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[arch-general] NetworkManager from Commandline
by Alex Sla 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hi guys, I'm moving from KDE to Fluxbox, I want to keep using the NetworkManger. I have configured a lots of connection in it(WiFi / Cisco VPN for example). But I can't access my secrets to it. nmcli con up uuid 7f29abd0-c0d5-4e55-8796 Error: Connection activation failed: no valid VPN secrets. I guess, I saved them in the keyring file, how can I get access from the cli? Is there maybe another tool to mange the connection or getting access to the KDE Keyring file?

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[arch-general] What is the policy regarding the urgency of fixes ?
by Pavan Yalamanchili 02 May '13

02 May '13

For example, the following commit fixes a bug https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packag… But that change would require a 400+ MB to be downloaded when doing a pacman -Syu. The next version of CUDA is probably around the corner. I feel a fix then would have been easier. I am not complaining, I can just do --ignore for now. I am just curios to know if this kind of stuff is thought about. -- Pavan

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[arch-general] 3.8.6 kernel compile fails with gcc 4.8
by Damjan 01 May '13

01 May '13

For various reasons I'm compiling my own kernels, but just now I have got this error while trying to update and compile 3.8.6. gcc is 4.8.0-1 arch is i686 How do I get "preprocessed source"? CC [M] drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.o drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c: In function ‘e1000_xmit_frame’: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c:5159:1: internal compiler error: Maximum number of LRA constraint passes is achieved (30) } ^ Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See <https://bugs.archlinux.org/> for instructions. make[5]: *** [drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.o] Error 1 make[4]: *** [drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e] Error 2 -- дамјан

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[arch-general] Errors while upgrading ghc and haskell packages
by Alexandre Ferrando 01 May '13

01 May '13

Total newbie on haskell packages here. While upgrading to the last version of ghc and related haskell packages from testing, I've seen the following errors in the pacman log [2013-04-26 09:54] [PACMAN] upgraded ghc (7.6.2-1 -> 7.6.3-1) [2013-04-26 09:54] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ghc-pkg: cannot find package text-0.11.2.3 [2013-04-26 09:54] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Reading package info from stdin ... done. [2013-04-26 09:54] [PACMAN] upgraded haskell-text (0.11.2.3-2 -> 0.11.2.3-3) [2013-04-26 09:54] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ghc-pkg: cannot find package transformers-0.3.0.0 [2013-04-26 09:54] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Reading package info from stdin ... done. [2013-04-26 09:54] [PACMAN] upgraded haskell-transformers (0.3.0.0-3 -> 0.3.0.0-4) [2013-04-26 09:54] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ghc-pkg: cannot find package mtl-2.1.2 [2013-04-26 09:54] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Reading package info from stdin ... done. [2013-04-26 09:54] [PACMAN] upgraded haskell-mtl (2.1.2-2 -> 2.1.2-3) [2013-04-26 09:54] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ghc-pkg: cannot find package syb-0.4.0 [2013-04-26 09:54] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Reading package info from stdin ... done. [2013-04-26 09:54] [PACMAN] upgraded haskell-syb (0.4.0-1 -> 0.4.0-2) [2013-04-26 09:54] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ghc-pkg: cannot find package json-0.7 [2013-04-26 09:54] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Reading package info from stdin ... done. [2013-04-26 09:54] [PACMAN] upgraded haskell-json (0.7-4 -> 0.7-5) [2013-04-26 09:54] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ghc-pkg: cannot find package parsec-3.1.3 [2013-04-26 09:54] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Reading package info from stdin ... done. [2013-04-26 09:54] [PACMAN] upgraded haskell-parsec (3.1.3-2 -> 3.1.3-3) [2013-04-26 09:54] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ghc-pkg: cannot find package regex-base-0.93.2 [2013-04-26 09:54] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Reading package info from stdin ... done. [2013-04-26 09:54] [PACMAN] upgraded haskell-regex-base (0.93.2-12 -> 0.93.2-13) Is it safe to ignore those "cannot find package X" or is there something that must be done?

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[arch-general] NetworkManager: Issues with symbol when connected via WiFi
by Karol Babioch 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

Hi, since a couple of weeks I've got an issue with NetworkManager. Although I'm definitely connected via WiFi and can access my network and/or the Internet, the symbol from the nm-applet indicates that it is still trying to connect. I guess most of you are familiar with the symbol itself. Nevertheless I'm attaching it in case you don't know what I'm talking about. This issue doesn't occur every time I'm connecting to a wireless network, and unfortunately it can't be fixed by restarting NetworkManager. Usually I have to restart the whole system to get rid of this problem. The log of NetworkManager doesn't reveal anything strange, so I'm not sure whats the issue here. I know at least of one friend of mine who has the same problem, so there seems to be going on something odd. Is anyone of you experiencing the same kind of issue and/or knows about a way to fix it? Looking at the NetworkManager bug tracker I couldn't find any open issues regarding this :(. Best regards, Karol Babioch

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[arch-general] zsh-history-substring-search with grml-zsh-config
by Oon-Ee Ng 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

I use grml-zsh-config and after a recent update zsh-history-substring-search seems to have stopped working (up and down no longer search for the substring). Anyone with the same experience, or an a alternative? I really don't grok zsh =(

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[arch-general] ntp-signd support for Samba4
by John Lane 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Now that Samba 4 is the deault, I think the ntp package needs to be configured with '--enable-ntp-signd' because this is needed for Active Directory clients to be able to synchronize time via the Active Directory component of Samba 4. As far as I know this is necessary but the wiki makes no mention of it so I may of course be wrong.... Does anybody else know more about this?

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[arch-general] Integrating Virus Scanning for Packages Handled by Pacman
by Mark E. Lee 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

While building packages on the AUR, I was wondering that except for manual user intervention (by reading the code), I didn't have any other methods of knowing if a package had malware or viruses. Hence, I was wondering if virus scanning via clamav should be called before pacman installs packages. -- Mark E. Lee <mark(a)markelee.com>

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Re: [arch-general] Integrating Virus Scanning for Packages Handled by Pacman (Mark Lee)
by Mark E. Lee 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 12:57 -0400, arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org wrote: > On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 06:56:56 PM Daniel Micay wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Mark E. Lee <mark(a)markelee.com> > wrote: > > > While building packages on the AUR, I was wondering that except > for > > > manual user intervention (by reading the code), I didn't have any > other > > > methods of knowing if a package had malware or viruses. Hence, I > was > > > wondering if virus scanning via clamav should be called before > pacman > > > installs packages. > > > > > > -- > > > Mark E. Lee <mark(a)markelee.com> > > > > The PKGBUILD itself is a bash script. If you're running them without > > reading the code and checking that the sources are from an upstream > > you trust, you're gonna have a bad time. > > > > There are plenty of packages in the AUR that touch outside of > $pkgdir > > - but most seem to be beginner mistakes in good faith. ClamAV pretty > > much just detects very common win32 viruses, because it's used on > mail > > servers to *reduce* the number of spread viruses. > > > > If you really feel like scanning the package contents after you've > > already trusted the PKGBUILD and build scripts, just don't use > makepkg > > -i. > > I'd have to agree here, I don't feel much as if it is the duty of the > package > manager to check for viruses. Furthermore, reinforcing what Daniel > said, > ClamAV's primary function is to mitigate the spreading of Windows > malware. > While it would be nice to have some system to screen PKGBUILDs for > malicious > activity, it is just out of scope. [core], [extra], [multilib], and > [community] are for the most part screened upon submission (You can't > just > throw a package right upstream and into [community] without having > someone > view it first, thus having an opportunity to spot bad scripts) and the > AUR is > fairly trustworthy in and of itself. It really is just a matter of > trust. > As seen by some malignant Android apps, trust in the developer/maintainer does not always work towards the goals of the end users. Packages downloaded from the main repos or built from the AUR should be scanned for both windows and linux malware to ensure Arch Linux pc's don't become carriers for malware. Pacman would benefit from an additional line of package scanning (not just verifying); it's sort of like a second opinion from another doctor. From, Mark -- Mark E. Lee <mark(a)markelee.com>

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[arch-general] Gnome 3.8 and desktop background
by Magnus Therning 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Gnome 3.8 has now hit the official repos and it looks great. They only thing I can't seem to get to work is the desktop background. I try to set it to a nice image I have, but my desktop background remains a dull grey. The only place I see a change is in window overview mode. The only way to get the background on my ordinary desktop is to turn off "Have file manager handle the desktop" in Tweak Tool, but then I lose the icons from my desktop. Please tell me I'm not forced to chose the lesser of these evils and that there is something I've missed ;) /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus

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