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[arch-general] How to setup Xorg on VirtualBox?
by Croco 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

I am a newbie of ArchLinux. I have installed Arch on VirtualBox (Running on windows 7), but unable to startx, does anyone know some instructions about this?

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[arch-general] OpenVAS in AUR not compiling
by Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

Hello guys, I require you to test some stuff. Trying to compile OpenVAS, I get Error 2 or some other things. Now I ask, it's my fault or...? Let me know if openvas-libraries in AUR builds fine for you ;) -- Bl@ster / dottorblaster

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[arch-general] cannot generate enough entropy for pacman-key --init
by Alper Kanat 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

Hey There, I have an Arch Linux box inside Virtualbox on a Mac that I use for development purposes. I connect to this machine via SSH without any visual interface. It's on [testing] and just upgraded to pacman 4.0 and after installation it asked me to run pacman-key --init to generate the necessary keys for my system. I did all of these inside GNU Screen (also tried without it without any luck): $ sudo pacman-key --init gpg: Generating pacman keychain master key... Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 300 more bytes) I pressed random bits with the keyboard but it didn't work so I fired up another window inside screen and did cat /dev/urandom > /dev/null but that also didn't work. So I found this [1] article and tried it again without any luck. So I'm basically stuck here. Can someone please help me? Since pacman is bricked, I can't also install anything. Now I have to manually downgrade pacman if I can't succeed. Thanks! [1] http://www.thingy-ma-jig.co.uk/blog/22-01-2010/generate-entropy-gnupg --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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[arch-general] VirtualBox not running properly
by Madhurya Kakati 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

Hi, I installed Virtual/box from the official repos. However when I try to run a Virtual OS it gives me the following error. http://i.imgur.com/sBzl4.png I followed all the instructions after installing it.

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[arch-general] How to setup Xorg on VirtualBox?
by Jason 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

I am a newbie of ArchLinux. I have installed Arch on VirtualBox (Running on windows 7), but unable to startx, does anyone know some instructions about this?

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[arch-general] Problems with .install file and pacman 4.0
by fredbezies 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Hello. I don't have any powers to post on arch-dev-public, so I'm writing here. Since I upgraded to pacman 4.0 (and building tools related to pacman 4.0), some packages which have both an install file and a name like something-git won't build. For example, if I try to build vlc-git, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16084, I cannot get it build until I comment install=() line : [fred@fredo-arch vlc-git]$ makepkg ==> ERROR : install file (('vlc-git.install')) doesn't exist But a little ls tells me : [fred@fredo-arch vlc-git]$ ls PKGBUILD vlc-git.install Known bug ? install file line in this package : install=('vlc-git.install') I can see the same for a package I try to maintain, kvm-git : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22041 Any ideas ? -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] Yaourt and pacman 4.0
by fredbezies 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

A little tip for yaourt users having problem with pacman 4.0 in testing. You will have to build both package-query-git and yaourt-git. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35478 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18676 -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] In reply to [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 4.0.0-2
by Karol Blazewicz 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > I see my text was probably hard to read, but it was not about some > packages not being updated for pacman 4.0 yet but a possible bug (or > two) in pacman itself. > > -- > Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre > Same thing happened when I installed yaourt: [2011-10-14 14:36] Running 'pacman -S yaourt' [2011-10-14 14:36] warning: /etc/pacman.conf installed as /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew [2011-10-14 14:36] warning: /etc/makepkg.conf installed as /etc/makepkg.conf.pacnew [2011-10-14 14:36] upgraded pacman (4.0.0-2 -> 3.5.4-4) [2011-10-14 14:36] installed package-query (0.9-1) [2011-10-14 14:36] installed yaourt (0.10.2-1) Now when I want to upgrade to pacman 4 it behaves as expected: resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: package-query: requires pacman<3.6

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[arch-general] pacman 4.0.0 signing
by Sander Jansen 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

After upgrading to the new pacman 4.0, the system update following fails due a lot of untrusted signatures (unknown trust error). I'm guessing we need to verify we really trust these signatures. I've found this guide regarding validating gpg keys: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/pgp-validating.html. I assume this will be a lot similar, except using the pacman-key frontend to do the verification. So let me step through and see if understand correctly: All the developers keys seem to be published here: http://www.archlinux.org/developers/ and http://www.archlinux.org/trustedusers So to trust Andrea Scarpino's key I would get the pgp key from the above webpage (PGP Key: 0xD30DB0AD) and finger it: pacman-key --finger 0xD30DB0AD then compare the finger print with the one thats linked to his profile: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&fingerprint=on&exact=on&searc… It seems to match, so there is a good chance it's the real deal, so now I can locally sign it: pacman-key --lsign-key 0xD30DB0AD Correct? In examples of the article also marks the key as trusted. Would that be a good idea? We have to do this for each and every Arch developer I guess? Is there a faster way? Sander

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 4.0.0-2
by Oon-Ee Ng 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Rémy Oudompheng <remy(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On 2011/10/13 Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: >> Am 13.10.2011 20:22, schrieb Dan McGee: >>> The most anticipated release EVER has landed in [testing]. Do I expect >>> it to make it out before we need a 4.0.1? Not really. :) >>> >>> Upstream NEWS/changes: >>> http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/NEWS?h=maint >>> Disregard the 4.0.1 stuff that isn't in this package yet and hasn't >>> been actually released. >>> >>> Questions? Concerns? Comments? >> >> Big thanks to everybody involved with this great release. About that >> issue I am not supposed to talk here I'll send a mail tomorrow. :-) >> >> Good thing you moved this into testing so there are no excuses not to >> test the new pacman. Do you know if porting pyalpm will be easy or is >> already done? Would be beter to have this sorted out before moving 4.0 >> to core. (pyalpm is needed by namcap) I also need to have a look at this >> code: >> https://projects.archlinux.org/dbscripts.git/tree/cron-jobs/check_archlinux >> But should be easy enough to port if even necessary. > > I've followed pacman API changes in pyalpm's trunk all along and will > do the appropriate release asap. > > Rémy. > Something to note, even though pyalpm is updated to support pacman 4.0 some user intervention would be required, since they'd get this error on upgrade if they answer Y to the question below:- :: The following packages should be upgraded first : pacman :: Do you want to cancel the current operation :: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: pyalpm: requires pacman<3.6 Don't think there's a way to deal with that though, either the user answers 'n' or upgrades pacman with -d? Both are manual-intervention-required =)

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