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[arch-general] successful pacman -Syu w/new kernal26: Now have microscopic console font :-(
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

Sigh... I just did a pacman -Syu. It updated lots of stuff. The only issues listed in my pacman.log were: While: updating keystore /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts... ignored import, signature not available: /etc/ssl/certs/COMODO_Certification_Authority.pem keytool error: java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: SHA384withECDSA Signature not available And a warning about my manually managed separate primary boot partition not being mounted... Which will never be mounted during *_any_* Linux distro's upgrade process... I compared /boot and /mnt/boot grub entries, verified that the vmlinuz and kernel.img filenames hadn't changed, Then copied the vmlinuz, and both kernal.img files from /boot, to /mnt/boot And rebooted... As far as I can see (so far) the only real issue I have with my upgraded Arch system is that the size of my console fonts has drastically been reduced... Once the gui started, all the X font sizes were just fine. But my eyes hurt just trying to read the console well enough to login to run startx... The next thing I did was to edit MY grub's kernel line to include: vga=normal, and rebooted. But partway through the boot messages the screen still clears and the font size becomes painfully small. Next, Even though I've never had to bother with framebuffer before (I prefer the normal sized console font, and I don't like pretty pictures on my screen until AFTER I run startx...) I read the "FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS" comments in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. And that led me to the framebuffer section of the grub wiki file. Which in turn led to my installing hwinfo from aur on this amd_64 laptop. 02: None 00.0: 11001 VESA Framebuffer [Created at bios.459] Unique ID: rdCR.mrzO17IxmKC Hardware Class: framebuffer Model: "ATI MS48" Vendor: "ATI Technologies Inc." Device: "MS48" SubVendor: "ATI Radeon® Xpress 1150" SubDevice: Revision: "01.00" Memory Size: 16 MB Memory Range: 0xc8000000-0xc8ffffff (rw) <snip> Mode 0x0312: 640x480 (+1920), 24 bits <snip> the comments in the menu.lst file say on the 16MB line "0x312=786" So I tried vga=786 And rebooted... Just before the boot messages list ":: Bringing up loopback interface" the screen still clears {expletive-deleted!} And then the fontsize still makes me squint. {many expletives-deleted!} Problem #1 How can I stop the reduction in the console font size??? Evidently the framebuffer setting isn't doing it... Problem #2 How can I stop the boot process from clearing the screen on tty1??? I really dislike ANY of the boot messages to disappear. I "LIKE" being able to use gpm to copy/paste them into a console editor... I didn't like it when it cleared the last few lines just prior to giving me a login prompt. But at least that could be compensated for by the kludge of including a multi-line echo statement in /etc/rc.local. But now that it lops the majority of the boot messages off the top it's beyond my ability to kludgon it into submission. ;-( Suggestions anyone? -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>> I'm NOT clueless... But I just don't know.

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[arch-general] What are the dual isos about?
by Karol Babioch 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

Hi, I've found the following link, which seems to contain more up to date images of archlinux and the installer: http://build.archlinux.org/isos/ Now I'm wondering what these dual images are about? Is this a new architecture? Whats the difference to x86_64 in that case? How is the support for packages? Thanks in advance! -- Best regards, Karol Babioch <karol(a)babioch.de>

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[arch-general] Arch Linux Release Question
by Keith Hinton 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

Hi, First of all, if anyone is curious as to why I have posted to the Arch-General mailing list, I'm mainly doing this, in case any of the Arch Release team is actually hanging out on this list. I was curious, seeing as the last Arch Linux release was in August of last year, if there will be one for the lovely new year of 2010? If someone could get back to me on that question I would for sure appreciate it. I hope that all is going well for Arch Linux development! Talk to you folks later. I haven't been as active on this list due to personal commitments but do watch for any interesting activity from time-to-time. Thanks. Sincere Regards, --Keith

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[arch-general] xorg-server 1.8 - Wiki?
by pyther 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

On 04/04/2010 04:56 PM, Jan de Groot wrote: > <snip> > > Things todo before this merges to extra: > - Add documentation about input configuration to our wiki, as hal is > deprecated now > - Ask nvidia for a driver that works without ignoreABI, I'm sure they > can give us a timeframe for that > - Add xorg.conf.d config files for input drivers, right now only evdev > and synaptics have config files > - Fix xf86-video-siliconmotion, xf86-video-unichrome, xf86-video-nouveau > > Has there been any work on a wiki entry for Xorg 1.8? I don't see anything on the main wiki. I just don't want to duplicate efforts. Cheers!

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[arch-general] upgrade problems
by Shridhar Daithankar 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

Hi, I got this pacman error just now, when I wanted to upgrade to 2.6.33. # pacman -Su :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: kqemu: requires kernel26<2.6.33 :: madwifi: requires kernel26<2.6.33 I removed both these packages and the upgrade is proceeding. Just a heads up for others who actually need these packages. I don't know why I had madwifi as there is no wireless card in this desktop machine. -- Regards Shridhar

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[arch-general] AUR comments gone?
by David Rosenstrauch 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

Just noticed today that all the comments are gone from the AUR pages. Is that intentional? Or if not, is there any way to get them restored? Thanks, DR

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssl, heimdal and icu rebuilds
by Evangelos Foutras 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

On 09/04/10 01:20, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:37:13 +0200, Pierre Schmitz<pierre(a)archlinux.de> > wrote: >> The move is in progress...please don't touch anything while we are still >> on it. :-) > > So, we are done. Mirrors should be back in sync some day. Have the packages in [xorg18] been moved into [extra] as well? I cannot verify this from looking at the website, though it might not have synchronized yet.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] openssl 1.0 rebuild
by Jim Pryor 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 03:42:05PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 08.04.2010 15:38, schrieb Pierre Schmitz: > > On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:41:12 +0200, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> > > wrote: > >> Thanks to a hint from Pierre, I fixed it: > >> # update-ca-certificates --fresh > >> The hashes in /etc/ssl/certs are different from the ones before the > >> command, so I suspect there will be more failures like this. Can we > >> please get the above command in post_install in the case we are > >> upgrading from a version older than 1.0.0? > > > > The new ca-certificates packages does this for you. > > Very nice, thank you. > > This should also solve Jim's problem, see his reply to my first post. I'm still using 20090814-3, but I can confirm that doing # update-ca-certificates --fresh manually fixes the elinks problem with verifying certificates. Thanks. -- Jim Pryor profjim(a)jimpryor.net

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[arch-general] nvidia with latest Xorg
by Xavier Chantry 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:35 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > On 04/07/2010 09:55 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: >> On 04/07/2010 10:46 AM, Xavier Chantry wrote: >>> Can you attach full Xorg log and config ? >> >> I'm not using any xorg config. Log is at: >> >> http://www.darose.net/Xorg.0.log >> >>> And does it work with xf86-input-keyboard driver ? >> >> I have xf86-input-keyboard installed. I assumed X was just >> automatically choosing evdev (as I have no xorg config). >> >> Thanks, >> >> DR >> > > On the same note, after the latest Xorg update, X (nVidia card) was failing to > start on the same xorg.conf I had used with my arch box since I first installed > arch. The xorg.conf was generated by the nvidia-xconfig app. The xorg.conf was: > > http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/X/xorg/xorg.conf.sav > > Something is not as it should be in the latest X release. > > (p.s. this is 'in addition to' and not 'in lieu of' the current topic) > This is a complete thread hijacking, has nothing to do with the current topic, and adds NOTHING to it. darose updated to the Xserver in EXTRA which is 1.7.5.902-1 nvidia works fine in extra, even in testing ! It only needs Option "IgnoreABI" "True" with xorg 1.8 which is a separate experimental repository AND that was already documented in its announcement : http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-April/016387.ht…

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] WARNING: [testing] broken due to openssl and heimdal rebuilds
by Florian Pritz 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

On 07.04.2010 06:42, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > I just tested what happens if I change pacman depends to > "'libarchive>=2.8.3-3' 'libfetch>=2.30-3'". Maybe start using sodeps to generate those dependencies? libfetch (doesn't have a soname with version btw) would depend on the new openssl libs and pacman should take care of the order. Have you already checked the patch Allan? -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}(a)server-speed.net

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