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[arch-general] pacman from behind a proxy (not under my control)
by Oon-Ee Ng 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

So I just tried a new install, it works and even got updated the first time. Left it over the weekend, now that I'm back on it (still quite bare, nothing much set up yet) I can't seem to get pacman connected to the mirrors. This machine is a university machine and needs to connect via proxy.name_of_uni.edu.my:8080, so I've set http_proxy and ftp_proxy to the right values. Also substituted in the actual IP addresses with the same results. What happens is that all the mirrors get the following (with wget uncommented in pacman.conf, similar results even when not using wget) Connecting to mirrors.kernel.org|149.20.4.71|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Ironically, when I try to wget the db file itself through wget http://mirrrors.kernel.org/archlinux/testing/os/i686/testing.db it downloads fine.... Any idea what the problem could be?

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[arch-general] Trouble with "system" bell
by Scott Lawrence 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

I'm on a macbook, so there's no true system bell - I've installed xbelld to replace it. Unfortunately, I still get no bell in terminal (rxvt or xterm or st, using "echo -e \\a" or ^G or ^H^H^H), although running 'xkbbell' does give me the bell. Searching online, I find this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=883917#p883917 which seems similar (I tried chromium, and I do indeed get a bell there), but the solution of "just use the system bell" won't work for me. The visualBell effect works, but that's not what I'm looking for. Any tips on what's keeping the bell from being played from terminal? I've tried "xset b" stuff, and I'm out of ideas. -- Scott Lawrence Linux jagadai 3.4.7-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 29 22:02:56 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] WTF? several anon_inode and /dev/null listings with lsof search
by rabidblogger＠Safe-mail.net 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

$ lsof | grep anon_inode anon_inode $ lsof | grep dev/null /dev/null I find several anon_inodes and over a dozen /dev/null listings, in some listings for each there are several processes which are repeated. I'm expecting this to be a rootkit, but none of the rootkit scanners find anything. Why are these two listings appearing for various processes? I'm not running any virtual machines, emulation, shares, printers, servers, etc. but these listings continue to appear, it doesn't matter what Linux distro I use, these continue to show, even when disconnected from the internet. What are they? Why are they appearing? How can I stop these from running? (if they're bad) I've searched the web and cannot find anything which explains these to my satisfaction.

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[arch-general] New dual install iso -- Where the heck is arch-setup??
by David C. Rankin 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

Guys, What happened to the arch setup autoinstaller script that guided you though the install process?? It was minimal, and worked very well to guide you through. Even helpful with raid installs after your arrays were assembled and partitioned. Now, unless I'm completely missing something, we a back to a total manual install with archlinux-2012.07.15-netinstall. I've looked at the basic setup wiki and the install guide wiki and I don't see the friendly install tool referenced anywhere. So am I missing it, or are we just back to a manual install? (guessing where packages are /usr/bin, /usr/sbin or /sbin. On archlinux-2012.07.15-netinstall, /usr/sbin is not in the default path, so typing dhcpcd as instructed in the wiki -- does nothing... I really liked the old arch installer. It was a fairly brain-dead install that nicely walked you though the install process with minimal keystrokes and choices required. Is that installer on the archlinux-2012.07.15-netinstall image? If so where? (This is an arch client vbox install if that makes any difference...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Is there any project or interest for an new installer?
by David C. Rankin 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

Guys, As I sit cobbling together script snippets to help automate the new media install for my use, I am curious if there is any current effort/project to develop a new AIF type installer? Or, is there any plan to take the current old AIF and update it going forward. If not, is there any suggestion/desire to set up a development page/wiki to capture thoughts/ideas/notes concerning what Arch users are currently doing to help automate the install. That way at least there is a central place for the information to be coordinated that would foster a bit of development in that direction regardless of whether it ever becomes an official project. For example, to make grub2 config a little easier I cobbled together a couple of lines from the Install_Guide, Beginners_Guide and Grub2 wiki to come up with a short snippet for my use: # Install a bootloader (grub2) - PART2 instdev="$1" modprobe dm-mod grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --debug "$instdev" mkdir -p /boot/grub/locale cp /usr/share/locale/en\(a)quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo /boot/grub/locale/en.mo sed -i 's/GRUB_GFXMODE=.*$/GRUB_GFXMODE=1024X768X32/' /etc/default/grub grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg Nothing special about any of this, but if there was an interest in capturing this type of information and other information related to the install for later use (or just to prevent reinventing the wheel), then some central page makes sense. Also, if there was any interest in a future AIF continuation, I'd be happy to help where I could. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] kernel: NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0 has fallen off the bus. ??
by David C. Rankin 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Guys, On my i686 box with nvida 8600GT, nvidia driver, I have experienced 2 desktop lockups in the past couple of days. When this occurs, the desktop is locked hard, but the mouse still moves. Nothing else is responsive. This has occurred when the desktop is in active use and when the display is in poweroff mode from dpms. Checking error messages I find: Aug 6 15:21:45 providence kernel: [ 2250.691231] NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0 has fallen off the bus. Aug 2 03:11:11 providence kernel: [45209.590664] NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0 has fallen off the bus. Aug 2 14:50:48 providence kernel: [ 2128.598972] NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0 has fallen off the bus. I have followed http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-rhel-fedora-linux-nvidia-nvrm-gp… to set Persistence Mode, but I'm don't know if that will fix it. As in an earlier thread, I still experience high X usage and slow desktop response, especially with GTK apps. I hoped that updating the new nvidia driver today would do the trick, but the last fall off occurred after the update. The article says to update kernel and nvidia driver, but those of those are the latest packages from Arch. Is this a bug? If so, kernel or nvidia? Is it OK just to set Persistence Mode permanently on boot each time? Where is the best place? /etc/rc.local? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Pacman/pactree
by Arno Gaboury 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Dear list, I did some spring home cleaning today among my installed packages. I wanted to remove one package, but be sure first to know which packages were depending on the one I wanted to remove. I then went to the pacman wiki, and read the following command would do the job : $whoneeds packagename. A quick tour on #archlinux IRC gave me this anser for same result: $pactree -r packagename. Is there any reason to use "whoneeds" command more than "pactree -r" ? As pactree is already installed, I do not see the need to install a new package for same result. Not a big deal, but just curiousity.

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[arch-general] Softlink /media
by Ralf Mardorf 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Am I the only one mounting e.g. an USB stick by the desktop and then using a terminal emulation? Is /media still needed by anything? If not I would prefer a softlink media -> /run/media. Hm? There's no big difference between typing # ls /run/media/spinymouse/INTENSO and # ls /media/spinymouse/INTENSO I wonder if it's possible to use $HOME for the softlink? IMO an USB stick etc. should be auto-mounted at /media, I prefer to type /media/INTENSO only. For now I added the softlink media -> /run/media. Regards, Ralf Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Skype locks up my system, not even sysrq keys work
by SanskritFritz 05 Aug '12

05 Aug '12

When I do a videochat in skype, the whole system freezes after a while. This while can be a couple to 10+ minutes. The system locks up usually when I start or close some other apps in the background. When it happens the screen doesnt change anymore, and the sound stutters the last half second over and over again. Nothing helps, not even the magic sysrq keys (REISUB), which otherwise do work (tested it). I suspect this could be a result of a new videocard in the system (the problem started around that time, when I swapped the old GeForce 7300 GS to a new 8600 GT), but everything else works flawlessly, 3D games, movies, compiz, everything, except skype. Is it possible that a hardware problem causes a problem of this magnitude only with skype? I couldn't find anything in the logfiles after reboot. There is no overheating of the nvidia card or cpu, I constantly check it with conky. Later I'm going to switch back to the old videocard, and test, to see if it is hardware related. Please help me to find the problem if software related. Cheers SanskritFritz

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[arch-general] Install wiki - recommendations regarding 'swap' ?
by David C. Rankin 05 Aug '12

05 Aug '12

All, After installing without AIF, I want to update the install wiki to drop a note about swap. It isn't addressed at all. What is the current Arch recommendation regarding swap creation? I.E.: recommended for systems w/less that 1G of RAM, create swap file of what size? (256M?) Even if swap is not recommended, I at least want to drop that note in the basic install. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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