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[arch-general] Old "news"
by jesse jaara 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Did anyone else revice some old maiöing list messages i got few about xorg1.8 miving to extra and announment if 2010.5 install meedia and some others

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[arch-general] 2.6.35.5-1 Fails To Boot: ERROR 24: Attempt to access block outside partition??
by David C. Rankin 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Uh Oh... Just updated and 2.6.35.5-1 fails to boot. It fails at the very start of boot. The screen output is: kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap5 ro vga=0x31a [Linux-bzImage setup=0x3200, size=0x20ac50] Error 24: Attempt to access bloack outside partition Press any key to continue... This is on my test server and looks like the same/similar issue to bug FS#20499. I don't know what Error 24 is, but I suspect it has something to do with the dmraid setup and not being able to find the partitions. The update complete perfectly: :: Retrieving packages from core... grep-2.7-1-x86_64 158.0K 204.0K/s 00:00:01 [#####################################] 100% kernel26-2.6.35.5-1-x86_64 23.5M 507.3K/s 00:00:47 [#####################################] 100% kernel26-headers-2.6.35.5-1-x86_64 3.9M 482.3K/s 00:00:08 [#####################################] 100% kernel26-manpages-2.6.35.5-1-x86_64 2036.9K 466.8K/s 00:00:04 [#####################################] 100% libldap-2.4.23-1-x86_64 357.3K 313.7K/s 00:00:01 [#####################################] 100% mlocate-0.23.1-1-x86_64 74.8K 154.2K/s 00:00:00 [#####################################] 100% :: Retrieving packages from extra... openldap-2.4.23-1-x86_64 797.3K 389.9K/s 00:00:02 [#####################################] 100% checking package integrity... (7/7) checking for file conflicts [#####################################] 100% (1/7) upgrading grep [#####################################] 100% (2/7) upgrading kernel26 [#####################################] 100% >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ... >>> MKINITCPIO SETUP >>> ---------------- >>> If you use LVM2, Encrypted root or software RAID, >>> Ensure you enable support in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf . >>> More information about mkinitcpio setup can be found here: >>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait... ==> Building image "default" ==> Running command: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/kernel26.img :: Begin build :: Parsing hook [base] :: Parsing hook [udev] :: Parsing hook [autodetect] :: Parsing hook [pata] :: Parsing hook [scsi] :: Parsing hook [sata] :: Parsing hook [dmraid] :: Parsing hook [filesystems] :: Generating module dependencies :: Generating image '/boot/kernel26.img'...SUCCESS ==> SUCCESS ==> Building image "fallback" ==> Running command: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/kernel26-fallback.img -S autodetect :: Begin build :: Parsing hook [base] :: Parsing hook [udev] :: Parsing hook [pata] :: Parsing hook [scsi] :: Parsing hook [sata] :: Parsing hook [dmraid] :: Parsing hook [filesystems] :: Generating module dependencies :: Generating image '/boot/kernel26-fallback.img'...SUCCESS ==> SUCCESS (3/7) upgrading kernel26-headers [#####################################] 100% (4/7) upgrading kernel26-manpages [#####################################] 100% (5/7) upgrading libldap [#####################################] 100% (6/7) upgrading mlocate [#####################################] 100% (7/7) upgrading openldap [#####################################] 100% So what to try, what to check? 2.6.35.4-1 worked perfectly, so whatever changed for 2.6.35.5-1 is the issue. Let me know what else you need. This box hardware info is: The server is based on a MSI K9N2 board (MS-7374) with a Phenom 9850 proc & 8G of ram. The box has 2 dmraid arrays: [22:00 ecstasy:/mnt/arch] # dmraid -r /dev/sdd: nvidia, "nvidia_baaccaja", mirror, ok, 1465149166 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sdc: nvidia, "nvidia_fdaacfde", mirror, ok, 976773166 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sdb: nvidia, "nvidia_baaccaja", mirror, ok, 1465149166 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sda: nvidia, "nvidia_fdaacfde", mirror, ok, 976773166 sectors, data@ 0 [22:00 ecstasy:/mnt/arch] # dmraid -s *** Active Set name : nvidia_baaccaja size : 1465149056 stride : 128 type : mirror status : ok subsets: 0 devs : 2 spares : 0 *** Active Set name : nvidia_fdaacfde size : 976773120 stride : 128 type : mirror status : ok subsets: 0 devs : 2 spares : 0 The lspci information for the soft-raid controller is: 00:09.0 RAID bus controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SATA Controller (RAID mode) (rev a2) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7374 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28 I/O ports at b080 [size=8] I/O ports at b000 [size=4] I/O ports at ac00 [size=8] I/O ports at a880 [size=4] I/O ports at a800 [size=16] Memory at f9e76000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [8c] SATA HBA v1.0 Capabilities: [b0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [ec] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+ Kernel driver in use: ahci Kernel modules: ahci Let me know what else to send. I'll also open a bug with this info... -- 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] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.22-1
by Tobias Powalowski 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for 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] speeding up udev (from wiki)
by Matthew Monaco 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Are a lot of you using (or not using) the suggestions from the "Speeding up Udev" article? I just tried it by replacing all occurrences of load-modules.sh in /etc/udev/rules.d/*.rules and /lib/udev/rules.d/*.rules with modprobe itself, and implemented blacklisting by adding install MODNAME /bin/false to modprobe.conf. This has sped up boot for me considerably. Has anyone had a bad experience with this method?

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[arch-general] Any special reason for /etc/shadow.pacnew, or just normal pacman behavior.
by David C. Rankin 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Guys, I always diff any new .pacnew files when they are created during an update. Today I got /etc/shadow.pacnew which was a little surprising given that replacing shadow would be bad. The diff showed that the .pacnew entries were already in shadow (except for the root password of course) So this is just normal expected behavior by pacman right? shadow was there, pacman new it, so the new file was just installed as .pacnew. Anything else there I need to look at? Thanks. -- 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] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.5-1
by Tobias Powalowski 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for 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] Repo Structure - Pool Dir
by Matthew Gyurgyik 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Hello. Currently I see that there are some packages in /archlinux/extra/os/i686/ and some symlinks to ../../../pool/packages/. I was hoping a dev would be able to answer the following the questions? Eventually, will all packages (from core/extra/community) end up in pool? Repos like multilib, gnome-unstable, kde-unstable will not end up, right? Thanks, ~pyther

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[arch-general] New pacman features: +package(), -return 1
by Vitaliy Berdinskikh 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Hi! Where can I read about new features? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD - nothing http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman - nothing -- Виталий Бердинских UR6LAD 73 & 72!

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[arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki
by Fess 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Page "Local mirros" was removed from wiki by this reason: ----- It is generally frowned upon to create a local mirror due the bandwidth that is required. There is not a good reason to create a local mirror, since one of the alternatives below will likely meet your needs. ----- I think it's very useful ability, and why this page was removed... i don't know. It's silly. If anyone else think it must be return - maybe we should do it? P.S. A lot of guys agreed with me this morning, so i think many people want this article back. --

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[arch-general] [PATCH] rc.sysinit: Get rid of grep
by Kurt J. Bosch 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

In my opinion there is no need to use grep in rc.sysinit. From 30b0a63ab9cbc93f79876e2ca7b2526d00ef6107 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kurt J. Bosch <kjb-temp-2009(a)alpenjodel.de> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:31:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] rc.sysinit: Get rid of grep --- rc.sysinit | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit index 09d5e97..5b9864e 100755 --- a/rc.sysinit +++ b/rc.sysinit @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ run_hook sysinit_start /bin/mountpoint -q /sys || /bin/mount -n -t sysfs none /sys if ! /bin/mountpoint -q /dev; then - if grep -q devtmpfs /proc/filesystems 2>/dev/null; then + if [[ $( </proc/filesystems ) == *devtmpfs* ]]; then /bin/mount -n -t devtmpfs udev /dev -o mode=0755,size=10M,nosuid else /bin/mount -n -t tmpfs udev /dev -o mode=0755,size=10M,nosuid @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ fi # anything more serious than KERN_WARNING goes to the console # 'verbose' cmdline parameter enables more messages -if /bin/grep -q " verbose" /proc/cmdline; then +if [[ $( </proc/cmdline ) == *" verbose"* ]]; then /bin/dmesg -n 8 else /bin/dmesg -n 3 @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ run_hook sysinit_udevsettled status "Bringing up loopback interface" /sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up # If necessary, find md devices and manually assemble RAID arrays -if [[ -f /etc/mdadm.conf ]] && /bin/grep -q ^ARRAY /etc/mdadm.conf; then +if [[ -f /etc/mdadm.conf && $( </etc/mdadm.conf ) =~ .*^ARRAY ]]; then status "Activating RAID arrays" /sbin/mdadm --assemble --scan fi -- 1.7.0.3

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