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[arch-general] Busted Server
by Jameson 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

I hope someone can help me. I have a server with two SSDs that contain a mirrored btrfs volume holding /, and multiple HDDs that are in a btrfs RAID10 array. I updated to linux 3.7.3 in testing, and it failed to boot. I booted from a USB drive, and reinstalled 3.6.?, and I still get failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x40). I don't see anything in dmesg that makes a difference. The only thing that changed was the kernels, back and forth. Does anyone have an idea, or am I going to have to re-install? Thanks.

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[arch-general] SeaMonkey outdated. Critical security holes in the current version!
by Manuel Reimer 20 Jan '13

20 Jan '13

Hello Archlinux team, the SeaMonkey package is outdated. Many critical issues have been fixed in the current version: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey.html So in my opinion a fixed package is required as soon as possible. As SeaMonkey contains a browser component and there may be people who use this to surf the internet, in my opinion new versions should be packaged with the same priority as Firefox packages. The only alternative would be to drop the package at all. Yours Manuel Reimer

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[arch-general] mkinitcpio/fsck.btrfs
by Arno Gaboury 19 Jan '13

19 Jan '13

Dear list, here is my mkinitcpio hook list. HOOKS="base udev autodetect block lvm2 filesystems fsck usr usbinput shutdown modconf" When # mkinitcpio, I get this error: -> Running build hook: [fsck] ==> ERROR: file not found: `fsck.btrfs' ==> WARNING: No fsck helpers found. fsck will not be run on boot. The initramfs-linux.img is still correct, but I was wondering why this error. When reading the /usr/lib/initcpio/install/fsck script, it seems to me fsck will add the filesystem name and run /usr/bin/fsck.filesystemame.This will of course translate to fsck.btrfs, which does not exist. /usr/bin/btrfsck is the correct binary. According to /usr/lib/initcpio/install/btrfs script, the btrfs hook is not needed when using udev. How can I solve this issue? Shall I add the btrfs hook? Thank you for advices. Regards.

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[arch-general] update to calibre-0.9.15-1
by phani 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

during today's update from calibre 0.9.14-1 -> 0.9.15-1, pacman complained that all packages under /usr/lib/calibre/calibre were already existing in the filesystem, and therefore the update couldn't be performed. for some reason "pacman -Qo" claimed that all these files didn't belong to any package. only after moving them from that location somewhere else could the new version of calibre be installed. looks to me as if this is some packaging error. don't know enough about arch packaging though to say what exactly went wrong... -- phani.

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[arch-general] powernow-k8 fails to load with linux 3.7.2
by Leonid Isaev 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Hi, I just installed linux 3.7.2 from [testing] on an AMD system and noticed that powernow-k8 is not loaded. As a result, the CPU is stuck at the maximum frequency because ondemand governor is inactive. The precise model is AMD PhenomII X4 955, and modprobe error is: -------------- % modprobe -vv powernow-k8 modprobe: INFO: custom logging function 0x40ab40 registered modprobe: INFO: Failed to insert module '/lib/modules/3.7.2-1-ARCH/kernel/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.ko.gz': No such device modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'powernow_k8': No such device modprobe: INFO: context 0x21c91b0 released insmod /lib/modules/3.7.2-1-ARCH/kernel/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.ko.gz -------------- Meanwhile, linux 3.6.11 works fine. Notice also, that acpi_cpufreq 3.7.2 is fine on a INtel core2duo machine. Is it only me, or others have seen this too? Thanks, -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] MBP 8, 2: Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration
by bjschuma＠gmail.com 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Hi everybody! I just installed Arch on a MacbookPro 8,2 in EFI mode (booting directly from Grub 2). My system boots, but when I try to start X I get "(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration". I've tried changing the modeset values for i915 and radeon (mentioned on this wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook_Pro_8,1_/_8,2_/_8,3_(2011_Macb…) but nothing seems to work. My modules line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf is: MODULES="ahci libahci crc32c-intel intel_agp i915" Does anybody know what I'm missing? Thanks! - Bryan

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[arch-general] I have to switch back to tty1 for systemd to shutdown the pc
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

hi all, Since latest update of gnome 3.4, I can't login through gdm because, then, I have no single glyph or font displayed on my desktop in menu or application (but not the qt ones) So, I found the work around to switch to tty2 and login and run startx and all is fine in my desktop. The fonts are back. No idea what this bug is about ! Anyway, my problem is: When I shutdown the PC from gnome desktop, I end up on tty2 console, and nothing is happening there i.e. no shutdown. I have to switch back manually to tty1 so that the shutdown procedure begins or continues. Any idea why systemd fails like that ? or gnome ?

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Re: [arch-general] Help with making a bootable usbkey from arch for ssd drive firmware update
by Christian Hesse 17 Jan '13

17 Jan '13

Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked(a)gmail.com> on Wed, 2013/01/16 10:18: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Christian Hesse <list(a)eworm.de> wrote: > > > Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked(a)gmail.com> on Tue, 2013/01/15 21:57: > > > [...] > > > If anyone can help advise on how to make a bootable usbkey to execute > > this, > > > I would really appreciate it. > > > > I do have the same drive and I updated the firmware booting the image off > > grub. All just need is a working grub (2.0 here) installation and syslinux > > (for memdisk). (Though doing it with syslinux should work as well.) > > > > The grub.cfg should have a config section that looks like this: > > > > menuentry "Update Crucial M4" { > > set root='(hd0,1)' > > linux16 /memdisk floppy > > initrd16 /boot2880.img > > } > > > > If the files are in place (probably in /boot/) the image should boot and > > you > > can successfully update the drives firmware. > > > > Mounting the boot image, modifying it or installing freedos is not > > necessary. > > > > Thanks Christian - it sounds like you are running grub off the system > already installed to the internal drive? If that is the case then maybe I > will have to install arch to the internal drive first and then add in the > grub entries to execute the firmware update and boot to them? > > However it would be nice to be able to run grub (2) off a usbkey and > execute the firmware update before installing arch to the internal drives > which then already have the updated ssd firmware. Does not matter where grub is installed to. It just has to find and boot the files. -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Chris get my mail address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig */b/42*2-3)*42);}

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[arch-general] newbie: looking for docs
by Don Raikes 17 Jan '13

17 Jan '13

Hello, I am very new to archlinux (as of late last week, and I am struggling to find any documentation on how to create new archlinux packages, and how to setup a local repository for my packages prior to contributing them to the AUR. I have searched the wiki and forums as well as simply googled on the topics and have found nothing. Any tips would be appreciated.

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[arch-general] Encryption passphrase has to be entered twice
by Karol Babioch 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

Hi, I've recently installed Arch on a friend's machine, which happens to be a MacBook Pro. After some initial problems with the EFI setup, it now works basically great. However there is a strange "problem" during the boot process. The system is fully encrypted (based on the layout recommended in the Wiki), so during the boot process you'll get asked for the passphrase. However the correct passphrase isn't recognized the first time, but it has to be entered a second time. The passphrase is pretty easy for now, just to make sure mistyping is not a problem. We tested this several times, and it consequently refuses to accept the passphrase given at the first attempt. I've had to include the "usbinput" hook into the initramfs as the keyboard is attached via USB. However I can't think that this is a problem, as I've used the "usbinput" hook on other machines without a problem. Has anyone experienced something like this already? What might be the problem here? How can I debug this? I thought of rewriting the "encrypt" hook to output the entered passphrase, but before fiddling around with it, maybe there is something obvious I've missed here? Best regards, Karol Babioch

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