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[arch-general] Where is the boot log?
by Madhurya Kakati 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Hi, I am facing some problems with alsa. During booting it shows some errors. But I don't know how to copy those and paste them here. Can someone please tell me where can I find the log file? Thanks.

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[arch-general] Pacman db files and permissions.
by Peter Lewis 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Hi, It seems to me that something has changed regarding the way pacman handles permissions of its files since 3.5. I updated to pacman 3.5 yesterday, and today tried to do a pacman -Ss <foo> as my normal user. I got some "error: could not open file" errors and it bailed. Now, I have my umask set as 077, but this didn't seem to affect the way pacman worked before: % ls -l /var/lib/pacman/sync/core/pacman-3.4.3-1/desc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 370 Mar 17 19:53 /var/lib/pacman/sync/core/pacman-3.4.3-1/desc % ls -l /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db -rw------- 1 root root 38K Mar 18 05:25 /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db Did pacman used to set the permissions on things it had downloaded, and this hasn't been added to the .db file handling code? Or is this supposed to happen? Thanks, Pete.

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Re: [arch-general] Web sites down?
by Cédric Girard 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Le 18 mars 2011 18:38, "C Anthony Risinger" <anthony(a)extof.me> a écrit : > > 2011/3/18 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric(a)gmail.com>: > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:12 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony(a)extof.me >wrote: > > > >> the other day i had to make a small change to our mail server, and it > >> was was down for probably 15 seconds ... but nowadays people have > >> fancy phones that check in every 5 minutes multiplied by hundreds of > >> clients ... > > > > Well, I was actually submitting a comment to a bug when the site went down. > > This is why I noticed it and decided to ask on the ML if it was really down > > or if it was my corporate network that had again some trouble. > > no worries ... > > > I understand I should have waited more before reacting and did apologize for > > that. What else do you want? > > ? uhm, nothing? i could care less whether you reported it or not ... > was only adding a humorous experience to it. but hey, i'm a developer > not a comedian, i don't claim to ever succeed at the task. > > > IMHO this thread should just have been left dead after my second mail as > > useless thread usually are. No need to add extra noise to it. > > whoa there big buy, it was nothing personal :-) nor was it directed at > or intended to badger you to any degree. all is well. > > IMHO it's friday, and the end of a @!#@!# of a week ... hooray! > > C Anthony Sorry about all this. My answer wasn't specifically directed at you. Whatever, as you say, end of the week, of a long day, after saint patrick yesterday... Please accept my apologies for some over reaction on my part. -- Cedric Girard

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[arch-general] Web sites down?
by Cédric Girard 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Hi, I cannot access (timeout) any archlinux web site except AUR. Am I alone to have this problem? Regards, -- Cédric Girard

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[arch-general] unoffical package signing
by keenerd 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

So, I've decided to unofficially start signing my packages. We don't need pacman or namcap or support from other tools. Here is how it works. gpg --detach-sign foo.pkg.tar.xz scp foo.pkg.tar.xz.sig pkgbuild.com:~/public_html/sigs/ That is it. Mine are at http://pkgbuild.com/~kkeen/sigs/ Of course I only have one package to sign at the moment, but 0.02% coverage is better than none ;-) If you think this is a good idea, sign your packages too. (And share the link please.) -Kyle http://kmkeen.com

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[arch-general] Can't connect to WEP-protected network
by John Albright 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Hello. I just installed Arch last weekend and have gotten KDE and NetworkManager installed. I'm able to connect to unprotected and WPA-protected wireless networks, but when I try to use a WEP-protected one, the NetworkManager applet keeps prompting for the password. I'm sure I'm putting the right password in. Other computers are able to connect to the network. I've only been able to try one WEP-protected network so far. I have no idea what else could be wrong. Has anyone else had this problem?

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[arch-general] [PATCH] [initscripts] drop custom support for persistent net/cd symlinks
by Tom Gundersen 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hi all, As of the next udev release, /dev/.udev has moved to /dev/.run/udev. So, since we have to update this anyway, I thought this was a good opportunity to review our persistent net/cd rules functionality. If I understand correctly, udev allready has support for creating persistent net/cd symlinks (that we disable by default), and no other distro does anything beyond that. Furthermore, the udev devs explicitly say that /dev/.udev should only be used by udev itself. It is therefore not clear to me why we need this at all. The attached patch removes it alltogether. Any comments? Cheers, Tom

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[arch-general] MongoDB 1.8 released to [community]
by Thomas Dziedzic 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Overall a pretty big release with lots of new goodies. Release notes: http://blog.mongodb.org/post/3903149313/mongodb-1-8-released Tested and it works for me, so I pushed it immediately. Please file any bugs you might encounter. Cheers!

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[arch-general] xz compression in kernel 2.6.38
by KESHAV P.R. 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hi all, Now that kernel 2.6.38 supports xz (lzma2, not lzma), how about using it as the default compression for the kernel and initramfs. mkinitcpio simply requires COMPRESSION="xz" to generate lzma2 compressed initramfs. But xz compressed kernel requires change in the config option and once module-init-toools supports xz compressed modules we can say good bye to gzip. Related commits :- For kernel and initramfs xz support - http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdi… http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdi… http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdi… Squashfs xz support http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdi… http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdi… I think this option should be added to mkinitcpio to make users aware of this option. Not sure of the reduction in kernel and initramfs size though (compared to gzip and lzma). Regards. Keshav PS: Seems like I am actually late in conveying this since 2.6.38 kernel is now in testing. But atleast from pkgrel 2 onwards?

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[arch-general] xorg-font-utils package reorganization
by Grigorios Bouzakis 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hi, the previous xorg-font-utils package included 2 utilities that are not available anymore. fonttosfnt and ttmkfdir2 can not be found as split packages but AFAIK they are not part of any other joint packages either. What happens to them? Will they be available in the future or they're dropped completely? Thanks Greg

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