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[arch-general] fdisk vs. gdisk for GPT partitioning
by Sebastiaan Lokhorst 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

Hello everyone, Since more than a year now, fdisk (provided by util-linux) has had GPT support. This theoretically makes gdisk a duplicate of fdisk, and we could replace gdisk with fdisk. Now, I'm not asking to drop gdisk or anything like that, but in an effort to clean up the Beginners' guide of the Arch Wiki, we want to use a single partitioning tool for both MBR and GPT partitioning instructions.[1] util-linux fdisk is able to provide this functionality, but we are not completely sure if it is stable by now (it should be, I think). So, now my question: is there anyone who has had bad experiences with fdisk and GPT partitions, where gdisk was superior? Or any other objections why we should keep gdisk instructions in the Beginners' guide? Thanks! Sebastiaan [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:Beginners%27_guide#remove_gdisk_i…

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[arch-general] broken locale after glibc upgrade
by arnaud gaboury 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

After a recent upgrade, my locale was broken. Here is extract from pacman.log: [2015-02-11 08:19] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu' [2015-02-11 08:19] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists [2015-02-11 08:19] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade [2015-02-11 08:20] [ALPM] transaction started [2015-02-11 08:20] [ALPM] transaction failed [2015-02-11 08:21] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu' [2015-02-11 08:21] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists [2015-02-11 08:21] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade [2015-02-11 08:21] [ALPM] transaction started [2015-02-11 08:22] [ALPM] upgraded linux-api-headers (3.18.1-1 -> 3.18.5-1) [2015-02-11 08:22] [ALPM] upgraded glibc (2.20-6 -> 2.21-2) [2015-02-11 08:22] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Generating locales... [2015-02-11 08:22] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Generation complete. I had to manually edit /etc/locale.gen, uncomment the needed locales, then run locale-gen to fix this issue. Any idea about what happened ? -- google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx

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[arch-general] Running Arch linux on a headless ppc GNU/Linux box?
by Csányi Pál 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

Hi, I have a headless PowerPC box called Bubba Two. Could one install on it the Arch linux system? I'm running on it now a Debian Wheezy GNU/Linux system. $ uname -a Linux b2 3.2.62-1 #1 Mon Aug 25 04:22:40 UTC 2014 ppc GNU/Linux -- Regards from Pal

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Re: [arch-general] Any printer didn't work
by Bastien Traverse 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

> When add printer manually on cinnamon. > The printer found, forward , search driver and freeze. > > When add printer manually on KDE. > The printer found, show "Pcik a Driver" and said > "Failed to search for recommended: driver: 'Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked tthe reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.' Hi, there is currently a critical bug preventing from adding a printer in the latest versions of cups: see FS#42666 [1]. To summarize, when trying to find a driver `foomatic list` stalls, hogging up the CPU and `cupsd -l` does the same. See the provided link for upstream bug report URL (they say they can't reproduce it although it affects many Arch users) and link to discussion in the forums. I am currently unable to use any printer either :-/ [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42666

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[arch-general] FS#41424 - Virtualbox 4.3.14, USB doesn't work flawlessly
by Ralf Mardorf 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Hi, I experienced Virtualbox 4.3.14 x86_64 as broken, when I tried to sync an iPad2 with iTunes running on a XP SP3 guest. I only tested it with USB2 enabled, since it worked with 4.3.12. Usually I use the packages virtualbox, virtualbox-host-dkms, virtualbox-extension-pack and I add the guest additions, that fit to the used vbox version. Because I wasted much time with trying to use 4.3.14, I did an incomplete downgrade to 4.3.12 yet, since I'm short in time, but even with virtualbox 4.3.12-1 virtualbox-host-dkms 4.3.12-1 no extension pack, no USB2 and with wrong guest additions, version 4.3.14, I get rid of the issues. I will complete the downgrade on my machine ASAP and IMO the community packages should be downgraded for the repositories too. Do others experienced issues with Virtualbox 4.3.14 USB too? Since I'm short in time I only reported the bug to https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41424 I didn't find a related bug, just 4 completely other vbox bug reports. https://www.virtualbox.org/search?q=4.13.14&noquickjump=1&ticket=on results in "No matches found." https://www.virtualbox.org/search?q=usb&noquickjump=1&ticket=on gives tons of hits, no time to care about them right now Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] linux 3.19 in [testing]
by Tobias Powalowski 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Hi, just released 3.19 kernel to [testing] repository. - nvidia-304xx - virtualbox modules do not build. Please take a look at it. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] I can not login in my system with gdm after update to kernel 3.18.6
by José Vilmar Estácio de Souza 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Hi all. After I upgrade to kernel 3.18.6, I was stuck at the login screen. I type the login and password, press the enter key and the login screen appears again. There are no problems with my login because I can login in the console normaly. After I downgrade to kernel 3.18.5 the problem desappears. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks. []s José Vilmar Estácio de Souza

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[arch-general] strange behaviour after 3.18.6 kernel update
by Genes Lists 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

I have one server which does internal mail and nfs - which went weird after about a day on the new kernel. I remote admin via ssh - symptom on the terminal was many commands failed in bad ways. Though 'ls' seemed to be fine. e.g. vi - gave input/output error. journalctl -lf -> bus error Rebooted and it hung on shutdown - there were manu input/output errors on the console - after it stopped on systemd shutdown target and got no further - i hard powered off and back on. Machine came up fine - journalct shows all logging stopped at 9.14 pm and resumed as normal after the reboot at 10.30 pm. Any advice as to what to look for? Anyone else seeing strange IO errors after a period? thanks. gene

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[arch-general] CIFS filename reserved characters in 3.18
by Carl Schaefer 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

After upgrading to 3.18 I found that my rsync backup to a CIFS filesystem was failing on filenames that contained reserved characters in the set :<>|*?\ According to [1] the default strategy for handling these characters changed in 3.18, but in my experience (and according to [2]) it didn't work very well. A patch [3] addressing these problems seems to work for me. Carl [1] https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/SMB3-Linux [2] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92401 [3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cifs/10512/

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[arch-general] Any printer didn't work
by MASAKI Yuhsuke 08 Feb '15

08 Feb '15

Hi, I want to use multifaunctional printer Canon MP630 and HP Photosmart 5521. But both didn't work. I reinstalled system and whole package on this month. They worked before then. I checked: * Printers work on other system. * cnijfilter-mp620 ( for MP630), hplip and hplip-plugin ( for 5521 ) are installed. * CUPSd is installed and started. When connected a printer on KDE or Cinnamon, show notifification "New printer conncted." and nothing. Lately, neither show anything at a printer conneced. When add printer manually on cinnamon. The printer found, forward , search driver and freeze. When add printer manually on KDE. The printer found, show "Pcik a Driver" and said "Failed to search for recommended: driver: 'Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked tthe reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.' So I try "Manually Provide a PPD File". When I click "finish," printer name highlighted and disabled finish button. One day, I tried to add printer manually on KDE, finish button worked, added, and test page printed. But today, I attempted to print pages, but not work printer because "the printer is disconnected or turned off." I tried change cable and change port, but still "the printer is disconnected or turned off." I click "Resume printer" on KDE. Printer status changed to "Idle." I send print job, Printer status changed to "Printing," but soon changed to "Idle" without working. When printer reconnected, DE says "Configurating new printer." And return to the beginning but configured printer exists. I remove configured printer, but nothing to change. What should I do? Thank you. ****************************** * The Rider, Hacker and Musician. * +++ ENABLE YOUR HEART +++ ****************************** * MASAKI Yuhsuke. * hydrangea+ml(a)reasonset.net * Website: http://reasonset.net/ * GitHub : https://github.com/reasonset/ * Twitter: @reasonset ******************************

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