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[arch-general] Archlinux on a virtualbox
by richard terry 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

I can't seem to find out how to set up a network on a freshly installed virtualbox with archlinux. Any pointers to help appreciated. Richard

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[arch-general] Arch Linux Turkish Community Web Site is Renewed!
by Alper KANAT 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

Hey There, I, as one of the members of the Arch Linux Turkish Community, want to present you our new website on http://www.archlinux.org.tr ! To have such an address we have also co-op'd with Linux Foundation of Turkish Users (a.k.a. LKD). Hope you like it! [image: smile] Alper KANAT <alperkanat(a)raptiye.org>

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Kill old gcc versions
by Biru Ionut 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

Jan de Groot wrote: > On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 19:06 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> Can we kill gcc3 and gcc34 from extra? We used to need them for qemu, >> but that's fixed, so they're useless. Objections? > > Move it to AUR. We don't need these anymore. > virtualbox recommendation are gcc3.3 or later except for the GCC 4.0.x series). GCC 4.3.3 is recommended. i've tried to compile with gcc 4.4.0 and is failing. i suggest to move it to community because there are severals packages[1] that have in makedepends gcc34. [1] http://dpaste.com/55327/ -- Ionut

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[arch-general] Default Applications -> WM -> Compiz -- Broken, Compiz will not start that way
by David C. Rankin 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

Listmates, Compiz Fusion works fine on my laptop with kde-unstable when started with FusionIcon, but I cannot configure the control center setting of: Personal -> Default Applications -> Window Manager -> Use a different window manager: Compiz custom (create wrapper script..... or Compiz The error message says the window manager failed to start reverting to kwin... Now compiz runs just fine on kde 4.3 (4.2.95-1) when started with FusionIcon, so it isn't a hardware/xorg issue. My question: "is this a kde or archlinux issue?" -- 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] Kompare
by richard terry 27 Jun '09

27 Jun '09

Still using kde3 and don't seem to have kompare on my disk. Not in the Archlinux or AUR packages, can one still get a kde3 package for arch? Regards Richard

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[arch-general] dmraid Partitions Lost - Recovered -> Howto
by David C. Rankin 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

List, I thought I would pass this along should anyone else experience a loss of all partitions on a drive or array. May help somebody out someday: dmraid Partition Loss with dmraid-1.0.0rc15 Testing dmraid-1.0.0rc15 on a box with two separate dmraid arrays, I experienced the total loss of all partitions on the second dmraid array. The first array held an openSuSE install running dmraid-1.0.0rc14 while the second held Archlinux with dmraid-1.0.0rc15 where testing was being done. All testing of dmraid-1.0.0rc15 on Archlinux went fine, the problem occurred when the machine was boot back into openSuSE. Regardless of the situation, whether using a raid setup or not, partition loss is serious business. dmraid Partition Recovery Recovery of dmraid partitions proceed in the same manner as recovering partitions from a singe drive. if you haven't destroyed the information on the array, you should be able to put the pieces of the puzzle back together again. The basic outline for the process is to locate and restore the partitions on the array and then reinstall the boot loader so your box is functional again. (Note: if you were smart enough to save the "fdisk -l" information for your drives, you can simply fdisk your array and be done) Tools Required Partition location and recovery software (I used testdisk) http://www.cgsecurity.org/ http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk-6.11.linux26.tar.bz2 Rescue CD for your OS (generally your install CD/DVD, or knoppix, etc.) Using testdisk testdisk is a great piece of GPL code written by Christophe Grenier. testdisk can be used with most operating systems and will scan you disk or array and locate partition boundaries and give you the opportunity to recover them. I had 4 partitions dedicated to my Archlinux install totaling roughly 70G on a 750G raid array. To start testdisk, for Linux26, you will untar the bzip archive and then cd into the linux subdirectory. The prebuilt binary is: ./testdisk_static The first thing you will need to do is set the correct disk geometry. In my case the disk reported 254 heads and needed to be changed to 255 heads to work properly. (This is recommended if the first Quick Scan doesn't find your partitions). After setting the geometry, just choose "Analyze" and "Quick Scan" and go get a coffee or something. In my case since the 70G I was using was at the front of the 750G array, it had found my partitions within 5 minutes or so. Once all of your partitions are found you can "Stop" the scan by hitting the return key. You are then presented with the list of found partitions. They will be initially labeled "D" for deleted and you simply toggle on the partitions you need to recover by selecting ("P" Primary, "*" Primary Boot, "L" Logical or leave as "D" for Deleted). testdisk will check your selections for partition overlap and give you confirmation in green if your partition layout is OK. Just hit return to continue. Don't worry about the extended partition boundary, it will be provided. Review the partitions to be recovered and choose "Write" and your are done. (a reboot is required to activate the partitions) If no partitions were found during the "Quick Scan", then (1) check your drive geometry setting; and (2) you will be given the option to do an "In Depth Scan" (go get 4 cups of coffee, walk the dog, etc...) Have Your Rescue CD Handy Once the partition information has been changed, there is a near 100% chance your boot loader configuration will be messed up. Don't worry, everything is still there, you just have to reinstall grub or lilo into the boot record to recover from the situation. Reinstalling Grub Here you will be booting from your CD or DVD into rescue mode, using dmraid to activate the arrays, and then using the information about the dm nodes in /dev/mapper and the partition information in from "cat /proc/partitions" to create a chroot of your install to repair the boot loader: (1) boot from the install DVD (2) choose "Rescue System", login as "root" (no password needed) (3) activate the dmraid arrays with "dmraid -ay" (4) check which device nodes to use to create the chroot with "ls -al /dev/dm*" or "ls -al /dev/mapper". I was dealing with 2 separate arrays, 9 partitions (duplicated by having both dmraid-1.0.0rc14 and dmraid-1.0.0rc15 metadata) that left me with dm-0 to dm-20 to deal with. Compare the size shown for dm-X, /dev/mapper/raiddevice_name and the size shown from "cat /proc/partitions" to determine your "/", "/home", and "/boot" and any other partitions you need to setup in your chroot. (5) mount all dm-X devices or /dev/mapper devices under /mnt to create your actual filesystem, and then bind dev/, proc/ and sys/ to their respective mount points under /mnt and chroot. **Note, you need to mount the device containing the / (root) filesystem first before mounting /boot and /home. Otherwise, the /boot and /home mount points will not exist: Example: mount /dev/dm-5 /mnt mount /dev/dm-7 /mnt/boot mount /dev/dm-6 /mnt/home mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys cd /mnt chroot /mnt (6) Reinstall grub to fix the mbr on your raid discs (mine were hd0 and hd1). See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_with_Fake-RAID#Install_GRUB for my notes on getting the (hdX,Y) numbers right. When you start grub, you get a small ">" prompt, just use the following as a guide. If you only have a single array, you will only need to worry about setting up hd0: grub >root (hd0,4) >setup (hd0) >*** few lines of grub output *** >root (hd1,5) >setup (hd1) >*** more lines of grub output *** >quit (7) check your /etc/grub.conf to make sure it agrees with the way you have just configured grub. For the example above, it should look like this for hd0 (I boot to hd0 and then chainload to get to hd1 and the second array) setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd0,4) quit (8) exit (to exit chroot) and reboot, and if you were successful (or just damn lucky), your system will be 100% again. Now immediately do "fdisk -l" on each of your arrays and drives and save that information remotely so if this happens again, you have a shortcut;-) -- 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] libtorrent-rasterbar PKBUILD patch
by Damien Churchill 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Here's a patch to upgrade the libtorrent-rasterbar package in extra. It's pretty simple, just increasing the pkgver to 0.14.4 and changing the md5sum. I've been using it for a number of weeks now without issue. Damien

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[arch-general] readline GPL violation on two pkgs?
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Hi, I just do a quick scan of soft linked with readline and I think that these two pkgs that are linked with readline violates GPL: extra/tftp-hpa community/ngspice Both have the "old" BSD (4-clause) license and is linked with readline that is GPL, so there is an incompatibility [#1] In the case of ngspice recomends to link with libedit to avoid legal issues [#2] Cheers, [#1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#OriginalBSD [#2] http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/relinfo.html -- 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] Not able to do system updates
by Will Siddall 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

I don't know what happened, but overnight, my system doesn't seem to allow me to update or install packages. I tried with 'sudo pacman -Su' and with 'yaourt -Su' and nothing. I know of at least 10 packages that need to be updated from yesterday. And on further testing, I can't install new packages either. I want to try out the go-openoffice and oss packages, but it won't download. When I do an update though (yaourt -Sy), it does download the new package lists and the files in /var/lib/pacman are updated. Anything any of you might want me to try to figure this out, it'll be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Will

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[arch-general] sound busted after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30?
by Chris Brannon 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

My sound was busted yesterday when I upgraded from kernel 2.6.29 to 2.6.30. I had to regenerate my asound.state. At first, I thought it was just my problem, because I use the softvol plugin. This gave me trouble in the past. A friend of mine reported the same experience, so someone else had audio problems on upgrade as well. What happened to ALSA? Did anyone else have the same trouble? Regards, -- Chris

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