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Re: [arch-general] iniitcpio root device check [SOLVED]
by Dwight Schauer 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Dave Reisner <d(a)falconindy.com> wrote: >>Ok, I renamed "9p_mount_handler" to "ninep_mount_handler" and updated >>mount_handler= accordingly, and rebuild the initcpio images. >> >>Still no joy... :) >> >>I went so far as to rename 9p to ninep in >>/lib/initcpio/{install,hooks} and the HOOKS string, and rebuilt the >>initcpio images, but that did not help. >> >>Dwight > > Let's try this one more time. You're missing a pointer to your install > script. Part of the build function needs: > SCRIPT=ninep > > or whatever you're calling it... > > d > That did it! Thanks. Now I can start the session automatically without intervention. Dwight

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[arch-general] iniitcpio root device check
by Dwight Schauer 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

I have an arch linux install running in qemu using a 9p virtual root filesystem (root filesystem is just a sub directory on the host). This is the line I use to launch it: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -virtfs local,path=$(pwd)/wn-root,security_model=mapped,mount_tag=wn-root -smp 2 -m 1024 -kernel ./wn-root/boot/vmlinuz26 -append 'rootfstype=9p rootflags="trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L" root=wn-root ro rootdelay=10' --initrd ./wn-root/boot/kernel26-fallback.img -net vde -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=52:54:00:00:EE:03 Immediately after "::Running Hook [resume]" though I get: Root device 'wn-root' does'nt exist. Attempting to create it. ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device 'wn-root'. At that point I'm dropped into the recovery shell, I exit that, it complains, but continues to boot fine as it the existence in /dev/ of a 9p filesystem source is not needed. I did not find anything in mkinitcpio.conf to disable this check, which in this case is not needed, as the root filesystem is mounted without any problem. Using 9p for a kvm root filesystem is useful for cases where something like Linux containers (LXC) is not sufficient to accomplish some task. For the most part this is working fine, still have some 9p filesystem oddities to work through. For instance, syslog-ng won't start and using makepkg on some packages results in "cat: -: No such file or directory" (that error does not occur when that arch install is chrooted into and build run from inside the chroot). The 9p issues are not relevant to the initcpio workaround I'm looking for though. Dwight

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[arch-general] [signoff] netcfg 2.6.6-1
by Rémy Oudompheng 30 Jul '11

30 Jul '11

Hello, I have prepared the netcfg 2.6.6 release. I have let go the previous signoff thread because of several outstanding issues, which I think are now resolved. NEWS except ----------- version 2.6.6 - fix wrong rc scripts names in suspend hook (FS#20330) - fix wireless failure when using wpa-config and a custom ctrl_interface path (FS#24949) - bash-completion: add -r to option list (FS#25188) Regards, Rémy.

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[arch-general] 2011.07-3 archboot "2k11-R4" ISO hybrid image released
by Tobias Powalowski 30 Jul '11

30 Jul '11

Hi Arch community, Arch Linux (archboot creation tool) 2011.07-2, "2k11-R4" has been released. To avoid confusion, this is not an official arch linux iso release! Homepage and for more information on archboot: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archboot Forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=123412 Summary: - bump to latest kernels, plain bugfix release. Hybrid image file and torrent is provided, which include i686 and x86_64 core repository. Please check md5sum before using it. Hybrid image file is a standard CD-burnable image and also a raw disk image. - Can be burned to CD(RW) media using most CD-burning utilities. - Can be raw-written to a drive using 'dd' or similar utilities. This method is intended for use with USB thumb drives. Please get it from your favorite arch linux mirror: - https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/archboot/2011.07/ - <yourmirror>/iso/archboot/2011.06/ Have fun, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] virtual memory exhausted
by Jorge Almeida 30 Jul '11

30 Jul '11

I'm not sure this is an Arch issue, but I can't figure out what else can be. I'm trying to compile non-Arch stuff in an arch host. I tried Binutils (of LFS) and Buildroot (of uclibc). Both failed with the "virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory" error. The computer is a one-user workstation, which wasn't doing anything else worth mentioning... I tried both as root and as common user, same problem... # pacman -Q gcc gcc 4.6.1-2 # cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 2056484 kB MemFree: 1356260 kB Buffers: 74324 kB Cached: 551824 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 148888 kB Inactive: 506268 kB Active(anon): 10624 kB Inactive(anon): 5716 kB Active(file): 138264 kB Inactive(file): 500552 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB HighTotal: 1178888 kB HighFree: 593112 kB LowTotal: 877596 kB LowFree: 763148 kB SwapTotal: 996024 kB SwapFree: 996024 kBDirty: 84 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 10592 kB Mapped: 5868 kB Shmem: 5748 kB Slab: 31360 kB SReclaimable: 25156 kB SUnreclaim: 6204 kB KernelStack: 1112 kB PageTables: 1476 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 2024264 kB Committed_AS: 61648 kB VmallocTotal: 122880 kB VmallocUsed: 14672 kB VmallocChunk: 80164 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 4096 kB DirectMap4k: 20472 kB DirectMap4M: 888832 kB # ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) 58593 scheduling priority (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 16046 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 58593 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 16046 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) 58593 file locks (-x) unlimited Maybe there is some arch-specific configuring to do? I have no idea whether these limit parameters require tweaking... TIA Jorge Almeida

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[arch-general] KDE 4.7 hits [testing]
by Andrea Scarpino 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Hi arKers, KDE 4.7 has been released[1] and our packages are ready in [testing]. As you already know KDE is (slowly) moving to GIT. With this transition some KDE module has been splitted into subprojects, and the remaining modules should be splitted before KDE 4.8. The result of this is that some package (e.g. kdegraphics-libs) is now splitted in several packages and each new package conflicts with the old kdegraphics-libs, so you have to remove it when pacman asks for its removal during the update. Here some info about the splitted modules: - KDE Workspace: wallpapers are now in a separate package named kde-wallpapers, this reduced the kdebase-workspace package download size by 70%. - KDE Graphics: kdegraphics-libs is now splitted in kdegraphics-ksaneplugin, kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer, kdegraphics-svgpart, kdegraphics-thumbnailers, libkdcraw, libkexiv2, libkipi, libksane. Our official packages which depends on kdegraphics-libs have been updated to depend on the new libraries; the upgrade should work without any issue, otherwise please report it to our bug tracker. - KDE Edu: kdeedu-libkdeedu and kdeedu-data have been dropped and libkdeedu will replace them. - KDE Bindings: every subproject has been splitted in two parts: one for the qt bindings and one for the KDE bindings. The old packages have been remove and the new one are: kdebindings-kimono, kdebindings-kross-java, kdebindings-kross-python, kdebindings-korundum, kdebindings-perlkde, kdebindings-perlqt, kdebindings-qtruby, kdebindings-qyoto, kdebindings-smokegen, kdebindings-smokekde, kdebindings-smokeqt. - KDE Accessibility: kdeaccessibility-colorschemes and kdeaccessibility-iconthemes are dropped and replaced. Have a nice update! [1] http://kde.org/announcements/4.7/ -- Andrea

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[arch-general] shouldn't the java-sun package be named java-oracle?
by Auguste Pop 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

hi, the binaray version of java has been in repo with the name jre and jdk for a long time. i noticed that a split package of java-sun is now in the community repo. i don't know if java-sun is newly created or has been there also for a long time. anyway, the -sun suffix is not appropriate as the upstream java is branded oracle now. i have been using openjdk since the beginning. so, basically, i pointed this out just for curiosity's sake. best regards,

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[arch-general] pulse audio auto stop
by Juan Diego Tascón 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Good day, Does anyone knows why is pulseaudio being shut down every time X is shut down? why cruel world? why? PS: I don't want to use pulseaudio system-instance Thank you

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[arch-general] bad login attempts not written to /var/log/btmp
by Renato 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Hello, maybe I don't understand how the command "lastb" should work, but no matter how many times I try to login inputting a wrong password I still get nothing but this: $ sudo lastb btmp begins Fri May 6 23:40:14 2011 cheers renato

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[arch-general] kdeartwork-wallpapers --- Why i686 and x86_64 seperated ?
by goodmenzy＠gmail.com 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

Hi, all I don't understand kdeartwork-wallpapers pkg are in different arch ? It should be a pkg with "-any" arch suffix, in my opinion.

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