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[arch-general] autofs orphaned
by JM 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Hello, I have been using autofs with my local and remote filesystems for some time. With an update to version 5.0 numerous bugs were introduced forcing many users, including me, to downgrade. On May 2nd, Andrea Scrapino who was the autofs maintainer at the time, orphaned the package and asked on arch-dev-public if some other dev would be interested in maintaining the package. Three months later autofs is still orphaned and autofs bugs assigned to BaSH haunt the bugtracker [1]. Will autofs be deprecated? If so, what compatible alternatives are there? Kind regards, JM [1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=autofs&project=1

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[arch-general] no lzma man
by Caleb Cushing 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

man lzma doesn't come up with anything although other lz* tools refer to an lzma man page -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] What up with the mirrors? Errors using the .pacnew mirrorlist
by David C. Rankin 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Listmates, Today I'm gettign mirror failures: 16:37 alchemy:/etc/pacman.d> pms -u :: Synchronizing package databases... error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db.tar.gz' from archlinux.unixheads.org : Not Found error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db.tar.gz' from mirror.cs.vt.edu : Not Found error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db.tar.gz' from mirrors.easynews.com : Protocol error error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db.tar.gz' from mirrors.easynews.com : Forbidden error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db.tar.gz' from ftp.archlinux.org : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) Should this problem solve itself in a day or so? -- 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] The vsftpd only starts at the second attempt
by Lucas Salies Brum 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

(root@abraham ~):# ps -A | grep vsftpd (root@abraham ~):# /etc/rc.d/vsftpd start :: Starting vsftpd FTP Daemon [FAIL] (root@abraham ~):# /etc/rc.d/vsftpd stop :: Stopping vsftpd FTP Daemon [DONE] (root@abraham ~):# /etc/rc.d/vsftpd start :: Starting vsftpd FTP Daemon [DONE] (root@abraham ~):# ps -A | grep vsftpd 6453 pts/3 00:00:00 vsftpd This has happened to someone? /etc/vsftpd.conf - http://paste.archlinux-br.org/1241 /etc/rc.conf - http://paste.archlinux-br.org/1242 Arch Linux i686. Thanks. --- Lucas Saliés Brum http://sistematico.org lsbrum @ irc.freenode.org

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[arch-general] kde4.3-0.1 - Many plasma-addon package conflicts
by David C. Rankin 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Listmates, Installing the new kde 4.3 release results and many plasma-addon package conflicts. Is this normal? I'm just going to remove the conflicting addons and then try the reinstall. Detailed list of conflicts attached... -- 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] any packages on the repo are duplicated
by Angel Velásquez 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi, I've syncing my local mirror today and seems to be duplicated packages of 'any' architecture on i686 directory for example kde-l10n-de-4.3.0-1-any.pkg.tar.gz is respectively on any dir and i686 dir See the log of pkgsync on [1]: db-clean should fix that iirc, can others mirrors admin checks if this still happening? I reviewed mirror.archlinux.com.ve on 'any' [2] architecture and 'i686' [3], 'x86_64' [4] and as I said 'any' packages still existing on other repos. Thanks [1] http://dpaste.com/75122/ [2] http://mirror.archlinux.com.ve/extra/os/any/ [3] http://mirror.archlinux.com.ve/extra/os/i686/ [4] http://mirror.archlinux.com.ve/extra/os/x86_64/ -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909

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[arch-general] drm no longer builds after latest kernel update on x86_64
by David C. Rankin 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Listmates, After the latest kernel update, drm no longer builds and fails with the following errors: 16:47 alchemy:~/archlinux/apps/drm/linux-core> make radeon.o drm.o make DRM_MODULES=radeon.o modules make[1]: Entering directory `/home/david/archlinux/apps/drm/linux-core' make -C /lib/modules/2.6.30-ARCH/build SUBDIRS=`/bin/pwd` DRMSRCDIR=`/bin/pwd` modules make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-ARCH' CC [M] /home/david/archlinux/apps/drm/linux-core/drm_auth.o In file included from /home/david/archlinux/apps/drm/linux-core/drmP.h:84, from /home/david/archlinux/apps/drm/linux-core/drm_auth.c:36: /home/david/archlinux/apps/drm/linux-core/drm_os_linux.h:36: error: conflicting types for ‘irqreturn_t’ include/linux/irqreturn.h:16: note: previous declaration of ‘irqreturn_t’ was here make[3]: *** [/home/david/archlinux/apps/drm/linux-core/drm_auth.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [_module_/home/david/archlinux/apps/drm/linux-core] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30-ARCH' make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/archlinux/apps/drm/linux-core' make: *** [radeon.o] Error 2 Do I need to change a config setting somewhere to accommodate something in the new kernel? -- 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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-145-1
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi > bump to latest udev version, please test it well. > Has many new things included, which also dig in glib2 and libusb depend. > > greetings > tpowa > Sign-off both i686, x86_64. All boot OK, (custom kernel no initrd) no special setups, like raid or lvm. My usb devices are with the correct perms (4-in-1 reader, pendrive, ipod, mp3 player). The firmware for my printer is loaded OK, and kvm-88 still boot both arches (Arch Linux kernel):) One sidenote, this version support ACL, so I guess that is better now to switch /dev from ramfs to tmpfs in initscripts. (the current udev documentation talks about tmpfs not ramfs) -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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[arch-general] KDE 4.3: packaged and split problem
by Alexander Kotlerman 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

On kde 4.3 packaging and splitting: I am trying to file a bug report, but the e-mail is taking forever for my registration (does that sound right?) so if anyone else has this problem, please post a bug report, i'm going to sleep. I would like to share my install experience so far: I have not been able to upgrade. It complains about "kde-meta-kdeplasma-addons requires kdeplasma-addons-applets-bball" which doesn't exist. Second, doing a fresh install by doing a `sudo pacman -Rd kde kde-meta && sudo pacman -Syy && sudo pacman -S kde` downloads a bunch of the packages, and also does not download a bunch of packages (mostly from kdeedu, kdemultimedia, and i think another that I forget. I tried a few different mirrors (especially those that updated recently) with no luck. When searching for said packages, pacman looks through mirrorlist. No avail.

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[arch-general] Bind 9.6.1-1 patched against dynamic update ddos?
by Fredrik Eriksson 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi, I've seen that there's a dynamic update ddos attack that is widely available on the net and after looking for the solution it seems that bind's latest patch (9.6.1-P1) solves this problem. So my question is more like this, is extra/bind 9.6.1-1 in the repository the same as bind 9.6.1-P1? The build date of the current package in extra/ says the 18 July but the homepage of BIND says the latest patch was published the 28 July. Best regards Fredrik Eriksson

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