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[arch-general] [PATCHES] About /var/run/ and /var/lock/ checks in daemons
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

Hi people! I interested to make Arch Linux suitable for use with a /var/run and /var/lock that are mounted as tmpfs. But this also helps, in the case that not mounted as tmpfs, to make more simple "purge function" for these directories at rc.sysinit step. In my case this is "just for fun!", but other users can be benefited by this, for example "netbook users". OK, i initially created rc-script patches for the packages in the extra repo that use /var/run/program-name-directory and fails if not exists. (these list was obtained with """ for x in $(find /usr/share/pkgtools/lists -type f); do egrep -l "var/run/.+" $x;done """ @@NOTE@@: I will send the patches to the FL individualy per package now, reference to this email in FL, and then copy the links to response in this email. ;) Please review it, thanks in advance. :) ** Actually work OK (/var/run) core/openswan-2.4.11-1 core/dbus-core-1.2.4-1 core/netcfg-2.1.2-1 extra/consolekit-0.3.0-3 ** Patched RC files (/var/run) extra/apache-2.2.11-2 extra/bind-9.5.0.P2-1 extra/clamav-0.94-1 extra/courier-imap-4.4.1-1 extra/courier-mta-0.60.0-1 extra/cyrus-sasl-2.1.22-10 extra/fetchmail-6.3.8-4 extra/hal-0.5.11-7 (patched for policykit) extra/laptop-mode-tools-1.47-1 extra/lighttpd-1.4.20-2 extra/mpd-0.14.1-3 extra/policykit-0.9-7 (no rc-script here, patched in hal) extra/samba-3.2.7-1 extra/wicd-1.5.8-1 ** Researched (/var/run) extra/iptraf-3.0.0-2 (Trivial patch for iptraf.c or using a profile.d/iptraf for creating a "iptraf()" or another solution) * Apparently these don't use /var/run/program-name-directory, but maybe a simple "mkdir" to rc-script for precaution. extra/bftpd-2.3-1 (The daemon uses directly /var/run/bftpd.pid) extra/networkmanager-0.7.0-1 (The daemon uses directly /var/run/NetworkManager.pid) extra/wesnoth-1.4.7-1 (this game don't have a rc-script for the daemon, if run the /usr/bin/wesnothd without /var/run/wesnothd it fails, solution: provide a rc-script) ** Pending for research (/var/run) community/pulseaudio-0.9.14-1 community/ultimate-ircd-3.0.2-1 community/xen-3.3.1-1 community/wdm-1.28-2 community/dspam-3.8.0-2 community/inn-2.4.5-3 community/gpsd-2.37-2 community/apache13-1.3.41-3 community/freeradius-2.1.3-1 community/lastfmsubmitd-0.35-1 community/selinux-pam-1.0.1-1 community/fail2ban-0.8.3-1 community/ircservices-5.0.62-3 community/p3scan-2.3.2-2 community/bind-geodns-9.4.1-1 community/jabberd14-1.6.1.1-3 ** Pending for research (/var/lock) core/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-2 extra/sane-1.0.19-2 -- 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] alsaplayer gtk2 interface lost?
by Javier Vasquez 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

Hi, My alsaplayer configuration file includes: % cat ~/.alsaplayer/config # # alsaplayer config file # # Only edit this file if the application is not active. # Any modifications might (will!) be lost otherwise. # http.buffer_size=1048576 main.default_interface=gtk2 main.default_output=alsa main.fallback_interface=text main.period_count=8 main.period_size=4096 main.play_on_start=false But when I run alsaplayer with verbosity I get: % alsaplayer --verbose AlsaPlayer 0.99.80 (C) 1999-2004 Andy Lo A Foe <andy(a)alsaplayer.org> and others. Output plugin: ALSA output v1.9.0beta12 Loading reader plugin: HTTP reader v1.3 Loading reader plugin: File reader v1.1 Loading Input plugin: MikMod player v1.0 Loading Input plugin: WAV player v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Ogg Vorbis player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: CDDA player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: flac player v1.1.3/1.1.4/1.2 Loading Input plugin: libsndfile plugin v0.1 Loading Input plugin: MAD MPEG audio plugin v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Audio File Library player v0.2.1 Interface plugin: TEXT interface v1.1 Nothing to play. I'm not sure why the text interface was started. I tried changing the fallback interface to gtk2, and things fail like: % alsaplayer --verbose AlsaPlayer 0.99.80 (C) 1999-2004 Andy Lo A Foe <andy(a)alsaplayer.org> and others. Output plugin: ALSA output v1.9.0beta12 Loading reader plugin: HTTP reader v1.3 Loading reader plugin: File reader v1.1 Loading Input plugin: MikMod player v1.0 Loading Input plugin: WAV player v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Ogg Vorbis player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: CDDA player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: flac player v1.1.3/1.1.4/1.2 Loading Input plugin: libsndfile plugin v0.1 Loading Input plugin: MAD MPEG audio plugin v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Audio File Library player v0.2.1 Failed to load text interface. This is bad (gtk2,gtk2,/usr/lib/alsaplayer) Any idea why gtk2 alsaplayer interface doesn't seem to work? The package is i686: % pacman -Qs alsaplayer local/alsaplayer 0.99.80-1 ... Thanks, -- Javier

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[arch-general] HTML email will be rejected
by Aaron Griffin 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

Hello all, I am writing to inform you that I have changed all the Arch lists to reject HTML formatted email. Please send messages in plain text only. Note: This is true of all lists, but I am only sending this message to the higher trafficked lists. Cheers, Aaron

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[arch-general] HAL issues
by Leonid Grinberg 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

Hello, I just upgraded to networkmanager 0.7, which comes with a hal upgrade. Following this new upgrade, I am unable to mount devices from Dolphin as I used to be able to -- it now gives me a "PermissionDeniedByPolicy mount-removable-extra-options no" error. I followed the instructions on [1] but it did not help. Can someone help me? -- Thanks, Leonid [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#Permission_Denied_with_automounter

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.5-1
by Tobias Powalowski 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - bump to latest version fixed: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13232 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12361 please signoff for both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] which video card driver- proprietary...
by Preston C. 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

I have a GeForce 7600 GS. I do not know which command to run because I do not know which driver to use. Should I use nvidia-96xx or nvidia-173xx or nvidia ? Thanks.

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[arch-general] foomatic 4.0.0 hits testing
by Andreas Radke 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

New Foomatic 4.0.0 has hit the testing repo. The ppd pkg got dropped, a new nonfree package has been added. See the announcement for major changes, esp. pdf printing workflow. http://forums.linux-foundation.org/read.php?21,8139,8139#msg-8139 Please report if you can still print with your favorite spoolers and drivers/ppds. -Andy

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[arch-general] kernel-2.6.28 & pccard problem
by Rumen Yotov 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Hi, Recently installed archlinux so this is my first email here. Can't configure the network (no eth0), dmesg gives me errors while initializing pccard services (a laptop with pcmcia lan card). A search in Bugzilla doen't result in something relevant (USB-issues mostly). Thanks for any suggetions how to proceed. Rumen PS:plan to boot with another kernel (with net-support) but it's using hda instead of sda (fstab), but will try anyway.

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[arch-general] Step 3: Configure X- B: Input hotplugging
by Preston C. 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

I am working on the beginners guide and have read some information on input hotplugging, and was wondering if it was really necessary to do Step 3- section B in the Beginners Guide? If so, I don't really understand exactly what commands to run and which order to run them? Thank you for any help.

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[arch-general] (no subject)
by Zack 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Downloading xorg-server xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-synaptics xf86-input-keyboard xf86-video-intel xorg-xinit ttf-dejavu and xterm used to be about a 30 mb download, with 91 packages to install. I just did it today, and it the download was in the low 20s, and there were only about 60 packages. Did anything change, or am I just crazy. Zack

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