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[arch-general] Problems with pacman 4.0.0-2
by Timothée Ravier 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

Hi, I'm using pacman from testing and I ran into some troubles. I set "SigLevel = Optional TrustAll" in pacman.conf, but I'm still getting a lot of warnings even after I add the keys to the repo. It also takes an ENORMOUS amount of time to do I don't know what right after checking packages integrity, and then fails with : "invalid package or corrupt signature" _without_ telling me which package had a problem. As a workaround, I'm using "SigLevel =Never", but well, this isn't the solution. It "fixes" both the performance issue & the signing (as expected). I tried using an other mirror, hoping that was only a temporary corruption, but this isn't. I attached a sample pacman output log. As for performance concerns, I'm using an intel quad core cpu, with 8Go ram, and pacman doesn't seem to use any ressource at all. It looks like it's the gpg-agent command launched by pacman that takes all this time to complete (and fail in the end ?). I don't have a clue what it is doing, because that's why I used "Optional TrustAll" in the first place. I got three Arch box which are affected by this problem (on different networks, if it matters for gpg-agent). Any ideas are welcome. This could be unrelated to pacman itself. Tim

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[arch-general] Pacman 4 XferCommand and 404 errors
by Alex Ferrando 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

Using an XferCommand in pacman.conf causes a bunch of 404 errors while downloading databases complaining about testing/core/extra.db.sig not found, but it doesn't do the same if it's using the default download method without an XferCommand. An example of that: :: Synchronising package databases... --2011-10-17 20:36:18-- http://mirror.devnu11.net/archlinux/testing/os/x86_64/testing.db Resolving mirror.devnu11.net... 78.46.68.28 Connecting to mirror.devnu11.net|78.46.68.28|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 35855 (35K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/var/lib/pacman/sync/testing.db.part' 100%[========================================================================================================================================================>] 35,855 197K/s in 0.2s 2011-10-17 20:36:18 (197 KB/s) - `/var/lib/pacman/sync/testing.db.part' saved [35855/35855] --2011-10-17 20:36:18-- http://mirror.devnu11.net/archlinux/testing/os/x86_64/testing.db.sig Resolving mirror.devnu11.net... 78.46.68.28 Connecting to mirror.devnu11.net|78.46.68.28|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2011-10-17 20:36:18 ERROR 404: Not Found. A more complete example in [1] Found similar troubles with curl or aria2, and as said before nothing without XferCommands. It might seem quite obvious because the files that the downloaders complain about doesn't exist in the mirrors. However, this seems odd to me and after searching the ML and BBS I found nothing about it. [1] http://pastie.org/2713149

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[arch-general] Libreoffice in [testing] older than the [extra] one
by Alex Ferrando 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

I've configured pacman to use [testing] this morning with the intention of trying pacman 4.0 (so far without troubles after reading a few topics on the BBS and ML) but I've noticed something "weird" after the second update, the one after pacman. Libreoffice from testing seems a build behind: testing/libreoffice-common 3.4.3-3 (libreoffice) [installed] common files for LibreOffice - a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites extra/libreoffice-common 3.4.3-4 (libreoffice) [installed: 3.4.3-3] common files for LibreOffice - a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites I've checked with the packages' page and also shows the same. [1] Is this done intentionally or is some kind of mistake? [1] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=libreoffice+&maintainer=&last_up…

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[arch-general] A question about installing Arch
by Christian 16 Oct '11

16 Oct '11

Hi all, I just have a question and I really need to install Arch. Unfortunatly, I only have the 2010-05 release CD here and I am not able to burn the new one. Is it correct that it will not be able to download the system and install it? If not, are there any other ways for me to get this installed? Many thanks for any help, Christian

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[arch-general] [signoff] kbd-1.15.3-2
by Tobias Powalowski 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

Hi, added fix for colemak keyboard layout, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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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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