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[arch-general] need advices for the perfect web toolbox
by arnaud gaboury 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

Dear list, currently following the Sun certified web component developer course, I want to set up a http web server @ home to practice. I plan to virtualize a Arch server on my Arch box. I know we can talk about pro/con for hours, but I am interested in knowing your advices about the following apps: -http server : Apache or Nginx (curious to test the later) -container for my servlets : Tomcat ? -secure ftp server : ??? maybe a mail server: ??? I guess ssh will be the best way to talk to the server. Maybe other stuffs I forgot? What is the most common and simple way to secure the whole stuff without loosing too much responsiveness? Thank you for your advices. Regards.

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[arch-general] Mounting /var early in systemd
by Paul Gideon Dann 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

Hello all, I'm migrating a diskless cluster from initscripts to systemd. The problem I have is that the nodes each need to mount their own separate /var (identified by hostname) from the NFS server when they boot. With initscripts, I used a sysinit_end hook to do the job, which worked pretty well. However, with systemd I've really hit a brick wall. I can't get the unit to start early enough, because systemd creates so many sockets (in /var) so early, and there's no target that is ordered before the socket units are started. This means that the early sockets get masked when the "real" /var is mounted, and things break. I think the only solution with systemd is to explicitly specify each socket in "Before=" for my unit, which is likely to break if anything changes in future. It might also be possible to create a generator that automates this, but that's still pretty ugly. Right now, I'm thinking the only sensible solution is to forget doing it with systemd and push the mounting of /var up into initcpio, but that's admitting defeat. Any ideas? Paul

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[arch-general] evdev and touchscreen
by Δημήτρης Ζέρβας 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

I have the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 and I set up a chroot environment with Arch. I run Xorg server successfully, the S-Pen (digital pen) works out of the box with evdev driver, however I can't get the touchscreen to work. It's on /dev/input/event1 and I've tried: mtrack, multitouch, synaptics and it just don't work. no errors at all. I tried evdev and when I touch the screen it throws this [1] and dies. I also tried xf86-input-evdev-multitouch-git but it throws the same errors as the regular evdev I run e17, but I think that it's not a problem. my xorg.conf [2] [1]: http://pastebin.com/aGAWwDmh [2]: http://pastebin.com/TCeT9qr7

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] syslinux 5.00 in [testing]
by Matthew Gyurgyik 16 Dec '12

16 Dec '12

On 12/08/2012 06:37 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi, > seems syslinux changed some things more than I expected, > could thomas or gerado look at the changes? > http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2012-December/018747.html > I don't have time this afternoon. > > If it keeps broken, I'll remove it this evening from testing repository. > > greetings > tpowa > The default modules that we place into /boot (menu.c32 vesamenu.c32 chain.c32 hdt.c32 reboot.c32 poweroff.com) depend on libutil_com.c32, libcom32.c32, libmenu.c32, libcom32gpl.c32 (new with syslinux 5.0) The syslinux-install_update script will need to be updated to include these extra modules. I will provide a patch in the next day or two, since I'm the original author. Simply adding the new modules to the script should work, but I want to test the following (thus the delay for the patch): 1) upgrade from syslinux4 -> syslinux5 2) new install using syslinux 5 Regards, Matthew Gyurgyik

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[arch-general] How to remember password and workgroup when connecting to Windows 7 share?
by Ardo Gorria 15 Dec '12

15 Dec '12

HI, I am new to Arch Linux but not to Linux as a whole. I'd be grateful for any advice on how to store the password as follows:- I am running an up to date Arch Linux system and have set up XFCE 4.1. As per the wiki I have installed gvfs-smb. I can browse my network from Thunar 1.6.1 and can access windows shares perfectly. When prompted I enter my username, workgroup and password and also click the radio button to 'remember forever' the password. The session is fine and I can copy files back and forward perfectly. However, after a reboot or unmounting the share, I am prompted to re-enter the Domain/Workgroup and also the password. Can anyone point me to how I can get the system to memorise these fields? I have gnome keyring installed, so I'm guessing it could be permissions or something else I haven't thought of. Grateful for any advice. A.

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[arch-general] dbus update - /etc/passwd merge question
by mike cloaked 14 Dec '12

14 Dec '12

Having read the available postings in arch-dev-public as well as those on this subject in the arch forums I am somewhat confused as to how to complete the merge for /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group and /etc/gshadow for the new entries in the .pacnew files. For example in my old /etc/passwd I have the line: dbus:x:81:81:System message bus:/:/bin/false and in the pacnew file I have: dbus:x:81:81:dbus:/:/sbin/nologin Should I put the line from the .pacnew file into the old file? Also for uidd I have in the original: uuidd:x:999:999::/:/sbin/nologin but in the pacnew file it is: uuidd:x:68:68:uuidd:/:/sbin/nologin Should I change the uid in the original file to 68 - and do the same in the corresponding entries for shadow, group and gshadow? I am an old linux user and usually I can sort things out after an upgrade but this time I am really confused. Any expert advice very much appreciated - thanks. -- mike c

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[arch-general] Getting microphone sound input in google-talkplugin for google-hangouts?
by Mike Cloaked 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

I have been trying to get my laptop set up using google hangouts - chrome works fine, and I installed the google-talkplugin from AUR. Sound is coming out from the speakers just fine ((and also on the gmail test sound output) - and the webcam is fine. I can use the jack audio facility to check that I can take sound input from the microphone and play it in the speakers. However I can't seem to get the google video chat to use input sound - and trying a test hangout I get a warning that my microphone is not configured correctly! I use alsa but not pulseaudio though I read in a post on the arch forum that installing pulse made no difference for another user who had sound problems with this also. I can't find any postings or wiki advice on sorting out this particular problem. Does anyone have any experience or tested workaround to get this sound issue resolved? Thanks -- mike c

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[arch-general] harddisk suspending far to often
by G. Schlisio 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

hi, after updating my laptop today [0] (no testing enabled) i notice that my harddisk keeps spinning down and up every 10 seconds or so. might this be related to the update or where can i stop this? help very appreciated georg [0] packages updated today: pcre libssh tdb bind lshw soundkonverter sage-mathematics lib32-glib2 lib32-harfbuzz lib32-pango lib32-fontconfig latex-beamer linux-headers linux-docs linux

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[arch-general] mythtv issues with HDTV and MPG ac3 audio
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Hi, Since upgrading to 0.26 series, i have serious issues with HD TV and DVB-S mpg conversion. I'm using latest git version of 0.26 from 121209. - HDTV looses audio complete if using high profile for conversion. - DVB-S mpg's are not convertable anymore with cutlists. The mpg's are not working to convert until I remove the ac3 audio stream manually with ffmpeg. With HDTV I don't get a working cutted recording. Do others observe such issues too? Thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Prosody update
by David Benfell 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Hi all, It appears that the prosody package dependencies have been updated, but not the program itself: atlanta# prosodyctl start ************************** Prosody was unable to find luasocket This package can be obtained in the following ways: Source: http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~diego/professional/luasocket/ luarocks: luarocks install luasocket Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install liblua5.1-socket2 luasocket is required for Prosody to run, so we will now exit. More help can be found on our website, at http://prosody.im/doc/depends ************************** ************************** Prosody was unable to find LuaSec This package can be obtained in the following ways: Source: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~brunoos/luasec/ luarocks: luarocks install luasec Debian/Ubuntu: http://prosody.im/download/start#debian_and_ubuntu SSL/TLS support will not be available More help can be found on our website, at http://prosody.im/doc/depends ************************** *********************************** util/encodings couldn't be loaded. Check that you have a recent version of libidn The full error was: error loading module 'util.encodings' from file '/usr/lib/prosody/util/encodings.so': /usr/lib/prosody/util/encodings.so: undefined symbol: luaL_register *********************************** *********************************** util/hashes couldn't be loaded. Check that you have a recent version of OpenSSL (libcrypto in particular) The full error was: error loading module 'util.hashes' from file '/usr/lib/prosody/util/hashes.so': /usr/lib/prosody/util/hashes.so: undefined symbol: luaL_register *********************************** This is since an update this morning, in which various Arch lua packages had to be replaced with similarly named lua- packages. Thanks!

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