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[arch-general] Fifa: Flexible Installer Framework for Arch linux
by Dieter Plaetinck 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Hi all, at first I wanted to make an automated installer for Arch Linux (with scripts that specify all the specific aspects of the system). When starting to build this, I looked at the archboot scripts (/arch/setup and /arch/quickinst on the install cd) and noticed that I could re-use lots of code if it would have been split up more (eg I can't just source the useful functions in /arch/setup, I have to source the whole thing and hence, start the installer). So I started writing "Fifa: the Flexible Installer Framework for Arch linux" : http://github.com/Dieterbe/fifa It's designed to be a general, flexible framework for installations. It uses the concepts of 'phases' and 'workers'. There are 4 phases (preparation, basics, system, finish), which can each invoke workers (to get a package list, install packages, install boot loader etc etc). The workers and phases can be overridden by creating profiles. So the whole idea is you can create whatever installation procedure you like (prescripted, autodetection, interactive,...) and you can combine functionality from different profiles and you can reuse lots of code. Keep it mind it's still very, very early in development. It doesn't work yet, but if you look at the code you'll see the basic ideas (and the code is maybe simpler then the explanation). Right now I'm still working on better understanding the archboot scripts, refactoring that code to make it reusable and building an automated, prescripted installer for myself. ( Once the basics are working, it should actually be very simple to port the current archboot scripts to this system. )

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[arch-general] Weird upgrade problem ??
by Niels Rasmussen 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Hi all I've just installed Arch linux again after 9 month with Ubuntu and several other distros (yeah, they all come back! :-)) I've followed "The Beginners Guide" and did everything as described. Anyway, I've got the system up and running, and now writing in X (openbox) from opera Mail. I've tried to install the nvidia-71xx driver because I know it supports my VideoCard Geforce 6600GT. But apparently it doesn't work, so I uninstalled it, reinstalled libgl, did a depmod -a and rebooted. Now in X I can install programs just fine with pacman but pacman -Syu results in some strange errors I havn't seen before. Here goes: bash-3.2# pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra 412,9K 1535,6K/s 00:00:00 [########################################################] 100% community is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (59): bash-3.2.039-3 texinfo-4.13a-1 m4-1.4.12-1 autoconf-2.63-1 binutils-2.18-9 bzip2-1.0.5-3 openssl-0.9.8i-1 run-parts-2.30-1 ca-certificates-20080809-4 cracklib-2.8.13-1 e2fsprogs-1.41.3-2 popt-1.14-1 cryptsetup-1.0.6-2 dhcpcd-4.0.3-1 dialog-1.1_20080819-1 ed-1.1-2 filesystem-2008.07-1 fakeroot-1.10.1-1 file-4.26-1 flex-2.5.35-1 gmp-4.2.4-1.1 mpfr-2.3.2-2 gcc-4.3.2-1 gettext-0.17-2 grub-0.97-13 hdparm-8.9-1 hwdetect-0.9.1-2 util-linux-ng-2.14-1 udev-130-1 initscripts-2008.09-2 iputils-20071127-2 jfsutils-1.1.13-1 klibc-1.5.14-1 klibc-extras-2.5-1 klibc-kbd-1.15.20080312-7 klibc-module-init-tools-3.4-2 klibc-udev-130-1 libtool-2.2.6a-1 logrotate-3.7.7-3 man-pages-3.11-1 mdadm-2.6.7-1 mlocate-0.21-1 module-init-tools-3.4-1 nano-2.0.9-1 pam-1.0.2-2 pciutils-3.0.2-1 pcmciautils-015-2 perl-5.10.0-4 procinfo-19-3 procps-3.2.7-5 psmisc-22.6-2 rp-pppoe-3.10-1 sdparm-1.03-1 shadow-4.1.2.1-2 tzdata-2008h-1 vi-7.2.25-1 wget-1.11.4-1 which-2.20-1 xfsprogs-2.10.1-1 Total Download Size: 0,00 MB Total Installed Size: 250,03 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] checking package integrity... (59/59) checking for file conflicts [########################################################] 100% error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/Kbuild exists in filesystem klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/a.out.h exists in filesystem klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/acpi.h exists in filesystem klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/agp.h exists in filesystem klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/alternative-asm.h exists in filesystem klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/alternative.h exists in filesystem === SNIP === Anyone knows what this is about ?? It is the first time I have experienced problems in Arch Linux. -- /Niels Registered Linux User #133791 Get counted at http://counter.li.org

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[arch-general] Arch USB Drive
by Aaron Griffin 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Got this in the mail today, so I thought I'd share a blurry picture with you all 8) http://flickr.com/photos/phrakture/3029993921/

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[arch-general] 22 fan site
by Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

http://ruger22.com/newpages/newindex.htm

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Re: [arch-general] 22 fan site
by timetrap＠gmail.com 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

I thought that mailing lists and personal productivity were mutually exclusive. ------Original Message------ From: RedShift Sender: arch-general-bounces(a)archlinux.org To: General Discusson about Arch Linux ReplyTo: General Discusson about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] 22 fan site Sent: Nov 14, 2008 05:52 Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. wrote: > http://ruger22.com/newpages/newindex.htm You cost me 5 minutes of my productivity, I'm invoicing you for that! ;-) Glenn

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.27.6-1
by Tobias Powalowski 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - bump to latest version please signoff for both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] bitlbee *very* out-of-date
by kludge 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

hola, i'm currently rebuilding bitlbee to version 1.2.3 with a modified PKGBUILD from abs. the package in [extra] is only at version 1.0.4. it was last update two months ago today; that's six days *after* the current version was released upstream! for a while, there was no listed maintainer. then it was simo. now it's jeff mickey. i don't know how to find jeff, and over on the forum, it was suggested i post here. so... who's maintaining bitlbee, and you wanna roll up an updated package? many thanks! yrs, kludge

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[arch-general] php5.2.6 and iconv support failure
by Adam Stokes 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

iconv support does not seem to be complete in this package : Sample code : <?php echo iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", "This is a test."); ?> php -i : Configure Command => './configure' '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc/php' '--with-layout=GNU' '--with-config-file-path=/etc/php' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php/conf.d' '--enable-inline-optimization' '--disable-debug' '--disable-rpath' '--disable-static' '--enable-shared' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--disable-cgi' '--with-readline' '--enable-pcntl' '--with-pear=/usr/share/pear' '--with-openssl=shared' '--with-zlib=shared' '--enable-bcmath=shared' '--with-bz2=shared' '--enable-calendar=shared' '--with-curl=shared' '--enable-dba=shared' '--without-db2' '--without-db3' '--with-db4=shared' '--with-gdbm=shared' '--enable-dbase=shared' '--enable-exif=shared' '--enable-ftp=shared' '--with-gd=shared' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-jpeg-dir=shared,/usr' '--with-png-dir=shared,/usr' '--with-gettext=shared' '--with-imap=shared' '--with-imap-ssl=shared' '--with-ldap=shared' '--enable-mbstring=shared' '--with-mcrypt=shared' '--with-mysql=shared' '--with-mysql-sock=/tmp/mysql.sock' '--with-mysql=shared' '--with-mysqli=shared' '--with-ncurses=shared' '--with-unixODBC=shared,/usr' '--enable-pdo=shared' '--with-pdo-mysql=shared' '--with-pdo-sqlite=shared' '--with-pdo-odbc=shared,unixODBC,/usr' '--with-pdo-pgsql=shared' '--with-sqlite=shared' '--with-pgsql=shared' '--enable-shmop=shared' '--with-snmp=shared' '--enable-soap=shared' '--enable-sqlite-utf8=shared' '--enable-sysvmsg=shared' '--enable-sysvsem=shared' '--enable-sysvshm=shared' '--with-tidy=shared' '--with-xsl=shared' '--enable-zip=shared' '--enable-posix=shared' '--enable-sockets=shared' '--enable-xml' '--with-ttf=shared' '--enable-session=shared' '--with-regex=php' '--with-pcre-regex=/usr' '--enable-mbstring=all' '--enable-mbregex' '--enable-json=shared' '--with-iconv=shared' '--with-xmlrpc=shared' '--with-pspell=shared' '--with-freetype-dir=shared,/usr' '--with-mime-magic=shared' -- is it a configuration issue on my end or are we missing something during buildtime? thanks -- ( adam stokes ) || ( adam.stokes(a)gmail.com )

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[arch-general] Does anyone has this problem with Monodoc?
by Tomás Acauan Schertel 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Any Ideas? [tomas@myhost ~]$ monodoc using Gecko using Gecko Stacktrace: at (wrapper managed-to-native) Gtk.Notebook.gtk_notebook_set_current_page (intptr,int) <0x00004> at (wrapper managed-to-native) Gtk.Notebook.gtk_notebook_set_current_page (intptr,int) <0xffffffff> at Gtk.Notebook.set_CurrentPage (int) <0x0001d> at Monodoc.Browser.AddTab () <0x000ca> at Monodoc.Browser..ctor (string) <0x00380> at Monodoc.Driver.Main (string[]) <0x00387> at (wrapper runtime-invoke) Monodoc.Driver.runtime_invoke_int_string[] (object,intptr,intptr,intptr) <0xffffffff> Native stacktrace: /usr/bin/mono [0x806ce6f] /usr/bin/mono [0x8085a1b] /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/libxul.so [0xb536c063] [0xb7f09400] /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/libxul.so [0xb535c87c] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID+0x84) [0xb685e254] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 [0xb684f349] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0x1b3) [0xb6850bd3] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 [0xb6864686] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit_valist+0x7e4) [0xb6866364] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit+0x26) [0xb68667c6] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_widget_realize+0xb1) [0xb6e89871] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_widget_map+0xf0) [0xb6e8a170] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 [0xb6cad52d] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_container_forall+0x96) [0xb6ce3676] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 [0xb6ce577b] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID+0x84) [0xb685e254] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 [0xb684f349] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0xe0) [0xb6850b00] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 [0xb6864686] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit_valist+0x7e4) [0xb6866364] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit+0x26) [0xb68667c6] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_widget_map+0x9c) [0xb6e8a11c] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 [0xb6cad52d] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 [0xb6dc8385] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_container_forall+0x96) [0xb6ce3676] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 [0xb6ce577b] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID+0x84) [0xb685e254] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 [0xb684f349] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0xe0) [0xb6850b00] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 [0xb6864686] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit_valist+0x7e4) [0xb6866364] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit+0x26) [0xb68667c6] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_widget_map+0x9c) [0xb6e8a11c] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 [0xb6d8d774] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID+0x84) [0xb685e254] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 [0xb684f349] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0x1b3) [0xb6850bd3] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 [0xb6864686] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit_valist+0x7e4) [0xb6866364] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit+0x26) [0xb68667c6] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_widget_map+0x9c) [0xb6e8a11c] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_widget_set_child_visible+0xfd) [0xb6e8a2dd] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 [0xb6d89b62] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 [0xb6d68a43] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 [0xb684f349] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0x1b3) [0xb6850bd3] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 [0xb6864ad5] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit_valist+0x7e4) [0xb6866364] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit+0x26) [0xb68667c6] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 [0xb6d82d54] [0xb4ce134f] [0xb4ce130e] [0xb5d3cdd3] [0xb6565041] [0xb784a8b8] [0xb784a1bc] /usr/bin/mono(mono_runtime_exec_main+0x16e) [0x813ca6e] /usr/bin/mono(mono_runtime_run_main+0x16b) [0x813d15b] /usr/bin/mono(mono_main+0x16df) [0x805c6bf] /usr/bin/mono [0x805aa62] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7cc45c5] /usr/bin/mono [0x805a9a1] Debug info from gdb: ================================================================= Got a SIGSEGV while executing native code. This usually indicates a fatal error in the mono runtime or one of the native libraries used by your application. ================================================================= Aborted -- Tomás A. Schertel tschertel[at]gmail.com tomas[at]archlinux-br.org ---------------------------------------------- Arch Linux User http://www.archlinux-br.org/ Linux Registered User #304838 ----------------------------------------------

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[arch-general] /arch/setup -> grub '#-*' marker in menu.lst
by Dieter Plaetinck 12 Nov '08

12 Nov '08

Hi, seen in http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=installer.git;a=blob_plain;f=setup;hb=HEAD : # remove default entries by truncating file at our little tag (#-*) sed -i -e '/#-\*/q' Shouldn't it be: sed -i -e '/#-\*/q' $grubmenu instead of just: sed -i -e '/#-\*/q' ? ( $grubmenu == $DESTDIR/boot/grub/menu.lst ) Also, where does the '#-*' tag come from? I can't find any reference to this (no other occurrences in install script). Thanks, Dieter

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