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[arch-general] [pam/consolekit] Help needed for desktop permission handling
by Andreas Radke 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

While packaging Xfce 4.7 I had to find a way to allow the desktop user to shutdown/reboot(consolekit), hibernate/suspend(upower),mounte removable devices(udisks). Recent display managers (gdm, kdm and lxdm) can handle their own polkit/consolekit session through pam access. The gnome/xfce4-session packages only have basic access to consolekit and since the consolekit 0.4.2 in testing they can't deal with it anymore. As a workaround I have plans to ship files in xfce4-session as proto files where the admin can add users or groups to allow certain actions: /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.upower.pkla and /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.consolekit.pkla and maybe one for udisk something like https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42669 . This could also be done each in the consolekit/upower/udisks packages. But all this is crap working around some nasty bugs in our pam pkg not allowing direct access to consolekit. Please have a look at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17188 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21391 Pam has an update pending (also fixing security related issues) and quiet a lot open bugs: https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=pam&project=1&search_name=&type… So please someone with time and knowledge may have look (Tobias P. doesn't seem to have the time for this). If we can't menage to fix this until the Xfce release I'd like to know what you think could be a good and safe workaround (recommending power/storage groups?). Note: Gentoo seems also running into this pam/consolekit issue. Not sure about Ubuntu and Fedora(that does heavy pam configurations). -Andy

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Re: [arch-general] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.82-1
by Thomas Bächler 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Am 26.01.2011 11:38, schrieb Eric Bélanger: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Jan Spakula <bender02(a)archlinux.us> wrote: >> Excerpts from Eric Bélanger's message of Mi Jan 26 05:16:44 +0100 2011: >>> lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.82-1 are in testing for minor upstream update. >>> Please test and signoff. Users signoffs are welcome. >> >> Hi, I have problems with both 2.02.81 and 2.02.82: >> I have encrypted root (normal partition) + some extra encrypted partitions on >> lvm via crypttab. The ones in crypttab don't unlock, the error message is >> something along the lines of "... /dev/vg/swap doesn't exist or access >> denied" (it gets overwritten immediately, so I don't see the beginning of the >> message). This is right after lvm2 hook is run. >> Then a bit later in the emergency shell, the /dev/vg/* links are already >> there; so perhaps there's some extra delay until the symlinks are created in >> /dev/ with the newer lvm2? This is weird. I think lvm2 is supposed to wait for udev to finish creating all links before returning. Inserting a 'sleep 1' or '/sbin/udevadm settle' in rc.sysinit after the vgchange call should fix this, but it shouldn't be necessary. >> Downgrading to lvm2-2.02.79-1 "fixes" the problem. I took a quick look at >> the lvm2 changelog, but I didn't notice anything unusual... but admittedly I >> don't understand things too well. >> > > Is it related to https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22351 ? > I don't know much about encryption. Better add your experience in the > links above if related or open a new bug report. I don't think there is a relation.

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[arch-general] How to encrypt /home, so it gets mounted during boot
by Karol Babioch 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Hi, I've encrypted my /home partition (which lays on a raid), basically just for the fun of it ;). I'm now encountering a problem, which isn't that easy to solve as it seems to me :(. I've got the following setup: /dev/sda1 -> /boot /dev/sda2 -> encryption -> lvm -> / /dev/sdb1 -> encryption -> lvm -> /home Now I want to get /home mounted during the bootup. However I have the following order of hooks, which works fine for my root partition: "[...] encrypt lvm2 resume filesystems" Now, while the root lv gets mounted, the initscripts then tries to mount anything within /etc/fstab, but here lies the problem, because the lvm2 hook hasn't unlocked /dev/sdb1, because it is encrypted, and gets unencrypted only afterwards (/etc/crypttab). So what is the procedure here? Is there any easy workaround? How do you solve these issues? Best regards, Karol Babioch

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 75, Issue 85
by Frederic Bezies 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

On 30/01/2011 08:58, arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org wrote: > Send arch-general mailing list submissions to > arch-general(a)archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > arch-general-owner(a)archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of arch-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Cannot install grub2 update from testing repo. (fredbezies) > 2. Re: Cannot install grub2 update from testing repo. (Allan McRae) > 3. Re: New GRUB2 packages - any comments ? (Kirill Churin) > 4. [signoff] kernel26-2.6.37-5 (Tobias Powalowski) > 5. Re: [signoff] kernel26-2.6.37-5 (Sergey Manucharian) > 6. Re: wiki page for Building Trinity on Arch - You want it here > or on the trinity site? (David C. Rankin) > 7. Re: wiki page for Building Trinity on Arch - You want it here > or on the trinity site? (Thomas Dziedzic) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 08:30:04 +0100 > From: fredbezies<fredbezies(a)gmail.com> > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: [arch-general] Cannot install grub2 update from testing repo. > Message-ID: > <AANLkTikBOepeYHUZDbuM_XSLmJ4-HzemYY_b0oC9uU=V(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I cannot install this update. > > I have this version of grub2 installed : > > [fred@fredo-arch-xfce ~]$ pacman -Qi grub2 > Nom : grub2 > Version : 1.98-5 > > And when I try a pacman -Syu, here is the error message I get : > > [fred@fredo-arch-xfce ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu > :: Synchronisation des bases de donn?es de paquets... > testing est ? jour; > core est ? jour; > extra est ? jour; > community-testing 12,0K 146,3K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100% > community 419,9K 921,9K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100% > :: D?but de la mise ? jour compl?te du syst?me... > :: Remplacer grub2 par testing/grub2-bios ? [O/n] o > R?solution des d?pendances... > Recherche des conflits possibles entre paquets... > Erreur: un conflit de paquets impossible ? r?soudre a ?t? d?tect? > Erreur: la pr?paration de la transaction a ?chou? (conflit de d?pendances) > :: grub2-common et grub2-bios sont en conflit (grub2) > > In english : grub2-common and grub2-bios are conflicting. > Indeed. I reported this issue and it is fixed now. -- Frederic Bezies - fredbezies(a)gmail.com Weblog : http://frederic.bezies.free.fr/blog/

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[arch-general] Projectm rebuild
by Jesse Juhani Jaara 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

Projectm seems to need rebuilding as projectm-libvisual-alsa won't work whit the curretn build. When running it will give this: libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_plugin_get_references(): Cannot load plugin: /usr/lib/libprojectM.so.2: undefined symbol: __glewDeleteFramebuffersEXT libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_plugin_load(): assertion `ref != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_plugin_environ_add(): assertion `plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_actor_get_supported_depth(): assertion `actor->plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_actor_get_video_attribute_options(): assertion `actor->plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_actor_realize(): assertion `actor->plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_actor_video_negotiate(): assertion `actor->plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_plugin_get_eventqueue(): assertion `plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_event_queue_add(): assertion `eventqueue != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_event_queue_add(): assertion `eventqueue != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: get_actor_plugin(): assertion `actor->plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_actor_run(): The given actor does not reference any actor plugin libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_plugin_get_eventqueue(): assertion `plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: get_actor_plugin(): assertion `actor->plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_actor_run(): The given actor does not reference any actor plugin libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_plugin_get_eventqueue(): assertion `plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: get_actor_plugin(): assertion `actor->plugin != NULL' failed libvisual CRITICAL: projectM-libvisual-alsa: visual_actor_run(): The given actor does not reference any actor plugin But after recompiling projectm from abns it will work.

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[arch-general] New GRUB2 packages - any comments ?
by KESHAV P.R. 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

Hi all, I (skodabenz) and Ronald Van Haren (pressh) have put together a split PKGBUILD for grub2 including UEFI support (apart from standard BIOS firmware). The first PKGBUILD (all links at the end of this post) builds grub2-common which contains the utilities common for all the platforms/firmware, grub2-bios containing grub2 bios firmware specific modules and grub2-efi-i386 containing grub2 i386 (32-bit) UEFI firmware specific modules. The second PKGBUILD builds grub2-efi-x86_64 containing grub2 x86_64 (64-bit) UEFI firmware specific modules. This is in a separate PKGBUILD as grub2-efi-x86_64 requires an x86_64 build system to compile. The firmware specific packages are dependent on the firmware but independent of linux kernel arch. Therefore they are built as any. If the present problem in the website regarding mixing arch and any packages in a single PKGBUILD is resolved, the PKGBUILDs will be used unmodified. The current grub2 1.98 package will be replaced by grub2-common and grub2-bios 1.99~rc1 . The packages also include modules from grub-extras project (part of upstream but maintained in a separate repo due to legal issues) like lua parser, gPXE modules etc. BTRFS support exists in grub2's experimental bzr branch but the 1.99~rc1 released tarball ( release info at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2011-01/msg00082.html ) does not include btrfs support. However ZFS support is included. For a full Change Log for 1.99 release please go to http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/grub/grub2-bzr/view/3072/NEWS . For those who are using the skodabenz-arch-grub2 repo, please remove it from pacman.conf (repo will not be maintained) and update your grub2 packages with the below ones (pkgver and pkgrel not updated). As usual these packages conflict with both the old grub (grub-legacy) and grub2 1.98 package. Comments are welcome. Regards. Keshav PS: Due to text folding the hyperlinks may not work. In that case copy-paste the links in your browser to download the packages. LINKS :- PKGBUILDs (mostly finished - waiting for comments) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/grub2_sources/grub2-1.99~rc1-1.src.tar.gz http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/grub2_sources/grub2-efi-x86_64-1.99~rc1-1.s… Compiled packages (x86_64 and 'any' only - sorry no i686) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/skodabenz-arch-grub2/grub2-common-1.99~rc1-… http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/skodabenz-arch-grub2/grub2-bios-1.99~rc1-1-… http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/skodabenz-arch-grub2/grub2-efi-i386-1.99~rc… http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/skodabenz-arch-grub2/grub2-efi-x86_64-1.99~… Shell script used to create the tarball snapshots of grub-extras modules (defined in source array) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9710721/grub2_sources/grub2_bzr_export.sh

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[arch-general] Cannot install grub2 update from testing repo.
by fredbezies 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

I cannot install this update. I have this version of grub2 installed : [fred@fredo-arch-xfce ~]$ pacman -Qi grub2 Nom : grub2 Version : 1.98-5 And when I try a pacman -Syu, here is the error message I get : [fred@fredo-arch-xfce ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu :: Synchronisation des bases de données de paquets... testing est à jour; core est à jour; extra est à jour; community-testing 12,0K 146,3K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100% community 419,9K 921,9K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100% :: Début de la mise à jour complète du système... :: Remplacer grub2 par testing/grub2-bios ? [O/n] o Résolution des dépendances... Recherche des conflits possibles entre paquets... Erreur: un conflit de paquets impossible à résoudre a été détecté Erreur: la préparation de la transaction a échoué (conflit de dépendances) :: grub2-common et grub2-bios sont en conflit (grub2) In english : grub2-common and grub2-bios are conflicting. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.37-4
by Tobias Powalowski 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.37 series for both arches. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Features included: - modules are now gzipped, this saves 70MB disk space - added CONFIG_EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED=y - aufs2.1 latest snapshot - added crypto headers - added xen headers greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] pacman-g2?
by Mathias Huber 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Dear Archers, Joey Hess's tool etckeeper <http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/etckeeper/> claims it works with 'pacman-g2'. Does anyone know what kind of pacman version that is? Cheers, Mathias

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[arch-general] PKGBUILD depends - howto specify alternate packages that can satisfy? possible?
by David C. Rankin 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Guys, I am trying to create a PKGBUILD that needs qt3, but I want to make it flexible enough to accept either 'qt3' or 'qt3-enhanced' as a dependency. Can I do that? I looked over https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD and I either missed a way to do it, or I'm just confused. What say the gurus? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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