Re: [arch-general] Problem mounting shares with latest smbclient-3.5.0-2

2010-03-31 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 07:35, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
 Am Montag 29 März 2010 schrieb Nigel Henry:
  I have smbclient-3.5.0-2, and did the suggested chmod +s on
  /sbin/mount.cifs, and /sbin/umount.cifs. The UID, and GID bits are now
  set on both, but I still can't mount shares from KDEmod3's smb4k (version
  0.9.9).
 
  The error message says /sbin/mount.cifs: permission denied: no match
  found for /home/djmons/smb4k/GATEWAY/djmons found in /etc/fstab.
 
  Now I don't believe I need an entry in /etc/fstab because on my Debian
  lenny install an entry is created in /etc/mtab when the share is mounted,
  and removed when unmounted.
 
  I can't revert back to my earlier version of smbclient (version 3.3.7-1),
  as I only recently installed the samba package (samba-3.5.0-2), and have
  no version to match my earlier version of the smbclient. are earlier
  package versions still kept somewhere?
 
  I do have more than one user set up on this Archlinux install. Would that
  have anything to do with why the chmod +s isn't doing it's job properly?
  idiotboy:x:1002:
  djmons:x:1003:
 
  Any suggestions as how to resolve the problem.
 
  Nigel.

 This is can be fixed with recompiling and changing one file, i don't
 include it in standard samba because your application needs to be fixed and
 not samba. Look at the bugtracker and search for closed samba bug reports
 there you will find the workaround.

 greetings
 tpowa

Hi.

I tried the procedure suggested in bug FS#18548, if that was the correct bug 
report (couldn't find any others), but there was no change to the problem I 
have mounting shares with kdemod3's smb4k.

I found an old closed bug report for smb4k, and a link to the smb4k 
troubleshooter pages. there was a suggestion to use the superuser option, 
with a reference to /etc/sudoers, which I did not have installed, and no 
doubt explains why smb4k's superuser options page is greyed out. Installed 
sudo package, but no change to the greyed out page in smb4k. I probably 
needed to reinstall smb4k, which would then have picked up the existance 
of /etc/sudoers, but didn't at the time. I searched instead for an older 
matched pair of samba, and smbclient, and found version 3.4.5-1.1-i686 on the 
mirror below.
http://schlunix.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/

Installed those which amongst other packages, I needed to remove kdemod3's 
smb4k, so as to get around a dependency hell. With the old samba, smbclient, 
and an earlier version of tdb installed, I reinstalled kdemod3's smb4k, and 
clicked on the desktop icon for it, then went to the superuser page, and the 
options were no longer greyed out. clicked on mount and unmount shares as 
superuser, and applied, which opened a password box. Entered my root 
password, and OK'd out of the config pages.

Now I honestly did not expect this to work, as I've already been working on 
samba problems (first time samba user) on various distros (FC2, Kubuntu 
Intrepid, Debian Lenny, and Arch) for about 2 weeks, but when I tried 
mounting the shares, they mounted, which brightened up my day, and samba is 
working ok on all 4 distros now in both directions.

I havn't poked around with /etc/sudoers, as I'm happy to use su on the 
terminal, but I saw the following lines had been added by smb4k.

# Entries for Smb4K users.
# Generated by Smb4K. Please do not modify!
User_Alias  SMB4KUSERS = djmons
Defaults:SMB4KUSERS env_keep += PASSWD USER
SMB4KUSERS  myhost = NOPASSWD: /opt/kde/bin/smb4k_kill
SMB4KUSERS  myhost = NOPASSWD: /opt/kde/bin/smb4k_umount
SMB4KUSERS  myhost = NOPASSWD: /opt/kde/bin/smb4k_mount
# End of Smb4K user entries.

The problem may have been resolved by simply installing sudo, and reinstalling 
smb4k, without installing old samba, and smbclient packages, but I don't want 
to go through upgrading them again, just to find out if smb4k still mounts 
the shares ok.

Thanks for your reply Tobias.

Nigel.




[arch-general] Problem mounting shares with latest smbclient-3.5.0-2

2010-03-29 Thread Nigel Henry
I have smbclient-3.5.0-2, and did the suggested chmod +s on /sbin/mount.cifs, 
and /sbin/umount.cifs. The UID, and GID bits are now set on both, but I still 
can't mount shares from KDEmod3's smb4k (version 0.9.9).

The error message says /sbin/mount.cifs: permission denied: no match found 
for /home/djmons/smb4k/GATEWAY/djmons found in /etc/fstab.

Now I don't believe I need an entry in /etc/fstab because on my Debian lenny 
install an entry is created in /etc/mtab when the share is mounted, and 
removed when unmounted.

I can't revert back to my earlier version of smbclient (version 3.3.7-1), as I 
only recently installed the samba package (samba-3.5.0-2), and have no 
version to match my earlier version of the smbclient. are earlier package 
versions still kept somewhere?

I do have more than one user set up on this Archlinux install. Would that have 
anything to do with why the chmod +s isn't doing it's job properly?
idiotboy:x:1002:
djmons:x:1003:

Any suggestions as how to resolve the problem.

Nigel.



[arch-general] LTS kernel still boots but MPPC patched one does not after manual updates

2010-03-12 Thread Nigel Henry
Big problemo.

Wanting to get access to my sons MS vpn server which needs MPPC, I found and 
installed an MPPC patched kernel26, and MPPC patched ppp. No problems so far, 
and both the LTS, and the MPPC patched kernels booted with no problems.

My Arch install hadn't been updated since 20090928, and as accessing the vpn 
server and retrieving the shares still wasn't working, I did a pacman -Sy, 
and pacman -Su hoping that some update might resolve the problem.

After saying yes to a bunch of stuff to do with klibc (replacing packages), 
pacman -Su failed saying kdelib needs phonon. Can't install phonon because it 
wants to remove qt (qt4). I have KDEmod3 so there is no need for phonon 
anyway.

Not the best way to do a full system upgrade, but I went at it manually, 
working my way through starting at (A). Some packages wont upgrade, wanting 
to remove mkinitcpio, which you can't remove as it's needed by the kernels. 
Others didn't want to upgrade saying warning: provider package was selected 
(that was resolved later on during my manual upgrading).

All went ok the first day 20090309, and the only thing I needed to say yes to 
was replacing kernel-headers with linux-api-headers. The next morning I 
booted with the MPPC patched kernel with no problems, just to see if any of 
the updates had resolved the vpn problem, but no. Rebooted with the LTS 
kernel, and continued with the updates, rebooting from time to time with the 
LTS kernel to make sure that nothing had broken. Got as far as ntp, then had 
a go at gdm, which I'd been putting off (I've had problems with that before). 
rebooted after that, and gdm failed with the below output.

gdm (gdm-binary:2033) couldn't connect to system bus:
Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
No such file or directory

Having already had the machine down one day, working in runlevel 1 to resolve 
the missing libpng12 problem (that was on the 8th march) I was a bit T'd off 
now, but startx worked, so I reinstalled the previous gdm which thankfully 
worked. I'd now had enough for the days work, so shut down.

Day 20100311. Now the manure starts to hit the fan. Tried to boot the MPPC 
patched kernel, which failed with: cannot find /dev/sda7, device does not 
exist. Gave udev time, but nothing. Tried the MPPC failsafe kenel, but the 
same there. Tried the LTS kernel, and thankfully that booted ok.

Googled a lot, and found references to the problem, but didn't see any fixes. 
One mentioned udev, and knowing that the udev update had been pulled in by 
one of the packages I'd updated, I looked at /etc/udev/rules.d, and 
udev.rules was showing as udev.rules.pacnew (I presume that is due to the new 
mkinitcpio and mkinitcpio-busybox using mdev, but mkinitcpio wont upgrade, 
claiming that a bunch of files still exist.). I renamed udev.rules.pacnew to 
udev.rules, and rebooted with the MPPC kernel, but it still wont boot.

Tried reinstalling MPPC patched kernel, but no change. Original install output 
below (when it booted ok prior to my manual updating fiasco), followed by the 
install output from the reinstall (which still wont boot). Had to remove 
madwifi, and ndiswrapper to originally install this kernel.

:: madwifi: requires kernel26=2.6.30
:: ndiswrapper: requires kernel26=2.6.30
[r...@myhost Archlinux-mppc-kernel]# pacman -U 
kernel26-2.6.24.3-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz
loading package data...
checking dependencies...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts   [#] 
100%
(1/1) upgrading kernel26[#] 
100%

 If you use the LILO bootloader, you should run 'lilo' before rebooting.

 Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
 MKINITCPIO SETUP
 
 If you use LVM2, Encrypted root or software RAID,
 Ensure you enable support in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf .
 More information about mkinitcpio setup can be found here:
 http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio

 Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio.  Please wait...
== Building image default
== Running command: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k 2.6.24-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf 
-g /boot/kernel26.img
:: Begin build
:: Parsing hook [base]
:: Parsing hook [udev]
:: Parsing hook [autodetect]
:: Parsing hook [pata]
:: Parsing hook [scsi]
:: Parsing hook [sata]
:: Parsing hook [keymap]
:: Parsing hook [filesystems]
:: Generating module dependencies
:: Generating image '/boot/kernel26.img'...SUCCESS
== SUCCESS
== Building image fallback
== Running command: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k 2.6.24-ARCH 
-c /etc/mkinitcpio.d/kernel26-fallback.conf -g /boot/kernel26-fallback.img
:: Begin build
:: Parsing hook [base]
:: Parsing hook [udev]
:: Parsing hook [ide]
ERROR: module 'ide[-_]gd[-_]mod' not found
:: Parsing hook [pata]
:: Parsing hook [scsi]
:: Parsing hook [sata]
:: Parsing hook [usbinput]
:: Parsing hook [raid]
:: Parsing hook [filesystems]
:: Generating module dependencies
:: Generating image '/boot/kernel26-fallback.img'...SUCCESS
== SUCCESS

Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. error writing to file bad address

2009-09-30 Thread Nigel Henry
Update below.

On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:06, Nigel Henry wrote:
 On Tuesday 29 September 2009 21:19, Xavier wrote:
  On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Nigel Henry
 
  cave.dnb2m9...@aliceadsl.fr wrote:
   Thanks for the link to the bug.
  
   Just after I posted the problem, I tried reverting to the earlier
   pacman package pacman-3.3.0-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz , which works with no
   problems. Then upgraded to pacman-3.3.1-1, where the problem returned.
  
   Currently I'm running the earlier version, and have temporarily added
   pacman to the IgnorePkg list.
  
   Thanks for your quick reply.
 
  That is bad news. The bug I fixed should exist since pacman 3.3.0
  (since we moved to libfetch).
  It is quite strange that you cannot reproduce the problem with that.
 
  Any chances you could try the patch I posted in the bug report ?
 
  You will have to get pacman 3.3.1 PKGBUILD though abs, and edit the
  PKGBUILD to apply that patch.


Ok. Tried the patched pacman, but there are still problems. I have pacman 
setup to use 3 mirrors. First I tried to get hydrogen (3.24MB). It downloaded 
for a bit with the first mirror, then complained that it couldn't retrieve 
file. It then switched ro the second mirror, and continued the download for a 
bit, then too complained that it couldn't retrieve file. Switched to 3rd 
mirror, and amazingly concluded the download.

Now to try for another package (ardour, with 2 deps) (debug output attached). 
Again it got the 2 deps by having use all 3 mirrors, and downloaded only 
112.5 KB having used up all 3 mirrors. Mind you it's not creating 2GB partial 
files now.

I also have the wireshark output for ardour and deps, and have posted it to 
you offlist. Hope that's ok.

Nigel.
[djm...@myhost ~]$ su
Password:
[r...@myhost djmons]# jacman
[r...@myhost djmons]# pacman -S --debug ardour
debug: config: attempting to read file /etc/pacman.conf
debug: config: new section 'options'
debug: config: HoldPkg: pacman
debug: config: HoldPkg: glibc
debug: config: SyncFirst: pacman
debug: config: IgnorePkg: gnupg2
debug: config: IgnorePkg: pacman
debug: config: new section 'core'
debug: setlibpaths() called
debug: option 'cachedir' = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
debug: registering sync database 'core'
debug: config: including /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
debug: config: attempting to read file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
debug: adding new server URL to database 'core': 
http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/archlinux.org/core/os/i686
debug: adding new server URL to database 'core': 
http://mir.archlinux.fr/core/os/i686
debug: adding new server URL to database 'core': 
http://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/core/os/i686
debug: config: finished parsing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
debug: config: new section 'extra'
debug: registering sync database 'extra'
debug: config: including /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
debug: config: attempting to read file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
debug: adding new server URL to database 'extra': 
http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/archlinux.org/extra/os/i686
debug: adding new server URL to database 'extra': 
http://mir.archlinux.fr/extra/os/i686
debug: adding new server URL to database 'extra': 
http://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/extra/os/i686
debug: config: finished parsing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
debug: config: new section 'community'
debug: registering sync database 'community'
debug: config: including /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
debug: config: attempting to read file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
debug: adding new server URL to database 'community': 
http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/archlinux.org/community/os/i686
debug: adding new server URL to database 'community': 
http://mir.archlinux.fr/community/os/i686
debug: adding new server URL to database 'community': 
http://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/community/os/i686
debug: config: finished parsing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
debug: config: new section 'kdemod-legacy'
debug: registering sync database 'kdemod-legacy'
debug: adding new server URL to database 'kdemod-legacy': 
http://mirror.rit.edu/kdemod/legacy/i686
debug: config: finished parsing /etc/pacman.conf
debug: registering local database
debug: loading package cache for repository 'local'
debug: loading package cache for repository 'core'
debug: loading package cache for repository 'extra'
debug: adding package ardour-2.8-1 to the transaction targets
resolving dependencies...
debug: resolving target's dependencies
debug: started resolving dependencies
debug: checkdeps: package ardour-2.8-1
debug: checkdeps: missing dependency 'libgnomecanvasmm=2.26.0' for package 
'ardour'
debug: checkdeps: missing dependency 'aubio=0.3.2' for package 'ardour'
debug: pulling dependency libgnomecanvasmm (needed by ardour)
debug: pulling dependency aubio (needed by ardour)
debug: checkdeps: package libgnomecanvasmm-2.26.0-1
debug: checkdeps: package aubio-0.3.2-3
debug: finished resolving dependencies
debug: started sorting dependencies
debug: sorting dependencies finished
looking

[arch-general] Pacman problem. error writing to file bad address

2009-09-29 Thread Nigel Henry
I had problems with ocaml yesterday. After the machine locked up during the 
updates, I did a hard reset, and ran pacman -Su again. It continued 
downloading ocaml, but when all the updates were downloaded, it failed to 
install them, claiming that ocaml was corrupted. I removed the corrupted 
ocaml as requested, and as I'm on dialup and didn't want to download 38MB of 
ocaml again last night, I temporarily added an IgnorePkg line for it.

Ran pacman -Su again, and all the updates apart from ocaml, and also gnupg2, 
which couldn't be found, were installed.

Today I went to install the ocaml update, having removed it from the IgnorePkg 
line. It starts to download, but then throws an error as below.

error:  error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/ocaml'  :Bad address

Harddrive partition is redlining, and the partly downloaded ocaml file shows 
as 2GB size.

Any ideas on a fix for this problem?

As an aside, pacman was updated, but not before the other updates, in case 
that is what has caused the problem.

Nigel.


Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. error writing to file bad address

2009-09-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 19:26, Xavier wrote:
 On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Nigel Henry

 cave.dnb2m9...@aliceadsl.fr wrote:
  I had problems with ocaml yesterday. After the machine locked up during
  the updates, I did a hard reset, and ran pacman -Su again. It continued
  downloading ocaml, but when all the updates were downloaded, it failed to
  install them, claiming that ocaml was corrupted. I removed the corrupted
  ocaml as requested, and as I'm on dialup and didn't want to download 38MB
  of ocaml again last night, I temporarily added an IgnorePkg line for it.
 
  Ran pacman -Su again, and all the updates apart from ocaml, and also
  gnupg2, which couldn't be found, were installed.
 
  Today I went to install the ocaml update, having removed it from the
  IgnorePkg line. It starts to download, but then throws an error as below.
 
  error:  error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/ocaml'  :Bad
  address
 
  Harddrive partition is redlining, and the partly downloaded ocaml file
  shows as 2GB size.
 
  Any ideas on a fix for this problem?
 
  As an aside, pacman was updated, but not before the other updates, in
  case that is what has caused the problem.
 
  Nigel.

 See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16359

Thanks for the link to the bug.

Just after I posted the problem, I tried reverting to the earlier pacman 
package pacman-3.3.0-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz , which works with no problems. Then 
upgraded to pacman-3.3.1-1, where the problem returned.

Currently I'm running the earlier version, and have temporarily added pacman 
to the IgnorePkg list.

Thanks for your quick reply.

Nigel.


Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. error writing to file bad address

2009-09-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 21:19, Xavier wrote:
 On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Nigel Henry

 cave.dnb2m9...@aliceadsl.fr wrote:
  Thanks for the link to the bug.
 
  Just after I posted the problem, I tried reverting to the earlier pacman
  package pacman-3.3.0-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz , which works with no problems.
  Then upgraded to pacman-3.3.1-1, where the problem returned.
 
  Currently I'm running the earlier version, and have temporarily added
  pacman to the IgnorePkg list.
 
  Thanks for your quick reply.

 That is bad news. The bug I fixed should exist since pacman 3.3.0
 (since we moved to libfetch).
 It is quite strange that you cannot reproduce the problem with that.

 Any chances you could try the patch I posted in the bug report ?

 You will have to get pacman 3.3.1 PKGBUILD though abs, and edit the
 PKGBUILD to apply that patch.

I'll have a go at that tomorrow, as I'm currently downloading ocaml for the 
second time (on dialup), and don't want to mess with pacman until that's 
installed.

Nigel.


[arch-general] How to specify configure options with makepkg

2009-09-10 Thread Nigel Henry
I'm trying to install psychosynth from AUR. Ogre is one of the deps, but the 
comments on the psychosynth page say to compile Ogre with devIL, not 
freeimage, which is the default image loader. Configure says that I can set 
an option, --disable-freeimage, but where do I set this option when using 
makepkg to build Ogre?

I have installed devil, so it's ready to be used by the configure script, 
which includes instructions for both freeimage, and devIL.

Thanks for any help with this.

Nigel.


Re: [arch-general] How to specify configure options with makepkg

2009-09-10 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 10 September 2009 12:25, Nigel Henry wrote:
 I'm trying to install psychosynth from AUR. Ogre is one of the deps, but
 the comments on the psychosynth page say to compile Ogre with devIL, not
 freeimage, which is the default image loader. Configure says that I can set
 an option, --disable-freeimage, but where do I set this option when using
 makepkg to build Ogre?

 I have installed devil, so it's ready to be used by the configure script,
 which includes instructions for both freeimage, and devIL.

 Thanks for any help with this.

 Nigel.

Sorry for the noise. Solved the problem just after posting the ?, by looking 
in the pkgbuild file, where the configure options are listed. Doh!

Psychosynth still fails to build though, which maybe because the gcc patch for 
it, is for gcc4.3, and I have gcc4.4.

Nigel.


Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE

2008-12-28 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 28 December 2008 17:16, Leonid Grinberg wrote:
 Hi all,

 Thanks for your replies.

  Maybe this would be alright?
  http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen+System+Monitor?content=86
 664

 The download link seems to be broken (the .skz file is missing most of
 the source).

  plasma has a system monitor applet for some time now.
  You should check kdeplasma-addons package, although it might still be in
  playground, thus not packaged in standard repos.
 
  I have kdeplasma-addons 4.1.3-1 installed and there is no system monitor.
 
  Unfortunately, this set of monitor applets lacks memory usage. Youll
  find network, cpu, disk space, temperature and informations.
 
  I think the system monitor is coming back in 4.2. but I don't have a
  handy link for that.

 Yeah, I also got kdeplasma-addons but it doesn't have a system
 monitor. Ah well, I guess I'll wait until 4.2 :-/

 Thanks anyway,
 Leonid Grinberg

Hi Leonid.

Unless you particularly want a KDE app, you could always install gkrellm. I've 
used it for a long time, and it's very user configerable.

Nigel.


Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE

2008-12-28 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 28 December 2008 17:46, Leonid Grinberg wrote:
 Hi Nigel,

  Unless you particularly want a KDE app, you could always install gkrellm.
  I've used it for a long time, and it's very user configerable.

 Thanks a lot! That is very close to what I'm looking for, but is there
 any way to have it act as a widget in the panel?

 --
 Leonid

Hi Leonid.

I somehow doubt it, as it's not a KDE app, but I could well be wrong. I've 
always had it up on the desktop, on all my distros. I have a whole bunch of 
distros on my 3 machines, and use static IP addresses for them. There is a 
nice plugin gkrellmip, that displays the IP address of the current OS that 
is booted up, so I find it quite usefull when wanting to transfer files via 
FTP, or want to SSH into a machine, as the IP addresses of all the machines 
are displayed on the desktop.

Of course, it shows up in the panel, as all open desktop apps do, and you can 
obviously minimise it out of the way, but I'm sure that, that's not really 
what you're looking for.

All the best.

Nigel.


Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 48, Issue 10

2008-10-11 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 11 October 2008 15:36, Wiegand Sergej wrote:
 Hey, I am new on the mailing-lists, but i try to behave!

 Well since i've upgraded to the next kernel, i am having some issues
 with modules, and since i wanted to try out the mailinglists, this seems
 to be the perfect opportunity for that.
 Since i've upgraded to 2.6.27 (testing repository)
 my pcspkr module is being loaded again, and i cant remove it (rmmod
 pcspkr) is the module-name differrent now?
 Please reply!
 thank you

Hi Wiegand, and welcome to the list. I don't have the 2.6.27 kernel, but 
something that does work (usually), is to add the following line 
to /etc/modprobe.conf.

install pcspkr /bin/true

Reboot, and the pcspkr module will be installed to /bin/true, which is like 
sending it to nowhere land.

This list is low volume, and it may be better not to use the digest mode to 
receive postings from the list. Digest mode often creates problems, as many 
folks who use it just click on reply, which results in the whole of the 
digest being sent back to the list, and the subject line doesn't say anything 
about the subject they are replying to, or in your case, where this is a new 
thread, what exactly you are wanting to find out. A few well thought out 
words in a subject line, usually gets someones attention.

It's better when asking a new question to just click on the To line on the 
latest digest you've received, (which in my case will open Kmails composer) 
fill in the subject line for your question, and compose your question.

I hope that installing pcspkr to /bin/true resolves your problem, but if not, 
post back, preferably by starting a new thread, as above, and not using the 
Digest  subject line.

All the best.

Nigel.



[arch-general] problem updating klibc with kdemod3 on Dont Panic

2008-10-11 Thread Nigel Henry
Running pacman -Sy this evening, then pacman -Su, a bunch of packages were 
downloaded, but failed to install. It appears to be a problem with klibc (I'm 
using kdemod3, currently 3.5.10). I installed all the other packages using 
pacman -S, but am left with the following ones which fail to install. See 
below.


[EMAIL PROTECTED] djmons]$ ssh 192.168.0.191
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
Last login: Tue Aug 12 09:00:46 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su
Password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] djmons]# pacman -Su
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (5): klibc-1.5.14-1  klibc-extras-2.5-1  klibc-kbd-1.15.20080312-7
 klibc-module-init-tools-3.4-2  klibc-udev-130-1

Total Download Size:0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   14.67 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
checking package integrity...
(5/5) checking for file conflicts   [#] 
100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/Kbuild exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/a.out-core.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/a.out.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/acpi.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/agp.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/alternative-asm.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/alternative.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/apic.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/apicdef.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/arch_hooks.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/asm-offsets.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/asm.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/atomic.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/atomic_32.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/atomic_64.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/auxvec.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/bios_ebda.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/bitops.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/boot.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/bootparam.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/bug.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/bugs.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/byteorder.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/cache.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/cacheflush.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/calgary.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/calling.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/checksum.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/checksum_32.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/checksum_64.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/compat.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/cpu.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/cpufeature.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/cputime.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/current.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/current_32.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/current_64.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/debugreg.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/delay.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/desc.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/desc_defs.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/device.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/div64.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/dma-mapping.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/dma.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/dmi.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/ds.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/dwarf2.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/dwarf2_32.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/dwarf2_64.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/e820.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/e820_32.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/e820_64.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/edac.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/efi.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/elf.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/emergency-restart.h exists in filesystem
klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/errno.h exists in 

Re: [arch-general] problem updating klibc with kdemod3 on Dont Panic

2008-10-11 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 11 October 2008 22:35, Samed Beyribey wrote:
 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:29:08 +0200 tarihinde
 Nigel Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] şunu yazmıştınız:

 Please visit: http://www.archlinux.org/news/411/

  Running pacman -Sy this evening, then pacman -Su, a bunch of packages
  were downloaded, but failed to install. It appears to be a problem
  with klibc (I'm using kdemod3, currently 3.5.10). I installed all the
  other packages using pacman -S, but am left with the following ones
  which fail to install. See below.
Nigel

I'll say something about asking questions on the list, you do get quick 
replies. 6 mins after posting my question, I got 4 replies at 1 min 
intervals.

Problem resolved a few seconds later.

Thanks also for the replies from Biru, Brandon, and Pierre.

Nigel.


Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 11 August 2008 19:09, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
 Attila wrote:
  On Montag, 11. August 2008 18:07 David Rosenstrauch wrote:
  I'm more than open to hearing counter-arguments as to why someone thinks
  it's worth the switch
 
  I'm frustated as you but i must say that there was no way for the arch
  devs to make it right for everyone. Imagine that there is no kde4 in the
  repos and than you will read a lot of i want kde4 wishes instead of i
  want my kde3 back.

 I have no qualms with what the devs did.  KDE4 is out, and so the Arch
 devs have to upgrade to it.  (And in fact, IMO, they even were pretty
 cautious about the upgrade, waiting several months until 4.1 was
 released before upgrading.)  Arch is a distro that uses bleeding edge
 software, and we all know that going in.  And if somebody wants to use
 old packages, the onus is on them to make it happen.

 My qualms are with the KDE4 software itself.  I'm not saying it's bad.
 (In fact, I'll admit that I've barely even tried any of the new
 functionality.)  It's just that it's a very big a change to a lot of
 important desktop functionality that I rely on, and would be too
 disruptive for me to switch over right now.

 I probably could get used to it over time, though, which is why I'd like
 to be able to install KDE 3 and 4 simultaneously, and so be able to
 switch into KDE4 and kick the tires every now and then, without having
 to completely wipe KDE3 off my system.

 The state I'm in now (keeping KDE3 via a number of IgnorePkg directives
 in my pacman.conf) is not sustainable long-term, so I'm going to have to
 get a bit more proactive soon and come up with some solution.

 DR

I initiated this thread. I had been downloading Fedora 9 (6cd's on dialup) 
which has KDE4 as default), finished the downloads and burned the cd's, but 
chose to update other distros before installing Fedora 9. Bad move me thinks. 
Archlinux was going to upgrade to KDE4, and on asking a ? on the list there 
were mixed opinions. Anyway, I let the upgrade go ahead. Another bad move.

leaving aside Fedora, which more or less appears to be a test ground, where 
Redhat can get feedback, which will help in their next release of Redhat, I 
believe that it may have been better if Archlinux had gone the way of 
Kubuntu/Ubuntu's Hardy Heron 8.04 release. Here KDE 3.5.9 is the default, but 
with the option of using KDE4. I have Kubuntu 8.04 installed, and using the 
default KDE 3.5.9. I don't know how installing KDE4 as the option works, 
whether it runs side by side with KDE 3.5.9, or replaces KDE 3.5.9.

If Archlinux had made the KDE4 packages available as an option, I believe this 
may have been the best way to go. that way you could have installed another 
instance of Archlinux on some spare harddrive space, and tried out KDE4, 
without, as it has turned out for me, finding that you now have a KDE desktop 
that has gone back into the dark ages. I'm posting from Fedora Core 2, that 
is using KDE 3.2.2-14.FC2.legacy Red Hat. Apart from the odd Konqueror crash 
when accessing certain websites, there are no problems, and FC2 is ancient, 
and no longer supported.

At the moment I'm trying to find a way to revert to KDE 3.5.9, without 
re-installing Archlinux. I've installed Gnome, which goes against the grain, 
as I don't normally use it, but just want a desktop that I can use after 
removing all the KDE4 packages, and at the moment is better than KDE4.

Next step will be to find the packages to reinstall KDE 3.5.9, and attempt to 
reinstall them. Someone mentioned getting them from svn, and I have the 
install disk. Can I somehow get the KDE 3.5.9 packages off the install disk, 
and install them?

I'll start a new thread for this, unless anyone here has any suggestions.

This is a whole bundle of fun at the moment, and it's not like I use any of my 
distros for serious work. I can really understand someone needing to use 
their OS for their work, upgrading, and finding that the desktop has gone 
back to start ( start reference being to board games).

Again I would like to restate, that this is not a knock at Archlinux, but at 
KDE4, which personally I feel is not ready for release as a replacement for 
KDE 3.5.9.

Nigel, and expecting Incoming






[arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-08 Thread Nigel Henry
Some days ago I ran the updates for my Don't Panic install, which said that 
KDE 3.5.9 was being upgraded to KDE4. I let this go ahead having asked on the 
list if there were likely to be any problems with KDE4.

I also have recently installed Fedora 9 which comes with KDE4 as default, so 
this is not a pop at Archlinux, but more with KDE4, which I'm finding is 
virtually unuseable. I'm posting this from Fedora Core 2, which has KDE 
3.2.2-14.FC2.2.legacy Red Hat, and apart from the odd konqueror crash when 
accessing certain web sites, there are no problems. KDE4 is a whole different 
ball game.

The question is, is it possible to somehow revert back to KDE 3.5.9 without 
reinstalling. Reinstalling would mean that I only have the package versions 
that were on the install cd. I do have another instance of Dont Panic, that 
hasn't been upgraded to KDE4, and all the updates prior to the upgrade to 
KDE4 are available, and looking at /var/cache/pacman/pkg there don't appear 
to be any KDE updates until the transition to KDE4.

If I do have to reinstall this instance of Don't Panic that has been upgraded 
to KDE4, is there some way to prevent the upgrade to KDE4 on the fresh 
install? 

Apologies if I'm offending anyone that loves KDE4, but I'm finding it a real 
problem to work with.

Any help on this problem really appreciated.

Nigel.







[arch-general] ? regarding latest Dont Panic updates, and KDE4

2008-07-30 Thread Nigel Henry
I've been downloading iso's on dialup for some days, so havn't updated much on 
my OS's. Last time I updated Dont Panic on my new machine was 20080709.

A pacman -Sy, followed by pacman -Su rung some alarm bells when it said arts 
was going to be replaced yes, or no?. Well ages back I'd read that arts 
wasn't going to be in KDE4, so this looked like an upgrade to KDE4. Said yes 
to that, and then see a mention that extra/kdeplasma-addons is going to 
replace kdeaddons, and kdeplasma is definately KDE4 from my reading the 
fedora list for Fedora 9, and the Kubuntu list where KDE4 is an option with 
Kubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04. To see where this is going I say yes to the plasma 
stuff, and yes there is definately an upgrade from KDE3.5 to KDE4 in 
progress.

One question is how new this upgrade is. I ask because an hour or so ago, the 
upgrade was in the 500+MB IIRC, but just having run pacman -Sy, and pacman 
-Su, the upgrade is now 643.38MB. Looking at the list of KDE packages to be 
upgraded, the only one that is not being upgraded to KDE4 is kdelibs, which 
shows an upgrade to kdelibs3-3.5.9-1.

Should I perhaps wait a couple of days before doing the pacman -Su, so as to 
make sure that the transition to KDE4 will have all the necessary packages 
available?

The second question, as I've seen a whole bunch of problems with KDE4 on 
mainly the Fedora list, but also on the Kubuntu list where folks using Hardy 
Heron 8.04 have decided to try KDE4, rather than the default KDE3.5, is, does 
KDE4 run ok on Don't Panic, without totally screwing up the desktop, that 
currently is working fine under KDE3.5?

I'll start downloading the packages as I'm on dialup, so there is plenty of 
time for answers. I get about 150MB in 9hrs, so bearing in mind that during 
the daytime I'm doing other stuff on the Internet, I'd estimate about 45-48 
hours is needed to download all the packages before they start to be 
installed. So the clock is ticking as from now. Answers please before the 
package downloads finish, and I'm stuck with KDE4.

Just a bit of fun as the list is quiet. I suppose sooner or later I'll find 
some distro or other has KDE4 as default, and will have to go with it, but 
having seen many problems on the Fedora list, admittadly with kde-4.0, with 
promises that things would be better with kde-4.1, and of course Don't Panic 
is upgrading to kde-4.1.0-1, so perhaps I'm worrying about nothing.

Nice distro, but I really do wish that Andy would fix Jacman.

Nigel.



[arch-general] Firefox 3 on latest update of Don't Panic question

2008-06-23 Thread Nigel Henry
I'm just about to update one of my 2 instances of Don't Panic. Firefox 3 is 
going to be installed. I'd had problems playing a radio stream from a radio 
station in the Channel Islands using Bon Echo, so downloaded and installed 
another instance of Firefox from the Mozilla site, and installed it 
in /usr/local, where I normally install Firefox. This ran the stream from the 
site ok. I then changed the identity of Bon Echo to Firefox, and this too ran 
the stream ok. The site obviously had some problems with the Bon Echo 
identity.

The question is though. If I go ahead with the upgrade of Firefox/Bon Echo to 
3.0-1, is it still going to play well with the Firefox I installed from the 
Mozilla site (version 2.0.0.12). At the moment they are both happy to share 
the same files in ~/, and both use the same addons.

For info my current Bon Echo version is 2.0.0.14.

I havn't tried Firefox 3 yet, so it may be interesting, but all the same, 
don't want to screw anything up.

Whatever it's like, it can't be as bad as all the complaints I've seen 
regarding KDE4 on the Fedora, and Kubuntu lists. Saying that though, new 
stuff always gets a lot of feedback, both positive, and negative.

Nigel.



Re: [arch-general] Problem starting vsftpd service. (Don't Panic)

2008-06-19 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 19 June 2008 17:02, Pierre CHAPUIS wrote:
 If you start vsftpd as a daemon you have to :

  - Have listen=YES and background=YES in vsftpd.conf
  - Change line 11 from /etc/rc.d/vsftpd from /usr/sbin/vsftpd  to
 /usr/sbin/vsftpd

Bonjour Pierre. Thanks for the help.

listen=YES was already set
I had to add the line background=YES, as it wasn't in /etc/vsftpd.conf
Removed the  from line 11 in /etc/rc.d/vsftpd

Then tried /etc/rc.d/vsftpd start, and got a fail, and thought that I still 
had problems.

A reboot though has started the vsftp daemon, and it now shows up 
in /var/run/daemons.

Thanks again for the help, and another thing I must write down in my notebook 
regarding specific Archlinux stuff.

Cordialement.

Nigel.



[arch-general] Problem with Transient resolver failure with pacman (Don't Panic)

2008-06-18 Thread Nigel Henry
I have Archlinux running on one machine with no problems, but the install was 
done a while back. I've just installed it on a new machine that I've built, 
but am having problems running pacman -Sy.

The network setup is ok. I use static IP addresses, and everything is 
correctly set. /etc/resolv.conf has the correct nameserver set, and the 
gateway 192.168.0.1 in /etc/rc.conf is active by removing the !.

Running pacman -Sy though is constantly giving me a Transient resolver 
failure . Pacman -Sy is trying every mirror on the planet, and must have 
worked it's way through at least 30 up to now.

There must be some setting that I havn't got right.

Any suggestions would be most definately gratefully received.

Nigel.




Re: [arch-general] Kernel upgrades question, as can't revert to earlier kernel

2008-05-30 Thread Nigel Henry
Update on the updated kernel below.

On Thursday 29 May 2008 01:08, Nigel Henry wrote:
 On Wednesday 28 May 2008 23:47, Aaron Griffin wrote:
  On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Nigel Henry
 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   I've noticed for some time now that some distros are upgrading the
   current running kernel, rather than installing a new kernel version,
   which if there are problems with the new kernel, you could boot the
   earlier kernel, which you know was working ok.
  
   I'm currently updating my Don't Panic install, and there is a kernel
   update to 2.6.25.4-1 , and 21% done so far. Is there some way that this
   latest kernel version can be installed as a new kernel, and leave the
   existing one alone?
  
   I don't like this way of updating the kernel, as you have no way of
   booting to the earlier one if the latest version is problematic.

   Nigel.
 
  We don't really support this due to the sheer hassle, but it is easy
  enough to downgrade to an old kernel, as all packages are kept in a
  cache on your machine. If a new kernel borks for you, just pacman -U
  the right files from /var/cache/pacman/pkg

 Thanks for all the suggestions folks. I'll just let the upgrade run for
 now, and hope that the 2.6.25 kernel doesn't screw my sounds up.

 Nigel.

Well the 2.6.25 kernel didn't bork the sounds, but for some reason is unable 
to load the tuner module for my TV card, although the bttv module, and 
related deps are loaded. See below for the results of a modprobe tuner.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] djmons]# modprobe tuner
FATAL: Error inserting tuner 
(/lib/modules/2.6.25-ARCH/kernel/drivers/media/video/tuner.ko): Unknown 
symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] djmons]#

Anyway, putting that little problem aside, I decided to install the earlier 
kernel that worked, and also keep the 2.6.25, to see if it was fixable. I 
renamed the files in /boot for the 2.6.25, and edited the relevant lines 
in /boot/grub/menu.lst to reflect the renaming in /boot.

Next to install the earlier 2.6.24 kernel, but there was a problem, in that 
the updates that had included the 2.6.25 kernel, also updated some wireless 
packages, and trying to install the 2.6.24 kernel , there were complaints 
that these updated wireless packages depended on the 2.6.25 kernel, see 
below.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] djmons]# pacman 
-U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kernel26-2.6.24.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
loading package data...
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: ipw3945: requires kernel26=2.6.25.3-1
:: madwifi: requires kernel26=2.6.25.3-1
:: ndiswrapper: requires kernel26=2.6.25.3-1
:: rt2500: requires kernel26=2.6.25.3-1
:: wlan-ng26: requires kernel26=2.6.25.3-1

Now I don't use wireless, so I removed the above packages, but I suppose if 
you do need wireless, I don't see how you could workaround this, if you 
wanted to revert to an earlier kernel version. Anyway having removed the 
offending packages, the 2.6.24 kernel installed ok, and the files vmlinuz26, 
kernel26-fallback.img, and kernel26.img turned up in /boot, along with my 
renamed ones for the 2.6.25 kernel. No new lines were added 
to /boot/grub/menu.lst though for the 2.6.24 kernel (but I've had that when 
installing a kernel with my Debian installs), so added the lines manually.

Reboot, selecting the 2.6.24 kernel, and that booted fine, and everything was 
working as before, including the TV card. Reboot again, selecting the 2.6.25, 
which ahum booted, but no sounds, Gkrellm was missing the eth0 section, so 
it looked like no network either, and the darned mouse pointer was stuck in 
the middle of the screen. couldn't get the menu to show with the keyboard, 
ctrl alt backspace worked, and got the menu to shutdown on the login screen.

Booted up using the 2.6.24 kernel, and as I want to keep it, did another 
renaming session in /boot, and an editing session in grubs menu.lst. Now I 
have for the 2.6.24, vmlinuz26-2.6.24.4-1, kernel26-2.6.24.4-1.img, and 
kernel26-2.6.24.4-1-fallback.img. And the same files for the 2.6.25, renamed 
to vmlinuz26, etc, so that a further kernel update will only update the 
2.6.25, and leave the 2.6.24 alone.

Reboot a couple of times to make sure the renaming worked, 2.6.24 is still ok, 
but still the same problems with 2.6.25. Just for fun I did a pacman -Sy, and 
a pacman -Su, and this is a bit strange, as packman said the 2.6.25 needed 
updating, nothing to download, so it wasn't another new 2.6.25, but the one 
in the cache, and as far as I was concerned was already installed, but gone a 
bit pear shaped. I said yes to this supposed updating of the 2.6.25, and the 
kernel was installed, as below.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] djmons]# pacman -Su
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets: kernel26-2.6.25.4-1

Total Download Size:0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   74.36 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
checking

[arch-general] Kernel upgrades question, as can't revert to earlier kernel

2008-05-28 Thread Nigel Henry
I've noticed for some time now that some distros are upgrading the current 
running kernel, rather than installing a new kernel version, which if there 
are problems with the new kernel, you could boot the earlier kernel, which 
you know was working ok.

I'm currently updating my Don't Panic install, and there is a kernel update to 
2.6.25.4-1 , and 21% done so far. Is there some way that this latest kernel 
version can be installed as a new kernel, and leave the existing one alone?

I don't like this way of updating the kernel, as you have no way of booting to 
the earlier one if the latest version is problematic.

26% done now.

Nigel.



Re: [arch-general] Kernel upgrades question, as can't revert to earlier kernel

2008-05-28 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 28 May 2008 23:47, Aaron Griffin wrote:
 On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Nigel Henry

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I've noticed for some time now that some distros are upgrading the
  current running kernel, rather than installing a new kernel version,
  which if there are problems with the new kernel, you could boot the
  earlier kernel, which you know was working ok.
 
  I'm currently updating my Don't Panic install, and there is a kernel
  update to 2.6.25.4-1 , and 21% done so far. Is there some way that this
  latest kernel version can be installed as a new kernel, and leave the
  existing one alone?
 
  I don't like this way of updating the kernel, as you have no way of
  booting to the earlier one if the latest version is problematic.
 
  26% done now.
 
  Nigel.

 We don't really support this due to the sheer hassle, but it is easy
 enough to downgrade to an old kernel, as all packages are kept in a
 cache on your machine. If a new kernel borks for you, just pacman -U
 the right files from /var/cache/pacman/pkg

Thanks for all the suggestions folks. I'll just let the upgrade run for now, 
and hope that the 2.6.25 kernel doesn't screw my sounds up.

I'll look at all your suggestions again tomorrow, as it's getting a bit late 
here now.

Thanks again for the amazingly quick responses.

Nigel.



Re: [arch-general] Tool to stop and start services? (Don't Panic)

2008-05-22 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 22 May 2008 17:09, Travis Willard wrote:
 On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Nigel Henry

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On my Fedora installs there is a GUI for stopping and starting services,
  and also the option of using chkconfig on the CLI. On my Debian installs,
  I installed sysv-rc-conf, which runs on the CLI, and allows you to stop
  and start services.
 
  Is there anything similar that I could use on my Archlinux install?
 
  Thanks for any help.

 I can't recall any such tool offhand, though the discussion certainly
 has come up before.  What's wrong with /etc/rc.d/service stop and
 /etc/rc.d/service start?

Johannes also suggests this way, and I have no problems with it, but sometimes 
it's just nice to have a list of running services, maybe just to see if there 
is some service you don't need, and to be able to stop it.

A couple of suggestions on later posts have suggested packages available in 
AUR. I'll have a look at these. I was sort of thinking of new users, that may 
have been used to GUI stuff. A command on the CLI to bring up something using 
dialog, whiptail, or ncurses would also work, as you get a GUI of sorts.

Also, sometimes it's not easy to know the name of a service. For example, you 
want to stop the ntp service. Do you stop ntp, or ntpd, and with ssh. Is this 
ssh, or sshd. I know you can try both, but a list of running services helps.

This is just a little academic question so please don't be offended. 

All in all I'm very pleased with Archlinux (Don't Panic). I have a bunch of 
distros installed, Fedora, Debian, Kubuntu, Slackware, but none of them boot 
up as quick as my Archlinux install. Any suggestions as to what may be 
different from my other installs, that causes Archlinux to boot up so 
quickly?

Nigel.



[arch-general] libSoundTouch.a but no libSoundTouch.so

2008-04-20 Thread Nigel Henry
I'm trying to build Psychosynth on Don't Panic. There are are a few deps, 
some of which I need to build from source (OIS, Ogre, and CEGUI). Soundtouch 
is also a dep, and is available from the Archlinux repos, but 
running ./configure on Psychosynth, it failed to find the libsoundtouch lib.

Looking in /usr/lib, libsoundtouch has a libSoundtouch.a file, but no 
libSoundTouch.so file, which I presume is why ./configure for Psychosynth 
cannot find the library.

Is this a bug, and if so, where should I report it?

I did also download the soundtouch tarball from their site, but with 
configure, and make problems.

./configure complained that it couldn't find automake-1.9, which is true, as 
the version installed is automake-1.10. I created a symlink from automake-1.9 
pointing to automake-1.10, then ./configure ran to completion, but then make 
complained that it couldn't find libtools, even though it's installed 
in /usr/bin.

Make said it was looking for libtools in ../libtools, but I'm clueless as to 
where that is. Any help on that?

Any help/suggestions welcome.

Nigel.






[arch-general] Qjackctl won't open since latest updates

2008-01-29 Thread Nigel Henry
I've had Archlinux Don't Panic installed for a while. I installed it because 
someone on another list was having problems with their hda intel soundcard, 
and I wanted to see what was required to upgrade the Alsa driver on 
Archlinux. It seems to be a nice stable distro, pacman, which I havn't used 
before, installs the downloaded packages very quickly. Downloading them, as 
always takes a while, as I'm on dialup.

Anyway. The problem since the latest updates. Qjackctl was working ok, but 
since updates I did last night, it now fails to start.

See below for the updated packages.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] djmons]# pacman -Su
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: opera: forcing upgrade to version 9.25-2
resolving dependencies...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: xorg-server will be installed before its catalyst-utils dependency
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets: readline-5.2-7  jack-audio-connection-kit-0.109.0-1
 kde-common-3.5.8-3  qt3-3.3.8-6.1  arts-1.5.8-2
 avahi-0.6.20-3  xorg-server-1.4.0.90-5
 catalyst-utils-8.01-1  dbus-qt3-0.62-3  e2fsprogs-1.40.4-1
 x264-20071202-1  ffmpeg-20071204-1  hwd-5.3.2-1  pcre-7.5-1
 kdelibs-3.5.8-4  kdebase-3.5.8-3  qscintilla-qt3-1.7.1-2
 kdebindings-3.5.8-2  poppler-qt3-0.6.3-1
 kdegraphics-3.5.8-3  lvm2-2.02.31-1  mplayer-1.0rc2-2.1
 opera-9.25-2  qt-4.3.3-4  poppler-qt-0.6.3-1  python-2.5.1-5
 pygobject-2.14.1-1  pygtk-2.12.1-1  qca-2.0.0.svn744387-1.1
 qca-qt3-1.0-1  qca-tls-1.0-5  qjackctl-0.3.2-1
 qscintilla-2.1-3  libx86-0.99-1  vbetool-1.0-2  vi-7.1.228-1
 which-2.19-2  wpa_supplicant-0.5.9-1

Total Download Size:170.33 MB

After these updates Qjackctl would not start from the KDE desktop launcher, 
and see below for output when trying to start it on the CLI.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ qjackctl
qjackctl: error while loading shared libraries: libaudio.so.2: cannot open 
shared object file: No such file or directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$

It's true that there's no such library as libaudio.so.2, at least I can't find 
one.

I have run pacman -Sy, and -Su this evening, and no further updates are 
available. Should I just wait a bit, and see if this problem is resolved, or 
post a bug report? Personally I don't see it as a bug, but more to do with 
Qjackctl being upgraded, and the upgraded version needing a library not yet 
available.

Comments as always welcome.

Nigel.