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[arch-general] wchan info in ps
by Dimitrios Apostolou 10 Jan '10

10 Jan '10

Hello list, is anyone actually getting WCHAN information from either ps or top? To try it just use "ps opid,wchan,cmd". I only get dashes, any idea why? Thanks, Dimitris

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[arch-general] Efficiency of devs/TUs
by Ng Oon-Ee 10 Jan '10

10 Jan '10

I just did my -Syu and saw pidgin had been version-bumped to 2.6.5. Since my connection is dog-slow, I browsed to pidgin.im while waiting for the download to finish (I like to check change-logs). Lo and behold, the version advertised on Pidgin's official website was 2.6.4! Of course, the sourceforge was at 2.6.5. Which has just been uploaded today, 10th January. Now THAT'S what I call efficiency. Thanks guys. The PKGBUILD indicates Biru Ionut as the specific maintainer, but thanks to all the rest as well =).

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[arch-general] CUPS
by Weiwei Wang 10 Jan '10

10 Jan '10

Hello, everyone, I'm a freshman in ArchLinux. As my lab owns a printer connected to a windows system, I need to connect it using cups. I read the wiki guide and do as what is told. However, I always receive this messge: Connection failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME My /etc/cups/printers.conf is shown below: # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.4.2 # Written by cupsd on 2010-01-09 15:32 # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING <Printer HpLaserJ> Info RL Printer Location RL Lab Students Printer MakeModel HP LaserJet 1010, hpcups 3.9.12 DeviceURI smb://elegate:jessica@172.16.65.79/print$/ State Stopped StateMessage Processing page 2... StateTime 1263022347 Reason paused Type 36876 Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 - Filter application/vnd.cups-raster 0 hpcups Accepting Yes Shared No JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer </Printer> <Printer Virtual_PDF_Printer> Info Virtual PDF Printer Location Weiwei's Laptop MakeModel Apple 12/640ps Foomatic/Postscript (recommended) DeviceURI cups-pdf:/ State Idle StateTime 1263021073 Type 8400916 Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 - Filter application/vnd.cups-postscript 100 foomatic-rip Filter application/vnd.cups-pdf 0 foomatic-rip Filter application/vnd.apple-pdf 25 foomatic-rip Filter application/vnd.cups-command 0 commandtops Accepting Yes Shared No JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer </Printer> And I checked that the printer in the windows system is share with the name hpLaserJ, however when I connect it with smbclient //172.16.65.79/hpLaserJ, i receive NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED so i tried with smbclient //172.16.65.79/print$ and it works fine when i try to list the contents using ls command. That's why I use the name print$ in the printers.conf cups and samba are both definitely running. Samba configuration is shown below: # This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the # smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed # here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options (perhaps too # many!) most of which are not shown in this example # # For a step to step guide on installing, configuring and using samba, # read the Samba-HOWTO-Collection. This may be obtained from: # http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf # # Many working examples of smb.conf files can be found in the # Samba-Guide which is generated daily and can be downloaded from: # http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-Guide.pdf # # Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash) # is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a # # for commentry and a ; for parts of the config file that you # may wish to enable # # NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command "testparm" # to check that you have not made any basic syntactic errors. # #======================= Global Settings ===================================== [global] # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name, eg: MIDEARTH workgroup = WORKGROUP # server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field server string = Samba Server # Security mode. Defines in which mode Samba will operate. Possible # values are share, user, server, domain and ads. Most people will want # user level security. See the Samba-HOWTO-Collection for details. security = user # This option is important for security. It allows you to restrict # connections to machines which are on your local network. The # following example restricts access to two C class networks and # the "loopback" interface. For more examples of the syntax see # the smb.conf man page ; hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 127. # If you want to automatically load your printer list rather # than setting them up individually then you'll need this load printers = yes # you may wish to override the location of the printcap file ; printcap name = /etc/printcap # on SystemV system setting printcap name to lpstat should allow # you to automatically obtain a printer list from the SystemV spool # system ; printcap name = lpstat # It should not be necessary to specify the print system type unless # it is non-standard. Currently supported print systems include: # bsd, cups, sysv, plp, lprng, aix, hpux, qnx ; printing = cups # Uncomment this if you want a guest account, you must add this to /etc/passwd # otherwise the user "nobody" is used ; guest account = pcguest # this tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine # that connects log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log # Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb). max log size = 50 # Use password server option only with security = server # The argument list may include: # password server = My_PDC_Name [My_BDC_Name] [My_Next_BDC_Name] # or to auto-locate the domain controller/s # password server = * ; password server = <NT-Server-Name> # Use the realm option only with security = ads # Specifies the Active Directory realm the host is part of ; realm = MY_REALM # Backend to store user information in. New installations should # use either tdbsam or ldapsam. smbpasswd is available for backwards # compatibility. tdbsam requires no further configuration. ; passdb backend = tdbsam # Using the following line enables you to customise your configuration # on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with the netbios name # of the machine that is connecting. # Note: Consider carefully the location in the configuration file of # this line. The included file is read at that point. ; include = /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf.%m # Configure Samba to use multiple interfaces # If you have multiple network interfaces then you must list them # here. See the man page for details. ; interfaces = 192.168.12.2/24 192.168.13.2/24 # Browser Control Options: # set local master to no if you don't want Samba to become a master # browser on your network. Otherwise the normal election rules apply ; local master = no # OS Level determines the precedence of this server in master browser # elections. The default value should be reasonable ; os level = 33 # Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser. This # allows Samba to collate browse lists between subnets. Don't use this # if you already have a Windows NT domain controller doing this job ; domain master = yes # Preferred Master causes Samba to force a local browser election on startup # and gives it a slightly higher chance of winning the election ; preferred master = yes # Enable this if you want Samba to be a domain logon server for # Windows95 workstations. ; domain logons = yes # if you enable domain logons then you may want a per-machine or # per user logon script # run a specific logon batch file per workstation (machine) ; logon script = %m.bat # run a specific logon batch file per username ; logon script = %U.bat # Where to store roving profiles (only for Win95 and WinNT) # %L substitutes for this servers netbios name, %U is username # You must uncomment the [Profiles] share below ; logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U # Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section: # WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable it's WINS Server ; wins support = yes # WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client # Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both ; wins server = w.x.y.z # WINS Proxy - Tells Samba to answer name resolution queries on # behalf of a non WINS capable client, for this to work there must be # at least one WINS Server on the network. The default is NO. ; wins proxy = yes # DNS Proxy - tells Samba whether or not to try to resolve NetBIOS names # via DNS nslookups. The default is NO. dns proxy = no # These scripts are used on a domain controller or stand-alone # machine to add or delete corresponding unix accounts ; add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd %u ; add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g ; add machine script = /usr/sbin/adduser -n -g machines -c Machine -d /dev/null -s /bin/false %u ; delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel %u ; delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/deluser %u %g ; delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g #============================ Share Definitions ============================== [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes # Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons ; [netlogon] ; comment = Network Logon Service ; path = /usr/local/samba/lib/netlogon ; guest ok = yes ; writable = no ; share modes = no # Un-comment the following to provide a specific roving profile share # the default is to use the user's home directory ;[Profiles] ; path = /usr/local/samba/profiles ; browseable = no ; guest ok = yes # NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to # specifically define each individual printer [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print guest ok = no writable = no printable = yes # This one is useful for people to share files ;[tmp] ; comment = Temporary file space ; path = /tmp ; read only = no ; public = yes # A publicly accessible directory, but read only, except for people in # the "staff" group ;[public] ; comment = Public Stuff ; path = /home/samba ; public = yes ; writable = no ; printable = no ; write list = @staff # Other examples. # # A private printer, usable only by fred. Spool data will be placed in fred's # home directory. Note that fred must have write access to the spool directory, # wherever it is. ;[fredsprn] ; comment = Fred's Printer ; valid users = fred ; path = /homes/fred ; printer = freds_printer ; public = no ; writable = no ; printable = yes # A private directory, usable only by fred. Note that fred requires write # access to the directory. ;[fredsdir] ; comment = Fred's Service ; path = /usr/somewhere/private ; valid users = fred ; public = no ; writable = yes ; printable = no # a service which has a different directory for each machine that connects # this allows you to tailor configurations to incoming machines. You could # also use the %U option to tailor it by user name. # The %m gets replaced with the machine name that is connecting. ;[pchome] ; comment = PC Directories ; path = /usr/pc/%m ; public = no ; writable = yes # A publicly accessible directory, read/write to all users. Note that all files # created in the directory by users will be owned by the default user, so # any user with access can delete any other user's files. Obviously this # directory must be writable by the default user. Another user could of course # be specified, in which case all files would be owned by that user instead. ;[public] ; path = /usr/somewhere/else/public ; public = yes ; only guest = yes ; writable = yes ; printable = no # The following two entries demonstrate how to share a directory so that two # users can place files there that will be owned by the specific users. In this # setup, the directory should be writable by both users and should have the # sticky bit set on it to prevent abuse. Obviously this could be extended to # as many users as required. ;[myshare] ; comment = Mary's and Fred's stuff ; path = /usr/somewhere/shared ; valid users = mary fred ; public = no ; writable = yes ; printable = no ; create mask = 0765 I feel really frustrated by this job. Help me~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Weiwei Wang Alex Wang 王巍巍 Room 403, Mengmin Wei Building Computer Science Department Gulou Campus of Nanjing University Nanjing, P.R.China, 210093 Homepage: http://cs.nju.edu.cn/rl/weiweiwang

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Re: [arch-general] kill-klibc (Was: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.5.27-1)
by Evangelos Foutras 10 Jan '10

10 Jan '10

On 09/01/2010 07:06 μμ, Thomas Bächler wrote: > This is a bugfix release which (among other less important things) fixed > the early userspace firmware loading problem. Please sign off. > > This will hopefully be the last release before we move to 0.6, which > will have all klibc dependencies removed, see > http://projects.archlinux.org/mkinitcpio.git/?h=kill-klibc for progress. > Any contributions here are welcome, nothing works yet. What do you think needs doing? I doubt I'll be able to help much, but I'm curious. I gave the kill-klibc branch a try in a VM, but --as you noted-- all I got was a kernel panic (http://i.imgur.com/h6xDu.png)

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[arch-general] Virtualbox with upgraded kernel
by richard terry 09 Jan '10

09 Jan '10

hi List, I've upgraded to kernel 2.6.32 and virtual box dosn't work. I looked at the wiki re the various methods of upgrading the driver: [root@laptop pkg]# vbox_build_module Building vboxdrv for Linux 2.6.32-ARCH make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv' for f in . linux r0drv r0drv/linux VBox common/err common/string common/log generic math/gcc; \ do rm -f $f/*.o $f/.*.cmd $f/.*.flags; done rm -rf .vboxdrv* .tmp_ver* vboxdrv.* Module.symvers Modules.symvers modules.order make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv' make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxnetflt' for f in . linux r0drv r0drv/linux VBox common/err common/string common/log generic math/gcc; \ do rm -f $f/*.o $f/.*.cmd $f/.*.flags; done rm -rf .vboxnetflt* .tmp_ver* vboxnetflt.* Modules.symvers modules.order make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxnetflt' make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxnetadp' for f in . linux r0drv r0drv/linux VBox common/err common/string common/log generic math/gcc; \ do rm -f $f/*.o $f/.*.cmd $f/.*.flags; done rm -rf .vboxnetadp* .tmp_ver* vboxnetadp.* Modules.symvers modules.order make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxnetadp' rm -f vboxdrv.ko vboxnetflt.ko vboxnetadp.ko *** Building 'vboxdrv' module *** make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv' Makefile:147: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv' make: *** [all] Error 2 kernel-headers-2.6.32-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz is installed. Any help appreciated.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] libpng todo list
by Daenyth Blank 09 Jan '10

09 Jan '10

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 16:59, Jan de Groot <jan(a)jgc.homeip.net> wrote: > I just created a todo list containing 163 packages. This todo list > contains all packages that link to libpng and that should get rebuilt > when we update to libpng 1.4.0. What is the new soname? I'd like to make a list for arch-games as well.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.32.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

Hi guys, bump to latest bugfix version. Arch Linux bugfixes/feature requests: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17538 # added blktrace http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17106 # finally added CONFIG_MMIOTRACE http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17696 # fixed intel wireless http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17687 # fixed rt61 wireless http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17661 # remove created initramfs on deinstall 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] via vt6306 firewire card not recognized anymore
by Dieter Plaetinck 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

Hi, I'm glad the .32 kernel comes with the new firewire stack, so i can finally use dvgrab (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79856) well.. that's what i thought. this kernel does not recognize my pci firewire card with the via vt6306 chipset. (running all latest packages from core, not testing. arch kernel) how can i get this working? [dieter@dieter-p4sci-arch ~]$ lspci | grep -i via [dieter@dieter-p4sci-arch ~]$ dmesg | grep -i via [dieter@dieter-p4sci-arch ~]$ uname -a Linux dieter-p4sci-arch 2.6.32-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 7 22:19:56 UTC 2010 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux [dieter@dieter-p4sci-arch ~]$ zgrep -i via /proc/config.gz # CONFIG_MVIAC3_2 is not set # CONFIG_MVIAC7 is not set CONFIG_VIA_FIR=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=m CONFIG_SATA_VIA=m CONFIG_PATA_VIA=m CONFIG_VIA_RHINE=m # CONFIG_VIA_RHINE_MMIO is not set CONFIG_VIA_VELOCITY=m CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIA=m CONFIG_I2C_VIA=m CONFIG_I2C_VIAPRO=m CONFIG_SENSORS_VIA686A=m CONFIG_AGP_VIA=m CONFIG_DRM_VIA=m CONFIG_FB_VIA=m CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA=y CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX=m CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX_MODEM=m CONFIG_MMC_VIA_SDMMC=m Dieter

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[arch-general] [Request] Remove libpthread-stubs from packages svn/trunk
by arch＠nezmer.info 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

Can someone remove libpthread-stubs from packages svn/trunk? The package obviously was removed from the repos a long time ago and tools like pbget would fetch an outdated PKGBUILD.

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[arch-general] [Package Removal Request]gimageview
by anonymous anonymous 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17011 [gimageview] segfaults This package hasn't been updated since 2004 and segfaults. The bug report explains this well.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts-2.6.27.43-1 & kernel26-lts-headers-2.6.27.43-1
by Tobias Powalowski 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

Hi guys, latest bugfix release. 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] go-openoffice not opening templates - anybody else?
by David C. Rankin 07 Jan '10

07 Jan '10

Guys, I had to uninstall go-openoffice today and install the regular (beta) version so my templates would open again. When I would try and open them in go-oo, the window would open like it was trying to open the template, then the window would just disappear. Has anyone else had a problem with go-oo and templates? -- 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] Fwd: [Vorbis] vorbis-tools release soon?
by Ray Kohler 07 Jan '10

07 Jan '10

The Xiph.org people are looking for some help getting things out the door. I expect that there are a good many capable Ogg/Vorbis users here in Arch-land... Anybody interested? Reply to the thread below on vorbis(a)xiph.org. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <xiphmont(a)xiph.org> Date: 2010/1/6 Subject: Re: [Vorbis] vorbis-tools release soon? To: Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <justivo(a)gmail.com> Cc: Ray Kohler <ataraxia937(a)gmail.com>, vorbis(a)xiph.org 2010/1/4 Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <justivo(a)gmail.com>: > On 1/4/10, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Since it's been almost 2 years since vorbis-tools 1.2.0 was released, >> would it be reasonable to see 1.3.0 soon? There are plenty of changes >> in there that deserve to see the light of day - the ReplayGain support >> in ogg123 and the vcut fixes in particular have my attention. > > Tell me about it. It's been one year since I put out an RC. However, > shortly after, I had to get a second job, and, well... > > I should be able to work on the new release after February. > > Oh, and here's a full changelog of everything that changed between releases: > https://trac.xiph.org/browser/trunk/vorbis-tools/CHANGES > > There were so many contributions from so many people... I hope I can > gather all the names for a special thank you message. > > Anyhow, only two things are missing from the final release if memory > serves me well: > > * a big patch for vorbiscomment to add padding in Vorbis files > * fixing the gettextize stuff in oggdec since it's not working for some reason > > Actually, if anybody here knows how to work with gettextize properly, > your input would be quite appreciated here. Aside from gettext, what else is outstanding that should happen before a release? We've recently gotten interest from someone who wants to get some work done on libao, I am wondering if there is some possible work-force-multiplier available in getting releases of both moving now. Monty

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[arch-general] high CPU temperature with 2.6.32
by Dimitrios Apostolou 07 Jan '10

07 Jan '10

Hello, pacman just brought kernel 2.6.32 for my old laptop (P3 500MHz). A strange thing I noticed is that the fan won't go off when CPU is idling like it used to. Using powertop I can see more than 100K wakeups/s (extra_timer_interrupt is first on the list but I think it's irrelevant since it only shows about 100 wakeups), and the CPU is not going into C2 mode at all. Strangely however the cpu is 99% idle, and top doesn't show "system" or "user" cpu usage. Anyone else seeing such behaviour? Thanks in advance, Dimitris

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cron
by Jim Pryor 07 Jan '10

07 Jan '10

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 09:52:45AM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > >> Paul Mattal wrote: > >>> > >>> We've got several bugs relating to choosing a new default cron daemon, > >>> and/or supporting other alternatives. > >> > >> <snip> > >> > >> I thought we decided on fcron with the small adjustment/script needed to > >> support /etc/cron.d in the last round of discussion about this. bcron was > >> also popular (+1 from me...) but then we need an anacron replacement too > >> (i.e. fcron). > >> > >> Aaron has repeatedly called for someone to deal with this and we have had a > >> total of zero volunteers to do so... So if you are going to do this then it > >> would be great. (also have a look at mailman in svn trunk if you have time > >> :P ) > > > > Allan is correct here. We looked it over and based on the responses > > from all devs at the time, decided that fcron is the best in terms of > > modernizing our cron. > > > > If anyone would like to upgrade our cron to something better, let's go > > with fcron. Please check the mail archives and bug reports for all the > > discussion about alternative crons and why fcron was decided. I don't > > recall all the reasons, but I know they are all there. > > Though, I must admit, I did not see this email until after I replied. > yacron was not evaluated when we looked into this... Hi this is the author of yacron again. I've just heard from Matt Dillon, he says he's happy for me to take over development and maintainership of dcron. So what I'll do is create a release version of yacron, and rename it to dcron 4.0. Of course that doesn't mean Arch has to keep using dcron; you may still decide fcron is better for core. But if you do want to stay with dcron, its development will now continue with the features I had forked as yacron. -- Jim Pryor profjim(a)jimpryor.net

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[arch-general] How does dmraid handle the development of a bad block on 1 drive in an array??
by David C. Rankin 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

Listmates (Tobias) I have a server that has 2 dmraid arrays (4 drives -> 2 arrays) that has been bullet-proof for years. A month ago (either coincidentally or due to a bug in the suse 11.2 kernel for client ssh/sftp sessions) I began experiencing sda errors on the array comprised of sda/sdc drives. The errors took the form of: Dec 5 20:48:48 nirvana sshd[30922]: error: ssh_msg_send: write Dec 5 20:49:10 nirvana sshd[30965]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for legaleagle from 192.168.6.102 port 36 663 ssh2 Dec 5 20:50:12 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Dec 5 20:50:12 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Dec 5 20:50:12 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: cmd 25/00:08:33:0c:8c/00:00:34:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in Dec 5 20:50:12 nirvana kernel: res 51/40:00:39:0c:8c/40:00:34:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) Dec 5 20:50:12 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 Dec 5 20:50:12 nirvana kernel: ata3: EH complete Dec 5 20:50:14 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Dec 5 20:50:14 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Dec 5 20:50:14 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: cmd 25/00:08:33:0c:8c/00:00:34:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in Dec 5 20:50:14 nirvana kernel: res 51/40:00:39:0c:8c/40:00:34:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) Dec 5 20:50:14 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 Dec 5 20:50:14 nirvana kernel: ata3: EH complete Dec 5 20:50:16 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Dec 5 20:50:16 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Dec 5 20:50:16 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: cmd 25/00:08:33:0c:8c/00:00:34:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: res 51/40:00:39:0c:8c/40:00:34:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: ata3: EH complete Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: cmd 25/00:08:33:0c:8c/00:00:34:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: res 51/40:00:39:0c:8c/40:00:34:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: ata3: EH complete Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: cmd 25/00:08:33:0c:8c/00:00:34:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: res 51/40:00:39:0c:8c/40:00:34:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: ata3: EH complete Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: cmd 25/00:08:33:0c:8c/00:00:34:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: res 51/40:00:39:0c:8c/40:00:34:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [descriptor] Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: 34 8c 0c 39 Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 881593401 Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: ata3: EH complete Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB) Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Dec 5 20:50:23 nirvana kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Booting from the install disk, assembling the arrays and fsck'ing -c -y the individual disks found a bad block on sda, corrected the problem and things were fine for a month. Then the same sda error appeared. Currently I have disabled dmraid and have the two disks running independently with zero errors. I'm keeping the contents mirrored with a cron job that basically does a 'cp -a / /mnt/sda' where sdc is the disk that is booted from and sda is mounted at /mnt/sda. This experience has raised a question that I can't find the answer to: "How does dmraid handle a bad block?" Also (hardware issues aside), is there anything from a kernel/drive controller standpoint that could be invoking the error? After running the disks independently for a week without a single error, I think I'll reassemble the array and rebuild it. Any other thoughts/suggestions? Obviously there was a bad block that developed on sda, but adding it to the bad block table fixed it. I have a pair of 750 G drives coming to replace this set, but I'm curious about the bad block handling with dmraid. If 1 bad block is enough to kill the array, then that's not a very robust system. The disks are both seagate 500G drives (ST3500641AS). The system hardware is: System Information Manufacturer: TYAN Computer Corp Product Name: S2865 BIOS Information Vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD Version: 6.00 PG Release Date: 06/20/2005 Address: 0xE0000 Runtime Size: 128 kB ROM Size: 512 kB Characteristics: Processor Information Socket Designation: Socket 939 Type: Central Processor Family: Athlon 64 Manufacturer: AMD ID: 32 0F 02 00 FF FB 8B 17 Signature: Family 15, Model 35, Stepping 2 All thoughts welcomed... -- 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] Strange outpu from latest qemu-kvm
by Damjan Georgievski 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

Just updated to qemu-kvm 0.12.1.2-1 here, and now when I start a VM I get this: $ qemu-kvm -m 384 -drive file=karmic.img,if=virtio,boot=on -vnc :0 -monitor unix:mon/karmick.sock,server,nowait -daemonize profiling:/home/tobias:Cannot create directory profiling:/home/tobias/Arch/svn/svn-packages/vde2/trunk/src/vde2-2.2.2/src/lib/.libs/libvdeplug.gcda:Skip profiling:/home/tobias:Cannot create directory profiling:/home/tobias/Arch/svn/svn-packages/vde2/trunk/src/vde2-2.2.2/src/common/.libs/cmdparse.gcda:Skip profiling:/home/tobias:Cannot create directory profiling:/home/tobias/Arch/svn/svn-packages/vde2/trunk/src/vde2-2.2.2/src/common/.libs/canonicalize.gcda:Skip profiling:/home/tobias:Cannot create directory profiling:/home/tobias/Arch/svn/svn-packages/vde2/trunk/src/vde2-2.2.2/src/lib/.libs/libvdeplug.gcda:Skip profiling:/home/tobias:Cannot create directory profiling:/home/tobias/Arch/svn/svn-packages/vde2/trunk/src/vde2-2.2.2/src/common/.libs/cmdparse.gcda:Skip profiling:/home/tobias:Cannot create directory profiling:/home/tobias/Arch/svn/svn-packages/vde2/trunk/src/vde2-2.2.2/src/common/.libs/canonicalize.gcda:Skip The VM seems to work fine otherwise. -- damjan

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[arch-general] Tiny webserver to run as root
by RedShift 05 Jan '10

05 Jan '10

Hi all Does anyone have a suggestion for some software, a tiny webserver that is able to run as root and execute CGI scripts? It should be smaller than apache and preferably even smaller than lighttpd. It doesn't need a whole lot of features, it only needs to be able to execute CGI scripts. I have tried a few: nanoweb (which is written in php as well) but has some problems with CGI scripts and when it runs in multi process mode it brings the system load up to exactly 1.00. Nullhttpd, but it's old and unmaintained. Tinyhttpd isn't up for the job as well (kept crashing at times). Thanks, Best regards, Glenn

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[arch-general] Shutdown Issue
by GTR 05 Jan '10

05 Jan '10

Hi I am using Gnome 2.28, and added the shutdown item to the panel. While using the shutdown button from the panel, the screen garbles up, and i don't see the normal shutdown messages, but the computer still shuts down normally. nothing is logged related to this. While using any other shutdown method (console, or even system -> shutdown), all the shutdown messages are displayed (the daemons switching off, etc) and the computer shuts down normally. I would like to know, what script does that button call, that probably leads to the above issue.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cron
by Heiko Baums 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

Am Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:52:45 -0600 schrieb Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com>: > Though, I must admit, I did not see this email until after I replied. > yacron was not evaluated when we looked into this... From Jim's explanations I think that it could be worth testing yacron, too. Greetings, Heiko

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[arch-general] Replies on arch-general to dev emails (was: Cron)
by Dan McGee 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Heiko Baums <lists(a)baums-on-web.de> wrote: > > I again answer to arch-general due to write permissions. > You realize you don't need to say this *every single time* you answer an email from arch-dev-public? We do this (restrict who can post to that list) quite on purpose, and this is the defined method of answering these emails. Every dev subscribes to this list too so it isn't like your email is getting lost. -Dan

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cron
by Heiko Baums 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

Answering to arch-general again. ;-) Am Mon, 4 Jan 2010 10:51:29 +0100 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck <dieter(a)plaetinck.be>: > When a crontab is missed due to system downtime, sometimes you want > the crontab to be done when the system boots up, but sometimes you do > not want that at all. (eg a cleanup crontab that should never run > during peak hours) > > would be nice if the choosen cron solution supports a certain marker > per cron entry where you can define the behavior you want. That's exactly what you can do with fcron. In crontab you have to explicitly tell fcron to run cronjobs which should have run during downtime at bootup. If I recall correctly you have to prefix these lines with an "@". Otherwise they are handled like in dcron. The scripts in /etc/cron.hourly etc. are executed at bootup if the system was down when they should be running. But you can delete or chmod 600 them or just comment the commands out. Greetings, Heiko

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cron
by Heiko Baums 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

Am Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:23:28 -0500 schrieb Paul Mattal <paul(a)mattal.com>: > Is there also an issue we're trying to solve with anacron? Can't we > use bcron (or any other cron for that matter) and still use anacron > separately? > > I understand that fcron could theoretically do the work of both, but > don't see an inherent advantage over two separate tools which might > each be better at their own job. I again answer to arch-general due to write permissions. I vote for fcron because it has dcron and anacron features. Two separate packages is indeed a regression and not really KISS like because anacron can only do anacron and dcron can only do dcron while fcron can do both. And on a desktop system which doesn't run 24/7 you need both features at the same time. On servers which run 24/7 it doesn't harm if the cron daemon has anacron features, too. I'm using fcron since years and it just works. It runs every cronjob as soon as possible. If the system runs then it executes the cronjobs at that time which is configured. If the system is down then fcron will start the cronjobs as soon as possible, as soon as the system is up again. I don't know bcron and yacron but I doubt that they have anacron features. Also fcron supports the directories /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly and /etc/cron.monthly. So it's very easy to configure cronjobs. No cryptical configuration file anymore. Just put a shell script into one of these directories and they will be executed regularly. The old configuration method is still possible. Greetings, Heiko

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Re: [arch-general] Looks like an AUR (web interface) bug?
by talki walki 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

Loui Chang wrote: >I manually changed the ID. >The package should appear on the web site now. Thank you. I was wondering "who did the magic setting the category to system?" > How did you upload your package? slurpy -P -U <account> Without the -C option, it defaults category to NONE. I uploaded three packages in a row using this method, the other two were just fine though.

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[arch-general] Looks like an AUR (web interface) bug?
by talki walki 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

Hi, all. The following page of msort in AUR says "Package details could not be found." http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33319 While one can fetch the package info using the rpc interface: wget 'http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=search&arg=msort' -q -O- Also the tarball is available at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/msort/msort.tar.gz and the package builds fine.

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