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[arch-general] Anything to manage user daemons?
by XeCycle 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

Hello. I need to start several programs after login and after startx. Now I write these directly in my .bash_profile and .xinitrc; but I'm not satisfied with this. They cannot be easily stopped after logout. To do that I think I'd record their PID and kill them in .bash_logout, also need to take care when they're manually stopped, and all these related problems. So I think a set of scripts like the daemon managing from initscripts will be nice. But I can't write /etc/rc.d daemons, as they must be executed by a normal user. Has anyone written such a tool? Thank you. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591 Facebook: Carl Lei Twitter: XeCycle Blog: http://xecycle.blogspot.com Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:04:17 +0800

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[arch-general] Systemd! [WAS: arch-dev-public] Welcoming Dave Reisner to the dev staff
by Oon-Ee Ng 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Please welcome Dave to our development team. He has been a frequent > contributor (and reviewer of patches!) to Pacman, has been a TU for a > little bit, and has taken initiative on a lot of > initscripts/mkinitcpio/systemd type stuff. I think I've given him all > the right permissions and such, and signed him up for the relevant > mailing lists. > > -Dan > Systemd to come? =)

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[arch-general] 2011.06-1 archboot "2k11-R3" ISO hybrid image released
by Tobias Powalowski 21 Jun '11

21 Jun '11

Hi Arch community, Arch Linux (archboot creation tool) 2011.06-1, "2k11-R3" 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=121338 Summary: - bump to latest kernels and introduce pacman 3.5.3 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/2011.06/ - <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] Anybody else have problems with the new Nvidia drivers (275.09.07-1)
by Pico Geyer 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Hi all, As the title of this email suggests I'm having trouble with the new Nvidia driver. I've attached my Xorg log, as I'm sure that there are a log of people who understand the ouput better than I do. I've had to revert to the previous driver (270.41.19-3) to get my system up and running again. What seems odd to me from the log is that it doesn't even try to load the nvidia driver. I'm using Xorg without any explicit configuration. My card is a GeForce 210 and I'm running a 32 bit arch. Did I forget something? Anybody have any suggestions? Regards, Pico

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[arch-general] [netcfg] Getting rid of wireless_tools
by Rémy Oudompheng 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Hello, wpa_supplicant is supposed to provide most of the wireless_tools functionality. I have set up a branch of netcfg that replaces all uses of wireless_tools by wpa_supplicant. http://projects.archlinux.org/users/remy/netcfg.git/log/?h=no-iwconfig iwconfig is still used by the deprecated IWCONFIG option, but there is still one thing I don't really understand. In src/connections/wireless, there is block that calls "iwconfig mode Managed" before starting wpa_supplicant. The log is not really explicit about why this was added (it merely says it was necessary for iwl3945), and wpa_supplicant man page only says it's necessary for the hostap driver, which we do not use. Does anybody knows the reason why it is needed? Rémy.

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[arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release
by Rémy Oudompheng 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Hello, netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. The following features has been added since the last release: - add support for IPv6 configuration (FS#18699) - add support for static routes configuration (FS#18700) - add support for creating tun/tap interfaces (FS#15049) - add configuration file /etc/conf.d/netcfg for net-auto-wireless - add support for restricting automatic startup of profiles (FS#23169) - bridge: add support for several brctl options (FS#16625) - wireless: add support for explicit BSSID (FS#24582) - wireless: add support for ad-hoc connections (FS#19683) - wireless: no longer require wireless_tools to work - use /run instead of /var/run - drops hard dependency on net-tools package - drops hard dependency on wireless_tools package Most importantly: - netcfg no longer puts no files in /run (dhcpcd still puts files there) - netcfg only depends on iproute2 and dhcpcd : wpa_supplicant is optional (required for wireless), wpa_actiond, ifplugd are required for net-auto* scripts - net-tools, wireless_tools are needed if you use legacy options IFOPTS and IWCONFIG, but this is strongly discouraged - /etc/conf.d/netcfg is a new configuration file, currently only used by net-auto-wireless: it is used to configure the name of the wireless interface you want to use (also possible in /etc/rc.conf, but discouraged), and to configure a list of preferred networks you want wpa_actiond to manage (FS#23169) - IPv6 is supported: no address configuration (even auto-configuration) will be done unless you say IP6=something in your profile. See the examples to see how it works - dhclient is needed if you want to support DHCPv6: this is expected to be an uncommon case, since auto-configuration exists. - netcfg can create tun/tap interfaces: it currently does not do anything with these (FS#15049) Regards, -- Rémy.

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[arch-general] weird problem
by Madhurya Kakati 19 Jun '11

19 Jun '11

I am having this weird problem. Whenever I run pacman -Syu or pacman -Su it asks me to replace lib32-libgl with lib32-catalyst-utils. [papul@papuldesktop chromium]$ sudo pacman -Su :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace lib32-libgl with catalyst/lib32-catalyst-utils? [Y/n] y resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: catalyst-utils and libgl are in conflict. Remove libgl? [y/N] y error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: ati-dri: requires libgl=7.10.3 However I don't want lib32-catalyst. What do I have to do to make this disappear?

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[arch-general] What happened to mousepad and xfprint?
by Heiko Baums 19 Jun '11

19 Jun '11

I just wanted to do a system update and saw that mousepad, Xfce's text editor, and xfprint, Xfce's print dialog and printer manager, have been removed from [extra] and aren't moved to any other repo or AUR. Both tools belong to Xfce which is in [extra]. What happened to these packages? Heiko

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[arch-general] Bug Day
by Jelle van der Waa 19 Jun '11

19 Jun '11

Dear TU's,Devs,participants, Thanks for joining us yesterday on bug day. There are 76 bugs closed for archlinux and 6 for community! -- Jelle van der Waa

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[arch-general] linphone breaks after mediastreamer update
by Abd0 19 Jun '11

19 Jun '11

hello dear archlinux friends yesterday after an update linphone give me this error linphone: error while loading shared libraries: libmediastreamer.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 i didnt find any topic about it what can i do for it? Best Regards, abdo

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