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[arch-general] wireless tools installation without internet access
by message 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

Readers, An old portable computer has been installed with archlinux via a CD and was used successfully with ethernet cable internet connection. Now, cable connection is no longer available and it became necessary that various wireless software was not installed. Firmware (ipw2100 for intel wireless pro) was copied from usb memory to a /usr/local/ directory. After trying the command 'make', an error was reported that some wireless software (ieee802 I think?). Are there a set of wireless functionality tools that can be downloaded to a usb flash memory device, then installed onto this old computer?

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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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