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[arch-general] An amazing disk problem !
by Nilesh Govindarajan 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Hi, I'm having an amazing disk problem. My disk has LVM configured. /home and swap sits on LVM, while / is direct. USELVM=yes is enabled in /etc/rc.conf and also it is there in mkinitcpio.conf The problem is that, sometimes when I boot, fsck complains that it wasn't able to find a ext2 superblock, and drops me to a sulogin shell. Now if I run fsck -vyf /home, it works. Even if fsck isn't run, it mounts properly using the command mount /home. Now again when I restart, it will say the same thing or boot properly (seems like a random choice :D). At last fed up, I issued the following commands at the sulogin shell: mount -o remount,rw / hostname Linux (yeah that's my hostname) mount /home init 5 And it worked successfully. Any ideas about this AMAZING problem ??!?!? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु !

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[arch-general] Firefox Qt package
by Bernhard Friedreich 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hello! In case anyone is interested: I created a proof of concept - very basic - firefox-qt package and the needed xulrunner package. (No this is no april fools joke) :P You can find more information about the whole affair on my blog: http://friesoft.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/did-anyone-say-firefox-qt-with-arc… Does anybody know how I can replace the original firefox-qt package on aur? I think it's obsolete and it doesn't seem to work (I think). Best regards, Bernhard Friedreich

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[arch-general] Keyboard not working in X11
by Alain Muls 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hi All I have a GeForce 9600 GT graphics card and installed the nvidia driver. I had difficulties in getting a X11 screen with the terminal, but finally I made it. The xterm comes up but my keyboard does not work. Any suggestions? Tx/Alain ------------------------------ *Alain Muls* alain.muls(a)rma.ac.be Royal Military Academy Tel +32 2 7426340 Renaissance Avenue 30 Fax+32 2 7426622 B1000 Brussels - Belgium

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[arch-general] Xz, space savings and delta ... my findings
by Nathan Wayde 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Here's one for ya. Decompress a gzip'ed package, say pacman. Now, recompress every file in that directory with `xz -1`, smile :) Result: the re-compression is faster than a tar+gz and in each case so far(kerne26, gcc, perl, pacman, kdelibs) is a little smaller as well. It doesn't approach the (much smaller) size of tar+xz but it does take less time to compress and is smaller than what we had before. I know, you're thinking why do that. I wanted to implement an idea for the A.R.M, which is basically to allow downgrade on a file-by-file basis, my theory is that most(many) of the files in 2 versions of a package (esp. when they are minor versions or pkgrel bumped) are often exactly the same. My test involved kdelibs-4.3.98-1 and kdelibs-4.4.0-3. I first decompress both, and remove the duplicates from kdelibs-4.4.0-3 which results in sizes of 59.5MB for the original kdelibs-4.3.98-1 and 35.5MB for the de-deduped kdelibs-4.4.0-3. Now recompressing with `xz -1` kdelibs-4.4.0-3 is brought down to 10.7MB. Comparing with the delta (between the original packages) which 5.3MB it's not a whole lot while allowing more flexibility(IMHO). Some more numbers for comparison, the tar+xz(level -6) for kdelibs-4.4.0-3(de-duped) was 8.4M in comparison to tar+gz which was 12.6MB the original tar'd sizes were 19.8MB for gz and 13.9MB for xz. I know I didn't test based on pkgrel or try gz(as opposed to xz -1) only nor did it very scientifically but I thought it was very interesting non-the-less. I also suspect that the similar results would be seen for a test with xdelta on each file but that's not very useful to me so I'll leave that one for another day.

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[arch-general] new pacman error: vercmp: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8
by David C. Rankin 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Guys, After the pacman update tonight, I am getting errors every once in a while during updates that say: vercmp: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory /tmp/alpm_DBOUwW/.INSTALL: line 8: [: -lt: unary operator expected It doesn't seem to be hurting anything, but didn't know if I needed to do anything else about it. What say the gurus? -- 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] Boot iso with grub2
by Christopher Rogers 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

There has been a request for a findiso boot option so you can boot the iso with grub2 on a usb stick. I have this feature in my archiso-live and it works very well. Here is some code i have for it: _mnt_iso() { img="${1}" #mnt="${2}" mnt="/tmpfs/mnt/findiso" msg "::: Mounting ${img} to ${mnt}" mkdir -p "${mnt}" mount -r -t iso9660 "${img}" "${mnt}" } I remade my archiso hook to look more like the official one yesterday. I also added a _mnt_move function so you can move mounts instead of just bind them. Here is code for that: _mnt_move() { src="${1}" mnt="${2}" msg "::: Moving ${src} to ${mnt}" mkdir -p "${mnt}" /bin/mount -o move "${src}" "${mnt}" } I believe the /bootmnt could use _mnt_move instead of _mnt_bind. I have more features that could be added too. I hope this helps.

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[arch-general] Problem mounting shares with latest smbclient-3.5.0-2
by Nigel Henry 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

I have smbclient-3.5.0-2, and did the suggested chmod +s on /sbin/mount.cifs, and /sbin/umount.cifs. The UID, and GID bits are now set on both, but I still can't mount shares from KDEmod3's smb4k (version 0.9.9). The error message says "/sbin/mount.cifs: permission denied: no match found for /home/djmons/smb4k/GATEWAY/djmons found in /etc/fstab". Now I don't believe I need an entry in /etc/fstab because on my Debian lenny install an entry is created in /etc/mtab when the share is mounted, and removed when unmounted. I can't revert back to my earlier version of smbclient (version 3.3.7-1), as I only recently installed the samba package (samba-3.5.0-2), and have no version to match my earlier version of the smbclient. are earlier package versions still kept somewhere? I do have more than one user set up on this Archlinux install. Would that have anything to do with why the chmod +s isn't doing it's job properly? idiotboy:x:1002: djmons:x:1003: Any suggestions as how to resolve the problem. Nigel.

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[arch-general] Getting X running on new install
by Alain Muls 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Hi All, I am using Ubuntu since 2005 and I like it. The only problem is that each 6 month I am spending some time to update. I have for that 2 root partitions available. I heard about Arch Linux and its rolling release and decided to try it out. The base install went fine and I have a running core system. So I decided to tackle the X server which under Ubuntu uses the nvidia proprietary driver. I installed pacman -S nvidia nvidia-config and gave startx from my user account a try. No luck, the message was cannot load module nvidia. Then I used lshw and the card is loisted as G96 [GeForce 9600 GT] both under Ubuntu and Arch Linux. I uninstalled the nvidia and installed pacman -S nvidia-96xx nvidia-config and again no luck. How can I get this card up and running with full hw support as under Ubuntu? Tx/Alain

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Re: [arch-general] Getting X running on new install (Ionut Biru)
by Alain Muls 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

> > > On 03/30/2010 06:40 PM, Alain Muls wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am using Ubuntu since 2005 and I like it. The only problem is that each > 6 > > month I am spending some time to update. I have for that 2 root > partitions > > available. > > > > I heard about Arch Linux and its rolling release and decided to try it > out. > > > > The base install went fine and I have a running core system. > > > > So I decided to tackle the X server which under Ubuntu uses the nvidia > > proprietary driver. > > > > I installed > > pacman -S nvidia > > nvidia-config > > > > and gave startx from my user account a try. No luck, the message was > cannot > > load module nvidia. > > > > Then I used lshw and the card is loisted as > > G96 [GeForce 9600 GT] > > both under Ubuntu and Arch Linux. > > > > I uninstalled the nvidia and installed > > pacman -S nvidia-96xx > > nvidia-config > > > > and again no luck. > > > > How can I get this card up and running with full hw support as under > Ubuntu? > > > > Tx/Alain > > you should really read beginners guide. everything is covered there. > everything have to installed. after a core installation be sure to fully > update the system: > pacman -Syu > > after that you _need_ to install xorg. > pacman -S xorg > > after that you may decide what driver you want to use. > pacman -S nvidia > > -- > Ionut > > > Hi That is exactly what I did. I am not a beginner and have read quite some articles about Arch and I am aware of the fact that I have to follow carefully all steps in this installation process. So pleas bear with me and hep me over this problem. Since it failed I tried to identify the card (I did not know the lshw command before) and redid the steps with the driver for the nvidia-96xx card. Again no X-screen. I also copied the xorg.conf from Ubuntu over to Arch but again no X server that would run. I also tried the nouveau driver and he is given as error: (EE) [drm] failed to open device (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found It is the second time I try to install Arch, I really want to try out this rolling principle, but again I am unable to get up the X server which is working without flaws in Ubuntu.

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[arch-general] pacman error
by Shridhar Daithankar 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Hello, I got this error when I ran pacman -Syu. [root@bheem horo]# pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... ... <lots of package listing,mostly KDE4.4.2> Total Download Size: 0.00 MB Total Installed Size: 894.60 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y checking package integrity... error: error while reading package /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kdebindings- smoke-4.4.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz: Lzma library error: No progress is possibleTruncated input file (needed 5484032 bytes, only 0 available) error: failed to commit transaction (libarchive error) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. [root@bheem ]# ls -la /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kdebindings-smoke-4.4.2-1- x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2441216 2010-03-31 05:03 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kdebindings-smoke-4.4.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz My guess is I would have to wait till mirrors sync. out possibly. Is there anything else I should look for? -- Regards Shridhar

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