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[arch-general] Installing Arch Linux w/ RAID
by Carlos Williams 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

I have been struggling with successfully installing Arch Linux on my PC with just two S-ATA drives. I am using the LiveCD / Netinst "2009.08". The only partition I want for RAID is simply /home. I have two identical disks and am partition as follows: /dev/sda1 = 2048 (bootable) */boot* /dev/sda2 = 40960 */* /dev/sda3 = 102400 *RAID* /dev/sdb1 = 2048 *Swap* /dev/sdb2 = 40960 */var* /dev/sdb3 = 102400 *RAID* Then I create the RAID after I run "cfdisk" utility: mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 Once that is done, I run "/arch/setup command from the comand prompt and enter the system installer as normal. I have simply already created my disks, all I do from the installer now is assign a file system and mount point. It recognizes the RAID /dev/md0 partition I created using mdadm utility. Everything is fine but when I install Grub on /dev/sda and reboot the machine, I always fail to boot. I get some strange error that tells me to type "Control-D" for maintenance mode or something like that. If I do everything like I did above but don't create a RAID partition, Arch installs perfect! What am I doing wrong? The Arch Wiki is not helping me at all. I have spent a week trying to follow the Wiki with help from the forums and to no avail I have given up. I can't see this being that hard. I think I bork something up when I install Grub but I get no errors and it tells me I installed Grub successfully on /dev/sda. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=80776 Thanks for any help in getting me a working Arch Linux system with RAID.

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[arch-general] Help - Sound Disappeared -- Really! All modules -> Gone?? (kernel bug?)
by David C. Rankin 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

Guys, This is really strange. Sound used to work on my laptop, now it is just -- gone. The hardware hasn't changed (obviously): 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff08 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: Memory at f8700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- but, there is NO /sys/module/snd -- Huh? [01:06 alchemy:~] # lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t (returns nothing, there are no snd modules at all) Further, there is no sound dev: [01:06 alchemy:~] # l /dev/snd (nothing...) I've been throught the alsa wiki and it is still gone. I've tried adding the right module, but it isn't even on the system anymore: [17:21 alchemy:/etc/modprobe.d] # modprobe snd-hda-intel FATAL: Module snd_hda_intel not found. [17:45 alchemy:/media/disk/david] # modprobe snd_hda_intel FATAL: Module snd_hda_intel not found. Additinally, KDE prompts me to delete removed sound device HDA ATI SB, ALC268 Digital... Running SuSE 11.2 on the same box (different hard drive) shows the following modules are configured for sound (works fine): 08:39 alchemy:~/.kde4/share/config> lsmod | grep snd snd_pcm_oss 60032 0 snd_mixer_oss 22728 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq 78528 0 snd_seq_device 10460 1 snd_seq snd_hda_codec_realtek 317868 1 snd_hda_intel 37088 2 snd_hda_codec 111112 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 11216 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm 117808 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_timer 32152 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 97608 14 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer snd_page_alloc 12600 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm Here is the hwinfo output from the suse install: 21: PCI 14.2: 0403 Audio device [Created at pci.310] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_4383 Unique ID: 5Dex.CWqchpyBRV6 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:14.2 Hardware Class: sound Model: "ATI SBx00 Azalia" Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc" Device: pci 0x4383 "SBx00 Azalia" SubVendor: pci 0x1179 "Toshiba America Info Systems" SubDevice: pci 0xff08 Driver: "HDA Intel" Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel" Memory Range: 0xf8700000-0xf8703fff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 16 (461488 events) Module Alias: "pci:v00001002d00004383sv00001179sd0000FF08bc04sc03i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Now how do I get the sound to re-appear in Arch?? -- 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] xf86-input-evdev conflicts with xorg-server. Remove xorg-server?
by Arvid Picciani 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

obviously i do NOT want to remove xorg-server. i don't need evdev, but: :: xorg-server: requires xf86-input-evdev>=2.2.5 so no removing it either. the mirror i'm using has been updated today (December 1th), and i'm not using testing. mirrors package versions: xorg-server 1.7.2-2 xf86-input-evdev 2.3.1-1 thanks -- Arvid Asgaard Technologies

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[arch-general] Low volume for kopete notifications
by Shridhar Daithankar 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Hello All, I got a new computer and installed arch on it. I have restored my home directory from other machine, which has lived thr. kde3 -> kde4 transition and isn't exactly prestine. This is core2duo machine and the soundcard is 82801G HDA, as reported by lspci. I don't have pulseaudio installed. Jack is installed but not running. Phonon backend is gstreamer. Everything is working fine but there is a strange behaviour. Volume of kopete notification is very low. I am surprised that it even has a different volume than normal. Furthermore kopete has no way to set this volume, even though I can set the tone/music for it. Sound test in KDE settings runs fine in notifications and music category(how to set them for applications and how do they matter anyways?). Also moc(a console mp3 player) is working fine.( I had to resort to moc since juk doesn't output any sound at all. That is another issue but I don't mind moc) Creating a new user isn't an option since I have tons of settings/data customized and can't leave it all behind. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. -- Shridhar

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[arch-general] Gajim 0.13.1-1 generate errors
by Abdourazak Osmanov 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Hi! I refreshed my Arch today, and found that the file ~/.xsession-errors grows to infinity with messages: 13:45:13 (W) gajim.c.x.transports_nb: calling send on empty buffer and queue 13:45:13 (W) gajim.c.x.transports_nb: calling send on empty buffer and queue 13:45:13 (W) gajim.c.x.transports_nb: calling send on empty buffer and queue 13:45:13 (W) gajim.c.x.transports_nb: calling send on empty buffer and queue 13:45:13 (W) gajim.c.x.transports_nb: calling send on empty buffer and queue 13:45:13 (W) gajim.c.x.transports_nb: calling send on empty buffer and queue 13:45:13 (W) gajim.c.x.transports_nb: calling send on empty buffer and queue 13:45:13 (W) gajim.c.x.transports_nb: calling send on empty buffer and queue Please rebuild Gajim package. Sincerely yours, Abdurazak Osmanov aka mao(tm)

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[arch-general] lastsync file on mirrors
by Dieter Plaetinck 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

is it just me or did the lastsync format change? IIRC the lastsync file was 1 file in the root of the repo, with the date in it in string format. now the lastsync files are like so: <path>/{core,extra,testing,...}/os/{i686,x86_64}/lastsync each containing a unix timestamp. note: no lastsyncfile for any 'any' architecture directory, and also none for either architecture for the community-testing repo. maybe the easiest is to go back to 1 global file, as long as we can make sure somehow that rsync will sync the lastsync file as last thing. I maintain an (official) mirror and would like to monitor these files to prevent out-of-date issues. Dieter

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[arch-general] Yikes! kernel26-2.6.32-1-x86_64 leaves Toshiba laptop unbootable
by David C. Rankin 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Guys, I had a fairly rude surprise when I pulled the testing updates tonight. The install of kernel26-2.6.32-1-x86_64 left my toshiba 205d laptop unbootable. The boot process would start as usual but then get to a point just after it had started X and lock. There was no way to ctrl+f1 to break out of X and the only solution was to reboot. I booted to the install cd, and chrooted everything in /mnt/arch and downgraded the kernel to kernel26-2.6.31.6-1 (along with madwifi) and now everything is back to normal. I have looked throught the logs, but I don't know where the useful information would be captured. I think the failed boot sequences (I tried twice) are shown in these snippets: kernel.log: Dec 6 20:55:46 alchemy kernel: Unpin not necessary for ffff88011dd6fe00 ! Dec 6 20:55:46 alchemy kernel: i2c-adapter i2c-1: unable to read EDID block. Dec 6 20:55:46 alchemy kernel: radeon 0000:01:05.0: LVDS-1: no EDID data Dec 6 20:55:46 alchemy kernel: i2c-adapter i2c-1: unable to read EDID block. Dec 6 20:55:46 alchemy kernel: radeon 0000:01:05.0: LVDS-1: no EDID data Dec 6 20:55:54 alchemy kernel: Unpin not necessary for ffff8800ba072800 ! Dec 6 20:55:56 alchemy kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready Dec 6 20:55:56 alchemy kernel: wlan0: deauthenticating by local choice (reason=3) Dec 6 20:55:56 alchemy kernel: wlan0: deauthenticating by local choice (reason=3) I don't even know if the failed boot attempts made it to the point that logging was turned on. Anyway, you guys let me know what you want to see or what you want me to test and I'll get it for you FAST. I can't have my Arch install down. I can live without suse, but not Arch ;-) -- 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] Unable to Install Arch on Server
by Carlos Williams 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

I have a Dell server (Power Edge 1855) blade that I am trying to install Arch Linux on. I have no problems installing / running Debian, CentOS, or Ubuntu on this hardware but when I try to boot from Arch CD (2009.08 Netinst or Core), I get an error: Waiting for boot device... Error: Boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds... Falling back to interactive prompt. You can try and fix the problem manually, log out when you're finished. ramfs$ I also built a new PC from home with parts purchased from Newegg.com. The machine runs perfect with almost any flavor of Linux / Windows but when I go to install Arch Linux as above, I get the same error. I have done md5 sum check on my ISO image and used the CD on other servers fine. I know the disk / image is not the problem. Anyone know how I can resolve this? Here is a link to the screenshot of the error: http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/6127/errorua.png

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1
by Hussam Al-Tayeb 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 09:31 +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Samstag 05 Dezember 2009 09:00:38 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > > - splitted kernel-headers to extra package > > If you want to build external modules please install: > > pacman -S kernel26-headers > > Please change your PKGBUILDS to makedepend on this package. > > Was this done to reduce the kernel package size? It's a little > confusing to > have kernel26-headers and kernel-headers. > Isn't it against Arch philosophy to split packages it binary and header packages?

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[arch-general] coreutils 8.1 major problem
by Lukáš Jirkovský 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

Hi everyone, I've just noticed coreutils 8.1 in [testing] repo and I think I should warn you. Unfortunatelly it has one quite bad regression which can break quite many scripts. There is a change in rm command (it's fixed in git repository) that when you try to remove "" it immediately exits without removing any other specified files. Unfortunately this breaks many scripts and Makefiles(IIRC there's problem with eg. libxt). I suggest NOT to upgrade to coreutils 8.1 before the old behavior is restored. more info: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-11/msg00348.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-12/msg00004.html best, Lukas

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