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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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[arch-general] Pacman v4.0.1-4 could be less verbose
by Ralf Madorf 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

Hi :) I wonder if warnings like # pacman -Syu warning: qtractor: local (0.5.3.15-2684) is newer than community (0.5.3-1) warning: rtirq: local (20111007-1) is newer than archaudio-preview (20090920-1) are useful? Once there will be more packages, it will become uncomfortable to read more important output. 2 Cents, Ralf

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[arch-general] pacman 4 logic error - what part of 'no' doesn't it understand?
by David C. Rankin 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

Guys, I have found a logic error in pacman (I think). I don't like replacing both the kernel and kernel-lts in the same 'pacman -Syu' call. So I answered 'no' when prompted to 'Replace kernel26-lts with core/linux-lts? [Y/n] n'. However, then pacman fails to install anything because 'linux-lts and kernel26-lts are in conflict'. When I answered 'n' to Replace kernel26-lts, I expected pacman to ignore upgrading that package (and the others I said no to) but proceed forward and install the remaining updates. Should I file this as a bug? The full output is below: [07:55 archangel:/etc] # pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date archlinuxfr is up to date xyne-any is up to date aaany is up to date aapkg is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace kernel26-lts with core/linux-lts? [Y/n] n :: Replace kernel26-lts-headers with core/linux-lts-headers? [Y/n] n :: Replace module-init-tools with core/kmod? [Y/n] y :: Replace perl-exiftool with extra/perl-image-exiftool? [Y/n] resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: linux-lts and kernel26-lts are in conflict. Remove kernel26-lts? [y/N] error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: linux-lts and kernel26-lts are in conflict -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] A problem with xfce LCD clock
by Leonid Isaev 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

Hi, I have just noticed a problem with xfce clock panel-plugin: in the LCD mode instead of showing "8" it shown "0", so 6:18 become 10:10. Removing .cache and reintroducing the panel doesn't help... Any thoughts as of why this could be happening? Can anyone confirm this? Cheers, -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] Brightness keys no longer working
by David Rosenstrauch 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

The screen brightness increase and decrease keys on my laptop seem to be no longer working. They were definitely working a week or so ago, so I'm thinking some recent upgrade is responsible. It's not that the keypress is registering and the app just doesn't brighten the screen. But rather, that the keypress doesn't seem to be registering at all (i.e., when I try pressing it while using the "xev" X events tester app). About a week ago, xev used to show a keypress event for something like "XF86BrightnessUp" or some such; now it shows nothing. Anyone have any idea what the culprit might be? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] lib32-xcb, libxcb, and xcb-proto newer than in repos?
by Oon-Ee Ng 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

:: Starting full system upgrade... warning: lib32-libxcb: local (1.8-1) is newer than multilib (1.7-3) warning: libxcb: local (1.8-1) is newer than extra (1.7-2) warning: xcb-proto: local (1.7-1) is newer than extra (1.6-2) I thought it'd just be an outdated mirror or something, but a check on archlinux.org searching for xcb shows that the latter versions are current in the repos. Did something travel backward in time?

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[arch-general] wicd does not execute custom scripts
by Marek Otahal 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

Hi, please could someone verify this? # pwd /etc/wicd/scripts/preconnect # ls -l total 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 47 Jan 25 03:50 hello.sh # cat hello.sh #!/bin/sh echo hello >> /var/log/wicd/aa.log # /etc/rc.d/wicd restart..done <<disconnect and connect>> But! still there is no aa.log and script seems to be not executed at all. No signs of errors in wicd.log I'm glad for any ideas, thanks -- Marek Otahal :o)

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