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[arch-general] /var lost, how "reinstal" Archlinux?
by Marek Otahal 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Hello, I've lost content of /var, other partitions are ok, so system somewhat boots up (to recovery mode). What is the less pain method to get it again up and running? The problem I see are pacman list of installed packages? Any other notes on what important things could be missing? Thank you very much for any help, Mark PS: no backups :-/ -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] Bumblebee + NVIDIA Binary driver broken after Linux 3.14
by Pavan Yalamanchili 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Hi Everyone, I am not sure which part of this particular combination is broken, but after an update today I was unable to use my NVIDIA GPU. Reverting back to an older version of the kernel and the relevant driver packages fixed the issue. I have created the following bug report. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39848 Has anyone seen a similar problem ? -- Pavan

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by FREE LANCE 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

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[arch-general] Btrfs RAID1 corrupted after crash
by Maximilian Bräutigam 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Dear all, unfortunately, I am very very deperate and I highly appreciate any help. One week ago, I move my entire system to btrfs to setup a RAID1. I created the RAID between device /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc with no partition table on normal HDDs. Everything was working smoothly until my computer crashed and at reboot I was not able to mount the device (my home dir) again and got the following messages: [ 125.834802] BTRFS info (device sdc): disk space caching is enabled [ 130.600101] BTRFS error (device sdc): block group 1268688879616 has wrong amount of free space [ 130.600113] BTRFS error (device sdc): failed to load free space cache for block group 1268688879616 [ 130.751274] BTRFS critical (device sdc): corrupt leaf, slot offset bad: block=1268477591552,root=1, slot=137 [ 130.751659] BTRFS critical (device sdc): corrupt leaf, slot offset bad: block=1268477591552,root=1, slot=137 So I cleared the cache with trying the mount option clear_cache, but it stayed problematic and I was not able to mount it: [ 368.159594] BTRFS: error (device sdc) in __btrfs_free_extent:5755: errno=-5 IO failure [ 368.159602] BTRFS: error (device sdc) in btrfs_run_delayed_refs:2713: errno=-5 IO failure [ 368.165584] BTRFS warning (device sdc): Skipping commit of aborted transaction. [ 368.165589] BTRFS: error (device sdc) in cleanup_transaction:1545: errno=-5 IO failure [ 368.165787] BTRFS: error (device sdc) in open_ctree:2839: errno=-5 IO failure (Failed to recover log tree) [ 368.227161] BTRFS: open_ctree failed Now, if I tried to mount it manually with degraded option enabled: # mount -t btrfs -o degraded /dev/sdb /mnt/sonst/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so. Now I run btrfsck with repair option enabled but still I cannot mount it. Here you can find the dmesg and btrfsck outputs: dmesg: http://pastebin.com/zsaKQ0h1 btrfsck: http://pastebin.com/xva6uJwT Please, help me! ;( Are there other options to investigate my RAID or to even temporarily mount it to get some data? What went wrong here? What can I do? Why is a simple crash making my RAID unusable? Can I use other tools for a recovery? Again, every help is highly appreciated. Best wishes, Max PS: Archlinux, linux-3.14-5, btrfs-progs-3.14-1

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[arch-general] sound in gnome, none in xfce
by message 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

Readers, In gnome, sound is enabled and can be adjusted via the keyboard function keys (e.g. fn + ^). This doesn't work in xfce. What is the cause in this different behaviour and any ideas how to solve please?

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[arch-general] Is Voting Effective?
by Taylor Hornby 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

The main mechanism for moving packages from the AUR into the official repositories seems to be the "Vote for this package" mechanism. Ideally, all packages would just be in the official repositories, and there'd be no AUR. Obviously we don't have the resources for that, so there needs to be some mechanism for prioritizing packages. Because you have to register an account to vote (and I didn't even *know* about it until today), the voting mechanism is not effective at filtering out the important packages from the sea of mostly-irrelevant obscure packages, and it's certainly not a good indicator for package quality. This means important packages are getting left behind in the AUR even when all other Linux distributions include them in their official repositories. Ultimately, relying on a vote-based popularity measurement too much is hurting -- or is going to hurt -- Arch Linux. Take for example tahoe-lafs and tripwire, with 32 and 13 votes respectively. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tahoe-lafs/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tripwire/ These are extremely important tools. And, while they may not be popular as measured by the voting system, they are widely used, and both are included in Debian's official repositories. Instead of being able to quickly and easily install signed binaries with `pacman -S`, a security-conscious user wanting one of these tools has to manually inspect the PKGBUILDs for the packages themselves and many of their dependencies to make sure that they're not malicious. And after they do all that, they still have to trust insecure connections and MD5 checksums. There needs to be an official channel for hearing reasoned arguments on why a package should or should not be included in the real repositories, and the unscientific vote count should come second. Is there such a thing? Thanks for reading, -- Taylor Hornby

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[arch-general] cyrus-sasl problems
by Łukasz Michalski 12 Apr '14

12 Apr '14

Hi, Today I upgraded arch and have problems with sasl 2.1.26: [root@black etc]# sasldblistusers2 -f /etc/sasldb2.broken listusers failed I can dump and recreate this file with db_dump and db_load, but even after that sasldblistuser2 and saslpasswd refuse to use this file. I can use sasl 2.1.15 from other distro read and update this file, but on all my arch distros sasl 2.1.26 refuses to read it. I can create plain new file with saslpasswd and it works correctly. Anyone had similar problems? Regards, Łukasz

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[arch-general] Bug NetworkManager when restart NetworkManager service
by Maykel Franco 12 Apr '14

12 Apr '14

Hi, I change for example dns in networkmanager, when restart NetworkManager , "systemctl restart NetworkManager" the network not works... [maykel@maykel-arch ~]$ sudo systemctl status NetworkManager ● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since mar 2014-04-08 12:24:13 CEST; 19s ago Main PID: 3082 (NetworkManager) CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service ├─1223 /usr/bin/dhcpcd -B -K -L -G -c /usr/lib/networkmanager/nm-dhcp-client.action enp4s0f2 └─3082 /usr/bin/NetworkManager --no-daemon abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <info> (enp4s0f2): DHCPv4 client pid 3093 exited with status 1 abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <info> Activation (enp4s0f2) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv4 Configure Timeout) scheduled... abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <info> Activation (enp4s0f2) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv4 Configure Timeout) started... abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <info> (enp4s0f2): device state change: ip-config -> failed (reason 'ip-config-unavailable') [70 120 5] abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <info> NetworkManager state is now DISCONNECTED abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <info> Marking connection 'MO2O' invalid. abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <warn> Activation (enp4s0f2) failed for connection 'MO2O' abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <info> Activation (enp4s0f2) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv4 Configure Timeout) complete. abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <info> (enp4s0f2): device state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none') [120 30 0] abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <info> (enp4s0f2): deactivating device (reason 'none') [0] I have reboot my computer for network on again. Is a bug networkmanager? The version is: maykel-arch /home/maykel # NetworkManager --version 0.9.8.8 Thanks in advanced.

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Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] GHC 7.8.1 packaging decisions for Arch Linux
by Thomas Dziedzic 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Jeremy Audet <ichimonji10(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Doesn't every language with its own package manager have this problem? > For example, Python. Is there a good solution? Users knowing about this > issue and making their own decisions is the current solution on every > distro I'm familiar with. > > Aye. There are some upshots to allowing users to install software via > either the system package manager or a language-specific one, instead of > forcing them down a single path. For example, with ruby: tools such as > bundler, rbenv and rvm provide users with some awesome capabilities, such > as being able to install multiple versions of Ruby and multiple versions of > gems, either system-wide, in a user's home directory or in a custom > directory. That's very useful, and the user should have that option - but > if the user wants a simpler, more straightforward option, they can use > `gem` or `pacman`. (And the choice between gem and pacman has its own > tradeoffs.) > > Couldn't the same be said of Haskell packages? Using pacman to manage > haskell packages provides some niceties, such as automatic updates > (whenever -Syu is performed), whereas cabal-install provides its own > niceties, such as access to numerous packages. So... is there anything > wrong with letting the user choose the tool that suits their needs? > I guess I should modify my wording for Change 2 to be: "Change 2: Make a news item stating that either cabal-install or pacman packages are now the recommended way to install haskell packages. Not both in one system."

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[arch-general] svntogit stuck
by Armin K. 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

In case some of the people responsible for it are reading this: svn2git is stuck for 2 days without any changes although the packages are being upgraded. I can't even examine changes for packages through al.o/packages anymore. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi.

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