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Re: [arch-general] rEFInd 0.6.4 + linux 3.7.2-1 fail to boot
by John Briggs 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 09:15:08AM +0100, Max Löwen wrote: > On 02/26/2013 12:17 AM, Kazuo Teramoto wrote: > >On 25 Feb 2013 at 18:13:14 -0300, André Vitor de Lima Matos wrote: > >>I can't boot with 3.8-2 again!! linux 3.8-1 is working fine > >For me it stopped to boot after > 3.7.7. Linux-3.7.7 is the last version > >that boot, each version after it don't. Gummiboot stopped to boot in > >v22, only v17 boots for me. > > > >When I choose the arch entry in the boot loader and it become freeze at > >the boot loader screen. > > > >The interaction of bootable and kernel/gummiboot versions is a mess on > >my system. The versions I cannot boot from form a dense set! I always > >bring an arch livecd with me (my UEFI mobo wont boot from USB). > > > >Currently I'm busy so I don't have time to debug it. As I don't see > >anyone talking about boot problems I'm blaming my Samsung laptop. I hope > >to have some time to debug and put the blame in someone else... > > > >Regards, > >Kazuo Teramoto > If you want to avoid to use the livecd, you could install a second > kernel, like from repo-ck and have it as an altrenative bootoption > (I also have problems with some kernels here, there is allready a > thread on that topic). The only problems I have experienced with rEFInd occurred when the new system files weren't being copied correctly to EFI/arch directory. Once I overcame that problem it has worked fine. John

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[arch-general] Suggestions wanted: nvidia + nouveau in AUR PKGBUILD
by Oon-Ee Ng 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

I'm an nvidia user who finally decided to try out nouveau and currently have it working, but want to keep nvidia installed just-in-case. I also maintain nvidia-beta/lib32-nvidia-utils-beta/nvidia-utils-beta in the AUR. As far as I can see, keeping both nouveau and nvidia installed and usable is not difficult, especially with the new mesa split PKGBUILD. Basically I only need the following symlinks (may be a bit different from current:- 1. /usr/lib/libGL.so -> libGL.so.1 2. /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2.0 OR libGL.so.313.18 3. /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2.0 -> mesa-libGL.so.1.2.0 4. /usr/lib32/libGL.so -> libGL.so.1 5. /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2.0 OR libGL.so.313.18 6. /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2.0 -> mesa-libGL.so.1.2.0 7. /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so -> libglx.xorg OR libglx.so.313.18 I also need to blacklist nouveau (or remove the blacklist) for modprobe, currently done in /usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf A few questions:- 1. The 'best' way I can figure is that all symlinks would be owned by a fake {lib32-}mesa-libgl-nvidia package. Only symlink 2, 5, and 7 above need changing when 'switching'. This would require manually running a script to change (followed by a reboot). The script can also fix the blacklist. 1a. Can the blacklist be fixed by renaming the file to not end with .conf or must it be moved out of /usr/lib/modprobe.d? 2. Alternatively, is there a way to get my bootloader to blacklist modules (modprobe.blacklist=nouveau or nouveau.blacklist=true as shown in [1]?) AND run a script which would 'fix' the symlinks before KMS? This would be preferable (and lower-maintenance for me) if possible. [1] - http://www.funtoo.org/wiki/Create_a_boot_option_for_easy_nvidia_or_nouveau_…

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[arch-general] XDG variables no longer set
by Robbie Smith 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

For some reason, after my last reboot (a kernel update), none of the XDG variables[1] (such as $XDG_CONFIG_HOME) are being set, which broke a lot of my configuration, as I rely on those in scripts. I was able to fix it by writing a script[2] to drop in /etc/profile.d/ that would create those directories and export the variables as required, but what I want to know is why they broke in the first place. Has anyone else experienced this? Robbie [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html#vari… [2] Like this (taken from /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc) : #!/bin/sh # $XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which # user specific configuration files should be stored. If # $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to # $HOME/.config should be used. if test "x$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" = "x" ; then XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config export XDG_CONFIG_HOME fi [ -d "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" ] || mkdir "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"

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[arch-general] Set terminus as a system font
by jugree＠lavabit.com 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

Hello. I installed Terminus from a source tarball and successfully set it as a console font (in /etc/vconsole.conf). How can I set it as a default system-wide monospace font? I've found this tutorial: http://orford.org/gtk/#fonts, but it doesn't explain how to use several fonts (is it possible?). The needed files (eg: ter-x16b.pcf.gz) are located in /usr/local/share/fonts. If the above is not possible, I'd like to enable it in Xterm and Emacs. I tried to set it in Xterm, but it didn't work out: $ xset +fp /usr/local/share/fonts/terminus (I also added this one to .xinitrc.) $ cd /usr/local/share/fonts/ $ mkfontscale $ mkfontdir .Xdefaults: XTerm*faceName: Terminus XTerm:faceSize: 16 or XTerm*faceName: ter-x16n or $ xterm -fn '-*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' also xorg.conf: Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/terminus" EndSection

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux-3.8.0-1 / wifi problem
by Genes Lists 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

On 02/25/2013 01:14 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > On 25 February 2013 17:27, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: >> >> Just a quick note as I cannot debug this atm. Updating from 3.7 to 3.8 >> breaks wireless connections on my netbook. The relevant message in the >> journal seems to be "kernel: wlan: capabilities/regulatory prevented >> using AP HT/VHT configuration, downgraded". > > I actually see this from time to time with Intel card too when using > 3.8. But I usually get connected after a few attempts. > I have troubles with some routers (enterprise cisco in my case, tho others like linksys work fine so far). In my case, I find the interface gets disconnected. Retrying may succeed - or may fail - if it fails - i reload the driver and it starts working again - i am using iwlwifi (intel N 6300 (rev 35)). Disabling and re-enabling wireless via KDE plasmoid is the simplest fix. I too see many messages like above: Feb 26 10:13:46 lap3 NetworkManager[504]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning Feb 26 10:13:46 lap3 kernel: [42931.771953] wlan0: deauthenticating from 04:fe:7f:49:71:dd by local choice (reason=2) Feb 26 10:13:46 lap3 kernel: [42931.777211] wlan0: authenticate with 1c:aa:07:f4:cd:f3 Feb 26 10:13:46 lap3 kernel: [42931.781025] wlan0: capabilities/regulatory prevented using AP HT/VHT configuration, downgraded Feb 26 10:13:46 lap3 kernel: [42931.826366] wlan0: direct probe to 1c:aa:07:f4:cd:f3 (try 1/3) Gene/

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[arch-general] mysqld (MySQL and MariaDB) polling
by Christian Hesse 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

Hello everybody, based on the thread "[RFC] Migration to MariaDB" in arch-dev-public by Bartłomiej Piotrowski I started playing with MySQL and MariaDB. I noticed both were polling every second: <... futex resumed> ) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out) futex(0x1d48050, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0 gettimeofday({1361806174, 246573}, NULL) = 0 futex(0x1d4808c, FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET_PRIVATE|FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME, 2849, {1361806175, 246573000}, ffffffff <unfinished ...> Searching Google I found that the problem may be caused by the leap second, though the load is not as high as some articles describe. (Continues polling vs. one poll a second.) However the polling stops as soon as I manually set the time with date -s and it start again if I run ntpdate to sync the time. As this is a notebook I rebooted more than once since the leap second happened. ;) What is going on? This is a mobile system, so it would be great to get rid of mysqld eating my battery power. -- 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] error setting up webdav
by Not To Miss 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

Hi, I followed the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/WebDAV#Server_.28Apache.29 exactly to setup webdav. After I restart the httpd.service, and cadaver test gave me error: $ cadaver http://localhost/dav Could not access /dav/ (not WebDAV-enabled?): 405 Method Not Allowed Connection to `localhost' closed. dav:!> ^CTerminated by signal 2. Here is the log from /var/log/httpd/127.0.0.1-access_log: ::1 - - [25/Feb/2013:23:32:07 -0700] "OPTIONS /dav/ HTTP/1.1" 200 - ::1 - - [25/Feb/2013:23:32:07 -0700] "PROPFIND /dav/ HTTP/1.1" 405 979 nothing special is reported in error_log. Anyone has anyone ideas what's wrong? I'd really appreciate any help. Thanks! Zech

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[arch-general] Bluetooth with G-Grip Bluetooth Speaker...
by David McDow 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

Hello, I travel a lot and have purchased a G-Grip Bluetooth speaker ( http://www.target.com/p/g-project-g-grip-portable-speaker-black-g-50/-/A-14…) with the intent of listening to music after I get back to the hotel and process data (I'm a land surveyor). I can pair with my Galaxy Nexus and the computer (Dell D620) but there is no sound coming from the G-Grip.. I have followed the directions here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth and have not been able have the speaker play music. I get the following so I feel sure the devices are communicating. $ hcitool scan Scanning ... 00:1D:DF:59:66:4E G-GRIP The next step yields: $ sudo bluez-simple-agent Agent registered The next step yields: $ sudo bluez-simple-agent hci0 00:1D:DF:59:66:4E Release New device (/org/bluez/1094/hci0/dev_00_1D_DF_59_66_4E) I am not sure what this means, but it appears to be positive however there is no sound coming from the speaker. I use Audacious on my laptop to play music and have looked at the settings, to no avail. I have searched (like crazy) for a solution and have found nothing to solve this problem. My hunch is that the speaker doesn't require a password. The speaker documentation for pairing says: "BLUETOOTH OPERATION Pair with Bluetooth* capable devices to stream stereo audio wirelessly for music, movies, video games and apps. PAIRING 1. In Standby mode, press the Power Button to turn G-GRIP on and begin Bluetooth pairing (make sure that no cable is connected to the AUX Input). The Bluetooth LED will flash blue. 2. On your Bluetooth device, select "G-GRIP" from the device list to pair with it (*no password is required*). Once Bluetooth has paired successfully, the Bluetooth LED on G-GRIP will turn solid blue. 3. To clear the Bluetooth memory on G-GRIP, turn G-GRIP on and hold the Pairing Button for a few seconds" [emphasis mine] I am at a loss and to reiterate, I can't find anything on the web to help me solve this issue. I would appreciate any insight to solve this problem. Thank you, David

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Re: [arch-general] [SOLVED] pacman update with new mesa gives a failed update
by Mike Cloaked 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Ionut Biru <ibiru(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > pacman -Qo /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/swrast_dri.so > pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 > > -- > Ionuț > > Thank you for fixing this in such a speedy way - much appreciated. -- mike c

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[arch-general] pacman update with new mesa gives a failed update
by Mike Cloaked 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

I tried to update with pacman -Syu this evening (x86_64) - but the update failed with: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages from extra... mesa-9.1-2-x86_64 31.4 MiB 651K/s 00:49 [###############################################] 100% mesa-libgl-9.1-2-x86_64 2.2 KiB 622K/s 00:00 [###############################################] 100% ati-dri-9.1-2-x86_64 32.8 MiB 692K/s 00:49 [###############################################] 100% cairo-1.12.14-3-x86_64 671.8 KiB 748K/s 00:01 [###############################################] 100% intel-dri-9.1-2-x86_64 328.8 KiB 739K/s 00:00 [###############################################] 100% kdelibs3-3.5.10-16-x86_64 13.6 MiB 750K/s 00:19 [###############################################] 100% libx11-1.5.0-2-x86_64 2.0 MiB 673K/s 00:03 [###############################################] 100% nouveau-dri-9.1-2-x86_64 15.4 MiB 752K/s 00:21 [###############################################] 100% svga-dri-9.1-2-x86_64 9.9 MiB 744K/s 00:14 [###############################################] 100% (9/9) checking package integrity [###############################################] 100% (9/9) loading package files [###############################################] 100% (9/9) checking for file conflicts [###############################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) mesa: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/swrast_dri.so exists in filesystem mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/libGL.so exists in filesystem mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 exists in filesystem mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2.0 exists in filesystem mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Can anyone advise if I need to do any manual changes before trying again? Thank you. -- mike c

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