October 2011 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] linux-3.1-2
by Peter Lewis 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > >>> Archlinux Changes: > >>> - $(uname -r) reports now the full kernel version Interesting... can someone clarify what's going on with this? I was under the impression that under the new versioning scheme some versions would only have two numbers now, e.g. 3.0. Is this not the case any more and we will always have a third number? Is this an Arch specific thing or an upstream thing? (I've just been fixing some software to cope with the case when uname doesn't return a third number... perhaps that would no longer be necessary?) Thanks! Pete.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-174-1
by Myra Nelson 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 02:00, Tom Gundersen <teg(a)jklm.no> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Dave Reisner <d(a)falconindy.com> wrote: >> I'll push a new mkinitcpio this weekend to adjust for the path changes >> and the *_id helpers going away. It's not crucial as image creation >> continues to work just fine, but I'm sure there will be some noise about >> the missing file errors if I don't tag a new rel. I've also been meaning >> to get busybox 1.19.2 out, but it requires a minor change to init as >> well... > > I forgot to warn about the ERRORS for missing files. They are harmless > as you say, but a bit scary. > > When you push the next busybox could you include the init app (if it > is not already switched on). Also, what is the status of Thomas' cp -x > patch? It would be nice to have that too for the shutdown hook (and > hence the /usr hook) to finally work. > > Cheers, > > Tom > Error messages yes, but no warning about problems with the image and the image is created and boots fine. Keeping up with the mailing list makes all the difference in the world. Keep up the good work. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] Can't upgrade GCC from testing, clang requires 4.6.1
by Alex Ferrando 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

With the last push of GCC in testing, I have some kind of trouble to get pacman to update it. It seems that clang, which I'm using fro vim-clang-complete from AUR requires a fixed version of GCC ( and LLVM, but this now is not the my main concern) which makes me impossible to update GCC: error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: clang: requires gcc=4.6.1 So, my question now is if it is safe to rebuild clang without the fixed version dependencie on GCC and then upgrade. Would clang break if the GCC version is different from 4.6.1?

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[arch-general] [signoff] pam-1.1.5-1
by Tobias Powalowski 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Hi Release 1.1.5 * pam_env: Fix CVE-2011-3148 and CVE-2011-3149 * pam_access: Add hostname resolution cache * Documentation: Improvements/fixes please signoff 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] Monitoring changes to [core], [extra], [community]
by Magnus Therning 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Is there some convenient way of monitoring changes to the Arch repos? The reason for asking is the work we do in ArchHaskell. Due to how ghc (the Haskell compiler) works it's necessary to re-compile and re-link a package when one of its dependencies changes. In this case "changes" includes a bump of pkgrel as well. Currently we're not trying to track any changes to the dependencies living in [extra] and [community], which means that at times packages in ArchHaskell breaks until a user notices it. Are there any tools that can help out with this? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay

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[arch-general] [signoff] pciutils-3.1.8-1
by Tobias Powalowski 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

* Released as 3.1.8. * More capabilities: Transaction Processing Hints, Latency Tolerance Reporting. Thanks to Jesse Barnes. * Added BeOS and Haiku ports. Contributed by Francois Revol. * pciutils.pc now uses Libs.private properly. * When we format a name and it does not fit in the buffer, we truncate it instead of returning "buffer too small" instead. This works on all platforms with sane (i.e., C99-compatible) snprintf(). * Various minor bug fixes. * Updated pci.ids to the today's snapshot of the database. Please signoff 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] Programs Not Closing
by Squall Lionheart 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Hello, Ever since the upgrade to KDE 4.7 several weeks ago, a lot of programs seem to hang in the Task Manager after I close them. They will remain for a long time or until I open another application. I also have an occasional application crash when I shutdown. Unfortunately, the crash message tells me nothing of what program is crashing and I'm not sure if it's related. My question for everyone is regarding the programs hanging around since it's a regular thing and is most likely the cause of the latter. Is this a common thing or do I have some conflict somewhere, or a service that isn't happy? I run pacman -Suy almost daily and use Firefox, Thunderbird, Kopete, Yakuake, VirtualBox, Terminal, Kwrite, and BOINC on a regular bases. I put my system to sleep nightly and shutdown at the end of the week. DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus network !netfs crond alsa @cupsd @boinc @samba). I hope that's enough info. Thank you -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual

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Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.
by Leif Warner 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

So a convention continuously in use longer than I've been alive is dropped, and the notification for this is tucked in the init script that you get to see on your next (broken) reboot? I had just partioned and set up an Arch system with seperate /usr, /var, /tmp, and /home partitions, as always, last week. A little heads-up might've been nice. At the very least, a message in the .install script to get notified on upgrade would be helpful. And yes, things are more broken than before: minilogd was moved from /sbin to /usr/sbin. Any other changes that drop boot support coming down I should know about? -Leif

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[arch-general] update
by Carlos Alberto Ospina 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

hi everyones!! cuando corro pacman -Syu se demora muchisimo, todo esto despues de actualizar gnome 3.2. Rhytmbox tampoco me corre. somebody know when i update, its very slowly. Rhytmbox doesnt work too. All this after upgrading gnome 3.2. un saludo a tod@s -- Carlos Alberto Ospina E. Linux User #506652

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[arch-general] no ACPI estimate in powertop with latest kernels
by Neal Haslam 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Hello everyone, Powertop reports "no ACPI power usage estimate available" with x86_64 kernels 3.0.6-1 and 3.0.6-2. Downgrading to kernel 3.0.4-1 restored power estimates. Older kernels had always worked in the past. Processor is Intel i3, quad core, in a ThinkPad Edge 14 running Gnome 3.2 fully upgraded daily. -- Neal

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