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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] Dropping ocaml packages
by Mike Cloaked 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Tobias Powalowski < tobias.powalowski(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > I don't use it on any of my machines anymore, anyone who wants to step up? > Else those are candidates for AUR/community. > > ocaml > ocaml-compiler-libs > facile > lablgtk2 > unison > > greetings > tpowa > > I noticed from the arch-dev-public list in the post quoted above that ocaml is planned to be dropped to AUR or community. I also notice that ocaml is still a dependency for one of the kde packages. # pacman -R ocaml checking dependencies... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: kdeedu-kalzium: requires ocaml I guess it needs to be maintained else there may be problems with updates to kde in the future? -- mike c

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[arch-general] NFS server broke after reboot - *urgent* need help
by Genes Lists 01 Feb '15

01 Feb '15

I have a problem where nfs failed. 2 units fail to start rpc-statd.service nfs-server.service. ------------------------------------- rpc-statd: systemctl status rpc-statd rpc.statd[736]: Version 1.3.2 starting rpc.statd[736]: Flags: TI-RPC rpc.statd[736]: Running as root. chown /var/lib/nfs to choose different user rpc.statd[736]: failed to create RPC listeners, exiting systemd[1]: rpc-statd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 systemd[1]: Failed to start NFS status monitor for NFSv2/3 locking.. systemd[1]: Unit rpc-statd.service entered failed state. systemd[1]: rpc-statd.service failed. ------------------------------------- I am unable to start this by hand either - continues to fail same way. I had seen this once a month or so back - but was able to start it by hand after machine was up. ------------------------------------- nfs-server: systemctl-status nfs-server ● nfs-server.service - NFS server and services Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nfs-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2015-01-31 16:05:32 EST; 5min ago Process: 743 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd $RPCNFSDARGS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 741 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/exportfs -r (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 743 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) rpc.nfsd[743]: rpc.nfsd: writing fd to kernel failed: errno 111 (Connection refused) rpc.nfsd[743]: rpc.nfsd: unable to set any sockets for nfsd systemd[1]: nfs-server.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE systemd[1]: Failed to start NFS server and services. systemd[1]: Unit nfs-server.service entered failed state. systemd[1]: nfs-server.service failed. ------------------------------------- Machine is fully updated from testing repo. I did try kernel 3.19.rc6 but it does not help. nfs-utils 1.3.2-1 linux 3.18.5-1 rpcbind 0.2.2-1 Really appreciate some help - this is my main nfs server and I can no longer get it working ... Thanks for any advice. gene

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[arch-general] Fwd: Kernel panic - after upgrade
by Csányi Pál 01 Feb '15

01 Feb '15

2015-01-18 18:20 GMT+01:00 Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan(a)gmail.com>: >> >>Here I exit from the prompt and reboot the machine, but get the same >> >>error message: can't run init. >> >> >> >>What did I wrong? >> > >> > You missed that the base group should be reinstalled, as the error is >> > not with the ramdisk, > > > there's no /init outside of the ramdisk, so his problem seems to be in the > initramfs, but probably because his base system is a bit borked and it > mkinitcpio creates the initramfs out of it. > > >> Well, I did so but can't to run successfully the `pacman -S base' >> command because of some difficulties. >> It complains about existing files and folder: >> it won't overwrite the /usr/lib64 folder. > > post the exact errors you're getting The output of `pacman -S base' command is: (50/50) checking keys in keyring (50/50) checking package integrity (50/50) loading package files (50/50) checking for file conflicts (50/50) checking available disk space ( 1/50) reinstalling filesystem error: extract: not overwriting dir with file /usr/lib64 error: problem occured while upgrading filesystem error: could not commit transaction error: failed to commit transaction (rransaction aborted) Errors occured, no packages were upgraded. I know that that the /usr/lib64 is a symlink only. What to do? -- Regards from Pal

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[arch-general] systemd-nspawn : centOS container
by arnaud gaboury 31 Jan '15

31 Jan '15

I have happily used a second Arch as a container booted with systemd-nspawn. I would like now install a CentOS container, but I am not sure how to proceed the install. What is the correct way ? - first install minimal CentOS from an iso in a dedicated partition (in my case it will be a ssd), then mount the ssd filesystem in /var/lib/container/MyCentOS ? - mount the iso file with systemd-nspawn --image=/path/to/CentOS.iso, boot my container and then install CentOS . Thank you for hint.

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[arch-general] postgresql 9.3 -> 9.4
by Georg Altmann 31 Jan '15

31 Jan '15

Hi, There was nothing mentioning a minor realease upgrade or did I miss something? Next time a heads up would be nice, so I know I have to dump and restore beforehand. Thanks! Georg -- PGP-Key: 0x1E320E65 D150 7783 A0D1 7507 1266 C5B3 BBF1 9C42 1E32 0E65 I don't like the idea of secret agencies to analyse and archive personal communication. GnuPG is available as open source, free as as in freedom, as a countermeasure. I use http://www.enigmail.net/ for Mozilla Thunderbird. If you can, please use a frontend of your choice to send me encrypted e-mail. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for an overview.

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[arch-general] KDE Application Launcher Theming
by Jameson 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

I'm having an issue with Plasma 5 themes, and the Application Launcher. I'm trying to use Breeze Dark. I've also specified it for Colors, and Icons. The problem is, the background of the Application Launcher is still a light gray color. It's so light it's almost impossible to read the light text on top of it. Has anyone else run into this? Is there a separate configuration for this? Thanks, =-Jameson

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[arch-general] changelogs (was Re: postgresql 9.3 -> 9.4)
by Carl Schaefer 29 Jan '15

29 Jan '15

The thread about the postgresql update reminded me of one of the few things about Ubuntu that I miss: package updates usually included a useful changelog entry describing what was fixed and/or new. Perhaps I assume too much, but I imagine Arch package maintainers would generally be aware of the changes in an update they're making, and so it wouldn't be much additional work to include that information in a changelog entry. When I first started using Arch I'd hoped "pacman -Qc" would do this, but at this point only three of the 867 packages on my system have a changelog, and most of those entries are just "version bump" or equivalent. Carl

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[arch-general] Libre Office Freezing system?
by Michael Rasmussen 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

It does for me. Have a Writer document with a embedded table, click and drag to highlight a segment. Boom, my user interface is locked up. No <CTR><ALT><F#> to get a terminal, no toggle of the caps lock indicactor LED, no <CTRL><ALT><Backspace> to kill X. No nothing. I can ssh in from another system and top shows nothing unusual going on. I've disabled hardware acceleration, that did not affect the problem. Does this sound familiar? Suggestions for resolving? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity Actually _everything_ about fixed-gears sounds nuts to those who have not been inducted into the cult. ;-) ~ Sheldon Brown

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[arch-general] CVE-2015-0235: glibc / heap overflow in gethostbyname()
by Ido Rosen 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

Hi Allan & others, This is a pretty big remote vulnerability, with a big attack surface. I'm not sure if this is the right list to be sending it to, but I'd suggest patching glibc right away. I think RedHat's already released an RHEL5 backported patch, and upstream has already patched it (as of yesterday). See the links below. Ido glibc bug report: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15014 Upstream patch: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=d5dd6189d506068ed11c8bfa… Debian bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=776391 RedHat bug: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0090.html Blog post describing the vulnerability: http://ma.ttias.be/critical-glibc-update-cve-2015-0235-gethostbyname-calls/ HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8953545 Original report (afaict) in French: http://www.frsag.org/pipermail/frsag/2015-January/005722.html

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Re: [arch-general] An archlinux-python package for managing system default python version?
by 杨令 25 Jan '15

25 Jan '15

> From: Chi Hsuan Yen <yan12125(a)gmail.com> > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Cc: > Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:51:00 +0800 > Subject: [arch-general] An archlinux-python package for managing system default python version? > Dear Arch enthusiasts, > > The package extra/java-runtime-common provides a convenient script > archlinux-java to handle co-existing JDK/JRE versions. I can use it to > switch between different versions of java implementations to accomplish > numerous tasks from testing the compatibilities of my programs to running > third party applications targeting on different platforms. Now I hope > there's also a simple script for the same thing but for python. On the > system, most of the scripts are written for python2 and some other scripts > are python3-specific. In most cases it's not a problem because I can fix > the scripts or use some tricks like $PATH to ensure the correct execution > of the programs. However, in large projects, doing either is time-consuming > and costly. Recently I'm building CyanogenMod on Arch Linux. It includes > lots of python scripts in the build system, and most of them requires > python2. Using the tip provided on the article about Python on ArchWiki > prevents lots of problems, but, however, some scripts have the shebang line > "#!/usr/bin/env python" or are invoked by some command like > "/usr/bin/python ...". I have to change the link /usr/bin/python to > pointing to python2 for further progress on building and changed it back > for my daily use. If there's an archlinux-python script, lots of time on > battling the difference between python2 and python3 does not exist anymore, > which I believe lots of users can benefit from it. Any ideas? sudo pacman -S python-virtualenv python2-virtualenv python-virtualenvwrapper Google how to use them. Actually virtualenv itself is enough. virtualenvwrapper is a useful wrapper, so I recommend to use them together. Here is my virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper configuration in .zshrc. You can take a look: # Python virtualenvwrapper export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs #export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2 if [ -f /usr/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh ]; then source /usr/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh fi # Python pip -> virtualenv only export PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV=true export PIP_RESPECT_VIRTUALENV=true ==================== YANG Ling yangling1984(a)gmail.com

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