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[arch-general] Mounting tmpfs on /dev. Why?
by AlannY 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi there. I'm newbie in Archlinux and I have another lame question. Recently, I've found that Arch mounts tmpfs on /dev. And, as you may see, this makes big problem to some applications. I see: "none on /dev type tmpfs" in the output of mount program. This mount is not placed in /etc/fstab. So, I think this is done by some of init scripts. I've looked at the /etc/rc.d folder and grep "mount" `find`. But nothing interesting found. I really don't want to mount tmpfs on /dev. How to don't do it? Thanks for patience.

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[arch-general] Video Resolution, Grub2 and Kernel 2.6.32
by Steve Holmes 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

When I installed grub2 a short while back, I was using the kernel 2.6.31.6 and I enjoyed a full screen of 1024.768 32K color depth. I followed the steps outlined here <http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2#Setting_the_framebuffer_resolution> to the letter and all was great. But when the kernel26 package upgraded to 2.6.32.2, This functionality broke. I ended up having to remove the video related stuff from my grub line to get my system to boot. When I say this didn't work anymore, basically my system wouldn't boot and I end up with a blank screen showing. When I experimented by removing the insmod statement and using vga=790 by itself, the best I get is a 30 line display with 80 columns width. Anyone know what changed? It would appear that we may need to update the wiki page with new info for grub2 and video resolution.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed
by Henning Garus 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

On Tue, 02.02.2010 um 19:13 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Bump! Virtually nobody has performed any testing (except the people I > poked about it). Also, I still don't have fixed raid or dmraid hooks, > nor any suggestion for implementing root on NFS (of the last three, I > use neither). I could write raid, but I have no idea if it will work. I > don't know what exactly needs to be done in the NFS case, because that > was all hidden inside "ipconfig" from klibc. > > The part that works (standard hooks, keymap, cryptsetup, lvm2) has been > 100% stable and has worked perfectly for all of the testers so far > (which aren't many, so you never know). > I switched to the kill-klibc repo and my system still boots, using: HOOKS="base udev autodetect sata encrypt filesystems"

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[arch-general] Colored Output
by Carlos Williams 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

I noticed that when I login to my new Arch server & attempt to use commands like 'ls' or 'ls -l', I have no color. It's just white text so it's hard to visually differentiate the difference between files and directories. I did read the Wiki below which advises me to modify my ~/.bashrc which comes from /etc/skel/.bashrc however when I am logged in as root, I want to have this colored output feature. I checked and my /root directory has no .bashrc file. When I attempt to create one & add the parameters I have in my ~/.bashrc, I then log out and log back in as root but still have no color. How do I make this system wide? When I modify my regular user's .bashrc file, I do get my desired color output but I can't figure out how to achieve this for 'root'. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt

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[arch-general] extra/libmtp update
by Alexander Kojevnikov 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Hi list, extra/libmtp package [0] has been out of date for 5 months. Attached PKGBUILD updates it to the recently released 1.0.2, it would be great if one of the developers could commit it. Thanks, Alex [0] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libmtp/

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Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit
by Joerg.Schilling＠fokus.fraunhofer.de 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Heiko Baums wrote: >I don't know anything about the technical differences between cdrkit >and cdrtools but http://cdrkit.org says: >News >2009/10/11 >Cdrkit 1.1.10 has been released. >So the last stable release was not a year but only three months ago. >This looks like an active development for me. Please have a closer look on _what_ was changed in this "release". This have been mainly single char typo corrections but the > 100 well known bugs that exist as long as the fork exists have never been fixed. On the original software, you see more changes (enhancements and fixes) in a lazy week than the "cdrkit project" did get since May 6th 2007 in total. In the fork, problems are ignored. In the original software, problems are fixed very soon; typically within hours. This is why there are no known problems in the original software. The fork did not publish a single version that was known to be without bugs at the time of publishing. The original cdrtools project did publish more than 70 releases in the same time and more than 60 of them did have not a single bug when they have been published. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js(a)cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily

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[arch-general] multiple i586 update segfaults during pacman -Syu on 2/2/10
by David C. Rankin 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Guys, During update tonight, I received multiple segfaults during system update package installation. Given the kde44beta packages involved, I suspect kde will be dead. The full log is: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/bugs/pacman-updt-segfaults.log.bz2 The reported error summaries were: ( 13/344) upgrading akonadi [####################################################] 100% /tmp/alpm_i3RyWJ/.INSTALL: line 1: 10765 Segmentation fault update-mime-database usr/share/mime &>/dev/null error: command failed to execute correctly ( 21/344) upgrading cryptsetup [####################################################] 100% usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 23: 10796 Segmentation fault GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-uninstall-rule ${schemas} > /dev/null error: command failed to execute correctly ( 22/344) upgrading deskbar-applet [####################################################] 100% usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 18: 10801 Segmentation fault GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /usr/share/gconf/schemas/${pkgname}.schemas > /dev/null ( 50/344) upgrading gmime [####################################################] 100% usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 23: 10899 Segmentation fault GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-uninstall-rule ${schemas} > /dev/null error: command failed to execute correctly ( 51/344) upgrading gnome-media [####################################################] 100% usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 18: 10904 Segmentation fault GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /usr/share/gconf/schemas/${pkgname}.schemas > /dev/null usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 23: 10910 Segmentation fault GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-uninstall-rule ${schemas} > /dev/null error: command failed to execute correctly ( 52/344) upgrading gnome-power-manager [####################################################] 100% usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 18: 10915 Segmentation fault GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /usr/share/gconf/schemas/${pkgname}.schemas > /dev/null usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 23: 10921 Segmentation fault GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-uninstall-rule ${schemas} > /dev/null error: command failed to execute correctly ( 53/344) upgrading gnome-screensaver [####################################################] 100% usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 18: 10926 Segmentation fault GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /usr/share/gconf/schemas/${pkgname}.schemas > /dev/null error: command failed to execute correctly usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 23: 10931 Segmentation fault GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-uninstall-rule ${schemas} > /dev/null error: command failed to execute correctly ( 54/344) upgrading gnome-utils [####################################################] 100% usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 18: 10936 Segmentation fault GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /usr/share/gconf/schemas/${pkgname}.schemas > /dev/null ( 73/344) upgrading kdelibs [####################################################] 100% /tmp/alpm_2CLRhg/.INSTALL: line 1: 10980 Segmentation fault update-mime-database usr/share/mime &>/dev/null error: command failed to execute correctly ( 75/344) upgrading kdebase-runtime [####################################################] 100% /tmp/alpm_eUYelf/.INSTALL: line 1: 10994 Segmentation fault update-mime-database usr/share/mime &>/dev/null error: command failed to execute correctly ( 81/344) upgrading kdepimlibs [####################################################] 100% /tmp/alpm_exajwK/.INSTALL: line 1: 11036 Segmentation fault update-mime-database usr/share/mime &>/dev/null error: command failed to execute correctly ( 82/344) upgrading kdepim-runtime [####################################################] 100% /tmp/alpm_VIW9xn/.INSTALL: line 1: 11050 Segmentation fault update-mime-database usr/share/mime &>/dev/null error: command failed to execute correctly (225/344) upgrading kdeplasma-addons-applets-la... [####################################################] 100% /tmp/alpm_if5dWv/.INSTALL: line 1: 12172 Segmentation fault update-mime-database usr/share/mime &>/dev/null error: command failed to execute correctly Let me know if I can send anything else :p -- 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] kde44beta - Arch needs to disable powerdevil suspend default -> very hard shutdown...
by David C. Rankin 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Devs, I don't know whether this is something Arch can set or if it is kde that sets the powerdevil suspend default. We need to see if it is possible to disable the 'suspend' after 30 minutes on the first page of the powerdevil settings because many machines (mine included) do not suspend nicely and instead lock up tight. It took a while to find this issue on my x86_64 box, but after setting the default to 'Turn off Screen' instead of suspend, the lockups are gone. When the suspend lockups occurred, my box locked so badly I had to pull the power-cord and drain the residual power by depressing the 'on' button with the cord out before the box would POST again. That's a serious lock.... If possible, we may want to try and disable this default even if it is a kde default because it has some pretty bad implications.... -- 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] Setting global environment variable
by Ty John 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

I'm regularly connecting and disconnecting to a VPN using vpnc. The network I connect to has a transparent proxy which I want to set $http_proxy to. I thought I could do something like export http_proxy="proxy.whatever.com" in the /etc/rc.d/vpnc file, in the start and stop functions as necessary but exporting only makes the variable available to the child processes. Not to mention, I need this variable set for normal users also. Basically, I want to set and unset the variable when I connect and disconnect the VPN. Any ideas?

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[arch-general] Server Space for Arch Downloads / AUR / ABS for small X additions the Arch Community might enjoy?
by David C. Rankin 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

Guys, I have several good collections of miscellaneous kde themes, kdm/gdm themes, metacity, gtk-2, xcursors, etc.. that I would like to find how best to contribute them to the community. The color-schemes, gnome and kde layout are original and the are available from gnome-look, kde-look, etc. (all GPL), but given all the 3rd party redirection that those sites put you through to find any given file, it is almost not worth downloading them anymore one-at-a-time (same applies to many of the other 'now commercialized' sites). If this is something that you guys may be interested in, my main question is I don't know whether it would be better to put them together as several AUR package, ABS package or whether Arch has a place for this type of stuff. I generally just make them available on my server at 3111skyline.com, but I'm limited to 384k upstream so putting a bunch of material out for community wide download can result in logjams. The idea here is to just make it convenient for Arch users to have a convenient couple of packages to install to get a good cross-section of some of the better desktop packages themes, cursors, etc.. that are a real pain to go search for, find and download separately. Arch devs, is this something that you guys would be interested in? If so, what do you think is the best way to do it? There is probably no more than 50M total. For example, my favorite xcursor directory is 12M: 00:45 nirvana:/srv/www/dl/dt> ls -1 X/xcursor/ AGlowInTheDark.tar.gz AlienMindII.tar.gz Alpha_Triangles_Black_Linux_by_Ghost_Assassin.bz2 Alpha_Triangles_Linux_by_Ghost_Assassin.bz2 ATER_Blue.tar.gz ATER-mouse-theme-0.1.tar.gz Azenis.tar.gz BlackStyle.tar.gz CG.tar.gz Charged.tar.gz CopperDeckII-Small.tar.gz DasBlack.tar.gz Das.tar.gz DeepBlue.tar.gz Direction.tar.gz Eclipse.tar.gz Ecliz_Port.tar.gz FlyOS.tar.gz GlassMaxX.tar.gz HeiBiao3D.tar.gz JadeDreams.tar.gz Jazz.tar.gz LightBlue.tar.gz Liquidox.tar.gz Perfect-Harmony.tar.gz Point-Black.tar.gz Point-Chrome.tar.gz Prowler.tar.gz Pulse.tar.gz SevenSwords3D.tar.gz Silex.tar.gz SpaceSteel.tar.gz Terracota.tar.gz T(a)rget.tar.gz Vienna2.tar.gz WhiteStyle.tar.gz X-Alien2-GREY.tar.gz X-Alien2.tar.gz Xeonyx.tar.gz My gtk2 collection is about 1.2M: 00:49 nirvana:~/dt/gnome> ls -1 themes/gtk2 GTK2-AeroIon.tar.gz GTK2-BlueHeart.tar.gz GTK2-CillopMidnite.tar.gz GTK2-Clearlooks9x.tar.bz2 GTK2-ClearLooksDarkBlue.tar.gz GTK2-ClearlooksDarkLime.tar.gz GTK2-DarkNice.tar.gz GTK2-EvilMac.tar.bz2 GTK2-GmLooks.tar.bz2 GTK2-GreenHeart.tar.gz GTK2-IndustrialColorpack.tar.gz GTK2-MarbleIce.tar.gz GTK2-MarbleLook.tar.gz GTK2-MidnightOSX.tar.gz GTK2-PolycarbonateDark.tar.gz GTK2-Polycarbonate.tar.gz GTK2-ShinyBlack.tar.gz GTK2-Sonar.tar.gz GTK2-Tactile.tar.gz GTK2-TenebrificBlueMods.tar.gz I probably have 1/2 dozen or so collections of this type that I have put together recently. I could package them all in an AUR or ABS package like Xcursor-collection.tar.gz or metacity-theme-collection.tar.gz or something to that effect, but you guys know best. Let me know what you think and give me an idea for package names if you think something like this is worth doing. It's all in the name of Arch user convenience. Thanks. -- 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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