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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] DKMS modules for virtualbox
by Joakim Hernberg 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

We could stop splitting kernel headers out of the kernel package? As a user I think it would be ace if we had binary modules for those that want them but I have recently started using dkms modules again, and find it clearly superior for out of tree modules. (I maintain a couple of kernels myself, and for instance creating/updating and building nvidia packages is really somewhat of a pain). Personally I'd like to see the extramodules patching in the kernel buildscripts go away too ;) -- Joakim

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[arch-general] IP of my coworking space blocked in Arch Linux Archive
by Damian Nowak 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

Well, where should I report that to get it unblocked? Thanks -Damian Nowak www.virtkick.com

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[arch-general] most efficient way to get linux kernel statistics
by Andre Schmidt 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

hello archers, thought i ask here first, before i try some kernel mailing list. i'm writing (for fun) a tiny daemon that sends linux usage (cpu, mem, net, etc.) statistics as efficiently as possible to another machine, repeatedly, to get "live" data. at the moment i'm simply sending /proc files, but they sometimes have too much data. so was wondering if there is a more efficient way to get (only parts of) the data thats available in /proc? for example, /proc/meminfo has all this info: MemTotal: 8051660 kB MemFree: 6046020 kB MemAvailable: 6843080 kB Buffers: 109116 kB Cached: 708336 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1332416 kB Inactive: 455428 kB Active(anon): 971040 kB Inactive(anon): 22340 kB Active(file): 361376 kB Inactive(file): 433088 kB Unevictable: 16 kB Mlocked: 16 kB SwapTotal: 1048572 kB SwapFree: 1048572 kB Dirty: 16 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 970412 kB Mapped: 323384 kB Shmem: 23008 kB Slab: 71760 kB SReclaimable: 44860 kB SUnreclaim: 26900 kB KernelStack: 6544 kB PageTables: 22924 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 5074400 kB Committed_AS: 3487604 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 0 kB VmallocChunk: 0 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 413696 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 168600 kB DirectMap2M: 8091648 kB but i only need: MemTotal: 8051660 kB MemAvailable: 6843080 kB Cached: 708336 kB event better would be if kernel would only tell me: 8051660 6843080 708336 if /proc is the only way to get this info, i wonder if creating a kernel module for this would be more efficient, or even possible? Cheers Andre Schmidt

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Re: [arch-general] Missing Dependency virtualbox-host-dkms
by Jack O'Connor 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

> I didn't force the deps to linux-headers because you could use the kernel > (linux, linux-lts, linux-zen, linux-grsec, etc) you prefer (or all together). > I will add a message with the next release of virtualbox. Would it be possible to depend on a "Provides" that all the different kernel header packages share? Similar to how nvidia-libgl, catalyst-libgl, and mesa-libgl all provide the "libgl" dependency. That would solve the presumably-very-common case where users initially installed virtualbox without any host headers at all, and are now landing in a broken state by default. (Or would that mean that the different header packages conflict where they didn't before?) - Jack

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[arch-general] dkms remove
by Ralf Mardorf 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

When upgrading [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# grep 5.0.14-4 /var/log/pacman.log [2016-03-07 10:48] [ALPM] upgraded virtualbox-host-dkms (5.0.14-1 -> 5.0.14-4) [2016-03-07 10:49] [ALPM] upgraded virtualbox (5.0.14-1 -> 5.0.14-4) automatically the modules for all installed kernels were build. [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# pacman -Q linux linux-rt linux-rt-lts linux 4.4.3-1 linux-rt 4.0.4_rt1-1 linux-rt-lts 3.10.61_rt65-1 [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# ls -Ggh /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/ total 8.0K drwxr-xr-x 5 4.0K Mar 7 10:47 5.0.14 drwxr-xr-x 5 4.0K Mar 7 10:53 5.0.14_OSE lrwxrwxrwx 1 35 Jan 27 12:22 kernel-3.10.61-rt65-1-rt-lts-x66_64 -> 5.0.14/3.10.61-rt65-1-rt-lts/x66_64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 39 Mar 7 10:50 kernel-3.10.61-rt65-1-rt-lts-x86_64 -> 5.0.14_OSE/3.10.61-rt65-1-rt-lts/x86_64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 32 Mar 7 10:52 kernel-4.0.4-rt1-1-rt-x86_64 -> 5.0.14_OSE/4.0.4-rt1-1-rt/x86_64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 26 Jan 27 12:19 kernel-4.3.3-3-ARCH-x86_64 -> 5.0.14/4.3.3-3-ARCH/x86_64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 26 Feb 3 08:08 kernel-4.4.1-1-ARCH-x86_64 -> 5.0.14/4.4.1-1-ARCH/x86_64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 30 Mar 7 10:53 kernel-4.4.3-1-ARCH-x86_64 -> 5.0.14_OSE/4.4.3-1-ARCH/x86_64 however, I want to get rid of the unneeded modules in /lib/modules and I want to get rid of the dkms directory and links that belong to 5.0.14. I expected that 'dkms remove -m vboxhost -v 5.0.14 --all' would remove all 5.0.14 modules. IIRC it worked _after_ an upgrade, when I removed modules in the past. I can't remember that I removed old modules _before_ I upgraded. [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# dkms remove -m vboxhost -v 5.0.14 --all Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file. File: does not exist. Sure, the new config is available, just the old isn't. [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# ls -Ggh /usr/src/vboxhost*/dkms.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 1.1K Mar 4 22:50 /usr/src/vboxhost-5.0.14_OSE/dkms.conf Am I mistaken, is there the need to remove old modules before upgrading when using 'dkms remove' or did something change and it was possible in the past? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support#Remove_m… only mentions that after removing the package 'dkms' the required information to remove kernel modules gets lost. If I use the browser's find option to search "remove", I don't find information about removing old modules using 'dkms remove' here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox I'm aware the 'rm -r' and 'unlink' could be used either, it's just a surprise that 'dkms remove' doesn't work. Perhaps I'm mistaken and I used 'dkms remove' in the past before I upgraded. Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] JasPer vulnerabilities
by Harrison Wells 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

Is the package JasPer in extra repo vulnerable to CVE-2016-1577, CVE-2016-2089 and CVE-2016-2116? I noticed that the version number of JasPer is same in Debian, Ubuntu and Arch, i.e. 1.900.1. Debian and Ubuntu seem to have updated/patched it, is Arch not vulnerable to it? With regards, Harrison Wells

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[arch-general] Missing Dependency virtualbox-host-dkms
by Chr1s 06 Mar '16

06 Mar '16

Cheers Replacing the `virtualbox-host-modules' with the `virtualbox-host-dkms' package causes a "modprobe: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/4.4.3-1-ARCH". The whole misc (/lib/modules/4.4.3-1-ARCH/kernel/misc/) directory is missing. You need to install the `linux-headers' package for a working dkms. DKMS than can make the modules and creates the misc folder with all virtualbox *ko files. Is it possible to add the `linux-headers' package as a dependency for the `virtualbox-host-dkms' package or miss I something? Thanks Kind regards Chris

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[arch-general] Wifi disconnects every few minutes
by Fulcrum 06 Mar '16

06 Mar '16

Hi everybody, I have an Alfa AWUS036H USB Wifi adapter (Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter). It's using rt2800usb driver. I use netctl to connect to wifi.Here is my netctl profile: Description='Mine' Interface=wlp0s18f2u4 Connection=wireless Security=none ESSID=ncepu-student IP=static Address='10.110.7.7/24' Gateway='10.110.7.254' DNS=("8.8.8.8";"8.8.4.4") The problem is that 'ip addr show' says that I'm still connected to my wifi AP. I can see my IP and everything but I can't access internet. I can't even ping google or any other server. When I try to curl a local LAN web server, it says 'there is no route to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx', where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is my local router. So I have to disconnect and reconnect every few minutes to use internet. Here are ping results to a local server (while still connected to wifi, as per 'ip addr'): PING yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy (yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy) 56(84) bytes of data. From 10.110.7.7 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 10.110.7.7 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable From 10.110.7.7 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable From 10.110.7.7 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable From 10.110.7.7 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable From 10.110.7.7 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable ^C --- yyy,yyy.yyy.yyy ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 0 received, +6 errors, 100% packet loss, time 5008ms Where yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy is a server that is always available to all PCs connected to local LAN or wifi. I read somewhere that netctl and dhcp don't work well together so I changed DHCP to static IP*. I even tried changing the wifi access points (There are multiple APs around me). In all cases, I am able to connect to the AP and use internet, but only for a few minutes. For debugging, I removed the usb cable, and reattached the wifi adapter.Here are some entries from dmesg showing the plugging in of the adapter and subsequent connection trials. Note that I disconnected and reconnected the AP around [21713.142829]. [20962.199042] usb 6-4: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci [20962.455180] usb 6-4: reset high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci [20962.595540] ieee80211 phy1: rt2x00_set_rt: Info - RT chipset 3070, rev 0201 detected [20962.651113] ieee80211 phy1: rt2x00_set_rf: Info - RF chipset 0005 detected [20962.651670] ieee80211 phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht' [20962.685678] rt2800usb 6-4:1.0 wlp0s18f2u4: renamed from wlan0 [20987.396145] ieee80211 phy1: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2870.bin' [20987.396184] ieee80211 phy1: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Firmware detected - version: 0.29 [20987.851414] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp0s18f2u4: link is not ready [20989.368562] wlp0s18f2u4: authenticate with 74:25:8a:3f:79:d1 [20989.425297] wlp0s18f2u4: send auth to 74:25:8a:3f:79:d1 (try 1/3) [20989.434313] wlp0s18f2u4: authenticated [20989.439817] wlp0s18f2u4: associate with 74:25:8a:3f:79:d1 (try 1/3) [20989.444114] wlp0s18f2u4: RX AssocResp from 74:25:8a:3f:79:d1 (capab=0x8421 status=0 aid=130) [20989.450763] wlp0s18f2u4: associated [20989.450812] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp0s18f2u4: link becomes ready [21700.838273] ieee80211 phy1: rt2x00queue_flush_queue: Warning - Queue 14 failed to flush [21705.251761] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp0s18f2u4: link is not ready [21713.142829] wlp0s18f2u4: authenticate with 74:25:8a:3f:79:d1 [21713.199602] wlp0s18f2u4: send auth to 74:25:8a:3f:79:d1 (try 1/3) [21713.201715] wlp0s18f2u4: authenticated [21713.204008] wlp0s18f2u4: associate with 74:25:8a:3f:79:d1 (try 1/3) [21713.210193] wlp0s18f2u4: RX AssocResp from 74:25:8a:3f:79:d1 (capab=0x8421 status=0 aid=130) [21713.218064] wlp0s18f2u4: associated [21713.218114] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp0s18f2u4: link becomes ready [21803.494111] INFO: NMI handler (perf_event_nmi_handler) took too long to run: 1.026 msecs I hope someone here can help me find a solution to this incredibly annoying problem. *With DHCP, I got disconnected from the wifi AP with 'journalctl' showing some errors about 'carrier lost'. With 'static IP', I don't get disconnected but can't access internet either.

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[arch-general] libxp.so.6 not found
by Fulcrum 04 Mar '16

04 Mar '16

Hi I need to run a GUI tool. It runs fine under Ubuntu but when I try to run under Arch, it says: >./gmv ./gmv: error while loading shared libraries: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Earlier, multiple other libraries were missing too, such as libxt, but I was able to install them using pacman. FYI I have enabled [multilib] repository in my pacman.conf file. >ldd gmv linux-gate.so.1 (0xf771f000) libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1 (0xf7625000) libGLU.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libGLU.so.1 (0xf7595000) libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXt.so.6 (0xf752d000) libXmu.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXmu.so.6 (0xf750d000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXext.so.6 (0xf74f5000) libXp.so.6 => not found libXpm.so.4 => not found libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6 (0xf73a5000) libm.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf734d000) libc.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7195000) libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7175000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf7155000) libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf714d000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf6fd5000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libSM.so.6 (0xf6fc5000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libICE.so.6 (0xf6fa5000) libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libxcb.so.1 (0xf6f7d000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf76f5000) libuuid.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libuuid.so.1 (0xf6f75000) libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXau.so.6 (0xf6f6d000) libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf6f65000) Pacman says that I have libxp already installed (though there is no libxp from multilib repo): >pacman -Ss libxp extra/libxp 1.0.3-1 [installed] X11 X Print Library extra/libxpm 3.5.11-1 [installed] X11 pixmap library Could any body help me figure this out? As per my understanding, my GUI tool needs 32-bit libraries. The other libraries that I installed had some packages like 'lib32-xyz' from multilib repo. But libxp has no 32 bit package. Regards, Fulcrum

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[arch-general] libvirt and VirtualBox
by Jukka Salmi 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

Hello On an up-to-date Arch x86-64 system, I fail to manage VirtualBox VMs with libvirt virsh: $ virsh -c vbox:///session error: failed to connect to the hypervisor error: internal error: unable to initialize VirtualBox driver API Is this supposed to work out of the box? Both VirtualBox (5.0.14-1) and libvirt (1.3.2-1) are installed from the community repository, and VirtualBox support seems to be compiled in: $ virsh -V Virsh command line tool of libvirt 1.3.2 [...] Compiled with support for: Hypervisors: QEMU/KVM LXC UML OpenVZ VMware PHYP VirtualBox ESX Test [...] Furthermore, both VirtualBox alone (i.e. when managed by VBoxManage or similar) and libvirt when used to manage QEMU/KVM sessions work fine. Any hints about what I'm missing? TIA & cheers, Jukka -- This email fills a much-needed gap in the archives.

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