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[arch-general] Anyone using virtualbox-5.0.0 yet?
by walt 02 Aug '15

02 Aug '15

Arch updated vbox to 5.0.0 on 22 July, so I'm wondering if anyone is actively using it, and if you've had any problems with it. I certainly had a catastrophic problem when I tried it on my everyday gentoo desktop machine recently. If you Archers have been using it without any problems then I have a whole lot of research to do...

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[arch-general] Update to OpenCV 2.4.11?
by André Apitzsch 29 Jul '15

29 Jul '15

Hi everybody, OpenCV 2.4.11 has been released about five months ago. Arch still ships 2.4.10. An Update to the newer version would simplify transition to 3.0. See http://code.opencv.org/projects/opencv/wiki/ChangeLog#30-rc What's holding back an update to 2.4.11? Regards, André

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[arch-general] [extra] festival packge (Orphan)
by Tobias Markus 28 Jul '15

28 Jul '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I hope this is the right place to post. The festival package (in [extra]) has been an orphan and out-of-date for a while, 2.1 is packaged, 2.4 is available. I fixed some of the errors coming up when trying to build festival 2.4 in the festival-patched-hts package (AUR) [1], and it works quite well now. The PKGBUILD can be modified for the non-HTS-patched version quite easily, only removing the relevant patches, and I kept modifications to a necessary minimum (to make it obvious I don't have any bad intentions...). Because of this, I wonder if some package maintainer could pick the actual festival package up and apply my changes to make it work with 2.4. I encountered a build error that is very likely an upstream bug [2], but I don't have time to report it right now. A workaround until the issue is resolved upstream is included. Aside from that, I changed the MD5 hashes to SHA-256 hashes and removed some parts of the some of the compatibility patches that were made obselete by upstream changes. Please do not hestitate to ask me further questions regarding the changes involved. Thank you very much in advance, Best regards Tobias [1] https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/festival-patched-hts/ [2] festival/src/modules/clustergen/HTS_vocoder_me.cc includes a C file (not a header!), namely festival/src/modules/hts_engine/HTS_vocoder.c, causing linkage errors (multiple definitions of symbol). Workaround is a header file and some uncontroversial non-breaking changes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlW314IACgkQAO6N0EYmC9b0jgCgugOF+IgM7l7qfzIP+QmEETHA 4+YAmwUwmghQEkSXf3F/0Y4mdC8CBaTk =wg7q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] kernel package 4.1.3 still in testing
by David Kaylor 28 Jul '15

28 Jul '15

Anyone have any idea why 4.1.3 is being held back in testing, nearly a week now? Seems unusual for a .3 or newer, although I realize it might not be for a x.x.1 or .2. Anyone using the testing repo having major issues? No bugs shown against it, and nothing obvious in testing or kernel/hardware forums. Upstream, not sure about.

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[arch-general] Possibility of including xorg input patch
by Kirill Churin 25 Jul '15

25 Jul '15

Can this patch https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=33142 be applied to Arch's xorg? It solves famous problem https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865 with broken keyboard input for users who use multiple keyboard layouts without any noticeable side-effects. It's known this patch has been applied in Ubuntu. -- Kirill Churin Jabber: reflexing(a)reflexing.ru, ICQ: 8163230, Skype on demand.

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[arch-general] Signing kernel modules
by Damjan Georgievski 25 Jul '15

25 Jul '15

Since some time ago, the Linux kernel has had support for cryptographically signed modules, i.e. the kernel can be configured to only load properly signed modules. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/module-signing.txt I wouldn't go to lengths explaining the benefits of it, I was just wondering if Arch has the infrastructure to sign the modules - since developers already sign the kernel package itself [*], and in that sense we (the users) already trust them to that level. I'm not suggesting that CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is enabled by default - that would break 3rd party modules, but people could optionally use the "enforcemodulesig=1" kernel command line option if they want to. Thoughts? [*] though packages are gpg signed, and modules use x.509 -- damjan

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[arch-general] smartctl - 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count
by Apfelkuchen 24 Jul '15

24 Jul '15

Hey, I tested my hard drives with smartctl -a. And for 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count I get a raw value of 808. Should I worry about this disk? I'll post you below the whole output of smartctl -a. Someone said it could be a CRC-Failure. But I don't know exactly what this means. This is my backup drive. So it would be critical if it is something wrong with this disk. smartctl -a /dev/sdd1 smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-linux-4.1.2-2-ARCH] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate SV35 Device Model: ST2000VX000-1ES164 Serial Number: Z4Z1JHXZ LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 079dbcc19 Firmware Version: CV26 User Capacity: 2.000.398.934.016 bytes [2,00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Form Factor: 3.5 inches Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ACS-2, ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 3b SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Fri Jul 24 12:39:16 2015 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 80) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x73) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. No Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 217) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x10b9) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 119 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 212390608 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 096 096 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 470 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 253 030 Pre-fail Always - 654069 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 941 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 384 184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 098 000 Old_age Always - 48 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 092 092 000 Old_age Always - 8 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 070 055 045 Old_age Always - 30 (Min/Max 27/30) 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 26 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 474 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 030 045 000 Old_age Always - 30 (0 13 0 0 0) 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 182 000 Old_age Always - 808 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

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[arch-general] I am looking for the squid package maintainer.
by Eliezer Croitoru 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

Hey, I am looking for the squid package maintainer. I have been using the last built of squid 3.5.6 and it is missing rock cache_dir. It is considered to be stable enough for public use and testing. The addition of rock cache_dir doesn't affect any current installations or configuration. How can I get a hold of the package maintainer? Eliezer

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[arch-general] [Q] Package all sources in openjdk8-src as Fedora does
by Konstantin Gribov 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

As I saw in fedora openjdk rpm, they bundle non-public java sources (like packages in sun, jdk etc). It's quite useful for debugging when low-level jdk parts involved, so I propose this patch (based on java8-openjdk 8.u51-1). File all-sources.patch contains patch for ${srcdir}/jdk-${_repo_ver}/make/CreateJars.gmk to include all sources instead of whitelisted ones. PKGBUILD.patch adds all-sources.patch to sources, its checksum and apply it in prepare phase. -- Best regards, Konstantin Gribov

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[arch-general] A small and special Arch Linux distro
by feel.squally 22 Jul '15

22 Jul '15

Hi folks, Few months ago I started an Arch Linux related open source project and, now that is in a stable version and it has got an interesting popularity, I wanted to announce it in the Arch Linux community. The project website is: http://fsquillace.github.io/junest-site/index.html The github page is: https://github.com/fsquillace/junest The JuNest project consists on a tiny distro Arch Linux based that can run upon any already existing GNU/Linux distros as a sandbox. In the sandbox you can install packages and run programs without any root access. There are more functionalities that are documented in the website such as possibilities to run the image on different architectures and so on. The intent of JuNest is, of course, not to substitute Arch Linux but to have an Arch Linux environment everywhere is needed. Any feedback and contribution are really welcome :) Thank you, Filippo

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