Re: [arch-general] Where Should I Report This?

2012-01-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.01.2012 14:03, schrieb Bastien Dejean: Hi, I've been using stderred[1] and one of the things that everyone would expect to work doesn't[2]. Is there a bug here? If so, where should I report it? [1] https://github.com/sickill/stderred [2]

Re: [arch-general] Terrible flash performance

2012-01-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.01.2012 13:58, schrieb Vladimir Nikšić: A couple of months ago I switched from Ubuntu where youtube was working essentially flawlessly, fullscreen or not. A couple of months ago, there was no 64 bit version of the flash player, only a 32 bit version. The same issue occurs on manually

Re: [arch-general] Top Posting Revisited

2011-12-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 16.12.2011 04:47, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: Yeah lets all just spam fuck gmail devs because they won't add a automatic bottom posting feature. Seriously... +++ Since I'm uncertain how to handle incoming emails in the future I still use my providers M$ thingy. I prefer bottom posting

Re: [arch-general] a plea for python 2

2011-12-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 14.12.2011 23:24, schrieb Evan Martin: What I don't understand is why you're manually patching upstream software to rewrite references from /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python2. This sort of forking is exactly the sort of divergence (like how Ubuntu modified their GTK to add their own

Re: [arch-general] [solved] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.12.2011 15:58, schrieb Manolo Martínez: On 12/10/11 at 12:31pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: today I've got some time for my Arch Linux. Thomas, your hint does the job. Parallel to your reply I found ifconfig eth0 up netcfg pppoe which does job too. Just curious: I thought that netcfg

Re: [arch-general] .bashrc not executed on login

2011-12-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.12.2011 23:24, schrieb G. Schlisio: Hello all, if i execute 'sudo su -' roots .bashrc is obviously not executed, so my aliases are not loaded. file properties are 751 root:root did i miss something important? thanks Maybe you should read the bash manpage first. signature.asc

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 08.12.2011 16:05, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: Thank you Thomas :) so the easiest way for me seems to install a DE with a GUI network manager. IIUC 'pacman -U' would be the way to install downloaded packages. You could first try this: ip link set eth0 up netcfg pppoe This should work. As

Re: [arch-general] 2 recommendations needed for installing Arch Linux

2011-12-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.12.2011 15:24, schrieb Nicolás Adamo: But my advice is to mount a RAID arrange. That would be bulletproof. No, it wouldn't. Deleting a file on RAID still means it's gone. Never made one, but I think's it's all BIOS level; not archlinux. Also not true. There is real hardware RAID, BIOS

Re: [arch-general] 2 recommendations needed for installing ArchLinux

2011-12-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.12.2011 15:49, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: [...] I run rm, so a RAID wouldn't improve anything. Ext3 instead of ext4 might improve something?! Generally, running 'rm' on a file means it's gone. It's the specification of 'rm'. Expecting something different means you're doing something wrong.

Re: [arch-general] 2 recommendations needed for installing ArchLinux

2011-12-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.12.2011 17:22, schrieb Kevin Chadwick: On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:08:46 +0100 Thomas Bächler wrote: Generally, running 'rm' on a file means it's gone. It's the specification of 'rm'. Sort of, more so on SSDs but it's just harder to reconstruct because SSDs writes are spread out

Re: [arch-general] libgdbm.so.4 breakage?

2011-11-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.11.2011 15:11, schrieb Simon Perry: On 01/12/11, Simon Perry wrote: | % sudo pacman -Syu | :: Synchronizing package databases... | core is up to date | extra is up to date | community 906.8K 154.2K/s 00:00:06 [] 100% | multilib is

Re: [arch-general] libgdbm.so.4 breakage?

2011-11-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.11.2011 15:43, schrieb Mauro Santos: % rm /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db % pacman -Syu Not sure why or how, but something was preventing core.db from syncing. Not sure that is the best approach, I would have done 'pacman -Syyu'. I guess the devs or someone that knows better will

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: udev events and /usr not mounted

2011-11-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 25.11.2011 23:44, schrieb Myra Nelson: -- Forwarded message -- From: Myra Nelson outerrimlogg...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 15:45 Subject: udev events and /usr not mounted To: General Discussion about Arch Linux arch-general@archlinux.org No gripes,

Re: [arch-general] uname26 - Where is it?

2011-11-22 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 22.11.2011 19:12, schrieb Karol Babioch: Hi, I've looked around for the last couple of weeks for a package providing uname26 [1]. However I couldn't find such and in the mean time compiled it for myself. $ setarch $(arch) --uname-2.6 uname -a Linux evey 2.6.41-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri

Re: [arch-general] uname26 - Where is it?

2011-11-22 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 22.11.2011 20:17, schrieb Karol Babioch: Hi, Am 22.11.2011 19:24, schrieb Thomas Bächler: $ setarch $(arch) --uname-2.6 uname -a Linux evey 2.6.41-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 11 22:28:29 CET 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 520 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux So this seems

Re: [arch-general] Display issues with Linux 3.1

2011-11-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.11.2011 07:45, schrieb Uli Armbruster: * Taylor Hedberg tmhedb...@gmail.com [10.11.2011 01:55]: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile

Re: [arch-general] codecs/codecs64 - what's the scoop? Why the massive difference.

2011-11-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.11.2011 07:21, schrieb David C. Rankin: Guys, I'm trying to figure out why the i686 codecs package (rm from extra now in aur) is so massively different from the x86_64 codecs64 package in aur. The i686 package seems fine, but the x86_64 package seems to be nothing but a shadow of a

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] cryptsetup 1.4.0-2

2011-11-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.11.2011 19:51, schrieb Thomas Bächler: Upstream update. This also adds the new (optional) options field to cryptsetup. If you use a SSD, you can change cryptdevice=/dev/foo:bar to cryptdevice=/dev/foo:bar:allow-discards to enable discard functionality on the crypto mapping

Re: [arch-general] Problem automatically importing key for signed package.

2011-11-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.11.2011 00:40, schrieb Peter Lewis: error: choqok: key 22AD5874F39D989F is unknown error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. I don't know, maybe it uses a broken keyserver. Note that this is not the

Re: [arch-general] ALSA problems with linux-3.1

2011-11-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 02.11.2011 11:00, schrieb Nyuszika7H: I upgraded to linux-3.1-2 from [testing] a few days ago (x86_64), and I had problems with ALSA. Sound was broken - KMixer treated Headphone as master, and alsamixer has changed, too. I tried everything but I couldn't get sound to work. Did anyone else

Re: [arch-general] permission denied on key

2011-11-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 01.11.2011 13:37, schrieb Tom Gundersen: Sun Oct 23 10:35:26 2011: error: permission denied on key 'net.ipv4.conf.all.mc_forwarding' Sun Oct 23 10:35:26 2011: error: permission denied on key 'net.ipv4.conf.default.mc_forwarding' What does it mean? Hi! Do you have any settings in

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cryptsetup 1.4.0-1

2011-10-31 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 31.10.2011 12:54, schrieb Geert Hendrickx: Appears to work fine, however I noticed a change in cryptsetup status output: /dev/mapper/cryptswap is active. type:PLAIN cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 - keysize: 256 bits + keysize: 0 bits device: /dev/xvda1 offset: 0

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cryptsetup 1.4.0-1

2011-10-31 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 31.10.2011 13:18, schrieb Geert Hendrickx: Apparantly this affects only plain volumes (not luks), and will be fixed in 1.4.1: http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/issues/detail?id=115 You may want to include the patch already? http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/source/detail?r=665#

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.1-2

2011-10-31 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.10.2011 18:21, schrieb illdred: On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:37:12 +0200 Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 27.10.2011 06:00, schrieb illdred: and some of the error messages mention something about scsi but fore scrolling past. then the system stops doing anything. Those

[arch-general] [signoff] linux 3.1-3

2011-10-31 Thread Thomas Bächler
Compared to the last release, a few bugfixes: Fix FS#19234, FS#26674, FS#25939, FS#26528 and a wrong drm error. Please sign off. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

2011-10-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.10.2011 21:15, schrieb clemens fischer: $ readelf -d /usr/sbin/minilogd Dynamic section at offset 0x1e50 contains 20 entries: TagType Name/Value 0x0001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6] ... $ readelf -d /lib/libc.so.6 Dynamic

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] linux-3.1-2

2011-10-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.10.2011 18:39, schrieb Peter Lewis: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Evangelos Foutras wrote: Archlinux Changes: - $(uname -r) reports now the full kernel version Interesting... can someone clarify what's going on with this? I was under the impression that under the new versioning scheme some

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.1-2

2011-10-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.10.2011 06:00, schrieb illdred: and some of the error messages mention something about scsi but fore scrolling past. then the system stops doing anything. Those are probably relevant. Details on those? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

2011-10-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.10.2011 10:38, schrieb clemens fischer: minilogd requires the following libs: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11K Oct 18 18:34 /usr/sbin/minilogd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Sep 9 01:23 /usr/lib32/libc.so.6 - libc-2.14.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.4M Sep 9 01:23 /usr/lib32/libc-2.14.so

Re: [arch-general] open-vm-tools-modules 2011.09.23-2

2011-10-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.10.2011 13:38, schrieb Christian Hesse: Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org on Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:48:34 +0200: Am 25.10.2011 17:12, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: please signoff 3.1 series for both arches. Updated a virtual machine to linux 3.1-2 and open-vm-tools-modules 2011.09.23-2

Re: [arch-general] open-vm-tools-modules 2011.09.23-2

2011-10-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.10.2011 14:59, schrieb Sergej Pupykin: At Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:38:28 +0200, Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de wrote: Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org on Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:48:34 +0200: Am 25.10.2011 17:12, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: please signoff 3.1 series for both arches. Updated

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.1-2

2011-10-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 26.10.2011 11:54, schrieb Dominik Cermak: I get the following message displayed right before the initscripts output: [2.117965] [drm:ironlake_update_pch_refclk] *ERROR* enabling SSC on PCH So far I have no problems, but this message seems important. I have the same, and I am a bit

Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

2011-10-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
would that be? THE-FAVOURITE-SEARCH-ENGINE didn't pull anything useful for patch Thomas-Bächler busybox. Can somebody point us to the relevant code, please? I am not sure which patch he means. I wrote something recently, but I only shared that with Tom in private conversations

Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

2011-10-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 25.10.2011 16:19, schrieb Dwight Schauer: Would the /usr location be determined when the initramfs is created, or would it determine the location at runtime via /etc/fstab? Just wanted to make sure it is the latter. Yes, you mounted root, so you can now look at fstab. By label? Is that

[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.1-2

2011-10-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 25.10.2011 17:12, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: Hi guys, please signoff 3.1 series for both arches. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Archlinux Changes: - $(uname -r) reports now the full kernel version - all external modules should be installed in

Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

2011-10-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 24.10.2011 16:42, schrieb Dwight Schauer: I've been using Arch Linux for about 4 years now. I have it on a few important systems at work and it has been doing very well. This morning I saw /usr is not mounted. This is not supported. in my boot up after a recent rc.sysinit update.

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-10-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.10.2011 12:54, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: I'll also try the b43 driver again, but it didn't work for my [14e4:4315] BCM4312 in the past. Guess it's worth a try though. So I enabled logging with -d but I don't understand the cause of the problem from this log (last 500 lines attached).

Re: [arch-general] no ACPI estimate in powertop with latest kernels

2011-10-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.10.2011 14:26, schrieb Scott Lawrence: On a related note - I also get this no ACPI estimate error, but only when my laptop is not on battery power. When unplugged, it gives estimates as desired. Anyone know why this would be? Powertop measures the power requirement using the decharge

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-10-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 08.10.2011 13:28, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: I get just cable at home and wireless at university, everything's fine, except that I still get disconnected from the university wlan about every 30 minutes. net-auto-wireless didn't change a thing in this regard. Here's an excerpt from

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-10-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 08.10.2011 14:42, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: The 'rfkill list' output is identical, ifconfig is different, but I don't know how to interpret the output: -wlan0: flags=4099UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST mtu 1500 metric 1 +wlan0: flags=4163UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 1500 metric 1 That

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.0.6-2

2011-10-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 07.10.2011 22:16, schrieb Matthew Gyurgyik: On 10/07/2011 08:26 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Latest kernel is in testing, - fixed archiso support - revert to performance governor please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa Looked in the tracker and didn't see anything. Just curious,

Re: [arch-general] Can't mount a certain type of ISO CDs

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.10.2011 10:26, schrieb Bastien Dejean: Unfortunately, mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd Try without the -t part. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Can't mount a certain type of ISO CDs

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.10.2011 12:03, schrieb Bastien Dejean: Thomas Bächler a écrit : mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd Try without the -t part. I already tried. If I do so, mount asks me to specify the filesystem. I guess it won't return anything, but please try blkid /dev/sr0 or blkid -p /dev

Re: [arch-general] Can't mount a certain type of ISO CDs

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.10.2011 12:21, schrieb Bastien Dejean: Thomas Bächler a écrit : I guess it won't return anything, but please try blkid /dev/sr0 or blkid -p /dev/sr0 Tried both: nothing's returned. This can only mean two things: 1) You get read errors (see dmesg) 2) The file system on the discs

Re: [arch-general] remove grub from base group?

2011-10-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 01.10.2011 05:35, schrieb Ray Kohler: Since aif now supports syslinux and grub equally, does it make sense that grub no longer needs to be in the base group? syslinux isn't in base. I'll open an FS for this if that's wanted. +1 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.09.2011 11:53, schrieb Philipp: Hi there, I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It works fine for a while but after a couple of minutes I get disconnected and need to reconnect manually. I think that happens pretty regularly, so I assume that some kind of connection renewal

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.09.2011 14:33, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-09-28 13:14:06 +0200: Am 28.09.2011 11:53, schrieb Philipp: Hi there, I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It works fine for a while but after a couple of minutes I get disconnected and

Re: [arch-general] libtool(-multilib) and libltdl

2011-09-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.09.2011 17:05, schrieb F.Gr.: [2011-09-12T17:37 CEST] Ionut Biru: On 09/12/2011 05:06 PM, F.Gr. wrote: Hi, I'm using Arch64. The latest updated for libtool(-multilib) and libltdl breaks some software (transmission-gtk, emacs): emacs: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: [arch-general] Adopting start-stop-daemon in archlinux

2011-09-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 08.09.2011 12:08, schrieb Clemens Fruhwirth: If you use Debian, you might have come across start-stop-daemon. It's part of the dpkg package and encapsulates all the knowledge, they learnt when dealing with starting and stopping daemons. It has plenty of features ranging from: * handling

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Adopting start-stop-daemon in archlinux

2011-09-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 08.09.2011 18:01, schrieb Tom Gundersen: I think my preferred approach would be to provide some more helperfunctions in /etc/rc.d/functions which do the most common operations of the ones you outlined above. Just by glancing over your ssh-patch I got the impression that we would be better

Re: [arch-general] [aniko...@gmail.com: odd compress command]

2011-09-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.09.2011 07:44, schrieb Westley Martínez: I don't think my previous email went through. I apologize and disregard if it did. Here is the original message: This symlink has been created in PKGBUILD for as long as our history dates back. It seems wrong anyway. Open a bug report, please.

Re: [arch-general] Unable to use tape drive

2011-08-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 24.08.2011 14:42, schrieb Vitor Garcia: As the device is conected to a sata port, I have tried: dmesg | grep -i sata ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 1 SControl 310) ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps (The 2 above lines repeats hundreds of times) But I'm not sure it has any

Re: [arch-general] btrfs Arch

2011-08-22 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 22.08.2011 08:17, schrieb Gour-Gadadhara Dasa: I'd like to have similar setup on Arch, but without using lvm2+raid-1 (if possible), Using LVM and software RAID is the right thing to do here. Any particular reason why you don't want it? so I did research a bit about zfs on Linux and it

Re: [arch-general] Pacman get stack when updating the kernel!!

2011-08-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 20.08.2011 10:23, schrieb Hector Martinez-Seara: Hi, I'm sorry for the late reply. After rebooting my computer was not functioning any longer :). Of course it wasn't. Yes, I have a USB 3.0 controller and an external disk attached to it in a x86_64 system. Once I unplugged the disk

Re: [arch-general] Pacman get stack when updating the kernel!!

2011-08-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 19.08.2011 14:19, schrieb Hector Martinez-Seara: Hi, Today when I have tried to update the kernel pacman got stack: Updating module dependencies. Please wait ... Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait... == Building image from preset: 'default' - -k

Re: [arch-general] unable to run emacs through VNC

2011-08-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 17.08.2011 20:38, schrieb D. R. Evans: xorg-rgb is unneeded by xorg, but VNC still uses it. I don't uunderstand the contents of the URL, It's a PKGBUILD. but it seems like it's a packaging dependency error if emacs needs a package but it's not automagically downloaded. Anyway, I

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] linux-3.0.2-1

2011-08-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 16.08.2011 15:35, schrieb Dwight Schauer: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Matias Serer mjse...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry about my ignorance and bad english, but could anyone explain what do i have to do? Matias, It is optional, you only do this if you want to or have the time to do so.

Re: [arch-general] unable to run emacs through VNC

2011-08-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 15.08.2011 23:30, schrieb D. R. Evans: I have arch running on a machine that I access through vnc. I just installed and tried to run emacs on the arch machine in an xfce terminal window, but I get the following error: $ emacs logcfg.dat Xlib: extension RANDR missing on display :1.0.

[arch-general] [signoff] vpnc 0.5.3-4

2011-08-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Fix FS#25002 (add net-tools dep for now), FS#23452 (fix path, add optdepend) and FS#25095 (add supplied patch). Please sign off. I also want to mention that I don't use vpnc anymore, and haven't done so for years. I don't want to keep maintaining it, so if there are takers among the devs, please

[arch-general] [signoff] openvpn 2.2.1-1

2011-08-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Upstream update, fix FS#24797, FS#19376. Please sign off. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel26 - linux move compat symlinks

2011-08-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.08.2011 22:23, schrieb Heiko Baums: Am Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:54:07 +0200 schrieb Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org: 3) As it is now, new installations will end up with compat symlinks. This is only supposed to be for updates, not for new installations. Wouldn't it be better to put

[arch-general] [signoff] linux 3.0.1-1

2011-08-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Hi, please signoff the 3.0 series for both architectures. Note: the upgrade path from 3.0-2 to 3.0.1-1 is not entirely smooth if you rely on the vmlinuz26 compat symlink. However, the upgrade path from core/kernel26 to this version is smooth. Upstream changes:

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux 3.0.1-1

2011-08-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.08.2011 18:27, schrieb Myra Nelson: On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 10:58, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Hi, please signoff the 3.0 series for both architectures. Note: the upgrade path from 3.0-2 to 3.0.1-1 is not entirely smooth if you rely on the vmlinuz26 compat symlink

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux 3.0.1-1

2011-08-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.08.2011 19:52, schrieb Tom Gundersen: On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: please signoff the 3.0 series for both architectures. Signoff x86_64. dmesg -k -l err is empty, and the only mildly interesting output of dmesg -k -l warn I get

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Fwd: Move kdelibs3 to [community]

2011-07-18 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 18.07.2011 19:05, schrieb Calvin Morrison: What I think would be best for everyone, is that once we release our next version, arch should look into switching to the Trinity Desktop provided kdelibs3, kdebase, kde* packages. They are more up to date and stable. I think the fact you are

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping tcp_wrapper support

2011-07-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 16.07.2011 19:41, schrieb Andrea Scarpino: On 16 July 2011 19:32, Vic Demuzere v...@demuzere.be wrote: So, you're saying that those 4 lines are easier than the 2 short ones in hosts.allow? Ah well, I'll have to learn to write iptables scripts then, I suppose. I mean its more intuitive in

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping tcp_wrapper support

2011-07-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 16.07.2011 23:00, schrieb Richard Ullger: What do the devs intend to do with packages that depend on tcp_wrapper such as syslog-ng, xinetd and esound which is a dependency of gstreamer? Richard. None of those depends on tcp_wrappers. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK=localtime is strongly discouraged BUT???

2011-07-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.07.2011 17:20, schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook: Since I multi-boot AND do keep my hardware clock set to local time, I'm a little bit concerned by this statement. It gives me two questions. This is no reason. Especially if you dual-boot, keeping the hardware clock in UTC is something to

Re: [arch-general] netcfg: complete documentation available?

2011-07-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.07.2011 16:45, schrieb XeCycle: Hello, I am now trying netcfg for managing network connections, however I encountered some problems, and I didn't find the solution in the manual or the ArchWiki. So I wonder whether a complete documentation is available. Heh, that is a weak point of

[arch-general] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.7.1-1, device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.85-3, cryptsetup 1.3.1-2, dmraid 1.0.0.rc16.3-2, mdadm 3.2.2-2, v86d 0.1.10-2

2011-07-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
/install: rewrite the config to sanitize it cleanup rarely and unused variable declarations functions: remove cruft from in_array Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (1): Fix -k /path when -b is used Thomas Bächler (4): init_functions/default_mount_handler: use -l option for blkid

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.7-1, device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.85-3, dmraid 1.0.0.rc16.3-2, mdadm 3.2.2-2, v86d 0.1.10-2

2011-07-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.06.2011 20:15, schrieb Thomas Bächler: This is a huge release and should stay in testing for a while. I want to point out two significant changes: The ldd - internal _ldd change broke image generation for 64 bit kernels on a 32 bit userspace. This can be worked around by using 'linux32

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.7-1, device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.85-3, dmraid 1.0.0.rc16.3-2, mdadm 3.2.2-2, v86d 0.1.10-2

2011-07-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 01.07.2011 11:23, schrieb cantabile: One small problem with mkinitcpio: the -z flag doesn't do anything. I had COMPRESSION=xz in the config and tried -z lzop - compressed with xz. I had COMPRESSION=lzop in the config and tried -z lzma - compressed with lzop. (Verified with lsinitcpio.)

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The need for /lib64 - testing please

2011-07-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 01.07.2011 12:16, schrieb Emmanuel Benisty: The problem is quite simple: The ELF binary hardcodes the path to the interpreter (which is the linker). Binaries that were compiled for other distributions or generic binaries distributed by third parties will have the path

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

2011-06-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.06.2011 02:35, schrieb Steve Holmes: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/List/Util/Util.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Istack_sp_ptr That file is not part of any package in the Arch repositories. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

2011-06-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.06.2011 11:09, schrieb Casey Peter: I'm seeing this during boot: Wed Jun 29 14:48:09 2011: XSLoader::load('Your::Module', $Your::Module::VERSION) at /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/XSLoader.pm line 25. Wed Jun 29 14:48:09 2011: Compilation failed in require at /etc/rc.d/ptal-init line 115.

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

2011-06-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.06.2011 11:54, schrieb Casey Peter: On 06/30/2011 03:33 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 30.06.2011 11:09, schrieb Casey Peter: I'm seeing this during boot: Wed Jun 29 14:48:09 2011: XSLoader::load('Your::Module', $Your::Module::VERSION) at /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/XSLoader.pm line 25

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

2011-06-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.06.2011 12:59, schrieb Jelle van der Waa: This discussion needs more info: pacman -Q perl mod_perl those two provide XSLoader.pm. They provide it, but at a different path. The file mentioned here is not contained in any package we built. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

2011-06-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.06.2011 13:25, schrieb Casey Peter: On 06/30/2011 05:08 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 30.06.2011 12:59, schrieb Jelle van der Waa: This discussion needs more info: pacman -Q perl mod_perl those two provide XSLoader.pm. They provide it, but at a different path. The file mentioned here

[arch-general] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.7-1, device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.85-3, dmraid 1.0.0.rc16.3-2, mdadm 3.2.2-2, v86d 0.1.10-2

2011-06-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
to mkinitcpio Fix printing of bash usage when asking for a bad hook Print pretty message if no help is defined in hook Use error function instead of echo Add lsinitcpio bash completion Use _get_comp_words_by_ref in bash completion Thomas Bächler (7): Merge

Re: [arch-general] Warning - Thunderbird 5 Breaks Access to pop accounts

2011-06-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 29.06.2011 18:10, schrieb David C. Rankin: Guys, This may just be on my box, but after update to thunderbird 5, all access to new messages on pop accounts broke. The error message said: Please send PASS command. It looks like the mailer wasn't responding properly to the server

Re: [arch-general] Should ctrl_interface in /etc/wpa_supplicant be changed?

2011-06-23 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 23.06.2011 01:09, schrieb Oon-Ee Ng: Hi all, wondering if ctrl_interface in /etc/wpa_supplicant needs changing to /run instead of /var/run. See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=952351#p952351 Actually, it was changed for net-auto-wireless in the new netcfg, which was very

Re: [arch-general] Was Fwd: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] coreutils-8.12-2, initscripts-2011.06.2-1, net-tools-1.60-15, udev-171-2, yp-tools-2.12-2

2011-06-04 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 04.06.2011 23:48, schrieb C Anthony Risinger: Separate /usr is 100% historical AFAICT ... per systemd it's unsupported, It is historical, yes. and IIRC its not perfect supported on any distro for a variety of reasons. I run several SuSE machines with /usr on a separate partition. Works

Re: [arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

2011-05-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 26.05.2011 06:28, schrieb XeCycle: Perhaps we may provide alternative kernels? With names like these, we may get a brand new project named Arch Operating System, providing Linux, BSD, Hurd or even more as kernels, and users are free to choose any one. Well, this is really interesting. It'd

Re: [arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

2011-05-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 26.05.2011 14:48, schrieb Yaro Kasear: On Thursday, May 26, 2011 02:57:49 Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 26.05.2011 06:28, schrieb XeCycle: Perhaps we may provide alternative kernels? With names like these, we may get a brand new project named Arch Operating System, providing Linux, BSD, Hurd

Re: [arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

2011-05-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 25.05.2011 17:20, schrieb Bernardo Barros: Hi there, There are rumors that the next version number of the Linux Kernel is going to be 3.0. Since we choosed 'kernel26' as the package name, we will have to modify it anyway. Why not just 'linux 3.0'? Just an idea.. since we have the fellow

Re: [arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

2011-05-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 25.05.2011 17:43, schrieb jesse jaara: This is from recent kerbel mailing list post. A voice inside Torvals head is telling hin that it would be time to go for 3.0 versioning Everyone, don't get too excited. The reasons for Linux 3.0 are - the numbers are getting too big (2.6.40) - the 2.6

Re: [arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

2011-05-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 25.05.2011 18:21, schrieb Yaro Kasear: On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 11:14:55 Sander Jansen wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 25.05.2011 17:43, schrieb jesse jaara: This is from recent kerbel mailing list post. A voice inside Torvals head

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg status

2011-05-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 16.05.2011 07:17, schrieb Stan: There is also stuff about vlan which is very useful. netcfg lack of maintainer. -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net Can be one. Is that possible for non-trust-user? We had some applications for a netcfg maintainer almost two months ago. However,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 29.04.2011 02:43, schrieb Heiko Baums: Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:33:57 +0200 schrieb Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no: * We now strongly discourage the use of HWCLOCK=localtime, as this may lead to several known and unfixable bugs This can lead to problems on multi boot systems on which Arch

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 29.04.2011 15:36, schrieb Heiko Baums: And I say my opinion, at least if I see that there could be regressions or serious issues. If I remember it right, the only changes were the default value and comment in rc.conf. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cronie-1.4.7-4

2011-04-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.04.2011 16:19, schrieb Ray Kohler: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org wrote: [2011-04-26 22:24:31 +0200] Gaetan Bisson: The cronie package in [testing] aims at seamlessly replacing dcron. Version 1.4.7-5 features several packaging improvements: - use

[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.6.11

2011-04-21 Thread Thomas Bächler
Version 0.6.10 was busted, this time everything should be fine (finally). Thomas Bächler (2): Rewrite parse_cmdline (again) Release version 0.6.11 There is a problem: The new filesystem package was moved to core and creates /run, but /run is not usable as it is not a world-writable

Re: [arch-general] kernel26-2.6.38.2-1 and lilo

2011-04-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.04.2011 11:32, schrieb Geoff: I hope this does not count as noise on this list, but can anybody confirm / deny that the lilo issue which I read about here has been resolved in the kernel version now available for download? No, you must update lilo to the latest version. Reference:

[arch-general] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.6.10

2011-04-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Fixes: - FS#23467 - FS#22080 - FS#13900 - FS#23622 It also introduces /run. Please sign off. Shortlog: Thomas Bächler (6): Fix broken command line parsing due to insufficient quoting introduced in 42e8dba5dce4879e4a372c5c2fb5446b4e8bb16c. init: Unify/improve mount --move handling

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 07.04.2011 04:36, schrieb Thomas S Hatch: I like to hear that Tom! Unfortunately many people think that having SELinux compiled in means that it is running, having SELinux compiled into the core utils and the kernel but leaving it turned off has 0 negative effect on the system. If that

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 07.04.2011 04:30, schrieb Thomas S Hatch: Right, both are viable choices, btw I will be migrating my datacenters away from dcron in the near future and doing a series of tests on cronie and fcron, I will post my findings to the list. I think that will be more valuable than any continuation

Re: [arch-general] ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/x86_64/packages

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.04.2011 18:15, schrieb Sergej Pupykin: Hi, what is this symlink: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/x86_64/packages/ ? Good question, I don't think it should be there. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.04.2011 09:19, schrieb Thomas S Hatch: I can think of three considerations for a cron daemon: 1 . Minimal - its a cron daemon, it does not need to be complex 2. Active development 3. Anacron functionality As far as I can see this leaves us with fcron, dcron and cronie. Cronie

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.03.2011 10:36, schrieb Partha Chowdhury: I have recently changed my internet provider as i have moved. My previous provider was a DSL provider and the current one is the local cable operator.Now with current provider port 80 is shown open in every port scan test , all other ports being

Re: [arch-general] Port 80 is shown open in port scan without any web server running

2011-03-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.03.2011 12:15, schrieb Partha Chowdhury: Well I picked this configuration from Red Hat training books, except for port 54215 which I open for bit torrent. What do you suggest about the ideal iptables configuration for basic desktop user - This comes with our iptables package: $ cat

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