Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-09 Thread Mauro Santos
On 09-04-2011 02:12, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:

 PA buffers better than ALSA, or is supposed to, in any case. Of
 course, if you're using its ALSA-emulation that's a moot point. AFAICR
 (haven't had this problem for ages), CPU usage from PA is basically
 caused by the resampling, which you can just modify to a simpler
 method if you don't need the higher quality of the default (speex, I
 believe).

I have been using the ffmpeg resample method because of that, it uses
less cpu, or seems to use less cpu here, and with my setup I cannot
detect any loss in quality, but hey, it is a laptop and the analog audio
path is not stellar so ymmv.

-- 
Mauro Santos


Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-09 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
Yaro Kasear (2011-04-08 11:32):
 
  
  So in general what is the benefits / costs for SELinux?
  
 
 Benefits: Probably the most effective MAC for Linux. Once it runs it's 
 arguably not too hard to allow/deny certain access due to some third party 
 tools simplifying things a bit. You can't deny the NSA-grade security it 
 brings which the U.S. military requires AT MINIMUM for critical 
 infrastructure.
 
 Costs: Painfully overcomplicated. Painfully difficult to set up and 
 configure. 
 Requires well over half the core system to be patched to support it, 
 potentially introducing bugs. There was a mondo security vulnerability a few 
 years back that could actually use SELinux to grant unrestricted access to 
 the system. Only a few filesystems actually have support for its attributes. 
 Even its policies have to be recompiled if they have to change. Way too 
 much can easily go wrong during set up without you having even the 
 slightest clue how to figure out exactly what DID, turning repairs for 
 SELinux into an almost weekend-long Google crawl.
 
 Benefits from a base Arch perspective: I can't honestly see how this would 
 benefit Arch from putting it in the base group.
 
 Costs from a base Arch perspective: Big one being that it's entirely 
 unnecessary, and base is meant to have ONLY what's needed to have a 
 more or less FUNCTIONAL Linux system. Being secure is not a requirement 
 of being functional. Other cost being that it would introduce an entirely new 
 layer of configuration we don't need at install time, and would also 
 guarantee 
 that Arch would only be able to officially support the few filesystems that 
 actually support SELinux's labelling.
 
 To sum up, it's GREAT when you actually NEED the security benefits it can 
 bring, otherwise, it's better to seek out AppArmor (Which I believe is 
 actually defunct.) or Tomoyo (Which I can never find any information on.), or 
 just leave MAC off altogether if you're not doing anything altogether mission 
 or security critical. Home desktop users would probably be better off 
 ignoring 
 MAC.

An interesting read, thanks.

-- 
--  Rogutės Sparnuotos


[arch-general] [signoff] lilo-23.1-3

2011-04-09 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys,
- added kernel sector fix

please signoff both arches
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Re: [arch-general] - pulseaudio - GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-09 Thread Matthew Monaco

On 04/09/2011 04:46 AM, Mauro Santos wrote:

On 09-04-2011 02:12, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:


PA buffers better than ALSA, or is supposed to, in any case. Of
course, if you're using its ALSA-emulation that's a moot point. AFAICR
(haven't had this problem for ages), CPU usage from PA is basically
caused by the resampling, which you can just modify to a simpler
method if you don't need the higher quality of the default (speex, I
believe).


I have been using the ffmpeg resample method because of that, it uses
less cpu, or seems to use less cpu here, and with my setup I cannot
detect any loss in quality, but hey, it is a laptop and the analog audio
path is not stellar so ymmv.




Hmm, I tried that, didn't seem to help. In fact it's super frustrating now 
because VLC is back to use ~16% CPU again no matter what resample method I use 
and what audio output option I choose.


Also, does anyone know what is restarting pulseaudio after I --kill? Is it 
gnome-shell?


Re: [arch-general] - pulseaudio - GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-09 Thread Sander Jansen
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Matthew Monaco dgbale...@verizon.net wrote:
 On 04/09/2011 04:46 AM, Mauro Santos wrote:

 On 09-04-2011 02:12, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:

 PA buffers better than ALSA, or is supposed to, in any case. Of
 course, if you're using its ALSA-emulation that's a moot point. AFAICR
 (haven't had this problem for ages), CPU usage from PA is basically
 caused by the resampling, which you can just modify to a simpler
 method if you don't need the higher quality of the default (speex, I
 believe).

 I have been using the ffmpeg resample method because of that, it uses
 less cpu, or seems to use less cpu here, and with my setup I cannot
 detect any loss in quality, but hey, it is a laptop and the analog audio
 path is not stellar so ymmv.



 Hmm, I tried that, didn't seem to help. In fact it's super frustrating now
 because VLC is back to use ~16% CPU again no matter what resample method I
 use and what audio output option I choose.

 Also, does anyone know what is restarting pulseaudio after I --kill? Is it
 gnome-shell?

I believe it uses dbus activation so it could be any pulseaudio client...


Re: [arch-general] - pulseaudio - GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-09 Thread Sander Jansen
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Sander Jansen s.jan...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Matthew Monaco dgbale...@verizon.net wrote:
 On 04/09/2011 04:46 AM, Mauro Santos wrote:

 On 09-04-2011 02:12, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:

 PA buffers better than ALSA, or is supposed to, in any case. Of
 course, if you're using its ALSA-emulation that's a moot point. AFAICR
 (haven't had this problem for ages), CPU usage from PA is basically
 caused by the resampling, which you can just modify to a simpler
 method if you don't need the higher quality of the default (speex, I
 believe).

 I have been using the ffmpeg resample method because of that, it uses
 less cpu, or seems to use less cpu here, and with my setup I cannot
 detect any loss in quality, but hey, it is a laptop and the analog audio
 path is not stellar so ymmv.



 Hmm, I tried that, didn't seem to help. In fact it's super frustrating now
 because VLC is back to use ~16% CPU again no matter what resample method I
 use and what audio output option I choose.

 Also, does anyone know what is restarting pulseaudio after I --kill? Is it
 gnome-shell?

 I believe it uses dbus activation so it could be any pulseaudio client...


Actually, not sure if that's entirely true what I just said. Now
'/etc/pulse/client.conf' does have a autospawn configuration option
which might prevent it from restarting.


Re: [arch-general] - pulseaudio - GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-09 Thread Axel 'the C.L.A.' Müller
On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:47:16 -0400
Matthew Monaco dgbale...@verizon.net wrote:

 On 04/09/2011 04:46 AM, Mauro Santos wrote:
  On 09-04-2011 02:12, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
 
  PA buffers better than ALSA, or is supposed to, in any case. Of
  course, if you're using its ALSA-emulation that's a moot point. AFAICR
  (haven't had this problem for ages), CPU usage from PA is basically
  caused by the resampling, which you can just modify to a simpler
  method if you don't need the higher quality of the default (speex, I
  believe).
 
  I have been using the ffmpeg resample method because of that, it uses
  less cpu, or seems to use less cpu here, and with my setup I cannot
  detect any loss in quality, but hey, it is a laptop and the analog audio
  path is not stellar so ymmv.
 
 
 
 Hmm, I tried that, didn't seem to help. In fact it's super frustrating now 
 because VLC is back to use ~16% CPU again no matter what resample method I 
 use 
 and what audio output option I choose.
 
 Also, does anyone know what is restarting pulseaudio after I --kill? Is it 
 gnome-shell?
 

I don't have Pulseaudio installed, yet, so I haven't tried it myself,
but AFAIK you could try to start VLC with pasuspender wich will suspend
PA as long as a given programm is running.




Re: [arch-general] - pulseaudio - GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-09 Thread Mauro Santos
On 09-04-2011 14:47, Matthew Monaco wrote:
 Hmm, I tried that, didn't seem to help. In fact it's super frustrating
 now because VLC is back to use ~16% CPU again no matter what resample
 method I use and what audio output option I choose.

Are you sure you have set vlc to output to pulse directly? It works fine
here with minimal cpu usage. Also make sure you dont have any
pavucontrol or volume metering apps running. I've found those can be
quite taxing on the cpu.

-- 
Mauro Santos


Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-09 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Friday, April 08, 2011 14:29:34 Heiko Baums wrote:
 Am Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:55:16 -0600
 
 schrieb Thomas S Hatch thatc...@gmail.com:
  Yaro makes many good points, I think that my recommendation would 
be
  to allow someone to maintain support for SELinux in community. If
  SELinux support is deemed something that would be a good idea to 
move
  to core in the future than do so, otherwise leave it in community.
 
 I'd prefer a separate [selinux] repo. So that people know what they are
 doing.
 
 I know, packages with SELinux support could and should be named
 something like selinux-XXX or XXX-selinux, but I think a new repo would
 be better and more secure - not only from SELinux' view.
 
 This way SELinux users can just add [selinux] to pacman.conf above
 [core]. For the other users it should be deactivated by default.
 
 Heiko

Here's another question. Isn't it general packaging policy to not fully 
support packages that have unofficial upstream patches applied? Isn't 
SELinux unofficial to all the upstream?


Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-09 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Yaro Kasear y...@marupa.net wrote:

 On Friday, April 08, 2011 14:29:34 Heiko Baums wrote:
  Am Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:55:16 -0600
 
  schrieb Thomas S Hatch thatc...@gmail.com:
   Yaro makes many good points, I think that my recommendation would
 be
   to allow someone to maintain support for SELinux in community. If
   SELinux support is deemed something that would be a good idea to
 move
   to core in the future than do so, otherwise leave it in community.
 
  I'd prefer a separate [selinux] repo. So that people know what they are
  doing.
 
  I know, packages with SELinux support could and should be named
  something like selinux-XXX or XXX-selinux, but I think a new repo would
  be better and more secure - not only from SELinux' view.
 
  This way SELinux users can just add [selinux] to pacman.conf above
  [core]. For the other users it should be deactivated by default.
 
  Heiko

 Here's another question. Isn't it general packaging policy to not fully
 support packages that have unofficial upstream patches applied? Isn't
 SELinux unofficial to all the upstream?


SELinux has been in the vanilla kernel for quite some time, say the 2.6.20
ish realm, and the majority of the core utils have had SELinux support built
in for years. SELinux is official upstream.

But I don't want to argue about this anymore :) I think that we have a
solution, I will be putting up an SELinux third party repo for testing in
the next month or two and then once we have an assurance that it is working
well we look into moving SELinux support into community.

This has been a great discussion, and I am excited to get some work done on
improving SELinux support on Arch!

-Thomas S Hatch


Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-09 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:01:04 Thomas S Hatch wrote:
 On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Yaro Kasear y...@marupa.net wrote:
  On Friday, April 08, 2011 14:29:34 Heiko Baums wrote:
   Am Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:55:16 -0600
   
   schrieb Thomas S Hatch thatc...@gmail.com:
Yaro makes many good points, I think that my recommendation 
would
  
  be
  
to allow someone to maintain support for SELinux in community. If
SELinux support is deemed something that would be a good idea to
  
  move
  
to core in the future than do so, otherwise leave it in community.
   
   I'd prefer a separate [selinux] repo. So that people know what they are
   doing.
   
   I know, packages with SELinux support could and should be named
   something like selinux-XXX or XXX-selinux, but I think a new repo 
would
   be better and more secure - not only from SELinux' view.
   
   This way SELinux users can just add [selinux] to pacman.conf above
   [core]. For the other users it should be deactivated by default.
   
   Heiko
  
  Here's another question. Isn't it general packaging policy to not fully
  support packages that have unofficial upstream patches applied? Isn't
  SELinux unofficial to all the upstream?
 
 SELinux has been in the vanilla kernel for quite some time, say the 2.6.20
 ish realm, and the majority of the core utils have had SELinux support
 built in for years. SELinux is official upstream.
 
 But I don't want to argue about this anymore :) I think that we have a
 solution, I will be putting up an SELinux third party repo for testing in
 the next month or two and then once we have an assurance that it is 
working
 well we look into moving SELinux support into community.
 
 This has been a great discussion, and I am excited to get some work done 
on
 improving SELinux support on Arch!
 
 -Thomas S Hatch

What about the SELinux patches for things other than the kernel? Are those 
official to upstream? This is not for an argument, now I'm just genuinely 
curious.


Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-09 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Yaro Kasear y...@marupa.net wrote:

 On Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:01:04 Thomas S Hatch wrote:
  On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Yaro Kasear y...@marupa.net wrote:
   On Friday, April 08, 2011 14:29:34 Heiko Baums wrote:
Am Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:55:16 -0600
   
schrieb Thomas S Hatch thatc...@gmail.com:
 Yaro makes many good points, I think that my recommendation
 would
  
   be
  
 to allow someone to maintain support for SELinux in community. If
 SELinux support is deemed something that would be a good idea to
  
   move
  
 to core in the future than do so, otherwise leave it in community.
   
I'd prefer a separate [selinux] repo. So that people know what they
 are
doing.
   
I know, packages with SELinux support could and should be named
something like selinux-XXX or XXX-selinux, but I think a new repo
 would
be better and more secure - not only from SELinux' view.
   
This way SELinux users can just add [selinux] to pacman.conf above
[core]. For the other users it should be deactivated by default.
   
Heiko
  
   Here's another question. Isn't it general packaging policy to not fully
   support packages that have unofficial upstream patches applied? Isn't
   SELinux unofficial to all the upstream?
 
  SELinux has been in the vanilla kernel for quite some time, say the
 2.6.20
  ish realm, and the majority of the core utils have had SELinux support
  built in for years. SELinux is official upstream.
 
  But I don't want to argue about this anymore :) I think that we have a
  solution, I will be putting up an SELinux third party repo for testing in
  the next month or two and then once we have an assurance that it is
 working
  well we look into moving SELinux support into community.
 
  This has been a great discussion, and I am excited to get some work done
 on
  improving SELinux support on Arch!
 
  -Thomas S Hatch

 What about the SELinux patches for things other than the kernel? Are those
 official to upstream? This is not for an argument, now I'm just genuinely
 curious.


The vast majority are, but there are a few places where patches are needed,
like in pam and ssh.

So yes, there is a half and half going on. Basic SELinux support works
without patches, but adding some of the more advanced features to some of
the core applications require a few patches.

-Thomas S Hatch


Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-09 Thread Yaro Kasear
On Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:54:23 Thomas S Hatch wrote:
 On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Yaro Kasear y...@marupa.net wrote:
  On Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:01:04 Thomas S Hatch wrote:
   On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Yaro Kasear y...@marupa.net 
wrote:
On Friday, April 08, 2011 14:29:34 Heiko Baums wrote:
 Am Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:55:16 -0600
 
 schrieb Thomas S Hatch thatc...@gmail.com:
  Yaro makes many good points, I think that my recommendation
  
  would
  
be

  to allow someone to maintain support for SELinux in 
community. If
  SELinux support is deemed something that would be a good 
idea to

move

  to core in the future than do so, otherwise leave it in
  community.
 
 I'd prefer a separate [selinux] repo. So that people know what they
  
  are
  
 doing.
 
 I know, packages with SELinux support could and should be 
named
 something like selinux-XXX or XXX-selinux, but I think a new repo
  
  would
  
 be better and more secure - not only from SELinux' view.
 
 This way SELinux users can just add [selinux] to pacman.conf 
above
 [core]. For the other users it should be deactivated by default.
 
 Heiko

Here's another question. Isn't it general packaging policy to not
fully support packages that have unofficial upstream patches
applied? Isn't SELinux unofficial to all the upstream?
   
   SELinux has been in the vanilla kernel for quite some time, say the
  
  2.6.20
  
   ish realm, and the majority of the core utils have had SELinux support
   built in for years. SELinux is official upstream.
   
   But I don't want to argue about this anymore :) I think that we have a
   solution, I will be putting up an SELinux third party repo for testing
   in the next month or two and then once we have an assurance that it 
is
  
  working
  
   well we look into moving SELinux support into community.
   
   This has been a great discussion, and I am excited to get some work
   done
  
  on
  
   improving SELinux support on Arch!
   
   -Thomas S Hatch
  
  What about the SELinux patches for things other than the kernel? Are
  those official to upstream? This is not for an argument, now I'm just
  genuinely curious.
 
 The vast majority are, but there are a few places where patches are 
needed,
 like in pam and ssh.
 
 So yes, there is a half and half going on. Basic SELinux support works
 without patches, but adding some of the more advanced features to some 
of
 the core applications require a few patches.
 
 -Thomas S Hatch

Great! Well, I look forward to maybe testing out your repository. Maybe I'll 
actually get SELinux working.


Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-09 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Yaro Kasear y...@marupa.net wrote:

 On Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:54:23 Thomas S Hatch wrote:
  On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Yaro Kasear y...@marupa.net wrote:
   On Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:01:04 Thomas S Hatch wrote:
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Yaro Kasear y...@marupa.net
 wrote:
 On Friday, April 08, 2011 14:29:34 Heiko Baums wrote:
  Am Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:55:16 -0600
 
  schrieb Thomas S Hatch thatc...@gmail.com:
   Yaro makes many good points, I think that my recommendation
  
   would
  
 be

   to allow someone to maintain support for SELinux in
 community. If
   SELinux support is deemed something that would be a good
 idea to

 move

   to core in the future than do so, otherwise leave it in
   community.
 
  I'd prefer a separate [selinux] repo. So that people know what
 they
  
   are
  
  doing.
 
  I know, packages with SELinux support could and should be
 named
  something like selinux-XXX or XXX-selinux, but I think a new repo
  
   would
  
  be better and more secure - not only from SELinux' view.
 
  This way SELinux users can just add [selinux] to pacman.conf
 above
  [core]. For the other users it should be deactivated by default.
 
  Heiko

 Here's another question. Isn't it general packaging policy to not
 fully support packages that have unofficial upstream patches
 applied? Isn't SELinux unofficial to all the upstream?
   
SELinux has been in the vanilla kernel for quite some time, say the
  
   2.6.20
  
ish realm, and the majority of the core utils have had SELinux
 support
built in for years. SELinux is official upstream.
   
But I don't want to argue about this anymore :) I think that we have
 a
solution, I will be putting up an SELinux third party repo for
 testing
in the next month or two and then once we have an assurance that it
 is
  
   working
  
well we look into moving SELinux support into community.
   
This has been a great discussion, and I am excited to get some work
done
  
   on
  
improving SELinux support on Arch!
   
-Thomas S Hatch
  
   What about the SELinux patches for things other than the kernel? Are
   those official to upstream? This is not for an argument, now I'm just
   genuinely curious.
 
  The vast majority are, but there are a few places where patches are
 needed,
  like in pam and ssh.
 
  So yes, there is a half and half going on. Basic SELinux support works
  without patches, but adding some of the more advanced features to some
 of
  the core applications require a few patches.
 
  -Thomas S Hatch

 Great! Well, I look forward to maybe testing out your repository. Maybe
 I'll
 actually get SELinux working.


Thats good to hear!
SELinux really is amazing stuff :)


[arch-general] [signoff] usbutils-002-2

2011-04-09 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys,
latest upstream release,
- fix lsusb.py #23624

please signoff both arches
greetings
tpowa
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[arch-general] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.5-1

2011-04-09 Thread Tobias Powalowski
xfsprogs-3.1.5 (30 March 2011)
- Polish translation update, thanks to Jakub Bogusz
- xfs_repair now warns if running in low memory mode
- Phase 2 of xfs_repair is now multithreaded
- xfs_quota no longer attempts to get quota information if
  not enabled
- Inode flags are now properly validated by xfs_repair
- Metadump now obfuscates all file names reliably
- xfs_io now supports the fiemap command, a more generic
  form of the bmap command
- xfs_io now supports the fpunch command, as well as a
  -p flag to the fallocate command.  Both implement hole
  punching.  Thanks to Josef Bacik
- A number of other bug fixes thanks to Ajeet Yadav

please signoff both arches,
greetings
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[arch-general] [signoff] udev-167-1

2011-04-09 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys.
udev 167

Bugfixes.

The udev runtime data moved from /dev/.udev/ to /run/udev/. The
/run mountpoint is supposed to be a tmpfs mounted during early boot,
available and writable to for all tools at any time during bootup,
it replaces /var/run/, which should become a symlink some day.

If /run does not exist, or is not writable, udev will fall back using
/dev/.udev/.

On systemd systems with initramfs and LVM used, packagers must
make sure, that the systemd and initramfs versions match. The initramfs
needs to create the /run mountpoint for udev to store the data, and
mount this tmpfs to /run in the rootfs, so the that the udev database
is preserved for the udev version started in the rootfs.

The command 'udevadm info --convert-db' is gone. The udev daemon
itself, at startup, converts any old database version if necessary.

The systemd services files have been reorganized. The udev control
socket is bound by systemd and passed to the started udev daemon.
The udev-settle.service is no longer active by default. Services which
can not handle hotplug setups properly need to actively pull it in, to
act like a barrier. Alternatively the settle service can be unconditionally
'systemctl'enabled, and act like a barrier for basic.target.

The fstab_import callout is no longer built or installed. Udev
should not be used to mount, does not watch changes to fstab, and
should not mirror fstab values in the udev database.

please signoff both arches,
greetings
tpowa
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[arch-general] [signoff] lilo-23.2-1

2011-04-09 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys,
bump with latest fixes, especially kernel sector

please signoff both arches
greetings
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Re: [arch-general] [signoff] udev-167-1

2011-04-09 Thread Seblu
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Tobias Powalowski t.p...@gmx.de wrote:
 Hi guys.
 udev 167
 
 Bugfixes.

 The udev runtime data moved from /dev/.udev/ to /run/udev/. The
 /run mountpoint is supposed to be a tmpfs mounted during early boot,
 available and writable to for all tools at any time during bootup,
 it replaces /var/run/, which should become a symlink some day.

 If /run does not exist, or is not writable, udev will fall back using
 /dev/.udev/.

 On systemd systems with initramfs and LVM used, packagers must
 make sure, that the systemd and initramfs versions match. The initramfs
 needs to create the /run mountpoint for udev to store the data, and
 mount this tmpfs to /run in the rootfs, so the that the udev database
 is preserved for the udev version started in the rootfs.

 The command 'udevadm info --convert-db' is gone. The udev daemon
 itself, at startup, converts any old database version if necessary.

 The systemd services files have been reorganized. The udev control
 socket is bound by systemd and passed to the started udev daemon.
 The udev-settle.service is no longer active by default. Services which
 can not handle hotplug setups properly need to actively pull it in, to
 act like a barrier. Alternatively the settle service can be unconditionally
 'systemctl'enabled, and act like a barrier for basic.target.

 The fstab_import callout is no longer built or installed. Udev
 should not be used to mount, does not watch changes to fstab, and
 should not mirror fstab values in the udev database.

 please signoff both arches,
 greetings
 tpowa
 --
 Tobias Powalowski
 Archlinux Developer  Package Maintainer (tpowa)
 http://www.archlinux.org
 tp...@archlinux.org

Package is not available : https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=udev

Something wrong?

-- 
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www.seblu.net


Re: [arch-general] [signoff] udev-167-1

2011-04-09 Thread Allan McRae

On 10/04/11 08:04, Seblu wrote:

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Tobias Powalowskit.p...@gmx.de  wrote:

Hi guys.
udev 167

Bugfixes.

The udev runtime data moved from /dev/.udev/ to /run/udev/. The
/run mountpoint is supposed to be a tmpfs mounted during early boot,
available and writable to for all tools at any time during bootup,
it replaces /var/run/, which should become a symlink some day.

If /run does not exist, or is not writable, udev will fall back using
/dev/.udev/.

On systemd systems with initramfs and LVM used, packagers must
make sure, that the systemd and initramfs versions match. The initramfs
needs to create the /run mountpoint for udev to store the data, and
mount this tmpfs to /run in the rootfs, so the that the udev database
is preserved for the udev version started in the rootfs.

The command 'udevadm info --convert-db' is gone. The udev daemon
itself, at startup, converts any old database version if necessary.

The systemd services files have been reorganized. The udev control
socket is bound by systemd and passed to the started udev daemon.
The udev-settle.service is no longer active by default. Services which
can not handle hotplug setups properly need to actively pull it in, to
act like a barrier. Alternatively the settle service can be unconditionally
'systemctl'enabled, and act like a barrier for basic.target.

The fstab_import callout is no longer built or installed. Udev
should not be used to mount, does not watch changes to fstab, and
should not mirror fstab values in the udev database.

please signoff both arches,
greetings
tpowa
--
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer  Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tp...@archlinux.org


Package is not available : https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=udev

Something wrong?



 pacman -Si udev
Repository : testing
Name   : udev
Version: 167-1

The website does not update immediately.




Re: [arch-general] [signoff] udev-167-1

2011-04-09 Thread Seblu
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Tobias Powalowski t.p...@gmx.de wrote:
 Hi guys.
 udev 167
 
 Bugfixes.

 The udev runtime data moved from /dev/.udev/ to /run/udev/. The
 /run mountpoint is supposed to be a tmpfs mounted during early boot,
 available and writable to for all tools at any time during bootup,
 it replaces /var/run/, which should become a symlink some day.

 If /run does not exist, or is not writable, udev will fall back using
 /dev/.udev/.

 On systemd systems with initramfs and LVM used, packagers must
 make sure, that the systemd and initramfs versions match. The initramfs
 needs to create the /run mountpoint for udev to store the data, and
 mount this tmpfs to /run in the rootfs, so the that the udev database
 is preserved for the udev version started in the rootfs.

 The command 'udevadm info --convert-db' is gone. The udev daemon
 itself, at startup, converts any old database version if necessary.

 The systemd services files have been reorganized. The udev control
 socket is bound by systemd and passed to the started udev daemon.
 The udev-settle.service is no longer active by default. Services which
 can not handle hotplug setups properly need to actively pull it in, to
 act like a barrier. Alternatively the settle service can be unconditionally
 'systemctl'enabled, and act like a barrier for basic.target.

 The fstab_import callout is no longer built or installed. Udev
 should not be used to mount, does not watch changes to fstab, and
 should not mirror fstab values in the udev database.

 please signoff both arches,

signoff x86_64


-- 
Sébastien Luttringer
www.seblu.net


[arch-general] weird stuff: segfault in libc and other things

2011-04-09 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
hi.
I switched to [testing] to get gnome 3.
I found that it was a pretty bad timing because I saw that pacman
updated the kernel to 2.6.38 too, and the glibc, and nvidia drivers !
and gnome 3
all in one go. Oh my..;

with gnome 3, I got the gnome-shell segfaulting quite often when I hit
the left top corner. or bottom right corner. 
got log like
Apr  8 19:02:34 soho kernel: gnome-shell[17340]: segfault at 938 ip
b52aa518 sp bfcef0a0 error 4 in libnvidia-glcore.so.270.30[b4423000
+16b3000]
in /var/log/messages.log

and just during the last 30 minutes, all the pc gone crazy:
chromium stopped to respond. conky stopped to be refreshed. starting a
new shell in a terminal worked but a rm on a file get stuck for no
reason. I switched to a console and log in as root and never got a
prompt. I had to hard reset (I lost no files: the journal has ben
replayed fine)

So I got call trace of chromium crashing in /var/log/messages.log but
other soft too.
This is a snippet of my /var/log/messages.log
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/368742/

Is it a badblock on my /home (reiserfs) partition that produce that
behavior ?
I have done a reiserfsck and a badblock check on the /home partition and
it found nothing.

is it the kernel ? the libc ? 
I saw a convert process that segfaulted in libc ??



[arch-general] Can't run gnome 3

2011-04-09 Thread Madhurya Kakati
Hi,
I installed gnome 3 from the testing repo. I haven't been able to
start. Noe from KDE if I try to run gedit I get this error.

[papul@papuldesktop ~]$ gedit
gedit: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0: undefined symbol:
g_application_get_type

Please help.