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[arch-general] New cron hourly messages as of 8/1 - Usage: /usr/sbin/run-cron crondir ??
by David C. Rankin 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Guys, Beginning 8/1 at 01:59, I began getting emails regarding "cron for user root job sys-hourly" that contain: Usage: /usr/sbin/run-cron crondir Looking at the logs, I haven't had any cron updates since: [2011-05-04 14:34] upgraded dcron (4.4-2 -> 4.5-2) The cron log shows the system is just mailing the hourly output like it should: Aug 1 23:06:01 phoenix crond[797]: FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root PID 24811 job sys-hourly Aug 1 23:06:01 phoenix crond[797]: exit status 1 from user root job sys-hourly Aug 1 23:06:01 phoenix crond[24812]: mailing cron output for user root job sys-hourly But for some reason it is now telling me that it gets an exit status of 1 from the fetchmail script that calls spamassassin (which is normal): "fetchmail: normal termination, status 1" Which I confirmed with: 09:34 phoenix:~> spam-cron 09:39 phoenix:~> echo $? 1 The script is a very minimal fetchmail script: #!/bin/bash ## Retrieve and Process Spam & Ham from 'spam-learn' & 'spam-unlearn' folders /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -s -n --folder spam-learn -m '/usr/bin/vendor_perl/sa-learn --spam' &>/dev/null sleep 2 /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -s -n --folder spam-unlearn -m '/usr/bin/vendor_perl/sa-learn --ham' &>/dev/null I didn't make any changes to cron or the fetchmail script to generate the hourly message. The script still runs exactly like it always has, but now I'm getting messages from cron each hour. Anybody know what changed to cause this or how to stop the hourly notifications? The only thing in the pacman.log that looks possibly relevant is: [2011-08-01 22:32] warning: /etc/rc.conf installed as /etc/rc.conf.pacnew [2011-08-01 22:32] VERBOSE= in rc.conf no longer has any effect. [2011-08-01 22:32] Please append 'quiet' to your kernel command line. but I have appended quite to the kernel line in menu.lst, and that hasn't solved it. What say the gurus? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] mpop & msmtp
by Bastien Dejean 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Hello, Why is there an official arch pkg for msmtp but not for mpop? -- Bastien

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Re: [arch-general] recording video with ffmpeg
by Buce 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:24 PM, 清显 <bfsc.yb(a)gmail.com> wrote: > it's working well for normal uses, just want to ask is there any way > to record the sound of the microphone as well as the sound that the computer > is playing at the same time? > thanks a lot. > ps: i'm using alsa as my sound system. > > I stumbled across this link a few months back. Never did anything with it, didn't even test it, but saved it for future reference. Maybe it will help. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=554d2eb653caed029802217ffa97e849&t… Looks like it uses pulseaudio, but read through the entire discussion, I think a few people offered alternate implementations towards the end. Don't recall if they were specifically alsa.

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[arch-general] extra/libkipi conflicts with Trinity libkipi - How? (one is in /usr one in /opt/kde)
by David C. Rankin 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Guys, The kde4 updates today conflict with Trinity libkipi. I can't figure out why? :: libkipi and kdemod3-libkipi are in conflict. Remove kdemod3-libkipi? [y/N] error: unresolvable package conflicts detected Trinity 3.5.12 installs libkipi in /opt/kde, while KDE4 (ABS-extra/libkipi) installs in /usr -- so why is pacman throwing a conflict? 15:03 providence:~> pmql kdemod3-libkipi /opt/ /opt/kde/ /opt/kde/include/ /opt/kde/include/libkipi/ /opt/kde/include/libkipi/batchprogressdialog.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imagecollection.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imagecollectionselector.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imagecollectionshared.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imagedialog.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imageinfo.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imageinfoshared.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/interface.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/libkipi_export.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/plugin.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/pluginloader.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/uploadwidget.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/version.h /opt/kde/lib/ /opt/kde/lib/libkipi.la /opt/kde/lib/libkipi.so /opt/kde/lib/libkipi.so.0 /opt/kde/lib/libkipi.so.0.1.1 /opt/kde/lib/pkgconfig/ <snip> [15:11 providence:/home/david/tmp/libkipi] # cat PKGBUILD # $Id: PKGBUILD 132586 2011-07-25 00:13:06Z andrea $ # Maintainer: Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org> pkgname=libkipi pkgver=4.7.0 <snip> build() { cd "${srcdir}" mkdir build cd build cmake ../${pkgname}-${pkgver} \ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr make } [15:11 providence:/home/david/tmp/libkipi] # cat libkipi.install post_install() { xdg-icon-resource forceupdate --theme hicolor &> /dev/null } <snip> Anybody see where the conflict could be? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] blacklisting issue, perhaps initscripts or kernel 3.0 related
by Heiko Baums 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Am Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:30:27 +0200 schrieb Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalowski(a)googlemail.com>: > In the past people had more than one soundcard in the pc, the problem > by autoloading modules with udev, could change the order of this > sounddevices. This is not that much a problem anymore, modern systems > mostly have only one soundcard installed. At least regarding soundcards this is not true. Also loading the soundcard modules by using the MODULES array can lead to different orders. The only way of having them loaded in a specific order is to using the index parameter in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf. I don't know how it is for other modules like network cards. There are several modules which don't have an index parameter. Heiko

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Re: [arch-general] iniitcpio root device check [SOLVED]
by Dwight Schauer 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Dave Reisner <d(a)falconindy.com> wrote: >>Ok, I renamed "9p_mount_handler" to "ninep_mount_handler" and updated >>mount_handler= accordingly, and rebuild the initcpio images. >> >>Still no joy... :) >> >>I went so far as to rename 9p to ninep in >>/lib/initcpio/{install,hooks} and the HOOKS string, and rebuilt the >>initcpio images, but that did not help. >> >>Dwight > > Let's try this one more time. You're missing a pointer to your install > script. Part of the build function needs: > SCRIPT=ninep > > or whatever you're calling it... > > d > That did it! Thanks. Now I can start the session automatically without intervention. Dwight

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[arch-general] iniitcpio root device check
by Dwight Schauer 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

I have an arch linux install running in qemu using a 9p virtual root filesystem (root filesystem is just a sub directory on the host). This is the line I use to launch it: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -virtfs local,path=$(pwd)/wn-root,security_model=mapped,mount_tag=wn-root -smp 2 -m 1024 -kernel ./wn-root/boot/vmlinuz26 -append 'rootfstype=9p rootflags="trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L" root=wn-root ro rootdelay=10' --initrd ./wn-root/boot/kernel26-fallback.img -net vde -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=52:54:00:00:EE:03 Immediately after "::Running Hook [resume]" though I get: Root device 'wn-root' does'nt exist. Attempting to create it. ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device 'wn-root'. At that point I'm dropped into the recovery shell, I exit that, it complains, but continues to boot fine as it the existence in /dev/ of a 9p filesystem source is not needed. I did not find anything in mkinitcpio.conf to disable this check, which in this case is not needed, as the root filesystem is mounted without any problem. Using 9p for a kvm root filesystem is useful for cases where something like Linux containers (LXC) is not sufficient to accomplish some task. For the most part this is working fine, still have some 9p filesystem oddities to work through. For instance, syslog-ng won't start and using makepkg on some packages results in "cat: -: No such file or directory" (that error does not occur when that arch install is chrooted into and build run from inside the chroot). The 9p issues are not relevant to the initcpio workaround I'm looking for though. Dwight

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[arch-general] [signoff] netcfg 2.6.6-1
by Rémy Oudompheng 30 Jul '11

30 Jul '11

Hello, I have prepared the netcfg 2.6.6 release. I have let go the previous signoff thread because of several outstanding issues, which I think are now resolved. NEWS except ----------- version 2.6.6 - fix wrong rc scripts names in suspend hook (FS#20330) - fix wireless failure when using wpa-config and a custom ctrl_interface path (FS#24949) - bash-completion: add -r to option list (FS#25188) Regards, Rémy.

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[arch-general] 2011.07-3 archboot "2k11-R4" ISO hybrid image released
by Tobias Powalowski 30 Jul '11

30 Jul '11

Hi Arch community, Arch Linux (archboot creation tool) 2011.07-2, "2k11-R4" has been released. To avoid confusion, this is not an official arch linux iso release! Homepage and for more information on archboot: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archboot Forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=123412 Summary: - bump to latest kernels, plain bugfix release. Hybrid image file and torrent is provided, which include i686 and x86_64 core repository. Please check md5sum before using it. Hybrid image file is a standard CD-burnable image and also a raw disk image. - Can be burned to CD(RW) media using most CD-burning utilities. - Can be raw-written to a drive using 'dd' or similar utilities. This method is intended for use with USB thumb drives. Please get it from your favorite arch linux mirror: - https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/archboot/2011.07/ - <yourmirror>/iso/archboot/2011.06/ Have fun, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] virtual memory exhausted
by Jorge Almeida 30 Jul '11

30 Jul '11

I'm not sure this is an Arch issue, but I can't figure out what else can be. I'm trying to compile non-Arch stuff in an arch host. I tried Binutils (of LFS) and Buildroot (of uclibc). Both failed with the "virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory" error. The computer is a one-user workstation, which wasn't doing anything else worth mentioning... I tried both as root and as common user, same problem... # pacman -Q gcc gcc 4.6.1-2 # cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 2056484 kB MemFree: 1356260 kB Buffers: 74324 kB Cached: 551824 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 148888 kB Inactive: 506268 kB Active(anon): 10624 kB Inactive(anon): 5716 kB Active(file): 138264 kB Inactive(file): 500552 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB HighTotal: 1178888 kB HighFree: 593112 kB LowTotal: 877596 kB LowFree: 763148 kB SwapTotal: 996024 kB SwapFree: 996024 kBDirty: 84 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 10592 kB Mapped: 5868 kB Shmem: 5748 kB Slab: 31360 kB SReclaimable: 25156 kB SUnreclaim: 6204 kB KernelStack: 1112 kB PageTables: 1476 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 2024264 kB Committed_AS: 61648 kB VmallocTotal: 122880 kB VmallocUsed: 14672 kB VmallocChunk: 80164 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 4096 kB DirectMap4k: 20472 kB DirectMap4M: 888832 kB # ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) 58593 scheduling priority (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 16046 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 58593 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 16046 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) 58593 file locks (-x) unlimited Maybe there is some arch-specific configuring to do? I have no idea whether these limit parameters require tweaking... TIA Jorge Almeida

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