideas?

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Re: [arch-general] libusb-compat owns /usr/lb/libusb.so symlink
by jesse jaara 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

On 22.1.2011 18.04, "Denis A. Altoé Falqueto" <denisfalqueto(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi guys. > > Is that the intended purpose? I was having a problem with the mouse > module from KDE system settings and discovered that I didn't have > libusb-compat. When I listed its contents just to check, I saw that it > is the owner of /usr/lib/libusb.so and it is pointing to > /usr/lib/libusb.so.0.1.so.4.4.4. Would that make programs compiled in > my machine be linked against the older libusb? Or is it harmless? > > -- > A: Because it obfuscates the reading. > Q: Why is top posting so bad? > > ------------------------------------------- > Denis A. Altoe Falqueto > Linux user #524555 > ------------------------------------------- Most of the apps will link to the lib specified in pkgconfig file of the pkg. As the compat pkg contains only the library and no development files the pkgconfig file of the libusb pkg will be used and it will tell to link to the .so.some-number and not to the .so symlink.

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[arch-general] libusb-compat owns /usr/lb/libusb.so symlink
by Denis A. Altoé Falqueto 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

Hi guys. Is that the intended purpose? I was having a problem with the mouse module from KDE system settings and discovered that I didn't have libusb-compat. When I listed its contents just to check, I saw that it is the owner of /usr/lib/libusb.so and it is pointing to /usr/lib/libusb.so.0.1.so.4.4.4. Would that make programs compiled in my machine be linked against the older libusb? Or is it harmless? -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto Linux user #524555 -------------------------------------------

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Re: [arch-general] python2-qt dependency typo
by David C. Rankin 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

On 01/21/2011 01:40 PM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > First of all, you must use flyspray to report any bug about official Arch Linux > packages. > In second, I really don't understand how you missed this[1] on*your* > discussion. > > [1]http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2011- > January/018070.html > Blind in one eye and can't see out of the other I guess :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] python2-qt dependency typo
by David C. Rankin 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

Guys, Probably not worth a bug, unless you want one filed, but the python2-qt python-opengl dependency is missing an 'o' in opengl (see e.g. python-pengl below)): New optional dependencies for python2-qt python-pengl: enable OpenGL 3D graphics in PyQt applications qscintilla: QScintilla API -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] When will Arch switch to Upstart
by Madhur Ahuja 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

Ubuntu and Fedora has already embraced it. Any ideas when will Arch switch to upstart based booting system ? http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ Thanks, Madhur

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Re: [arch-general] Rail Model font for coders
by hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_hare＠lavabit.com 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

Meeku: It is out-of-the-box spiritual philosophy. --------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: [arch-general] Rail Model font for coders From: "Ng Oon-Ee" <ngoonee(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, January 20, 2011 7:28 pm To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 01:59 +0530, Piyush P Kurur wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 03:10:19PM -0500, hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_hare(a)lavabit.com wrote: > > > > > A quick search in google reveals that he spammed it across lists of > > > numerous distributions and others. Must be a religious fanatic or just a > > > troll. *shrugs* > > > > Meeku: It's a legitimate Press Release not spam/troll. There is > > spiritual non-materialistic content in email address and font reasons. > > > > yeah we call those spiritual non-materialistic content SPAM. SP from > spritual and AM for anti-materialistic. > > ppk Epic win =) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Find health insurance health Online Get Started Now. http://click.lavabit.com/frwz61rf3pu86ochter5ix7hjgpd6k8qap7nify8xce84dt8ki… ____________________________________________________________________________________

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Re: [arch-general] Bad pyqt 4.8.2-2 package -- on rit?
by Damjan 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

>> This is happening because somebody forgot to bump pkgrel and switched >> manually the packages. > Yes is my fault. Pyqt was removed from database some days ago, I create a new > package but I forgot to upload it as 4.8.2-3. Anyway a new pyqt package is > coming and will fix this for everyone without -Syy. While you're at it please correct these too: ( 7/10) upgrading python2-qt [#####################################] 100% New optional dependencies for python2-qt python-pengl: enable OpenGL 3D graphics in PyQt applications qscintilla: QScintilla API The first optional dep should be python2-opengl and the second one python2-qscintilla, perhaps? -- дамјан

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[arch-general] my arch installation and base system configuration experience
by Juan R. de Silva 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

I've just completed my Arch GNOME base installation and basic configuration and would like to share the experience, if anyone is interested. :-) 1. I performed base Arch install from within my host system - Ubuntu 10.04 following the Wiki instructions. I must say that was extremely enjoyable experience. The installation process itself was real fun and interesting, and went smoothly without any problems except 2 minor glitches: a) The documentation said that a copy of the Beginners' Guide would be found in /usr/share/aif/docs/official_installation_guide_en after botting into base system, but it was not there and the directory did not exist. This was really a minor glitch since an immediate and easy workaround was pacman -S lynx, and I was up and running reading the doc from the web. b) The documentation promised an option of a selective gnome and gnome- extra group install with pacman but it was not given. Any workaround (discussed on this group) appeared not to worthy to mess up with (I am a lazy boy) and I ended up installing both groups in their entirety. 2. I was amazed by the wealth, quality and consistency of documentation available to users on Arch wiki. I would say Arch is the best documented distro I've come across so far. Now I have plenty of time to test the system thoroughly but the beginning is very encouraging. My compliments to Arch team.

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Re: [arch-general] fetchmail/spamassassin error after update
by David C. Rankin 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

On 01/19/2011 02:54 PM, Thaddeus Nielsen wrote: > A quick google search on sa-learn will show you this is a spamassassin > issue and has nothing to do with fetchmail. > > T. > Thanks T. I finally found the reference to the upstream bug and patches here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=100206 However, there seem to be multiple patches and it is unclear what is referenced by patch3 at the end. I'll play with it and see if I can get it working... Since it is upstream, I won't file a bug here unless somebody wants me to. Any need? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Bad pyqt 4.8.2-2 package -- on rit?
by David C. Rankin 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

Guys, In upgrading several boxes (both i686 and x86_64) on first attempt, I get: :: File pyqt-4.8.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted. Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] Choosing Y and restarting the update works fine. If it were only on one box, I'd say sure, I got a bad download, but this has happened 3 times in a row. Looking at mirrorlist, it might be the packages on rit. Here is my mirrorlist: 15:27 archangel:~> noc /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Server = ftp://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64 Server = http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64 <snip> Any other way to narrow it down? pacman.log didn't add anything further. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] is udev-164 a safe solution at the moment
by Attila 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

Hi, still again after every 20 or 30 new boot udev-165 hangs both pc's with archlinux. So my question is that if i step back to udev-164 will there be problems with the initscripts or any other plans what you the devs have in the near future? If yes than i can (or have to) live with this because it is very seldom and therefore very hard to find out what is the problem. See you, Attila

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[arch-general] Overreactions. Was Re: When will Arch switch to Upstart
by Denis A. Altoé Falqueto 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Madhur Ahuja <ahuja.madhur(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Madhur Ahuja <ahuja.madhur(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Ubuntu and Fedora has already embraced it. >> >> Any ideas when will Arch switch to upstart based booting system ? >> >> http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ >> >> Thanks, >> Madhur >> > > Ok, Some people have suggested that I am trolling just because I have > not replied in *12* hours to any ideas. > > Guys, this is not the case. I am quite new to Open source and > community driven projects and by the replies I am getting the fair > idea that its the initiative which somebody like me will have to take > or arch will not switch to Upstart because of its philosophy. > > I get that and will keep in mind in my further discussions on this > mailing lists. Yeah, I understand your point, but, please, don't feel burned by the flames. There are always some people that answer with an excessively angry tone, without a good justification. Go figure... That thread helped me to discover about systemd (thanks to C. Anthony Risinger for the high level answers), so it was not in vain. I'll really never understand why people answer with anger to a sincere question. Yeah, maybe you're not on a good mood, but maybe that is another reason to refrain to discuss. I'll not cite any names, because this is not a witch hunt. Just would like to make people think (yeah, I'm a dreamer... :-)) So, thanks for the discussion :-) -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto Linux user #524555 -------------------------------------------

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[arch-general] fetchmail/spamassassin error after update
by David C. Rankin 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Guys, There seems to be a bug in the sa-learn path in either fetchmail or some other package that causes fetchmail to fail: <snip> sh: /usr/bin/perlbin/vendor/sa-learn: No such file or directory *.*****************.***************.***********fetchmail: error writing message text <snip> 14:38 phoenix:/srv/http/vhosts/drr> which sa-learn /usr/bin/vendor_perl/sa-learn I don't know where the /usr/bin/perlbin/vendor/sa-learn call is made (I presume fetchmail somewhere), but it looks like it needs to be updated to /usr/bin/vendor_perl/sa-learn. Is this a config change I need to fix somewhere or is this something that got overlooked in the spamassassin update? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] Please settle 'base' in 'depends' for all
by Dieter Plaetinck 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:20:58 +0100 Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Am 19.01.2011 08:08, schrieb Allan McRae: > > If we want to be really pedantic about dependencies, we should list > > _ALL_ dependencies and not remove the ones that are dependencies of > > dependencies. > > Why don't we just do the correct thing: > > If package A depends on package B, and B depends on C, then A might > depend on C explicitly because it accesses C directly. Or it might > only depend on indirectly C because B accesses C. We should reflect > that in dependencies (in the first case, A depends on C, in the > second case it doesn't). > > The result is this: Whenever the dependencies of B change (e.g., C is > removed), A will still work correctly. > I'm also fan of this. The added correctness (both informational and system robustness) justifies the little overhead, imho. Dieter

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[arch-general] Please settle 'base' in 'depends' for all
by Kaiting Chen 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Okay everyone, every time I ask I get a different answer. According to Dziedzic and Allan 'glibc' does *not* belong in 'depends'. Also Dziedzic votes that *no* package in 'base' should be in 'depends'. Can we settle once and for all what the correct policy is? And then can we update the wiki page and all of these packages http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/i686/glibc/so that they reflect the policy? --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

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[arch-general] Xfce 4.8 thunar/ristretto issues
by Ricky Thomson 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Hello Having 2 minor problems with xfce since the update to 4.8. First problem is that no thumbnails are being cached/displayed by thunar anymore. I have tried deleting ~/.thumbnails and all xfce related config files in ~/. Previously i had installed the xfce4-goodies package so i believe the thumbnailers "scripts/programs" are on my system. How to fix this? Second problem, when opening ristretto (xfce image viewer) for example several images in one folder, the arrow buttons to display the next image in the folder are unclickable/unresponsive. Gets kind of awkward trying to view several images quickly. As i said i have tried deleting config files under ~/ which might be "broken" from the upgrade. So i'm not too sure what to do. Packages in question: ---------------------- thunar 1.2.0-1 ristretto 0.0.91-1 Thanks in advance.

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[arch-general] kde4 Okular + Hp Laserjet PCL 4/5 driver - prints greyscale inversed
by David C. Rankin 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Guys, Don't know whether this is kde4 or the print drivers, but saving a google maps map as pdf and then printing in Okular using a HP Laserjet 4 via the HP Laserjet PCL 4/5 driver prints the maps in inverse greyscale (i.e. the whole page is black with the roads shown in white). I've checked the driver settings and regardless of whether you specify greyscale or color, the inverse printing is the same. Prints fine from windows. Where to file the bug? Print drivers or kde? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] wxpython in Arch?
by Jorge Almeida 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

What did I miss? I'm new to Arch, so maybe I failed to do something obvious. I was a Gentoo user and I know that python configuring is not always trivial. Maybe something should have been done after installing the packages? I checked that there is no WiKi page for wxpython, and the python page doesn't help. Neither does googling... TIA Jorge Almeida $ pacman -Q wxpython wxpython 2.8.11.0-2 $ pacman -Q wxgtk wxgtk 2.8.11-2 $ python Python 3.1.3 (r313:86834, Dec 1 2010, 12:35:23) [GCC 4.5.1 20101125 (prerelease)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import wx Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named wx

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[arch-general] Alex Matviychuk wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn
by Alex Matviychuk 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

LinkedIn ------------ General, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Alex Matviychuk Alex Matviychuk Software Engineer Japan Confirm that you know Alex Matviychuk https://www.linkedin.com/e/j2jirp-gj2k8868-1k/isd/2161969956/yna0iLD9/ -- (c) 2010, LinkedIn Corporation

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[arch-general] xfce4's terminal does not understand unicode/utf8?
by Nicolas Bigaouette 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Hi all, I have set LOCALE="fr_CA.utf8" in rc.conf since I installed Arch some years ago. Since then, I was using KDE and I could see utf8 characters in the terminal. I've switched to Xfce 4.6 some weeks ago but now I get "??" in the terminal whenever I use UTF8 characters. When I type "locale" locally, I get: LANG= LC_CTYPE="POSIX" LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= But when I connect through ssh (from a KDE machine), I get this: LANG=fr_CA.utf8 LC_CTYPE="fr_CA.utf8" LC_NUMERIC="fr_CA.utf8" LC_TIME="fr_CA.utf8" LC_COLLATE="fr_CA.utf8" LC_MONETARY="fr_CA.utf8" LC_MESSAGES="fr_CA.utf8" LC_PAPER="fr_CA.utf8" LC_NAME="fr_CA.utf8" LC_ADDRESS="fr_CA.utf8" LC_TELEPHONE="fr_CA.utf8" LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_CA.utf8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_CA.utf8" LC_ALL= What's wrong here?? terminal 0.4.5-1 (xfce4) Thanks! N

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[arch-general] Problems to install bootchart
by Darío 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Hi! i have a problem to install bootchart from pacman and open this file type, because when i write tar -xzvf file.tar.gz the following message appears: error: 'bootchart': no se pudo encontrar o leer el paquete (could not find or read the package) on yaourt -S bootchart conflicts for install acct: ==> Downloading bootchart PKGBUILD from AUR... x fix-inittab-regex.patch x PKGBUILD x bootchart.install x bootchart-render bootchart 0.9-9 : Boot Process Performance Visualization ( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! ) ==> Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort) ==> ------------------------------------ ==> n ==> bootchart dependencies: - sh (already installed) - apache-ant (already installed) - java-environment>=6 (already installed) - acct (building from AUR) ==> Edit bootchart.install ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort) ==> --------------------------------------------- ==> n ==> Continue building bootchart ? [Y/n] ==> ----------------------------------- ==> ==> Building and installing package ==> Install or build missing dependencies for bootchart: ==> Downloading acct PKGBUILD from AUR... x PKGBUILD x acct.install Comment by: bash on Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:43:24 +0000 * moved from [extra] Comment by: speps on Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:05:08 +0000 @all Package owned and updated. First Submitted: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:43:17 +0000 acct 6.5.5-1 : The GNU Accounting Utilities provide login and process accounting utilities for GNU/Linux and other systems. ( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! ) ==> Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort) ==> ------------------------------------ ==> n ==> acct dependencies: - glibc (already installed) ==> Edit acct.install ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort) ==> ---------------------------------------- ==> n ==> Continue building acct ? [Y/n] ==> ------------------------------ ==> ==> Building and installing package ==> WARNING: Building package as root is dangerous. Please run yaourt as a non-privileged user. ==> Creando el paquete: acct 6.5.5-1 (dom ene 16 18:15:23 ART 2011) ==> Comprobando Dependencias en tiempo de Ejecución... ==> Comprobando Dependencias en tiempo de Compilación... ==> Obteniendo Fuentes... -> Descargando acct-6.5.5.tar.gz... --2011-01-16 18:15:23-- http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/acct/acct-6.5.5.tar.gz Resolviendo ftp.gnu.org... 140.186.70.20 Connecting to ftp.gnu.org|140.186.70.20|:80... conectado. Petición HTTP enviada, esperando respuesta... 200 OK Longitud: 747225 (730K) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: `acct-6.5.5.tar.gz.part' 100%[======================================>] 747.225 228K/s in 3,2s 2011-01-16 18:15:27 (228 KB/s) - `acct-6.5.5.tar.gz.part' saved [747225/747225] ==> Validando el archivo fuente con md5sums... acct-6.5.5.tar.gz ... Aprobado ==> Descomprimiendo fuentes... -> Extrayendo acct-6.5.5.tar.gz con bsdtar ==> Iniciando build()... (Starting build) checking build system type... Invalid configuration `i686-pc-linux-': machine `i686-pc-linux' not recognized configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub i686-pc-linux- failed Abortando... (Aborting) ==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build acct. ==> Restart building acct ? [y/N] apparently seems to be a problem with settings of the PC architecture, but my pc is i686 Thanks to all Dario

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[arch-general] Ye Olde Package Manager
by C Anthony Risinger 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:31 AM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > On 01/12/2011 10:51 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >> >> I want new thoughts about what the meaning of a package is ... and how >> it can be better represented for derivation from it's integrals; >> source code and user state. the tarball has served us well for a long >> time, but ... in the now-time of cheap encryption, distributed clouds, >> parallel peers and ... > > So you want to talk calculus do you? Perhaps the method of strained time and > strained coordinates would would give a better approximation? Poincare-Linstedt > maybe? ehm, it was more a play on words; but yeah, a package is a living target, derived from and bound to higher order constraints. they don't need to be the static, rigid snapshots they currently are, but it requires a different way of thinking about what a package is, and the purpose it fulfills. > Seriously, I've been very impressed with Arch packaging compared to rpm or deb. > KISS has served Arch well. oh sure it works well enough, else i probably wouldn't be here right now having this conversation... but that doesn't mean there is anything novel or even remotely interesting about pacman. they all suck equally IMO, but if your willing to part with the various management features pacman drops and the complexities it adds to be "KISS", then it can usually drag you where you want to be. if you think a package's purpose is to simply add some files to your system in a revocable way then you've missed the point; computers work for us. _i_ chose to install that package for a purpose; _i_ want the computer to assume some initial state, any react to system events. _i_ don't really give a !@#$ about files, how it accomplishes my directive, or what the computer thinks it wants. > The only thoughts I've had on the issue were with the > gzipped package directory format of the repository indexes, but I don't see > anything wrong with it. It works as well as it would in a flat file format or in > some record oriented db format. I'm sure there is a faster way to do it, but I > haven't noticed any slowness with the current system. it's less about speed, and more about creating a package structure that's able to track the source it's derived from, merge with custom "code sinks"/overlays, and integrate itself with the behavioral requirements of the target system, as defined by the integrator/user. it's about creating a structure that is at it's core cross-distro; a structure with the plasticity to absorb modifications from many sources, re-configure and trim itself as needed, and acquire the bits it needs to assume the state asked of it. > A package in any distro provides the necessary installables along with a way to > check for conflicts and resolve dependencies. The current packages do that well. sure, they do it well if, during each release iteration, every little step has been perfectly spelled out for them by a human "packager", you don't deviate from the "official" monolithic package pools, and you never want to do anything interesting or custom. like i said, a bulk download + extraction is the part the manager performs ... ie. brain dead ... the rest of the logic was hand crafted by humans. > The only differences that I've seen with pacman vs. some of the others were in > areas of handling or anticipating previously installed config or font files that > cause rare install failures. But, I think the KISS vs. 'try to anticipate > everything' argument ways in favor of not radically changing how pacman handles > these issues -- unless there is just a wealth of unused resources laying around > to experiment with. it's not about anticipation of the future/infinity, but rather guidance from the source, peer heuristics, and input from the integrator. technologies like systemd + augeas + git/DVCS + DBUS + ... + ... provide 99% of the tools/foundational ideas, they just need to be combined in a intelligent way and applied to the problem of state management. > Great question. I'd also be interested in what other ideas there are about > positive and realistic improvement can be made to the current system. create DBUS bindings to pacman core. impl the CLI/[GUI] interfaces on top of common dynamic runtimes like python using those bindings. leverage a revisioning system for package files instead of tarballs, even if only locally. store metadata in a non-relational engine like couchdb (peer replicaition), or at least something like sqlite, for sane access. C Anthony

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[arch-general] Pkgtools v22
by Daenyth Blank 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

Hi All, I'm happy to announce that after a far-too-long wait, the latest version of pkgtools is released! This version is a complete rewrite from the ground up. The slow parts have been rewritten in C for a huge speed increase, and the body has been rewritten in python. Many thanks for brain0 and solstice for doing most of the hard work in making this release happen. It should be hitting the mirrors today, and pkgtools-git from AUR is ready if you just can't wait. Enjoy!

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[arch-general] a python rewrite of pkgfile
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

hi. I started in August a rewrite in python of pkgfile from pkgtools package. The idea was to speed it up and avoid the use of a tree of file and use a sqlite3 db instead. I wrote it quickly and proposed a merge (on github) to Daenyth. He seems to respond well, reviewing the code. But then nothing, except that I vaguely begin to hear about a C python module that read *.files.tar.gz directly. I had to guess that my solution of using an sqlite3 db was not appreciated. I have to admit the intermediate step needed to convert *.files.tar.gz files into sqlite3 db was not that good. By accident, on IRC, I learned that it was brain0 that wrote the module and picked it up on its git repo. I modifed my python code, and made addition to the C module. Later, I also added to the module the possibility to extract full info of a package from desc and depend files in *.db.tar.gz to finalize the rewrite. So it's finished for quite some time now. Daenyth says "he appreciated the hard work" but I see no progress on merging or releasing something so far. The benefit of the rewrite: - super faster speed (thanks to brain0 C module) - download database files from mirror only if updates are available (for http mirrors only) - as a bonus you got a python module written in C that can read packages info in *.files.tar.gz or *.db.tar.gz it's on github https://github.com/solsticedhiver/pkgtools/tree/plan-A a PKGBUILD to build a package of pkgtools with the new pkgfile http://paste.pocoo.org/show/321584/

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] libnl 2.0 rebuild
by Ng Oon-Ee 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

In reference to the below:- [testing] is still 'safe' for those using networkmanager? In my understanding libnl1 would work like libpng12 from the AUR so it shouldn't stop working, is that correct? On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 15:18 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > I am uploading i686 packages for the following to testing: > - libnl > - iw > - crda > - wpa_supplicant > - libpcap (with upstream patch) > - net-snmp (my own patch) > > Jan Steffens is trying to fix networkmanager, but this is HUGE. > > - hostapd is easy, just need an option for libnl2 in .config (see SVN > for wpa_supplicant) > - kismet looks easy enough to fix > - I forgot about libvirt, but iirc it wasn't that hard > - No idea about knemo > - simh shouldn't even link to libnl, no idea why it does. >

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[arch-general] umask gnome
by Béla Vizer 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

Dear Everyone, I would like to have a system-wide umask settings. If I create eg a directory with mkdir everything is fine, however if I create a directory using Nautilus or even Midnight Commander using Gnome Terminal the file permission settings are different from my .bashrc definition I put .bashrc and /etc/profiles the follwoing line: umask 077 I tried to put it to /etc/gdm/Xsession, I created .gnomerc but nothing. Is it even possible to set a system-wide umask settings?

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[arch-general] makepkg --source makes empty folder src
by Joker-jar 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

Why makepkg --source makes empty folder "src"? Is it necessary?

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[arch-general] Vuze doesn't work after update
by Madhurya Kakati 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

HI, I just updated Vuze bittorrent client to its latest version and now it doesn't run. I am using 64 bit arch and openjdk6. The output when I run vuze on the terminal is: $ vuze Starting Azureus... Suitable java version found [java = 1.6.0_20] Configuring environment... Java exec found in PATH. Verifying... Browser check failed with: Cannot load 32-bit SWT libraries on 64-bit JVM Auto-scanning for GRE/XULRunner. You can skip this by appending the GRE path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH and setting MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME. checking /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-1.9.2 for GRE Can not use GRE from /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-1.9.2 because it's missing libxpcom.so. checking /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2 for GRE GRE found at /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2. Browser check failed with: Could not initialize class org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display Can't create browser. Will try to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and hope Vuze has better luck. setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to: /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2 setting MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to: /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2 Loading Azureus: java -Xmx128m -cp "./Azureus2.jar:./swt.jar" -Djava.library.path="/usr/share/vuze" -Dazureus.install.path="/usr/share/vuze" -Dazureus.script="/usr/bin/vuze" -Dazureus.script.version=2 org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.Main file:/usr/share/vuze/Azureus2.jar ; file:/usr/share/vuze/swt.jar ; file:/usr/share/vuze/ changeLocale: *Default Language* != English (United States). Searching without country.. changeLocale: Searching for language English in *any* country.. changeLocale: no message properties for Locale 'English (United States)' (en_US), using 'English (default)' java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:532) at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.Main.<init>(Main.java:114) at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.Main.main(Main.java:292) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) at com.aelitis.azureus.launcher.MainExecutor$1.run(MainExecutor.java:37) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Cannot load 32-bit SWT libraries on 64-bit JVM at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:197) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:174) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.C.<clinit>(C.java:21) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Converter.wcsToMbcs(Converter.java:63) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Converter.wcsToMbcs(Converter.java:54) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.<clinit>(Display.java:132) at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.SWTThread.<init>(SWTThread.java:84) at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.SWTThread.createInstance(SWTThread.java:63) at com.aelitis.azureus.ui.swt.Initializer.<init>(Initializer.java:163) ... 12 more Exit from Azureus complete No shutdown tasks to do Azureus TERMINATED.

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[arch-general] root on NFS and archlinux init scripts
by Thomas Bahn 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Hi all, one of my systems is booting over PXE and running diskless. The root-filesystem is mounted over NFS by the kernel (with the help of the net-hook in initcpio). On shutdown there is a message '/: device is busy'. I found out, that this is originated by the netfs-script in /etc/rc.d. It tries to umount everything on the network. By removing this hook the warning went away. I think this is not as meant. Its not a critical error, only a warning, because of that i would hear you opinion on that. Additionally i discoverd following piece of code in rc.shutdown: stat_busy "Unmounting Filesystems" /bin/umount -a -r -t noramfs,notmpfs,nosysfs,noproc,nodevtmpfs -O no_netdev stat_done Here, only non-network filesystems are unmounted, right? So, an NFS-root is not unmounted on shutdown. That is not good, i think it should be looked for a solution. What do you think? Would be nice to hear from you. Greetings Thomas Bahn Here are my settings related with nfs: kernel-parameter: rootfstype=nfs root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.2:/srv/nfs/erich,v3,rsize=16384,wsize=16384 ip=dhcp /etc/fstab entry for the root: none / none /etc/rc.conf: NETWORK_PERSIST = "yes" /etc/mkinitcpio.conf: MODULES="nfs" HOOKS="base udev autodetect net filesystems"

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[arch-general] adding hunspell-xx packages
by Andreas Radke 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Right now we don't have modern dictionaries packaged. People use AUR packages or poor OpenOffice extensions that cannot be used for other apps. The proper way is to have hunspell-xx packages providing a dictionary, thesaurus and hyphenation data files. I'm going to add a base set of hunspell-{en,de,foo} packages to testing. A common PKGBUILD doesn't make much sense because the upstream sources are maintained in different countries and releases come at different time. This way we can make use of the packages in OOo/LibO, enchant and Mozilla's FF/TB/SM packages. The files will go into /usr/share/hunspell/xx_XX with symlinks to /usr/share/myspell/dicts/xx-XX for historical reason. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell for more. To compare look at http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/openoffice.org-dictionaries http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=hunspell-XX.git http://gentoo-portage.com/app-dicts/ the myspell-xx packages. Any comments or objection? -Andy

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[arch-general] sage-mathematics 4.6.1 in [community-testing]
by Brad Fanella 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Signoff both architectures :-D P.S. I apologize if this actually starts a new thread on the mailing list. I wasn't subscribed to arch-general when you sent this message.

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[arch-general] Problems with flickering monitor
by dario 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Hi, i have a problem with my monitor, since when upgraded with pacman -Syu then when reboot the PC i could not start Arch, but if in fallback. Since my monitor flashes almost second. Then i don't know because walked in normal mode but continues with flashes. My archive /etc/X11/xorg.conf is empty and i have not installed drivers for my plate NVidia. There is a way for configurated the monitor. -- Dario PD: sorry my english, your understanding

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[arch-general] xdg autostart files.
by Peter Lewis 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Hi, I don't know much about XDG, but I was trying to figure out why every time I started up a desktop session (KDE) wicd-tray was being loaded, when I didn't want it to be. I couldn't find any reference to it in any of the KDE autostart directories. Then I noticed that it has a .desktop file in /etc/xdg/autostart, which is owned by wicd. I guess that I can delete the file, but that's a bit messy and it'll just get replaced when wicd gets upgraded anyway. Is this really the right thing to do? Should that .desktop file be in the package or should it be up to the user to decide whether or not to load the GTK client? Or is there another (preferred) way to disable it that I'm not aware of? Thanks, Pete.

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[arch-general] sage-mathematics 4.6.1 in [community-testing]
by Thomas Dziedzic 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

This message is targeted for sage-mathematics users. If you have a chance, please try sage-mathematics in [community-testing]. This is a new release with a few failed automated unit tests, but a few are usually expected. Please let me know if you have any troubles when using the new version. Otherwise I will move it to [community] this afternoon. Cheers!

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Re: [arch-general] Error for extract archive .tar
by dario 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

El mié, 12-01-2011 a las 00:57 -0500, arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org escribió: > > Hi! i have a problem for extract an archive .tar, because when write > > "tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz" i get the messenge: > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > > tar: Child returned status 1 > > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > > > i have installed tar and gzip, and would install 7zip, but i can't. > > What is the problem? > > Thank you very much > > > > -- > > Dario > > > > PD: sorry my english, your understanding > > > > > > What's the output of "file archive.tar.gz" ? > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:23:55 +0530 > From: Partha Chowdhury <partha(a)gmx.us> > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Error for extract archive .tar > Message-ID: <4D2D17C3.1050900(a)gmx.us> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > On 01/12/11 08:16, dario wrote: > > Hi! i have a problem for extract an archive .tar, because when write > > "tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz" i get the messenge: > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > > tar: Child returned status 1 > > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > > > i have installed tar and gzip, and would install 7zip, but i can't. > > What is the problem? > > Thank you very much > > > > > what does "file archive.tar.gz" show in terminal ? The file may be > damaged or corrupt. > > > If the file is corrupted, how to install flash player 10 for browser Opera? There any way to install it from console, for example with pacman or yaourt? Thanks -- Dario PD: sorry my english, your understanding

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[arch-general] Package coordination with archlinuxfr repo?
by David C. Rankin 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

Guys, How are packages coordinated between core, extra, community and archlinuxfr? I ask because there seems to be a lag in some of the package on archlinuxfr. I understand that archlinuxfr isn't "official", but there still needs to be some coordination when major updates like gcc take place. Of interest specifically: :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: gcc-gcj: local (4.5.2-1) is newer than archlinuxfr (4.5.1-1) warning: pdftk: local (1.44-2) is newer than archlinuxfr (1.41-5) Once Arch bumped to gcc 4.5.2, gcc-gcj and pdftk had to be uninstalled and rebuilt from AUR. That's fine, but it just seems strange that archlinuxfr still has packages dependent on gcc 4.5.1. I know the gcc-gcj and pdftk PKGBUILDS are updated for 4.5.2 -- I did it. Do we need to send an email to the maintainer? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] repo-add & repo-remove -- great pacman tools for your custom repo
by David C. Rankin 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

I ran across the repo-add/repo-remove scripts while looking at the pacman wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Tips Great work. For those that build packages from AUR/ABS, etc.. if you need to install them on multiple boxes handling both architectures, creating your own custom repository for your packages is a snap. If you haven't looked into the repo-add/repo-remove scripts, the Pacman_Tips page is worth a read. Basically, you simply use repo-add to build the repository index for all your custom packages and make it available on your lan via file://, http:// or ftp://. Then just add the entry to your pacman.conf and you have your custom repo done. Details at the link above or through 'repo-add --help' -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] tpm and suspend issues [resolved]
by Divan Santana 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

Hi All, Firstly, I am a newbie :) Loving Arch Linux. Huge thank you and brilliant job on a great distro. I was trying to set up suspend and noticed issues with tpm module. My problem is fixed but just wanted to share the info and seek advise if I should report this upstream (linux kernel) or what you guys think? I try suspend and it fails and returns to normal, problem is shown below: --- Jan 12 13:33:56 htf3333000l kernel: EXT4-fs (dm-3): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0 Jan 12 13:33:56 htf3333000l kernel: EXT4-fs (dm-2): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0 Jan 12 13:33:57 htf3333000l kernel: PM: Syncing filesystems ... done. Jan 12 13:33:57 htf3333000l kernel: PM: Preparing system for mem sleep Jan 12 13:33:59 htf3333000l kernel: Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.01 seconds) done. Jan 12 13:33:59 htf3333000l kernel: Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.01 seconds) done. Jan 12 13:33:59 htf3333000l kernel: PM: Entering mem sleep Jan 12 13:33:59 htf3333000l kernel: Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug) Jan 12 13:33:59 htf3333000l kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache Jan 12 13:33:59 htf3333000l kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk Jan 12 13:33:59 htf3333000l kernel: tpm_tis 00:0a: tpm_transmit: tpm_send: error -5 Jan 12 13:33:59 htf3333000l kernel: legacy_suspend(): pnp_bus_suspend+0x0/0xa0 returns -5 Jan 12 13:33:59 htf3333000l kernel: PM: Device 00:0a failed to suspend: error -5 Jan 12 13:33:59 htf3333000l kernel: PM: Some devices failed to suspend Jan 12 13:33:59 htf3333000l kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk Jan 12 13:33:59 htf3333000l kernel: PM: resume of devices complete after 708.504 msecs Jan 12 13:33:59 htf3333000l kernel: PM: Finishing wakeup. Jan 12 13:33:59 htf3333000l kernel: Restarting tasks ... done. Jan 12 13:33:59 htf3333000l kernel: video LNXVIDEO:00: Restoring backlight state Jan 12 13:33:59 htf3333000l kernel: EXT4-fs (dm-3): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0 Jan 12 13:33:59 htf3333000l kernel: EXT4-fs (dm-2): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0 --- I do the following: sudo modprobe -r tpm tpm_bios tpm_tis Which results in the below, doesn't look good. --- Jan 12 13:35:15 htf3333000l kernel: BUG: scheduling while atomic: modprobe/5333/0x00000002 Jan 12 13:35:15 htf3333000l kernel: Modules linked in: tpm_tis(-) tpm tpm_bios usbhid hid act_police cls_flow cls_fw cls_u32 sch_htb sch_hfsc sch_ingress sch_sfq xt_time xt_connlimit xt_realm iptable_raw xt_comment xt_recent xt_policy ipt_ULOG ipt_REDIRECT ipt_NETMAP ipt_ECN ipt_ecn ipt_CLUSTERIP ipt_ah ipt_addrtype nf_nat_tftp nf_nat_snmp_basic nf_nat_sip nf_nat_pptp nf_nat_proto_gre nf_nat_irc nf_nat_h323 nf_nat_ftp nf_nat_amanda ts_kmp nf_conntrack_amanda nf_conntrack_sane nf_conntrack_tftp nf_conntrack_sip nf_conntrack_proto_sctp nf_conntrack_pptp nf_conntrack_proto_gre nf_conntrack_netlink nf_conntrack_netbios_ns nf_conntrack_irc nf_conntrack_h323 nf_conntrack_ftp xt_TPROXY nf_tproxy_core xt_tcpmss ip6table_filter ip6_tables xt_pkttype xt_physdev xt_owner xt_NFQUEUE xt_NFLOG nfnetlink_log xt_multiport xt_mark xt_mac xt_limit xt_length xt_iprange xt_helper xt_hashlimit xt_DSCP xt_dscp xt_dccp xt_conntrack xt_connmark xt_CLASSIFY ipt_LOG ipt_MASQUERADE nfnetlink iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_state nf_conntrack ipt_REJECT xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle xt_tcpudp ipv6 iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables rfcomm sco bnep l2cap ext2 arc4 ecb snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss tun snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_hda_codec_conexant bridge iwlagn snd_seq_device snd_hda_intel stp snd_hda_codec snd_pcm_oss llc iwlcore snd_mixer_oss kvm_intel joydev pcmcia kvm snd_hwdep snd_pcm mac80211 sdhci_pci snd_timer yenta_socket thinkpad_acpi cpufreq_ondemand btusb snd sdhci zaurus pcmcia_rsrc cfg80211 cdc_ether acpi_cpufreq usbnet mmc_core soundcore bluetooth e1000e i2c_i801 iTCO_wdt freq_table cdc_wdm cdc_acm wmi psmouse nvram pcspkr snd_page_alloc mii thermal pcmcia_core processor battery rfkill led_class ac sg serio_raw evdev iTCO_vendor_support mperf ext4 mbcache jbd2 crc16 cryptd aes_x86_64 aes_generic xts gf128mul dm_crypt dm_mod sd_mod sr_mod cdrom ahci libahci uhci_hcd libata ehci_hcd scsi_mod usbcore i915 drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit button i2c_core video output intel_agp [last unloaded: tpm_bios] Jan 12 13:35:15 htf3333000l kernel: Pid: 5333, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.36-ARCH #1 Jan 12 13:35:15 htf3333000l kernel: Call Trace: Jan 12 13:35:15 htf3333000l kernel: [<ffffffff81045f61>] __schedule_bug+0x61/0x70 Jan 12 13:35:15 htf3333000l kernel: [<ffffffff81393cbb>] schedule+0x89b/0x9c0 Jan 12 13:35:15 htf3333000l kernel: [<ffffffff8139433d>] schedule_timeout+0x21d/0x360 Jan 12 13:35:15 htf3333000l kernel: [<ffffffff8139433d>] ? schedule_timeout+0x21d/0x360 Jan 12 13:35:15 htf3333000l kernel: [<ffffffff813932d0>] wait_for_common+0xc0/0x160 Jan 12 13:35:15 htf3333000l kernel: [<ffffffff8104e730>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x10 Jan 12 13:35:15 htf3333000l kernel: [<ffffffff81393418>] wait_for_completion+0x18/0x20 Jan 12 13:35:15 htf3333000l kernel: [<ffffffff810b96e0>] synchronize_sched+0x50/0x60 Jan 12 13:35:15 htf3333000l kernel: [<ffffffff81072d90>] ? wakeme_after_rcu+0x0/0x10 Jan 12 13:35:15 htf3333000l kernel: [<ffffffffa02678da>] tpm_remove_hardware+0x5a/0xb0 [tpm] Jan 12 13:35:15 htf3333000l kernel: [<ffffffffa016d05d>] cleanup_tis+0x4b/0x14f [tpm_tis] Jan 12 13:35:15 htf3333000l kernel: [<ffffffff8108f684>] sys_delete_module+0x194/0x290 Jan 12 13:35:15 htf3333000l kernel: [<ffffffff8100af42>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b --- sudo lsmod|grep tpm results in nothing. I can then suspend successfully. I wonder if this related to the marked as fixed bug in 2010-08 last year: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/7/8/4591885/thread https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16256 $ uname -a Linux fakename 2.6.36-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 8 14:15:27 CET 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux I disabled this in rc.conf by adding this to MODULES !tpm !tpm_bios !tpm_tis however now I just disabled the security chip in the BIOS (lenovo W500). It seems this tpm is for some chip that provides hardware crypt security features which I don't use. I'm not sure if I should report this upstream or not, thought maybe you guys might have a better suggestion? Any thoughts -- Divan Santana

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[arch-general] Knotifyv4 segfaults
by Nilesh Govindarajan 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

For some reason I am unable to ascertain, knotifyv4 keeps segfaulting. It does work, but I get that error message when I login and logout, and sometimes (rarely) in the middle of my work. This started after I reinstalled arch on my box. Any clues? 64bit. And no, it's not a bad RAM, I've ran memtest86+. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps

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Re: [arch-general] (now 4.5.5-1) Re: kde-4.5.4 loads kde3 kicker and background (even with ~/.kde & ~/.kde4 removed)
by David C. Rankin 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

On 01/08/2011 04:21 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Seriously David, I think it's time for you to give up on kde3 already. > > You can't expect the people on the Arch list to help support old, unsupported, > and out of date software. The more you bring your Arch box up to date the less > and less likely it'll be that old, unsupported software will run on it. > > Why not switch to XFCE or something? You can still use some KDE(4) apps if you > want, without having to be tied down to the whole environment. > > DR Thanks DR. I'm not looking for help with kde3. (I know it is dead and not supported and I wouldn't bother the list with it) I'm looking for why kde4 is loading the old kde3 kicker & background by default. The issue here has nothing to do with kde3. There is no reason I shouldn't be able to leave it installed and still use kde4. Ever since the June 2008 launch of kde 4.0.4, it has been widely represented that you can have both kde3 and kde4 installed side-by-side and they should not interfere with each other. That's why K3 is /opt based with its user config in ~/.kde while K4 is /usr based with its user config in ~/.kde4. What I need to find is where and why in the kde4.5.5-1 load process the Arch i686 packages are looking for the prior kde config and creating an erroneous ~/.kde4/share/config/kickerrc. I'm not bitching, I'm just trying to find answers to not only solve my problem, but help everyone else out that might be bitten by this. There seems to be some difference in the Arch kde4 packaging between i686 and x86_64. (I know it doesn't make sense...) I have a dozen Arch boxes and I have no problems with the x86_64 kde4 where kdemod3 is still installed. But for some reason on the i686 Dell boxes, I either get kde4 pulling in its plasma panel & the kde3 kicker or I get lockups of kde4 at the end of ksplash (box hardlocks) On my suse boxes with both kde3 and kde4 installed, both i686 and x86_64, kde4 loads without any of this strangeness. That's the only reason it points me to the possibility of an Arch i686 k4 packaging issue. The biggest difference is the Arch install creates the ~/.kde4/share/config/kickerrc which loads the kde3 kicker panel in kde4. That should not happen. The SuSE install of kde4 creates no ~/.kde4/share/config/kickerrc at all (which is correct because kde4 has a 'plasma panel' and no 'kicker' at all) So why the Arch k4 i686 packaging causes a k4 kickerrc to be created at all is a mystery to me and probably worth looking into as it should not be occurring at all. The Arch x86_64 kde4 packaging does not do this either. On my Arch x86_64 boxes, no kickerrc is created: 13:41 nirvana:~> l ~/.kde4/share/config/kicker* ls: cannot access /home/david/.kde4/share/config/kicker*: No such file or directory So something is not correct with the i686 k4 packaging that causes a kde4 kickerrc to be created. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Error for extract archive .tar
by dario 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

Hi! i have a problem for extract an archive .tar, because when write "tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz" i get the messenge: gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now i have installed tar and gzip, and would install 7zip, but i can't. What is the problem? Thank you very much -- Dario PD: sorry my english, your understanding

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[arch-general] Why does v4l-utils package exists both in [extra] and [multilib]?
by Kirill Churin 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

Why does v4l-utils package exists both in [extra] and [multilib]? Found it while updating Skype wiki page. -- Kirill Churin Jabber: reflexing(a)reflexing.ru, ICQ: 8163230, Skype on demand.

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[arch-general] udev slow to start up
by Ty John 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Hi guys, I have a brand new computer and every time it boots it stalls for a while at "starting udev". Maybe about 10-15 seconds. Then when it gets to the part "Waiting for udev events to be processed" it then stalls for another 30 seconds or so. When I boot from the Arch install disk I don't get the problem so I'm guessing it's something to do with the version of udev or the kernel maybe. I have udev-165 and udev-compat-165 installed and I have also tried going back to udev-164 but it made no difference. I get this in dmesg after boot. I know it's my sata DVD drive so here is the output of 'dmesg | grep ata2' [ty@donna ~]$ dmesg | grep ata2 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xfe02f000 port 0xfe02f180 irq 22 ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata2.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223C, SB04, max UDMA/100 ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen ata2.00: failed command: IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE ata2.00: cmd a1/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 pio 512 in ata2.00: status: { DRDY } ata2: hard resetting link ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata2: EH complete ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen ata2.00: failed command: IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE ata2.00: cmd a1/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 pio 512 in ata2.00: status: { DRDY } ata2: hard resetting link ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata2: EH complete Other than those error messages and the slow boot, the drive seems to work fine. I have been able to read and burn discs with no problem. If anyone has any ideas it would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: [arch-general] Welcome to Arch
by dario 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

> Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 20:24:53 -0300 > From: Nicol?s Reynolds <fauno(a)kiwwwi.com.ar> > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Welcome to Arch > Message-ID: <20110109232453.GG5329@ponape> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > El 09/01/11 08:15, dario dijo: > > Acabo de instalarme Arch 2010.05 desde cd y la verdad que me sorprendi? > > much?simo su din?mica para instalarlo (no es complicado con un poco de > > ayuda a la hora de instalar GNOME) y su velocidad, vengo de cansarme de > > Ubuntu (?soy yo solo o hay alguna persona que note algo oscuro en > > Ubuntu?) y creo que me quedo con Arch. > > > > Un saludo a todos y ojal? que seamos m?s > > buenas! la lista es angloparlante, as? que en unos minutos te van a empezar a > caer palos :P > JAJA I'm sorry, was the emotion!

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] TeXLive packages
by Kazuo Teramoto 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > These install scripts are giving headaches: I'll change it to simply > replace updmap.cfg by the concatenation of > /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap-hdr.cfg, > /var/lib/texmf/arch/installedpkgs/texlive-*.maps and > /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap-local.cfg as recommended upstream. Thanks for the update! But I'm doing something wrong... I put the custom Map entries in the /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap-local.cfg and run texhash (my custom map files are at /usr/local/share/texmf/.../) But running updmap-sys dont include the Map entries from updmap-local.cfg only from updmap.cfg In the header of updmap.cfg we have: ====== # 2) add your local map entries to the file # TEXMFLOCAL/web2c/updmap-local.cfg # and then call # tlmgr generate updmap # which will concatenate updmap-local.cfg to the end of the final # updmap.cfg. (You can override the local.cfg file location with the # --localcfg option; see tlmgr --help.) ====== I tried to put the file at TEXMFLOCAL/web2c/updmap-local.cfg but it dont work, and the tlmgr is not included in the arch distro (iirc all thing that tlmgr do are implemented or not needed by the packaging for Arch). For now I'm manually concatening the -local.cfg to the updmap.cfg. But I like to know if a more correctly way exist. If not, I think that changing the update msg so its says that a manually concatening of the -local files are needed can be useful. Thanks, Kazuo. -- “The journey is more important than the destination—that’s part of life, if you only live for getting to the end, you’re almost always disappointed.” Donald E. Knuth

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[arch-general] python 2.7.1-3 -> python 2.7.1-4 broke django
by Alper KANAT 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Hello Fellow Archers, With the last update, I'm not able to run ./manage.py at all which I was just before the update. (I can't downgrade because I wiped pacman cache) Here is what it says: $ ./manage.py runserver 192.168.56.101:8000 bash: ./manage.py: /usr/bin/python2^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory $ /usr/bin/python2 Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jan 6 2011, 11:51:37) [GCC 4.5.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> $ /usr/bin/env python2 Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jan 6 2011, 11:51:37) [GCC 4.5.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> $ y -Qs python2 extra/python2 2.7.1-4 A high-level scripting language extra/python2-distribute 0.6.14-2 A collection of extensions to the Python 2 distutils Any ideas? --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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[arch-general] Welcome to Arch
by dario 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Acabo de instalarme Arch 2010.05 desde cd y la verdad que me sorprendió muchísimo su dinámica para instalarlo (no es complicado con un poco de ayuda a la hora de instalar GNOME) y su velocidad, vengo de cansarme de Ubuntu (¿soy yo solo o hay alguna persona que note algo oscuro en Ubuntu?) y creo que me quedo con Arch. Un saludo a todos y ojalá que seamos más Darío

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[arch-general] What about gallium on r600?
by Sergej Pupykin 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Hi, it works not worse than classic mesa on my RV620. I add --enable-gallium-r600 and modify package_ati-dri-git() in mesa-git PKGBUILD as it is already done for r300 (make -C ${srcdir}/build/src/gallium/targets/dri-r600 DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install) I test current (20101213) git snapshot. May be put it into testing and enable on next release?

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel-2.6.36.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Upstream update. This package is NOT in testing (2.6.37 currently resides there), but at: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/kernel26/ 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] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.28-1
by Tobias Powalowski 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '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] kernel 2.6.37 breaks NFSv4 id mapping
by Andreas Radke 09 Jan '11

09 Jan '11

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdi… kernel 2.6.37 from testing breaks ID mapping for me on the client side (server is .32 LTS). Is our kernel properly configured? I'm getting the 4294967294:4294967294 ownership and the wiki trick from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=NFS#Ownership_of_mounted_shares_… doesn't work anymore. Downgrading to 2.6.36.3 from core brings it back. Any idea?

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[arch-general] Motion
by Andrea Crotti 09 Jan '11

09 Jan '11

I'm trying to setup motion http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome at the moment since I didn't find anything interesting natively on OSX I was trying to configure inside the virtual machine. (this is the kernel Linux test 2.6.36-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 24 00:39:57 CET 2010 x86_64) With vmware fusion I can easily assign the isight camera to the virtual machine and in fact it works... The problem is that for example I think the rc.d script doesn't work, because when I do /etc/rc.d/motion stop it doesn't kill it, and it stays there until I do killall -9 motion. I also wanted to understand how to record audio also and merge it to the video generated but still no luck, if anyone did I would be grateful...

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[arch-general] [signoff] TeXLive packages
by Rémy Oudompheng 09 Jan '11

09 Jan '11

Hello, I have updated the texlive non-binary packages to track the upstream updates. You will find the detailed list of updated packages in the attached file. The update should remain straightforward. I have cleaned up the install scriptlet, hoping that it still works as intended. Please notify me of any inconsistencies. Rémy.

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[arch-general] ibus-table dependency
by Auguste Pop 09 Jan '11

09 Jan '11

Hi, The ibus-table package in community repository has several "python2 fix" sed lines in PKGBUILD. However, the dependency of ibus-table includes python-pyenchant, which is a python3 package. Should we change the dependency into python2-pyenchant? Thank you for your attention. Best Regards,

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] MySQL 5.5
by Evangelos Foutras 09 Jan '11

09 Jan '11

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > Here is a list of packages that link to this lib: > https://www.archlinux.org/todo/52/ I'd suggest to check all these and > mark them as "complete" if they still work. Looks like my cherokee package needs a rebuild, while php52 does not. Anyone understands what the issue is here, and some packages require a rebuild even without a soname bump in libmysqlclient? Googling didn't turn up anything helpful. :\

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] why the hurry???
by cantabile 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

Le 04/01/2011 19:09, Thomas Bächler a écrit : > > As a general rule: A udev update should be followed by a reboot or a > manual udevd restart (both of which would fix your problem). > Why not include that in post_upgrade() ? -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River

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[arch-general] kde-4.5.4 loads kde3 kicker and background (even with ~/.kde & ~/.kde4 removed)
by David C. Rankin 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

Guys, I need to know if this is an arch packaging issue or a kde.org issue. On my arch box with all kde4 updates through today, I launch kde4 and my kde3 kicker and the kde4 plasma panel are both present: [26k] http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/arch/bugs/kde4/k3+k4_panels-640.jpeg So I moved ~/.kde4 figuring it was the problem and launched kde4 again. Still it pulled in my kde3 kicker and background. Huh? So I moved ~/.kde and ~/.kde4 to make sure there was nothing kde (3 or 4) related in my home directory and I launched kde4 again. To my surprise, kde4 loaded it's plasma panel and then proceeded to load the default kdemod3 kicker and kdemod3 background?? See: [24k] http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/arch/bugs/kde4/k3+k4_panels-new-640.jpg Obviously something is very wrong here. kde4 should not be loading the kdemod3 kicker or background. Looking at the newly created ~/.kde4/share/config files, the kickerrc file contains the following: 15:42 providence:~> cat .kde4/share/config/kickerrc [$Version] update_info=kickerrc.upd:kde_3_1_sizeChanges,kickerrc.upd:kde_3_4_reverseLayout,kickerrc.upd:kde_3_5_kconfigXTize Double-huh? Why would kde-4.5.4 create a kickerrc containing kde3 entries? Let me know if you think this is an Arch packaging issue or a kde.org issue so I know where to file the bug. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Kernel error
by Jim Burton 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

Hi, starting today I have a problem booting my laptop, running Arch with everything up to date. I can boot into the fallback image, but when I boot into the main one, everything hangs after a few moments, with caps and num lock flashing and the keyboard inactive. The screen is displaying lots of stuff like [<c102d908>] ? kmap_atomic_prot +0xc8/0xf0 On IRC it was suggested I rebuild the image with mkinitcpio, which had no effect. Any ideas how I can diagnose and fix this? Also, what exactly is the difference with the fallback image? I can't tell the difference to the one I usually start. Thanks, Jim -- J Burton jim(a)sdf-eu.org

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[arch-general] kernel 2.6.37 BKL
by Matthew Monaco 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

Devs, Any plans about the BKL setting in .37? I've been running the rc's without it for a while now.

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[arch-general] gnucash in [extra]
by Ng Oon-Ee 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

Hi, I noticed that said package is out of date, am attaching a slightly updated PKGBUILD for the latest version here (compiles and runs fine on my machine x86_64). Normally I'd wait, but the maintainer is Aaron and as I understand he's not very active round these parts anymore. P.S. - hope the attachment gets through. If not, all I did was remove the patch, add libdbi-drivers to depends, and add --enable-dbi to the configure line

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[arch-general] Xfce 4.8pre3 hits testing
by Andreas Radke 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Xfce 4.8pre3 is now in testing. Be warned that not all goodies and panel plugins have yet been ported and fixed to work with it! Please give feedback here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=874625 -Andy

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Re: [arch-general] [signoff] lilo 23.1-2
by Allan McRae 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

On 04/01/11 21:40, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > On Wednesday 01 December 2010 04:57:58 Adrian C. wrote: >> Signoff i686. > Do we need a signoff from x86_64 or can I move this? > It has been over a month so just move it. Signoff x86_64 if it makes you feel better :P Allan

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[arch-general] [signoff] lilo 23.1-2
by Andrea Scarpino 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

from lilo 23.1-1 - upstream release - new url - updated source - use package() function - updated make options - rebuilt to switch to tar.xz lilo 23.1-2 - fixed source - added sharutils as new makedependence - added perl as optdependence to run keytab-lilo lilo 23.1-1 was without signoff, please signoff lilo 23.1-2 for both arches -- Andrea Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[arch-general] kdebase-keditbookmarks is optional dep for...
by Joker-jar 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

1. Krusader Optional Deps : kdebase-konqueror: to edit bookmarks edit to: Optional Deps : kdebase-keditbookmarks: to edit bookmarks 2. kdenetwork-krdc add: Optional Deps : kdebase-keditbookmarks: to edit bookmarks Who know anything else?

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[arch-general] (rt61pci/hostapd) no packet activity when encryption is enabled and interface is bridged
by C Anthony Risinger 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

hello, slightly out of scope for tis list... but i've been trying to solve this for a few days, so after much googling, i've given in and am looking here for assistance. i've also sent this message to linux-wireless. problem summary: an rt61pci driven card does not seem to allow any packets to enter/exit it's bridge ONLY WHEN ENCRYPTION is enabled; without it, everything works perfectly. i recently bought an older wireless G card for use as an access point to replace my ageing wrt54g. my physical server runs libvirt/kvm and [next to] nothing else. hostapd runs on the host. when hostapd starts up, the card's interface (wlan0) is added to an existing bridge (green0) via hostapd's config option. a small VM is also linked to this bridge; this "router/gateway" VM provides all local networking services (NAT/DHCP/DNS forward/etc.), and manages the untrusted, outside connection (red0)... also a bridge. interface summary: --------------------------------------------------------------- red0 bridge. untrusted; direct attached to internet green0 bridge. trusted; [W]LAN and VM clients wlan0 wireless interface (rt61pci) vnet0-0 host facing interface of the router VM (WAN [red0]) vnet0-1 VM facing interface of the router VM (WAN [red0]) vnet1-0 host facing interface of the router VM (LAN [green0]) vnet1-1 VM facing interface of the router VM (LAN [green0]) eth0 untrusted physical link to internet --------------------------------------------------------------- visual-ish summary: --------------------------------------------------------------- [ green0 ]( wlan0, vnet1-0 ) | | [ vnet1-1 ] : : (firewall rules, policies, etc.) : [ vnet0-1 ] | | [ red0 ]( eth0, vnet0-0 ) --------------------------------------------------------------- now, everything works perfectly... right up until i enable WPA in hostapd. after that, my clients can associate just fine (in fact, -dd shows no sign of any problems whatsoever, see below) but they cannot receive an IP via DHCP... no packets seem to pass through at all (ifconfig?). i have read elsewhere about problems with bridging, so i'm about to test right now by running a DHCP daemon directly on wlan0... but i can't do anything useful/simply without bridge support. does anyone know what's going on here, or any tips on how to confirm/test/debug? i have tried from 4 clients with the same results: ) google nexus s mobile ) samsung vibrant mobile ) thinkpad t43 ) eee s101 so i'm fairly confident it's the AP. also, when i do this (on host) while hostapd is running: ip link set wlan0 down && ip link set wlan0 up; it strangely starts working (clients get IP, and can use the connection for awhile), but not consistently; the nexus reconnects every 5-10 seconds, and though the t43 remains connected... the AP will shortly stop allowing traffic, and back to square one. ideas? following is every piece of info i thought might be useful :-) let me know if i missed anything. all commands (except last) ran from host while hostapd runs in background. thanks, C Anthony --------------------------------------------------------------- # lspci -s 04:06.0 -vv 04:06.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 837e Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21 Region 0: Memory at febf8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K] Capabilities: [40] 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- Kernel driver in use: rt61pci Kernel modules: rt61pci --------------------------------------------------------------- (kernel 2.6.36.2) # uname -a Linux extofme-p01 2.6.36-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 10 20:32:37 CET 2010 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux --------------------------------------------------------------- # modinfo rt61pci filename: /lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.ko license: GPL firmware: rt2661.bin firmware: rt2561s.bin firmware: rt2561.bin description: Ralink RT61 PCI & PCMCIA Wireless LAN driver. version: 2.3.0 author: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com srcversion: F1774A00C329E6A439932A5 alias: pci:v00001814d00000401sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00001814d00000302sv*sd*bc*sc*i* alias: pci:v00001814d00000301sv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: rt2x00lib,rt2x00pci,eeprom_93cx6,crc-itu-t vermagic: 2.6.36-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload parm: nohwcrypt:Disable hardware encryption. (bool) --------------------------------------------------------------- # ip link && ip addr 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000 link/ether 00:23:54:16:74:82 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 4: red0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/ether 00:23:54:16:74:82 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 5: green0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/ether 48:5b:39:bd:fe:a2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 7: vnet0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 500 link/ether fe:54:00:75:c8:9d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 8: vnet1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 500 link/ether fe:54:00:07:60:02 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 26: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UNKNOWN qlen 1000 link/ether 48:5b:39:bd:fe:a2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 27: mon.wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UNKNOWN qlen 1000 link/ieee802.11/radiotap 48:5b:39:bd:fe:a2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000 link/ether 00:23:54:16:74:82 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet6 fe80::223:54ff:fe16:7482/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 4: red0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/ether 00:23:54:16:74:82 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.1.150/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global red0 inet6 fe80::223:54ff:fe16:7482/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 5: green0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/ether 48:5b:39:bd:fe:a2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 10.10.10.102/24 brd 10.10.10.255 scope global green0 inet6 fe80::4a5b:39ff:febd:fea2/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 7: vnet0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 500 link/ether fe:54:00:75:c8:9d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet6 fe80::fc54:ff:fe75:c89d/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 8: vnet1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 500 link/ether fe:54:00:07:60:02 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet6 fe80::fc54:ff:fe07:6002/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 26: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UNKNOWN qlen 1000 link/ether 48:5b:39:bd:fe:a2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet6 fe80::4a5b:39ff:febd:fea2/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 27: mon.wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UNKNOWN qlen 1000 link/ieee802.11/radiotap 48:5b:39:bd:fe:a2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff --------------------------------------------------------------- (slightly edited for email) # brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces green0 8000.485b39bdfea2 no vnet1, wlan0 red0 8000.002354167482 no eth0, vnet0 --------------------------------------------------------------- (minimal version... the one i tweaked based on defaults had same results) # cat /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf interface=wlan0 bridge=green0 logger_stdout=-1 logger_stdout_level=0 ssid=MySSID hw_mode=g channel=8 wpa=2 wpa_passphrase=wifipass wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK rsn_pairwise=CCMP --------------------------------------------------------------- # hostapd -dd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf nl80211: Add own interface ifindex 5 nl80211: Add own interface ifindex 18 nl80211: New interface mon.wlan0 created: ifindex=24 nl80211: Add own interface ifindex 24 nl80211: Adding interface wlan0 into bridge green0 BSS count 1, BSSID mask 00:00:00:00:00:00 (0 bits) nl80211: Added 802.11b mode based on 802.11g information Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=1 freq=2412 MHz max_tx_power=19 dBm Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=2 freq=2417 MHz max_tx_power=19 dBm Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=3 freq=2422 MHz max_tx_power=19 dBm Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=4 freq=2427 MHz max_tx_power=19 dBm Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=5 freq=2432 MHz max_tx_power=19 dBm Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=6 freq=2437 MHz max_tx_power=17 dBm Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=7 freq=2442 MHz max_tx_power=17 dBm Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=8 freq=2447 MHz max_tx_power=17 dBm Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=9 freq=2452 MHz max_tx_power=17 dBm Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=10 freq=2457 MHz max_tx_power=17 dBm Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=11 freq=2462 MHz max_tx_power=15 dBm Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=1 freq=2412 MHz max_tx_power=19 dBm Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=2 freq=2417 MHz max_tx_power=19 dBm Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=3 freq=2422 MHz max_tx_power=19 dBm Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=4 freq=2427 MHz max_tx_power=19 dBm Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=5 freq=2432 MHz max_tx_power=19 dBm Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=6 freq=2437 MHz max_tx_power=17 dBm Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=7 freq=2442 MHz max_tx_power=17 dBm Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=8 freq=2447 MHz max_tx_power=17 dBm Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=9 freq=2452 MHz max_tx_power=17 dBm Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=10 freq=2457 MHz max_tx_power=17 dBm Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=11 freq=2462 MHz max_tx_power=15 dBm RATE[0] rate=10 flags=0x1 RATE[1] rate=20 flags=0x1 RATE[2] rate=55 flags=0x1 RATE[3] rate=110 flags=0x1 RATE[4] rate=60 flags=0x0 RATE[5] rate=90 flags=0x0 RATE[6] rate=120 flags=0x0 RATE[7] rate=180 flags=0x0 RATE[8] rate=240 flags=0x0 RATE[9] rate=360 flags=0x0 RATE[10] rate=480 flags=0x0 RATE[11] rate=540 flags=0x0 Completing interface initialization Mode: IEEE 802.11g Channel: 8 Frequency: 2447 MHz Flushing old station entries Deauthenticate all stations wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=0 addr=(nil) key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=0 wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=0 addr=(nil) key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0 wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=0 addr=(nil) key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0 wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=0 addr=(nil) key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0 Using interface wlan0 with hwaddr 48:5b:39:bd:fe:a2 and ssid 'MySSID' Deriving WPA PSK based on passphrase SSID - hexdump_ascii(len=6): 4d 79 53 53 49 44 MySSID PSK (ASCII passphrase) - hexdump_ascii(len=8): [REMOVED] PSK (from passphrase) - hexdump(len=32): [REMOVED] WPA: group state machine entering state GTK_INIT (VLAN-ID 0) GMK - hexdump(len=32): [REMOVED] GTK - hexdump(len=16): [REMOVED] WPA: group state machine entering state SETKEYSDONE (VLAN-ID 0) wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=3 addr=(nil) key_idx=1 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=16 nl80211: Set beacon (beacon_set=0) wlan0: Setup of interface done. RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1002 () RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'mon.wlan0' added Unknown event 5 RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11043 ([UP][RUNNING][LOWER_UP]) RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'mon.wlan0' added Unknown event 5 RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1102 () RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'wlan0' added Unknown event 5 nl80211: Add ifindex 5 for bridge green0 nl80211: Add own interface ifindex 5 RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11143 ([UP][RUNNING][LOWER_UP]) RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'wlan0' added Unknown event 5 RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11143 ([UP][RUNNING][LOWER_UP]) RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'wlan0' added Unknown event 5 nl80211: Add ifindex 5 for bridge green0 nl80211: Add own interface ifindex 5 unknown vendor specific information element ignored (vendor OUI 00:10:18 len=9) STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c sent probe request for broadcast SSID mgmt::proberesp cb unknown vendor specific information element ignored (vendor OUI 00:10:18 len=9) STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c sent probe request for broadcast SSID mgmt::proberesp cb unknown vendor specific information element ignored (vendor OUI 00:10:18 len=9) STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c sent probe request for our SSID mgmt::proberesp cb mgmt::auth authentication: STA=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c auth_alg=0 auth_transaction=1 status_code=0 wep=0 New STA wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.11: authentication OK (open system) wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c MLME: MLME-AUTHENTICATE.indication(b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c, OPEN_SYSTEM) wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c MLME: MLME-DELETEKEYS.request(b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c) authentication reply: STA=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c auth_alg=0 auth_transaction=2 resp=0 (IE len=0) mgmt::assoc_req association request: STA=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c capab_info=0x431 listen_interval=10 unknown vendor specific information element ignored (vendor OUI 00:10:18 len=9) new AID 1 wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.11: association OK (aid 1) mgmt::auth cb wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.11: authenticated mgmt::assoc_resp cb wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 1) wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c MLME: MLME-ASSOCIATE.indication(b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c) wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c MLME: MLME-DELETEKEYS.request(b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c) wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=0 addr=0x2051090 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=0 addr=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: event 1 notification wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=0 addr=0x2051090 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=0 addr=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: start authentication WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state INITIALIZE wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=0 addr=0x2051090 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=0 addr=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.1X: unauthorizing port WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK_GROUP entering state IDLE WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state AUTHENTICATION WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state AUTHENTICATION2 WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state INITPSK WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state PTKSTART wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: sending 1/4 msg of 4-Way Handshake WPA: Send EAPOL(version=2 secure=0 mic=0 ack=1 install=0 pairwise=8 kde_len=0 keyidx=0 encr=0) nl80211: Event message available nl80211: Ignored unknown event (cmd=19) IEEE 802.1X: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c TX status - version=2 type=3 length=95 - ack=1 IEEE 802.1X: 121 bytes from b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.1X: version=1 type=3 length=117 wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: received EAPOL-Key frame (2/4 Pairwise) WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state PTKCALCNEGOTIATING WPA: PTK derivation - A1=48:5b:39:bd:fe:a2 A2=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: PMK - hexdump(len=32): [REMOVED] WPA: PTK - hexdump(len=48): [REMOVED] WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state PTKCALCNEGOTIATING2 WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state PTKINITNEGOTIATING wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: sending 3/4 msg of 4-Way Handshake WPA: Send EAPOL(version=2 secure=1 mic=1 ack=1 install=1 pairwise=8 kde_len=46 keyidx=1 encr=1) Plaintext EAPOL-Key Key Data - hexdump(len=56): [REMOVED] IEEE 802.1X: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c TX status - version=2 type=3 length=151 - ack=1 IEEE 802.1X: 99 bytes from b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.1X: version=1 type=3 length=95 wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: received EAPOL-Key frame (4/4 Pairwise) WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state PTKINITDONE wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=3 addr=0x2051090 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=16 addr=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c AP-STA-CONNECTED b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.1X: authorizing port wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c RADIUS: starting accounting session 4D229FBB-00000000 wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN) unknown vendor specific information element ignored (vendor OUI 00:10:18 len=9) STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c sent probe request for broadcast SSID mgmt::proberesp cb STA 00:23:15:1a:ea:dc sent probe request for broadcast SSID mgmt::proberesp cb STA 00:23:15:1a:ea:dc sent probe request for broadcast SSID mgmt::proberesp cb unknown vendor specific information element ignored (vendor OUI 00:10:18 len=9) STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c sent probe request for broadcast SSID mgmt::proberesp cb unknown vendor specific information element ignored (vendor OUI 00:10:18 len=9) STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c sent probe request for broadcast SSID mgmt::proberesp cb STA 00:13:ce:77:8a:eb sent probe request for broadcast SSID mgmt::proberesp cb unknown vendor specific information element ignored (vendor OUI 00:10:18 len=9) STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c sent probe request for broadcast SSID mgmt::proberesp cb unknown vendor specific information element ignored (vendor OUI 00:10:18 len=9) STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c sent probe request for broadcast SSID mgmt::proberesp cb STA 00:13:ce:77:8a:eb sent probe request for broadcast SSID mgmt::proberesp cb STA 00:13:ce:77:8a:eb sent probe request for broadcast SSID mgmt::proberesp cb unknown vendor specific information element ignored (vendor OUI 00:10:18 len=9) STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c sent probe request for broadcast SSID mgmt::proberesp cb unknown vendor specific information element ignored (vendor OUI 00:10:18 len=9) STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c sent probe request for broadcast SSID mgmt::proberesp cb unknown vendor specific information element ignored (vendor OUI 00:10:18 len=9) STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c sent probe request for broadcast SSID mgmt::proberesp cb unknown vendor specific information element ignored (vendor OUI 00:10:18 len=9) STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c sent probe request for broadcast SSID mgmt::proberesp cb mgmt::disassoc disassocation: STA=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c reason_code=8 AP-STA-DISCONNECTED b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: event 2 notification wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=0 addr=0x2051090 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=0 addr=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state DISCONNECTED WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state INITIALIZE wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=0 addr=0x2051090 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=0 addr=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.1X: unauthorizing port wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.11: disassociated wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c MLME: MLME-DISASSOCIATE.indication(b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c, 8) wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c MLME: MLME-DELETEKEYS.request(b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c) wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=0 addr=0x2051090 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=0 addr=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c Sending deauthentication info to STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to inactivity wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c MLME: MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.indication(b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c, 2) wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c MLME: MLME-DELETEKEYS.request(b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c) wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=0 addr=0x2051090 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=0 addr=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c unknown vendor specific information element ignored (vendor OUI 00:10:18 len=9) STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c sent probe request for broadcast SSID mgmt::proberesp cb unknown vendor specific information element ignored (vendor OUI 00:10:18 len=9) STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c sent probe request for broadcast SSID mgmt::proberesp cb unknown vendor specific information element ignored (vendor OUI 00:10:18 len=9) STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c sent probe request for our SSID mgmt::proberesp cb mgmt::auth authentication: STA=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c auth_alg=0 auth_transaction=1 status_code=0 wep=0 New STA wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.11: authentication OK (open system) wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c MLME: MLME-AUTHENTICATE.indication(b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c, OPEN_SYSTEM) wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c MLME: MLME-DELETEKEYS.request(b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c) authentication reply: STA=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c auth_alg=0 auth_transaction=2 resp=0 (IE len=0) mgmt::auth cb wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.11: authenticated mgmt::assoc_req association request: STA=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c capab_info=0x431 listen_interval=10 unknown vendor specific information element ignored (vendor OUI 00:10:18 len=9) new AID 1 wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.11: association OK (aid 1) mgmt::assoc_resp cb wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 1) wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c MLME: MLME-ASSOCIATE.indication(b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c) wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c MLME: MLME-DELETEKEYS.request(b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c) wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=0 addr=0x2051090 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=0 addr=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: event 1 notification wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=0 addr=0x2051090 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=0 addr=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: start authentication WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state INITIALIZE wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=0 addr=0x2051090 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=0 addr=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.1X: unauthorizing port WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK_GROUP entering state IDLE WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state AUTHENTICATION WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state AUTHENTICATION2 WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state INITPSK WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state PTKSTART wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: sending 1/4 msg of 4-Way Handshake WPA: Send EAPOL(version=2 secure=0 mic=0 ack=1 install=0 pairwise=8 kde_len=0 keyidx=0 encr=0) nl80211: Event message available nl80211: Ignored unknown event (cmd=19) IEEE 802.1X: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c TX status - version=2 type=3 length=95 - ack=1 IEEE 802.1X: 121 bytes from b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.1X: version=1 type=3 length=117 wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: received EAPOL-Key frame (2/4 Pairwise) WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state PTKCALCNEGOTIATING WPA: PTK derivation - A1=48:5b:39:bd:fe:a2 A2=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: PMK - hexdump(len=32): [REMOVED] WPA: PTK - hexdump(len=48): [REMOVED] WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state PTKCALCNEGOTIATING2 WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state PTKINITNEGOTIATING wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: sending 3/4 msg of 4-Way Handshake WPA: Send EAPOL(version=2 secure=1 mic=1 ack=1 install=1 pairwise=8 kde_len=46 keyidx=1 encr=1) Plaintext EAPOL-Key Key Data - hexdump(len=56): [REMOVED] IEEE 802.1X: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c TX status - version=2 type=3 length=151 - ack=1 IEEE 802.1X: 99 bytes from b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.1X: version=1 type=3 length=95 wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: received EAPOL-Key frame (4/4 Pairwise) WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state PTKINITDONE wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=3 addr=0x2051090 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=16 addr=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c AP-STA-CONNECTED b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.1X: authorizing port wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c RADIUS: starting accounting session 4D229FBB-00000001 wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN) ... ... (the STA will then disco in a couple seconds like above ...) ... ... mgmt::disassoc disassocation: STA=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c reason_code=8 AP-STA-DISCONNECTED b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: event 2 notification wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=0 addr=0x2051090 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=0 addr=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state DISCONNECTED WPA: b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c WPA_PTK entering state INITIALIZE wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=0 addr=0x2051090 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=0 addr=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.1X: unauthorizing port wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.11: disassociated wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c MLME: MLME-DISASSOCIATE.indication(b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c, 8) wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c MLME: MLME-DELETEKEYS.request(b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c) wpa_driver_nl80211_set_key: ifindex=18 alg=0 addr=0x2051090 key_idx=0 set_tx=1 seq_len=0 key_len=0 addr=b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c Sending deauthentication info to STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to inactivity wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c MLME: MLME-DEAUTHENTICATE.indication(b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c, 2) wlan0: STA b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c MLME: MLME-DELETEKEYS.request(b4:07:f9:e3:1d:5c) ... ... (... and the whole thing repeats over and over because the STA never receives a DHCP response, and the DHCP server never gets the request... wtf yo?) ... ...

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[arch-general] Updated /var/cache/pacman/pkg old package version removal scripts
by David C. Rankin 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Guys, I have updated the script that I use to scan /var/cache/pacman/pkg and move old package versions to /home/backup/pkg-1 (next older version in: pkg-2, then pkg-3 and finally pkg-del). Additions to the script include directory md5sum checks for new packages (the script skips parsing any directory if there are no changes) and a disk usage summary at the end showing the size of each directory. As in the past, there are 2 scripts involved. The script you execute is 'fduparch.sh' which calls fduppkg for each directory. Currently, the only packages that the script misses are those with number as part of the name like "mplayer-32663-1". It handles virtually all others without issue. Grab the scripts here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/fduparch.sh http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/fduppkg To use the scripts, just download the scripts, make sure they are executable, and then create soft links to them in /usr/local/bin. I have the links setup as follows: fduparch -> /home/david/scr/arch/fduparch.sh fduppkg -> /home/david/scr/arch/fduppkg Then just call fduparch to remove duplicates from /var/cache/pacman/pkg and create the directories under /home/backup. I have it configured to save the last 3 versions of each package in /home/backup/{pkg-1,pkg-2,pkg-3} with any remaining duplicates dumped in /home/backup/pkg-del to be deleted - manually. Run fduparch [-h | --help] for a usage summary for both scripts. I have changed the backup package dir names from pkg-old, pkg-older to just pkg-1, pkg-2... pkg-del. The script has checks for the pkg-old, pkg-older names and moves the directories to the new names if you have used a prior version of the script. To change the location or number of backup directories, just edit the following line in fduparch.sh and remove or rename the locations: DIRLIST=( /var/cache/pacman/pkg /home/backup/pkg-1 /home/backup/pkg-2 /home/backup/pkg-3 /home/backup/pkg-del ) For example to just save just one prior version of your packages and move everything else to pkg-del, then just do: DIRLIST=( /var/cache/pacman/pkg /home/backup/pkg-1 /home/backup/pkg-del ) ** you need at least 1 directory in addition to /var/cache/pacman/pkg for the array logic ${#DIRLIST[@]}-1 to work. But beyond that, you can simply change the name and location of the backup package directories to whatever you want. The script creates 2 other files. /home/backup/.data/pkgdir-md5.txt to hold the md5sums for the directories and /home/backup/log/pkgdups.log.bz2 which is simply a log file of what was moved where. You can change any of this to suit your taste by editing the variables in the script. Also, to run the script as your user with sudo, just edit the line: if [[ $USER == david ]]; then and change david to your username. Otherwise you will need to run the script as root for permissions to move packages from /var/cache/pacman/pkg and to create the /home/backup directory. The script output (default) shows a brief heading for each directory it operates on and then provides a disk usage summary at the end: 09:58 archangel:~/arch/pkg> fduparch calling: 'fduppkg /var/cache/pacman/pkg -d /home/backup/pkg-1 -l pkgdups.log' Total packages to screen: 1989 Removing duplicates from: /var/cache/pacman/pkg Duplicates directory: /home/backup/pkg-1 Log file location: pkgdups.log Verbose mode set: [use -q to stop pkg output | -s to stop all output] pkg [ 70] binutils dup => binutils-2.20.1-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz pkg [ 308] f-spot dup => f-spot-0.6.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz <snip> 11 duplicates moved to /home/backup/pkg-1 <snip operations on other directories> Duplicate Removal Summary 3.2G /var/cache/pacman/pkg 2.4G /home/backup/pkg-1 2.8G /home/backup/pkg-2 2.4G /home/backup/pkg-3 103M /home/backup/pkg-del If there are no changes to the files in the directories, then they are skipped and you are just presented with a summary at the end. For anyone interested in learning a bit about bash scripting, the scripts are reasonably commented and cover a broad spectrum of what bash can do. Enjoy. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] [signoff] usbutils-001-1
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

usbutils 001 ============ Greg Kroah-Hartman (2): usb.ids update from linux-usb.org updated usbhid-dump subproject Laurent Pinchart (2): usbutils: Support UVC frame-based descriptors usbutils: Support UVC MPEG2-TS format descriptor Luben Tuikov (3): lsusb: Fix getting BOS and DEVQUAL descriptors lsusb: Dump the Pipe Usage desciptor lsusb: Fix bMaxBurst reporting Mike Frysinger (5): lsusb: install into /usr/bin usbmisc: pull in unistd.h for readlink() lsusb: pull in stdlib.h for exit() lsusb: constify! usbutils: convert to libusb-1.0 Nikolai Kondrashov (1): Update usbhid-dump to release 1.2 Sarah Sharp (2): usbutils: Fix compile error on Ubuntu 9.04. usbutils: Make lsusb -t show USB 3.0 devices. Upstream release Version numbering changed a options=('force') is needed for this upgrade. 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] [signoff] pam 1.1.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

Release 1.1.3 * pam_namespace: Clean environment for childs (CVE-2010-3853) * libpam: New interface to drop/regain privilegs * Drop root privilegs in pam_env, pam_mail and pam_xauth before accessing user files (CVE-2010-3430, CVE-2010-3431) * pam_unix: Add minlen option, change default from 6 to 0 * Documentation improvements * Lot of small bug fixes Release 1.1.2 * pam_unix: Add minlen= option * pam_group: Add support for UNIX groups beside netgroups * pam_tally: Document that it is deprecated * pam_rootok: Add support for chauthtok and acct_mgmt * Update translations upstream release and fixed docs #19751 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] [signoff] groff 1.21-1
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

VERSION 1.21 ============ Troff ----- o The new `lsm' request specifies a macro to be invoked when leading spaces in an input line are encountered (which are removed then). Number registers `lsn' and `lss' hold the number of removed leading spaces and the corresponding horizontal space, respectively. o There is a new warning category `file', enabled by default. The `mso' request emits warnings in this category when the requested macro file does not exist. o The new `class' request assigns a short name to a set of characters which can be referred to in the `cflags' request. This is especially useful to control line-breaking and hyphenation rules in CJK languages. o Three new values for the `cflags' request have been added, which are needed for proper CJK support. 128 prohibit before but allow break after character 256 prohibit after but allow break before character 512 allow break before and after character Tbl --- o A new global option `nowarn' suppresses warnings if tables are longer than the current line width. Afmtodit -------- o New option `-o' to specify the name of the output file. Macro Packages -------------- o A new macro `%U' has been added to the mdoc package to indicate a URL reference within an .Rs/.Re environment. o Rudimentary support for the Japanese script has been added, most suitable for man page handling as output by grotty. The file `ja.tmac' contains the necessary setup to allow line breaks before and after CJK characters (with proper exceptions). Note, however, that no inter-character spacing is implemented yet -- this usually causes many warnings about bad line breaks. a Fixed groffer #21245 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] [signoff] udev-165-1
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

Hi guys. upstream release: udev 165 ======== Bugfixes. The udev database has changed, After installation of a new udev version, 'udevadm info --convert-db' should be called, to let the new udev/libudev version read the already stored data. udevadm now supports quoting of property values, and prefixing of key names: $ udevadm info --export --export-prefix=MY_ --query=property -n sda MY_MAJOR='259' MY_MINOR='0' MY_DEVNAME='/dev/sda' MY_DEVTYPE='disk' ... libudev now supports: udev_device_get_is_initialized() udev_enumerate_add_match_is_initialized() to be able to skip devices the kernel has created , but udev has not already handled. libudev now supports: udev_device_get_usec_since_initialized() to retrieve the "age" of a udev device record. GUdev supports a more generic GUdevEnumerator class, udev TAG handling, device initialization and timestamp now. The counterpart of /sys/dev/{char,block}/$major:$minor, /dev/{char,block}/$major:$minor symlinks are now unconditionally created, even when no rule files exist. 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] Linux / mkinitcpio / vbox bug: bad swap file entry
by Dieter Plaetinck 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

while testing new images, I get this: http://users.edpnet.be/dieter/vbox-or-kernel-or-mkinitcpio-bug.png the error messages show up in google results and seem to be bugs in the Linux swap code and/or drivers. interestingly, at first aif/dialog/mkinitcpio/find just keep running, but after a while the processes just vanish. dmesg doesn't say anything about OOM killer, but i get login prompts where i used to have a terminal with aif/initcpio running. dmesg here: http://sprunge.us/YWQS any advice? i can probably workaround it by using more ram, but still... Dieter

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[arch-general] Package building - Change name of finished package
by Baho Utot 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

I want to change the resulting package name in the PKGBUILD so I can support different sites on a server hosting many virtual websites using joomla. Example: Stock PKGBUILD pkgname=joomla pkgver=1.5.22 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A PHP-based content management platform" arch=('any') url="http://www.joomla.org/" license=('GPL') depends=('php>=4.3.10' 'php-apache>=4.3.10' 'mysql>=3.23' 'apache>=1.3') provides=('joomla') install=${pkgname}.install source=(http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/12610/53421/Joomla_$pk… Stable-Full_Package.zip) build() { # Install Joomla files. install -dm755 "$pkgdir$_install_dir" cp -r "$srcdir"/* "$pkgdir$_install_dir" # Remove the symlink which points to the Joomla tarball itself. rm -f "$pkgdir$_install_dir/Joomla_$pkgver-Stable-Full_Package.zip" # Remove unnecessary permissions. find "$pkgdir$_install_dir" -type f -exec chmod 0664 {} \; find "$pkgdir$_install_dir" -type d -exec chmod 0775 {} \; } Produces a package named joomla-1.5.22-1-any.pkg.tar.xz I would like to change it to sitename=<some name> pkgname=joomla pkgver=1.5.22 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A PHP-based content management platform" arch=('any') url="http://www.joomla.org/" license=('GPL') depends=('php>=4.3.10' 'php-apache>=4.3.10' 'mysql>=3.23' 'apache>=1.3') provides=('joomla') install=${pkgname}.install source=(http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/12610/53421/Joomla_$pk… Stable-Full_Package.zip) build() { # Install Joomla files. install -dm755 "$pkgdir/$sitename" cp -r "$srcdir"/* "$pkgdir/$sitename" # Remove the symlink which points to the Joomla tarball itself. rm -f "$pkgdir/$sitename/Joomla_$pkgver-Stable-Full_Package.zip" # Remove unnecessary permissions. find "$pkgdir/$sitename" -type f -exec chmod 0664 {} \; find "$pkgdir/$sitename" -type d -exec chmod 0775 {} \; } and have it produce: joomla-1.5.22-1-any-<sitename>.pkg.tar.xz Is this possible?

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[arch-general] Where is $MAIL set?
by Nilesh Govindarajan 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

I'm using fetchmail and postfix to get mails into the spool. I changed location of spool in main.cf and login.defs but $MAIL still contains the value of /var/spool/mail/nilesh. I changed the spool directory in the configuration to /home/MAIL/. For now I'm working with setting $MAIL in ~/.bash_profile, but where's the global setting? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps

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[arch-general] unable to install anything via yaourt
by Madhurya Kakati 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

HI, When I try to install anything via yaourt i get this error "xz: error while loading shared libraries: liblzma.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory". I have a fully updated system. Thanks.

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[arch-general] How to get colorized output during prog compilation? ( Colorgcc doesn't color gcc output )
by Francesco Nwokeka 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

Hi all. Like posted in this topic( https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=110301 ), my problem doesn't seem to be solved. Color gcc is not called by gcc and thus not colorizing the output of gcc. The funny thing is that if i call "colorgcc" directly when compiling some code, I get colorized output. It may sound stupid but this script helped quite a lot to point out warnings and to see immediatly where I went wrong. It's really a big help. Hasn't anyone else had this problem? Anyone have any ideas on how to solve this problem? gcc: gcc (GCC) 4.5.2 colorgcc: colorgcc 1.3.2-6 Thanks in advance, Francesco

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[arch-general] liboost_python undefined symbols
by Ty John 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

Hi everyone. I posted this problem on the forums but it seems the regular forum users don't know what the problem is so I'm asking here. I'm trying to compile vegastrike-svn and it fails complaining about undefined symbols in /usr/lib/libboost_python.so See ldd results below. Is this a problem with my system or is it a problem the boost-libs package? [ty@donna ~]$ ldd -r /usr/lib/libboost_python.so linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffc81ff000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fece9112000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fece8ef5000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fece8cf0000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fece89e6000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fece8764000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fece854d000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fece81f1000) /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fece9596000) undefined symbol: PyExc_ImportError (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyProperty_Type (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyExc_StopIteration (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyBool_Type (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyClass_Type (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyExc_ValueError (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyList_Type (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: _Py_NotImplementedStruct (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyExc_TypeError (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyDict_Type (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyInt_Type (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyComplex_Type (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyExc_ReferenceError (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyModule_Type (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyBaseObject_Type (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyFloat_Type (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyExc_IndexError (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyUnicode_Type (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyTuple_Type (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyExc_RuntimeError (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyType_Type (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyMethod_Type (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyStaticMethod_Type (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyLong_Type (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: _Py_NoneStruct (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyExc_OverflowError (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyExc_AttributeError (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyCFunction_Type (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyString_Type (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyType_GenericAlloc (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyList_Insert (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyString_InternFromString (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyString_AsString (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_FromEncodedObject (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyImport_Import (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_InPlaceRshift (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyObject_CallMethod (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyIter_Next (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_Remainder (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: Py_InitModule4_64 (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyType_Ready (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: _PyEval_SliceIndex (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyFile_AsFile (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyLong_FromUnsignedLong (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyMem_Free (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_InPlaceXor (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_InPlaceOr (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyBool_FromLong (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyDict_Items (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_InPlaceRemainder (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyErr_NoMemory (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyComplex_ImagAsDouble (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyObject_IsTrue (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_Lshift (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_InPlaceMultiply (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: _PyObject_New (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyObject_GetItem (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyString_FromStringAndSize (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_InPlaceLshift (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyString_Size (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyDict_Update (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyComplex_RealAsDouble (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyErr_Format (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_And (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_AsWideChar (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_InPlaceAdd (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyObject_GetAttr (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyErr_ExceptionMatches (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyErr_Occurred (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyDict_Copy (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_Divide (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyEval_GetGlobals (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyDict_Keys (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyErr_SetObject (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_Multiply (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyRun_FileExFlags (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyObject_Size (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyString_FromString (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyString_FromFormat (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_InPlaceAnd (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyInt_FromLong (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyDict_Size (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyDict_GetItem (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyObject_SetItem (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyInt_AsLong (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyObject_RichCompare (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyCFunction_NewEx (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyDict_Values (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_Rshift (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyStaticMethod_New (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyType_IsSubtype (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_Add (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyList_Sort (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PySequence_DelSlice (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyErr_WarnEx (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_Xor (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyObject_ClearWeakRefs (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_Subtract (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PySlice_New (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyObject_GetAttrString (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyObject_IsInstance (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyRun_StringFlags (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyObject_SetAttrString (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyWeakref_NewRef (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyErr_NewException (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyList_Append (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyObject_SetAttr (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyDict_GetItemString (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_InPlaceDivide (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyLong_AsLongLong (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_Or (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyObject_DelItem (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyNumber_InPlaceSubtract (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyMethod_New (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyEval_CallFunction (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PySequence_GetSlice (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyTuple_Size (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyImport_ImportModule (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyErr_Clear (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyTuple_New (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyTuple_GetItem (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyErr_SetString (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyObject_CallFunction (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyList_Reverse (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyFile_FromString (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: _PyType_Lookup (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyList_New (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyMem_Malloc (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyCallable_Check (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyDict_Clear (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PySequence_SetSlice (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyLong_AsUnsignedLong (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so) undefined symbol: PyDict_New (/usr/lib/libboost_python.so)

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[arch-general] New script to backup source code from abs
by Christopher Rogers 02 Jan '11

02 Jan '11

I been looking for a way to backup source for sometime. Like a dvd iso disc. I started to look for away to do this after seeing 2012. It got me thinking of how to rebuild a compete archlinux system. This would also help us with are world domination plans. Joking aside, here is the script below: http://arch-live.isawsome.net/devel/backup-src.sh My script uncompresses the source code archives and re-compress them has $pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel.src.tar.lzma. I put the newer files in $SRCDEST/$repo folder. This makes it easier to find. It example below backups up all sources of extra repo in /var/abs/extra folder. ./backup-src.sh extra example below backups just abs source folder in /var/abs/extra. Including the abs archive uncompressed in abs/src folder. ./backup-src.sh extra abs I have seen some good compressing improvement when everything is re-compressed as .tar.lzma. For example chromium: chromium original archive is 130mb chromium re-compressed with .tar.lzma is 101.1mb You can extra the newer archives and build with 'makepkg -e'. I hope this helps.

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[arch-general] ArchStudio
by Bernardo Barros 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

Hello everyone! I set up a repository based on a modified version of ArchAudio, with some of my stuff and lots of PKGBUILDs from AUR's contributors. Hope this helps to update and maintain ArchAudio alive and updated. Just source for now, no binaries. It is a hg repo, so it can also be hosted inBitBucket and Google Code, and can be easily forked, hacked and pushed back. The contribution work can be much easier this way, I think. The initial idea is not _necessarily_ to replace ArchAudio repo binaries, but set up a pool for development of the most updated and new in terms of professional audio packages for ArchLinux. https://bitbucket.org/smoge/archstudio Happy New Year! Bernardo

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Breaking the unspoken rule: AUR helper in [community]
by Heiko Baums 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Am Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:38:34 +0800 schrieb Ray Rashif <schiv(a)archlinux.org>: > We didn't even conclude a previous discussion [1] (if we did then it's > all in the negative), and now there is one of those tools in the > repositories? Honestly, I don't think this is fair practice as it > undermines the initiatives of others before who did not get the green > for stuff like this, and it ignores the importance of general > consensus. Given that it is such a grey area, there should be an > official discussion and possibly a vote. Now there is no reason why > things like slurpy and other download/upload helpers shouldn't get in. > > [1] > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2010-November/011887.html It seems to have been moved from [community] to AUR again. Heiko

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[arch-general] [core/filesystem 2010.10-1 -> 2010.12-1] breaks makepkg and firefox
by Martín Cigorraga 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Dear devs, guys: I've been struggling for the past three days trying to find what was breaking makepkg [0] script and preventing Firefox to launch. Thanks I do weekly backups of my system I found after trial & error -updating one package at a time- the responsable is the core/filesystem package. Is anyone else suffering this? I already tried to look for info in www.archlinux.org/packages but it's not listed there. Should I open a new ticket at the bugtracker? Thanks for any advice. 0. Here are some logs: makepkg output after installing new filesystem 2010.12-1: http://aur.pastebin.com/VzRUu6yN /etc/makepkg.conf (untouched): http://aur.pastebin.com/RnqjbYaX last pacman's log with filesystem 2010.12-1 package installed: http://aur.pastebin.com/rZtXgifP

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[arch-general] Removing unused locales?
by Nicolás Reynolds 29 Dec '10

29 Dec '10

Hi, it occurred to me today to check how much disk space /usr/share/locale was using on my system. Turned out to be 449.43M, though I only use en and es locales, which are in the code in the first case and ~13M in the second. Would it make sense to remove the extra ones? I mean, I don't think anyone will switch back and forth that many languages (220 on my system), but it would be just stupid to make extra i18n packages for everything... so, should pacman remove the unneeded languages on package installation? -- Salud! Nicolás Reynolds, xmpp:fauno@kiwwwi.com.ar omb:http://identi.ca/fauno blog:http://selfdandi.com.ar/ gnu/linux user #455044 http://parabolagnulinux.org http://endefensadelsl.org

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Re: [arch-general] extra/progsreiserfs duplicate of core/reiserfsprogs?
by Grigorios Bouzakis 26 Dec '10

26 Dec '10

Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > >> >> See my comments on https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9029 >> Tpowa must know something we dont and must be using it. >> > > Most likely cause of the reasons mentioned here: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143485 > Testdisk uses libreiserfs. > Maybe there should be a big fat warning for standalone usage though. > Gentoo also does this: progsreiserfs_warning() { ewarn "progsreiserfs has been proven dangerous in the past, generating bad" ewarn "partitions and destroying data on resize/cpfs operations." ewarn "Because of this, we do NOT provide their binaries, but only their" ewarn "libraries instead, as these are needed for other applications." } .... # Make sure users only use the official namesys binaries rm -r "${D}"/usr/{sbin,share/man} || die "cant punt the cruft" -- Greg

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Re: [arch-general] extra/progsreiserfs duplicate of core/reiserfsprogs?
by Grigorios Bouzakis 26 Dec '10

26 Dec '10

Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > Guillaume ALAUX wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Correct me if I'm wrong but it looks like > extra/progsreiserfs >> (0.3.0.5-5) is an old duplicate of core/reiserfsprogs > (3.6.21-3). >> >> I search for reasons in mailing list archives for having > both but found >> none. >> >> Nb: Old extra/progsreiserfs PKGBUILD [1] pulls a tarball > from >> ftp.archlinux.org. Let's remember to remove the tarball if > we get rid of >> the package. >> >> [1] >> > http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/progsreiserfs/trunk/PKGBUILD > > See my comments on https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9029 > Tpowa must know something we dont and must be using it. > Most likely cause of the reasons mentioned here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143485 Testdisk uses libreiserfs. Maybe there should be a big fat warning for standalone usage though. -- Greg

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Re: [arch-general] extra/progsreiserfs duplicate of core/reiserfsprogs?
by Grigorios Bouzakis 26 Dec '10

26 Dec '10

Guillaume ALAUX wrote: > Hello, > > Correct me if I'm wrong but it looks like extra/progsreiserfs > (0.3.0.5-5) is an old duplicate of core/reiserfsprogs (3.6.21-3). > > I search for reasons in mailing list archives for having both but found > none. > > Nb: Old extra/progsreiserfs PKGBUILD [1] pulls a tarball from > ftp.archlinux.org. Let's remember to remove the tarball if we get rid of > the package. > > [1] > http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/progsreiserfs/trunk/PKGBUILD See my comments on https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9029 Tpowa must know something we dont and must be using it. -- Greg

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[arch-general] 'any' architecture repository
by John W Palmieri 25 Dec '10

25 Dec '10

Hey Gang: I'm creating my own packages and respository. I have both i686 and x86_64 architectures, as well as pure python code which is 'any' architecture. In order to get the 'any' packages to load in either 'i686' or 'x86_64', I have had to create a separate [custom-any] entry in pacman.conf and corresponding directory tree in the repository. I could add the 'any' packages to each of the machine architectures, but I don't like the redundancy. So is the separate entry the way to go? Obviously, I'd like one entry: [custom] ftp://server/linux/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch instead of: [custom] ftp://server/linux/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch [custom-any] ftp://server/linux/archlinux/$repo/os/any Thanks. -John

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[arch-general] Arduino 64 wiki article
by Neil Munro 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

I have made the noted changes to the wiki article. Are there any more errors the need correcting? Is there a guideline for arch wiki writing so i can check that the article matches the rest of the arch wiki? I understand it may be a niche subject, but if anyone can test the instructions that would be great. Thanks, Neil

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Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Re: [arch-dev-public] MySQL 5.5
by Marek Otahal 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

On Wednesday 22 of December 2010 16:51:23 Andrea Scarpino wrote: > On Wednesday 22 December 2010 15:35:38 Marek Otahal wrote: > > Well, I managed to get it running: > > install mysql (& the rest) from extra, run mysql_upgrade (ok), restart > > mysqld, install from testing, now mysqld restart works, but on > > > mysql_upgrade i get : > Hi, did you set some password? If so, try with mysql_upgrade -p. > (and with mysql running) Thanks Andrea, it was the password. Now running all fine. I had to use this link to reset the passwd : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html#resetting- permissions-unix --just note: the file with sql command to change pwd must be chmod a+r 'd and placed to an accessible folder if done under root and run as --user=mysql. I also had to rm some log files since size did not fit and it died with error. After this I could run mysql_upgrade -p , restart mysqld and now everything plays nice. Thanks everyone and merry Christmas :o) -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] Fwd: Re: [arch-dev-public] MySQL 5.5
by Marek Otahal 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

Well, I managed to get it running: install mysql (& the rest) from extra, run mysql_upgrade (ok), restart mysqld, install from testing, now mysqld restart works, but on mysql_upgrade i get : # mysql_upgrade Looking for 'mysql' as: mysql Looking for 'mysqlcheck' as: mysqlcheck Running 'mysqlcheck' with connection arguments: '--port=3306' '-- socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' '--port=3306' '-- socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' mysqlcheck: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) when trying to connect FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed [root@beruska etc]# /etc/rc.d/mysqld restart :: Stopping MySQL Server [DONE] :: Starting MySQL Server [DONE] [root@beruska etc]# ...all config files are untouched. -- Marek Otahal :o)

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] MySQL 5.5
by Marek Otahal 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

On Wednesday 22 of December 2010 10:29:43 Andrea Scarpino wrote: > > [root@beruska ~]# mysql_upgrade > > Looking for 'mysql' as: mysql > > Looking for 'mysqlcheck' as: mysqlcheck > > Running 'mysqlcheck' with connection arguments: '--port=3306' '-- > > socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' '--port=3306' '-- > > socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' > > mysqlcheck: Got error: 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through > > socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) when trying to connect > > FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed > > > > Any ideas? > > Is mysql running? It is not, mysqld doesn't know some option '--skip-locking' . Here's my debugging : [root@beruska ~]# ps aux | grep mysql marek 27468 1.1 1.2 235992 24788 ? Sl 11:19 0:03 /usr/bin/mysqld --defaults-file=/home/marek/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf --datadir /home/marek/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ -- socket=/home/marek/.local/share/akonadi/db_misc/mysql.socket root 27829 0.0 0.0 4284 828 pts/2 S+ 11:23 0:00 grep mysql [root@beruska ~]# /etc/rc.d/mysqld restart :: Stopping MySQL Server [FAIL] :: Starting MySQL Server [FAIL] [root@beruska ~]# vim /etc/rc.d/mysqld I tried the commands manually to see output [root@beruska ~]# pgrep -u mysql mysqld [root@beruska ~]# /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql 101222 11:26:35 mysqld_safe Logging to '/var/lib/mysql/beruska.err'. 101222 11:26:35 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql 101222 11:26:37 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/lib/mysql/beruska.pid ended [root@beruska ~]# /usr/bin/mysqladmin -uUNKNOWN_USER ping /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)' Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists! [root@beruska ~]# ls -l /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock ls: cannot access /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock: No such file or directory [root@beruska ~]# tail -10 /var/lib/mysql/beruska.err 101222 11:26:36 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda. 101222 11:26:36 InnoDB: 1.1.4 started; log sequence number 1591525 101222 11:26:36 [ERROR] /usr/bin/mysqld: unknown option '--skip-locking' 101222 11:26:36 [ERROR] Aborting 101222 11:26:36 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 101222 11:26:37 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1591525 101222 11:26:37 [Note] /usr/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete 101222 11:26:37 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/lib/mysql/beruska.pid ended Thanks, Marek -- Marek Otahal :o)

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] MySQL 5.5
by Marek Otahal 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

On Wednesday 22 of December 2010 08:33:20 Andrea Scarpino wrote: > On Tuesday 21 December 2010 16:16:57 Andrea Scarpino wrote: > > I am trying to update mysql to 5.5.8. It uses cmake now. > > > > I built and successfully installed it on my system. It seems to work, but > > I won't broke any Arch Linux system and I want to know the right > > procedure on how to proceed with this major update. > > Also, before I put the packages in [testing], I'd like if someone can > > take a look to them or try the new packages. > > > > PKGBUILD is here[1]; packages are here[2]. > > A diff between my PKGBUILD and the current one is here[3]. > > > > Remember that you need to run mysql_upgrade as root after the > > installation and with mysql running. I added a message to post_update() > > for this. > > No reply. This goes in [testing] to get more feedback. You were right :) ==> Software upgrade (new version) : testing/libmysqlclient 5.1.51-1 -> 5.5.8-1 testing/mysql-clients 5.1.51-1 -> 5.5.8-1 testing/mysql 5.1.51-1 -> 5.5.8-1 ==> Continue upgrade ? [Y/n] ==> [V]iew package detail [M]anually select packages ==> -------------------------------------------------- ==> :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (3): libmysqlclient-5.5.8-1 [3.38 MB] mysql-clients-5.5.8-1 [0.68 MB] mysql-5.5.8-1 [6.20 MB] Total Download Size: 10.26 MB Total Installed Size: 103.15 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages from testing... libmysqlclient-5.5.8-1-i686 3.4M 150.8K/s 00:00:23 [#####################################] 100% mysql-clients-5.5.8-1-i686 694.4K 52.0K/s 00:00:13 [#####################################] 100% mysql-5.5.8-1-i686 6.2M 142.8K/s 00:00:44 [#####################################] 100% checking package integrity... (3/3) checking for file conflicts [#####################################] 100% (1/3) upgrading libmysqlclient [#####################################] 100% (2/3) upgrading mysql-clients [#####################################] 100% (3/3) upgrading mysql [#####################################] 100% warning: directory permissions differ on var/lib/mysql/ filesystem: 755 package: 700 Major version update. Consider running mysql_upgrade. [root@beruska ~]# mysql_upgrade Looking for 'mysql' as: mysql Looking for 'mysqlcheck' as: mysqlcheck Running 'mysqlcheck' with connection arguments: '--port=3306' '-- socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' '--port=3306' '-- socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' mysqlcheck: Got error: 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) when trying to connect FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed Any ideas? Thanks, Marek -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] Arduino 64 Wiki page
by Neil Munro 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Hello all I have spend the last 3 hours hunting down a way to make my arduino uno work with arch64, and appear to have been successful. Upon noting the arch64 wiki page had been removed I rewrote it. However I imagine its not quite to arch documentation standards, but I would like to get it to that point. It can be found here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arduino_64bit I would be grateful for feedback to help improve the quality of the document and if possible help testing that my experience was not a fluke. Thanks. Neil

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[arch-general] updating xorg packages and nvidia packages, now x doesn't start
by Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

I did a big update on my main arch machine and rebooted, I can't start X anymore. I saw that xorg-xinit and xorg-xauth as well as the nvidia packages were upgraded. Startx gives me a blank screen and switching to the first login (ctrl-alt-F1) shows a never ending "No Protocol Specified" message which finally fails with "xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused" and "Xauth: error in locking authority file /home/user/.Xauthority" I checked my Xorg.0.log file and I see this message listed: (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select" (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI: > failed to connect to the ACPI event daemon; the daemon (II) NVIDIA(0): may > not be running or the "AcpidSocketPath" X (II) NVIDIA(0): configuration > option may not be set correctly. When the (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI event daemon > is available, the NVIDIA X driver will (II) NVIDIA(0): try to use it to > receive ACPI event notifications. For (II) NVIDIA(0): details, please see > the "ConnectToAcpid" and (II) NVIDIA(0): "AcpidSocketPath" X configuration > options in Appendix B: X (II) NVIDIA(0): Config Options in the README what could be the problem here?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] reiserfsprogs-3.6.21-3
by Allan McRae 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

On 04/12/10 22:34, Allan McRae wrote: > Rebuild and tidy of old package. > > Signoff both, > Allan > Anyone. User signoffs are all good too.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] isdn4k-utils-3.2p1-6
by Allan McRae 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

On 04/12/10 22:33, Allan McRae wrote: > Rebuild and tidy-up of old package. Merged the separate build fixes for > gcc-3.3, gcc-3.4 and gcc-4.0 into one patch. > > Signoff both, > Accepting user signoffs here too. Allan

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[arch-general] postfix/procmail unable to write to /var/spool/mail/$USER
by David C. Rankin 19 Dec '10

19 Dec '10

Guys, I'm stuck on mail setup with a procmail error saying it can't write to /var/spool/mail/$USER. It is a postfix error, but it is complaining about procmail. An example of the error is: Dec 18 19:10:37 localhost postfix/local[2104]: E238BE7E78: to=<david@mymailaddress>, relay=local, delay=1.2, delays=0.14/0.04/0/1, dsn=5.2.0, status=bounced (can't create user output file. Command output: procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/david" ) I'm fairly certain it is a user permission problem, but I can't recall ever changing anything before on my other setups to get procmail working. In this current config, /etc/postfix/main.cf has: mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -a "$EXTENSION" The permission for /var/spool/mail are the exact same I have on my x86_64 Arch server at home where procmail is working just fine: [19:27 phoenix:/var/spool/mail] # l total 386772 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Dec 18 19:13 . drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec 18 16:54 .. -rw------- 1 david dcr 362640748 Dec 18 19:05 david <snip> Just as with that box, I moved the mail spool from the suse install to the new install, so I don't think that would be the issue here. Anybody have any idea why postfix/procmail can't write to /var/spool/mail? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] dhcpd fails to start when using TSIG key created with hmac-sha256 encryption
by David C. Rankin 18 Dec '10

18 Dec '10

Guys, I have run into a problem with the dhcpd daemon refusing to start when using the default hmac-sha256 algorithm for key encryption. A good description of the problem is here: http://www.pubbs.net/201009/dhcp/8256-cant-start-isc-dhcpd-420.html The bind documentation shows host key creation using: dnssec-keygen -a hmac-sha256 -b 128 -n HOST yoursite.com This results in the following host key: Kyoursite.com.+163+02215.key it contains yoursite. IN KEY 512 3 163 BV_the_key________DG/g== from which you create the key for use with bind and dhcp in the form key yoursite.com { algorithm hmac-sha256; secret "BV_the_key________DG/g=="; }; bind will start and run using the key, but dhcpd fails to start giving the following error: [15:54 phoenix:/etc] # dhcpd -f Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server 4.2.0-P1 Copyright 2004-2010 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ ../../../lib/dns/dst_api.c:1023: REQUIRE(keyp != ((void *)0) && (((*keyp) != ((void *)0)) && (((const isc__magic_t *)(*keyp))->magic == ((('D') << 24 | ('S') << 16 | ('T') << 8 | ('K')))))) failed, back trace #0 0x81756de in ?? #1 0x8175837 in ?? #2 0x8151058 in ?? #3 0x80c331a in ?? #4 0x80a7150 in ?? #5 0x80aa6cf in ?? #6 0x805c59c in ?? #7 0x8061bda in ?? #8 0x8061e6b in ?? #9 0x80620fc in ?? #10 0x804beab in ?? #11 0xb75fbc76 in ?? #12 0x804a0d1 in ?? Aborted Simply regenerating the key with hmac-md5 to create a ..+157..key works (dnssec complains about hmac-md5 now for some reason): dnssec-keygen -a hmac-md5 -b 128 -n HOST yoursite.com and then using that key in dhcpd.conf works fine. Does anybody have any additional background on this problem? I'm always hesitant to use an older key version when apparently ISC want you to use sha256. But obviously I need to get dhpcd going and providing updates to bind. Are there better alternatives to hmac-md5? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] We want to help
by Tomás Acauan Schertel 18 Dec '10

18 Dec '10

The Brazilian Arch Linux Community wants to help Arch Linux project, working on bug reports and feature requests. As first task, we plan to help conclude the development of AUR version 2. We don't have lots of developers, but we really want to help. And maybe others join us on this effort. To accomplish this, we need to enlighten some points: 1 - where should we look for feature requests? * bugs.archlinux.org? * AUR2 wiki page? 2 - what code repository should we take as start point? * git://gitorious.org/aur2/aur2.git -- the "central" repository with the stable branch * git://github.com/sebnow/aur2.git -- Xilon's repository * git://ius.student.utwente.nl/aur2 -- Thralas's repository * git://git.berlios.de/aur2 -- Djszapi's repository * git://github.com/SpeedVin/aur2.git -- SpeedVin's AUR2 forked repo with some patches and translation's. 3 - How Feature Requests / Bug Reports will be closed on flyspray? * Maybe a TU can do the job. Maybe things get easier if just one (maybe two) TU`s leads us on work. -- Tomás A. Schertel ---------------------------------------------- Linux Registered User #304838 Arch Linux User http://www.archlinux-br.org/ ----------------------------------------------

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[arch-general] plans for Xorg/Mesa - closed drivers may break for some time in testing
by Andreas Radke 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

A new libdrm has been released. This is required to build new ddx drivers for nouveau and the latest intel rc driver for sandy bridge gfx. The current Mesa 7.9 branch won't build anymore the nouveau-dri stuff with the updated libdrm and it's quiet a buggy upstream release. Mesa 7.10 branch is short before the release and has tons of fixes and completes some missing features. We also have a minor Xorg-server 1.9.3 update pending that I will do in extra. Then there's already Xorg-server 1.10 rc1 out for some time we need to test. My plan is to start bringing new libdrm/mesa7.10/Xorg1.10 in the next days to testing. This will improve (me prays) the situation for open source drivers but will probably break the proprietary drivers for some time. I don't follow the closed stuff. Maybe you know something about the state of catalyst and nvidia with new Xorg 1.10. -Andy

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[arch-general] howto tease and install of kdemod3 from the old packages?
by David C. Rankin 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Guys, I know kdemod3 is considered dead, but I would like to install it on the new box I am setting up tonight. I have the full chakra repo of files and I thought it would be as simple as just creating an entry in pacman.conf to point to my server and the install would proceed. But I ran into an issue with [00:19 phoenix:~] # pacman -Sy kdemod3-complete :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date archlinuxfr is up to date kdemod-legacy is up to date xyne-any is up to date resolving dependencies... warning: cannot resolve "libxxf86misc", a dependency of "kdemod3-kdebase" <snip 50 of the same> :: the following package(s) cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies: kdemod3-applets kdemod3-baghira-sidebar kdemod3-kdeaddons-base <snip the rest of the kdemod3 packages> Do you want to skip the above package(s) for this upgrade? [y/N] Yes, I know kdemod3 is broken by the cups strlcpy problem, but I use many of the kde3 apps in whatever desktop I use. For this new box it will most likely be just fluxbox, but I need kwrite, kate, konqueror, kcolorchooser, ksnapshot, quanta+, etc.... I hate the sloppy kde4 versions or it would load those. Before the kdemod-legacy repo was pulled, install was simple, so I wonder if it is possible to trick the installer into resolving "libxxf86misc" somehow so that the install can proceed. Anybody have any thoughts on how this can be done? Worst case, I guess I could cannibalize a kdemod3 install from one of my other boxes, but I would like to find a way to do a proper install since I have 3 more boxes to install. So, what says the brain trust? Possible? Not Possible? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] dmraid install failure (new thread)
by David C. Rankin 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Sorry for the new thread, but I'm at the office and the 'leave message of server' in Tbird didn't work :( Sir Thomas wrote: >Am 16.12.2010 03:30, schrieb David C. Rankin: >> > Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdbp6 ... >> > >> > Root device '/dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdbp6' doesn't exist. Attempting to >create it. >> > >> > ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device >> > '/dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdbp6' >> > >> > You are being dropped to a recovery shell >> > >> > Type 'exit' to try and continue booting >> > >> > /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off >> > >> > [ ramfs \ ]# >You have an almost fully functional system in that ramfs environment. >Look at the output of 'ls -l /dev/mapper' to see if the devices are >indeed missing. > Yep, but the issue is I haven't the foggies about what I can and can't do with the ramfs prompt. However, I think I have some additional information that will help. >Look at 'ls -l /dev/sd*' to see if your hard drives even show up. If >they do, try to issue 'dmraid -ay' again and see if the /dev/mapper >devices show up now. > All of the drives are there and you can see them with cat /proc/partitions. I tried recreating the arrays with 'dmraid -ay' but 'dmraid' isn't found. So it looks like it either wasn't installed (hard to believe because I install just about everything exept firmware stuff in the initial package selectioni), or for some reason the initramfs was made to include them. My guess is that it wasn't installed to begin with because dmraid should be there if it was. I'll go back and chroot the environment and see what happened to dmraid and report back. I'll bet that fixes it. Then the question becomes "Why wasn't dmraid installed to begin with?" Only 2 possible answers: (1) stupidity (never ruled out); or (2) a bug. I'll let you know. Thanks for your help. >This might just be a timing problem: dmraid -ay might be called before >/dev/sd* is fully set up and detected - we had these problems in the >past already. The 'sleep' hook put after the udev hook can work around that. > I>f it isn't a timing problem, then your hard drives are probably not d>etected. The reasons for this can be manifold, but it never hurts to >try if the fallback image shows the same behaviour. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] [PATCH]: suggestion for new udev.install
by Tom Gundersen 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Hi UDev maintainers, Attached is a suggestion for a new udev.install file. Two changes: Removed the output regarding upgrading from udev =< 100. This is more than four years old, and was referring to a non-existent readme file. Added a conditional database conversion, as this is recommended when upgrading from udev <=164 to 165 (which was recently released). Cheers, Tom

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[arch-general] new dmraid install - grub installed fine - boot fails to find root filesystem - dropped to [ramfs /]# ?
by David C. Rankin 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Guys, There is either a new bug in the dmraid install routine or I've screwed something up. However, after not having problems with the prior 3 dmraid installs I've done, I'm not sure it's me. I made a new Arch install on a box that had an existing dmraid setup running suse 10.3. I installed per the "Installing with Fake Raid" wiki. For this setup, it was a complete fresh install, I completely repartitioned the array for this install not preserving /home or anything else. The logical partitions are: /dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdb /dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdbp5 /boot /dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdbp6 / /dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdbp7 swap /dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdbp8 /home All of the data partitions are ext3. (swap is of course swap) As per the wiki, during the grub install, I got an Error 22, so I went back in created sym links between nvidia_haheegdbp5 -> nvidia_haheegdb5, to get around the 'p' problem with grub not finding the partitions. I set the geometry with CHS information from cfdisk and confirmed that grub was happy with a 'find /grub/stage1' before setting the root (hd0,4) and performing the setup on (hd0). Grub setup completes without any errors and reports success. dm_mod and dm_mirror are included in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and /etc/rc.conf. However on boot, the boot fails when it can't find /dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdbp6. The actual error is: -------------------- Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdbp6 ... Root device '/dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdbp6' doesn't exist. Attempting to create it. ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device '/dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdbp6' You are being dropped to a recovery shell Type 'exit' to try and continue booting /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off [ ramfs \ ]# -------------------- Now I'm stuck here. I have gone back chrooted the install and reinstalled grub twice just to make sure. No change. It boots to the grub menu and then boots fine until it gets to where it reads the root line from menu.lst and then dies. One thing I found strange, the second time I was setting up the chroot and had made a /mnt/arch to base the chroot in, when I when to mount the root partition with: mount /dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdbp6 /mnt/arch mount gave the error "You must specify a type..." which I thought was strange because then I turned around and did: mount /dev/dm-2 /mnt/arch and it worked just fine. Since /dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdbp6 is just a link to ../dm-2 I found that strange. So I need ideas of what to try to get this box working. I can't figure out what went wrong. dm_mod and dm_mirror are loaded and working fine when chrooted. With this as the 4th dmraid install I've done with Arch, I figured it would be simple, but I think this is the first install I've done since dmraid added the 'p' designation. Other than needing to add the links from 'p' to 'no p' everything seemed the same, so I'm not sure where things are mucked up. Let me know if I can provide anything else to help. I'm sort of dead in the water until I get this sorted. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] We want to help
by Tomás Acauan Schertel 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 05:57, Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 15 December 2010 22:45:21 Loui Chang wrote: >> Finally, I'd like to honestly say I don't see AUR2 as really being a >> worthwhile investment for the next generation of the AUR. It's just >> another web app like the current AUR, it might have a couple extra >> frills, but I don't think it makes sense to rewrite the whole thing just >> for that sake. They can probably added easily enough to the current >> code. > I agree. > Instead of write code for AUR2, you guys should help fixing current AUR bugs or > implement new AUR features. Just my two cents. Guys, we're here to help where project needs. If you say the best effort is expand the current AUR, we gonna help on this. If you say that we need to close bug reports in flyspray, we gonna help on this. I agree that rewrite AUR just to have it running on Django but with no new BIG features is like working in vain. I'll start looking for PHP developers (to implement features on current AUR) and looking people to help on closing bur reports on flyspray. It that OK for you guys? > > Cheers > > -- > Andrea Scarpino > Arch Linux Developer > -- Tomás A. Schertel ---------------------------------------------- Linux Registered User #304838 Arch Linux User http://www.archlinux-br.org/ ----------------------------------------------

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[arch-general] dropping go-openoffice/icu-4.6 rebuilds
by Andreas Radke 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

The former ooo-build project "go-openoffice" is deprecated by upstream developers in favor of the upcoming LibreOffice (LibO). It's time to drop it from our repos while we are rebuilding all OpenOffice branches for the icu-4.6 .so-bump. Please use the vanilla Oracle openoffice-base packages or try out the new and already very stable libreoffice packages. The Oracle office beta and devel packages will get rebuilt when new upstream releases will happen. Don't expect them to work when we move icu-4.6. They are of low interest. -Andy

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[arch-general] why I'd rather use Python over Javascript for web development
by C Anthony Risinger 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Kaiting Chen <kaitocracy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:14 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony(a)extof.me>wrote: > >> the benefit to the pyjs approach is 100% client side operation, so it >> can run without online access. additionally, the python-DOM version >> (or the pyjs version if proxying thru a local daemon) could >> potentially direct install from the website, leading to "install now" >> functionality. lastly, python means you could use the same lang to >> write the front end and the backend, and communicate using JSON >> messages. >> >> as a professional web applications developer by day, i can vouch that >> writing webapps requires knowledge of about 4 different haphazardly >> implemented "standards", requiring far to much painfully acquired >> knowledge. by using a library like pyjamas, you allow anyone with >> python experience to write incredibly functional plugins/modules, and >> share maintenance load. django is a great platform, but after i >> discovered pyjamas about 1yr ago, i haven't looked back, and am >> convinced that compiler technology is the only sane way to develop >> complex and maintainable web-based applications. > > Out of curiosity why is everyone so again just writing Javascript? Everyone > seems to want to write in some other language and then compile to Javascript > these days. --Kaiting. well for me at least, it not 100% related to javascript itself; JS is an incredibly powerful language that will let you hang yourself again and again :-) primarily, it's: ) JS is completely unstructured. powerful, but causes developers to implement many things that would be a part of the core syntax in other langs ) the ^^^^ causes many different impls of the same, and new devs to misuse the really great things about JS, like first-class closures. leads to absolutely obtuse and horrendous looking libraries, with weird semantics for its usage, like passing objects to emulate named arguments, and a hundred other more prudent examples. ) umpteen number of naunces between browsers, browser versions, and half-eaten standards. maddening. combined with [some] similar problems with both HTML and CSS, and it's enough to drive one ape-sh*t. soooo.... i use a python abstraction to give me my favorite language and all it's goodies while also shielding me from platform variation, along with widget libraries to support the build-once-deploy-everywhere thinking. yes, JS has some decent libraries, and widget sets (don't say extjs). but pyjamas can be ran as a 100% python desktop app too. so ultimately, compiler tech gives me a 100% cross-desktop cross-platform cross-browser cross-version solution... try it out, it's like finding a nude beach after walking 100km thru a blizzard :-) C Anthony

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] filesystem 2010.12-1
by Jesse Young 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 08:21:41 +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Morning, > > this is a minor update to the filesystem package and I hope we can > finally move it to core. Only change is: > > * don't check if profiles are executable; FS#22036 > > Please sign off, Hopefully I'm not too late. But I think you should know that filesystem depends on iana-etc, which is not in the base group, nor is it on the core install CD. What I would do is to add iana-etc to base/core ISO, which should not hold up this signoff, but if another course of action is taken, it might block this filesystem release from moving to core. I've opened https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22101 to track this task. conditional-user-unsignoff x86_64. Regards, Jesse

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[arch-general] Howto Preserve Current Kernel through Update?
by David C. Rankin 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

Guys, I want to keep the current kernel while I upgrade to 2.6.36-2 and where I confused is how to use mkinitcpio to do this. What I think I can do to preserve the current kernel as 2.6.36-dcr is: (1) cp -a /lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH /lib/modules/2.6.36-dcr (2) mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-dcr \ -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf \ -g /boot/kernel26-dcr.img mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-dcr \ -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf \ -g /boot/kernel26-dcr-fallback.img \ -S autodetect (3) update grub menu.lst and create entries for the dcr kernel Before I wasted too much time chasing my tail, I thought would put this out to the list and see if (or what) I'm missing. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] Testing kills shm and pts
by jesse jaara 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

Shm is used by pulseaudio I think and also i copy my chromium profile from hd to shm an boot and then remove cache and copy the profile back to hd when i shutdown. Also it is used by one script that simply touches a lock file in there. Reproducing is as simple as just rebooting the pc and the permissions are broken and shm is mounted whit beautiful size of mere 10 mb and it used to mount whit a size of 1.4G :D (it broke my chromium profile :( as it didn't fit in there ) Il try to add those options and the size option too to the fstab and see if that helps, hopely this won't eat my chromium profile again :D -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)

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[arch-general] Testing kills shm and pts
by jesse jaara 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

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[arch-general] 2010.12-1 archboot "2k10-R8" ISO hybrid image released
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hi Arch community, Arch Linux (archboot creation tool) 2010.12-1, "2k10-R8" 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=110009 Summary: - bugfix release with latest kernels 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: - http://www.archlinux.de/?page=GetFileFromMirror;file=iso/archboot/2010.12 - <yourmirror>/iso/archboot/2010.12/ 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] Minor type in Create-Archboot-Allinone-Howto.txt
by David C. Rankin 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

tpowa There is a minor typo in Create-Archboot-Allinone-Howto.txt Install archboot and update to latest packages: # configure pacman.conf and mirrorlost to your needs above 'mirrorlost' should be mirrorlist Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.27-1
by Andreas Radke 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Am Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:49:03 +0100 schrieb Andreas Radke <a.radke(a)arcor.de>: > Upstream update. Please sign off. > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.27 > > -Andy > Anyone? It's also fixes a vulnerability.

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[arch-general] Patent protection
by Armando M. Baratti 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Probably many of you know about the acquisition of 882 of Novell's patents by a Microsoft organized consortium [1]. What you may not know is that, as Novell was part of OIN (Open Invention Network), those that join OIN *before* the closing date for the acquisition (about january 23) will be protected from any harassment regarding these patents. This [2] Groklaw's article explains it in more detail. It works because the patents are granted perpetually to OIN members that have jointed before the closing date, even in the case of a sell (like occurred in this case). You don't need to have patents or be a company to join (for free) OIN. Any project (like Arch Linux), or even an individual can do it. I understand that *if* MS will use them, it'll be with the big guys (or at least some company). Probably they will prefer to use the patents just for FUD. But OTOH we have nothing to loose (not even patents :-), and it's free. [1] http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2010112410321… [2] http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101206205654916 Armando

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[arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]
by Jan Steffens 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

I've put PulseAudio into [testing] some time ago, but received no feedback on this. This either means it works well, or nobody uses it. So I'm asking for it now, especially from GNOME and KDE users running PulseAudio.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.36.2-1
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.36 series for both arches, 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] [dbscripts] What's needed to support overriding arch in split packages?
by Evangelos Foutras 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

makepkg and devtools are already capable of building split packages with different architectures. A particular case of interest is foo-data split packages which usually are much bigger than their arch-dependent counterparts. Currently, a separate PKGBUILD is required to convert these data packages to be arch-independent, which complicates maintenance needlessly. I had a look at the db-update and db-function scripts, but the code is hard to follow for someone new to it. Therefore, I'd like to ask for opinions from people who've worked on them and have a general knowledge of how they work and how this could be implemented. My idea is to make a special case for arch-dependent PKGBUILDs, to allow for arch=('any') split packages, without necessarily parsing the package_foo-data function. What do you think?

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[arch-general] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.78-1
by Eric Bélanger 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hi, lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.78-1 are in testing. Please test and signoff. Signoffs from users are welcome. - Minor upstream update. ChangeLog below. Version 2.02.78 - 6th December 2010 =================================== Abort if segment tag allocation fails in pool format _add_stripe_seg. Abort in _mirrored_transient_status if referenced log/image LV is not active. Add backtraces for dev_set() and dev_close_immediate() errors in set_lv(). Log any unlink() error in clvmd remove_lockfile(). Log any pipe write() or close() errors in clvmd child_init_signal(). Detect if orphan vginfo was lost from cache before _lvmcache_update_vgname(). Do a full rescan if some device is missing in lvm1 format read_pvs_in_vg. Add missing check that dm_pool_create succeeded in write_config_node(). Use dm_snprintf in clvmd-command.c to ensure an overlong buffer is truncated. Don't write to buffer if its reallocation failed in clvmd do_command(). Switch from float to fixed point percentage handling. Avoid misleading missing PV warnings in vgextend --restoremissing. Fix memory leak when VG allocation policy in metadata is invalid. Ignore unrecognised allocation policy found in metadata instead of aborting. Factor out tag printing into _out_tags and avoid leaking string buffer. Remove some unused variables & assignments. Add missing vg_release calls in _vg_read_by_vgid. Fix debug logging of derived flag LCK_CACHE in clvmd. Fix test for no system_dir in _init_backup(). Disallow lvconvert ops that both allocate & free supplied PEs in a single cmd. Fix liblvm seg_size to give bytes not sectors. Add functions to look up LV/PV by name/uuid to liblvm. Free cmd_context if fallback to LVM1 fails in lvm2_main(). Free device name buffer in dmsetup parse_loop_device_name() error paths. Close format lib if init_format_fn fails in _init_formats(). Don't leave /proc/mounts open after dmeventd snapshot event processing. Fix out-of-scope arg_vgnames use in process_each_lv(). Remove incorrect dm_task_destroy(NULL) from _node_clear_table() error path. Add missing closedir in _rm_blks after removing stray LVM1 VG files. Suppress 'No PV label' message when removing several PVs without mdas. Fix default /etc/lvm permissions to be 0755. (2.02.66) Version 1.02.59 - 6th December 2010 =================================== Add backtraces to _process_mapper_dir and _create_and_load_v4 error paths. Remove superfluous checks for NULL before calling dm_free.

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[arch-general] Bizarre grub drive number switch from (hd1, 5) to (hd2, 5) but no hd2 defined???
by David C. Rankin 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Guys, I have managed to get myself in a number of messes over the years, but usually when I figure out what went wrong, I understand why. Here, I'm at a complete loss. I was going to preserve my existing kernel through update and I described in an earlier email. (I'm still on kernel26-2.6.36.1) So I created a custom initramfs and preserved the module tree and added the entries to grub menu.lst. This box has always booted arch on (hd1,5) a device mapper array. (hd0) is another device mapper array with an old suse install on it. However, after I made may changes and went to reboot to test the custom initramfs, I got a grub 13 error for an invalid executable?? So I booted with the Arch 2010.05 install disk and chrooted my existing install and looked at grub. When I did my grub > find /boot/grub/stage1, grub reported stage1 on (hd0,4) (hd2,4) WTF? I don't have an hd2 and what the heck happened to hd1?? [01:42 archangel:/boot/grub] # cat device.map (hd0) /dev/mapper/nvidia_fdaacfde (hd1) /dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccaja (fd0) /dev/fd0 So I decided to give booting to hd2 a try. So I reconfigured the suse menu.lst file to call (hd2,5) to boot Arch, and I redid the Arch menu.lst to point everything at (hd2,5) instead of (hd1,5) and rebooted. To my shock and surprise - it booted just fine with all the drive number flipped from 1->2. This makes no sense whatsoever to me. How does my device.map still correctly define my (hd0) and (hd1) arrays, but grub spontaneously require booting to /dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccaja on (hd2). Damndist thing I've ever seen. It goes without saying, but I am at a complete loss as to 'what happened' and 'why it happened'. I can't even think of any way it 'could have happened'. All I did was run mkinitcpio twice to create the custom initramfs that I would use to preserve the existing kernel when I updated by running: mkinitcpio -k 2.6.36-dcr \ -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf \ -g /boot/kernel26-dcr.img mkinitcpio -k 2.6.36-dcr \ -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf \ -g /boot/kernel26-dcr-fallback.img \ -S autodetect And when I rebooted, I ended up in this mess. So what say the experts. Does anybody see a way running mkinitcpio as I did above could cause the grub root to change from hd1 to hd2? I don't see how it could happen. If that isn't the culprit, does anybody have any other ideas on how this could have happened? Thanks for any insight you can give. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Fluxbox broken when launched via qingy
by David Rosenstrauch 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Not sure what happened, but fluxbox seems to be broken when launched via qingy. This used to work fine, and I haven't changed anything in my fb or qingy setups that could account for this. I'm able to launch other WM's via qingy, and am also able to launch FB via other desktop managers (e.g., slim) so it's something unique to this combination that's causing the problem. More details here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=863357 Anyone else seeing this and/or have ideas on how to fix? TIA, DR

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] glibc and minimum kernel version
by Tom Gundersen 12 Dec '10

12 Dec '10

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Stéphane Gaudreault <stephane(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > I think that udev >= 145-1 requires a minimum kernel version of 2.6.24.5[1], > so building glibc for anything older may not make sense. udev >= 147 requires a minimum kernel version of 2.6.27. Cheers, -t

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[arch-general] VirtualBox_bin 3.12 - slow system freeze on i686, OK on x86_64
by David C. Rankin 12 Dec '10

12 Dec '10

Guys, just a heads up for those that use virtualbox_bin from AUR: I experienced a system freeze problem on a dell P4 box with VirtualBox-3.2.12 causing the machine to slowly freeze, become unresponsive, then hardlock. WinXP (guest) starts fine, but then it will freeze, followed by the kde taskbar, and then a minute or two later, the mouse and keyboard freeze and the box is locked. (hard reset required) I went through this lockup process twice to make sure. Downgrading to VirtualBox-3.2.10 solved the problem for me. Prior to updating the i686 box, I did another VirtualBox-3.2.12 upgrade on a x86_64 box (XP guest as well), and all is working well. So it looks like it may be some issue or memory leak that is killing the i686 package. I (and others) have dropped notes with the AUR package. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] glibc and minimum kernel version
by Matthew Monaco 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

On 12/11/2010 10:49 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > Hi, > > I am in the progress of updating the toolchain and thought it time to review > what our minimum required kernel version is for glibc. > > For those that do not know, assuming a newer kernel allows glibc to have less > workarounds compiled in. So it may be advantagous to have a more recent version > as the minimum required. This comes at the obvious cost of not having support > for older kernels so a tradeoff is needed... When we discussed this 18 months > ago, it was decided 2.6.18 was appropraite then, but much has changed since. > > I am going to suggest that we follow the oldest longterm support kernel. That > would now be the 2.6.27.x series, which has been around for over two years. > > That might be being overly bold, so feel free to point out how much such an > update would break... and suggest an alternative minimum. > > Allan > The workarounds obviously make maintainence a little more difficult, but is there a performance hit too? Could a glibc and glibc-legacy/glibc-compat type of thing be a viable solution? Then the question would be what kernel defines the line between the two glibc packages (probably -lts would be good).

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[arch-general] perl 5.12.2 anytime soon? or just going to wait for 5.12.3 or 5.14.1
by Caleb Cushing 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

perl 5.12.2 came out at the end of august... I'm just wondering if we'll be getting it... 5.12.3 should come out... I'd rather never see a stable 5.14.0 because 5.14.1 should follow a month later... and given the current speed of updated perls in arch... -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.com

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[arch-general] [signoff] udev-164-3
by Tobias Powalowski 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Hi guys, - fixed libusb-compat depend Seems I forgot to add it to the depend line. Please signoff both arches to fix this missing depend. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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