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[arch-general] Content of new text file
by Squall Lionheart 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hello, When using Dolphin in KDE4 to *Create New > Text File...* the new file is not empty, it contains a space and a newline character. I have looked for some kind of setting or template file that controls this default and have not been successful. I was wondering if anyone knows how to modify this behavior or can provide a link to a how to. My goal here is to simply create an empty file just like if you used *touch newfile.txt*. Thank you -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual

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[arch-general] [signoff] netcfg 2.6.4-1
by Rémy Oudompheng 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hello, I have just released netcfg 2.6.4. As I think the amount of outstanding bugs inside is pretty negligible, I suggest starting a signoff thread for inclusion into [core]. Then I will start working on including pending new features for 2.7 release. Highlights of netcfg 2.6.4 are a shining new netcfg-profiles(5) man page, that gathers the (previously non-existent ethernet(5) and wireless(5) man pages). - The netcfg(8) man pages has been translated back to markdown/pandoc syntx for easier updates. - The netcfg-profiles(5) man page documents many options of the various available connection types, and should complement the provided examples. It should plug the usual criticism about netcfg's documentation being very hard to find. It is expected that the 2.6.4 release is the final one in the 2.6.x series. This release works for me in standard ethernet and WPA modes, using DHCP, so I sign it off. -- Rémy.

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[arch-general] bpython/bpython2 in community-testing
by Thomas Dziedzic 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

I've renamed the current community/bpython to community-testing/bpython2. bpython is now the python3 version in community-testing. The reason for the wait is because of a crash that should be fixed in python 3.2.1: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23536 Please test and thanks for your time!

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[arch-general] howto properly disable sound device pulse/alsa?
by Matthew Monaco 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

I think since Gnome 3 / pulseaudio, I've had an annoying system beep when shutting down. The pcspkr module is not loaded. I've found that I have the following device: $ dmesg | grep Beep [ 10.594164] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input7 And that the following command will disable the beep: $ amixer -c0 set Beep 0% mute How should I go about making this persistent? I think avoiding that device would be best, can it be done by adding (or disabling) some udev config? Or, can I somehow make the 0% mute persistant in asound.conf? Thanks

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Re: [arch-general] iptables not working well?
by Javier Vasquez 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Robert Marmorstein <rmmarm(a)sdf.org> wrote: > ... > > It might help you to LOG packets that are REJECTED. Then if you continue to > have issues, you should be able to see more directly what's going on. > > To do that, add rules like directly before the ones with -J REJECT: > > iptables -A INPUT -j LOG -m limit --limit 3/minute > iptables -A FORWARD -j LOG -m limit --limit 3/minute > > Then you should look in /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog (depending on > which logger you have installed) to see which packets are being dropped. > > You probably don't want these rules enabled all the time -- the log files > can get pretty big quickly -- but they are very helpful for debugging. > > If you continue to have issues, posting the LOG messages would help us know > more about what's going on. > > Robert Hi Robert, I tried the loging rules, but they didn't work as proposed: % sudo iptables -A INPUT -j LOG -m limit --limit 3/minute Password: iptables: Invalid argument. Run `dmesg' for more information. % sudo iptables -A FORWARD -j LOG -m limit --limit 3/minute iptables: Invalid argument. Run `dmesg' for more information. What dmesg shows is: x_tables: ip_tables: limit.0 match: invalid size 40 (kernel) != (user) 48 x_tables: ip_tables: limit.0 match: invalid size 40 (kernel) != (user) 48 I didn't find anything under: /var/log/messages.log /var/log/syslog.log The dmesg messages come from: /var/log/kernel.log Not sure if that helps any way to get some light, :-) Thanks, -- Javier.

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[arch-general] iptables not working well?
by Javier Vasquez 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

Hi, I've configured a 2-nics gateway (one internal nic and an external usb nic hooked to the adsl modem). I configured iptables as I'm used to do: ++++++ iptables-restore < /etc/iptables/empty.rules iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -F iptables -t nat -F iptables -t mangle -F iptables -X iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -m state --state NEW ! -i ppp0 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -i ppp0 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o ppp0 -j ACCEPT iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE iptables -A FORWARD -i ppp0 -o ppp0 -j REJECT /etc/rc.d/iptables save /etc/rc.d/iptables restart ++++++ Notice that I have IP forwarding enabled through: ++++++ % 'grep' forward /etc/sysctl.conf net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1 ++++++ And also through: ++++++ % 'grep' FORWARD /etc/conf.d/iptables IPTABLES_FORWARD=1 ++++++ But I can confirm by: +++++++ % cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 1 +++++++ This is based upon: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/23 And it's working on a debian box. I remember some time back it also worked on a arch box, only thing I was not using pppd directly but wvdial instead... OK, on machines at the internal side of my LAN, I can ping everywhere. But I can not use the browser with all addresses, for example I can't get to www.archlinux.org through frirefox or midori, neither www.debian.org. Weird thing www.google.com, and some other sites can be reached through firefox on machines inside the LAN. When I try accessing those sites on the gateway (not the machines inside the LAN) of course I have no problem. I checked /etc/resolv.con, and it's OK, besides ping has clear access everywhere. I have no clue what's going on. I noticed the following under /var/log/messages.log: +++++++ Jul 9 23:32:33 mini-0 pppd[1974]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. Jul 9 23:32:33 mini-0 pppd[1974]: RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.5 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 10 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: PPP session is 45128 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: Connected to 00:12:7f:33:eb:3c via interface eth1 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: Using interface ppp0 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: Connect: ppp0 <--> eth1 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: PAP authentication succeeded Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: peer from calling number 00:12:7F:33:EB:3C authorized Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: kernel does not support PPP filtering Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: local IP address 201.200.139.27 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: remote IP address 200.91.104.9 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: primary DNS address 200.91.75.6 Jul 9 23:32:34 mini-0 pppd[1974]: secondary DNS address 200.91.75.5 Jul 9 23:32:35 mini-0 kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team Jul 9 23:32:35 mini-0 kernel: nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (7628 buckets, 30512 max) +++++++ It sounded curious that kernel does not support PPP filtering, but I'm almost certain that's not the issue, given that on the gateway (not the forwarded internal LAN), I can access all pages through firefox... Any help you can provide is very welcome... It might be the iptables is not working well. I missed to indicate this is running on a lemote mini-pc (archloong on mipsel), which of course has no official support, but I wanted to see first if I'm missing any configuration particular to arch (as I said this worked before also on a x86 arch box, but things change), so just in case perhaps someone identified the miss... Thanks, -- Javier.

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[arch-general] Xorg not working on AMD C-50 Fusion (Radeon HD 6250)
by Nicolás Adamo 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Hi all! I'm having trouble installing xorg on a Gateway Netbook which has a fusion AMD processor model "C-50". It has micro+graphics in one chip. I've googled that many people succeded with catalyst drivers, though I haven't been that lucky. I added the [catalyst] repo mentioned at the arch wiki, installed all xorg, xorg-utils, catalyst, catalyst-utils, etc. but I can't start x When running startx, nothing happens. It shows the prompt again. fglrxinfo returns "unable to open display (null)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log is empty , however, the same file with .old is at http://pastebin.archlinux.fr/433086 If helps, /etc/X11/xorg.conf is at http://pastebin.archlinux.fr/433085 Removing it makes no change. Well, any clue will be appreciated. Regards, Nicolás

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[arch-general] Still perl issues
by Joel Hatsch 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Hello *, still having perl issues after update. Saw on the mailing list that I'm not the first, but the suggested workarounds don't work for me. Code : #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use GD::Graph::lines; results in the already known Not a CODE reference at /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/DynaLoader.pm line 213. END failed--call queue aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/GD.pm line 213. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/GD/Graph/lines.pm line 18. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/GD/Graph/lines.pm line 18. Compilation failed in require at ./test.pl line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./test.pl line 6. 1) adding push (@INC,"/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl"); didn't help 2) renaming vendor_perl to vendor_perl-old didn't help (was suggested in june) 3) remove perl/gd/perl-gd & reinstall didn't help neither I was hoping that a subsequent update of the packages would help, but in the meantime it's more or less 1 month that I can't execute perl programs and it's getting annoying Any hints/pointers for future investigation ? Thanks Joel

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[arch-general] Arch base system snapshot available?
by Herb Miller Jr. 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Where can I find a snapshot of the Arch base system to facilitate deployment in a chrooted environment? Is such a thing available? Thank you, Herb

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[arch-general] Outdated install media (2010-05)
by Darkbyte 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Is there anything we could do about the extremely outdated install media? I right now got used to installing systems with the most recent iso's from http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/2011.06.10/ and they worked for me. Is there any tests that need to be performed? - Armin

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