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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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[arch-general] SSH. Can't open Xapps when su'ed to root
by Nigel Henry 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

I'm still looking at the jacman problem, and have sometimes found that apps that won't work on the machine they are installed on, will work if I ssh into the machine, and run them on another. IIRC I had problems initially using ssh when I installed Archlinux (don't panic), but found some info somewhere or other, as below. Comment out "ALL: ALL: DENY" line in /etc/hosts/deny Add sshd to /etc/rc.conf daemons list Run /etc/rc.d/sshd start Now I can ssh into archlinux (this is just local, not from the Internet). I have uncommented the following lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 I can open Xapps as user (gedit, jacman,etc), but not when I su to root, as below for gedit. [djmons@myhost ~]$ su Password: [root@myhost djmons]# gedit X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. cannot open display: Run 'gedit --help' to see a full list of available command line options. [root@myhost djmons]# Same goes when I try to open jacman when su'ed to root. I tried accessing Xapps as root with Fedora 8, which is on the same machine as Archlinux, and they open ok. I have compared the sshd_config on both F8, and Archlinux, and can't see any apparent differences between the two. Anyone have any suggestions as to what may be the problem? All a bit puzzling. Nigel.

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[arch-general] problem with Firefox and Opera
by Scott Weisman 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

I did a system upgrade yesterday (Friday 8 Feb). The following (possibly relevant) packages were upgraded: mesa libgl xorg-server xf86-video-intel firefox After I did the upgrade, I shut down my box. When I restarted tonight, Firefox kept crashing, and giving this error message: The program 'gecko' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. (Details: serial 1625746 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) Because it kept crashing, I tried Opera (which I use for testing and as a backup). It started, but returned this message (which I had never seen before): opera: X Shared memory extension is not available. ZPixmap not supported Because I am getting unusual errors in both browsers (and the errors are related), I think this is at a lower level. My system is a Core 2 Duo with 2GB RAM and 400MB swap (which is not used at the time Firefox crashes). Has anyone else experienced any of these problems? Does anyone have any suggestions? Scott

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[arch-general] X11 man pages
by marc[î1] 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hello, Arch devs put man pages in /usr/share/man like FHS want, ok. But FHS says : « Manual pages for X11R6 are stored in /usr/X11R6/man. It follows that all manual page hierarchies in the system must have the same structure as /usr/share/man. » http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREMANMANUALPAGES I don't understand FHS or ArchLinux should put X11 man page in /usr/X11R6/man ? Regards. -- + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + + (o< -! marc[i1] #363392 + + //\ http://archlinux.fr + + \\/_ Linux for Free Generation + + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +

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[arch-general] Fw: get pid of daemon in init script
by Michael Krauss 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

On 08/02/08, Dan McGee wrote: > Because you are calling pidof before the process starts- bash does not > do lazy evaluation of your expressions. > > If you want to store the PID of the newly started process, you will > have to make another PID=... call to get it in the else block where > you access it. Ohh, you are absolutely right. It is working now. I must get this damn Common Lisp out of my head before writing shell scripts next time. I will file a bug report on cups too. Thanks, Michael Krauss

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[arch-general] get pid of daemon in init script
by Michael Krauss 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi to .* I must write a rc init script for a server I am packaging. Therefor I have copied the init script of cups. Now I recognized that both pid files, cups.pid and my own, in /var/run are empty. Further investigations have shown that "pidof -o %PPID -x /usr/bin/cdvserver" returns nothing in the start) case but in stop) it seems to work. I don't understand why pidof isn't working as expected. Kind Regards, Michael Krauss Here is my init script: #!/bin/bash . /etc/rc.conf . /etc/rc.d/functions PID=`pidof -o %PPID -x /usr/bin/cdvserver` PIDFILE="/var/run/cdvserver.pid" case "$1" in start) stat_busy "Starting Codeville Server" [ -z "$PID" ] && /usr/bin/cdvserver if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then stat_fail else echo "Started " $PID echo $PID > $PIDFILE add_daemon cdv stat_done fi ;; stop) stat_busy "Stopping Codeville Server" [ ! -z "$PID" ] && kill $PID &> /dev/null if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then stat_fail else rm $PIDFILE rm_daemon cdv stat_done fi ;; restart) $0 stop sleep 1 $0 start ;; *) echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" esac exit 0

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[arch-general] What should be done with octave?
by Neil Darlow 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi, Arch has octave-2.1.73 in extra. The current stable version of octave is 3.0.0 but it is not backwards compatible with the 2.1.x series. The gcc-4.2.3 migration has broken octave due to a versioned dependency on gcc-fortran. Also, the PKGBUILD has no license or md5sum entries. The octave-2.1.73 PKGBUILD will need fixing but should it be updated to 3.0.0 and, if so, should a legacy octave2 package be created? I'm looking for opinions before I file any bug report. Regards, Neil Darlow

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[arch-general] mozilla /usr move
by Grigorios Bouzakis 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 08:26:09PM +0100, Jan de Groot wrote: > Hi all, > > I've cleaned up testing a bit: > - moved xulrunner/seamonkey/firefox and friends to extra. This is part > of the /usr move Any idea why an /opt/mozilla/lib directory is still created by one of those packages? It doesnt seem to be part of any of these filelists. I wanted to ask this when the packages were still in testing but totally forgot to. Greg

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[arch-general] Jacman. Problem installing packages (don't panic)
by Nigel Henry 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Jacman hasn't worked properly, as regards installing packages since I installed don't panic. Saying that I have been able to install the odd single package, that has no deps, but as of today, even installing single packages (alsaplayer as an example) fails. Jacman opens ok, and I click on "Install Packages", and that's ok, but when I select a package to install, and click on "Install", a window, like a terminal (CLI) (dialog window) opens. As soon as this window opens, the CPU hits 100%. The output in this console says: resolving dependencies looking for inter-conflicts and in red proceed with installation? [Y/n] The bottom of the console window has "Done", "Yes", and "No" boxes, but none are highlighted. As I've said, on the odd occasion I have been able to install a single package, and in this case the Yes, and No boxes have been highlighted, and the Done box is highlighted when the package is installed. Before I post a bug report for Jacman, has anyone any suggestions? Nigel.

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[arch-general] Scanner only works as root
by Renan Birck 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hello, I have an HP Photosmart C3180 all-in-one (printer/scanner/copier). Installed cups, hplip, sane. Printing works. Scanning, however, only works as root, otherwise xsane says that there are no devices. But if I chmod 777 -R /dev/bus/usb/* it works for my current user; therefore I deduce it is a permission problem. This looks like an udev problem, however my udev knowledge is next to null. What steps could I take to solve this problem? I would like to get rid of this ugly hack. Thanks. -- Renan Birck ~ Canoas, RS, Brasil "Quando tudo que você tem é um martelo, todos os seus problemas se parecem com os seus dedões."

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[arch-general] Arch Linux Amazon EC2 images
by Jason Chu 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Hey everyone, At work we're moving over to using Amazon EC2 and since we use arch for development, I've created arch images for everyone to be able to benefit from. Each one is labelled based on the date it was created. They are bare bones. The two ami names are 32bit: ami-3132d758 64bit: ami-903edbf9 Have fun with them! Jason

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[arch-general] [mirror] mirror sync and reachability issues
by Dan McGee 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

We currently have a rash of mirror-related bugs that I wanted to draw your attention to, most of which have been filed on the pacman project. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9390 [Mirror] tu.chemnitz.de http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9391 [Mirror] ftp.nethat.com http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9392 [Mirror] archlinux.org.ru http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9393 [Mirror] ftp.icm.edu.pl http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9394 [Mirror] ftp.linux.kiev.ua http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9439 [Mirror-sync] ftp.nluug.nl, ftp.surfnet.nl I'm sending this to the dev & general lists to reach a broader audience and hopefully those who may know these mirror maintainers to see what is up. I've commented on most of the bugs with the actions I took with regards to the pacman mirrorlist, but there are others that may need to take action as well. 9439 sticks out as rather big as it is two of our mirrors in the Netherlands, so I'd appreciate any feedback on that one. Thanks a lot to Gerhard Brauer for looking into all our mirrors and finding those that are out of date or unreachable. -Dan

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[arch-general] gcc-gcj, webplugin and java.security package
by Ondřej Kučera 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

Hello, I'm trying to make a certain applet (which is inside an internal company information system so unfortunately I can't provide a link) working on x86_64. I tried libgcjwebplugin from gcc-gcj and it starts loading the applet but then it prints the following error to stdout (and the applet doesn't work): java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre/lib/security/cacerts (No such file or directory) I think that this is quite weird, I thought that there would be a problem that the applet uses some Java features that aren't yet implemented in gcj/gnu classpath, but this seems to say that it just looks for some certificates in a really strange place - which could be a bug of gcj or a bug in the way how it's packaged in ArchLinux, I have no idea what is the case here. But anyway if I do "pacman -Ql gcc-gcj" the paths look very different from this one. If i try "locate cacerts" I get /opt/java/jre/lib/security/cacerts which of course belongs to jre package. So, does anyone have a clue if this might have some solution? I also attached the whole stacktrace if that could help. -- Cheers, Ondřej

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-pages 2.77-1
by Grigorios Bouzakis 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 03:59:19PM +0100, Andreas Radke wrote: > for arches in testing. please signoff. it uses the new location in > /usr/share/man. > > -Andy > is this bug report valid? http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9440

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[arch-general] Java applets in Arch64
by Ondřej Kučera 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

Hello, I need to be able to use java applets on my Arch64 box. From what I found on the wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch64_FAQ) it should work out of the box in Konqueror but unfortunately it isn't the case for me. I tried the following two pages containing applets, neither seems to work. http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/deployment/applet/getStarted.html http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/ I do have the java packages (both jre and jdk), I have java enabled in Konqueror, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to do something else. Truth to be told the best solution would be to have applets working in Firefox since since I need them working in an intranet web application that is not exactly 100% compatible with Konqueror, I'm afraid. Is there a working solution for Firefox? -- Cheers, Ondřej

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[arch-general] Problem Reporting Question
by Kevin Monceaux 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Fellow Arch Enthusiasts, I noticed a problem with the ruby-python package in aur/community and added a comment to it. But, then I started wondering if I should have have flagged it as out of date or filed a bug instead. So, I thought I'd ask for future reference. The package isn't exactly out of date. It's built against the current version of the available sources according to the project's web site, although the sources don't appear to have been updated since 2005. The postgres.so library file included in the ruby-postgres binary package is linked against libpq.so.4. The current postgresql-libs package contains libpq.so.5, so the package just needs to be rebuilt to link against the current libs. Also, I got an error trying to download the source tarball from the source URL in the PKGBUILD file. The source tarball is available via the package's main website. Does Arch have a utility similar to Gentoo's revdep-rebuild utility that scans all the libraries/binaries on the system for missing dependencies? Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!!

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[arch-general] Domain: archlinux.eu
by Volker Glatz 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Hi there, I'm the owner of the domain www.archlinux.eu. I registered this domain in the sunrise period of dot-eu to avoid commercial usage or something else. Actually there is a redirection to archlinux.org. If the archlinux project is interested in this domain I'd like to spend it to the project. But if you think it is a good contribution to give my part back to the project I'm also willing to hold the domain anymore on my costs. If there is absolutely no interest in it, I'll give it free. Volker

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[arch-general] Name change on crypto modules for kernel26-2.6.24?
by Neil Darlow 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Hi, I run encrypted swap on my i686 system and thought I would give kernel26-2.6.24 a try. During the encrypted swap setup phase of boot I noticed a couple of errors relating to loading of the aes and sha256 crypto modules. Too me, it looks like these modules have undergone a name change in 2.6.24. I think the required modules are actually being loaded but cryptsetup complains about missing modules. I don't see an updated cryptsetup in testing. Should there be one or am I way off-base here? Regards, Neil Darlow

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[arch-general] Newbie Build xine-lib-1.1.10-1
by JaDa 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Here is my first Archlinux Package Build for i686 xine-lib-1.1.10-1 http://files.myopera.com/Jada0007/arch/xine-lib-1.1.10-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz well I think it is not perfect but someone can check it out too. Then how will be my tutor for the next few weeks? Teaching me a little how to build and work for Archlinux. Thx JaDa -- Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

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[arch-general] man pages and utf8
by Grigorios Bouzakis 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Regarding the discussion going on in arch-dev-public about changes in man and utf8 compliance. As far as i remember Roman's feature request [1] wasnt even mentioned. At least not recently. Are there any thoughts of replacing man with man-db? Or the recent chamges in man and groff make this FR invalid? [1]http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9130

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[arch-general] Mirror out of sync [tu.chemnitz.de]
by Gerhard Brauer 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hello, One german mirror, tu.chemnitz.de, is not synced since 12.12.2007. Bye Gerhard -- Bundestrojaner - wir sind die Guten! Nur echt mit 52 Verfassungsbruechen!

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[arch-general] Qjackctl won't open since latest updates
by Nigel Henry 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

I've had Archlinux "Don't Panic" installed for a while. I installed it because someone on another list was having problems with their hda intel soundcard, and I wanted to see what was required to upgrade the Alsa driver on Archlinux. It seems to be a nice stable distro, pacman, which I havn't used before, installs the downloaded packages very quickly. Downloading them, as always takes a while, as I'm on dialup. Anyway. The problem since the latest updates. Qjackctl was working ok, but since updates I did last night, it now fails to start. See below for the updated packages. [root@myhost djmons]# pacman -Su :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: opera: forcing upgrade to version 9.25-2 resolving dependencies... warning: dependency cycle detected: warning: xorg-server will be installed before its catalyst-utils dependency looking for inter-conflicts... Targets: readline-5.2-7 jack-audio-connection-kit-0.109.0-1 kde-common-3.5.8-3 qt3-3.3.8-6.1 arts-1.5.8-2 avahi-0.6.20-3 xorg-server-1.4.0.90-5 catalyst-utils-8.01-1 dbus-qt3-0.62-3 e2fsprogs-1.40.4-1 x264-20071202-1 ffmpeg-20071204-1 hwd-5.3.2-1 pcre-7.5-1 kdelibs-3.5.8-4 kdebase-3.5.8-3 qscintilla-qt3-1.7.1-2 kdebindings-3.5.8-2 poppler-qt3-0.6.3-1 kdegraphics-3.5.8-3 lvm2-2.02.31-1 mplayer-1.0rc2-2.1 opera-9.25-2 qt-4.3.3-4 poppler-qt-0.6.3-1 python-2.5.1-5 pygobject-2.14.1-1 pygtk-2.12.1-1 qca-2.0.0.svn744387-1.1 qca-qt3-1.0-1 qca-tls-1.0-5 qjackctl-0.3.2-1 qscintilla-2.1-3 libx86-0.99-1 vbetool-1.0-2 vi-7.1.228-1 which-2.19-2 wpa_supplicant-0.5.9-1 Total Download Size: 170.33 MB After these updates Qjackctl would not start from the KDE desktop launcher, and see below for output when trying to start it on the CLI. [djmons@myhost ~]$ qjackctl qjackctl: error while loading shared libraries: libaudio.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [djmons@myhost ~]$ It's true that there's no such library as libaudio.so.2, at least I can't find one. I have run pacman -Sy, and -Su this evening, and no further updates are available. Should I just wait a bit, and see if this problem is resolved, or post a bug report? Personally I don't see it as a bug, but more to do with Qjackctl being upgraded, and the upgraded version needing a library not yet available. Comments as always welcome. Nigel.

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[arch-general] out-of-date python-cheetah, python-formencode
by adam 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

python-formencode-0.9 is in AUR as it was needed in order to build a package depending on it. The old version still exists in supported branch but would like to have it replaced/upgraded with my PKGBUILD. python-cheetah is one release old as the package was placed a month prior to the next release. These packages haven't be updated in awhile I do not believe Thanks

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[arch-general] New User(sort of) and a packaging question
by Kevin Monceaux 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Fellow Arch Enthusiasts, I discovered Arch about a year ago, and loved it. I played around with it under VMware for a while, and even created a couple of packages for myself. At the time my hard drive really needed some reorganization/repartitioning before switching to another distribution. But, my DVD burner was acting flaky. Anyway, one year later with a second hard drive installed, and with a new DVD burner on order, I've made the switch to Arch, after trying a few other distros along the way. I can't find the packages I created back when I first started using Arch. At some point I ended up deleting the VMware image to free up some space and neglected to copy the packages. Anyway, I've created a package for c3270. I found an x3270 package but prefer the text console version. Is there a utility that can be used to help set the package's dependencies? I found a few mentions of namcap on the wiki. I tried it on the package I created, which I don't currently have any dependencies listed in, and the only problems it reports are missing maintainer and CVS id tags. It mentions nothing about the missing dependencies. By the way, What does the name namcap stand for? Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!!

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[arch-general] blurry fonts at Qt4 apps
by Maik Beckmann 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Hello I did send the follwing to the kde and qt mailing list: <my message> I have an issue with the fonts off apps which are based on Qt4. This png http://img403.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gtkkde3kde4qt4za7.png shows the "File" menubar entry at (left to right): gtk+ - kde3 - kde4 - Qt4 apps. As you see the fonts of gtk and kde3 are same. The kde4 and qt4 fonts are the same too. Please focus on the "F"s in "File". The "F" of gtk/kde3 are plain lines, since no curves are involved. The "F" pf kde4/qt4 has something like shadows, which results in a blurry look. Currently I'm running arch-linux, but I saw the behavior on previous gentoo and debian installations when I played with qt4. The screenshots which are placed at the kde4 programming tutorials show that there must be a way do make the fonts in kde4 behave like those in kde3 http://techbase.kde.org/images/a/a3/Introtokdetutorial3.png Just zoom and pan to "File" and compare with the screenshot I provided. My $HOME/.fonts.conf is attached. The font I'm using is Bitstream Vera Sans </my message> The mentioned files are attached to this email too. James Richard Tyrer answered: <answer> > This is interesting. > > If you simply showed these to me without any context, I would say that > the first two (left to right) are hinted for screen display and the > second two are unhinted for WYSIWYG printing. > > KDE-3 and Qt-3 always did fonts as screen hinted which is why some > applications (e.g. KWord) had font printing issues. Since Qt-4 can do > it either way, KDE-4 needs to decide which way that the fonts should be > rendered. So, this would appear to be a bug -- the GUI should always be > screen hinted. </answer> So Qt4 apps maybe do silently the wrong type of font rendering. If you know about this and how to fix it on arch, please share your knowledge. Since there are configuration which are not hit by this (obviously James has one) I would like to ask you're to test if your installtion handles fonts on qt3 and qt4 apps the same way or not. To do so start the i.e kwrite(the kde3 version) and qtconfig (which is a Qt4 app). Pan the "File" entry of qtconfig's menubar to the right of the "File" entry of kwrite's menubar. Now take a screenshot (I used GIMP) and zoom into the "File" - "File" area. To make your results comparable to mine, please chose Bitstream Vera Sans as toolbar font. Thanks in advance, -- Maik

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