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[arch-general] Totem leaves dvd mounted after quitting
by David C. Rankin 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

Guys, This may be normal, but I thought we had moved beyond having to manually unmount CD/DVDs after use -- so I have either messed something up or there is a lingering problem. The setup - new i686 install updated through today. I never watch DVDs on the computer, but my son wanted to watch one and his sister had my laptop watching another movie on it, so I set his box up to watch DVDs using totem in gnome. After gathering all the dvdread/nav/etc.. all played just fine on his nvidia 9600 card and the nvidia 256.35-1 module. The problem occurred after I stopped the dvd and then exited totem. When I tried to eject the DVD, it wouldn't -- the drive was still mounted (confirmed with mount). Unmounting the drive fixed the problem, but I was left wondering --> surely we shouldn't be still stuck with manually unmounting DVDs in Gnome?? This being the first DVD I've tried to play, I didn't know, so I thought I would put it out to the community for a quick answer and try to figure out if this was something that needs reporting. Bug? -- 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] Bash Tcp
by Nilesh Govindarajan 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

Hi, After writing my skypechecker bash daemon which restarts skype if it crashes while pidgin is running or closes skype if pidgin crashes, I want to play with bash more, but this time using TCP connections :D But it seems /dev/tcp is not enabled on bash ??? How do I enable that ? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] Kernel panic after installing avr tools
by John Black 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

Maybe someone could help me out. I would like to report a bug but I am not quite sure what happened. I made a parallel port micro controller programmer on Sunday. Since my desktop system does not have a parallel port anymore [noticed this after I was done :( ] I connected the programmer to my server which is/was running a couple month old version of ARCH i686. I proceeded to install these packages: avr-libc avrdude binutils-avr gcc-avr I *think* that (this was late at night) one of the dependencies was new linux-headers but no kernel. I answered all with yes and the installation started. As soon as it was done I could no longer execute commands and my system would only return "Illegal instruction". I restarted using the reset switch and was greeted by a kernel panic. All options on the grub boot menu will result in a kernel panic. I tried to follow this guide http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Panics but when I want to chroot I get "Illegal instruction". The file system is mountable and everything appears to be fine. I searched around a bit and it appears that this sort of thing happens when you use an i686 kernel with a i386 computer but this system used to run fine. I was about to reload this machine but maybe someone could help me figure out what happened exactly so that this can be prevented in the future? Here are the machine specs: OS: Arch i686 (2-3 months old) Mainboard: VIA EPIA-M (I think this has a 1GHz CPU) RAM: 1GB Storage: LVM 2x 250GB special configuration: grub2, /boot on LVM installed: apache2, php5, mysql, samba, sshd Any takers :) ? -- John Wo Unrecht zu Recht wird, wird Widerstand zur Pflicht. [Bertolt Brecht]

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[arch-general] perl help missing DateTime::Format::ISO8601
by Ionuț Bîru 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

Hi guys, i was working on updating mythtv and i have a problem finding the proper perl package. I'm not a perl guy myself and i found in aur perl-date-iso8601. The problem is that is not installed in the proper place. /usr/share/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/Date/ISO8601.pm and the check is done in DateTime/Format/ISO8601.pm check_pl_lib DateTime::Format::ISO8601 perl -e use DateTime::Format::ISO8601; Can't locate DateTime/Format/ISO8601.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 /usr/share/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1. the building is done with: perl Build.PL ./Build --installdirs=vendor ./Build test ./Build install destdir=$pkgdir is this not the package that i need or the building is wrong? -- Ionuț

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[arch-general] [signoff] udev-158-1
by Tobias Powalowski 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

Hi guys, udev 158 ======== Bugfixes. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] (no subject)
by Calvin McAnarney 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

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[arch-general] Deletion request
by Lukáš Jirkovský 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

Hello, please remove package pmt (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22689) which I maintain. There are several reasons for it: 1) I don't want to maintain it anymore 2)A little background is needed here. pmt used to be a part of [extra] but because of lack of interest it was moved to AUR where I adopted it. It contains several png handling tools (pngcrush, png2bmp, bmp2png, pngmeta) but only one is really maintained – it's pngcrush. As time gone by it was more and more difficult to keep all tools working with new libraries in Arch. Then I found out someone packaged pngcrush itself (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22877) and now it has much more votes than pmt ever had. png2bmp/bmp2png can be easily replaced with imagemagick convert. I'm not sure about pngmeta, but it didn't have a release since 2001 so I guess this one would be a big loss either. Thanks, Lukas

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[arch-general] devtmpfs
by Damjan Georgievski 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

Now that DEVTMPFS is enabled by default in the Arch configuration, what are its benefits? Can I make an initramfs without udev now? And if I do will I be able to use root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/xx-yy-zz-etc or any of the similar kernel command line options? -- damjan

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[arch-general] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.68-1
by Eric Bélanger 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

Hi, lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.68-1 is now in testing. Changes: * Upstream update * Fixed tr path in lvmdump Please test and signoff. Users' signoffs are welcomed. Eric Upstream ChangeLog: lvm2: Version 2.02.68 - 23rd June 2010 ================================ Fix clvmd initscript status to print only active clustered LVs. Add lv_path to reports to offer full /dev pathname. Fix typo in warning message about missing device with allocated data areas. Add device name and offset to raw_read_mda_header error messages. Honour log argument when down-converting stacked mirror. Sleep to workaround clvmd -S race: socket closed early and server drops cmd. Use early udev synchronisation and update of dev nodes for clustered mirrors. Remove incorrect inclusion of kdev_t.h from cmirrord/functions.h. Add man pages for lvmconf and non-existent lvmsadc and lvmsar tools. Exit successfully when using -o help (but not -o +help) with LVM reports. Do not use internal DLM lock definitions in generic LVM2 clvmd code. Add --force, --nofsck and --resizefs to lvresize/extend/reduce man pages. Fix lvm2cmd example in documentation. Allow use of lvm2app and lvm2cmd headers in C++ code. Remove unused #includes from clvmd files and introduce clvmd-common.h. Move common inclusions to clvmd-common.h. Use #include "" for libdevmapper.h and configure.h throughout tree. Fix LVM_PATH expansion when exec_prefix=NONE. (2.02.67) Fix segfault in clvmd -R if no response from daemon received. Version 2.02.67 - 4th June 2010 =============================== Handle failed restart of clvmd using -S switch properly. Fix clvmd initscript restart command to start clvmd if not yet running. Use built-in absolute paths in clvmd (clvmd restart and PV and LV queries). Require partial option in lvchange --refresh for partial LVs. Do not fail lvm_init() if init_logging() or _init_rand() generates an errno. Don't merge unchanged persistent cache file before dumping if tool scanned. Fix incorrect memory pool deallocation while using vg_read for files. Add --type parameter description to the lvcreate man page. Replace strncmp kernel version number checks with proper ones. Avoid selecting names under /dev/block if there is an alternative. Update clustered log kernel module name to log-userspace for 2.6.31 onwards. Add replicators' LVs to dtree for activation. Supress activation message if there is a missing replicator VG. Fix scripts/relpath.awk to work in mawk Extend lock_vol to check for missing replicator VGs first. Update _process_one_vg and process_each_lv_in_vg to populate cmd_vg. Add cmd_vg structure and associated functions for replicator. Extend _lv_each_dependency() to handle replicator dependencies. Add check_replicator_segment() to catch internal replicator errors. Initial support for replicator metadata. Extend process_each_lv_in_vg() to provide list of failed lvnames. Consistently return ECMD_FAILED if process_each_*lv() is interrupted. device-mapper: Version 1.02.50 - 23rd June 2010 ================================ Fix INTERNAL_ERROR typo in ioctl iface unknown task message. Fix udev rules to handle spurious events properly. Use C99 [] not [0] in dm_ulog_request struct to avoid abort when fortified. Allow use of devmapper header file in C++ mode (extern "C" and __typeof__). Add dmeventd man page. Version 1.02.49 - 4th June 2010 =============================== Support autoloading of dm-mod module for kernels from 2.6.35. Document 'clear' in dmsetup man page. Fix semctl parameter (union) to avoid misaligned parameter on some arches. Add dm_tree_node_set_presuspend_node() to presuspend child when deactivating. Initial support for replicator target.

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[arch-general] Xorg 1.8 & Nouveau dependencies
by Michishige Kaito 26 Jun '10

26 Jun '10

Hey, So, we all heard it doesn't need HAL anymore. But what does it need? It would seem like it depends on either "nvidia" or "nvidia-utils" because I got rid of those last night and now X won't start. Well... it _does_ start, but all I get is a bunch of nice coloured stripes across the screen in random angles and sizes. I'm not really sure how to handle this, since I can't seem to access my system now. I'm burning an arch ISO while I type, and gonna try that. Whilst... any tips?

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