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[arch-general] Building netboot images
by Piyush P Kurur 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

Hi, I would like to create a (custom) netboot install image of archlinux to facilitate installation within our department. I have few queries regarding the corresponding mkinitcpio.conf. 1. How do I use custom hooks together with standard hooks *without* installing them in /lib/initcpio/install. Or in other words can I configure mkinitcpio to look for hooks in other locations besides the standard locations. There are two options that I can think of both of which looks ugly to me. * install custom hooks in the standard location /lib/initcpio/install. I would don't like this because I don't want to mess up the standard directory for testing these hooks. * copy all the hooks in the standard location to a new location. Install the custom hooks there as well and set the mkinitcpio to look at this new location. There does not seem to be an option for this, I might be stupid not to spot it, but appropriate fakeroot + chroot can make this work 2. I would like to have the minimal set of packages on the netboot image to reduce size. The actual installation will be from the local mirror of course but some packages are needed to start the process. What is the suggested package set ? Is the whole of base okey or is it an overkill? 3. How does one provide standard packages on the rootdir. I would assume the initial ramdisk should act as the actual root during the entire installation process (I don't want the NFS mounting mess). The algorithm seems like (1) install the appropriate packages via pacman --root /foo (2) get the entire subtree on to the initial ramdisk. For step 2, I would need to set BINARIES and FILES of mkinitcpio.conf appropriately. I would rather enjoy Vogon poetry. Is there a better way? Regards, ppk

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[arch-general] Something is seriously wrong with FlashPlugin; makes chrome & firefox crash like crazy
by Gaurish Sharma 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

Hi, Flashplugin keep crashing which makes Firefox unstable. with chrome, only the plugin crashes. But this way I am not able to experiance any flash based website. the thing that annoy me is that flash does work fine my lappy with OpenSuse. Anyone experiencing similar issues? Logs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ gaurish ~ > gdb firefox GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0.1 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Reading symbols from /usr/bin/firefox...(no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/firefox [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 0x7fffe8df2710 (LWP 25663)] [New Thread 0x7fffe83e8710 (LWP 25664)] [New Thread 0x7fffe7be7710 (LWP 25665)] [New Thread 0x7fffe6aff710 (LWP 25669)] [New Thread 0x7fffe33f4710 (LWP 25670)] [New Thread 0x7fffe2bf3710 (LWP 25671)] [Thread 0x7fffe2bf3710 (LWP 25671) exited] [New Thread 0x7fffe2bf3710 (LWP 25672)] [New Thread 0x7fffe164a710 (LWP 25673)] [New Thread 0x7fffe0e49710 (LWP 25676)] [New Thread 0x7fffe0442710 (LWP 25677)] [Thread 0x7fffe0442710 (LWP 25677) exited] [New Thread 0x7fffe0442710 (LWP 25678)] [Thread 0x7fffe0442710 (LWP 25678) exited] LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32] LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32] [New Thread 0x7fffe0442710 (LWP 25679)] [New Thread 0x7fffd64ff710 (LWP 25680)] [New Thread 0x7fffd59ff710 (LWP 25684)] [Thread 0x7fffd59ff710 (LWP 25684) exited] [New Thread 0x7fffd59ff710 (LWP 25688)] [New Thread 0x7fffd20ff710 (LWP 25689)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007fffda43ba42 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so (gdb) bt #0 0x00007fffda43ba42 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so #1 0x00007fffda43bb58 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so #2 0x00007fffda43c15a in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so #3 0x00007fffda43fa0e in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so #4 0x00007fffda5755c1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so #5 0x00007fffda491e4a in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so #6 0x00007fffda53d93e in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so #7 0x00007fffda53dec8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so #8 0x00007fffda5df95c in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so #9 0x00007fffda268239 in ?? () from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so #10 0x00007ffff5b6974e in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so #11 0x00007ffff5b6f5f0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so #12 0x00007ffff5506779 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so #13 0x00007ffff5506779 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so #14 0x00007ffff554d345 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so #15 0x00007ffff54f25c5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so #16 0x00007ffff54f26ab in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so #17 0x00007ffff5cc4a28 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so #18 0x00007ffff5cd786b in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so #19 0x00007ffff5cac385 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so #20 0x00007ffff5c31f11 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so #21 0x00007ffff5b09e5e in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so #22 0x00007ffff547cc22 in XRE_main () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so #23 0x0000000000402366 in ?? () #24 0x00007ffff7376b6d in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 #25 0x0000000000401b19 in ?? () #26 0x00007fffffffe5b8 in ?? () #27 0x000000000000001c in ?? () #28 0x0000000000000001 in ?? () #29 0x00007fffffffe8e2 in ?? () #30 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () (gdb) kill Kill the program being debugged? (y or n) y (gdb) quit gaurish ~ > google-chrome [26339:26339:85939977573:ERROR:/usr/local/google/b/slave/chrome-official- linux-64/build/src/chrome/browser/tab_contents/tab_contents.cc(1762)] Not implemented reached in virtual void TabContents::OnCrashedPlugin(const FilePath&) convert plugin path to plugin name [26339:26339:85939978034:ERROR:/usr/local/google/b/slave/chrome-official- linux-64/build/src/chrome/browser/tab_contents/tab_contents.cc(1762)] Not implemented reached in virtual void TabContents::OnCrashedPlugin(const FilePath&) convert plugin path to plugin name [26339:26339:85939978401:ERROR:/usr/local/google/b/slave/chrome-official- linux-64/build/src/chrome/browser/tab_contents/tab_contents.cc(1762)] Not implemented reached in virtual void TabContents::OnCrashedPlugin(const FilePath&) convert plugin path to plugin name [1] Flashplugin Version : 10.0.45.2-1 -- Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com

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[arch-general] Amavisd-new Only in AUR?
by Carlos Mennens 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

I know I can download packages from AUR but I really could not believe that 'amavisd-new' is not in 'Community'. I would think this tool for email / virus scanning would be popular enough to be voted into 'Community' repo. Does anyone have any idea what is holding this software back from getting votes / moved into the 'Community? Is it considered buggy or just not widely used enough in the Arch community? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=573 Thanks for any input.

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[arch-general] KDE 4.4 + pnm2ppa + CUPS
by Lars Tennstedt 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

Hello and a happy new year, I have noticed print problems on my pc sine the release of KDE 4.0.0. I guessed that I had to wait that the KDE 4 or Qt 4 print backend got better. But at the moment I use KDE 4.3.4 on Arch Linux with pnm2ppa from AUR and CUPS. My box is up-to-date. I can print with Firefox, GIMP, OpenOffice and GNOME applications but I cannot still with KDE 4 or Qt 4 applications. I did not find anything about that issue. Can someone help me? Bye Lars

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[arch-general] Changed GNUstep directory in new windowmaker package
by Daniel Isenmann 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

Hi, today I have released a new release of the windowmaker package. The important change is the GNUstep directory. I have changed this to /usr/lib/GNUstep. It was requested as a bug report (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15301) and it’s now equal to Debian’s GNUstep directory location. That means, you have to change the directory for the WPrefs.App which has now the new location. All other things should be run without problems. If you have older GNUstep applications, you have to recompile them with the new location if they way located in the old GNUstep directory. -Daniel

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[arch-general] Messages from fcron
by Magnus Therning 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

I keep on getting messages from fcron along what can be found below. Does anyone know where I should look to fix this? /M -------- Original Message -------- Subject: fcron <systab@tatooine> /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.daily Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 08:58:09 +0000 From: <magnus.therning(a)ntlworld.com> To: magnus.therning(a)ntlworld.com error: syslog-ng:1 duplicate log entry for /var/log/crond.log error: found error in /var/log/messages.log /var/log/auth.log /var/log/mail.log /var/log/kernel.log /var/log/errors.log /var/log/daemon.log /var/log/user.log /var/log/iptables.log /var/log/everything.log /var/log/syslog.log /var/log/acpid.log /var/log/crond.log /var/log/lpr.log /var/log/uucp.log /var/log/news.log /var/log/ppp.log /var/log/debug.log , skipping

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[arch-general] xorg hotplug & openbox
by János Illés 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

Hi guys, I anyone still experience this[1], please reply to this thread. I think it is solved[2] and should be removed from the wiki but I thought I should doublecheck. Thanks. [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_input_hotplugging#Arrow_keys_don.2… [2] http://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3885 -- ijanos

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Fwd: nvidia oops
by Evangelos Foutras 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Just forwarding this on. Is this important enough to post a news item about? > Or should we just force-downgrade the affected drivers? This has been taken care of in http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18580 (the second option was selected). :)

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[arch-general] Ekiga on x64?
by Magnus Therning 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

Has anyone gotten Ekiga to work on x64? I can't seem to get a connection to the echo service. I believe I've eliminated all possible network issues by successfully running ekiga 3.0 on a x32 ubuntu machine. Any suggestions? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] grub2 and xfs seems not to work :(
by Tobias Powalowski 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

Hi guys, i'm just trying to get grub2 support in archboot's setup. Now i have found an irritating thing it seems it doesn't like xfs and the ususal xfs_freeze hack from grub1 is not working anymore. Does anyone already use grub2 with xfs and if yes how did you solve this issue. Many thanks for input on this weird issue. greeings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Automatic LVM assembly - call for testers
by Thomas Bächler 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

Traditionally, LVM is assembled by running "vgchange -ay" manually. That has several problems, especially if one of the physical volumes is missing when the VG was supposed to be assembled. This has been experienced by people who use LVM on USB storage for their root device. I came up with a way of assembling LVM automatically through udev: A udev rule combined with a short shell script waits until all required physical volumes have been detected, then assembles the volume group in the background. This also works when adding a removable device to the system at any time. I'm asking anyone with LVM and a bit of spare time to test this. I'm especially interested in results from people who have a volume group on more than one hard drive. This is how it works: Get the package from: http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/lvm_autoassemble/ If you want to use this for detection of your boot device: Replace the "lvm2" hook with the "lvm_autoassemble" hook in mkinitcpio.conf and recreate the initramfs (make sure to keep a copy of the working one, as always). Possible side-effects: There may be some trouble when dealing with removable devices that contain LVM physical volumes: The volume groups are automatically activated, but have to be deactivated manually before removing the drive. Furthermore, when you remove a device and add it again later, the mechanism that detects whether all PVs have been found might fail and "vgchange -ay" may be run too often. Another side-effect is that I didn't add --ignoremonitoring to the script, so dmeventd may be started in initramfs (for mirror or snapshot volumes), which may not be desired. Any feedback is welcome.

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[arch-general] top posting
by Juan Diego 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

Hello listmates, is there any special reason of why top-posting is a bad thing?

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[arch-general] can't register for Arch forums
by Andreas Wagner 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

Hello, I am thoroughly enjoying using arch linux so I have tried to register for the Arch forums. I have tried several times but I get the message: "Bots are unwelcome here. The door is right over there, don't let it hit you on the way out." I assure you I am no bot. It would be great if someone could fix this. Thanks, Andreas

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[arch-general] Problems with mkinitcpio
by Ihad 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Hi, Maybe this is more suitable for arch-dev, but I hope that the devs also read here. Let me know if I should redirect this to arch-dev-public. I have some ancient hardware, specifically an AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ with a PCI IDE Controller: $ lspci | grep Mass 00:0a.0 Mass storage controller: HighPoint Technologies, Inc. HPT366/368/370/370A/372/372N (rev 04) Also, I have IDE devices from hda to hdg, some of them connected to the aforementioned PCI IDE controller. There are 2 raid devices configured: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md1 : active raid5 hdb1[0] hdf1[2] hde1[1] 234436352 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] [================>....] resync = 82.2% (96372676/117218176) finish=19.5min speed=17746K/sec md0 : active raid5 hda2[0] hdg2[2] hdd2[1] 156199808 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] unused devices: <none> The rebuilding device has devices connected to the PCI controller. All other devices are handled by sis5513, btw. also from /lib/modules/*/ide The autodetect hook from mkinitcpio thinks that pata_hpt366 is the module of choice. But it doesn't work. It crashes the kernel after some time, unfortunately not reproducible and without a log message. The box just stops responding to anything, including a ping. So I guess this something like a kernel panic. The IDE driver (hpt366) works like a charm, but it doesn't seem to generate udev events, so the device nodes don't get created in the initrd, and I'm stuck with a busybox prompt. So I created my own hook in /lib/initcpio/hooks: # cat ide run_hook () { msg -n ":: Creating IDE device nodes" /bin/mknod "/dev/hda" b 3 0 /bin/mknod "/dev/hda1" b 3 1 /bin/mknod "/dev/hda2" b 3 2 /bin/mknod "/dev/hdb" b 3 64 /bin/mknod "/dev/hdb1" b 3 65 /bin/mknod "/dev/hdb2" b 3 66 /bin/mknod "/dev/hdc" b 22 0 [snip] /bin/mknod "/dev/hdg2" b 34 2 msg "done." } and included it into my hooks. Works like a charm. Now my question: is this expected behavior or is it a bug? If it's a bug, where should I file it? LKML or against arch/mkinitcpio? LKML is a problem, since I don't have any a trace. BTW, pata_hpt366 is marked as experimental in 2.6.30. at least. -- Regards. Ihad.

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[arch-general] [patch] AIF, discover repos on iso.
by Mark Pustjens 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Hi List, The attached patch fixes a TODO in lib-pacman of aif. Instead of hardcoding that `core' is always available locally and falling back to net for others, it now checks /src/ for repos. It assumes repos are stored at /src/$repo/pkg/. All these repos are added as cache dirs. While preparing pacman, a number of repo names are provided to be prepared. All those repos which were requested are added as actual repo. If this repo is available locally, the url points to disk. Otherwise it falls back to the mirrorlist. Please let me know what you think. Greetings/Groetjes Mark Pustjens -- Currently there's five machines permanently networked here. They *all* contain the serious core stuff. A couple of the machines are pensioned off 486s, with little other value now. Plus there's two Jaz drives in the building and the portable also carries a fair amount of stuff. Plus every Friday a man comes around and carves all the new stuff onto stone slabs and buries them in the garden... I think I'm okay. (alt.fan.pratchett)

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[arch-general] [patch] AIF, partition table compatibility with grub2.
by Mark Pustjens 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Hi list, The attatched patch adds the `-D' option to the sfdisk call. This causes some extra space to be saved for the MBR, which is needed for grub2 in some cases. Please let me know what you think. Greetings/Groetjes Mark Pustjens -- I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted. (alt.fan.pratchett)

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[arch-general] [signoff] util-linux-ng-2.17.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Hi major changes: - removed loop aes crypt support 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] Fwd: Re: [arch-dev-public] monotone needs botan 1.8.x
by Andrea Scarpino 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

forwarded to arch-general ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] monotone needs botan 1.8.x Date: Friday 05 March 2010, 17:48:28 From: Marq Schneider <queueram(a)gmail.com> To: Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org>, Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org>, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> I'm emailing you guys directly since i don't think i have access to this mailing list. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 08:34, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Looking at the release notes, monotone appears to ship with an internal version of botan. > Can you just use that rather than making an additional package? I have never heard of or seen this in the monotone source. If you want to build botan 1.8.x and statically link it in as part of the monotone PKGBUILD. See my attached PKGBUILD on FS as an example (the 2nd one) [0] On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 08:34, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I think I dragged this into the repos a few years ago when it appeared > it might become one of the big DVCS tools. This one stayed under the > radar compared to git and mercurial, however. Pidgin does use it for > what it is worth to manage their codebase. I've been following this discussion on arch-dev-public and the FS [0]. I work on pidgin from time to time, so this is a must have for me to continue development. I wanted to ask: why did botan get updated to using the development (1.9.x) branch instead of the stable (1.8.x) branch? Arch jumped from 1.8.5 to 1.9.3 back in November. I am all for keeping packages up-to-date, but i am not sure that i agree with hopping to the development branch. I don't follow the botan mailing list at all, but the stable branch is still worked on (now up to 1.8.8). If nothing requires 1.9.x, would it do any harm to revert botan to 1.8.x? Regards, Marq [0] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17297 [1] http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/botan/trunk/PKGBUILD?op=log&rev=0&… ----------------------------------------- -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[arch-general] Automounting internal devices in Gnome
by Flavio Costa 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Hi, Before Gnome 2.28 (I've been using Arch since 2.22, I guess), Gnome used to be able to mount my internal devices (in this case some NTFS partitions I have, and yes use Windows sometimes...) automatically (I just had to grant a permission on a neat GTK interface). I guess that magic used to happen due to a set of softwares working together, those being HAL, DBus, PolicyKit and Gnome. When Gnome 2.28 came out (and also devicekit-*, the replacement of policykit with polkit and the deprecation of HAL) this neat magic dissapeared and I've looked for many solutions in the forums or in others places but I couldn't found one. Everytime I want to use those extra NTFS partitions, I have to manually click one the "Places" menu and select the device, after clicking I'm prompted for my root password. I type it and the disk is mounted. But that's boring (all my musics are stored on the NTFS partition, so everytime I want to listen to them I have to do this). I even managed to supress the prompting for the password but I believe that due to some update that stopped working. $ cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/61-custom.conf [Automount Devices] Identities=unix-group:storage Action=org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.* ResultActive=yes ResultAny=no ResultInactive=no The above doesn't work anymore (I have to enter the password everytime). So despite of fstab, does anyone knows the solution or a workaround for this problem? -- Flávio Coutinho da Costa

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[arch-general] Crazy cursor with Linux Wacom on Tablet PC
by Sachiel 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Hi All, I have a Lenovo X200 Tablet PC, and I've been using Linux Wacom drivers from AUR [1] with no problems. A few weeks ago, I decided to check for new drivers, and I not only found that I wasn't using the last linuxwacom drivers, but that they have been changed to xf86-input-wacom [2]. Ok, I removed the linuxwacom paquet, and compiled & installed the new ones. But I discovered that the pen has gone crazy, as you can see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGCjuniMYbY . Sorry for the video, but I didn't know how to explain the problem with just words. Touching with finger works ok, it just needs calibration to correct a little displacement. The PC is a Lenovo X200 Tablet, I've tried xf86-input-wacom and xf86-input-wacom-git [3], I've tried with no xorg.conf file (auto configuration), and using an xorg.conf file as commented in ThinkWiki [4], and the behaviour is always the same. I've tried to recompile the old linuxwacom, but the current version in AUR doesn't compile, and I don't have a copy of the previous version I was using. Of course, I've also tried googling, but no results with "Linux Wacom flickering cursor" or similar wording. Any hint? Maybe this doubt is more suited for Linux Wacom developers that General Arch Linux? Regards, Sergi [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16912 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28999 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32033 [4] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

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[arch-general] weird network issues
by David Rosenstrauch 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Normally the nm-applet puts me online automagically. Not today. :-( nm-applet showed up as disconnected when I booted up and logged in today. (Only time I've ever seen that happen before is when I had accidentally turned off the wireless switch on the laptop.) Looking through the logs showed this: Mar 4 11:11:13 daroselin kernel: hald-probe-inpu[5326]: segfault at 2 ip 00007f52cac12559 sp 00007fff5fec02b0 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[7f52cab9c000+14d000] Mar 4 11:11:13 daroselin kernel: hald-probe-inpu[5327]: segfault at 2 ip 00007f6f0c274559 sp 00007fff58dc1420 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[7f6f0c1fe000+14d000] Mar 4 11:11:13 daroselin kernel: hald-probe-inpu[5328]: segfault at 2 ip 00007f54140b8559 sp 00007fffb42a2c30 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[7f5414042000+14d000] Restarting hal generates more of the same messages. I was finally able to get online manually using netcfg, but I'd like to get this up and running again. Anyone have any idea what's going on? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] kernel 2.6.33-1
by Tobias Powalowski 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Hi guys, kernel 2.6.33 first test run ... Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Arch Linux bugfixes/feature requests: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18249 # added HPET http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17970 # added CONFIG_USB_GSPCA_PAC7302 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17791 # added UTS_NAMESPACE http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17756 # added CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER for WCHAN http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16715 # added Linux Container support - added jfs and reiserfs statistics Arch Linux changes: - changed radeon kms enabled by default - merged ext2/ext3 support into ext4 module - nouveau module is still provided as out-of-tree module, it's more up to date. Broken binary modules: - lirc,fcpcmcia,madwifi,tiacx though no fix available yet. Needs to rebuild: - 686 modem binary modules Enjoy have fun and give me feedback, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Weird group: rtkit
by Magnus Therning 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

I was just poking around in my /etc/groups when I found rtkit:x:99: I suspect this belongs to rtkit in some way. However, this group id conflicts with nobody:x:99: Looking at the rtkit.install I notice that the group id isn't hardcoded, so I don't quite know how this could have happened. Is there likely to be any harm in renumbering the rtkit group to some unused id? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] kde4.4 upgrade and nvidia
by richard terry 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

I noticed mention was made about 'bitmap fonts like terminus will be broken. Does that mean that nvidia driver won't work? or is it still safe to upgrade. Regards Richard

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[arch-general] Tired of being asked for a password for "su"? Arch has the solution
by David C. Rankin 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

Guys, Working through the setup of my new server, I rad across a wonderful hidden time-saver in /etc/pam.d/su. If you have configured sudo in the normal way by providing sudo access to members of the 'wheel' group, you can avoid having to type the root password to 'su' by uncommenting the following line in /etc/pam.d/su: auth sufficient pam_wheel.so trust use_uid As the comment says, the entry causes pam to implicitly trust members of the wheel group. Eliminating the need to type a 14 char pw 10 times a day is a time-saver. My only concern is how secure it is to allow pam to do this? I'd welcome any thoughts by those that understand whether this causes a concern. Thanks and thanks to whoever put this little gem in /etc/pam.d/su -- 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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