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[arch-general] root not remounted rw
by Philipp Überbacher 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

Hi there, on one of my laptops, the one that runs Arch since 2+ years now, root isn't remounted rw for some reason. Manually remounting ("sudo remount -r remount,rw /dev/sda3/ /") after boot works fine. There are no errors in dmesg. This problem persists since a few weeks, the system is fully updated. I couldn't figure out what the problem could be, so I hope you could help me on this one. One additional piece of information, related or not, is that apparently the mainboard battery has gone flat, the laptop thinks its 2006 after every boot until ntpd corrects the time. This happened a couple of weeks before the remount problem showed up, so I doubt it's related. Things I've tried: - filesystem check - SMART check - re-install of various packages Regards, Philipp

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[arch-general] PKGBUILD help
by Peter G Nikolic 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hi .. I am trying to install my favorite editor joe now i have the "PKGBUILD" file have run "makepkg" it has built ok no erors but how the heck do i install it says installed but it has not it has just created the directorys in the build dir but not actually installed it on the system . I am also still unable to get anywhere near that close with google earth just piles of complaints (all 32 but complaints but the system is 64 bit i have the .deb 64 bit down to no avail . Is there any clear concise documentation for the PKGBUILD / makepkg system most times so far with arch i have fund what i needed but this time :-( Pete . -- Powered by Kernel: 3.2.1-2-ARCH KDE Development Platform: 4.7.4 (4.7.4) 15:33:55 up 2 days, 16:02, 5 users, load average: 0.35, 0.14, 0.08

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[arch-general] bashrc path not being enforced
by gt 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hello list Earlier I had appended my personal bin directory to /etc/profile's PATH, and it worked perfectly. Now, i am trying to add PATH to my user's .bashrc, but it doesn't come into effect. Though adding it to .bash_profile works. I am using urxvt and have set it to start as a login shell. What can be the reason? -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

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[arch-general] Upgrade of bluez breaks A2DP?
by Karol Babioch 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hi, I've recently upgraded bluez from version 4.96 to 4.97 and a few days later to 4.98. When trying to use my Bluetooth headset (Sennheiser MM 550) I realized that it doesn't work anymore. Using gnome-bluetooth I can in fact discover my headset and even connect to it, but it doesn't get listed in the audio section where it normally can be found. Consequently I can't redirect any sound to it. When downgrading to version 4.96 it works like expected. As I'm only using gnome-bluetooth I can't really say whether it is a problem with bluez itself, or whether gnome-bluetooth doesn't support the newer versions of bluez at this point in time. Furthermore I'm not that experienced with using hcitool and its relatives, so it may well be that I'm missing something here. It seems just to affect A2DP, because my Bluetooth mouse works still like a charm. However I wanted to make sure whether anyone has experienced something similar after the upgrades? I couldn't find any bug reports so far about this, so is there anything I could have missed? Or am I the only one using a Bluetooth headset on a regular basis ;)? Best regards, Karol Babioch

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[arch-general] Question concerning curl package
by Oon-Ee Ng 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

I see that curl was updated in [core] (and probably through [testing] first?) to 7.24.0 With this update, my AUR package (don't jump me yet, please) rainlendar-beta-unstable, when run, gives me the following error message:- rainlendar: /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_3' not found (required by rainlendar) Now, I understand that binary-distributed packages such as rainlendar usually have lib version related problems, but in my (not very long) experience those show up in terms of 'library not found' because they're looking for, maybe, libcurl.so.3 or something like that. If rainlendar is actually looking for the right lib version, does that mean that curl has made changes to the API (or was it ABI) without bumping release number? Basically wondering whether to place the blame on rainlendar or curl here. P.S. - don't think its important, but the curl package has a a patch called fix-J-with-O-regression.patch which does not seem to be used.

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[arch-general] Printer config problem
by Peter G Nikolic 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hi . one more slight problem with the printer this time trying to get my printer working across all software i went into the kde system settings ---> Printer Configuration a i get the following The service 'Printer Configuration' does not provide an interface 'KCModule' with keyword 'system-config-printer-kde/system-config-printer-kde.py' The factorey does not support creating components of the specified type. then 2 suggestions of fixes neihter of which makes any sense The prionter is an HP Deskjet D4360 i have the HPLIP package installed but can not print from gimp Firefox they will print to file but show no printer Pete . -- Powered by Kernel: 3.2.1-2-ARCH KDE Development Platform: 4.7.4 (4.7.4) 22:17:52 up 1 day, 22:46, 5 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.05

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[arch-general] bug? Close the notebook‘s lid，that will cause the system reboot
by 大熊 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

My nb is Asus a50af, Ath.64 M320 + ATI Mobility Radeon HD5145 $ uname -a Linux bearhouse 3.2.1-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 23 12:40:01 UTC 2012 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) II Dual-Core M320 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux After I upgrade to kernel 3.2, meet a strange problem: I set the desktop to close screen when I close lid. If I do so, when I reopen the lid, the screen remain closed, any key can not open the screen. Even sometime after I reopen the lid, the system will reboot immediately！ I try it under kde4 and gnome3， same problem.**

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[arch-general] GTK app appearance
by Peter G Nikolic 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

Hi . I have been unhappy with the way a few GTK based programes i use looked Firefox Gftp and Bluefish , So i installed gtk-qt-engine-1.1-3 and whilst some of the problems have gone away i now have silly things like no highlighting of the bookmarjs when the mouse is over them no visable entry boxes and no scroll bars in Firefox (i did let the GTK Styles & fonts) install the firefox scroll bar fix to no avail any ideas / fixes Thanks Pete . -- Powered by Kernel: 3.2.1-2-ARCH KDE Development Platform: 4.7.4 (4.7.4) 09:17:17 up 1 day, 9:46, 5 users, load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.07

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[arch-general] Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write
by Jayesh Badwaik 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

Hi, I have just discovered this kernel exploit which allows a local user to obtain root priviliges. The detailed explanation is given at [1]. The patch has been apparently fixed in the kernel as of now (according to the blog post), but that update has not yet come into archlinux. And while, the /bin/su is fine and is not vulnerable to exploit, gpasswd is vulnerable and I am able to carry out the exploit on my computer as of now, using the gpasswd program. The list of programs that may be vulnerable are given by the following command [user@localhost]$ for p in $(echo $PATH | tr ‘:’ ‘ ‘); do find “$p” -perm -4005; done which gives in my system the following list [3] Not all of them work, /bin/su does not work, nor does ping work. Any news of any kind of update? By the way, here is the patch that is available for the same [2]. [1] : http://blog.zx2c4.com/749 [2]: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdi… [3] : /usr/bin/kppp /usr/bin/gpasswd /usr/bin/rsh /usr/bin/chsh /usr/bin/chfn /usr/bin/pkexec /usr/bin/chage /usr/bin/kwrited /usr/bin/ksu /usr/bin/Xorg /usr/bin/newgrp /usr/bin/rcp /usr/bin/expiry /usr/bin/passwd /usr/bin/rlogin /usr/bin/crontab /bin/fusermount /bin/traceroute6 /bin/ping6 /bin/umount /bin/ping /bin/mount /bin/traceroute /bin/su /sbin/mount.cifs /sbin/unix_chkpwd -- ------------------------------------------------------- Cheers Jayesh Vinay Badwaik Electronics and Communication Engineering VNIT, INDIA -

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[arch-general] KDE 4.8
by Paulo Roberto P. Evangelista 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

Hi, When kde 4.8 will be available in extra repossitories??

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