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[arch-general] BTRFS USB key fails to boot
by Kyle 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

Trying to install Arch on a USB key, I am having trouble getting a bootable system. I created a basic BTRFS filesystem and mounted it with SSD optimizations and compression. I didn't create any subvolumes or anything else that is said to be problematic when booting to a BTRFS filesystem. From that point, I followed the installation guide for a normal install. However, after reading the documentation for GRUB and Syslinux, my newly created install doesn't boot. I looked at the wiki entry for installing to a USB key, but it is still written for AIF and grub-legacy. However, the main difference I can find doesn't seem to apply, because although it mentions that the USB key where grub-legacy is installed is always hd0,0, grub2 is supposed to look for the UUID of the disk, which matches correctly in /boot/grub/grub.cfg. I also tried setting up this install to boot using Syslinux, but both bootloaders just drop me into some kind of shell and refuse to boot. Unfortunately, since I am visually impaired and use speech to install and use Arch, I am unable to see whether I am in a "normal shell" or a rescue shell, or even what kind of issue the bootloaders are having that keeps them from finding a kernel. Should I be using a different filesystem other than BTRFS, even though both bootloaders are said to support it? Should I not be using compression on my filesystem? Could this be a problem that is entirely unrelated to the filesystem I'm using? Any help is greatly appreciated. ~Kyle -- Kyle is a droid. The whole world knows it. This e-mail shows it.

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[arch-general] 11 minutes mode
by Jorge Almeida 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

Anybody knows how to make sure that the kernel will not mess with the hardware clock every 11 minutes? The proper way would be to use a kernel that doesn't try to do it, but I want to use Arch's standard kernel, which has CONFIG_GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE=y. Maybe something in /proc? I don't know whether the kernel in my system is even doing it; I don't use ntp, but the documentation doesn't say what triggers the 11m mode, it just gives examples... TIA Jorge Almeida

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[arch-general] Cups 1.6 printer discovery
by mike cloaked 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

Now that cups 1.6 is in core - I have been struggling to get my laptop to "see" a shared printer attached by usb to another machine on the same network - previously if port 631 was open on all machines in the network then cups seemed to make the printer visible on all local machines. I have been reading that avahi-daemon needs to be running for printer discovery to work with the new version of cups but I have not been able to get my laptop to see the cups shared printer on a desktop elsewhere in the same network - does anyone have a link to the key steps in the config to get this working? I did read that under the new system avahi needs to be running on both server and client - but in my case the "server" machine is linux but not arch and still running cups version <1.6 and is not currently running avahi.... Any advice gratefully received. Thanks -- mike c

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[arch-general] tty0 not available anymore with systemd
by Karol Babioch 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

Hi, I can't remember to have changed anything critical in the last couple of days/weeks on this system, therefore I suppose it has something to do with some updates. Since a couple of days I no more got an console on tty0 with systemd. tty1 - tty6 work fine, but tty0 just displays the dialog to enter my password to unlock my encrypted root partition and the results of the fsck systemd is performing during the bootup. My best guess would be that it somehow gets stuck in the initrd, but I'm not sure. Is this anything you already experienced? Have I missed something? As said it worked fine in the past and I can't remember to have changed any configuration or something like that. Best regards, Karol Babioch

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[arch-general] AUR xaralx no libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
by Ralf Mardorf 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10896 $ xaralx xaralx: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] pkgbuild depends() can you have both >= <=?
by David C. Rankin 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

Guys, Is it possible to have both a 'greater than' and 'less than' dependency on any single package listed as a depends in a PKGBUILD? I want to specify gegl >=0.1.8 and <=0.2 for gimp26. Possible? Man page says: <quote> Entries can also include a version requirement of the form name<>version, where <> is one of five comparisons: >= (greater than or equal to), <= (less than or equal to), = (equal to), > (greater than), or < (less than). </quote> Where the operative phrase is: 'is one of five...' ^^^ Can you list a depends twice? (i.e.: gegl>=0.1.8 gegl<=0.2) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] X server crash
by Genes MailLists 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

The last couple of weeks I have started to get random crashes of the X server - it dies with SEGV. It occurs every few days or so and has no obvious trigger. I think it started about the same time as the update to 3.5 kernel (tho may be unrelated). Bug filed here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30921 When it happens the X session ends and I am back at kdm prompt. gene

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[arch-general] usbmuxd with systemd
by Zhengyu Xu 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Hello to All, I have a question relating to the new usbmuxd in the testing repo. Actually I have been bothered for months by the fact that udev failed to start usbmuxd automatically after plugging my iphone into lattop since I switched to systemd. In order to work it around, I did some trials to compare the configuration of my laptop, which running archlinux, with another desktop of Fedora 16 in which usbmuxd can be started automatically with systemd as service manager. From the files "85-usbmuxd.rules" and systemd services, especially the ones related to udev, started on both machines, I can not find any difference but the results of connecting iphone to each are completely different. After today's update, the usbmuxd in my laptop worked automatically again and I noticed a new file called "usbmuxd.service" in the package, which definitely has something to do with systemd. My question is why this file is necessary in archlinux. This does not make sense to me because I can not find such thing in Fedora 16 that still work fine with my iphone. Best regards, Zhengyu Xu

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[arch-general] Playback sequence in Amarok-2.5.0-2 gone crazy
by Jayesh Badwaik 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Hi, I just updated my system and amarok moved from 2.5.0-2 to 2.5.0-5. The net upgrade size was surprizing at -50 MB for this single package. Now, I am observing that the playback is completely illogical. I queued some tracks and amarok does not seem to follow any kind of queue. It plays songs at random, while still displaying the queued songs. In even normal playback (random tracks is the one enabled on my config), the track being played has no relation to the track being displayed. The currently played track does not even appear in three to four positions in even backward of previous track. The only time the song being displayed is the one being played is when I manually start the song. After that, too many times, the playlist advances in display, but that same song keeps playing over and over again. I tried installing 2.5.0-2 back, but it would not play due to it requiring libavformat.so.53 which is now on my computer at 54 version and similar other files. I am trying to access Arch Rollback Machine right now to try 2.5.0-4 and will get back to you about what happens with it. -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

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[arch-general] btrfs talking install question
by Jude DaShiell 29 Jul '12

29 Jul '12

in the install boot loader step I noticed speakup was not mentioned in any of the append lines for btrfs when the configuration file was put into the editor. Will speakup=soft added to the append line enable a talking arch linux installation given everything else was done on the arch linux install mp3 Michael Wapples made some time ago? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Hardware eventually fails; software eventually works, no amount of band width can fix poor design Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>

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