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[arch-general] keyboard indicator lights not working
by Scott Weisman 13 May '08

13 May '08

Hello, At some point, the keyboard indicator lights stopped working. I know they aren't broken (and I've even used three separate keyboards). They used to work, but stopped at some point, but I don't remember when. Does anyone have any suggestion for this? Thanks, Scott

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[arch-general] Mirror: please remove locke.suu.edu
by Gerhard Brauer 13 May '08

13 May '08

Hello, mirror is down since March 30. Could someone assign the ticket #9678 to Dale or Eliott to kick this mirror? Regards Gerhard -- Don't drink and root!

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[arch-general] netcfg2: background running
by gan lu 11 May '08

11 May '08

Do your great devs plan to add support of background running capability (adding @ like in the rc.conf daemon section) for netcfg2 (net-profile), I have set a ethernet-static and adsl internet connection when booting up, but if adsl got some trouble to connect, which makes my computer waiting for it like ages. Thanks.

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[arch-general] Compiling my own kernel: IDE, SATA...
by Carotinho 10 May '08

10 May '08

Hi! I'm sure this is an already answered question, but the problem is that I don't know which could be the question whose answer I'm in need of:) After this prologue, the problem is: The currently running system, with the Arch-supplied 2.6.24 kernel, has the disk devices all mapped to a /dev/sd* scheme, even if 3 are IDE and another is SATA. When I compile myself the kernel, I get the "traditional" /dev/hd* scheme, which is in contrast with the content of /etc/fstab. The main question is: how can I obtain the "right" behaviour from my own compiled kernel? Is this due to some misconfiguration of the kernel at compile-time, or is it obtained through some other kind of magic? The real problem here is that I cannot give a name to this problem, hence being unable to search for it!:) I've always used a Slack system with traditional disk mapping, it's the first time I come across this problem:) Thanks in advance! Carotinho Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com

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[arch-general] Xorg & network problem
by Lin, Zihui 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hi, Arch install is graceful.After "pacman -S xorg gnome", the startx brought me to gnome. everygthing seem fine till I quited X by Ctrl+Alt+BackSpace, After a while i tried to re-startx and just had no response. No message is shown and the X won't show up.The .xinitrc is clean, and the xorg.conf is allright, and I don't have any special hardware. About the netowkr, The networking is configured in rc.conf, and I believe it's clean. after i swift my laptop to office, I can't reconfigure networking by execute "/etc/rc.d/network restart". :: Starting Network [BUSY] SIOCADDRT: No such process Any solution? -- Best regards, Zihui

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[arch-general] pacman changes libcrypt.so.1 symlink
by Lukáš Jirkovský 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hi I don't know if it's bug or feature, but it makes me crazy. It begun probably after some pacman upgrade. I'm using blowfish passwords with my archlinux, so my /lib/libcrypt.so.1 points to libxcrypt.so.1 instead of libcrypt-2.7.so from glibc. In my pacman.conf I have NoExtract = lib/libcrypt.so.1. But even though I've made this arrangements everytime when I run pacman -S some_interesting_package (it doesn't have to be glibc, eg libpng is enough) the link gets changed. Any suggestions? Best regards, Lukas '6xx' Jirkovsky

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[arch-general] netcfg2 error
by ponto 06 May '08

06 May '08

my wireless router is using wpa2-personal with aes encryption. root /etc/network.d # iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:28:34:A3:E8:1B ESSID:"casa" Mode:Master Channel:11 Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11) Quality=92/100 Signal level=-39 dBm Noise level=-127 dBm Encryption key:on IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1 Group Cipher : CCMP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Extra:tsf=000000c77415d93a root /etc/network.d # cat casa-wireless CONNECTION="casa-wireless" INTERFACE=wlan0 HOSTNAME=pc-no-quarto IP="static" IFOPTS="192.168.1.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255" GATEWAY="192.168.1.1" # DNS Settings (optional) # DOMAIN=localdomain DNS1=195.23.129.126 # DNS2= # SEARCH= ESSID="casa" SECURITY="wpa" KEY="yZAwO6XNOyvPtCImzSEi5gZQ8uO31rhdnFjYu7QDNZNmf9uud48P3qqcsIZywgT" SCAN="YES" TIMEOUT=20 and netfg2 outputs this: root /etc/network.d # netcfg2 casa-wireless > casa-wireless is not a valid connection, check spelling or look at examples what am i doing wrong? halp plz

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[arch-general] rdup: orphan request
by Jan Spakula 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hello, I would like to ask for rdup in AUR to be orphaned, so that I can maintain it: 1) it's out-of-date (version 0.5.2, current 0.5.7; considerable (for me) improvements) 2) the maintainer (dice) has the last appearance in AUR on 1/14/2008 3) he does not respond to comments in AUR and his e-mail address does not work (tried couple of days ago, mail returned as undeliverable). 4) there's a perl dep of this package that needs to be taken care of. Thank you, -- Jan

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[arch-general] ClamAV should be update to 0.93
by Tino Reichardt 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hello list, clamav should be updated. -- regards, TR

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ATTN: Kernel maintainers (tpowa, brain0): libcap
by Michal Soltys 05 May '08

05 May '08

Travis Willard wrote: > Hey guys, > > I just realized that, for some squirrely reason, I am currently > "maintaining" libcap. I have no freakin' clue what libcap even is. I > just got a flag-out-of-date version asking if we should update it to > libcap2, which seems reasonable, as it's nice and shiny-new. Looking > around, however, libcap seems tied to kernel releases, so maybe it'd > make more sense for someone more in-the-know with kernel.org stuff to > take it on? > Version 2.x works pretty fine - I've been using it for a while, but you will need some simple and straightforward patches for e.g. samba (it assumes ancient lack of header declarations, should be fixed in .29) and vsftpd (doesn't look for 2.x at all, but otherwise compiles and works perfectly fine). From other notable things - ntpd requires linking to libcap, if you want to run it with privilege separation. > Basically, if someone out there knows WTF libcap is for, and how to > test, etc., then let me know and you can grab it. > In short - it's overbloated suid ;) http://www.friedhoff.org/posixfilecaps.html Sorry for crossposting, but I though I'd be good to mention samba / vsftpd stuff. Cheers

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