[arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Madhurya Kakati
Hi,
While updating to a new kernel pacman replaces the older kernel with the new
one. Is there someway to keep the older kernel in /boot and have new entries
for new kernel in menu.lst while keeping old entries intact?


Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Legioner
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman

In pacman.conf:

IgnorePkg=name
IgnoreGroup=name

 Reply Header 
Subject:[arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new 
kernel
Author: Madhurya Kakati mkakati2...@gmail.com
Date:   17th July 2010 06:27

Hi,
While updating to a new kernel pacman replaces the older kernel with the new
one. Is there someway to keep the older kernel in /boot and have new entries
for new kernel in menu.lst while keeping old entries intact?




Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Ivan S. Freitas
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Legioner le_legio...@mail.ru wrote:
 http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman

 In pacman.conf:

 IgnorePkg=name
 IgnoreGroup=name

If I interpreted correctly this will not work as OP wants. (the kernel
won't  be upgraded this way).
Besides extracting and copying manually, I don't see any other option...


  Reply Header 
 Subject:        [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to 
 new kernel
 Author: Madhurya Kakati mkakati2...@gmail.com
 Date:           17th July 2010 06:27

 Hi,
 While updating to a new kernel pacman replaces the older kernel with the new
 one. Is there someway to keep the older kernel in /boot and have new entries
 for new kernel in menu.lst while keeping old entries intact?






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[arch-general] Manager Duplicates in /var/cache/pacman/pkg

2010-07-17 Thread David C. Rankin

Guys,

	I've updated my find duplicates script to work with the .xz packages. There are 
actually 2 scripts involved:


'fduparch.sh' is the wrapper script that just sets the directories and options 
for the actual duplicate finding script 'fduppkg'.


In its current configuration fduparch.sh actually calls fduppkg twice.

PASS 1:

it calls fduppkg to scan /var/cache/pacman/pkg and move any duplicates found to 
'/home/backup/pkg-old'. Packages with the same name are then checked by DATE and 
any older packages are moved /home/backup/pkg-old. This leaves only the current 
packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg making it much easing to move your install 
from machine-to-machine without copying unneeded duplicates. Second, it frees up 
space on / by moving duplicates to the /home partition.


PASS 2:

it calls fduppkg a second time to scan '/home/backup/pkg-old' and move any 
duplicates found to '/home/backup/pkg-older'.


	That way you have the latest packages in the normal '/var/cache/pacman/pkg' and 
you have a duplicate-free set of the last packages before update in 
'/home/backup/pkg-old'. All older versions are kept in '/home/backup/pkg-older'


	The way I use the scripts is to create softlinks to the scripts in 
/usr/local/bin (making sure /usr/local/bin is in your PATH) as follows:


ln -s /wherever/you/put/fduparch.sh /usr/local/bin/fduparch
ln -s /wherever/you/put/fduppkg /usr/local/bin/fduppkg

then I simply call fduparch after each update to clean the duplicates out of 
/var/cache/pacman/pkg.


running fduppkg without arguments gives the general usage:

01:16 nirvana:/srv/http/dl/Archlinux/scripts sh fduppkg

Usage: fduppkg search dir [ -d dup_dir -l logfile -s -v ]

	Searches search dir for duplicate pkgs and moves duplicate files to [dup_dir] 
or search dir/duplicates by default.


  -d | --dupdirUsed to specify directory to hold duplicate rpms
  -l | --logfile   Specify the log file name (default ./duplicates.log)
  -s | --silentDon't output anything to stdout, just log results
  -v | --verbose   Output information showing which files are kept and not moved

However, to change the default duplicate directories, just edit the wrapper 
script 'fduparch' and set the directories you want there. I have used a wrapper 
script to keep fduppkg as flexible as possible so I can simply run it on any 
package directory to find and move duplicates. (the split setup was originally 
developed to handle suse's archane cache directory structure, but it handles 
Arch's simple setup as well)


Grab the duplicate scripts at:

http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/fduparch.sh
http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/fduppkg

	Finally, I have developed a script for determining which packages in 
/var/cache/pacman/pkg are 'Installed' or not. The script is 'chkinstpkgs.sh' and 
is available here:


http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/chkinstpkgs.sh

Running the script without argument will check the status of all packages in 
/var/cache/pacman/pkg and provide you with a concise list of 
installed/uninstalled packages in the following format:


01:24 alchemy:~/scr/arch sh chkinstpkgs.sh

  Determining installed/orphaned packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg...

Initializing the package-information arrays
Checking installed packages

Total Number of Packages : 2713
Total Number Installed   : 2225
Total Number Orphaned: 488

Updating the installed package array with installed/orphaned info
( be patient, time required is: [~30 sec/1000 pkgs] )

ORPHANS (pkg in /var/cache/pacman/pkg but not installed):

 Total packages orphaned:  488

 PackageArch  
Installed

 a2ps-4.14-1x86_64no
 acct-6.5.1-1   x86_64no
 acpi-1.4-2 x86_64no
snip

INSTALLED PACKAGES:

 Total packages installed:  2225

 Package  Arch 
Installed


 a52dec-0.7.4-4 x86_64yes
 aalib-1.4rc5-6 x86_64yes
snip


	I find all 3 scripts useful in managing my Arch boxes and for moving installs 
to new arch boxes. The chkinstpkgs.sh script is great for checking what I have 
forgotten to install on a new box.


Enjoy!


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Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Ionuț Bîru

On 07/17/2010 09:27 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote:

Hi,
While updating to a new kernel pacman replaces the older kernel with the new
one. Is there someway to keep the older kernel in /boot and have new entries
for new kernel in menu.lst while keeping old entries intact?


no

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Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread ganlu
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On 2010年07月17日 15:46, Ionuț Bîru wrote:
 On 07/17/2010 09:27 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
 Hi,
 While updating to a new kernel pacman replaces the older kernel with
 the new
 one. Is there someway to keep the older kernel in /boot and have new
 entries
 for new kernel in menu.lst while keeping old entries intact?
 
 no
 
You can alway do it manually, simply copy the old kernel image as other
name before you update, then modify the correspondent line in menu.1st file.
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Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-17 Thread János Illés
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 07:55, David C. Rankin
drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote:
 OK I've narrowed it down to gnome-terminal. If I use konsole (kde3 or kde4)
 ctrl+c works just fine.

 Can anyone else try in gnome-terminal and see if ctrl+c is broken for you?
 Just type 'ping whatever' and then try to kill ping with crtl+c. I can't and
 that's a problem.

 I'm using using gnome-terminal 2.30.2-1


Create a new user, log in with it and try it again. If it works then
you have messed up something in your configs.

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Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-17 Thread David C. Rankin

On 07/17/2010 12:52 AM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:


Can you downgrade the -lts kernel and see if it works? If not, can you
try downgrading some other packages also?



Yep, I'll do that as a last resort, but finding that ctrl+c is only broken in 
gnome-terminal and it is OK in konsole, I'm suspecting it is gtk or gnome related...


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Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-17 Thread David C. Rankin

On 07/17/2010 12:58 AM, Jordan Windsor wrote:

Works here, gnome-terminal 2.30.2-1


Thanks - sometimes, I think I just must be the lucky one :p

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Re: [arch-general] [PATCH] gdisk patches

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Pustjens

On Sat, 17 Jul 2010, Ionuț Bîru wrote:


On 07/17/2010 01:23 AM, Mark Pustjens wrote:

 On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Ionuț Bîru wrote:

  On 07/16/2010 10:11 PM, Mark Pustjens wrote:
   Hi List,
  
   Below a patch wich fixes two bugs in the gdisk package. They have been

   submitted uptream but not yet been accepted.
 
  then we don't need them if upstream did that


 They didn't do anything :) Submitted only a few hours ago.




post a link to the bug report or mailing list so we can follow the progress


As i said in my original post: there is no place for a bug report, nor is 
there a mailing list.




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Re: [arch-general] [PATCH] gdisk patches

2010-07-17 Thread Jérôme M. Berger
Mark Pustjens wrote:
 On Sat, 17 Jul 2010, Ionuț Bîru wrote:
 
 On 07/17/2010 01:23 AM, Mark Pustjens wrote:
  On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Ionuț Bîru wrote:

   On 07/16/2010 10:11 PM, Mark Pustjens wrote:
Hi List,
  Below a patch wich fixes two bugs in the gdisk package. They
 have been
submitted uptream but not yet been accepted.
then we don't need them if upstream did that

  They didn't do anything :) Submitted only a few hours ago.



 post a link to the bug report or mailing list so we can follow the
 progress
 
 As i said in my original post: there is no place for a bug report, nor
 is there a mailing list.
 
http://sourceforge.net/sendmessage.php?touser=238224

But you're right, it's not easy to find and I can't guarantee that
the dev will get the message or that he'll answer...

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Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Евгений Борисов
I think it's a bad idea, because the directory /lib/modules/$oldVersion$
will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial solution not
exists.

2010/7/17 ganlu rhythm@gmail.com

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  On 07/17/2010 09:27 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
  Hi,
  While updating to a new kernel pacman replaces the older kernel with
  the new
  one. Is there someway to keep the older kernel in /boot and have new
  entries
  for new kernel in menu.lst while keeping old entries intact?
 
  no
 
 You can alway do it manually, simply copy the old kernel image as other
 name before you update, then modify the correspondent line in menu.1st
 file.
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Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 44/48] Save error messages to /dev/tty9.

2010-07-17 Thread Victor Lowther
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 14:09 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
 Am 30.06.2010 23:47, schrieb Victor Lowther:
  ---
   functions |4 
   1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
  
  diff --git a/functions b/functions
  index 9ec8b5e..f1dce8a 100644
  --- a/functions
  +++ b/functions
  @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
   
   # width:
   
  +grep -q initdebug  {
  +exec 2/dev/tty9
  +}
  +
   STAT_COL=80
   if [[ ! -t 1 ]]; then
   USECOLOR=
 
 Apart from Kurt's comment:
 
 Won't this cause errors to be omitted from the console? I'd much rather
 implement a full boot logging using bootlogd, but last time I tried, it
 was broken. Redirecting stderr away from the normal output seems
 unhelpful, and unecessary.

The intent was to redirect the errors to be redirected to tty9 -- when I
was debugging these scripts, syntax errors kept getting nuked by the
gettys and X starting up, so putting them on a tty that was not running
a getty seemed like the easiest solution.

 I'd much rather omit this in favor of a patch that adds proper boot
 logging, which is a feature we really need.

No problem.  The bashification-redux branch @
git://fnordovax.org/~victor/arch-initscripts has this as the last patch
to make it easy to drop.


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Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 43/48] Add a PKGBUILD for building initscripts-git for testing.

2010-07-17 Thread Victor Lowther
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 14:06 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
 Am 30.06.2010 23:47, schrieb Victor Lowther:
  This builds straight out of a git checkout.
  ---
   PKGBUILD |   23 +++
   1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
  
  diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
  new file mode 100644
  index 000..79b3403
  --- /dev/null
  +++ b/PKGBUILD
  @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
  +pkgname=initscripts-git
  +pkgver=$(date +%s)
  +pkgrel=$(git log --pretty=format:%h |head -n 1)
  +pkgdesc=System initialization/bootup scripts
  +arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
  +url=http://www.archlinux.org;
  +license=('GPL')
  +groups=('base')
  +conflicts=('initscripts')
  +provides=('initscripts=')
  +backup=(etc/inittab etc/rc.conf etc/rc.local etc/rc.local.shutdown)
  +depends=('glibc' 'bash' 'awk' 'grep' 'coreutils' 'sed' 'udev=139-1'
  + 'net-tools' 'ncurses' 'kbd' 'findutils' 'sysvinit')
  +optdepends=('bridge-utils: Network bridging support'
  +'dhcpcd: DHCP network configuration'
  +'wireless_tools: Wireless networking')
  +source=()
  +sha256sums=()
  +
  +build() {
  +  cd ..
  +  DESTDIR=${pkgdir} ./install.sh
  +}
 
 Not necessary IMO, but nice to have. Should come with a .gitignore patch
 that adds '*pkg.tar.*'.

It is nice to have -- being able to 
makepkg  sudo pacman -U inits*.tar.*
sure does make it easier to test things.

Why do you think a .gitignore patch is needed?  Unless someone does
something silly like adding the tarball to the git repo git will ignore
it anyways.


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Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
2010/7/17 Евгений Борисов fle...@gmail.com:
 I think it's a bad idea, because the directory /lib/modules/$oldVersion$
 will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial solution not
 exists.

 2010/7/17 ganlu rhythm@gmail.com

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 On 2010年07月17日 15:46, Ionuț Bîru wrote:
  On 07/17/2010 09:27 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
  Hi,
  While updating to a new kernel pacman replaces the older kernel with
  the new
  one. Is there someway to keep the older kernel in /boot and have new
  entries
  for new kernel in menu.lst while keeping old entries intact?
 
  no
 
 You can alway do it manually, simply copy the old kernel image as other
 name before you update, then modify the correspondent line in menu.1st
 file.
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If the point is to have a kernel that works, check out the -lts kernel.

I on the other hand, have used kernel26-rc in the AUR as my main
kernel, and kernel26 as a backup on my desktop :P


Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Victor Lowther
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote:
 I think it's a bad idea, because the directory /lib/modules/$oldVersion$
 will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial solution not
 exists.

My solution is to hand-roll my own kernels and initramfs'es after
removing the kernel and mkinitcpio packages.  The way Arch handles its
kernel packages is a weak point -- Fedora and Ubuntu get this bit right.

 2010/7/17 ganlu rhythm@gmail.com
 
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  On 2010年07月17日 15:46, Ionuț Bîru wrote:
   On 07/17/2010 09:27 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
   Hi,
   While updating to a new kernel pacman replaces the older kernel with
   the new
   one. Is there someway to keep the older kernel in /boot and have new
   entries
   for new kernel in menu.lst while keeping old entries intact?
  
   no
  
  You can alway do it manually, simply copy the old kernel image as other
  name before you update, then modify the correspondent line in menu.1st
  file.
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Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Ionuț Bîru

On 07/17/2010 05:17 PM, Victor Lowther wrote:

On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote:

I think it's a bad idea, because the directory /lib/modules/$oldVersion$
will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial solution not
exists.


My solution is to hand-roll my own kernels and initramfs'es after
removing the kernel and mkinitcpio packages.  The way Arch handles its
kernel packages is a weak point -- Fedora and Ubuntu get this bit right.



http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16702

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Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 43/48] Add a PKGBUILD for building initscripts-git for testing.

2010-07-17 Thread Victor Lowther
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 16:34 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
 Am 17.07.2010 16:13, schrieb Victor Lowther:
  Why do you think a .gitignore patch is needed?  Unless someone does
  something silly like adding the tarball to the git repo git will ignore
  it anyways.
 
 You want to keep git status clean, especially with __git_ps1. If there
 is nothing changed/to commit, I want to see a clean git status output.

Huh.  I guess I have never used git status before.


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[arch-general] nfs problem

2010-07-17 Thread Lars Tennstedt

Hello,

I tried to set up a nfs server and a nfs client in my network. I 
followed the instructions from the arch linux wiki. The server's ip 
address is 192.168.0.100 and the client's one is 192.168.0.101. I 
inserted the option --no-notify in /etc/conf.d/nfs-common.conf on the 
server. Here are the entries of the configuration files.


--- On the server ---
/etc/export:
/home/user/share192.168.0.101(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)
/etc/hosts.allow:
nfsd: 192.168.0.101/255.255.255.255
rpcbind: 192.168.0.101/255.255.255.255
mountd: 192.168.0.101/255.255.255.255

--- On the client ---
/etc/hosts.allow:
rpcbind: 192.168.0.100/255.255.255.255

If I try to mount the nfs share with the command mount 
192.168.0.100:/home/user/share /home/user/share, I will get the error 
message mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting. The 
directories /home/user/share on both machines are owned by the user.


Maybe someone has an idea?

Thanks!


Bye Lars


[arch-general] Nouveau problem

2010-07-17 Thread Lars Tennstedt

Hello again,

the graphics card on my old pc is a Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti 200. Before the 
release of the version 1.8 of X.org I used the proprietary driver. 
Because this is not possible anymore, I tried the nouveau driver and 
everything I can get is a blank screen. The vesa driver works correctly 
with the same configuration files.


Thanks for your time!

Bye Lars


Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-17 Thread Isaac Dupree

On 07/17/10 01:49, David C. Rankin wrote:

On 07/17/2010 12:01 AM, Corey Johns wrote:

Try a new keyboard to help isolate the problem.



I would, but this is a laptop :p


For the record: All laptops I've seen have USB ports, and all modern 
separate-keyboards I've seen have USB plugs [unless they're Bluetooth 
based, which might also work with your laptop] -- so why not test with 
an external keyboard if you have one around?  They *work* on my laptop, 
even if I don't use them for everyday use.


[since you already found Ctrl-C works in Konsole, there's probably no 
use to do that test anymore though]


-Isaac


Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
 On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote:
  I think it's a bad idea, because the directory /lib/modules/$oldVersion$
  will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial solution not
  exists.
 
 My solution is to hand-roll my own kernels and initramfs'es after
 removing the kernel and mkinitcpio packages.  The way Arch handles its
 kernel packages is a weak point -- Fedora and Ubuntu get this bit right.

Yeah, why not keep all previous kernels and headers around. We could
automatically extend menu.lst too!

I'm not sure what you like about Fedora and Ubuntu handling of kernels,
but I found it very annoying to have all that stuff hanging around.
Would be worse with rolling release I'm sure.



Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
 On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote:
  I think it's a bad idea, because the directory /lib/modules/$oldVersion$
  will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial solution not
  exists.

 My solution is to hand-roll my own kernels and initramfs'es after
 removing the kernel and mkinitcpio packages.  The way Arch handles its
 kernel packages is a weak point -- Fedora and Ubuntu get this bit right.

 Yeah, why not keep all previous kernels and headers around. We could
 automatically extend menu.lst too!

 I'm not sure what you like about Fedora and Ubuntu handling of kernels,
 but I found it very annoying to have all that stuff hanging around.
 Would be worse with rolling release I'm sure.



Agreed with Ng Oon-Ee on this one.


Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Rafael Beraldo
2010/7/17 Thomas Dziedzic gos...@gmail.com

 On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
  On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote:
   I think it's a bad idea, because the directory
 /lib/modules/$oldVersion$
   will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial solution
 not
   exists.
 
  My solution is to hand-roll my own kernels and initramfs'es after
  removing the kernel and mkinitcpio packages.  The way Arch handles its
  kernel packages is a weak point -- Fedora and Ubuntu get this bit right.
 
  Yeah, why not keep all previous kernels and headers around. We could
  automatically extend menu.lst too!
 
  I'm not sure what you like about Fedora and Ubuntu handling of kernels,
  but I found it very annoying to have all that stuff hanging around.
  Would be worse with rolling release I'm sure.
 
 

 Agreed with Ng Oon-Ee on this one.



In this case, I think the best would be the middle ground. I mean, when
upgrading the kernel, the older would be named “vmlinuz26-old” and the
initramfs “kernel26-old.img”. This would be a secutiry measure --- what if a
new kernel doesn't work?

-- 
Rafael Beraldo
http://cabaladada.org


Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 12:23 -0300, Rafael Beraldo wrote:
 2010/7/17 Thomas Dziedzic gos...@gmail.com
 
  On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com wrote:
   On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
   On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote:
I think it's a bad idea, because the directory
  /lib/modules/$oldVersion$
will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial solution
  not
exists.
  
   My solution is to hand-roll my own kernels and initramfs'es after
   removing the kernel and mkinitcpio packages.  The way Arch handles its
   kernel packages is a weak point -- Fedora and Ubuntu get this bit right.
  
   Yeah, why not keep all previous kernels and headers around. We could
   automatically extend menu.lst too!
  
   I'm not sure what you like about Fedora and Ubuntu handling of kernels,
   but I found it very annoying to have all that stuff hanging around.
   Would be worse with rolling release I'm sure.
  
  
 
  Agreed with Ng Oon-Ee on this one.
 
 
 
 In this case, I think the best would be the middle ground. I mean, when
 upgrading the kernel, the older would be named “vmlinuz26-old” and the
 initramfs “kernel26-old.img”. This would be a secutiry measure --- what if a
 new kernel doesn't work?
 
When a kernel is updated kernel modules are as well. For example, nvidia
is pushed up one pkgrel because a new kernel is out. With your
suggestion the old kernel is saved as vmlinuz26-old. Which can't get a
graphical login because the old nvidia module is gone.

Also, because menu.lst is not automatically edited for you, you'd still
need to manually add the old kernel to grub to be able to boot from it.
I submit that users who are able to do that (as all Archers are supposed
to be able to do) are also able to downgrade the kernel from a live
disc.



Re: [arch-general] Nouveau problem

2010-07-17 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
On 17 July 2010 17:01, Lars Tennstedt o...@larstennstedt.de wrote:
 Hello again,

 the graphics card on my old pc is a Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti 200. Before the
 release of the version 1.8 of X.org I used the proprietary driver. Because
 this is not possible anymore, I tried the nouveau driver and everything I
 can get is a blank screen. The vesa driver works correctly with the same
 configuration files.

 Thanks for your time!

 Bye Lars


Today new nvidia legacy drivers were released, maybe you can try them.


Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:23:48PM -0300, Rafael Beraldo wrote:
 2010/7/17 Thomas Dziedzic gos...@gmail.com
 
  On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com wrote:
   On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
   On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote:
I think it's a bad idea, because the directory
  /lib/modules/$oldVersion$
will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial solution
  not
exists.
  
   My solution is to hand-roll my own kernels and initramfs'es after
   removing the kernel and mkinitcpio packages.  The way Arch handles its
   kernel packages is a weak point -- Fedora and Ubuntu get this bit right.
  
   Yeah, why not keep all previous kernels and headers around. We could
   automatically extend menu.lst too!
  
   I'm not sure what you like about Fedora and Ubuntu handling of kernels,
   but I found it very annoying to have all that stuff hanging around.
   Would be worse with rolling release I'm sure.
  
  
 
  Agreed with Ng Oon-Ee on this one.
 
 
 
 In this case, I think the best would be the middle ground. I mean, when
 upgrading the kernel, the older would be named “vmlinuz26-old” and the
 initramfs “kernel26-old.img”. This would be a secutiry measure --- what if a
 new kernel doesn't work?
 

Then you're boned anyways because /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/ was
replaced. It'll be missing in the case of a 2.6.X upgrade.

d


Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Victor Lowther
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 23:10 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
 On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
  On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote:
   I think it's a bad idea, because the directory /lib/modules/$oldVersion$
   will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial solution not
   exists.
  
  My solution is to hand-roll my own kernels and initramfs'es after
  removing the kernel and mkinitcpio packages.  The way Arch handles its
  kernel packages is a weak point -- Fedora and Ubuntu get this bit right.
 
 Yeah, why not keep all previous kernels and headers around. We could
 automatically extend menu.lst too!

It wold be better than updating to a new kernel, rebooting, and having
to boot to a LiveCD to get back into your system because the new kernel
fscked things up.

Keeping versioned header files also comes in handy -- I take it you heve
never tried any sort of testing with out-of-tree drivers or kernel
subsystems? Using DKMS on arch is a pointless waste of time because
older kernel headers are not kept around.

 I'm not sure what you like about Fedora and Ubuntu handling of kernels,
 but I found it very annoying to have all that stuff hanging around.
 Would be worse with rolling release I'm sure.

I like knowing that I will not have to hunt for a LiveCD or a rescue USB
drive if a kernel update renders the system unbootable.

-- 
Victor Lowther
LPIC2 UCP RHCE 


Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Victor Lowther
victor.lowt...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 23:10 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
 On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
  On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote:
   I think it's a bad idea, because the directory /lib/modules/$oldVersion$
   will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial solution not
   exists.
 
  My solution is to hand-roll my own kernels and initramfs'es after
  removing the kernel and mkinitcpio packages.  The way Arch handles its
  kernel packages is a weak point -- Fedora and Ubuntu get this bit right.

 Yeah, why not keep all previous kernels and headers around. We could
 automatically extend menu.lst too!

 It wold be better than updating to a new kernel, rebooting, and having
 to boot to a LiveCD to get back into your system because the new kernel
 fscked things up.

 Keeping versioned header files also comes in handy -- I take it you heve
 never tried any sort of testing with out-of-tree drivers or kernel
 subsystems? Using DKMS on arch is a pointless waste of time because
 older kernel headers are not kept around.

 I'm not sure what you like about Fedora and Ubuntu handling of kernels,
 but I found it very annoying to have all that stuff hanging around.
 Would be worse with rolling release I'm sure.

 I like knowing that I will not have to hunt for a LiveCD or a rescue USB
 drive if a kernel update renders the system unbootable.



This wouldn't be a problem if you have a backup kernel :)


Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Victor Lowther
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 10:42 -0500, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
 On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Victor Lowther
 victor.lowt...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 23:10 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
  On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
   On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote:
I think it's a bad idea, because the directory 
/lib/modules/$oldVersion$
will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial solution 
not
exists.
  
   My solution is to hand-roll my own kernels and initramfs'es after
   removing the kernel and mkinitcpio packages.  The way Arch handles its
   kernel packages is a weak point -- Fedora and Ubuntu get this bit right.
 
  Yeah, why not keep all previous kernels and headers around. We could
  automatically extend menu.lst too!
 
  It wold be better than updating to a new kernel, rebooting, and having
  to boot to a LiveCD to get back into your system because the new kernel
  fscked things up.
 
  Keeping versioned header files also comes in handy -- I take it you heve
  never tried any sort of testing with out-of-tree drivers or kernel
  subsystems? Using DKMS on arch is a pointless waste of time because
  older kernel headers are not kept around.
 
  I'm not sure what you like about Fedora and Ubuntu handling of kernels,
  but I found it very annoying to have all that stuff hanging around.
  Would be worse with rolling release I'm sure.
 
  I like knowing that I will not have to hunt for a LiveCD or a rescue USB
  drive if a kernel update renders the system unbootable.
 
 
 
 This wouldn't be a problem if you have a backup kernel :)

Oh, I do.  I would just prefer to work with the package management
framework, not work around it.

-- 
Victor Lowther
LPIC2 UCP RHCE 


Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 17 Jul 2010 11:06 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
 On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 10:42 -0500, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
  On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Victor Lowther
  victor.lowt...@gmail.com wrote:
   On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 23:10 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
   On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote:
 I think it's a bad idea, because the directory 
 /lib/modules/$oldVersion$
 will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial 
 solution not
 exists.
   
My solution is to hand-roll my own kernels and initramfs'es after
removing the kernel and mkinitcpio packages.  The way Arch handles its
kernel packages is a weak point -- Fedora and Ubuntu get this bit 
right.
  
   Yeah, why not keep all previous kernels and headers around. We could
   automatically extend menu.lst too!
  
   It wold be better than updating to a new kernel, rebooting, and having
   to boot to a LiveCD to get back into your system because the new kernel
   fscked things up.
  
   Keeping versioned header files also comes in handy -- I take it you heve
   never tried any sort of testing with out-of-tree drivers or kernel
   subsystems? Using DKMS on arch is a pointless waste of time because
   older kernel headers are not kept around.
  
   I'm not sure what you like about Fedora and Ubuntu handling of kernels,
   but I found it very annoying to have all that stuff hanging around.
   Would be worse with rolling release I'm sure.
  
   I like knowing that I will not have to hunt for a LiveCD or a rescue USB
   drive if a kernel update renders the system unbootable.
  
  
  
  This wouldn't be a problem if you have a backup kernel :)
 
 Oh, I do.  I would just prefer to work with the package management
 framework, not work around it.

I think this is something that hooks could do. It's a feature that's in
brainstorming. Maybe you could help implement it.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Pacman_Hooks

Cheers!



Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sat 17 Jul 2010 11:06 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
 On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 10:42 -0500, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
 On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Victor Lowther
 victor.lowt...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 23:10 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
 On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
 On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов
  wrote:
 I think it's a bad idea, because the directory /lib/modules/
 $oldVersion$
 will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial
 solution not
 exists.

 My solution is to hand-roll my own kernels and initramfs'es after
 removing the kernel and mkinitcpio packages.  The way Arch
 handles its
 kernel packages is a weak point -- Fedora and Ubuntu get this
 bit right.

 Yeah, why not keep all previous kernels and headers around. We
 could
 automatically extend menu.lst too!

 It wold be better than updating to a new kernel, rebooting, and
 having
 to boot to a LiveCD to get back into your system because the new
 kernel
 fscked things up.

 Keeping versioned header files also comes in handy -- I take it
 you heve
 never tried any sort of testing with out-of-tree drivers or kernel
 subsystems? Using DKMS on arch is a pointless waste of time because
 older kernel headers are not kept around.

 I'm not sure what you like about Fedora and Ubuntu handling of
 kernels,
 but I found it very annoying to have all that stuff hanging
 around.
 Would be worse with rolling release I'm sure.

 I like knowing that I will not have to hunt for a LiveCD or a
 rescue USB
 drive if a kernel update renders the system unbootable.



 This wouldn't be a problem if you have a backup kernel :)

 Oh, I do.  I would just prefer to work with the package management
 framework, not work around it.

 I think this is something that hooks could do. It's a feature that's
 in
 brainstorming. Maybe you could help implement it.

 http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Pacman_Hooks

As a heads up, this (kernel rollbacks) is a planned feature of the
mkinitcpio-btrfs hook in AUR.  It will be implemented in one or more
of about three ways:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=778395#p778395

and will be in the next major release; hopefully within 3 weeks or
so.  I'm less than 2 weeks from moving my family to a new state so
free development has taken a back seat for a short while.

You must be using btrfs for / of course.

C Anthony


Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 43/48] Add a PKGBUILD for building initscripts-git for testing.

2010-07-17 Thread Jan Steffens
pkgrel=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)

much simpler.

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Victor Lowther
victor.lowt...@gmail.com wrote:
 This builds straight out of a git checkout.
 ---
  PKGBUILD |   23 +++
  1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

 diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
 new file mode 100644
 index 000..79b3403
 --- /dev/null
 +++ b/PKGBUILD
 @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
 +pkgname=initscripts-git
 +pkgver=$(date +%s)
 +pkgrel=$(git log --pretty=format:%h |head -n 1)
 +pkgdesc=System initialization/bootup scripts
 +arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 +url=http://www.archlinux.org;
 +license=('GPL')
 +groups=('base')
 +conflicts=('initscripts')
 +provides=('initscripts=')
 +backup=(etc/inittab etc/rc.conf etc/rc.local etc/rc.local.shutdown)
 +depends=('glibc' 'bash' 'awk' 'grep' 'coreutils' 'sed' 'udev=139-1'
 +         'net-tools' 'ncurses' 'kbd' 'findutils' 'sysvinit')
 +optdepends=('bridge-utils: Network bridging support'
 +            'dhcpcd: DHCP network configuration'
 +            'wireless_tools: Wireless networking')
 +source=()
 +sha256sums=()
 +
 +build() {
 +  cd ..
 +  DESTDIR=${pkgdir} ./install.sh
 +}
 --
 1.7.1




Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 17 Jul 2010 12:15 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
 On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote:
 
  On Sat 17 Jul 2010 11:06 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
  Oh, I do.  I would just prefer to work with the package management
  framework, not work around it.
 
  I think this is something that hooks could do. It's a feature that's
  in brainstorming. Maybe you could help implement it.
 
  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Pacman_Hooks
 
 As a heads up, this (kernel rollbacks) is a planned feature of the
 mkinitcpio-btrfs hook in AUR.  It will be implemented in one or more
 of about three ways:
 
 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=778395#p778395
 
 You must be using btrfs for / of course.

So, that's not something that would work within the package management
framework, is it?



Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sat 17 Jul 2010 12:15 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
 On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote:

  On Sat 17 Jul 2010 11:06 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
  Oh, I do.  I would just prefer to work with the package management
  framework, not work around it.
 
  I think this is something that hooks could do. It's a feature that's
  in brainstorming. Maybe you could help implement it.
 
  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Pacman_Hooks

 As a heads up, this (kernel rollbacks) is a planned feature of the
 mkinitcpio-btrfs hook in AUR.  It will be implemented in one or more
 of about three ways:

 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=778395#p778395

 You must be using btrfs for / of course.

 So, that's not something that would work within the package management
 framework, is it?

no, it would not.  it requires you to manually run the proper command
prior to upgrading.  it could be automated by either a pacman hook, or
putting the command in a wrapper script around pacman.  there has been
some big interest in rollback from a couple devs, so maybe it will
make its way into pacman/libalpm official, but idk.

at any rate, it will be a solution to the kernel rollback problem, and
will suffice for some; it's just that it requires a btrfs root.  the
next release will include this functionality, along with a tool to
work with/create system snapshots (and for use in said wrapper).

C Anthony


Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Евгений Борисов
BTRFS is not marked stable by developers, so it can not  used in stable
arch.

2010/7/17 C Anthony Risinger anth...@extof.me

 On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote:
  On Sat 17 Jul 2010 12:15 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
  On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote:
 
   On Sat 17 Jul 2010 11:06 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
   Oh, I do.  I would just prefer to work with the package management
   framework, not work around it.
  
   I think this is something that hooks could do. It's a feature that's
   in brainstorming. Maybe you could help implement it.
  
   http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Pacman_Hooks
 
  As a heads up, this (kernel rollbacks) is a planned feature of the
  mkinitcpio-btrfs hook in AUR.  It will be implemented in one or more
  of about three ways:
 
  https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=778395#p778395
 
  You must be using btrfs for / of course.
 
  So, that's not something that would work within the package management
  framework, is it?

 no, it would not.  it requires you to manually run the proper command
 prior to upgrading.  it could be automated by either a pacman hook, or
 putting the command in a wrapper script around pacman.  there has been
 some big interest in rollback from a couple devs, so maybe it will
 make its way into pacman/libalpm official, but idk.

 at any rate, it will be a solution to the kernel rollback problem, and
 will suffice for some; it's just that it requires a btrfs root.  the
 next release will include this functionality, along with a tool to
 work with/create system snapshots (and for use in said wrapper).

 C Anthony



Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread C Anthony Risinger
IIRC it is being marked stable in 2.6.35.

Stable schmable... works like a treat for me and many others; it's
just a possible solution.

C Anthony [mobile]

On Jul 17, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Евгений Борисов
fle...@gmail.com wrote:

 BTRFS is not marked stable by developers, so it can not  used in
 stable
 arch.

 2010/7/17 C Anthony Risinger anth...@extof.me

 On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com
 wrote:
 On Sat 17 Jul 2010 12:15 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
 On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com
 wrote:

 On Sat 17 Jul 2010 11:06 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
 Oh, I do.  I would just prefer to work with the package
 management
 framework, not work around it.

 I think this is something that hooks could do. It's a feature
 that's
 in brainstorming. Maybe you could help implement it.

 http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Pacman_Hooks

 As a heads up, this (kernel rollbacks) is a planned feature of the
 mkinitcpio-btrfs hook in AUR.  It will be implemented in one or
 more
 of about three ways:

 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=778395#p778395

 You must be using btrfs for / of course.

 So, that's not something that would work within the package
 management
 framework, is it?

 no, it would not.  it requires you to manually run the proper command
 prior to upgrading.  it could be automated by either a pacman hook,
 or
 putting the command in a wrapper script around pacman.  there has
 been
 some big interest in rollback from a couple devs, so maybe it will
 make its way into pacman/libalpm official, but idk.

 at any rate, it will be a solution to the kernel rollback problem,
 and
 will suffice for some; it's just that it requires a btrfs root.  the
 next release will include this functionality, along with a tool to
 work with/create system snapshots (and for use in said wrapper).

 C Anthony



Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-17 Thread Adriano Moura
2010/7/17 David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com

 On 07/16/2010 09:52 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:

 Guys,

 I have a strange problem. ctrl+c is completely broken on my system. It
 won't
 cancel Jack Schit. It is the strangest thing I've seen. I apologize if
 there is
 some archain Arch notice on this I apologize, I've missed it.

 This is easy to test. Just to 'ping anywhere' and then try and kill it
 with
 ctrl+c. I have to open another terminal and either 'killall ping' or kill
 the
 pid to get the thing to stop. Same thing happens if I mistype a cli and
 need to
 cancel the execution (like if I mistype a ' instead of a  and the script
 continues on a new line)

 What's up with this?


 OK I've narrowed it down to gnome-terminal. If I use konsole (kde3 or kde4)
 ctrl+c works just fine.

 Can anyone else try in gnome-terminal and see if ctrl+c is broken for you?
 Just type 'ping whatever' and then try to kill ping with crtl+c. I can't and
 that's a problem.

 I'm using using gnome-terminal 2.30.2-1



 --
 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


Does Xterm and the VT's works?
if so, it must be something with the gnome terminal :)


Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-17 Thread Jeff Cook
I had this problem a while back. In my case, I had compiled a random git
checkout from awesomewm and that had a bug that was the cause of the
failure. If you're using any beta or development branches of your window
manager, you might want to try stable.

Also, try removing any .xmodmap or other such configurations.

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Adriano Moura adriano.l...@gmail.comwrote:

 2010/7/17 David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com

  On 07/16/2010 09:52 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
 
  Guys,
 
  I have a strange problem. ctrl+c is completely broken on my system. It
  won't
  cancel Jack Schit. It is the strangest thing I've seen. I apologize if
  there is
  some archain Arch notice on this I apologize, I've missed it.
 
  This is easy to test. Just to 'ping anywhere' and then try and kill it
  with
  ctrl+c. I have to open another terminal and either 'killall ping' or
 kill
  the
  pid to get the thing to stop. Same thing happens if I mistype a cli and
  need to
  cancel the execution (like if I mistype a ' instead of a  and the
 script
  continues on a new line)
 
  What's up with this?
 
 
  OK I've narrowed it down to gnome-terminal. If I use konsole (kde3 or
 kde4)
  ctrl+c works just fine.
 
  Can anyone else try in gnome-terminal and see if ctrl+c is broken for
 you?
  Just type 'ping whatever' and then try to kill ping with crtl+c. I can't
 and
  that's a problem.
 
  I'm using using gnome-terminal 2.30.2-1
 
 
 
  --
  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
 

 Does Xterm and the VT's works?
 if so, it must be something with the gnome terminal :)



Re: [arch-general] Nouveau problem

2010-07-17 Thread Jeff Cook
Try following the nouveau page on ArchWiki and asking in some
nouveau-specific support channels, like #nouveau on freenode.

2010/7/17 Lukáš Jirkovský l.jirkov...@gmail.com

 On 17 July 2010 17:01, Lars Tennstedt o...@larstennstedt.de wrote:
  Hello again,
 
  the graphics card on my old pc is a Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti 200. Before the
  release of the version 1.8 of X.org I used the proprietary driver.
 Because
  this is not possible anymore, I tried the nouveau driver and everything I
  can get is a blank screen. The vesa driver works correctly with the same
  configuration files.
 
  Thanks for your time!
 
  Bye Lars
 

 Today new nvidia legacy drivers were released, maybe you can try them.



[arch-general] donate for the improvement and development

2010-07-17 Thread Dmitry Korzhevin
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Is there any site which listed the current Arch Linux
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Re: [arch-general] donate for the improvement and development

2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Dmitry Korzhevin
dkorzhe...@lsupport.net wrote:
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 Dmitry Korzhevin
 Tel: +38 (039) 295-
 Office Phone: +38 (044) 383-14-12
 E-mail: dkorzhe...@lsupport.net
 Jabber ID: dkorzhe...@lsupport.net
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Always check the wiki :)
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Getting_Involved


[arch-general] Need Help working on radeon/kernel bug - Where can I get .35rc kernel

2010-07-17 Thread David C. Rankin

Guys,

On the kernel/radeon, Andreas suggested:

try a .35rc kernel if it's fixed meanwhile. if not ask on the upstream radeon 
list and then probably file the issue to the Xorg tracker for radeon.


My question:

(1) where would I look to find the Arch .35rc kernel?

I got the rest :p


--
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] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-17 Thread David C. Rankin

On 07/17/2010 03:58 PM, Adriano Moura wrote:

Does Xterm and the VT's works?
if so, it must be something with the gnome terminal :)


Yep, x-term and all other vt's work fine, gnome-terminal is the only one with 
the un-terminable illness :p


--
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] Need Help working on radeon/kernel bug - Where can I get .35rc kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:36 PM, David C. Rankin
drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote:
 Guys,

        On the kernel/radeon, Andreas suggested:

 try a .35rc kernel if it's fixed meanwhile. if not ask on the upstream
 radeon list and then probably file the issue to the Xorg tracker for
 radeon.

 My question:

 (1) where would I look to find the Arch .35rc kernel?

 I got the rest :p



http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31932
kernel26-rc