[arch-general] mirror.cs.vt.edu outdated
Hello, this mirror has an old lasysync of 1279951267. Googling this number returns a few results for other mirrors at this time. What does it mean? Lastly, what mirror is the most trusted? I trust vt.edu, their uptime has been wonderful until it stopped updating packages. I don't want to use the archlinux.org server, as it's limited (and you guys probably don't like the extra load). Thanks.
Re: [arch-general] mirror.cs.vt.edu outdated
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Harry Strongburg harry.a...@harry.lu wrote: Lastly, what mirror is the most trusted? I use kernel.org I don't know that it's most trusted but... -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.com
Re: [arch-general] Fw: [arch-dev-public] [staging] repository: Let's give it a try!
On 11-08-2010 18:03, Pierre Schmitz wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:41:06 +0100, Mario Figueiredo mario.figueir...@quiettech.org wrote: This would definitely get me interested in Testing. Right now my Linux knowledge is limited and thus Testing is a no-go zone. If however I could have a guarantee that Testing offers the same package sanity insurance of the other mirrors, I could start participating. In that case testing wont still be for you. There wont be any guarantee for testing and some pacakges might be just broken. The only thing you can expect that we wont break testing _by intention_ due to moving incomplete rebuilds in. Well, that was precisely my point, wasn't it? Testing implies bugged application builds. What it should however not imply is broken packages. It needs to be said that this is also reflection of what one should expect to encounter in the development process in the wild. Apart from the potential for collaboration, the idea that the Arch repos could mimic this development cycle is very appealing to me. __ | | V V Development- Staging- Testing - Release Packaging maintenance is taken away from the end user, giving them safe (it's still a beta, hence the quotes) access to Testing. Meanwhile developers would separate packaging from Testing, considerably giving them a lot more control over what users can access from Testing. Staging is not a new repo/layer between the developer and testing. It's just meant to be a temporary storage for rebuilds. The current dev. cycle wont be affected. So we'll still have: dev-extra dev-testing-core Aren't you contradicting yourself? Unless you don't plan to use staging, you won't risk anymore having broken rebuilds on testing.
[arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini
I have a nice del mini 10 with archlinux and XFCE4 It works great after I updated the kernel the audio and the camera started to work, which is nice. BUT - I think the 3d still doesn't work, I followed the guide (using intel-dri drivers) and video now runs smoothly, but glgears is still very slow. Since I've read somewhere that is not a good measure, how do I know for sure if 3d is activated or not? - the wireless is quite painful I use wicd-client/server and it keeps disconnecting, and half of the times it even gives me a password wrong error. Restarting wicd server or the network doesn't help, only restarting apparently does. Very weird - the screensaver I never asked xfce4 that I want a screensaver, and apparently there should be an entry in the configuration menu, but for some reasons I don't, even if I have all the possible extensions and util of xfce4 already installed Thanks a lot, Andrea
Re: [arch-general] mirror.cs.vt.edu outdated
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Harry Strongburg harry.a...@harry.lu wrote: Hello, this mirror has an old lasysync of 1279951267. Googling this number returns a few results for other mirrors at this time. What does it mean? Lastly, what mirror is the most trusted? I trust vt.edu, their uptime has been wonderful until it stopped updating packages. I don't want to use the archlinux.org server, as it's limited (and you guys probably don't like the extra load). Thanks. I think it could be better discussed in the proper mailing list, arch-mirrors http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-mirrors -- == Ivan Sichmann Freitas Engenharia de Computação 2009 UNICAMP http://identi.ca/ivansichmann Grupo Pró Software Livre UNICAMP - GPSL ==
Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini
On 12 August 2010 22:56, Andrea Crotti andrea.crott...@gmail.com wrote: - I think the 3d still doesn't work, I followed the guide (using intel-dri drivers) and video now runs smoothly, but glgears is still very slow. Since I've read somewhere that is not a good measure, how do I know for sure if 3d is activated or not? Get a 3D game. I could play UrbanTerror on 800x600 and low details at 24+ FPS on an Acer AspireOne. - the wireless is quite painful I use wicd-client/server and it keeps disconnecting, and half of the times it even gives me a password wrong error. Restarting wicd server or the network doesn't help, only restarting apparently does. Very weird Use networkmanager + nm-applet instead. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Ray Rashif schivmeis...@gmail.com wrote: Use networkmanager + nm-applet instead. IIRC nm-applet pulls in half of Gnome and networkmanager does not have a desktop-agnostic graphical frontend. Alternatively you could try wifi-radar. Also, if you believe your hardware is poorly supported do bug the upstream about it. As for the screensaver, do you have xscreensaver or gnome-screensaver installed? HTH, John
Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini
Ray Rashif schivmeis...@gmail.com writes: Get a 3D game. I could play UrbanTerror on 800x600 and low details at 24+ FPS on an Acer AspireOne. Mm something less big and easier to install :D? Downloading tuxkart, let's see. Strange because it looks faster then before but not fast as the 3d would be enabled. Ok tuxkart does maybe 2 fps, so probably I have a problem. Use networkmanager + nm-applet instead. I also have, I'll see how it behaves now it looks working fine again, I would like to understand what the problem is... Another (more important thing), I use suspend with uswsusp, and it works nicely, BUT I have the swap partition on lvm. Every time I reboot it asks me where it is (while saying is looking in /dev/mini/swap), then I type /dev/mini/swap and it works. So it means that it looks there, doesn't like it, ask me and then he likes it, quite weird isn't it? Thanks
Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:56:33PM +0200, Andrea Crotti wrote: Since I've read somewhere that is not a good measure, how do I know for sure if 3d is activated or not? glxinfo |grep ^direct rendering:
Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini
Le Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:31:16 +0200, Andrea Crotti andrea.crott...@gmail.com wrote about problems with his wireless card often deconnecting. hi, I have had a similar problem (non-US citizen) and after having setup crda, it works now like a charm (of course depending on signal quality). Quote from http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup: If you want to enable more channels on Intel Wifi 5100 (and quite possible other cards too) you can do that with the crda package. After install, edit /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom and uncomment the line where your country code is found. Add wireless-regdom to your DAEMONS in rc.conf and restart (which is the easiest thing to do). You should now, when writing sudo iwlist wlan0 channel, have access to more channels (depending on your location).
Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini
Alessandro Doro ordo...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:56:33PM +0200, Andrea Crotti wrote: Since I've read somewhere that is not a good measure, how do I know for sure if 3d is activated or not? glxinfo |grep ^direct rendering: I already looked at that and I get Yes! But I can't believe it's so crappy to almost stop in tuxkart and sometimes being slow in opengl screensavers...
[arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format
Dear Archers, is it true that rankmirrors can't handle mirrorlist urls like ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch? While pacman works fine with this format, rankmirrors produces unreachable URLs. Or am I misunderstanding something here? Rock on, Mathias
Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini
didier gaumet didier.gau...@gmail.com writes: Le Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:31:16 +0200, Andrea Crotti andrea.crott...@gmail.com wrote about problems with his wireless card often deconnecting. hi, I have had a similar problem (non-US citizen) and after having setup crda, it works now like a charm (of course depending on signal quality). Quote from http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup: If you want to enable more channels on Intel Wifi 5100 (and quite possible other cards too) you can do that with the crda package. After install, edit /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom and uncomment the line where your country code is found. Add wireless-regdom to your DAEMONS in rc.conf and restart (which is the easiest thing to do). You should now, when writing sudo iwlist wlan0 channel, have access to more channels (depending on your location). Great thanks a lot, I didn't restart the system but starting the service I get a nl80211 not found error. Did you also get the password error or just losing the connection? By the way I would really like to understand why eth0 and eth1 are often switched. One boot I even saw finally wlan0 as wireless interface device name, is there a way to fix them forever?
Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format
Worked for me on the latest mirrorlist release. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Mathias Huber hu...@mathiashuber.dewrote: Dear Archers, is it true that rankmirrors can't handle mirrorlist urls like ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch? While pacman works fine with this format, rankmirrors produces unreachable URLs. Or am I misunderstanding something here? Rock on, Mathias
Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini
On 13 August 2010 00:16, JM fi...@archlinux.us wrote: IIRC nm-applet pulls in half of Gnome and networkmanager does not have a desktop-agnostic graphical frontend. Alternatively you could try wifi-radar. Also, if you believe your hardware is poorly supported do bug the upstream about it. $ pactree network-manager-applet | grep gnome |--libgnome-keyring |--gnome-keyring |--polkit-gnome That's half of Gnome? I can plug in my Motorola ROKR E8, Huawei E220, some random CDMA or UMTS device in some random country, connect to a WPA2-secured hotspot, and even dial up ADSL. Compared to that, the above dependencies are nothing. Moreover, it fits in nicely with everything else, KDE or Openbox. On 13 August 2010 03:51, Andrea Crotti andrea.crott...@gmail.com wrote: By the way I would really like to understand why eth0 and eth1 are often switched. One boot I even saw finally wlan0 as wireless interface device name, is there a way to fix them forever? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Mixed_Up_Devices.2C_Sound.2FNetwork_Cards_Changing_Order_Each_Boot -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format
Can you post a copy of the output? I'm using reflector and rankmirrors, and I get this: # 2010-08-12 15:33 # generated by reflector # ranked by rankmirrors Server = ftp://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirror.yandex.ru/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch These are obviously not reachable URLs, but pacman fills in $repo and $arch from pacman.conf so it's working just fine for me. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Jason Reardon aetherfl...@gmail.comwrote: Worked for me on the latest mirrorlist release. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Mathias Huber hu...@mathiashuber.de wrote: Dear Archers, is it true that rankmirrors can't handle mirrorlist urls like ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch? While pacman works fine with this format, rankmirrors produces unreachable URLs. Or am I misunderstanding something here? Rock on, Mathias -- -Erik For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. --Carl Sagan
Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format
Hi Erik, Can you post a copy of the output? I'm using reflector and rankmirrors, and I get this: # 2010-08-12 15:33 # generated by reflector # ranked by rankmirrors Server = ftp://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirror.yandex.ru/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Yes, it's like this: [hu...@archlinux ~]$ rankmirrors -t /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Querying servers, this may take some time... * * * * * * * * Servers sorted by time (seconds): ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch : timeout ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch : unreachable ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.archlinux.org/$repo/os/$arch : unreachable ftp://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch : unreachable http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch : unreachable http://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.archlinux.org/$repo/os/$arch : unreachable http://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch : unreachable http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch : unreachable These are obviously not reachable URLs, but pacman fills in $repo and $arch from pacman.conf so it's working just fine for me. Yes, pacman is working fine. Should I file a rankmirrors bug? Cheerio, Mathias
Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Erik Johnson archt...@gmail.com wrote: Can you post a copy of the output? I'm using reflector and rankmirrors, and I get this: # 2010-08-12 15:33 # generated by reflector # ranked by rankmirrors Server = ftp://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirror.yandex.ru/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch These are obviously not reachable URLs, but pacman fills in $repo and $arch from pacman.conf so it's working just fine for me. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Jason Reardon aetherfl...@gmail.com wrote: Worked for me on the latest mirrorlist release. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Mathias Huber hu...@mathiashuber.de wrote: Dear Archers, is it true that rankmirrors can't handle mirrorlist urls like ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch? While pacman works fine with this format, rankmirrors produces unreachable URLs. Or am I misunderstanding something here? Rock on, Mathias -- -Erik For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. --Carl Sagan Here's my first six. The gatech one didn't have a package at one point, rankmirrors sorted the whole US list. Server = ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://lug.mtu.edu/archlinux/ftpfull/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/$repo/os/$arch
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] sudo-1.7.4.p2-1
On 11.08.2010 04:58, Allan McRae wrote:
Upstrema update. Upstream moved the location of the timestamp files, so
everyone will receive the sudo lecture on first usage.
Signoff both,
Allan
User signoff both
Some defaults changed too. (1 timestamp per tty or behavior of -s, maybe
more I didn't look)
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Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format
On 13/08/10 07:09, Jason Reardon wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Erik Johnsonarcht...@gmail.com wrote: Can you post a copy of the output? I'm using reflector and rankmirrors, and I get this: # 2010-08-12 15:33 # generated by reflector # ranked by rankmirrors Server = ftp://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirror.yandex.ru/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch These are obviously not reachable URLs, but pacman fills in $repo and $arch from pacman.conf so it's working just fine for me. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Jason Reardonaetherfl...@gmail.com wrote: Worked for me on the latest mirrorlist release. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Mathias Huberhu...@mathiashuber.de wrote: Dear Archers, is it true that rankmirrors can't handle mirrorlist urls like ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch? While pacman works fine with this format, rankmirrors produces unreachable URLs. Or am I misunderstanding something here? Rock on, Mathias -- -Erik For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. --Carl Sagan Here's my first six. The gatech one didn't have a package at one point, rankmirrors sorted the whole US list. Server = ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://lug.mtu.edu/archlinux/ftpfull/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/$repo/os/$arch They are in alphabetical order... This is known and fixed in git. We will probably make a new pacman release soon. Allan
Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 13/08/10 07:09, Jason Reardon wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Erik Johnsonarcht...@gmail.com wrote: Can you post a copy of the output? I'm using reflector and rankmirrors, and I get this: # 2010-08-12 15:33 # generated by reflector # ranked by rankmirrors Server = ftp://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirror.yandex.ru/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch These are obviously not reachable URLs, but pacman fills in $repo and $arch from pacman.conf so it's working just fine for me. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Jason Reardonaetherfl...@gmail.com wrote: Worked for me on the latest mirrorlist release. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Mathias Huberhu...@mathiashuber.de wrote: Dear Archers, is it true that rankmirrors can't handle mirrorlist urls like ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch? While pacman works fine with this format, rankmirrors produces unreachable URLs. Or am I misunderstanding something here? Rock on, Mathias -- -Erik For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. --Carl Sagan Here's my first six. The gatech one didn't have a package at one point, rankmirrors sorted the whole US list. Server = ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://lug.mtu.edu/archlinux/ftpfull/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/$repo/os/$arch They are in alphabetical order... This is known and fixed in git. We will probably make a new pacman release soon. Allan Hah, I never noticed.
Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.1-1
On 08/11/2010 04:25 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Upstream update, please test and sign off. We should probably be able to move this to core by the end of the week unless major problems occur. Please also sign off on 2.6.34.3 (see http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-August/017557.html), I'd like to move that to core today already, as it fixes a number of problems with .34.2. So far this is the only kernel that will boot on my laptop since 2.6.33. And compiz works as well. I can't 'signoff', but I can tell you this one works where none of the 2.6.34 kernels did. Sure wish I understood the changes to know what happened, but -- there just some things in this world that `kain't` be explainted... (quote CDB circa 1980something) -- 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] Some problems with a dell mini
Le Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:51:02 +0200, Andrea Crotti andrea.crott...@gmail.com a écrit : Great thanks a lot, I didn't restart the system but starting the service I get a nl80211 not found error. I don't use Archlinux anymore and thus can't be affirmative but I think this is not really a problem because this feature is compiled in the kernel instead of being available as a module. You can verify if the crda service has been active (it starts but dies after having modified regulatory settings) by just typing sudo crda in a terminal. Did you also get the password error or just losing the connection? I don't remember. I just use crda because by default regulatory settings are for the USA. So all channels are not available and some of them are attenuated. By the way I would really like to understand why eth0 and eth1 are often switched. One boot I even saw finally wlan0 as wireless interface device name, is there a way to fix them forever? this is probably an udev issue: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Mixed_Up_Devices.2C_Sound.2FNetwork_Cards_Changing_Order_Each_Boot
