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[arch-general] Where Should I Report This?
by Bastien Dejean 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Hi, I've been using stderred[1] and one of the things that everyone would expect to work doesn't[2]. Is there a bug here? If so, where should I report it? [1] https://github.com/sickill/stderred [2] https://github.com/sickill/stderred/issues/13 Greetings, -- b.d (| |) ^ ^

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[arch-general] Booting issues
by Chris Brennan 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Greetings! Just to give everyone a clue, this is not my first go-around with Linux, I'm an old hand of sorts, but this is my first time using ArchLinux, so please bare with me here. My target install is an Asus A53E laptop (re-modeled K53E) and I am installing to an external USB Hard-Drive. The hard-drive is a 750GB Seagate 2.5" SATAII drive in an external enclosure. The target arch is x86_64. I stepped though the install without incident, it moved along flawlessly, I accepted all the defaults and the dual-arch install preformed as intended. The problem arose when I went to reboot for the first time. Now, this laptop behaves strangely in that I can't just go into the BIOS and change the boot order to the external (it does not show up at all there, just the internal hard-drive and the dvd-ram) and everything stays the same, things truly are dynamic in this machine. I have to hit escape at the 'ASUS' boot logo (which I cannot turn off for the life of me!) several times, just to get the BBS menu to appear, from there, I can select the external, now once the external is selected I am presented with the grub menu as expected, I select the first menu option to boot the standard kernel and then it would immediately fail saying it couldn't read from a FAT partition, I was like WTF!?! It took me a little while to realize that I had to change the root entry from (hd1,0) to (hd0,0), once I figured that out (about 5 reinstalls later) I got the message stating it was booting from the kernel, then it would immediately drop me to the recovery shell. This was WTF!?! moment #2. The first thing I did was to snoop /dev and all I could see was /dev/sda1-3. WTF!?! Moment #3! So I rebooted to the cd, remounted and chrooted into the new environment and rebuilt my CPIO archive (by far this was the easiest part!), after it was done, I rebooted again, no dice! I still get dropped immediately to the recovery prompt, and I still have no sdb (which is where the installer sees the external when on the install cd). So I am at a loss as to what to do now. I spoke with a few people over at freenode/#archlinux and a john_f suggested that my issue may be related to the fact that this laptop is USB3 .... so WTF then, what am I missing in my cpio archive that is present in the installer image (which can see my external just fine!) I copied some files from the chroot environment to my local web-server http://69.116.93.166:2500/~chris/nix/arch/ If you have any more/other questions please don't hesitate to ask. > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ > GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[arch-general] unionfs or aufs, available somewhere?
by Magnus Therning 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

Is either of them easily available somewhere? I'd like to use the `union-type=` option of `schroot`, but so far it looks like I'll have to get a new kernel from AUR and compile aufs3 myself to set it up. Is neither of these rather useful filesystems available pre-built somewhere? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus

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[arch-general] Happy new 2012 year!
by Kirill Churin 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

Hello, fellow Archers! Some of you (Far East and Asia and Pacific) celebrated it already, some of you still preparing (my place, Urals, are getting excited too), but I want to congratulate you all, regardless of sex, timezone, race, religion or other differences! Happy New Year, ArchLinux community! Have fun in 2012 :) -- Kirill Churin Jabber: reflexing(a)reflexing.ru

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[arch-general] Xscreensaver's NoseGuy Hack Broken in the Official Package?
by Bastien Dejean 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

Hi, The `NoseGuy` hack of the `xscreensaver` package seems broken: http://ge.tt/15VJnNB/1 However, if I build `xscreensaver` through `abs`, the hack displays just fine. Happy New Year! -- b.d (| |) ^ ^

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[arch-general] cant run adb on arch64
by adrian sun 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

Hi arch guys, Happy new year! I tried to develop android software on arch64. I followed steps in arch wiki, and replaced base-devel to multilib-devel. But I still cant run adb on my laptop. [adrian@myhost platform-tools]$ ./adb ./adb: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory How to solve this problem? Thanks. Adrian

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] new manpages
by Leonid Isaev 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:38:31 +0100 Tom Gundersen <teg(a)jklm.no> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Initscripts in [testing] contain some new man pages documenting > /etc/{rc.conf,locale.conf,vconsole.conf,hostname}, intended for the > next iso release. > > Corrections and comments welcome (preferably in the form of patches to > arch-projects...). > > Cheers, > > Tom Thank you for this release! A problem though: I get a failure while setting timezone on a ro root with /etc/localtime symlinked to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago, which seems to be caused by this: $ grep zoneinfo /etc/rc.d/functions -m1 local tz=$1 zonefile=/usr/share/zoneinfo/$tz so $zonefile is only /usr/share/zoneinfo instead of /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago. Later set_timezone() attempts to force-symlink /etc/localtime and fails of course. The fix is to replace the above stanza with: local tz=$1 local zonefile=/usr/share/zoneinfo/$tz Happy New Year! -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] Question about visudo and info in the Wiki
by Don Juan 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Being new to Arch and finally getting a working system minus the ability to always be able to cleanly reboot and shutdown every time. I started reading about securing my install and ran across the Security wiki on archlinux.org and it states that you can not use the EDITOR envvar. But in reality you can use this and it allows you the ability to run nano like it says visudo does not allow you to do. Is it just a bug in the current release of visudo, am I not understanding the information in the Wiki properly or? Wouldn't this open up a way larger issue? Quote: "By default, visudo doesn’t follow EDITOR envvar. Also it’s regarded as severe security risk since everything can be used as EDITOR (hello, rootkits!). The best practice is to add the following line to //etc/sudoers/ (remember to put full path to your favourite editor): " I have not added anything to my file other than allowing the wheel group sudo rights. Not trying to start any conspiracy here or anything just curious, could it be a fubared install on my end? I can do it from the root user and by issuing sudo EDITOR=nano visudo. Thank you My Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Security

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[arch-general] Using the new 'extramodules' directory in linux-* packages
by Oon-Ee Ng 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

I'm the maintainer of nvidia-beta-all - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31123 The nature of the package is that to provide the nvidia-beta driver for all currently installed kernels. I use some horrible tricks to accomplish that involving scanning the kernel images in /boot With the recent changes to include the 'extramodules' directory, I recently found time to modify a small portion of the PKGBUILD to place the nvidia.ko files in /lib/modules/extramodules-3.1.*/ directories instead of in /lib/modules/3.1.*/kernel/drivers/video. Saves me (and others) re-building of the package. I also have my own script which does the same module-building for virtualbox (for all kernels instead of only the running one) which I've been using since before virtualbox-source existed (with its own highly complete and complicated vboxbuild script). While looking at my script and comparing it with vboxbuild from virtualbox-source, I noticed that that script placed modules in /lib/modules/3.1.*-*-ARCH/extramodules rather than in /lib/modules/extramodules-3.1.*-*-ARCH Is this (the former) location recommended over what I'm currently doing (the latter)? If I'm not mistaken, placing the module in the former would result in 'left-behind' symlinks/directories in /lib/modules which placing the module in the latter would not? Thanks for the clarification (and for reading this).

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[arch-general] local repository
by Baho Utot 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

I would like to setup a local repository for my trinity packages I have a server with apache installed and a virtual host is configured. I copied all the files to the server and did a repo-add trinity.db.gz *.pkg.* I put this into the server pacman.conf [trinity] Server = file:///srv/http/trinity/i686 Which works as expected. I then put this in pacman.conf on the client [trinity] Server = http:///trinity.bildanet.com/i686 when I do a pacman -Syy I get the following :: Synchronizing package databases... trinity 3.6K 1380.8K/s 00:00:00 [###############################################################] 100% error: failed retrieving file 'trinity.db' from : Unknown resolver error error: failed to update trinity (Unknown resolver error) ping shows that trinity.bildanet.com is resolvable for the client. This is browseable from a web browser on the client and shows all the packages as well as the trinity.db and trinity.db.tar.gz file. Is there something else I need to do to get this working or what am I missing?

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