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[arch-general] Postgresql-docs is Broken
by Steve Holmes 30 Oct '10

30 Oct '10

I just downloaded the latest 9.01 version of postgresql-docs which supposedly should contain the html documentation for postgresql. Alas, the package size is less than 1 K and when installed, a pacman -Qql only reveals some man directories under /usr/share. There are no files present. Is anyone aware of this situation?

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[arch-general] [signoff] hdparm-9.35-1
by Tobias Powalowski 30 Oct '10

30 Oct '10

Hi guys, 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] New nvidia driver - video mode not recognized - remove vga= from kernel line?
by David C. Rankin 30 Oct '10

30 Oct '10

Guys, To add to the nvidia issues, after update to the latest driver (nvidia 260.19.12-1) the machine stops during boot due to (Invalid video mode, press enter to see list....) Pressing enter then lists the available modes. However, when I enter one of the listed modes, it is rejected and I get prompted again with the (Invalid video mode, press enter to see list....). I don't know whether this is a bug, a KMS thing, or what, but I have never had any problems passing vga=0x31a on the kernel line with the nvidia driver before. (I know with ATI, KMS early is recommended, and no vga= on the kernel line) Is anybody else seeing this? Should I just remove the vga= line? After letting the (Invalid video mode, press enter to see list....) prompt time-out, it all continues fine and the nvidia driver loads without issue. What say the experts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] db-5.1 rebuild
by Dave Reisner 30 Oct '10

30 Oct '10

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:27:48AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 30/10/10 05:59, Andreas Radke wrote: > >Am Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:29:54 +1000 > >schrieb "Allan McRae"<allan(a)archlinux.org>: > > > > > >>We only have the various openoffice packages left to go: > >> > >>go-openoffice > >>openoffice-base > >>openoffice-base-beta > >>openoffice-base-devel > >> > >>That is close enough to done that I will move this rebuild from > >>[staging] at the weekend regardless of their status. > >> > >>Allan > >> > > > >Move all to testing and then I'll do the missing rebuilds. LibO will > >probably also need rebuild. > > > > Rebuild is in [testing] now. It appears that libreoffice does not > need a rebuild. > > Allan I wouldn't be too sure about that: $ soffice /usr/lib/ooo-3.3/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libdb-4.8.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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[arch-general] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.75-1
by Eric Bélanger 30 Oct '10

30 Oct '10

Hi, lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.75-1 are now in testing for an upstream update. Please test and signoff. I couldn't test much the i686 package except in a chroot so 2 signoffs for i686 would be nice. Signoff from users are welcome. Eric Version 2.02.75 - 25th October 2010 =================================== Annotate more variables and parameters as const. Fix missing variable initialization in cluster_send() function from cmirrord. Fix pointer for VG name in _pv_resize_single error code path. Fix warning for changed alignment requirements for dmeventd read/write func. Add global/metadata_read_only to use unrepaired metadata in read-only cmds. Don't take write lock in vgchange --refresh, --poll or --monitor. Skip dm devices in scan if they contain only error targets or are empty. Fix strict-aliasing compile warning in partition table scanning. Fix pthread mutex usage deadlock in clvmd. Automatically extend snapshots with dmeventd according to policy in lvm.conf. Add activation/snapshot_autoextend_threshold/percent to lvm.conf. Fix liblvm2cmd link order to support --as-needed. Remove dependency on libm by replacing floor() by an integer-based algorithm. Fix hang when repairing a mirrored-log that had both devs fail. Convey need for snapshot-merge target in lvconvert error message and man page. Add devices/disable_after_error_count config to limit access to failing devs. Give correct error message when creating a too-small snapshot. Implement vgextend --restoremissing to reinstate missing devs that return. Make lvconvert respect --yes and --force when converting an inactive log. Refactor and add 'get' functions for lv properties/fields. Update script for fsadm testing. Better support of noninteractive shell execution of fsadm. Fix usage of --yes flag for ReiserFS resize in fsadm. Fix detection of mounted filesystems for fsadm when udev is used. Fix assignment of default value to LVM variable in fsadm. Fix support for --yes flag for fsadm. Do not execute lvresize from fsadm --dry-run. Fix fsadm return error code from user's break action. Allow CC to be overridden at build time (for 'scan-build make'). Rename 'flags' to 'status' in struct metadata_area. Avoid segfault by limiting partial mode for lvm1 metadata. (2.02.74) Use dm_zalloc and dm_pool_zalloc throughout. Add pv_get_property and create generic internal _get_property function. Add 'get' functions for pv and vg properties/fields. Make generic GET_*_PROPERTY_FN macros with secondary macro for vg, pv & lv. Add tags_format_and_copy() common function and call from _tags_disp. Add id_format_and_copy() common function and call from _uuid_disp. Refactor report.c '*_disp' functions to call supporting functions. Move parts of metadata*.[ch] into new {pv|vg|lv}.[ch] files. Fix vg_read memory leak with directory-based metadata. Fix memory leak of config_tree in reinitialization code path. Fix pool destruction order in dmeventd_lvm2_exit() to avoid leak debug mesg. Read whole /proc/self/maps file before working with maps entries. Speed up unquoting of quoted double quotes and backslashes. Speed up CRC32 calculations by using a larger lookup table. Version 1.02.56 - 25th October 2010 =================================== Return const pointer from dm_basename() in libdevmapper. Implement dmeventd -R to restart without state loss. Add dm_zalloc and use it and dm_pool_zalloc throughout. Add --setuuid to dmsetup rename. Add dm_task_set_newuuid to set uuid of mapped device post-creation.

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[arch-general] New ghostscript segfaults with hylafax?
by David C. Rankin 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Guys, Ghostscript segfaults when sending faxes with hylafax: Oct 29 13:51:12 localhost kernel: gs[9456]: segfault at 8 ip 00000000007b62b0 sp 00007fff67f352a8 error 4 in gs[400000+6be000] This is with: hylafax 6.0.4-1 ghostscript 9.00-1 What do check (any logs other than everything.log?) Any tests you can think of to run? I know very little about the interplay between ghostscript and hylafax other than it either works or it doesn't. So if anybody has any ideas on how to diagnose, I welcome your thoughts. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] ath9k, ar928x, monitor mode
by killall_humans＠lavabit.com 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

If someone have this card - please, test it. On 2.6.36 kernel monitor mode causes kernel panic, on .35 - simply doesn't work properly(channel of mon0 interface == -1). -- WBR && GTFO

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[arch-general] A question about running Proftpd
by Christian 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

Hi all, Have just installed ProfTPD and if I run /etc/rc.d/proftpd start as root it stats just fine. In /etc/proftpd.conf it says to run the server as the group nobody and the user nobody. I am just wondering what system level it's running on? Is the server now running as root or what privilegies does it have to the system? I suppose it is not running as the root user then? Many thanks for any info, Christian

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] glibc-2.12.1-4
by Ng Oon-Ee 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Am 26.10.2010 03:38, schrieb Allan McRae: >> Another day, another glibc... >> >> This adjusts the static linking fix. The one previously used is a more >> correct fix but appears incomplete. I have replaced this by a hack fix >> that Fedora uses. >> >> I will leave this in [testing] a while. My concern is the previous >> patch apparently fixed a bunch of segfault bugs in glibc and I am hoping >> that these do not get reintroduced. >> >> If only upstream made a proper fix for this. Saying upstream is doing >> not much about this bug would imply that they are doing something... > > Thomas not know bug. Computer still boot. Thomas happy. Hurray! Thomas > sign off. > Segfault detected. Happens with bauerbill's AUR component. I'll just pastebin the backtrace. --> Searching for upgradable AUR packages... *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/perl: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x00007fcbc826cf60 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= http://pastebin.com/mgkBjv5q

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[arch-general] Screen goes black after installing latest nvidia driver
by Partha Chowdhury 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

Today I updated my desktop which installed latest nvidia - version 260.19.12. When I tried startx, screen went black and the led of the power button of the monitor kept flashing.After I downgraded the nvidia, everything went allright. To be absolutely sure that it is not caused by anything in my system, i installed arch again on to a new partition and installed the packages. Same results. I searched the bug tracker but found nothing.Is anybody experiencing the same thing ? My system: Vga:VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a1)

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