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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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[arch-general] Xorg18 status and Gnome
by Keith Hinton 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Hi, Why is it that Arch seems to take longer than say other distros such as Ubuntu, Debian, etc, to support newer versions of Xorg and Gnome? I was curious about that process. While Debian/Ubuntu/etc distros seem to be supporting the Gnome desktop just fine, it appears that others most noticeably that of Gentoo and other such similar distros, mask or test out Gnome/Xorg, rather than releasing it strate away into say in Arches case, the extra/core repos. I had another question, relating to that of Arch, some webpages I have found compare Arch to Debian Cid/Unstable. How true is this, and exactly in what way is Arch Linux itself, like that of Debian Cid? Thanks! Regards, --Keith Skype: skypedude1234 MSN Messenger: keithint37(a)hotmail.com Yahoo messenger /AIM: keithint1234

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[arch-general] Broken kwallet after kde 4.4.4 update
by Marek Otahal 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Hello, anyone else experiencing issues with kwalletmanager after the upgrade? I upgraded during the kdelibs 4.4.3 issue, but that's fixed now. I don't know if it was a buggy upgrade or the release but the new kde sucks on my machine. Keybindings, such as alt+f2, volume up/down, alt+tab, etc., don't work and my main problem is Kwalletmanager. It runs in tray ok, but my wallet is missing, settings don't react,... I've filed a bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19678 . I did even try yaourt -Rcsn kde and yaourt -S kde but bugs still persist. Any ideas on fixing this? Advice to rm .kde4 is the solution I'd like to avoid. Thank you in advance. Regards, Mark -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] change user and group in env in PKGBUILD
by Caleb Cushing 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

so i'm trying to update the oracle pkgbuild on AUR. oracle's installer won't run as root, but it thinks that it's running as root. how can I change this? I believe it is supposed to be run as the user and group that it gets installed as what's the best way to add those in the pkgbuild? -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] perl-5.12
by Caleb Cushing 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

so what's holding back the rebuilds? outside of rebuilds I have no problems. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cryptsetup 1.1.2-1
by Thomas Bächler 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Am 02.06.2010 19:40, schrieb Roman Kyrylych: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 20:46, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >> Another minor upstream update. From the upstream announcement: >> >> === changes since version 1.1.1 === >> >> * Fix luksFormat/luksOpen reading passphrase from stdin and "-" keyfile. >> * Support --key-file/-d option for luksFormat. >> * Fix description of --key-file and add --verbose and --debug options >> to man page. >> * Add verbose log level and move unlocking message there. >> * Remove device even if underlying device disappeared (remove, luksClose). >> * Fix (deprecated) reload device command to accept new device argument. >> >> For changes in previous version please see Cryptsetup 1.1.1 Release Notes >> http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/Cryptsetup111 > > Signoff x86_64. > Anyone for i686 (users too)?

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[arch-general] synergy-plus
by Caleb Cushing 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

I suppose this could be filed as a bug... but since extra/synergy has long been unmaintained upstream. I recently found a fork http://code.google.com/p/synergy-plus/ for which there is already a pkgbuild on AUR. perhaps we should consider relegating the original synergy to AUR and moving synergy-plus into extra (or community) -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.15-1
by Andreas Radke 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

next one: 2.6.32.15-1, added some TCP modules requested in #19604 please signoff. .Andy

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[arch-general] [testing] news
by Jeroen Op 't Eynde 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

I would like to support Arch by going into testing and report bugs. Is there a specific place were important news is posted about [testing]? I follow the main RSS feed [1] and check the forums regularly. [1] http://www.archlinux.org/feeds/news/ -- To read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Bottom-posting

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