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[arch-general] Kernel ext2 driver
by Peter Feuerer 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Hi list, just wanted to ask, why ext2 isn't built directly into the kernel anymore? Is there any special reason? I would prefer to have ext2 built in again, because I'm dealing a lot with special configurations of archlinux, like thinclient installations where the whole image is running in an ext2 formated ramdisk and so on. Currently I'm building the complete kernel everytime I need to do an upgrade. But I think the ext2 driver isn't such a big ballast for standard systems, so you might want to do me a favour and set it as a built in driver of the standard kernel again. Would save me a lot of compile time. kind regards, --peter

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[arch-general] Boot sequence stops at modules (rc.sysinit)
by Stephen Wilkinson 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

Hello everyone, After upgrading the kernel alone (and after fixing some kernel panics -- see postscript) the boot sequence now stops at loading the modules ([DONE]) and goes no further: the cursor blinks and I can type characters, but I never get a shell prompt. It seems the boot sequence doesn't go beyond rc.sysinit The only reference I found to a similar problem is in the forum: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=323775 where it was suggested to try the fallback image and removing modules from the rc.conf. I've tried both, but hasn't helped (as expected: the kernel loads properly, so not an ramdisk problem, and the modules also load as I get [DONE] status...). Before this problem, I knew nothing at all about the boot sequence in linux so I read this: http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/The_Linux_Boot_Sequence Please correct me if I've misunderstood: after loading the kernel, the boot sequence gets to the init stage, and rc.sysinit is executed -- which, according to my '/etc/rc.sysinit' ends with loading of modules... but what happens next? I've looked at /etc/inittab but I don't understand how the sequence of events (and scripts) is specified. I tried booting into different run levels (adding 1 or 3 to the kernel line of grub), but it makes no difference. Because I don't get to a login prompt, I resorted to using a live CD to mount my root partition and tinker with /etc/rc.sysinit ... although I admit I don't know what I'm doing. I thought that maybe the initscripts package should have been upgraded at the same time as the kernel. In summary, what I've tried: - used a live CD to edit rc.conf (disable modules), and checked there was nothing in rc.local -- made no difference - tried booting with fallback image -- made no difference (didn't think it would as the kernel loads properly) -- made no difference - used a live CD to tinker with /etc/rc.sysinit but don't know what I'm doing, and it seems to complete successfully anyway, as all modules are loaded (status says [DONE]) - tried entering run level 1 by appending 1 to my Grub kernel line -- made no difference Is there a way to bypass what comes between the end of rc.sysinit (i.e. loading the modules) and the login prompt, so that I can at least log in and then try to fix the problem? In other words, how do I find out what happens after rc.sysinit and disable it? Thanks, Steve P.S: in case it's relevant, here is a summary of the kernel panics I got after upgrading the kernel and rebooting: After kernel upgrade I got kernel panics because I hadn't changed initrd26.img to kernel26.img and /dev/hda5 to /dev/sda5 in Grub's menu.lst (as you can see I hadn't upgraded for a long time, and didn't pay enough attention to the upgrade messages). Having done that, I then had to correct /etc/fstab for the same /dev/hda5 mistake. Finally the kernel booted properly, but the sequence stops at loading modules.

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[arch-general] Kernel ext2 driver
by Keith 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 at 13:41:46 +0100, Jan de Groot <jan(a)jgc.homeip.net> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 20:50 -0600, Dan McGee wrote: > > Your entire rest of statement was valid, but why on earth did you make > > a claim like this? I have to speak up and say something here. ext2 is > > nowhere near dead. I use it on my /boot partition on every Linux > > install, and every filesystem on my Eee is currently ext2. Hardly > > dead- unless "stable as hell" = dead. > > Ext2 is stable as hell, so is ext3. The point is that nowadays almost nobody wants to use a filesystem without journal, that's why I consider it dead. If journalling wasn't important (and if I didn't need filesizes bigger than 2 or 4GB), then FAT32 wouldn't be a dead filesystem either. Ext3 is basically just Ext2 with an added journal, so that's why Ext2 is still developed and supported. ??? First off, FAT32 is a native Linux filesystem??? AND it's dead??? I haven't used it in, maybe, years, but I do have one box for my printers/scanners with only Win98 or WinXP drivers. It would be nice to know I COULD dual-boot it and access the FAT32 partition(s), at least. Thought that's why it was there? I *never* use ext3, for anything. I've used ReiserFS, JFS, XFS. They all have advantages in particular situations. Ext3 seems to me a 'catch-all' not optimized (and, thus, NON-optimal) for any situation. However, for ALL my installs, I have a separate /boot partition - and it's ALWAYS ext2. ALWAYS. I guess I'm "almost nobody" - but who needs a journaling FS for /boot? As my /boot is generally in the 32-64MB range, the journal would take up virtually the entire FS (obviously, meaning I'd need a larger /boot partition, or else needlessly complicate the /boot partition creation; it's brainless as it is now). Last time I checked, /boot has no need (nor will it at ANY POINT in the forseeable future) for 2GB+ files or filesystems. I agree completely with Dan here. I'm FAR from a pro on Linux, but why this is even an issue of contention is going over my head...this all seems pretty simple, and pretty obvious, even to ME; pretty simply = ext2. KISS, right? Sincerely, Keith

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[arch-general] Firefox PGO builds
by Emmanuel Benisty 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

Hi Arch-General, Further to the /. discussion about PGO Firefox builds [ http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/27/2049258 ], I decided to give it a try out of curiosity. I just simply followed the instructions of Mozilla website about PGO builds [ http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Building_with_Profile-Guided_Optimizat… ] using an up-to-date CVS tree. So I just have few questions about this: - Is Arch planning to provide PGO builds once FF3 is released ? - Did anyone try to build FF3 wih PGO ? If yes, how did you manage to build it as user ? Using the 'default process' will require root privilege otherwise it will fail because of a simple permission problem. (firefox-bin:8960): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Unable to create ~/.gnome2 directory: Permission denied Could not create per-user gnome configuration directory `/root/.gnome2/': Permission denied make: *** [profiledbuild] Error 1 ==> ERROR: Build Failed. Aborting... To launch FF between the 2 builds, I used the simple script of the mozilla doc (Cf. link above): #!/bin/sh export NO_EM_RESTART=1 mkdir $OBJDIR/_profileprofile $OBJDIR/dist/bin/firefox -no-remote -profile $OBJDIR/_profileprofile As root, everything is working as expected. The point is that running FF (to 'build' the profile) as root is really something that I would like to avoid for obvious reasons. Thanks a lot in advance for any suggestion/advice.

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[arch-general] Anyone using fprint for authentication ?
by Alper KANAT 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

Hey There, I want to use my fingerprint scanner to login through GDM and GNOME Screensaver... I can do this right now partially... It always asks for my password which is maybe secure but annoying at the same time.. I want to use fingerprint login first and if it fails then I want to use password login.. Any ideas for how to do this ? I'm trying this in GNOME Screensaver but it asks for the password whenever I slide my finger on the scanner.. -- Alper KANAT http://raptiye.org

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[arch-general] where is kde 3.5.9 ?
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

hi kde 3.5.9 is out since the 19th february i was used to have the latest kde release the day before the offical release on arch ! now we are almost 10 days after the official release and nothing. what's happening ? even if arch switch to kde 4 (too soon for me) i prefer to wait Kde 4.1 will we have a kde 3.5.9 release in arch ?

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[arch-general] Missing man pages
by Mordechai Peller 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

I notice that some of the man pages are missing, including: find, cat, ls, uniq, tee, and tail. They were in man-pages-2.74-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz, but not man-pages-2.77-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz or man-pages-2.78-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz. Was there any reason they where removed? Thanks

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[arch-general] Help!Can anyone be so nice to share the Purevoice Linux SDK?
by yueyu lin 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Hi, all If you're the voice codec developers, you may know Qualcomm closed the Purevoice SDK downloads since Dec 31,2007. As I don't save a copy of that and cannot see any signs Qualcomm will re-open it soon, can anyone who has the SDK to share with me? I don't think it will violate any laws cause Qualcomm used to open downloads and even Qualcomm's brew SDK is free. Thanks in advance. Any help will be highly appreciated! -- -- Yueyu Lin

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[arch-general] Tk707. Problems getting sounds out of it (Don't Panic)
by Nigel Henry 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Looking for available audio apps, I installed tk707. There were some problems when starting it from the CLI (couldn't find shared libraries) as below. [djmons@myhost ~]$ tk707 /usr/bin/tk707bin: error while loading shared libraries: libtk8.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [djmons@myhost ~]$ tk707bin tk707bin: error while loading shared libraries: libtk8.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [djmons@myhost ~]$ su Password: \[root@myhost djmons]# ln -s /usr/lib/libtk8.5.so /usr/lib/libtk8.4.so [root@myhost djmons]# exit exit [djmons@myhost ~]$ tk707 /usr/bin/tk707bin: error while loading shared libraries: libtcl8.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [djmons@myhost ~]$ su Password: [root@myhost djmons]# ldconfig [root@myhost djmons]# tk707 /usr/bin/tk707bin: error while loading shared libraries: libtcl8.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [root@myhost djmons]# ln -s /usr/lib/libtcl8.5.so /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so [root@myhost djmons]# exit As you can see, I created a couple of symlinks, and then starting tk707 again, opened the ports selection window. So far so good. I've got an Audigy2 soundblaster on this machine, and need to load a soundfont to use the hardware synth. I looked for the awesfx package, and jacman shows version 0.5.0d-2 available from the community repo, but installing it with jacman failed (couldn't find the package). I also tried pacman -S awesfx, but again the package couldn't be found. The community repo is uncommented in /etc/pacman.conf, and pacman -Sy shows it on the list of updated databases. Any suggestions as to how I can get the awesfx package? I could use TiMidity to get sounds out of tk707, or Qsynth (If it's available), but being able to load the soundfont for my card is preferable. Thanks for any help, suggestions. Nigel.

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[arch-general] Concurrent java environments
by Ondřej Kučera 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Hello, I was wondering - why jre/jdk packages conflict with java-gcj-compat? Unless I missed something there are no file conflicts (since jre and jdk are in /opt) and I think the rest (switching between the environments when necessary) could be done be (re)setting of environment variables (such as $PATH and $JAVA_HOME). Or am I overlooking something? Being a java developer (at least from time to time) I am in need of Sun implementation (actually even of version 6), on the other hand on x86_64 the webplugin from gcc-gcj in combination with java-gcj-compat is the only way to run some applets (e. g. those that need security certificates; for other applets only gcc-gcj might be enough). Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera

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[arch-general] Packages without license field in official repos
by Xavi Soler 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

My intention is to know the number of non-free packages installed on my system. In Debian I can use 'vrms' [1]. I think Arch has nothing similar, but I can start programming an application like 'vrms' (maybe using libalpm or calling pacman directly). My first test has been typing: $ pacman -Q | pacman -Qi | less and reading carefully the license fields: most (BSDs and MITs specially) say 'custom'. The big problem I've found is that, quite often, I read the word 'none' there, but I can't understant how can it happen in packages stored in official repos. There are a lot of packages without license field. I could do a heavy research to know which packages include a license field and which don't, and then warn their mantainers. But it would be a waste of time. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrms -- Blog: http://interrupciones.net

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev 118-2
by Michal Soltys 24 Feb '08

24 Feb '08

Aaron Griffin wrote: > > Idea #2: > $ mv /etc/udev/rules.d/00-load-blacklist.rules > /etc/udev/rules.d/00-load-blacklist.rules.disabled > in /etc/rc.sysinit, add ". /lib/udev/mod-blacklist.sh" and "export > BLACKLSIT MOD_AUTOLOAD" right before the udevd --daemon call > comment out the echo lines in the mod-blacklist script if you care > > Hopefully the environment vars that udev sees are also seen by scripts > that it executes... > Sorry for crossposting, but I couldn't not add some remarks :) Following discussion on dev mailing list regarding new udev and initscripts, I have one question - why rely on separate blacklist defined in rc.conf ? modprobe supports blacklisting itself in modprobe.conf (to be precise - it blacklists all aliases for specified modules, which is exactly what's needed here). You can use raw modprobe and probably speed up things nicely, without any extra scripts. That mod-blacklist.sh will be called on every uevent once - environment is not preserved between uevents (even with line proposed by Aaron), and must be fresh on every uevent. Btw - you can monitor environment with udevmonitor --env Other remarks: Is there particular reason, why you use monolithic single udev.rules file ? Defaults in etc/udev/rules.d and etc/udev/packages are pretty clean and logical (standard rules from udev-118). Also they are split into xy-something.rules files so any specifics you need overridden in Archlinux, can be easily done so, with i.e. last_rule option and separate files. Easier for you to maintain, also easier for users to adjust for their particular needs Compatiblity rules for loading scsi devices are no longer needed, as far as i know. Few others can be skipped as well (check 80-drivers.rules for current state, also gentoo 30-kernel-compat.rules for interesting reference). Cheers

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[arch-general] problem with fakeroot
by Karolina Lindqvist 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

When building kdelibs, I always get the following error: ../../kdoctools/meinproc --srcdir=../../kdoctools --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. The make appears not to be able to be done with fakeroot, but as far as I understand, makepkg always does that. The solution is to build as root. Is there any other way to avoid this?

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[arch-general] Mirror out of sync?
by David Rosenstrauch 20 Feb '08

20 Feb '08

Anyone know what's up with the ftp://mirrors.unixheads.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686 mirror? It appears to be out of sync on at least one key package: the kernel! The devs released 2.6.24.1 on 2/10, but the mirror still has 2.6.23.14. Anyone know what's going on with it? (And/or who to contact over there to get it updated?) TIA, DR

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[arch-general] AUR Release 1.5.0
by Simo Leone 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

I will be updating the AUR on main site sometime this evening. There might be intermittent downtime and maintenance messages, but downtime will be minimal. This is a really big release, and I do mean big. This release brings a json interface, the brand new arch look, a tu voting back-end, tons of changes under the hood, and the removal of safe flags, among tons of other changes. See the shortlog for the nitty gritty. 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Manual addition of thayers previous patch. commit d4faaaf3195535ea63ac52d2701cf95dea590d15 Author: Thayer Williams <thayerw(a)gmail.com> Template update for new Arch logo commit 6683f3ceebcb712c6e3ba4a1bf09c85190c4d0f2 Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> poop commit 0eb2997a82b1817124bbfb6986be8058134879ea Author: Dan McGee <dan(a)archlinux.org> Allow pkgsubmit to accept any tar* file commit 379e16eebda1ba9bfc45de486e99e480843d086a Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Support for verbose page titles commit d4b07f2b334dada626e4743951cdd6adab87f62e Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Tweaks of various page layouts and handling of data commit dbbf50ac9024dddb5ce70b8aa42c828596eb66d3 Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Removes need for name, overwrite and comment fields from pkgsubmit.php commit ce225727f67f5b65b5f92ec96b074712c290ea63 Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Bug in uploading PKGBUILDs and aur schema commit 8c94552042115d2a7bb04de3b4f66cdf95f2a5de Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Add notify column in search results and notify button commit bf5c28cf2260df822efa72095af69cc119170a3e Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Fix bug with botched AURSID values commit 0e4b25211bc2d9629f0f848ea25a4c2fbcbfe339 Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Removes timeout page and moves login form to header commit 9a83e56b69bff3ef1921d3f8dab0b2daabb4d4c3 Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Adds support for TUs and devs to disown packages they do not own commit 5f4afcc8cb6dcc5dcbe4d5161fad5372eb5f6435 Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Add support for variable length votes in voting application commit a8e574ef2897e9ca709c2cfa5ff78d2f69464092 Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> AUR Voting Application commit 32b863203fcda13f322aa0802bc64eec64dcaa51 Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Modified to get details based on an exact package name, or based on a package id. commit 47e80c24afa539d23f9060ee876303e24a1b1c89 Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Removed reference to 'safe' commit f4bfe44876c9d7c62395fbd0c065a5c28d9f33be Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Comments are listed in reverse order (latest first) commit d245f691eea12a2307d5c49f81d1d8ee7b415251 Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Fixes to disclaimer text. commit c17b629a4d6e52e137afc9cb0f9c5dd3edc9ece3 Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Fix for safe-removal. commit a9837329d697a9e18401309a1496cc3b5015bc6a Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Hand diff of simo's patch to remove flag safe functionality. commit 6dbe12264ac0998ac4b69a507c0b7c1b55c03c1f Author: Dan McGee <dan(a)archlinux.org> Remove dummy data from GIT commit ba51e17482a04922e7974541373a96f2dba1bfcc Author: Paul Mattal <paul(a)mattal.com> Updated favicon.ico to match the main site. commit b23b51fbbd3c84a493a68da8c88bde8807c894bc Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Removed beta.html Seems old. commit 36dd7736c993cbcf61228f6e06466a6614939c97 Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Moved usage documentation out of the class. 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Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] mysql-5.0.51-3 broke.
by Jason R Begley 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

JJDaNiMoTh wrote: >On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:40:19 -0500 >Jason R Begley <jayray(a)digitalgoat.com> wrote: > > > >>Sorry, supposed to be /etc/conf.d/mysql >> >> >> >... and I think that this question need to be posted on arch-general :) > > > > I can't get it right today.. Thanks :)

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[arch-general] monospace fontsize changed in firefox
by Petar Bogdanovic 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

Hi, during the past few weeks there were xserver and firefox updates and it seems that they have made firefox render some monospace-fonts slightly bigger. The following image displays a part of a board which has not been modified for years: Mirror 1: http://i30.tinypic.com/vg6e0h.png Mirror 2: http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/1708/monobt7.png CSS-definition for the displayed text (before _and_ after change `x'): font: normal 13px monospace; I tried to display the page with a new firefox-profile (rm -rf .mozilla) but it looked the same. Thanks, Petar BTW: I don't have a clue about the font-family used in the example since xfontsel is still a total mystery to me. However, I do know that `monospace' is just something like an alias and not a real font.

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[arch-general] [translation] String freeze for pacman 3.1.2 release
by Dan McGee 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

Some comments from the 3.1.1 string freeze still apply so I have included these below. Note that libalpm has had zero string changes this time around, meaning you do not need to submit this po file unless you are making grammar or spelling corrections, etc. If you have any questions, please contact the pacman-dev mailing list. Thanks! > I've CC-ed this to the Arch General list to see if we can get a > helping hand with some of our currently neglected translations. As > this list may not be quite as familiar with how everything works, > PLEASE reply to the list or privately to me if you have questions or > want to help out but are not sure how. > > Our pacman translation policy is outlined here. The important sections > for translators are the introduction and up to (and including) > pre-release updates. > http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/translation-help.html > > As stated in the above document, PO files have been made available to translate: > http://code.toofishes.net/pacman/po_files/ > > I would like to get the release out within the next 7 days, so the > sooner the better for the translations. Current list of known translators: http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=pacman.git;a=blob;f=TRANSLATORS > If you wish to help translate, but your language is already listed as > handled by someone, please contact them at the above addresses. If the > language is listed as "no current translator", then please reply to > ALL on this message stating you are doing the translation so we do not > have duplicated effort (although you are more than welcome to work in > teams). > > Once you have updated or completed a translation, simply tar and gzip > the files up and send them back to pacman-dev(a)archlinux.org with a > [translation] prefix in the message. > > For those that are used to the old method of updating translations > (GIT patches), those are still acceptable as well. Please prefix the > patch with "translation:" so it can be picked out easily. HOWEVER, if > at all possible, please do not needlessly update the line numbers in > the code! It makes it much easier to see which translations have been > changed and updated if line number changes are not 90% of the patch. > The "translations" branch is located in my GIT repo; one of the > following things will probably be of help. > > http://code.toofishes.net/gitweb.cgi?p=pacman.git;a=shortlog;h=translations > > git remote add dan http://code.toofishes.net/gitprojects/pacman.git > git checkout -b translations dan/translations

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[arch-general] `filesystem' upgrade overwrites /etc/issue
by Petar Bogdanovic 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Hi, Is there a reason, why /etc/issue is not in the backup array of core/base/filesystem/PKGBUILD? Thanks, Petar

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[arch-general] kernel 2.6.24 and rlocate can work together
by Attila 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Hi, i put this here as an information instead of writing a feature request because at the moment i don't think it is the job of the arch devs to cancel a decision of the kernel devs. Okay, i found a patch to get the possibility of loading LSM modules back: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207421#c7 After following the instructions from above i have this lines in my config: CONFIG_SECURITY=y CONFIG_SECURITY_MODULAR=y # CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK is not set # CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES is not set updatedb and locate works as normal. I don't know if this will works with following kernel releases but at the moment this is a nice option if you use rlocate. See you, Attila

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[arch-general] Opera 9.5x snapshots moved to unstable
by Andreas Radke 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

I have removed the Opera devel snapshots from our testing repo to not mix it with future 9.2x releases. You find the latest 9.5x snapshots now in unstable for both arches. Take care - it replaces the stable Opera from extra. So backup all your stuff before you try it out. -AndyRTR

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[arch-general] no x with new xorg-server and nvidia
by Johannes Held 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Hi folks, right now, I updated my machine and X won't start! The new kernel, new xorg-server and nvidia-*. nvidia 169.09-2 nvidia-utils 169.09-1 xorg-server 1.4.0.90-6 kernel26 2.6.24.1-2 I updated normally but X won't start. All I get is a blank screen. I can't change back to ttys. The only thing that's working is CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot my machine. I tried a few thing.. pacman -Rd xorg-server nvidia nvidia-utils and installing them again pacman -S xorg-server pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils everytime the symlink to libwfb.so in /usr/lib/xorg/modules is symlinked to the "real" libwfb. Having nvidia-* installed, it symlinks to libnvidia-wfb.so.169.09. If nvidia is not installed, it symlinks to libwfb.so.1.4 Any ideas? I can't get any output of the starting X-Server, because I can't switch back to the tty. Thanks in advance. -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version

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[arch-general] Firefox 2.0.0.12, unable to rebuilding !
by Gilles CHAUVIN 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

Hi all, I sent an e-mail early to whom I think is responsible for this package but, since I got no reply yet, I'm trying here and see if I have more luck :). It seem like there is a problem with the latest Firefox update (v2.0.0.12). I cannot rebuild the package as there is a file (declared in the PKGBUILD) that is missing. The file is a patch named "firefox-1.5-theme-change.patch". If I remove any references to this patch in the PKGBUILD, the package will then build. Also, the md5sums() array doesn't reflect the source() array number of elements: # abs [...] $ source /var/abs/extra/network/firefox/PKGBUILD $ echo ${#source[*]} 19 $ echo ${#md5sums[*]} 18 I'm pretty sure this mistake is linked to the missing patch mentioned above. Could someone have a look at this or do I have to file a bug ? Thanks, Gilles.

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[arch-general] packages in base
by Grigorios Bouzakis 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

Hi, i started playing with packages in base today, and the first two packages that come up in alphabetical order are acl and attr. I decided to research what those packages actually do, since i doubt i have ever used them. The site both packages link to is http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/. I am wondering if those packages are needed to a user not using the XFS filesystem and the reason acl is Required By : coreutils gettext libarchive vim. Any help on the subject, links etc. would be appreciated. Next thing i wanted to ask is if the bash-noinfo.patch in the bash package is indeed needed as the man page installs fine without it. PS. Can we get the Mailing List footer back? Greg

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[arch-general] [arch-announce] Kernel 2.6.24.1 in Core
by Roman Kyrylych 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

After a testing phase kernel 2.6.24.1 has been moved to Core where it replaces version 2.6.23.14. Some of the most visible changes for users include: * more mac80211-based wireless drivers added * tickless support for x86_64 * uvesafb; support for ATI Xpress 200M and Mac framebuffers * ACPI usage in libata * SATA port multipliers support * NCQ support on MCP51/MCP55/MCP61 chipsets (add 'swncq=1' to the kernel boot commandline) * SDIO support * ability to use any kernel version to resume a hibernated system * read-only --bind mounts * tons of bugfixes and improvements A detailed human-readable changelog is available at KernelNewbies Wiki: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_24 Attention! The kernel26-2.6.24.1-2 package includes an important security fix (local user privilege escalation). Everyone is encouraged to upgrade, especially on a system with ssh accounts. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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