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[arch-general] no x with new xorg-server and nvidia
by Johannes Held 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Hi folks, right now, I updated my machine and X won't start! The new kernel, new xorg-server and nvidia-*. nvidia 169.09-2 nvidia-utils 169.09-1 xorg-server 1.4.0.90-6 kernel26 2.6.24.1-2 I updated normally but X won't start. All I get is a blank screen. I can't change back to ttys. The only thing that's working is CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot my machine. I tried a few thing.. pacman -Rd xorg-server nvidia nvidia-utils and installing them again pacman -S xorg-server pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils everytime the symlink to libwfb.so in /usr/lib/xorg/modules is symlinked to the "real" libwfb. Having nvidia-* installed, it symlinks to libnvidia-wfb.so.169.09. If nvidia is not installed, it symlinks to libwfb.so.1.4 Any ideas? I can't get any output of the starting X-Server, because I can't switch back to the tty. Thanks in advance. -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version

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[arch-general] Firefox 2.0.0.12, unable to rebuilding !
by Gilles CHAUVIN 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

Hi all, I sent an e-mail early to whom I think is responsible for this package but, since I got no reply yet, I'm trying here and see if I have more luck :). It seem like there is a problem with the latest Firefox update (v2.0.0.12). I cannot rebuild the package as there is a file (declared in the PKGBUILD) that is missing. The file is a patch named "firefox-1.5-theme-change.patch". If I remove any references to this patch in the PKGBUILD, the package will then build. Also, the md5sums() array doesn't reflect the source() array number of elements: # abs [...] $ source /var/abs/extra/network/firefox/PKGBUILD $ echo ${#source[*]} 19 $ echo ${#md5sums[*]} 18 I'm pretty sure this mistake is linked to the missing patch mentioned above. Could someone have a look at this or do I have to file a bug ? Thanks, Gilles.

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[arch-general] packages in base
by Grigorios Bouzakis 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

Hi, i started playing with packages in base today, and the first two packages that come up in alphabetical order are acl and attr. I decided to research what those packages actually do, since i doubt i have ever used them. The site both packages link to is http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/. I am wondering if those packages are needed to a user not using the XFS filesystem and the reason acl is Required By : coreutils gettext libarchive vim. Any help on the subject, links etc. would be appreciated. Next thing i wanted to ask is if the bash-noinfo.patch in the bash package is indeed needed as the man page installs fine without it. PS. Can we get the Mailing List footer back? Greg

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[arch-general] [arch-announce] Kernel 2.6.24.1 in Core
by Roman Kyrylych 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

After a testing phase kernel 2.6.24.1 has been moved to Core where it replaces version 2.6.23.14. Some of the most visible changes for users include: * more mac80211-based wireless drivers added * tickless support for x86_64 * uvesafb; support for ATI Xpress 200M and Mac framebuffers * ACPI usage in libata * SATA port multipliers support * NCQ support on MCP51/MCP55/MCP61 chipsets (add 'swncq=1' to the kernel boot commandline) * SDIO support * ability to use any kernel version to resume a hibernated system * read-only --bind mounts * tons of bugfixes and improvements A detailed human-readable changelog is available at KernelNewbies Wiki: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_24 Attention! The kernel26-2.6.24.1-2 package includes an important security fix (local user privilege escalation). Everyone is encouraged to upgrade, especially on a system with ssh accounts. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-general] SSH. Can't open Xapps when su'ed to root
by Nigel Henry 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

I'm still looking at the jacman problem, and have sometimes found that apps that won't work on the machine they are installed on, will work if I ssh into the machine, and run them on another. IIRC I had problems initially using ssh when I installed Archlinux (don't panic), but found some info somewhere or other, as below. Comment out "ALL: ALL: DENY" line in /etc/hosts/deny Add sshd to /etc/rc.conf daemons list Run /etc/rc.d/sshd start Now I can ssh into archlinux (this is just local, not from the Internet). I have uncommented the following lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 I can open Xapps as user (gedit, jacman,etc), but not when I su to root, as below for gedit. [djmons@myhost ~]$ su Password: [root@myhost djmons]# gedit X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. cannot open display: Run 'gedit --help' to see a full list of available command line options. [root@myhost djmons]# Same goes when I try to open jacman when su'ed to root. I tried accessing Xapps as root with Fedora 8, which is on the same machine as Archlinux, and they open ok. I have compared the sshd_config on both F8, and Archlinux, and can't see any apparent differences between the two. Anyone have any suggestions as to what may be the problem? All a bit puzzling. Nigel.

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[arch-general] problem with Firefox and Opera
by Scott Weisman 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

I did a system upgrade yesterday (Friday 8 Feb). The following (possibly relevant) packages were upgraded: mesa libgl xorg-server xf86-video-intel firefox After I did the upgrade, I shut down my box. When I restarted tonight, Firefox kept crashing, and giving this error message: The program 'gecko' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. (Details: serial 1625746 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) Because it kept crashing, I tried Opera (which I use for testing and as a backup). It started, but returned this message (which I had never seen before): opera: X Shared memory extension is not available. ZPixmap not supported Because I am getting unusual errors in both browsers (and the errors are related), I think this is at a lower level. My system is a Core 2 Duo with 2GB RAM and 400MB swap (which is not used at the time Firefox crashes). Has anyone else experienced any of these problems? Does anyone have any suggestions? Scott

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[arch-general] X11 man pages
by marc[î1] 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hello, Arch devs put man pages in /usr/share/man like FHS want, ok. But FHS says : « Manual pages for X11R6 are stored in /usr/X11R6/man. It follows that all manual page hierarchies in the system must have the same structure as /usr/share/man. » http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREMANMANUALPAGES I don't understand FHS or ArchLinux should put X11 man page in /usr/X11R6/man ? Regards. -- + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + + (o< -! marc[i1] #363392 + + //\ http://archlinux.fr + + \\/_ Linux for Free Generation + + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +

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[arch-general] Fw: get pid of daemon in init script
by Michael Krauss 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

On 08/02/08, Dan McGee wrote: > Because you are calling pidof before the process starts- bash does not > do lazy evaluation of your expressions. > > If you want to store the PID of the newly started process, you will > have to make another PID=... call to get it in the else block where > you access it. Ohh, you are absolutely right. It is working now. I must get this damn Common Lisp out of my head before writing shell scripts next time. I will file a bug report on cups too. Thanks, Michael Krauss

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[arch-general] get pid of daemon in init script
by Michael Krauss 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi to .* I must write a rc init script for a server I am packaging. Therefor I have copied the init script of cups. Now I recognized that both pid files, cups.pid and my own, in /var/run are empty. Further investigations have shown that "pidof -o %PPID -x /usr/bin/cdvserver" returns nothing in the start) case but in stop) it seems to work. I don't understand why pidof isn't working as expected. Kind Regards, Michael Krauss Here is my init script: #!/bin/bash . /etc/rc.conf . /etc/rc.d/functions PID=`pidof -o %PPID -x /usr/bin/cdvserver` PIDFILE="/var/run/cdvserver.pid" case "$1" in start) stat_busy "Starting Codeville Server" [ -z "$PID" ] && /usr/bin/cdvserver if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then stat_fail else echo "Started " $PID echo $PID > $PIDFILE add_daemon cdv stat_done fi ;; stop) stat_busy "Stopping Codeville Server" [ ! -z "$PID" ] && kill $PID &> /dev/null if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then stat_fail else rm $PIDFILE rm_daemon cdv stat_done fi ;; restart) $0 stop sleep 1 $0 start ;; *) echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" esac exit 0

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[arch-general] What should be done with octave?
by Neil Darlow 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi, Arch has octave-2.1.73 in extra. The current stable version of octave is 3.0.0 but it is not backwards compatible with the 2.1.x series. The gcc-4.2.3 migration has broken octave due to a versioned dependency on gcc-fortran. Also, the PKGBUILD has no license or md5sum entries. The octave-2.1.73 PKGBUILD will need fixing but should it be updated to 3.0.0 and, if so, should a legacy octave2 package be created? I'm looking for opinions before I file any bug report. Regards, Neil Darlow

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