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[arch-general] Battery Monitor Applet (kde4) hangs after s2ram
by Markus Golser 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hi, after I resume from s2ram my battery monitoring applet does not refresh anymore. It shows 100% loaded and plugged in all the time. I have to kill plasma every time in order to get the current charge. cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_now <- shows the correct charge. Maybe someone can help me. Notebook = Dell Inspiron 9400

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[arch-general] MySQL Starts But Fails to Restart
by Carlos Mennens 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

I don't understand this issue so I am posting this here. I noticed today that I had an issue with restarting MySQL on my server: 1. I verify MySQL is not running: Code: [root@ghost /]# ps -ef | grep -i "mysqld" root 1706 1216 0 16:45 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i mysqld 2. I start the 'mysqld' service: Code: [root@ghost /]# /etc/rc.d/mysqld start :: Starting MySQL Server [DONE] 3. I verify that the daemon is running: Code: [root@ghost /]# ps -ef | grep -i "mysqld" root 1715 1 0 16:45 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql mysql 1813 1715 0 16:45 pts/0 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --log-error=/var/lib/mysql/ghost.err --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/ghost.pid --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock --port=3306 4. I then run the command to restart the daemon for MySQL and it fails... Code: [root@ghost /]# /etc/rc.d/mysqld restart :: Stopping MySQL Server [DONE] :: Starting MySQL Server [FAIL] I can use the 'start' and 'stop' commands for /etc/rc.d/mysqld but 'restart' for some reason fails and this concerns me. Can anyone help me understand what is wrong?

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[arch-general] Unable To Rendor PHP Pages in Apache
by Carlos Mennens 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

I today installed Apache on my Arch Linux server. I did the following: # pacman -S php apache php-apache mcrypt pcre Then I edited the /etc/php/php.ini file & un-commented the following: [...] extension=mcrypt.so extension=mysql.so extension=mysqli.so ;extension=odbc.so ;extension=openssl.so ;extension=pdo.so ;extension=pdo_mysql.so [...] I then restarted the 'httpd' service and when I try to render a HTML page with PHP code, it wont rendor the code properly and just looks like a script / code. I don't understand why I can't get Apache to render PHP pages. Does anyone know what I am missing? This is only a problem for me on Arch. RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu. and Slackware all work out of the box. Any suggestions?

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[arch-general] PyPy Build
by Vivek Ayer 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Hi guys, I'm having a little bit of trouble building pypy and pypy-svn from AUR. Any chanced someone has a prebuilt arch package for i686 already? If so, may I download it? My X41 only has a 1GB of RAM and the HD on it has degraded. I started the build for pypy on it last Thursday and it's still building! It's using all my RAM and ~400 MB of Swap space. I'd really appreciate any help. Thanks, Vivek

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[arch-general] libpng12 and libjpeg6 from AUR fix kdemod3 100%
by David C. Rankin 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Guys, Just dropping a note on the build and install of libpng12 and libjpeg6 from AUR to fix the problem I had with the kdemod3 install on my new arch box. After installing the two packages, kde3 seems to be 100% healthy. Immediately, all icons and graphic handling returned just like you would expect. Now if I could just figure out how to create a kde3 menu item in the kdm greeter, it would be perfect. Currently, I have to drop to tty1, kill kdm and then use startx with /opt/kde/bin/startkde specified in my ~/.xinitrc file to get kde3 started. How does one create a desktop entry in the kdm greeter scheme so I can launch kde3 from there? It can't be that hard, I have pekwm, blackbox, openbox and fluxbox and gnome entries in there along with kde4, but I don't know where the "magic switch" is so kde3 will appear. What's the trick? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Firefox 3.6 vulnerability
by Daniel Bumke 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Dear all, I'm not entirely sure whether this is an issue for Arch Linux, but I thought you should be aware of a critical security vulnerability reported for Firefox 3.6 (it seems earlier versions are not affected). The issue is fixed in version 3.6.2 for which a release candidate it available. The release is due later this month. Further info: http://secunia.com/advisories/38608 http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/03/18/update-on-secunia-advisory-sa38… Regards, Daniel

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[arch-general] CUPS working fine through 3/15 now won't print?
by David C. Rankin 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Guys, I have a love/hate relationship with cups. For the past eight years at least I have configured cups to share laserjet printers at both the office and home and 99.9% time, I never have to think about printing again. The other .1% is usually what seems like an effort in futility trying to get cups to print. I am having one of those .1% moments now. I enabled cups printing on my arch server about a month ago and it just printed without issue until my wife needed to print today. No cups is refusing to print at all. The strange part is that the cups daemon seems to be freezing or crashing requiring a kill -9 on cupsd to kill it and restart the process. For example, I can open the web interface of port 631 and I can change options, look at the printers and past jobs, etc..., but when I send a job to the server, the web interface freezes, nothing prints and I have to use 'kill -9 <cupsd pid>' to stop cups and restart it. For example: [00:46 nirvana:/var/log/cups] # /etc/rc.d/cups stop :: Stopping CUPS Daemon [DONE] [00:52 nirvana:/var/log/cups] # ps ax | grep cups 4618 pts/1 S+ 0:00 vi cupsd.conf 5052 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf 5128 pts/3 S+ 0:00 grep cups [00:52 nirvana:/var/log/cups] # kill 5052 [00:52 nirvana:/var/log/cups] # ps ax | grep cups 4618 pts/1 S+ 0:00 vi cupsd.conf 5052 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf 5131 pts/3 S+ 0:00 grep cups [00:52 nirvana:/var/log/cups] # kill -9 5052 Huh? I have debugging enabled and cups seems to be choking on ssl cert generation. That's strange, I just thought I was using basic authentication: I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Full reload complete. I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Cleaning out old temporary files in "/var/spool/cups/tmp"... I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Listening to 0.0.0.0:631 on fd 6... I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Listening to :::631 on fd 7... I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Listening to /var/run/cups/cups.sock on fd 8... I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Resuming new connection processing... D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] cupsdRegisterPrinter(p=0x7fca7bf68f00(LaserJet)) E [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Discarding unused server-started event... D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "lo" = localhost:631 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "eth0" = nirvana.3111skyline.com:631 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "lo" = localhost:631 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "eth0" = fe80::2e0:81ff:fe55:4e1d%eth0:631 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: clients=0 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: jobs=15 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: jobs-active=0 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: printers=1 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: printers-implicit=0 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: stringpool-string-count=285 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=6160 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=6192 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:59 -0500] cupsdAcceptClient: 12 from localhost (Domain) D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:59 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 12 WAITING Closing on EOF D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:59 -0500] cupsdCloseClient: 12 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:59 -0500] cupsdCloseClient: 12 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:59 -0500] cupsdAcceptClient: 12 from localhost (Domain) I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:59 -0500] Generating SSL server key... That where the process dies.... My cupsd.conf is simple, but maybe I have something that is killing me? It is available here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/Archlinux/cupsd.conf (note: I am a member of groups sys, lp and wheel) If anybody is smart on cups, I would appreciate a bit of help figuring out what is not working here. The printer itself is an old Laserjet_4 connected to the servers parallel port and its printer.conf is: # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.4.2 # Written by cupsd on 2010-03-21 14:13 # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING <DefaultPrinter LaserJet> Info Home Office Laserjet 4 Location nirvana MakeModel HP LaserJet Series PCL 4/5 DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0 State Idle StateTime 1267682110 Type 12356 Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 - Filter application/vnd.cups-raster 50 rastertohp Accepting Yes Shared Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer </Printer> Any help would be greatly appreciated. The current cups package is: cups 1.4.2-3. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Schroot no longer working?
by Ng Oon-Ee 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

Hi all, schroot stopped working with this error message today:- E: 10mount: E: boost::filesystem::create_directory: No such file or directory: "/var/lib/schroot/mount/Arch32-d43bee30-1708-4fd2-b087-346ae0f39b42/proc/bus/usb" E: Arch32-d43bee30-1708-4fd2-b087-346ae0f39b42: Chroot setup failed: stage=setup-start The following packages were upgraded (immediately following successful usage of schroot at 6.30 am). Any idea which of those could be the cause? At first I thought about the boost upgrade some time back, then realize I've been using schroot daily with no problems anyway... [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded cpio (2.10-1 -> 2.11-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded dbus-core (1.2.20-1 -> 1.2.22-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded dbus (1.2.20-1 -> 1.2.22-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded glib2 (2.22.4-1 -> 2.22.5-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded desktop-file-utils (0.15-1 -> 0.16-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded libtasn1 (2.4-1 -> 2.5-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded gnutls (2.8.5-1 -> 2.8.6-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded libxt (1.0.7-1 -> 1.0.8-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded ghostscript (8.71-2 -> 8.71-3) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded gtk2 (2.18.7-1 -> 2.18.9-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded gtk-sharp-2 (2.12.9-1 -> 2.12.10-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded hdparm (9.27-2 -> 9.28-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded nspr (4.8.3-1 -> 4.8.4-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded nss (3.12.4-2 -> 3.12.6-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded perl-xyne-arch (2010.03.20.1-1 -> 2010.03.21.1-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded usbutils (0.86-2 -> 0.87-1) For reference sake, using chroot works (am running am update of those very same packages right now).

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[arch-general] I'm having a brain far^Hilure... I can't find the XFCE control
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

I know it can be done. I've done it twice, once in Xubuntu, and once in PCLinuxOS... I've managed to turn off all the other annoying desktop icons. But I cant find the control to tell it to stop cluttering up my XFCE desktop up with iconic representations of my hard drive partitions. could somebody give me a clue how to disable them? Thanks! -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>>

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[arch-general] Arch Linux security is still poor....
by Ananda Samaddar 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

Further to my previous email a while back I've started work on some proposals that I'd like to pitch to the Arch community and the powers that be. They aren't finished yet but should be soon. The thing is I'm not really aware of the 'chain of command' in Arch. Aaron Griffin, are you the 'benevolent dictator' and do you have the final say? The reason I'm asking is I want to know to whom I address my proposals when they are finished. For example I'll probably be proposing some admin changes, nothing too sweeping but just some things that could be done to implement better security in Arch. For the mean time I've created the IRC channel #archlinux-security on Freenode. Anyone is free to hang out there to discuss security in Arch and how we (emphasis on the we, i.e. the community) can make things better. My IRC nick is psychedelicious, I was previously using a different nick based on a Funkadelic album released in 1971. I won't be on there 24x7 but will be online as much as possible. I'd particularly like to see people on that channel interesting in volunteering to create a Security Response Team for our distro! Also I'm aware I've posted under several different email addresses. After toying with several free providers I decided to stop being a cheapskate and get my own domain so this is my canonical email address now. regards, Ananda Samaddar

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