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[arch-general] Introducing pacweb, another pyalpm demo
by Rémy Oudompheng 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

Hello, I am currently working on another toy example use of pyalpm: beside pycman, the command line utility that comes with pyalpm, I have now pacweb, a browsable Web interface to pacman. http://projects.archlinux.org/users/remy/pacweb.git/ It is not suitable for public consumption, but offers an alternative display of the pacman database. Intrepid users might run it as root, to allow performing some actions (changing package install reasons, add/remove individual packages), as well as wide opening seurity breaches on their systems. It is currently based on jinja (recently added to repos for Python 3) for templating, and steals Archweb style for the current appearance. I have also made a PKGBUILD available on the AUR. The amount of actual Python source code is very small and should be easily readable. -- Rémy.

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[arch-general] upgrading postfix - newaliases: error while loading libdb-5.1.so -- ignore?
by David C. Rankin 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

Guys, This may just be on i686, but I'm trying to figure out what happened. During update this morning, postfix refused to start. The upgrade error was: (41/46) upgrading postfix [#######################################] 100% newaliases: error while loading shared libraries: libdb-5.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Attempting to start postfix without the &>/dev/null gave the same error (duh..) [09:27 providence:/var/cache/pacman/pkg] # /usr/sbin/postfix start /usr/sbin/postfix: error while loading shared libraries: libdb-5.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Looking for the file, I find it here: [09:27 providence:/var/cache/pacman/pkg] # locate libdb-5.1.so <snip archroot dirs> /usr/lib/libdb-5.1.so Looking for ownership -- it looks like the file is just gone: [09:28 providence:/var/cache/pacman/pkg] # pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libdb-5.1.so error: failed to read file '/usr/lib/libdb-5.1.so': No such file or directory [09:28 providence:/var/cache/pacman/pkg] # l /usr/lib/libdb* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2277786 Jun 14 19:30 /usr/lib/libdb-5.2.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1789876 Jun 14 19:30 /usr/lib/libdb-5.2.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jun 14 19:30 /usr/lib/libdb-5.so -> libdb-5.2.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2277786 Jun 14 19:30 /usr/lib/libdb.a <snip> OK, it looks like a missing link from db 5.2.28-1. On x86_64, I have the same thing, but postfix restarts just fine. What do we need to do to get postfix to look for libdb-5.2.so instead of libdb-5.1.so on x86? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!
by Steve Holmes 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

I think when perl was upgraded to 5.14, something broke with one of its libraries. Whenever I type 'automake' or attempt to recompile several perl packages from AUR, I get the following error message: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/List/Util/Util.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Istack_sp_ptr Thoughts anyone? I see this as a show stopper for any development right now. Thanks.

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[arch-general] fbsplash fails to start after pacman -Syu
by Madhurya Kakati 06 Jul '11

06 Jul '11

Hi, After a recent system upgrade fbsplash fails to run during boot. However while shutting down i can see the splash. Its only during the start up that I can't see it. This is the /var/log/boot some days before the upgrade http://pastebin.com/EbdYYb32 and this is the log after the upgrade http://pastebin.com/MkxLbRsT Please notice the "/etc/rc.d/functions.d/fbsplash-extras.sh: line 780: /lib/splash/cache/steps_sysinit: No such file or directory" and "/etc/rc.d/functions.d/fbsplash-extras.sh: line 795: /lib/splash/cache/steps_sysinit: No such file or directory" and "/etc/rc.d/functions.d/fbsplash-extras.sh: line 796: /lib/splash/cache/steps_bootup: No such file or directory" errors that occur during boot(after upgrade). These didn't occur before. Also after booting i did ls in the /lib/splash/cache dir and found that the files are already there in the dir. Thanks.

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[arch-general] netcfg: complete documentation available?
by XeCycle 06 Jul '11

06 Jul '11

Hello, I am now trying netcfg for managing network connections, however I encountered some problems, and I didn't find the solution in the manual or the ArchWiki. So I wonder whether a complete documentation is available. The two problems I encountered are: 1. Ad-Hoc wireless lost ESSID. I used this (working) script to connect: > #!/bin/bash > NET_ESSID="ssid" > NET_KEY="passwd" > NET_GATEWAY="192.168.0.1" > NET_MYIP="192.168.0.3" > iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc > ifconfig wlan0 up > iwconfig wlan0 essid $NET_ESSID key "s:$NET_KEY" channel auto > ifconfig wlan0 $NET_MYIP > route add default gw $NET_GATEWAY I tried to do the same with netcfg. Here is the profile: > CONNECTION='wireless' > DESCRIPTION='Wi-Fi at home' > PRE_UP="ip link set wlan0 down; iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc" > INTERFACE='wlan0' > SECURITY='wep' > ESSID='ssid' > KEY='s:passwd' > IP='static' > ADDR='192.168.0.2' # Please ignore this difference, I'm sure it's unused > GATEWAY='192.168.0.1' > DNS=('8.8.8.8') > # Uncomment this if your ssid is hidden > #HIDDEN=yes However, I cannot connect it. I've configured my conky to monitor network connections, from what it showed, the ESSID is associated first, then lost after a few seconds. 2. PPPOE won't start by itself. Here's the simple profile: CONNECTION='ppp' INTERFACE='eth0' PEER='provider' PPP_TIMEOUT=10 When I run `sudo netcfg ppp`, it just got stuck there. Then I opened another terminal, and ping some IP, then it got connected. Thank you. These two problems have been bothering me for a week. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591

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[arch-general] Default sound card
by Christian 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

Hi all, Well, I have been trying to specify my Soundblaster Audigy ZS2 as my default sound card, but no luck. Here is what I do. I typed: cat /proc//asound/modules 0 snd_intel 1 snd_emu10k1 So I then created the alsa.conf file under /etc/modprobe.d and typed: options snd slots=snd_eme10k1x0 I know that there is something wrong here, but what am I doing wrong? Any help is really apreciated, many thanks! Christian

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Re: [arch-general] netcfg: complete documentation available?
by joseph.mitchd＠gmail.com 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

I added a section in the wiki just the other day: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg#Configuring_a_bridge_for_use_wi… -Mitch On , Alper Kanat <tunix(a)raptiye.org> wrote: > Hey There, > In addition to these, I can't find any documentation regarding bridged > connections need for such cases like openvpn and virtual machine needs. > --- > Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 17:45, XeCycle xecycle(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, I am now trying netcfg for managing network connections, however > > I encountered some problems, and I didn't find the solution in the > > manual or the ArchWiki. So I wonder whether a complete documentation is > > available. > > > > The two problems I encountered are: > > > > 1. Ad-Hoc wireless lost ESSID. > > > > I used this (working) script to connect: > > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > NET_ESSID="ssid" > > > NET_KEY="passwd" > > > NET_GATEWAY="192.168.0.1" > > > NET_MYIP="192.168.0.3" > > > iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc > > > ifconfig wlan0 up > > > iwconfig wlan0 essid $NET_ESSID key "s:$NET_KEY" channel auto > > > ifconfig wlan0 $NET_MYIP > > > route add default gw $NET_GATEWAY > > > > I tried to do the same with netcfg. Here is the profile: > > > > > CONNECTION='wireless' > > > DESCRIPTION='Wi-Fi at home' > > > PRE_UP="ip link set wlan0 down; iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc" > > > INTERFACE='wlan0' > > > SECURITY='wep' > > > ESSID='ssid' > > > KEY='s:passwd' > > > IP='static' > > > ADDR='192.168.0.2' # Please ignore this difference, I'm sure it's > unused > > > GATEWAY='192.168.0.1' > > > DNS=('8.8.8.8') > > > # Uncomment this if your ssid is hidden > > > #HIDDEN=yes > > > > However, I cannot connect it. I've configured my conky to monitor > > network connections, from what it showed, the ESSID is associated first, > > then lost after a few seconds. > > > > 2. PPPOE won't start by itself. > > > > Here's the simple profile: > > > > CONNECTION='ppp' > > INTERFACE='eth0' > > PEER='provider' > > PPP_TIMEOUT=10 > > > > When I run `sudo netcfg ppp`, it just got stuck there. Then I opened > > another terminal, and ping some IP, then it got connected. > > > > Thank you. These two problems have been bothering me for a week. > > > > -- > > Carl Lei (XeCycle) > > Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University > > OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 > > Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591 > >

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[arch-general] Important changes for mongodb 1.8.2-2
by Thomas Dziedzic 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

In response to the following bug report https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24983 I have applied the attached fix to mongodb and as a result there have been some backwards incompatible changes. dbpath has been changed to /var/lib/mongodb logpath has been changed to /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log There have been other minor fixes, please check out the bug report for full details.

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[arch-general] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.7.1-1, device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.85-3, cryptsetup 1.3.1-2, dmraid 1.0.0.rc16.3-2, mdadm 3.2.2-2, v86d 0.1.10-2
by Thomas Bächler 03 Jul '11

03 Jul '11

A few fixes to mkinitcpio. One regression was fixed regarding 64 bit kernels with a 32 bit userspace (slows down image generation a bit again), and there were further speedups regarding add_module. Please sign off. Dave Reisner (17): bash-completion: complete -k on kernel images bash-completion: match style to rest of code bash-completion: use a PE instead of sed function: return with 0 if we reach the end of add_binary functions: reduce calls to modinfo avoid touching the linker directly mkinitcpio: use msg instead of echo for hook help lsinitcpio: append, not overwrite found hooks lsinitcpio: add optional colorized output function: fix whitespace errors functions: call _add_file directly from add_module always exit from cleanup functions: reorg, no code changes install modules all at once base/install: rewrite the config to sanitize it cleanup rarely and unused variable declarations functions: remove cruft from in_array Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (1): Fix -k /path when -b is used Thomas Bächler (4): init_functions/default_mount_handler: use -l option for blkid to avoid syntax errors in a later mount command Trim leading spaces in MODULES and earlymodules to prevent error messages when one is set to " " Merge branch 'working' of https://github.com/falconindy/mkinitcpio into working Release version 0.7.1

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[arch-general] Vodafone HSDPA key
by Fons Adriaensen 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hello all, Is it possible to use Vodafone's (Italy) HSDPA USB key with Archlinux ? I'd want to use it without depending on any 'desktop' tools - just netcfg and whatever other command line tools it takes. Ciao, -- FA

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