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[arch-general] "whitebox" on bootup after KMS kicks in
by C Anthony Risinger 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

does anyone else experience <title>? i've been getting this for sometime -- on intel, nouveau, and radeon KMS drivers -- and it looks terrible. after the module loads within initramfs, the space *within* the old resolution is pure white, surrounded by normal black. i'm pretty sure the "whitebox" corresponds to the size of the previous resolution because it's different sizes on all my machines, and pretty small on my 1920x1280 laptop (@ 15.5in ... awesome :-) anyways, long story short it turns back 2 black when written over (systemd/initscripts output) or cleared, so: echo -en '\e[H\e[2J' ... takes care of it. i basically just did a `clear > out`, looked at the codes, and made a small initramfs hook from the above. it works fine as is, but is anyone else seeing this? it annoys me because i don't run getty on tty1, so it's there forever unless i clear right away. not really a big deal, as it took longer to write this msg than fix it, but it started happening a few kernels ago IIRC and i'm wondering if we can just throw something like this into mkinitcpio (if `quiet`, or before output), because it looks terrible :-( i'll open a report unless someone feels like throwing it in there, it's a pretty simple change. -- C Anthony

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[arch-general] Salt update to 0.8.8
by Thomas S Hatch 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

I have not mentioned this here for a while, but I am a big fan of seeing what the Arch community is developing, and in the past I have gotten some real interest from the Arch community on this front. I just released Salt 0.8.8, salt is an application used for very fast remote management of systems via zeromq. Salt allows you to manage large groups of servers from a master server with simple commands, and salt also contains functionality for configuration management. Salt is meant to fill the roles of applications like puppet, mcollective, func, cgengine, fabric, Capistrano and many others. The release announcement is here: http://red45.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/salt-0-8-8/ Arch package is here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47512 Video explaining how to use Salt and what it is in detail is here: http://blip.tv/thomas-s-hatch/salt-0-8-7-presentation-5180182 And the (under heavy development) website and docs are here: http://thatch45.github.com/salt-www/ Salt is developed on Arch, but is made to run on any Linux/BSD Let me know what you all think! -Thomas S Hatch

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.06.1-1
by Leandro Inacio 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 09:38, Tom Gundersen <teg(a)jklm.no> wrote: > Hi guys, > > A new initscripts package is in testing. > > Please test and signoff. > > Big changes: > > 1) We gain support for iproute2, and net-tools is now optional (thanks > to Dave Reisner). If you don't update your rc.conf, everything should > work as before (using net-tools), pleas shout if it does not. > > 2) MOD_AUTOLOAD is deprecated (always leave it set to "yes") > > 3) blacklisting modules in the MODULES array is no longer supported, > use modprobe's native blacklisting instead (see 'man modprobe.conf'). > An announcement will be made about this before moving to core. > Since you are removing many of the references of modules in rc.conf (like blacklist and MOD_AUTOLOAD), why do not you remove MODULES array and leaves everything to modprobe.conf do this tasks?

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[arch-general] PCSX2 for Archlinux thread
by rafael ff1 31 May '11

31 May '11

Hi all! Just to let you know that there is a sticky thread in PCSX2 forum specifically for Archlinux users. The intention is to put issues, patches and other things in the same thread, which might make easier for arch users have their answer or to contribute. Y'all are welcome! http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-PCSX2-for-Archlinux Cheers, Rafael

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[arch-general] Can't create /tmp/.X11-unix and /tmp/.ICE-unix while booting
by Myra Nelson 30 May '11

30 May '11

Just before I do something stupid, I thought I would ask about these apparent errors. Mon May 30 11:49:39 2011: ^[[1;34;40m:: ^[[1;37;40mRemoving Leftover Files^[[1;0m ^[[s^[[151G ^[[1;34;40m[^[[0;36;40mBUSY^[[1;34;40m]^[[1;0m /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/tmp/.X11-unix': File exists Mon May 30 11:49:40 2011: /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/tmp/.ICE-unix': File exists My boot log goes back to 12 May 2011 so that's the earliest I can verify this data. I've search flyspray for any bug reports about this and didn't find any. Should these two files be deleted on shutdown or should they not be created on boot? If they should be deleted, where is the error? Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] Emacs doesn't recognize XIM
by XeCycle 30 May '11

30 May '11

Sorry if you had already read about this question on the BBS, but I didn't get any response there. I have only ibus installed. Packages updated from the last day it was fine working to the day I found the problem are: file (5.06-1 -> 5.07-1) usbutils (002-2 -> 002-3) util-linux (2.19-4 -> 2.19.1-1) catalyst-utils (11.5-1 -> 11.5-2) kernel26-headers (2.6.38.6-1 -> 2.6.38.6-2) kernel26 (2.6.38.6-1 -> 2.6.38.6-2) linux-firmware (20110227-1 -> 20110512-2) gnutls (2.12.4-1 -> 2.12.5-1) udev (167-2 -> 168-1) initscripts (2011.04.1-2 -> 2011.05.2-1) binutils (2.21-7 -> 2.21-8) gcc (4.6.0-4 -> 4.6.0-5) gcc-libs (4.6.0-4 -> 4.6.0-5) gmp (5.0.1-2 -> 5.0.2-1) gstreamer0.10 (0.10.32-1 -> 0.10.34-1) gstreamer0.10-base (0.10.32-4 -> 0.10.34-1) kbd (1.15.2-1 -> 1.15.3-1) poppler (0.16.4-1 -> 0.16.5-1) poppler-glib (0.16.4-1 -> 0.16.5-1) util-linux (2.19.1-1 -> 2.19.1-2) Anyone can tell me what's wrong? -- 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 Fri, 27 May 2011 17:23:15 +0800

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[arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'
by Bernardo Barros 30 May '11

30 May '11

Hi there, There are rumors that the next version number of the Linux Kernel is going to be 3.0. Since we choosed 'kernel26' as the package name, we will have to modify it anyway. Why not just 'linux 3.0'? Just an idea.. since we have the fellow project 'Arch Hurd' providing 'hurd' as an alternative different kernel already. Best, Bernardo

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] removing load-modules.sh from udev
by Oon-Ee Ng 29 May '11

29 May '11

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg(a)jklm.no> wrote: <snip> > rc.conf - MODULES(!mod1, !mod2): blacklisting modules in the modules > array will no longer have any effect. modprobe already provides two > different ways of preventing modules from being loaded, so this is > just a matter of updating some configuration files. To blacklist > modules, add a new .conf file to /etc/modprobe.d/ with the contents > > blacklist mod1 > blacklist mod2 <snip> This seems a regression of current rc.conf behaviour (in essence, moves another configuration back to upstream default which was previously in rc.conf). Is there any good reason to keep current behaviour (perhaps an Arch-specific udev rule which parses MODULES for blacklisting?) Just something I noticed when reading the mail, I don't really see a problem with doing things the upstream way.

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[arch-general] After kdelibs and workspace last package updates KDE is not working properly.
by Álvaro Villalba Navarro 29 May '11

29 May '11

Hi list, I upgraded kdelibs, kdeworkspace, kdeedu and networkmanagement plasmoid yesterday (except for the last one, it was just a package upgrade) and after that the kde cookies service is not working anymore (neither for konqueror nor for rekonq). System tray now has the old colorful icons, instead of the 4.6 white and minimalist ones (that's not an really an issue, it's just weird), and everytime I try to enable the networkmanagement plasmoid the whole plasma crashes and reboots without the plasmoid enabled. I've noticed more weird things in its behaviour, but I don't remember it now, so if it happens again I'll say it here. Has anybody the same problem? Does anybody know what this package upgrade was supposed to do? -- Álvaro Villalba Navarro

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Re: [arch-general] "whitebox" on bootup after KMS kicks in
by kevku 29 May '11

29 May '11

Same here with syslinux vesamenu, intel gma965.

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