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Re: [arch-general] GDM Locked
by karl 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

On 06:51 Tue 19 Oct , Guillermo Leira wrote: > > After the last Pacman -Syu, I can't login with gdm. As soon as I clikc on my > > username, the system seems to freeze... Although not completely: I can ping > > from other computer, but I can't ssh. > > > > Before I click on the username, the "switch off" icon at the right down corner > > works. Once I click on the username, nothing else works, and I neither can > > ctrl-alt-F1 to the console... > > > > Any suggestions/questions? > > I have removed GDM and installed SLIM. Now I can login, but the screen shows nothing... And if I try to CTRL-ALT-F1 to the console, the system locks again. It is not a GDM problem. > > If I run startx from the command line, X starts. > > Any advice? > > Best regards, > > Guillermo > The behaviour that switching to the console freezes the output happens normaly, when kernel mode settings aren't activated / functioning / vesa instead of the nouveau-driver (radeon, intel, whatever) is used. Have a look ... http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KMS http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau Kind regards, Karl

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[arch-general] Gnome question (that is unanswered on the gnome mailinglist)
by Magnus Therning 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

I thought I'd try my luck on here, even though this is a rather Gnome-specific question: In the past I've been using seahorse to provide both a gpg agent and an ssh agent. Recently I noticed that gnome-keyring-daemon provides both of those agents. I must say though that it seems to be very flaky. I'll switch back to using seahorse for now, but I'm still wondering why it is that there are two Gnome components with so much overlapping functionality. Will one replace the other? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] Anybody else having trouble with Virtualbox after upgrade
by Pico Geyer 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Hi all. I hope this is the right place for me to raise my issue. After doing a pacman -Syu and then rebooting I noticed that I could no longer start my VirtualBox vms I get the following error: Failed to open a session for the virtual machine My_VM Callee RC: NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057) Virtualbox then crashes (segmentation fault). I had the testing repo enabled, so I thought that one of the packages from testing might have broken it. So I disabled the testing repo in pacman.conf and removed all testing packages with: pacman -Syy pacamn -Suu I then recompiled my virtualbox drivers and rebooted. But that did not help at all. I created a core dump file by following these instructions: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Core_dump So the stack trace is 41000 lines long :-| I'll paste just the first and last few lines: #0 0xb5cad825 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #1 0xb5ca7b27 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #2 0xb5ca9760 in QTextEngine::itemize() const () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #3 0xb5caeca8 in QTextLayout::beginLayout() () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #4 0xb5b9b550 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #5 0xb5b9c1b1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 [snip] #41537 0xb5a36407 in QApplication::exec() () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #41538 0xb6b5405b in TrustedMain () from /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so #41539 0x08048d9f in ?? () #41540 0xb76ccc76 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 #41541 0x08048c81 in ?? () Any advice? Should I file a bug in the arch bug tracker? Thanks in advance. Pico

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[arch-general] ssh mutt etc problem
by Piyush P Kurur 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Dear Archers, With the latest pacman -Syu I am getting segfaults with ssh and mutt. I think the two are related for the following reason (1) Mutt works alright till it tries to make SSL/TLS connection and then it seg faults (2) ssh directly seg faults I think this has got to do with an update in openssl (both mutt and openssh depends on this) although the openssl comman itself does not seem to have a problem Regards ppk

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[arch-general] Network troubles
by Philipp 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi, I recently dealt a lot with my laptops network configuration because I needed wlan for uni. Sadly the free driver for my chip still doesn't work, however, with the proprietary broadcom it works. While troubleshooting the wlan issues I ditched wicd (because it's buggy, even the dev doesn't use it anymore) and went a level lower. As stated before, wlan works at uni and at home as it should, using just wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd, however, I also need wired network at home, and whatever I try it just doesn't work. I suspect the problem might have existed with wicd already, as it worked with static IP, but not using dhcp. Now I try to use /etc/rc.d/network but without success so far. Here's some typical output: $ sudo /etc/rc.d/network restart Password: :: Stopping Network [DONE] :: Starting Network [BUSY] up: error fetching interface information: Device not found wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:69:73:3C:68 inet addr:192.168.1.6 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::222:69ff:fe73:3c68/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:12682 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:7068 TX packets:7825 errors:9 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:16755594 (15.9 Mb) TX bytes:652987 (637.6 Kb) Interrupt:17 [FAIL] The network fails to start most of the time, but manual ifconfig eth0 up and manual starting of dhcpcd works just fine. The probably relevant config parts are: /etc/rc.conf eth0="dhcp" INTERFACES=(lo eth0) DAEMONS=(syslog-ng sensors network @alsa @ntpd @crond @cups @laptop-mode) /etc/dhcpcd.conf # A sample configuration for dhcpcd. # See dhcpcd.conf(5) for details. # Inform the DHCP server of our hostname for DDNS. hostname # To share the DHCP lease across OSX and Windows a ClientID is needed. # Enabling this may get a different lease than the kernel DHCP client. # Some upstream DHCP servers may also require a ClientID, such as FRITZ!Box. #clientid # A list of options to request from the DHCP server. option domain_name_servers, domain_name, domain_search, host_name option classless_static_routes # Most distributions have NTP support. option ntp_servers # Respect the network MTU. option interface_mtu # A ServerID is required by RFC2131. require dhcp_server_identifier # A hook script is provided to lookup the hostname if not set by the DHCP # server, but it should not be run by default. nohook lookup-hostname noipv4ll I'm not sure what else is relevant. I especially have no idea where the error output comes from and what's wrong. I also assume dhcpcd is supposed to be running automatically by the network daemon/script, but that doesn't seem to happen in my case. Philipp

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[arch-general] Question about arch packages
by Christian 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi, In the PKBUILD script there is some times install followed by a couple of numbers, what are they for? Many thanks, Christian

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[arch-general] The new Arch Haskell
by Magnus Therning 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Sorry for x-posting this announcement, but I hope I won't be beaten up too much for it. Please send any replies to the Arch Haskell mailing list: http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell There is a new Arch Haskell team and we've made some changes. You can find more details at http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/arch-haskell-under-new-manageme… /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] preparing LibreOffice
by Heiko Baums 17 Oct '10

17 Oct '10

Am Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:04:42 +0200 schrieb Andreas Radke <a.radke(a)arcor.de>: > I'm going to prepare Arch builds for libreoffice in our svn but won't > upload any binary packages until the new way gets more clear. Why not uploading binary packages? Wouldn't be the worst idea to have both packages in the repo, so that users have the choice. Heiko

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[arch-general] [OT]Disk showing too many bad sectors - is it going to fail ?
by Partha Chowdhury 17 Oct '10

17 Oct '10

I have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 family harddisk of 160gb capacity which is more than 3 years old. recently I installed gsmartcontrol and after running it, it showed number of current pending sector count and offline uncorrectable sectors as -- 4294967295.Fearing the disk going bad, i backed up data and started monitoring it. This is the latest gsmartcontrol shows - http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/5707/201010161300051280x1024.png After two weeks, the no. of bad sectors is the same and the disk shows no sign of failure (at the least there is no problem to read or write files from or to the disk).hence I am confused .is the disk going bad ? if it is fine why can't it remap all those bad sectors ?

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Re: [arch-general] [OT]Disk showing too many bad sectors - is it going to fail ?
by Aljosha Papsch 17 Oct '10

17 Oct '10

The hard disk makes some funny noises (clicking, dangling, ...) and you wonder why some files are missing, though the disk is still "useable". Linux should throw a bunch of errors at boot time, but Windows (98) continues with its work until something crashes. Partha Chowdhury schrieb am So 17. Okt, 2010 16:55 CEST: >On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 01:48:06PM +0100, Mauro Santos wrote: >> If you can, try overwriting the whole disk with dd, or test it with >> badblocks using the write and readback test and see if anything >> changes. >> The not so worst case is that you caught an impending disk faillure >> before it caused trouble and you already have a backup, the best case >> is >> that you find out those values are bogus and should not be taken into >> account. > >i overwrote the whole disk with ddrescue -f /dev/zero /dev/sdb.After one >and a half hours later it stopped with the message "no space left on >device" - i guess it indicates no problem ? > >i also tried the badblocks program with -w option. It took a long time >5+ hours but did not report a bad sector. > >On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:17:50PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: >> There have been a number of firmware changes/updates for seagate >> drives over the >> past 3 years and several "bad runs" of disks. Check the seagate >> support site and >> make sure you have the latest firmware for your drive. I have had the >> bad sector >> errors - sometimes a true failure, sometimes not. Just backup, monitor >> and if >> you continue to get the errors, drop of $50 on a new 1T drive. >> >I checked the seagate site and there is no firmware upgrade for this >model. On further googling, i found that seagate is only offering >firmware upgrades for 7200.12 model onwards. > >Now to be absolutely sure, i downloaded the seatools program and it ran >a short and long test which both said PASSED. > >Inspite of all these, gsmartcontrol shows the same. > >What are the indications before a disk is going bad which a normal user >can catch with bare eyes and ears ?

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