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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] the future of /media
by Kevin Chadwick 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

> There are very good reasons for this change (mainly security), I think it had very little to do with security, unless you count device type privacy information from folder names. I use /media/usb? and they are accessible only by root and whichever user mounted it, logically findable by order of mount. I believe the reason was so that it was in a filesystem meant for dynamic files (this feature is really irritating for some default labels but I guess a little prettier otherwise and for multi-seat). I have udisks 1 and 2 installed but use neither. I have permanent folders in /media/. Will /media/ changes by pacman simply fail and everything continue happily or will I simply have to recreate or make them immutable? -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________

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[arch-general] Polluted login prompt
by Sudaraka Wijesinghe 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hey Archers, This is an issue I has since the day I switched to systemd, I was hoping it would get fixed eventually but seems not. I start both Apache and MySQL services on boot, and both of them display the start complete message after the login prompt. Something like this: > Starting MySQL > Starting Apache > login: [ OK ] MySQL started > [ OK ] Apache started Although this doesn't break anything it just doesn't look nice. (BTW, I'm not using any DM and getty is set NOT to clear any boot messages) I saw this already reported as a bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54247, but seems there is no fix yet. Can anyone tell me how I might be able to get a clean login prompt? Thanks. -- Sudaraka Wijesinghe.

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[arch-general] Subpixels and append mode in Font Config 2.10
by Martin Panter 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi all Yesterday I replaced fontconfig-2.8.0-2 with fontconfig-2.10.1-2, and I noticed that subpixel rendering was no longer working. I can get it working again by restoring mode=“assign" in /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf, but I would like to understand why the new package’s mode=“append” does not work, or if there is a simpler way I could be doing this. The 2.10 config file has this giant comment and append line, which is not particularly illuminating for me:  <edit name="rgba" mode="append"><const>rgb</const></edit> It is apparently all a result of this bug, “Don’t overwrite user’s configurations in default config”: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17722 I’m not intentionally running any Gnome of KDE configuration, assuming that’s what they mean by “major desktop environments”. I have verified subpixels aren’t rendering in Scite (a text editor using GTK 2) using a magnifying glass :P on the number 7. I also noticed the fonts changed in Firefox, and “gitk” (which uses TK). I just removed ~/.fontconfig/ (to no effect), and don’t seem to have any other files starting with “font” in my home directory, nor ~/.config/ (assuming that’s what $XDG_CONFIG_HOME means). Does anyone know of any other place that could set the subpixel mode, or prevent my setting from taking effect? Is there some simple Font Config program that could help debug this? Thanks for any help or pointers -Martin

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[arch-general] USB 3G Modem: no remote host reachable, while connection (seems to) establish correctly
by Sebastian Lipp 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

Hey there! I've got a problem with my Huawei E220 (not entirely sure about this) 3G modem stick. It used to work for several days without any issues but someone closed my laptop's lid so that it slept away and since I can't reach any remote machine. Everything seems to be normal, even the "defaulting to 10.64.64.64" message by pppd is in the logs from times it worked... I played around with the routes but was not able to solve my problem. pppd connects successfully and sets the routes and DNS servers. Interesting is that I don't get answers to any ping. Even the DNS servers don't answer but my machine resolves domain names. Putting for example googles DNS server 8.8.8.8 into /etc/resov.conf doesn't help. I even tried to kick wvdial by following <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/3G_and_GPRS_modems_with_pppd_alone>. Everything seems to work identically. The problem is also the same. I dont't know how to solve this problem. Perhaps someone here can help me. Below are those informations I thought would be helpful. I will happily provide any further information that might help. Thanks in advance. [bacuh@eee ~]$ dmesg [12585.668857] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci_hcd [12585.809389] option 1-1:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected [12585.809795] usb 1-1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0 [12585.810369] option 1-1:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected [12585.810645] usb 1-1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1 [12585.811697] scsi17 : usb-storage 1-1:1.2 [12585.813594] scsi18 : usb-storage 1-1:1.3 [12586.817410] scsi 17:0:0:0: CD-ROM HUAWEI Mass Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [12586.822239] scsi 18:0:0:0: Direct-Access HUAWEI MMC Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [12586.828280] sr0: scsi-1 drive [12586.835202] sr 17:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 [12586.837277] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk [bacuh@eee ~]$ cat /etc/wvdial.conf [Dialer aldi_mf] Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 #Init1 = AT+CPIN=XXXX # not used anymore Init2 = ATZ Init3 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 Init4 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet.eplus.de" Stupid Mode = 1 Modem Type = Analog Modem Phone = *99***1# ISDN = 0 Username = eplus Dial Command = ATDT Password = gprs Baud = 460800 [bacuh@eee ~]$ sudo wvdial aldi_mf [sudo] password for bacuh: --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.61 --> Initializing modem. --> Sending: ATZ ATZ OK --> Sending: ATZ ATZ OK --> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 OK --> Sending: AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet.eplus.de" AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet.eplus.de" OK --> Modem initialized. --> Sending: ATDT*99***1# --> Waiting for carrier. ATDT*99***1# CONNECT --> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately. --> Starting pppd at Tue Nov 20 15:37:04 2012 --> Pid of pppd: 13809 --> Using interface ppp0 --> local IP address 10.140.52.61 --> remote IP address 10.64.64.64 --> primary DNS address 212.23.115.132 --> secondary DNS address 212.23.115.148 [bacuh@eee ~]$ sudo tail /var/log/messages.log Nov 20 15:37:04 localhost pppd[13809]: pppd 2.4.5 started by bacuh, uid 0 Nov 20 15:37:04 localhost pppd[13809]: Using interface ppp0 Nov 20 15:37:04 localhost pppd[13809]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyUSB0 Nov 20 15:37:04 localhost pppd[13809]: CHAP authentication succeeded Nov 20 15:37:04 localhost pppd[13809]: CHAP authentication succeeded Nov 20 15:37:06 localhost pppd[13809]: Could not determine remote IP address: defaulting to 10.64.64.64 Nov 20 15:37:06 localhost pppd[13809]: local IP address 10.140.52.61 Nov 20 15:37:06 localhost pppd[13809]: remote IP address 10.64.64.64 Nov 20 15:37:06 localhost pppd[13809]: primary DNS address 212.23.115.132 Nov 20 15:37:06 localhost pppd[13809]: secondary DNS address 212.23.115.148 [bacuh@eee ~]$ route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 ppp0 10.64.64.64 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 [bacuh@eee ~]$ ping google.de PING google.de (173.194.34.95) 56(84) bytes of data. ^C --- google.de ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3999ms [bacuh@eee ~]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 212.23.115.132 nameserver 212.23.115.148 -- basti

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[arch-general] Weird GTK+ open directory chooser dialog behaviour
by Robbie Smith 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hi list I don’t recall when this started occurring (as most applications that open files open them one at a time so I seldom come across it), but the directory selection dialog seems to always open my home directory regardless of what I navigate to. The programs that spawn the dialog subsequently crash, as they’re trying to open *every file in my home directory* instead of a specific directory. Googling found no results except for [1] on our forum, and the OP thinks it has to do with wxWidgets, but I get this behaviour with every GTK directory open dialog. Has anyone encountered this? Or is my computer also somewhat beserk? [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=146064

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[arch-general] qemu vs. qemu-kvm
by Jameson 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

If I'm not mistaken, there is no longer any substantial difference between these packages is there? Thanks. =-Jameson

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[arch-general] LVM Thin Provisioning
by Squall Lionheart 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hello, I have been reading about Thin Provisioning in LVM and wanted to play with it however, when I try to create a thin pool it shows an error saying: # lvcreate --thinpool -L 1G vg/pool WARNING: Unrecognised segment type thin Unable to create LV with unknown segment type thin. Run `lvcreate --help' for more information. I am running version: # lvm version LVM version: 2.02.98(2) (2012-10-15) Library version: 1.02.77 (2012-10-15) Driver version: 4.23.0 and have the following targets for device mapper: # dmsetup targets snapshot-merge v1.1.0 snapshot-origin v1.7.1 snapshot v1.10.0 zero v1.0.0 striped v1.5.0 linear v1.1.0 error v1.0.1 According to what I could find, this feature has been available since version 2.02.89 and is enabled with the compile time option of --with-thin=internal, but doesn't appear to be enabled in the Arch package. Am I correct or does something need to be configured on my machine? Thank you Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N https://github.com/headmastersqual <http://twitter.com/headmastersqual>l

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[arch-general] Virtualbox hosting qemu-kvm guests
by Steve P. 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hi This is my first posting so bear with me. I am trying to get qemu-kvm to work inside Virtualbox, but when I try to #modprobe the kvm-intel or kvm_intel module, it errors stating that operation is not permitted. Is qemu known to run inside virtualbox? The host hardware is an i7 that supports hardware virtualization fine. I have qemu running natively on the same box so it is confusing, but want to use VB also. Thanks in advance.

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[arch-general] Unofficial Repository Guidelines
by Jesus Alvarez 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hey everyone, There are no guidelines on the wiki for creating and distributing unofficial repositories. The tools make this feature incredibly easy to implement, but with that power comes great responsibility, and I am a bit confused. It would be nice to have a set of guidelines for creating and distributing unofficial repositories on the wiki. The reason I ask this is because I created two signed repositories for some packages I maintain, zfs and netflix-desktop. They do have usage, and in my forum posts, people seem to really appreciate the availability of the repo. However, I am not a TU, so my keys are not signed by any of the master keys. I don't want to contribute to a bad habit of not checking package sources before installing something from some repo. When I brought the topic up in #archlinux, there was some concern I was using a repo and not solely relying on AUR. I did my best to provide lots of information to people, like the complete sources and lots of information about myself and the packages so people are comfortable adding my key to their keyring. But I am a very thorough person, so doing this is natural. Others won't be so willing to do the work. So what is the general consensus regarding unofficial repositories? Thanks, demizer

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[arch-general] pacman optional package messages on update
by mike cloaked 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Recently there have been some (slightly) confusing output lines running pacman -Syu. This evening I see: New optional dependencies for logrotate cron: scheduled log rotation However: [root@lapmike3 ~]# pacman -Q cron error: package 'cron' was not found But of course: [root@lapmike3 ~]# pacman -Q cronie cronie 1.4.8-3 So presumably I do not need to try to pacman -S cron !! Similarly the other day there was an optional dependency of python3 when in fact presumably the package name is "python" but happens to be version 3? (which for me was already installed) Just a point for clarification - especially for new users who may be a bit confused by the output and take inappropriate action as a result! -- mike c

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