Re: [arch-general] okular print preview error
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:41:56 -0400 Leonid Grinberg lgrinb...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know what else might cause this? leonid, i got this response from the forums: Since it's a print preview, the file is stored in /tmp, which okular doesn't like. You need to move the file or get another viewer program for it to work, unless there is a setting in okular that can fix this. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=74026 however, it makes no sense to me that okular won't like /tmp since i thought /tmp was supposed to be used for just such a purpose by programs. nor could i find anything in okular options to make a change. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's
Re: [arch-general] sound busted after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30?
Am Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009 schrieb Jozsef: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Tobias Powalowski t.p...@gmx.de wrote: Am Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009 schrieb Jozsef: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Chris Brannon cmbran...@cox.net wrote: My sound was busted yesterday when I upgraded from kernel 2.6.29 to 2.6.30. I had to regenerate my asound.state. At first, I thought it was just my problem, because I use the softvol plugin. This gave me trouble in the past. A friend of mine reported the same experience, so someone else had audio problems on upgrade as well. What happened to ALSA? Did anyone else have the same trouble? Regards, -- Chris alsa works fine here Alsa tends to break for some people with every major release, so manual fixing is needed. Alsa never worked perfectly and will not in the future, that is what i can tell ya from the past 5 years. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org what is your suggestion instead of ALSA? There is no sugesstion, there is no sound framework working for all. That's only my observation that sound is always broken for someone. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [arch-general] okular print preview error
Aha, I see. I'll look further into it -- I rarely need to use print preview, but I resort to evince when I have to, and this is really a bug that needs to be squashed. Thanks for the link! -- Leonid On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 02:05, pradp...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:41:56 -0400 Leonid Grinberg lgrinb...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know what else might cause this? leonid, i got this response from the forums: Since it's a print preview, the file is stored in /tmp, which okular doesn't like. You need to move the file or get another viewer program for it to work, unless there is a setting in okular that can fix this. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=74026 however, it makes no sense to me that okular won't like /tmp since i thought /tmp was supposed to be used for just such a purpose by programs. nor could i find anything in okular options to make a change. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's
Re: [arch-general] sound busted after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30?
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Tobias Powalowski t.p...@gmx.de wrote: Am Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009 schrieb Jozsef: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Tobias Powalowski t.p...@gmx.de wrote: Am Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009 schrieb Jozsef: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Chris Brannon cmbran...@cox.net wrote: My sound was busted yesterday when I upgraded from kernel 2.6.29 to 2.6.30. I had to regenerate my asound.state. At first, I thought it was just my problem, because I use the softvol plugin. This gave me trouble in the past. A friend of mine reported the same experience, so someone else had audio problems on upgrade as well. What happened to ALSA? Did anyone else have the same trouble? Regards, -- Chris alsa works fine here Alsa tends to break for some people with every major release, so manual fixing is needed. Alsa never worked perfectly and will not in the future, that is what i can tell ya from the past 5 years. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org what is your suggestion instead of ALSA? There is no sugesstion, there is no sound framework working for all. That's only my observation that sound is always broken for someone. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org that's not just about sound. something is always broken for someone. but the reasons are different.
Re: [arch-general] HELP: dmraid-1.0.0rc15 in testing - Possible Bug: All Partitions are GONE??
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 12:28:42 am Tobias Powalowski wrote: Am Mittwoch 24 Juni 2009 schrieb David C. Rankin: On Tuesday 23 June 2009 04:20:51 pm David C. Rankin wrote: big snip Now this is very scary looking. The sdb[5-8] and sdd[5-8] partitions are GONE?? (Bummer..) Obviously, I can no longer boot archlinux?? Listmates, Is there a way I can boot from the install media and then downgrade the kernel to 2.6.29 to see if that resolves my missing partition and won't boot problem for my Arch install? If so, anybody got a link to a howto or a short version of what I would need to do after booting from the install media? ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/iso/archboot those have 2.6.29 kernel and dmraid 1.0.0rc14 included, good luck greetings tpowa Tobias, I don't know whether I should throw in the towel and reinstall or attempt to recover the partitions by somehow recreating the device-mapper nodes somehow. I booted with archboot-2009.05-2 (dmraid-1.0.0rc14 and 2.6.29 kernel and there was no difference, all of the following were still GONE: brw--- 1 root disk 254, 2 2009-06-22 01:40 nvidia_ecaejfdip5 brw--- 1 root disk 254, 3 2009-06-22 01:40 nvidia_ecaejfdip6 brw--- 1 root disk 254, 4 2009-06-22 01:40 nvidia_ecaejfdip7 brw--- 1 root disk 254, 5 2009-06-22 01:40 nvidia_ecaejfdip8 The raid array is seen just fine: brw--- 1 root disk 254, 0 2009-06-22 13:48 nvidia_ecaejfdi and the raid set is active: [01:26 ecstasy:~] # dmraid -ay RAID set nvidia_ecaejfdi already active RAID set nvidia_fdaacfde already active but no partitions: [01:34 ecstasy:~] # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 488386584 sda 8 1 1 sda1 8 5 72229 sda5 8 62104483 sda6 8 7 20972826 sda7 8 8 465234336 sda8 816 732574584 sdb 832 488386584 sdc 833 1 sdc1 837 72229 sdc5 8382104483 sdc6 839 20972826 sdc7 840 465234336 sdc8 848 732574584 sdd 253 0 732574583 dm-0 253 1 488386583 dm-1 253 2 488384001 dm-2 253 3 72229 dm-3 253 42104483 dm-4 253 5 20972826 dm-5 253 6 465234336 dm-6 253 7 72229 dm-7 253 82104483 dm-8 253 9 20972826 dm-9 25310 465234336 dm-10 After whatever happened -- happened every one of the partitions is gone. I'm sure the data and boundaries are still there and intact, but I can't find a way to get to it and set it up. What's the consensus, just scrap this Arch install and reinstall? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] sound busted after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30?
2009/6/24, Jozsef joz...@gmx.com: that's not just about sound. something is always broken for someone. but the reasons are different. Do you already tried with alsaconf? -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org
Re: [arch-general] sound busted after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30?
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:11:03 +0200 Tobias Powalowski t.p...@gmx.de wrote: Am Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009 schrieb Jozsef: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Tobias Powalowski t.p...@gmx.de wrote: Alsa tends to break for some people with every major release, so manual fixing is needed. Alsa never worked perfectly and will not in the future, that is what i can tell ya from the past 5 years. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org what is your suggestion instead of ALSA? There is no sugesstion, there is no sound framework working for all. That's only my observation that sound is always broken for someone. greetings tpowa You could also try OSS v4. http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sorry.html Note the special mention of Arch in there :) Dieter
Re: [arch-general] sound busted after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30?
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 07:59, Chris Brannoncmbran...@cox.net wrote: My sound was busted yesterday when I upgraded from kernel 2.6.29 to 2.6.30. I had to regenerate my asound.state. At first, I thought it was just my problem, because I use the softvol plugin. This gave me trouble in the past. A friend of mine reported the same experience, so someone else had audio problems on upgrade as well. What happened to ALSA? Did anyone else have the same trouble? I had the same, but there's a positive side: now I don't have useless channels in alsamixer, and can tune each of my headphone output jacks (have 2 of them on my laptop) separately. No wonder that such changes in a number of channels required asound.state update. Warning about unknown card was confusing though. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
Re: [arch-general] sound busted after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30?
I had it too but I ran alsaconf and problem fixed On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Roman Kyrylychroman.kyryl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 07:59, Chris Brannoncmbran...@cox.net wrote: My sound was busted yesterday when I upgraded from kernel 2.6.29 to 2.6.30. I had to regenerate my asound.state. At first, I thought it was just my problem, because I use the softvol plugin. This gave me trouble in the past. A friend of mine reported the same experience, so someone else had audio problems on upgrade as well. What happened to ALSA? Did anyone else have the same trouble? I had the same, but there's a positive side: now I don't have useless channels in alsamixer, and can tune each of my headphone output jacks (have 2 of them on my laptop) separately. No wonder that such changes in a number of channels required asound.state update. Warning about unknown card was confusing though. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
Re: [arch-general] sound busted after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30?
I had problems with alsa in Feb and I changed to OSSv4. The only think I miss is a simpler tray mixer just to control the virtual mixer vmix0-outvol. But sound itself is great! -- Malformed message exception = Guilherme M. Nogueira = http://nirev.org/
Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates
Anything any of you might want me to try to figure this out, it'll be greatly appreciated. Any kind of error message? You know, I am not aware of clairvoyance capabilities showed by anyone on this list... Is your disk full (tried df -h?)? You can remove cached packages (downloaded and stored by pacman in some previous installation) with sudo pacman -Scc (answer yes to both questions). Is your internet connection working? Greetings, Marco
Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates
Marco, I'm not expecting anyone to be clairvoyant, that's why I'm asking for help :P - the disk has got 7G left on it - the internet is working fine. Like I mentioned, I'm able to download the update lists, but from that point it won't do anything else. Thanks, Will On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Marcodoma...@gmail.com wrote: Anything any of you might want me to try to figure this out, it'll be greatly appreciated. Any kind of error message? You know, I am not aware of clairvoyance capabilities showed by anyone on this list... Is your disk full (tried df -h?)? You can remove cached packages (downloaded and stored by pacman in some previous installation) with sudo pacman -Scc (answer yes to both questions). Is your internet connection working? Greetings, Marco
Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Will Siddallwill.sidd...@gmail.com wrote: Marco, I'm not expecting anyone to be clairvoyant, that's why I'm asking for help :P - the disk has got 7G left on it - the internet is working fine. Like I mentioned, I'm able to download the update lists, but from that point it won't do anything else. Which mirror are you using, and how often does it synchronize? Don't you just need to be more patient?
Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates
Excerpts from Will Siddall's message of Thu Jun 25 09:33:40 -0400 2009: I tried with 'sudo pacman -Su' and with 'yaourt -Su' and nothing. So... for the record, there is _no_ output from pacman? -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com) [...] or some clown changed the chips on a board and not its name. (Don't laugh! Look at the SMC etherpower for that.) -- from /usr/src/linux/MAINTAINERS
Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates
I had this happen to me with the kernel upgrade, and its just the case of the repository mirror not being instantly updated. Thats how I learned to stop worrying and trust the pacman (and yaourt to some degree). justin On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Andrei Thorp gar...@gmail.com wrote: Excerpts from Will Siddall's message of Thu Jun 25 09:33:40 -0400 2009: I tried with 'sudo pacman -Su' and with 'yaourt -Su' and nothing. So... for the record, there is _no_ output from pacman? -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com) [...] or some clown changed the chips on a board and not its name. (Don't laugh! Look at the SMC etherpower for that.) -- from /usr/src/linux/MAINTAINERS
Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates
Thanks everyone for the responses. I can't be sure that it's the repository since I've been putting off upgrading my Amarok lately, so that's constantly in the list... and even that's gone now. And there is output from pacman, just 'No upgrades found' I just re-ran rankmirrors and tried again... no difference Will On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:57 AM, justin caratzasjustin.carat...@gmail.com wrote: I had this happen to me with the kernel upgrade, and its just the case of the repository mirror not being instantly updated. Thats how I learned to stop worrying and trust the pacman (and yaourt to some degree). justin On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Andrei Thorp gar...@gmail.com wrote: Excerpts from Will Siddall's message of Thu Jun 25 09:33:40 -0400 2009: I tried with 'sudo pacman -Su' and with 'yaourt -Su' and nothing. So... for the record, there is _no_ output from pacman? -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com) [...] or some clown changed the chips on a board and not its name. (Don't laugh! Look at the SMC etherpower for that.) -- from /usr/src/linux/MAINTAINERS
Re: [arch-general] readline GPL violation on two pkgs?
Excerpts from Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi's message of Wed Jun 24 21:51:14 -0400 2009: Aaron Griffin wrote: And if we get in tight, there are conflicts between different versions of the GPL, this is ugly. To this are the lawyers, who enjoy these things, and not for us who are programmers, right? Good Luck. To paraphrase what Thomas said to me: This is all free software, we should be able to use free software with other free software, damnit. It seems to go against the spirit to do things like this. I like this sentiment. I mean, I get that there are zealots out there who strongly believe in their Chosen License as if it were a soccer team, but seriously - it's all free software, and we may be subtly violating the letter of the license, but the letter of the license is violating the _spirit_ of the license. Ok Aaron thanks for the clarification :) I liked this phrase: ...but the letter of the license is violating the _spirit_ of the license ;) This may be bad thinking, but to be honest -- is Stallman, Linus, or BSD Guy _really_ going to sue a fellow open source program / distro for just using their stuff? -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com) Ever heard of .cshrc? That's a city in Bosnia. Right? -- Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands
Re: [arch-general] sound busted after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30?
My sound was busted yesterday when I upgraded from kernel 2.6.29 to 2.6.30. I had to regenerate my asound.state. Was you only problem the asound.state (i.e. the saved mixer settings)? With different version of an ALSA driver, the way it sees the mixer might change, so that old saved settings will not apply for the newer driver. It's only a matter of opening alsamixer, setting everything up as you want, and running alsactl store at the end. Depending on the driver it might happen from time to time. At first, I thought it was just my problem, because I use the softvol plugin. This gave me trouble in the past. A friend of mine reported the same experience, so someone else had audio problems on upgrade as well. -- damjan
Re: [arch-general] readline GPL violation on two pkgs?
To paraphrase what Thomas said to me: This is all free software, we should be able to use free software with other free software, damnit. And you are! You *are* free to use any free software with any other. The only problem is with distribution of binary/compiled/linked packages :) Install everything from ABS and you are 100% legit It seems to go against the spirit to do things like this. I like this sentiment. I mean, I get that there are zealots out there who strongly believe in their Chosen License as if it were a soccer team, but seriously - it's all free software, and we may be subtly violating the letter of the license, but the letter of the license is violating the _spirit_ of the license. -- damjan
Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates
Thanks Thomas, I'll be sure to try that next time :P. Sorry to waste your time with this. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Thomas Bächlertho...@archlinux.org wrote: Will Siddall schrieb: Alright, after looking up the mirror's list (http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html), I pointed to one of the more recently updated mirrors and ran the update. This worked. I can download and upgrade my system. When I set my mirrors list back, and re-synchronize, everything is back to normal. Maybe you should have tried pacman -Syy, that often helps.
Re: [arch-general] readline GPL violation on two pkgs?
On Thursday 25 June 2009 11:01:18 am Damjan Georgievski wrote: To paraphrase what Thomas said to me: This is all free software, we should be able to use free software with other free software, damnit. And you are! You *are* free to use any free software with any other. The only problem is with distribution of binary/compiled/linked packages :) Install everything from ABS and you are 100% legit It seems to go against the spirit to do things like this. I like this sentiment. I mean, I get that there are zealots out there who strongly believe in their Chosen License as if it were a soccer team, but seriously - it's all free software, and we may be subtly violating the letter of the license, but the letter of the license is violating the _spirit_ of the license. 1. Start Here: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/ Note: GPLv3 is not compatible with GPLv2 *by itself*. However, *most software* released under GPLv2 allows you to use the terms of later versions of the GPL as well. When this is the case, you can use GPL2 code under GPLv3 to make the desired combination. The *only time* you may not be able to combine code under two GPL licenses is when you want to use code that's *only* under an older version of a license with code that's under a newer version. HOW DO YOU TELL? 2. Read the GPL V2 license included with whatever package or library you are looking at. Go to section 9 of the GPLV2 license included with the code. If section 9 reads: 9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and any later version, you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation. Then no mixed licensing issue apply and the GPL2 code can be used without issue in GPL3 release code. Only if the paragraph: Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and any later version, you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation. is *NOT* included in the GLP2 license of the code you want to use, then check the compatibility matrix below to determine if a compatibility issue exists: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility 3. If, and only if, a compatibility issues still remains after you have completed steps 1 2, then you will need to contact the author for permission to re-license. P.S. Note: nothing contained here constitutes legal advise, rather it is simply a handy reference with the applicable links and text provided to allow you to analyze whether a potential for a licensing conflict exists. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates
Will Siddall schrieb: Alright, after looking up the mirror's list (http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html), I pointed to one of the more recently updated mirrors and ran the update. This worked. I can download and upgrade my system. When I set my mirrors list back, and re-synchronize, everything is back to normal. Maybe you should have tried pacman -Syy, that often helps. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[arch-general] libtorrent-rasterbar PKBUILD patch
Here's a patch to upgrade the libtorrent-rasterbar package in extra. It's pretty simple, just increasing the pkgver to 0.14.4 and changing the md5sum. I've been using it for a number of weeks now without issue. Damien libtorrent-rasterbar-pkgbuild.patch Description: Binary data
[arch-general] dmraid Partitions Lost - Recovered - Howto
List, I thought I would pass this along should anyone else experience a loss of all partitions on a drive or array. May help somebody out someday: dmraid Partition Loss with dmraid-1.0.0rc15 Testing dmraid-1.0.0rc15 on a box with two separate dmraid arrays, I experienced the total loss of all partitions on the second dmraid array. The first array held an openSuSE install running dmraid-1.0.0rc14 while the second held Archlinux with dmraid-1.0.0rc15 where testing was being done. All testing of dmraid-1.0.0rc15 on Archlinux went fine, the problem occurred when the machine was boot back into openSuSE. Regardless of the situation, whether using a raid setup or not, partition loss is serious business. dmraid Partition Recovery Recovery of dmraid partitions proceed in the same manner as recovering partitions from a singe drive. if you haven't destroyed the information on the array, you should be able to put the pieces of the puzzle back together again. The basic outline for the process is to locate and restore the partitions on the array and then reinstall the boot loader so your box is functional again. (Note: if you were smart enough to save the fdisk -l information for your drives, you can simply fdisk your array and be done) Tools Required Partition location and recovery software (I used testdisk) http://www.cgsecurity.org/ http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk-6.11.linux26.tar.bz2 Rescue CD for your OS (generally your install CD/DVD, or knoppix, etc.) Using testdisk testdisk is a great piece of GPL code written by Christophe Grenier. testdisk can be used with most operating systems and will scan you disk or array and locate partition boundaries and give you the opportunity to recover them. I had 4 partitions dedicated to my Archlinux install totaling roughly 70G on a 750G raid array. To start testdisk, for Linux26, you will untar the bzip archive and then cd into the linux subdirectory. The prebuilt binary is: ./testdisk_static The first thing you will need to do is set the correct disk geometry. In my case the disk reported 254 heads and needed to be changed to 255 heads to work properly. (This is recommended if the first Quick Scan doesn't find your partitions). After setting the geometry, just choose Analyze and Quick Scan and go get a coffee or something. In my case since the 70G I was using was at the front of the 750G array, it had found my partitions within 5 minutes or so. Once all of your partitions are found you can Stop the scan by hitting the return key. You are then presented with the list of found partitions. They will be initially labeled D for deleted and you simply toggle on the partitions you need to recover by selecting (P Primary, * Primary Boot, L Logical or leave as D for Deleted). testdisk will check your selections for partition overlap and give you confirmation in green if your partition layout is OK. Just hit return to continue. Don't worry about the extended partition boundary, it will be provided. Review the partitions to be recovered and choose Write and your are done. (a reboot is required to activate the partitions) If no partitions were found during the Quick Scan, then (1) check your drive geometry setting; and (2) you will be given the option to do an In Depth Scan (go get 4 cups of coffee, walk the dog, etc...) Have Your Rescue CD Handy Once the partition information has been changed, there is a near 100% chance your boot loader configuration will be messed up. Don't worry, everything is still there, you just have to reinstall grub or lilo into the boot record to recover from the situation. Reinstalling Grub Here you will be booting from your CD or DVD into rescue mode, using dmraid to activate the arrays, and then using the information about the dm nodes in /dev/mapper and the partition information in from cat /proc/partitions to create a chroot of your install to repair the boot loader: (1) boot from the install DVD (2) choose Rescue System, login as root (no password needed) (3) activate the dmraid arrays with dmraid -ay (4) check which device nodes to use to create the chroot with ls -al /dev/dm* or ls -al /dev/mapper. I was dealing with 2 separate arrays, 9 partitions (duplicated by having both dmraid-1.0.0rc14 and dmraid-1.0.0rc15 metadata) that left me with dm-0 to dm-20 to deal with. Compare the size shown for dm-X, /dev/mapper/raiddevice_name and the size shown from cat /proc/partitions to determine your /, /home, and /boot and any other partitions you need to setup in your chroot. (5) mount all dm-X devices or /dev/mapper devices under /mnt to create your actual filesystem, and then bind dev/, proc/ and sys/ to their respective mount points
