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[arch-general] Any Arch Users/Developers @ Linuxtag 2010?
by Mathias Huber 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Dear Arch users and developers, will any of you be at the Linuxtag conference and expo in Berlin <http://www.linuxtag.org> later this week? Would you like to meet? Myself, I am an Archlinux newbie, Best Regards, Mathias

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[arch-general] rebuild of vbox driver fails - fatal error: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
by David C. Rankin 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Guys, Trying to rebuild the vbox driver from virtualbox_bin 3.1.0-1 fails with the following message: make KBUILD_VERBOSE= -C /lib/modules/2.6.33-ARCH/build SUBDIRS=/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv SRCROOT=/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv modules make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33-ARCH' CC [M] /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o In file included from /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv/include/VBox/types.h:34:0, from /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv/linux/../SUPDrvInternal.h:39, from /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:37: /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv/include/iprt/types.h:100:30: fatal error: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. ...hmm, looks like I'm missing a package, but what? I have looked at the forum and evidently there is a solution: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=94283 The problem is, I don't understand the solution. Evidently the solution is: <quote> Check out this line for i in acpi asm-{generic,x86} config linux math-emu media net pcmcia scsi sound trace video; do </quote> nothing is mentioned after the do and I haven't a clue what to look for in the line referred to? Can anybody explain this in english ( and very slowly...) -- 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] Hibernation
by Nilesh Govindarajan 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Is there any way to hibernate my system ? The pm-hibernate command does not work. Also how do I get it in the menu ? I have ram 1 GB and swap 500 MB. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] Help me with OpenVPN
by Gaurish Sharma 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

Hi, I am trying to connect to a OpenVPN but no success. it says "openvpn[5052]: TCP: connect to xx.xx.xx.xx:1723 failed, will try again in 5 seconds: Connection refused" and this goes on. On Server Side, I checked openVPN is running OKAY but its not listing to port 1723. here is my server config: port 1194 proto udp dev tun ca /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/ca.crt cert /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/server.crt key /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/server.key dh /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/dh1024.pem server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0 ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt push "redirect-gateway def1" push "dhcp-option DNS 8.8.8.8" client-to-client comp-lzo max-clients 10 user nobody group users Here is the log on server: Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=301342 Diffie-Hellman initialized with 1024 bit key Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=301881 TLS-Auth MTU parms [ L:1542 D:138 EF:38 EB:0 ET:0 EL:0 ] Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=302048 ROUTE default_gateway=96.44.148.129 Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=314676 TUN/TAP device tun0 opened Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=314709 TUN/TAP TX queue length set to 100 Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=314744 /sbin/ip link set dev tun0 up mtu 1500 Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=315382 /sbin/ip addr add dev tun0 local 10.8.0.1 peer 10.8.0.2 Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=316319 /sbin/ip route add 10.8.0.0/24 via 10.8.0.2 RTNETLINK answers: File exists Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=316774 ERROR: Linux route add command failed: external program exited with error status: 2 Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=316797 Data Channel MTU parms [ L:1542 D:1450 EF:42 EB:135 ET:0 EL:0 AF:3/1 ] Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=317235 GID set to users Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=317305 UID set to nobody Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=317324 Socket Buffers: R=[129024->131072] S=[129024->131072] Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=317338 UDPv4 link local (bound): [undef]:1194 Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=317347 UDPv4 link remote: [undef] Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=317361 MULTI: multi_init called, r=256 v=256 Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=317417 IFCONFIG POOL: base=10.8.0.4 size=62 Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=317429 IFCONFIG POOL LIST Sat Jun 5 06:13:37 2010 us=317454 Initialization Sequence Completed i have already tried switching IPtables on or OFF but still can't connect. Any tips? Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com

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[arch-general] is pkg-config in 'testing' safe for use? pkgconfig 0.23 has problems
by David C. Rankin 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

Guys, DRM won't build with pkgconfig 0.23 due to issues escaping "=" and ":" . Before trying the change to 'pkg-config 0.25' in testing, I thought I would as if the devs consider pkg-config 0.25 to be in good enough shape to do this, or should I wait? -- 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] Cannot install shaman from AUR
by Madhurya Kakati 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

Hi, i am unable to install shaman from AUR via yaourt error is http://pastebin.com/hfG3zEBd Thanks

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[arch-general] dialup woes wvdial, external v92 modem connected via usb/serial adapter
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

I'm having a problem getting dialup to work... Due to financial limitations, I'm going to have to give up my expensive broadband connection in favor of {sigh} dial-up which will save me about $50/month. I still have my external v92 zoom serial modem from before I went broadband. But now that my only working computer is my laptop I had the problem of not having a serial port to connect it to. I already tried to get my laptops internal {win}modem to work via Linmodem, but failed miserably... Thus I acquired a usb/serial adapter cable, and used it to connect my v92 modem. wvdialconf detected it OK. But I can't get it to dial. With some experimentation based on some init strings I found online and a brief modem command reference, I've been able to get the modem to at least go off hook, by adding H1 to the Init2 string. Proving at least that wvdial was attempting to control the correct device. But it didn't dial. It complained that my dial string was invalid and disconnected... Except that the modem didn't hang up (I listened to the phone company recording about hanging up and dialing again...) A little more experimentation reveled that if I used &C0 instead of &C1 it would hang up when it disconnects. But it still doesn't actually dial. And still complains about my dial string. I have verified the 7 digit 'Phone = "7340102" ' string by manually dialing it with a telephone and heard the sound of my ISP's modem attempting to negotiate a connection. And, in my wvdial.conf, I have tried the string both with and without quotes. I've included {below} a copy of my wvdial.conf & pasted in the results of my last attempt to use wvdial... Could somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong? => My wvdial.conf (with password line modified of course): [Dialer Defaults] Init1 = ATZ # Init2 as defined by wvdial.conf: # Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 # Init2 modified: Without H1 stayed on hook. Without &C0 wouldn't hang up on disconnect... Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C0 &D2 H1 +FCLASS=0 Modem Type = Analog Modem Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 Baud = 115200 New PPPD = yes # tried with and without Carrier Check Carrier Check = off # tried with and without Stupid Mode Stupid Mode = on Dial Command = ATDT Phone = "7340102" ISDN = 0 Username = jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net Password = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx => A screen capture of my last wvdial attempt: UnderTree =-> wvdial --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.61 --> Cannot get information for serial port. --> Initializing modem. --> Sending: ATZ ATZ OK --> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C0 &D2 H1 +FCLASS=0 ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C0 &D2 H1 +FCLASS=0 OK --> Modem initialized. --> Sending: ATDT7340102 --> Waiting for carrier. ATDT7340102 ERROR --> Invalid dial command. --> Disconnecting at Thu Jun 3 15:38:23 2010 UnderTree =->

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[arch-general] Adobe-air
by Madhurya Kakati 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

HI all, I tried all arch packages of adobe-air from AUR and also bin32-adobe-air without success. So i went to their website and downloaded the .bin file for linux. So i ran chmod a+x AdobeAirInstaller.bin to make it executable and then ran sudo ./AdobeAirInstaller.bin. I remember i did this and successfully installed adobe air on Ubuntu but now in arch it throws an error. Error loading the runtime (libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64). I am using 64 bit arch. Please help. Thanks

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Re: [arch-general] [signoff] udev 157-1, initscripts 2010.06-1, mkinitcpio 0.6.5-1
by Attila 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

At Donnerstag, 3. Juni 2010 14:57 Thomas Bächler wrote: > udev is an upstream update with mostly bugfixes, but some changes in > behaviour. Most importantly, NAME= rules are being ignored now, you can > not change the kernel's predefined device name anymore. Is there a hope to get "NAME= rules" back in the future or is there a nice upgrade path for at example network rules? I can't believe this because i do this for my usb sticks too. Can i replace this KERNEL=="eth*", ATTR{address}=="MAC", NAME="lan", OPTIONS="last_rule" with a Symlink KERNEL=="eth*", ATTR{address}=="MAC", SYMLINK="lan" and would this works in the rc.conf? See you, Attila

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[arch-general] 2nd partition for bootable USB flash drive
by Sergey Manucharian 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

Hi folks, Of course, it's very convenient to install Archlinux using a bootable USB flash putting the corresponding .iso file in it (e.g. archlinux-2010.05-core-i686.iso). But it's not convenient to keep a separate flash drive for it. The natural solution is to create another partition at the same jump drive for regular file transfers etc. Linux has no problem working with multiple partitions, but not M$ Windows. It principally recognizes only the 1st partition. Some flash drives can be hacked with toggling so called Removable Media Bit, but most cannot. I realized that the easiest way is to "manually" change the partition number of the bootable image before writing it into a flash drive. The script below does it rewriting the partition record from the first line to the second one. (Alternatively you can rework it to read back the MBR from the bootable drive, hack it and write back). Then with fdisk you can create another partition with number 1 - and voilà - it will be recognizable even by M$. Cheers, Sergey (the script is far from being perfect, just illustrates the idea) ----------------------------------8<------------------------------ #!/bin/bash # changes the partition number of bootable image from 1 to 2 # accepts a bootable image file as argument BLOCK=1 COUNT=16 PARTTBL_OFFSET=446 TEMP_FILE=/tmp/part_table dd if=/dev/zero of=$TEMP_FILE bs=$BLOCK count=$COUNT dd if=$1 of=$TEMP_FILE bs=$BLOCK skip=$PARTTBL_OFFSET seek=$COUNT count=$COUNT dd if=$TEMP_FILE of=$1 bs=$BLOCK seek=$PARTTBL_OFFSET conv=notrunc count=$((COUNT*2)) ----------------------------------8<------------------------------

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