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[arch-general] get pid of daemon in init script
by Michael Krauss 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi to .* I must write a rc init script for a server I am packaging. Therefor I have copied the init script of cups. Now I recognized that both pid files, cups.pid and my own, in /var/run are empty. Further investigations have shown that "pidof -o %PPID -x /usr/bin/cdvserver" returns nothing in the start) case but in stop) it seems to work. I don't understand why pidof isn't working as expected. Kind Regards, Michael Krauss Here is my init script: #!/bin/bash . /etc/rc.conf . /etc/rc.d/functions PID=`pidof -o %PPID -x /usr/bin/cdvserver` PIDFILE="/var/run/cdvserver.pid" case "$1" in start) stat_busy "Starting Codeville Server" [ -z "$PID" ] && /usr/bin/cdvserver if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then stat_fail else echo "Started " $PID echo $PID > $PIDFILE add_daemon cdv stat_done fi ;; stop) stat_busy "Stopping Codeville Server" [ ! -z "$PID" ] && kill $PID &> /dev/null if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then stat_fail else rm $PIDFILE rm_daemon cdv stat_done fi ;; restart) $0 stop sleep 1 $0 start ;; *) echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" esac exit 0

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[arch-general] What should be done with octave?
by Neil Darlow 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi, Arch has octave-2.1.73 in extra. The current stable version of octave is 3.0.0 but it is not backwards compatible with the 2.1.x series. The gcc-4.2.3 migration has broken octave due to a versioned dependency on gcc-fortran. Also, the PKGBUILD has no license or md5sum entries. The octave-2.1.73 PKGBUILD will need fixing but should it be updated to 3.0.0 and, if so, should a legacy octave2 package be created? I'm looking for opinions before I file any bug report. Regards, Neil Darlow

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[arch-general] mozilla /usr move
by Grigorios Bouzakis 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 08:26:09PM +0100, Jan de Groot wrote: > Hi all, > > I've cleaned up testing a bit: > - moved xulrunner/seamonkey/firefox and friends to extra. This is part > of the /usr move Any idea why an /opt/mozilla/lib directory is still created by one of those packages? It doesnt seem to be part of any of these filelists. I wanted to ask this when the packages were still in testing but totally forgot to. Greg

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[arch-general] Jacman. Problem installing packages (don't panic)
by Nigel Henry 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Jacman hasn't worked properly, as regards installing packages since I installed don't panic. Saying that I have been able to install the odd single package, that has no deps, but as of today, even installing single packages (alsaplayer as an example) fails. Jacman opens ok, and I click on "Install Packages", and that's ok, but when I select a package to install, and click on "Install", a window, like a terminal (CLI) (dialog window) opens. As soon as this window opens, the CPU hits 100%. The output in this console says: resolving dependencies looking for inter-conflicts and in red proceed with installation? [Y/n] The bottom of the console window has "Done", "Yes", and "No" boxes, but none are highlighted. As I've said, on the odd occasion I have been able to install a single package, and in this case the Yes, and No boxes have been highlighted, and the Done box is highlighted when the package is installed. Before I post a bug report for Jacman, has anyone any suggestions? Nigel.

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[arch-general] Scanner only works as root
by Renan Birck 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hello, I have an HP Photosmart C3180 all-in-one (printer/scanner/copier). Installed cups, hplip, sane. Printing works. Scanning, however, only works as root, otherwise xsane says that there are no devices. But if I chmod 777 -R /dev/bus/usb/* it works for my current user; therefore I deduce it is a permission problem. This looks like an udev problem, however my udev knowledge is next to null. What steps could I take to solve this problem? I would like to get rid of this ugly hack. Thanks. -- Renan Birck ~ Canoas, RS, Brasil "Quando tudo que você tem é um martelo, todos os seus problemas se parecem com os seus dedões."

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[arch-general] Arch Linux Amazon EC2 images
by Jason Chu 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Hey everyone, At work we're moving over to using Amazon EC2 and since we use arch for development, I've created arch images for everyone to be able to benefit from. Each one is labelled based on the date it was created. They are bare bones. The two ami names are 32bit: ami-3132d758 64bit: ami-903edbf9 Have fun with them! Jason

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[arch-general] [mirror] mirror sync and reachability issues
by Dan McGee 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

We currently have a rash of mirror-related bugs that I wanted to draw your attention to, most of which have been filed on the pacman project. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9390 [Mirror] tu.chemnitz.de http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9391 [Mirror] ftp.nethat.com http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9392 [Mirror] archlinux.org.ru http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9393 [Mirror] ftp.icm.edu.pl http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9394 [Mirror] ftp.linux.kiev.ua http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9439 [Mirror-sync] ftp.nluug.nl, ftp.surfnet.nl I'm sending this to the dev & general lists to reach a broader audience and hopefully those who may know these mirror maintainers to see what is up. I've commented on most of the bugs with the actions I took with regards to the pacman mirrorlist, but there are others that may need to take action as well. 9439 sticks out as rather big as it is two of our mirrors in the Netherlands, so I'd appreciate any feedback on that one. Thanks a lot to Gerhard Brauer for looking into all our mirrors and finding those that are out of date or unreachable. -Dan

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[arch-general] gcc-gcj, webplugin and java.security package
by Ondřej Kučera 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

Hello, I'm trying to make a certain applet (which is inside an internal company information system so unfortunately I can't provide a link) working on x86_64. I tried libgcjwebplugin from gcc-gcj and it starts loading the applet but then it prints the following error to stdout (and the applet doesn't work): java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre/lib/security/cacerts (No such file or directory) I think that this is quite weird, I thought that there would be a problem that the applet uses some Java features that aren't yet implemented in gcj/gnu classpath, but this seems to say that it just looks for some certificates in a really strange place - which could be a bug of gcj or a bug in the way how it's packaged in ArchLinux, I have no idea what is the case here. But anyway if I do "pacman -Ql gcc-gcj" the paths look very different from this one. If i try "locate cacerts" I get /opt/java/jre/lib/security/cacerts which of course belongs to jre package. So, does anyone have a clue if this might have some solution? I also attached the whole stacktrace if that could help. -- Cheers, Ondřej

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-pages 2.77-1
by Grigorios Bouzakis 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 03:59:19PM +0100, Andreas Radke wrote: > for arches in testing. please signoff. it uses the new location in > /usr/share/man. > > -Andy > is this bug report valid? http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9440

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[arch-general] Java applets in Arch64
by Ondřej Kučera 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

Hello, I need to be able to use java applets on my Arch64 box. From what I found on the wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch64_FAQ) it should work out of the box in Konqueror but unfortunately it isn't the case for me. I tried the following two pages containing applets, neither seems to work. http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/deployment/applet/getStarted.html http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/ I do have the java packages (both jre and jdk), I have java enabled in Konqueror, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to do something else. Truth to be told the best solution would be to have applets working in Firefox since since I need them working in an intranet web application that is not exactly 100% compatible with Konqueror, I'm afraid. Is there a working solution for Firefox? -- Cheers, Ondřej

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