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[arch-general] for raid10 users
by Łukasz Michalski 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

Hi, Last year I had a lot of crashes on my linux box. I experienced hard reset or processes hanged in "D" state forever. It was much more likely to happen when raid0 array was resyncing. Yesterday I finally managed to track this problem and it turned out that it was related to raid10 kernel module. After applying this patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/768 My problems are gone. Today I forced array resync, run kernel kompile and two VirtualBox machines with heavy I/O load. On arch linux kernel my machine hanged in 2-3 minutes. Now everything works ok. Regards, Łukasz

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[arch-general] Coredumps in zsh
by Savyasachee Jha 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

I was trying to debug a program, and whenever I did so, I would get the output: zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) <name-of-program> This is what I was expecting, no problem with that, but I couldn't find the location of the core dump. I searched high and low, and even tried running systemd-coredumpctl but to no avail. However, when I repeated this on bash, I got: segmentation fault (core dumped) and I got the coredump on systemd-coredumpctl. Is there any particular reason why this might be happening? I don't want to change shells only when I'm debugging. -- Savyasachee Jha *"Aerodynamics is for people whodon't know how to build engines."*

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[arch-general] e2fsprogs installation failed
by Heiko Becker 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

Hey, today, while updating my system, the update for e2fsprogs failed with the following error message: Fehler: Konnte usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/e2fsprogs.mo nicht entpacken (Lzma library error: Corrupted input data) Fehler: Fehler traten auf, während e2fsprogs aktualisiert wurde Fehler: Befehl konnte nicht korrekt ausgeführt werden Fehler: Konnte den Vorgang nicht durchführen Fehler: Konnte den Vorgang nicht durchführen (Vorgang abgebrochen) Fehler sind aufgetreten, keine Pakete wurden aktualisiert. UNfortunately I can only provide the original error message in german, as LANG setting does not work because libcom_err.so is not found which belongs to e2fsprogs. What it generally says is that it could not unpack usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/e2fsprogs.mo because of an Lzma library error, related to corrupted data. Can someone help me out? Best regards, Heiko

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[arch-general] Kernel updated to 3.14.5-1. Now my Lenovo IdeaPad hangs on boot...
by Manuel Reimer 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

Hello, I use "gummiboot" to boot my Notebook. So far all kernel updates worked well and I never got any problems, but for some reason the update to 3.14.5 now causes my system to no longer boot up. Can someone help me to find the reason for the problem and to get my Notebook to boot up again? Thanks in advance. Greetings, Manuel

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[arch-general] evolution-ews, does it work?
by Magnus Therning 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

I'm seeing strange behaviour in evolution when adding an EWS account, so I'm wondering if others are having problems with it, or if the blame falls squarely on the exchange server I'm trying to connect to. My system is up-to-date: % pacman -Q|grep evolution evolution 3.12.2-1 evolution-data-server 3.12.2-1 evolution-ews 3.12.2-1 I can, seemingly successfully, configure an EWS account. During config I can fetch the OAB URL, which ought to indicate that at least something's working as it's supposed to. However, once I finish the account is nowhere to be found. Indeed, when I restart evolution I get thrown back into configuring an account again. It would be great to hear if anyone is using the standard Arch package of evolutin-ews successfully. Then I can be pretty sure that my problems are caused by our (rather clueless) sysadmins. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay

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[arch-general] split packages: basic assumptions about $pkgname in prepare() and build()
by Martti Kühne 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

guys so, this morning I made the mistake to try building a random split package PKGBUILD from ABS with the --pkg flag. ==> Starting prepare()... /home/martti/abs/systemd/PKGBUILD: line 33: cd: libsystemd-212: No such file or directory ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare(). Aborting... Wait a minute, really? After building a little tool to find packages that use $pkgname in prepare()/build() despite the fact that $pkgname isn't *necessarily* the right thing to use to build their source paths, I'm revealed 53 of a total of 400 split packages appear to be using that variable in building. Which equates to a good one in every eighth PKGBUILD of the split packages ecosystem. Now, sure, makepkg could mitigate this problem by setting $pkgname to $pkgbase for the execution of prepare() and build(), but this would first have to be instroduced upstream. My findings are listed below. cheers! mar77i /var/abs/core/systemd/PKGBUILD /var/abs/core/util-linux/PKGBUILD /var/abs/testing/pidgin/PKGBUILD /var/abs/testing/systemd/PKGBUILD /var/abs/testing/vim/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/python-prettytable/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/man-pages-zh/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/luarocks/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/grails/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/python-werkzeug/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/marisa/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/python-flask/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/tesseract/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/protobuf/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/lua-alt-getopt/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/python-urllib3/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/python-mysql-connector/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/jack2/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/python-biopython/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/python-jsonschema/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/python-jsonpointer/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/python-pbr/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/bird/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/xe-guest-utilities/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/python-httplib2/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/rxvt-unicode/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/qstardict/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/notmuch/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/python-sh/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/python-jsonpatch/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community/scala/PKGBUILD /var/abs/community-testing/rxvt-unicode/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/hyphen/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/pangomm/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/hspell/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/postfix/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/python-virtualenv/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/glibmm/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/bluez/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/oxygen-icons/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/lapack/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/qemu/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/elementary/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/efl/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/pidgin/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/redland/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/xsane/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/python-pip/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/gnome-desktop-sharp/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/opencv/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/vim/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/digikam/PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/ocaml/PKGBUILD

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[arch-general] mkinitcpio systemd hook
by Yamakaky 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

Hi For the 207 systemd release, the mkinitcpio's hook for systemd is broken when used with the lvm2 one. It was nearly a year ago, any improvement ? Yamakaky

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[arch-general] lxcursor 1.1.14-2 bug
by Eugenio M. Vigo 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

Hi people, It seems that there is a nasty bug related to lxcursor 1.1.14-2. Antergos has made an official announcement advising not to upgrade[1]. Are we going to do it too or not? Meanwhile, I'm going to ignore the package. Cheers! [1] http://forum.antergos.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1795

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[arch-general] makepkg.conf CFLAGS
by Yamakaky 02 Jun '14

02 Jun '14

Hi I just discovered the gcc option march=native. It enables all the local-supported optimizations, without downsides except the non-portability of the binaries. Is there a reason why it isn't enabled by default, as cross platform compilation isn't used by most of the users (I think) ? Yamakaky

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[arch-general] [Classroom] new class: A First Look at the Linux Kernel - Saturday, May 31 at 16:00 UTC
by fsckd 02 Jun '14

02 Jun '14

Hello, jy2wong will be teaching a class called, "A First Look at the Linux Kernel". The class will cover the role of kernels in a system, why you might want to consider compiling your own, and tips for not getting lost in the configuration process during your first Linux kernel compile. Prerequisites: While not necessary, it is useful to be familiar with ABS [1] before taking the class. If you are unfamiliar with PKGBUILDs, logs from past classes make an excellent primer. [2] The class will be Saturday, May 31, 2014 at 16:00 UTC in the IRC channel #archlinux-classroom on the Freenode network. If there is enough interest, the class may also be held a second time on that day for people from East Asia and Oceania. If you want the class being held again for those timezones, please reply to this email indicating so. About jy2wong in her own words: I'm a university student from Canada, studying/doing research in something involving signal processing (that lies somewhere between math and computers). I've installed Arch Linux on my laptop about 4 times now, and the first 3 times were in my first week of using Arch Linux (that was about 5 years ago). I've been compiling my own kernel for the last 3 or 4 years. I think I'm allergic to cats. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernels/Compilation/Arch_Build_System [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Classroom#Previous_Classes

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