Re: [arch-general] CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set

2009-10-22 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sascha Siegel schrieb: Hi, can someone tell my whats the reason for building the arch-kernel with # CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set? Thank you! Optimizing for size sacrifices performance. Read the gcc documentation about the -O{1,2,3,s} options. signature.asc Description:

Re: [arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

2009-10-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
RedShift schrieb: This thread will probably erupt in a massive flamewar, yet I decided to post my story anyway. I am talking about the desktop experience in general, not the technical details behind it. Keep that in mind. I've been working these past few months with KDE 4.3 and it feels very

Re: [arch-general] Full system encryption with support for hibernation

2009-10-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
vlad schrieb: Thanks, helpful hints. But does this also work with suspend-to-ram? I mean, when suspending to ram everything remains unencrypted? Do I see this right? Suspend to RAM always works - however, there are potential attacks where people freeze your laptop, take out the (frozen) RAM

Re: [arch-general] Why qemu/kqemu conflict to kvm ?

2009-10-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
goodme...@gmail.com schrieb: OK, ok, I want install qemu+kqemu and KVM in my machine. Why does they conflict? Sometime, I want my virtual machine run faster, so KVM is a great choice. But sometime, I need simulate other CPU: ppc arm ... , so qemu is the best choice. Why does them

Re: [arch-general] netcfg

2009-10-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
f...@kokkinizita.net schrieb: The one remaining problem is with netcfg 2.2.1. On my laptop I have the drivers e1000 and ipw2200 loaded in rc.conf, providing the devices eth0 and eth1 in fixed order. It's not guaranteed to provide a fixed order any more, you should really look into udev rules

Re: [arch-general] Encrypted ram disk?

2009-10-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Karol Babioch schrieb: On Mi, 2009-10-28 at 18:50 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: ryptsetup has (in its latest release candidate) gained a feature where you can suspend a volume by killing the encryption key and later resume it by reentering the passphrase. Have you more information about

Re: [arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...

2009-10-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Preston C. schrieb: Thank you Magnus, very much. Windows is on the first SATA port, though. Any difference in the configuration of Grub since Windows is on the first SATA port? That's difficult indeed. Grub will be installed in the MBR of the first disk and as far as I know will need its

Re: [arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...

2009-10-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Preston C. schrieb: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: That's difficult indeed. Grub will be installed in the MBR of the first disk and as far as I know will need its files to be on the same disk - in a FAT32, ext2/3/4, xfs, jfs, ... (not NTFS) partition

Re: [arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...

2009-10-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Preston C. schrieb: Swapping the boot device order in BIOS will do the same. Well that is good news. Now I do not have to open the computer! Magnus I have done some research, your way is right, although, it seems I should do something more like this. With the map parameter: # (2) Windows XP

Re: [arch-general] Encrypting remote system

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Karol Babioch schrieb: Hi, I'm wondering whether there is a possibility to encrypt a remote system using Arch Linux? I have installed Arch on a remote server, and don't like the idea that anyone with physical access to my system has access to my data. So is there something I can do about it?

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vacation Nov 7th - 14th

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Evangelos Foutras schrieb: Does this mean that RAID 1 is used and one of the two drives failed? :) Indeed. Actually, we failed it because performance was crappy due to the slowly dying drive. Also, is there a page describing the current Arch server(s) setup? I remember reading something

Re: [arch-general] Segmentation fault in X after last upgrade

2009-11-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Lars Tennstedt schrieb: Hi, Xorg with nvidia-96xx for a GeForce 3 Ti 200 does not start anymore on my Arch Linux installation (i686). First I thought that it was a failure caused by SLiM because the error output on screen was respawning too fast and I switched from respawn to once but that

Re: [arch-general] file system capabilities

2009-11-04 Thread Thomas Bächler
Jan de Groot schrieb: This can be done by default, but capabilities aren't preserved when making tarballs. Every capability has to be set from post_install/post_upgrade in such cases. Maybe this is something worth to implement though. Actually, bsdtar preserves them when packing, but upon

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
André Ramaciotti da Silva schrieb: The problem is: I can't use them at all. I'm using the default kernel, which, according to /proc/config.gz has: CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR=y and I'm using ext4, evidently. I've tried doing the following: $ echo 'asd' test $ attr -s user.author -V andre test

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
André Ramaciotti da Silva schrieb: Thank you Thomas and Xavier. I just got a little worried though. Is there any reason for user_xattr not being enabled by default? Not sure, you may ask the ext2/3/4 developers. I usually enable it on /home, but not on other partitions. IIRC, SuSE enables

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Priit Kivisoo schrieb: I just got a little worried though. Is there any reason for user_xattr not being enabled by default? I think it's because Arch doesn't use SELinux by default, as it's mostly for ACLs. Neither selinux nor ACL have anything to do with this options. Read man 5 attr.

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
André Ramaciotti da Silva schrieb: I'm sorry, I think I wasn't very clear in my question. It isn't the default in Arch Linux because it isn't the default upstream, Probably because we just set defaults in fstab and let the user worry about the rest. but why it isn't the default upstream?

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Priit Kivisoo schrieb: Neither selinux nor ACL have anything to do with this options. Read man 5 attr. They are often used to provide additional functionality to a filesystem - for example, additional security features such as Access Control Lists (ACLs) may be implemented using extended

[arch-general] New NVIDIA legacy drivers compatible with our latest xorg-server

2009-11-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
NVIDIA released new prereleases of their 173.xx.xx and 96.xx.xx drivers ([1], [2]). Driver packages and kernel modules for the 2.6.31-ARCH kernel are being uploaded now, they should start to appear on mirrors soon. Please test them and report. [1]

Re: [arch-general] old firewire stack?

2009-11-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Dieter Plaetinck schrieb: Hi, according to http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/troubleshooting-and-common-problems/troubleshooting-firewire-capture we are using an old firewire stack. I'm having big problems with DV-video (firewire) stuff ( see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=655692 )

Re: [arch-general] netcfg v2.5 in [testing] - auto wireless configuration has changed

2009-11-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
James Rayner schrieb: 1. pacman -S core/wpa_actiond Still testing/wpa_actiond. About wireless: I don't think the rfkill stuff will work like that. You can specify RFKILL_NAME, but that might change over time (it may change everytime you unload/load the wireless module and is not

Re: [arch-general] stability of pbzip2 ?

2009-11-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Ian-Xue Li schrieb: Hi, I'm quote fond of pbzip2's ability to multitask the compression, which comes really handy when backuping large archives of server files. But just heard from my friend: pbzip2 has stability issues, sometimes leads to corruption of archive, and hence unable to recover

Re: [arch-general] conclusion: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises

2009-12-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Arvid Picciani schrieb: Thanks to enough input i have learned two things of this thread: 1) The problem IS upstream related. Some packages do enable dbus when it is available, for the convenience of those users who do not understand what dbus is and hence need it. So every user who

Re: [arch-general] conclusion: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises

2009-12-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Arvid Picciani schrieb: like what? maybe you are feeling insecure about it? Yes, I am so insecure. You are right, I am going to kill myself just now. There is a saying in my native language that goes like: Dogs only bite if you hit their spot. Old sayings like this are usually stupid.

Re: [arch-general] coreutils 8.1 major problem

2009-12-04 Thread Thomas Bächler
Lukáš Jirkovský schrieb: Hi everyone, I've just noticed coreutils 8.1 in [testing] repo and I think I should warn you. Unfortunatelly it has one quite bad regression which can break quite many scripts. There is a change in rm command (it's fixed in git repository) that when you try to remove

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1

2009-12-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
nez...@allurelinux.org schrieb: On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 02:13:57PM +0100, Attila wrote: At Samstag, 5. Dezember 2009 09:56 Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: Isn't it against Arch philosophy to split packages it binary and header packages? First the headers from the kernel package was even a reduced

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

2009-12-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Gabriel Morrison Lima Dantas schrieb: Hi, I installed kernel26 and kernel26-firmware from testing, and I'm experiencing some problems with KMS. During system initialization, the system requests the firmware radeon/R300_cp.bin, waits a couple of seconds and then proceeds normal initialization.

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

2009-12-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Gabriel Morrison Lima Dantas schrieb: Removing radeon from initramfs and putting it in MODULES section of rc.conf solves the problem. Hm, I hope you are happy this way until we know what's going on ... the problem is certainly not that the firmware is not put in initramfs, but something else

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1

2009-12-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Emmanuel Benisty schrieb: With KMS on, my screen flickers every 20sec or so. Tried with no xorg.conf and the same thing. I even got some sort of yellow/orange screen of death. I did not use KMS with 2.6.31 so this may not be kernel related. I'll look into it later but disabling kms from the

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

2009-12-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Tom K schrieb: The requirement here is that firmware-dependent modules are loaded after the udev hook has been run i.e. after udevd starts. A simple solution, based on the one in the forum thread, would be a hook called e.g. fwmodules, where modules with this requirement are specified.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1

2009-12-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Daenyth Blank schrieb: On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 08:42, Emmanuel Benisty benist...@gmail.com wrote: Just FTR, I have bisected the issue and found out this commit was to blame: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=181a5336d6cc836f05507410d66988c483ad0154 I've

Re: [arch-general] Mkinitcpio and tuxonice?

2009-12-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Ng Oon-Ee schrieb: Hi all, I've been holding the mkinitcpio package due to http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15240 A quick look into testing shows that I won't be able to update the 2.6.32 kernel due to dependencies on klib invalidating my 'old' mkinitcpio package. Unfortunately I'm stuck here,

Re: [arch-general] Mkinitcpio and tuxonice?

2009-12-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Ng Oon-Ee schrieb: On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 07:13 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: Ng Oon-Ee schrieb: Hi all, I've been holding the mkinitcpio package due to http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15240 A quick look into testing shows that I won't be able to update the 2.6.32 kernel due to dependencies

Re: [arch-general] iwl5000 issues

2009-12-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Rafa Grimán schrieb: Hi :) Got a Lenovo T400 laptop with an Intel 5100 wireless card, lspci: 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection Which was working until I updated my system. Kernel version: # uname -a Linux currotop 2.6.31-ARCH

Re: [arch-general] iwl5000 issues

2009-12-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Giovanni Scafora schrieb: 2009/12/8, Rafa Grimán rafagri...@gmail.com: As I said before, my wireless was working until I updated. Don't know for sure which package broke wireless connectivity. See here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=635942 Ah, yes, on some devices the

Re: [arch-general] iwl5000 issues

2009-12-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Rafa Grimán schrieb: This helped a lot. Installed rfkill: # rfkill list 0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes If it is hard blocked, you cannot do anything about it from

Re: [arch-general] suggestion for pacman: Recommended packages.

2009-12-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
James Rayner schrieb: How about instead those extra binary files or plugins are split into another package called package1-plugins and have libsomething as plain dependency? Then on package1 installation, pacman should say something like: Recommended packages: package1-plugins for blah blah

Re: [arch-general] cpufrequtils dead or alive ?

2009-12-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Giovanni Scafora schrieb: 2009/12/15, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org: The second one doesn't make sense. Don't use /dev/null in combination with grep, use grep -q: Stupid me: The first one doesn't make sense the second one does. But it seems you understood me correctly. grep -qw

Re: [arch-general] cpufrequtils dead or alive ?

2009-12-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Andrea Scarpino schrieb: On 15/12/2009, Giovanni Scafora giova...@archlinux.org wrote: That line is not in an install file. That line is in a script of /etc/rc.d/ So, the / is missing. Indeed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

2010-01-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 07.01.2010 18:26, schrieb David C. Rankin: Guys, This is just a quick request to make sure I don't screw myself playing with new technology. I have a server 5 existing ext3 partitions on a dmraid array with several hundred gig of unpartitioned space. I have created the new

Re: [arch-general] [Request] Remove libpthread-stubs from packages svn/trunk

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 08.01.2010 17:24, schrieb a...@nezmer.info: Can someone remove libpthread-stubs from packages svn/trunk? The package obviously was removed from the repos a long time ago and tools like pbget would fetch an outdated PKGBUILD. While you may be right, such tools must be able to handle packages

Re: [arch-general] kill-klibc (Was: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.5.27-1)

2010-01-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.01.2010 20:27, schrieb Evangelos Foutras: On 09/01/2010 07:06 μμ, Thomas Bächler wrote: This is a bugfix release which (among other less important things) fixed the early userspace firmware loading problem. Please sign off. This will hopefully be the last release before we move to 0.6

Re: [arch-general] building x86_64 packages under qemu?

2010-01-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.01.2010 17:48, schrieb Chris Brannon: Is there any reason why building x86_64 packages under qemu-system-x86_64 would be a bad idea? It is a little slow, but it is usable. Plus, qemu has a curses interface. It is not a little slow, but painfully slow (remember: the compiler runs in an

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

2010-01-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.01.2010 19:38, schrieb Aaron Griffin: If you modify it, you should add it to the NoUpgrade line in /etc/pacman.conf. The backup array is for what we INTEND to be modified. Users are more than welcome to do what we don't intend, but you need to control whether of not pacman mucks with

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.5.28-1

2010-01-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.01.2010 15:07, schrieb Evangelos Foutras: On 12/01/2010 11:03 πμ, Thomas Bächler wrote: I think what we have now in the kill-klibc branch might actually boot in a standard setup (no raid, nfs, lvm, encryption), but I didn't try. I'll keep you posted. I gave it a try in a VM

[arch-general] mkinitcpio alpha testing (WAS: Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.5.28-1)

2010-01-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.01.2010 15:07, schrieb Evangelos Foutras: On 12/01/2010 11:03 πμ, Thomas Bächler wrote: I think what we have now in the kill-klibc branch might actually boot in a standard setup (no raid, nfs, lvm, encryption), but I didn't try. I'll keep you posted. I gave it a try in a VM

Re: [arch-general] mkinitcpio alpha testing (WAS: Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.5.28-1)

2010-01-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.01.2010 22:24, schrieb Evangelos Foutras: I tried in VirtualBox on Arch i686 and it worked fine here (meaning I didn't have that particular problem). It then paniced due to problems in /init. Rev 93a8be170ff841dd345084b5f5eda66c76e6534f boots fine here on VirtualBox. I don't know why

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

2010-01-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.01.2010 00:34, schrieb Dimitrios Apostolou: Since I've been bitten by this, how can I know if the file I modified is goint to be overwritten or not, *before* it actually happens? And even if it is, a .pacsave wouldn't hurt anyone, if I remember correctly (it's been some time) I had

Re: [arch-general] Yet another step toward Arch evil plan

2010-01-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.01.2010 14:31, schrieb James Rayner: They provide ArchLinux 2009.08 in both 32 and 64 bit with their own kernel with grsecurity (2.6.31.5-grs) How well does this integrate? Arch doesn't have any officially-endorsed grsecurity kernel. Does it require userspace modifications? Have they

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.32.4-1

2010-01-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 19.01.2010 17:17, schrieb Ignacio Galmarino: On 01/19/2010 12:42 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi guys, bump to latest bugfix version. Please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa After grub the first message i get is: Error binding control socket, seems udevd is already running.

[arch-general] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

2010-01-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Quoted from http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17298 (which is also to be used for feedback, besides the threads on these mailing lists): So, now something can be tested. I recommend using it in conjunction with testing/udev only: [kill-klibc] Server =

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 25.01.2010 17:15, schrieb Joerg Schilling: [ legal bla ] It would be nice if you updated your homepage (which would need a new look too, it reminds me of the old days when using the internet was annoying due to those ugly blinking websites). Quote from

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.01.2010 10:31, schrieb Allan McRae: Joerg, The only thing that will definitely change our minds with regards to this is actually seeing a copy of the report saying the linking performed with cdrtools is not an issue due to license restrictions. Until that time, this discussion is

Re: [arch-general] udev and/or device-mapper problem

2010-01-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.01.2010 18:00, schrieb Hussam Al-Tayeb: I updated to udev, cryptsetup and device mapper from testing the installed kernel 2.6.32.6 and rebooted. now /dev/mapper/root and /dev/dm-0 are not there but /etc/mtab mentions /dev/mapper/root /dev/mapper/home and /dev/dm-1 exist The computer

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

2010-01-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 29.01.2010 02:42, schrieb Ng Oon-Ee: Hi all, I'm using netcfg and recently have been noticing the following. When I resume from suspend I call 'netcfg home' which tries to connect to my home's wifi network. ESSID and WEP key are correctly set. It exist with a 'could not obtain IP address

Re: [arch-general] Recent update to php-apache breaks LAMP stack.

2010-02-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 02.02.2010 11:44, schrieb Ashish SHUKLA: I'd recently updated php, mysql, and php-apache packages to following versions: php 5.3.1-4 mysql 5.1.43-1 php-apache 5.3.1-4 After update my existing webapps started showing error: Unable to connect to database, with nothing changed on the

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

2010-02-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.02.2010 13:52, schrieb Damjan Georgievski: [kill-klibc] Server = http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/kill-klibc/i686/ Bump! Virtually nobody has performed any testing (except the people I poked about it). If it matters to anyone, It does to me. the new mkinitcpio also works just

Re: [arch-general] Mounting tmpfs on /dev. Why?

2010-02-04 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 24.01.2010 21:14, schrieb AlannY: Recently, I've found that Arch mounts tmpfs on /dev. And, as you may see, this makes big problem to some applications. What kind of problems? I don't know of any problems. I see: none on /dev type tmpfs in the output of mount program. This mount is not

[arch-general] WARNING: mkinitcpio 0.5.99.3 (kill-klibc) live in testing!

2010-02-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Okay, this is it. The busybox-based mkinitcpio is entering testing now. BACK UP YOUR OLD (WORKING) INITRAMFS (kernel26.img) FILE! Also, do NOT use this if you have root on NFS, it is NOT IMPLEMENTED yet. Known issues: If you use 2.6.33 and enable the support for ext2/ext3 in the ext4 driver, root

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-02-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 08.02.2010 19:56, schrieb Ray Kohler: I haven't seen a single reported problem from any of the recent big rebuilds that wasn't the result of a user doing something they ought not to do (usually piecemeal updates), an out-of-sync mirror (plus users that can't even recognize this when they

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openvpn 2.1.1-1

2010-02-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.02.2010 15:33, schrieb Damjan Georgievski: Upstream update. Bump! Does not export the $route_net_gateway environment variable to my --up script. This is probably upstream bug, but still Did you check the ChangeLog? They keep changing all kinds of stuff w.r.t. the external scripts.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openvpn 2.1.1-1

2010-02-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.02.2010 17:14, schrieb Damjan Georgievski: Does not export the $route_net_gateway environment variable to my --up script. This is probably upstream bug, but still Did you check the ChangeLog? They keep changing all kinds of stuff w.r.t. the external scripts. the ChangeLog only

Re: [arch-general] policykit vs polkit

2010-02-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.02.2010 19:11, schrieb Lukáš Jirkovský: Hi, I just found out that policykit on my package is no longer needed. Because it looked strange to me a took a look at other packages and found polkit package. What is the difference between these two (policykit and polkit)? Both seems to provide

Re: [arch-general] udev and/or device-mapper problem

2010-02-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.02.2010 16:00, schrieb karolina.lindqv...@kramnet.se: I updated my system, and then on reboot it could not find the disk /dev/sda anymore. A pity, since it hold the boot and root file systems. I have a custom kernel, for various reasons, but now I could not get my custom kernel, of

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] WARNING: mkinitcpio 0.5.99.3 (kill-klibc) live in testing!

2010-02-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 07.02.2010 12:03, schrieb Thomas Bächler: Okay, this is it. The busybox-based mkinitcpio is entering testing now. BACK UP YOUR OLD (WORKING) INITRAMFS (kernel26.img) FILE! Also, do NOT use this if you have root on NFS, it is NOT IMPLEMENTED yet. Known issues: If you use 2.6.33 and enable

Re: [arch-general] pacman overwriting files (was Re: dcron 4.2)

2010-02-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.02.2010 21:30, schrieb Dimitrios Apostolou: Guys that thing bit me again: During the big libpng upgrade initscripts package got upgraded too and /etc/rc.{sysinit,shutdown} got overwritten without notifying me. Because of special changes I've made to mount /var as tmpfs, and because I

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] WARNING: mkinitcpio 0.5.99.3 (kill-klibc) live in testing!

2010-02-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.02.2010 18:46, schrieb Thomas Bächler: I am still looking for someone to implement NFS root with this, please contact me if you are interested. This will not be the final version, there is still some work to do, but for now this requires more testing. Okay, version 0.5.99.5 is up

Re: [arch-general] udev and/or device-mapper problem

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 11:56, schrieb Karolina Lindqvist: Your custom kernel is misconfigured, the most likely candidate being: $ zgrep CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED /proc/config.gz # CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 is not set If this option is set to yes, udev will fail to create devices properly. If the

Re: [arch-general] pacman too slow on reboot

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 02:28, schrieb Hamo: Can I mount /var/lib/pacman/sync as tmpfs to gain a speed up? Definitely, just make sure you don't do the same with local. You have to pacman -Sy after every boot, but that shouldn't be a problem. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-intel and KMS

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 14:28, schrieb Damien Churchill: I think you can use video=...@refreshrate http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA#Kernel_Modesetting This is not documented in ArchWiki yet, and I think it has been a new feature in .31 or .32. For laptop displays, the right resolution should be

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 15:32, schrieb Tomás Acauan Schertel: This is the second time it happens. When upgrading kernel, I got this message: :: Parsing hook [autodetect] /lib/initcpio/install/autodetect: line 17: other:swap:2: command not found :: Parsing hook [pata] Am I the only one seeing this?

Re: [arch-general] When asked to test from [testing]...

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 16:35, schrieb Ng Oon-Ee: I've seen that advise come up sometimes from a package maintainer. Can this be assumed to mean (as I'm sure some will assume it to mean) that its safe to cherry-pick just mkinitcpio from testing? Or does the tester need to 'know' to -Syu from testing

Re: [arch-general] new mkinitcpio / harmless error message at boot

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 21:52, schrieb Hussam Al-Tayeb: After doing a pacman -Syu and installed the mkinitcpio 0.6 , I'm getting an error insmoding padlock-sha just after I enter the root device luks encryption passphrase. I'm assuming there is an easy solution to this. Any idea? I think I added the

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.02.2010 03:26, schrieb Tomás Acauan Schertel: I still got error message after using packages from [testing]. Am I doing something wrong?? Is the line number still 17? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] resume from suspend no longer works after new mkinitcpio 0.6

2010-02-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.02.2010 08:52, schrieb Hussam Al-Tayeb: At boot, it no longer does the check for the resume image or data and directly boots from new. That is because you didn't configure the resume hook into your initramfs image. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[arch-general] [signoff] rp-pppoe-3.10-4

2010-02-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 01.02.2010 18:27, schrieb Daniel Isenmann: Hi, this is a small fix for the bug reported here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=699763 Now, you have to set explicit the plugin path to the kernel mode plugin if you want to use it. So, it's up to you if you need it or not and

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Let's agree on a common coding style

2010-02-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.02.2010 21:57, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: For example, in a PKGBUILD I would write ${pkgname}_$pkgver, because _ can be part of a variable name, but I'd much rather prefer to use $pkgname-$pkgver, since hyphens are not allowed in variable names. Less typing, less ugliness. :) This is

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Let's agree on a common coding style

2010-02-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.02.2010 22:13, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: If you use braces only when necessary, it will not be consistent - you have braces sometimes and other times you don't. I thought coding style was about consistency. you can apply only when needed consistently. This is very unintuitive. only

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 14.02.2010 17:38, schrieb Ray Kohler: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 12.02.2010 03:26, schrieb Tomás Acauan Schertel: I still got error message after using packages from [testing]. Am I doing something wrong?? Is the line number still 17

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.30 on EEE and KMS

2010-02-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 15.02.2010 19:24, schrieb f...@kokkinizita.net: Just did this, and X worked immediately. :-) Still have to get the wireless to work, that will be for later tonight. BTW, this is on a 1000H Grazie ciao, What's the wireless chip in this thing? Maybe it is already supported by

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.30 on EEE and KMS

2010-02-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 15.02.2010 23:37, schrieb f...@kokkinizita.net: rt2860, which is the same as in the 901. 'iwlist wlan0 scan' detects the network, but I've not been able to configure it into a working state either manually or using netcfg (2.2.1) So there maybe there is indeed a problem with 2.6.32 as

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 18.02.2010 02:19, schrieb f...@kokkinizita.net: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:36:31PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: Isn't this what rfkill is for? http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill You're right: /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0/state controls the wifi device.

Re: [arch-general] Was the kernel suspend to disk feature removed on 2.6.32.8-1

2010-02-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 19.02.2010 16:40, schrieb Ray Kohler: Add the resume hook to the end of the HOOKS list in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and rebuild your initramfs. This has to be added manually now with the non-klibc mkinitcpio. Actually, all documentation I knew of always said it was necessary to add it. The old

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Clean up the base group

2010-02-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 26.02.2010 13:23, schrieb Heiko Baums: cpio is probably not necessarily needed by the average user, but as far as I know it's needed to uncompress or read the content of the initrd (e.g. xzcat kernel26.img | cpio -t), which sometimes can be necessary for debugging purposes. So I'm not sure

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Clean up the base group

2010-02-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 26.02.2010 14:01, schrieb Heiko Baums: Am Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:31:36 +0100 schrieb Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org: We don't need rp-pppoe in base (IMO not even in core, but others disagree). I disagree because configuring a pppoe client with pure ppp is far too complicated

Re: [arch-general] kernel 2.6.33-1

2010-02-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.02.2010 17:10, schrieb Roman Kyrylych: Arch Linux changes: - merged ext2/ext3 support into ext4 module When there is ext2/ext3 in MODULES in mkinitcpio.conf instead of filesystem in HOOKS (as on my VPS), then image that is automatically regenerated during kernel26 package update will

Re: [arch-general] kernel 2.6.33-1

2010-02-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.02.2010 17:10, schrieb Mauro Santos: Arch Linux changes: - changed radeon kms enabled by default Anyone taking care of the libdrm, mesa, libgl, ati-dri and xf86-video-ati rebuild so all the benefits of kms can be fully used? As far as I know it is needed to make this work as well as

Re: [arch-general] kernel 2.6.33-1

2010-02-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.02.2010 03:57, schrieb Ignacio Galmarino: Ok i do more research and 3d working now. This is what i find: 1) file /lib/firmware/radeon/R600_rlc.bin is missing from kernel26-firmware. Upstream bug. We use make firmware_install. 2) This file can only be loaded if you use kms late start

Re: [arch-general] Blacklisting of modules

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 02.03.2010 11:14, schrieb mb: Hi folks, After initscripts' update I noticed that the modules, being blacklisted in rc.conf, were loaded. I tinkered around a bit (extended rc.sysinit with calls to lsmod) and found out, that udev loads most of the modules (rtc-Modules are loaded before,

Re: [arch-general] Blacklisting of modules

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 02.03.2010 11:47, schrieb mb: Hi Thomas, On Tuesday 02 March 2010 11:18:27 Thomas Bächler wrote: This is not true. You didn't dig deep enough. Blacklisting in rc.conf works just fine. no offence. My mail was never meant to be an accusation or something similar. I should not have posted

Re: [arch-general] Bad Idea?

2010-03-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.03.2010 23:23, schrieb Carlos Mennens: Is it a bad idea to install nVidia display drivers manually by downloading them from nvidia.com and installing it by hand...or should I use 'Pacman'? I read that I could mess up my system by manually installing packages and should always use Pacman.

Re: [arch-general] Security

2010-03-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.03.2010 10:49, schrieb Gordon Campbell: Hi all, I am new to this list and fairly new to Arch Linux. My Question is do I need to install a firewall? if so which one? Thanks in advance, Gordy You probably don't, but here is a link to some nice instructions for setting one up

Re: [arch-general] Customising arch iso

2010-03-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.03.2010 16:37, schrieb Aaron Griffin: Using the core installing then just upgrading kernel26 and kernel26-firmware to 2.6.33 worked just in case anyone was wondering. Got networking up finally :) Yeah, I was going to suggest just pulling the kernel updates onto a thumb drive or

Re: [arch-general] Customising arch iso

2010-03-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.03.2010 20:35, schrieb Aaron Griffin: Well it *is* one command from a git checkout cd install-iso make Let's make that 2: # pacman -S archiso # archiso-build-cd --arch i686 --format iso or something like that :) We have an archiso package from 2008 in extra. Any package is better

Re: [arch-general] Package signing (was: Arch Linux security is still poor)

2010-03-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 17.03.2010 01:06, schrieb Linas: There are several ways to close the gap: *Always download the package list from ftp.archlinux.org It's the easier solution, but it only protects against the mirror operator. Moreover, it increases load on that server and makes it a single point of failure.

Re: [arch-general] Dedicated Arch servers

2010-03-18 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 18.03.2010 18:00, schrieb Aaron Griffin: or you can try Linode which is my personnel fav provider for Unmanaged VPS Additionally, Slicehost is still good, but I think spec-wise, the above 3 are better Linode has the nice advantage that a) it has pv-grub, so you can easily use

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] dmraid-1.0.0rc16-3

2010-03-18 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 18.03.2010 19:31, schrieb Xavier Chantry: Tobias, did you receive the last mail from dmraid developer ? It seems we can solve this problem in a better way now with just a runtime option. And keep just the dynamic binary. I will see if I can get that running and working. Or do you still

Re: [arch-general] tmpfs

2010-03-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 25.03.2010 16:53, schrieb Juan Diego: Good day everyone, I want to delete the next two lines from my fstab: none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 however I would like to know the secondary effects of doing such thing, all the information I could get on

Re: [arch-general] tmpfs

2010-03-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 25.03.2010 17:12, schrieb Xavier Chantry: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: This is definitely NOT SAFE! If you don't have /dev/shm, POSIX shared memory will use the same tmpfs filesystem as /dev, which is currently limited to 10MB - POSIX shared

Re: [arch-general] /etc/rc.local: chown user: /dev/sda10 /etc/fstab: defaults, owner, noauto

2010-03-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 29.03.2010 23:58, schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook: I do hope this is a valid adaption of the above template: SUBSYSTEM==block, ENV{ID_FS_LABEL}==j10_lap-10, OWNER=jtwdyp, GROUP=jtwdyp Looks fine to me. But I wonder if this would be applicable to my other linux as well? If it uses udev,

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