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[arch-general] suggestions on adding documentation for community package 'cloud-init'
by Akilesh K 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

Hi, I have been an arch linux user for some time and I specialize in openstack/networking areas. I have successfully built an openstack image for Arch linux using cloud-init and would like to contribute a wiki pages for 1. cloud-init package. 2. Building an Arch linux cloud image I want to know if this would be welcome as the package under question is from community repo. Thank you, Akilesh K

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[arch-general] A good time to switch to dash as /bin/sh?
by lolilolicon 28 Sep '14

28 Sep '14

With the disclosure of the new bash bug (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169), it seems timely to bring this up. Dan added dash to core/base around seven years ago [1], intending the eventually link /bin/sh to dash instead of bash. [1] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-November/00305… We didn't make the switch, supposedly due to the bashism in our scripts which had a #!/bin/sh shebang line? Seven years passed. Is there anything preventing us from making the switch from bash to dash as /bin/sh now? We can then have dash provide sh instead.

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[arch-general] To those that are testing Gnome 3.14
by Lorenzo Bandieri 27 Sep '14

27 Sep '14

Hi list, I have a favor to ask to those that are currently testing Gnome 3.14. In gnome 3.12 I am having problems with user switching, which is quite important for me. In particular, I had this annoying bug [1] since I installed Gnome in this computer. When Xorg 1.16 came out, it broke completely the switch user functionality for me (it caused my system to hang, forcing me to send a SIGTERM with Alt+SysRq+e). For what it's worth, I created a /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config, but that did not solve the issue. At the time I didn't want to investigate the issue since I needed the system to Just Work(tm), and I simply downgraded Xorg. I'm still running with the old Xorg, but I know that I can't go on like this forever. If anyone running Gnome 3.14 happened to test the switch user functionality, I would be interested to know: - if you are observing any problem switching user with Xorg 1.16, - if you are observing Bug #730360; to test, see [1] Thanks in advance! Lorenzo [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730360#c7

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[arch-general] Mailinglist migration test
by Florian Pritz 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

This mail should now come with the correct List-Id header and should work with old filters. Sorry for the noise earlier.

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[arch-general] multiarch support like debian, pro and cons?
by Ranomier 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

I wrote my idea first on the irc, but i think here is a better place. The idea is to give up multiarch repo and make pacman and archlinux capable for real multiarch support That means u could install a 32bit package from the normal repos core, extra, community usw and not from multilib repo in 64bit arch. (example: pacman -S firefox:i386) And that means package maintainer don´t have to maintain two 32bit packages, plus all 32bit package where available ob 64bit. What are u guys thinking, about that ideas. What where the pro and cons, that i don´t see. Greetings, Ranomier

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[arch-general] Gnome 3.14 boot hanging (Reached System Update Target)
by lltp 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hi, I just upgraded to Gnome 3.14 and wanted to test new things, especially the new Pacman backend to PackageKit (through gnome-software). I just clicked on the "update and restart" notification and I couldn't boot anymore. I remove the "quiet" kernel boot flag in Grub and saw that the offending line was "[OK] Reached System Update Target". There was no timeout so my system just hanged like that for a dozen of minutes (coffee time). No TTY was available. I solved this by adding the "single" kernel boot flag in Grub, then log in as root, then remove the /system-update folder then reboot. Regards

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[arch-general] mkinitcpio debugging with systemd
by Tobias Hunger 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hello! I am running a initrd make with mkinitcpio using the "systemd" hook. This works great in general, but after a bit of playing with the hooks and systemd code the generated initrd will no longer start. That is no big deal and entirely my fault and I should be able to fix it. My problem is now that I can not really debug the initrd anymore. Is there a way to get a debug shell on the initrd when using the systemd hook? Any hints would be greatly appreciated:-) Best Regards, Tobias

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[arch-general] Gstreamer upgrade broke rhythmbox streams?
by Stephen Martin 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

I listen to quite a few radio stations through rhythmbox, and all of them now fail to play with an error of "Could not determine type of stream." I noticed that gstreamer updated yesterday to 1.4.3. Might that be the issue? Are others experiencing similar problems?

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[arch-general] New CVE - https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7169
by David C. Rankin 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

It's like a game of Whack-a-Mole lately... Further reading: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146319 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] archlinux.org down
by Karol Blazewicz 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

At least for the last 15 minutes (since around 7 PM CEST) some of Arch Linux sites have been down: http://www.archlinux.org/ https://www.archlinux.org/packages/ https://bugs.archlinux.org/ https://www.archlinux.org/download/ The forum and wiki seem unaffected.

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