Re: [arch-general] What's the use of bacman's pacnew option?
Hazarding a guess, I would suppose it's to tell bacman to look for .pacnew file as well because those will be up-to-date relative to the files that are already there. On 17 May 2015 at 08:09, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Hi, I can't find a documentation, perhaps because my Internet connection today is very slow. bacman [--nocolor] [--pacnew] installed package name What's the use of bacman's pacnew option? TIA, Ralf -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] Tool to create mtree
On 29 April 2015 at 08:43, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote:
When looking at the internals of an Arch package I learned about the
mtree format. However, I didn't find any tool to create an mtree file
myself.
It seems like the line that produces the .MTREE file is simply using
`bsdtar`:
From
https://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/scripts/makepkg.sh.in#n1940:
msg2 $(gettext Generating .MTREE file...)
LANG=C bsdtar -czf .MTREE --format=mtree \
--options='!all,use-set,type,uid,gid,mode,time,size,md5,sha256,link' \
${comp_files[@]} *
comp_files+=(.MTREE)
--
Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] update error(?)
The mirror you picked is out-of-sync with the main mirrors. Either pick a different mirror or wait until it is in sync.
Re: [arch-general] Could not receive my Bugtracker Activation Code
Random suggestion: have you tried asking for a password reset? https://bugs.archlinux.org/lostpw On 29 December 2014 at 22:57, Minh Nhut Duong nhu...@gmail.com wrote: I try to create my account again but this user already taken. :( On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Eli Schwartz eschwart...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Minh Nhut Duong nhu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I registerd my Arch Linux Bugtracker account from this link https://bugs.archlinux.org/ but I cannot receive my activation code to complete registration. Anyone can help me resend my activation code to nhutdm at gmail dot com. Thanks, Try recreating the account. -- Eli Schwartz -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] nginx in a linux container
On 23 February 2014 04:19, arnaud gaboury arnaud.gabo...@gmail.com wrote: Shame on me. If I could save $1 for each typo, I would then be a rich man ! Error: undefined variable '$1'. ;-) -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] journalctl and I/O errors
On 8 February 2014 12:06, Janna Martl janna.martl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:03 AM, Sébastien Leblanc leblancse...@gmail.comwrote: Conclusion (as I understand it): 1. There is definitely a bug in Journalctl: it crashes (segfaults) on I/O errors. 2. You have a drive that is failing, or your BIOS might not be set correctly. Thanks, all, for the analysis. I have submitted a bug report [1] for systemd. Also, it seems you were right about hardware failure -- though I still can't get smartctl to acknowledge anything being wrong (except for nonzero current pending sector count), I ran badblocks, which found a bunch of errors, including on sectors corresponding to files outside /var/log/journal. Guess I should get a new drive. [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74714 Do not rely too much on SMART data; in their hard disk failure study, Google concluded that when SMART reports a drive as unhealthy, it is often right, but for many drives that failed, SMART was still reporting them as healthy. Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population, by Google Inc. [...] Our analysis identifies several parameters from the drive’s self monitoring facility (SMART) that correlate highly with failures. Despite this high correlation, we conclude that mod- els based on SMART parameters alone are unlikely to be useful for predicting individual drive failures http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] journalctl and I/O errors
Conclusion (as I understand it): 1. There is definitely a bug in Journalctl: it crashes (segfaults) on I/O errors. 2. You have a drive that is failing, or your BIOS might not be set correctly. This is causing the I/O errors. How large is the drive? You might have to turn off settings such as SATA legacy compatibility or the like -- I had a 3TB drive that would cause ATA command errors on a ~2006 computer; I found this option in the BIOS and as soon as I turned it off everything worked perfectly. Although journalctl should not crash on I/O errors, I think it is not unreasonable to assume that many other apps do not tolerate I/O errors either. So I would say: you should still report this bug upstream. -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] Default value of j in makeflags of makepkg.conf
I would advise against doing that, considering that there are at least a handful of packages (can't name them) that have broken or otherwise malfunctioning Makefiles when run in parallel. The package maintainers _should_ be aware of those issues, and would accordingly add 'options=!makeflags' to their PKGBUILD, but not everyone has a multiple core computer, nor did everyone test the functionality (there could be cases where -j4 runs fine, but -j8 crashes, or other weird race conditions). Adding your line as a mention in the makepkg.conf file (as a comment) could be a great idea, as it is definitely a clever way of automatically setting the number of parallel instances. #-- Make Flags: change this for DistCC/SMP systems # MAKEFLAGS=-j$(nprocs) will set it to the number of logical cores on your system. MAKEFLAGS=-j8 On 30 December 2013 22:24, Mark Lee m...@markelee.com wrote: Salutations, I was wondering if we could change the default value for j in MakeFlags in makepkg.conf to -j$(nproc). This would allow makepkg to scale the number of threads per pc as default. Regards, Mark -- Mark Lee m...@markelee.com -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] Patch for update-mime-info slowness
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org wrote: [2013-12-04 15:00:31 -0500] Sébastien Leblanc: I am kind of annoyed by the time it takes to update the MIME database Please, please, please. Bug reports and feature requests go to: Thank you, I already know the URL to the bug tracker, but I was not looking to file a bug, or anything. I am only sharing a patch with fellow Arch users. Upstream already mentioned that this is their expected behavior (they wish to default to safety). https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70366#c9 Thanks to Rodrigo, I now know the existence of 'libeatmydata'. -- Sébastien Leblanc
[arch-general] Patch for update-mime-info slowness
I am kind of annoyed by the time it takes to update the MIME database (something like two minutes on a recent i7 quad-core laptop). Until pacman has hooks/triggers, I have removed the calls to fdatasync (which are supposed to ensure that the files are truly written to disk). I prefer letting the system take care of it anyway, and I don't care much for consistency in desktop links and file associations. Y'know, it might bear the name database, but it's not a database in the sense of a +1M row postgresql database). Anyone have an opinion on this? Am I a complete idiot in removing these calls to fdatasync? With this patch, updating takes around 5 seconds, haven't run it with a stopwatch yet. -- Sébastien Leblanc
[arch-general] Rivendell PKGBUILD
Hey folks! I updated my PKGBUILD file and submitted it to the Arch User Repository, if anyone is interested. It is the 2.5.1 version of Rivendell https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rivendell/ Let me know if you are having any issues. For now, I am having trouble with rdcartslots: it will not run at all. Maybe someone can help me out. I have not done thorough testing, but most everything else should work correctly. -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] SOLVED Re: Cannot chroot '/bin/bash': No such file or directory
On 13 March 2013 04:07, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: as sysadmin of your archlinux system you should take care of pacnew files in your filesystem. I myself run # find / -xdev -regextype posix-egrep -regex '.*\.pac(new|old|save)' | less Regarding .pacnew files, there is an utility called pacdiff in the pacman-contrib package. You run it in a directory and it looks for .pacnew, .pacorig and .pacsave files. For .pacnew files, it opens up a vim window in diff mode, letting you sync files when appropriate (e.g. httpd.conf has new comments or new defaults). Upon saving, the script asks you whether you want to keep or remove the .pacnew file. It's really a time saver. -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] Combining package deltas and signing?
I believe signatures are checked after packages are rebuilt from deltas. Therefore, if your delta is compromised, the resulting package won't validate with the signature. On 28 December 2012 11:40, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 28/12/12 05:27, Magnus Therning wrote: Do these two features play nice together? Why wouldn't they? No reason beyond that it requires extra code in pacman to make it work. It could be a thing that's easily overlooked. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] You have mail message at login
On 16 October 2012 01:42, gt static.vor...@gmx.com wrote: Whenever I log in to a TTY, I get this message. I read my system mails through mutt, so i don't need this. Pam is taking care of showing whether you have mail or not. In /etc/pam.d/system-login, comment this line: sessionoptional pam_mail.so dir=/var/spool/mail standard You should not get new mail prompts anymore. -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] systemd-pulseaudio-no sound card
My issue comes from permission. On console mod, $ aplay -l returns correctly the devices. When I am on X, it doesn't. Might be a PolicyKit issue. How do you start your X server / desktop manager? -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] systemd-pulseaudio-no sound card
On 29 August 2012 13:20, Sébastien Leblanc leblancse...@gmail.com wrote: My issue comes from permission. On console mod, $ aplay -l returns correctly the devices. When I am on X, it doesn't. Might be a PolicyKit issue. How do you start your X server / desktop manager? Guuhhh, ConsoleKit... -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] systemd-pulseaudio-no sound card
Disregard that, I did not know enough of systemd to know that it uses a mechanism named 'loginctl' instead of ConsoleKit... -- Sébastien Leblanc
[arch-general] DMX USB support in AUR
Hi everyone, I created a package for the Enttec Open DMX USB driver. It is available in the AUR under the name dmx_usb-git. From Wikipedia: DMX512 is a standard for digital communication networks that are commonly used to control stage lighting and effects. It was originally intended as a standardized method for controlling light dimmers -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] systemd native files in etc
Could default templates be provided in the post_install(){} hook for
the systemd package? Something like
post_install() {
if [ ! -e /etc/timezone ] ; then
cat /etc/timezone EOF
UTC
fi
if [ ! -e /etc/localtime ] ; then
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime
fi
if [ ! -e /etc/hostname ] ; then
hostname /etc/hostname
fi
}
That way, on upgrade, they would not be overwritten, but on install
you would at least have working settings.
--
Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] irqbalance: /usr/lib/systemd/system/irqbalance.service exists in filesystem
On 21 August 2012 10:36, Martín Cigorraga m...@archlinux.us wrote: (4/4) checking for file conflicts [---] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) irqbalance: /usr/lib/systemd/system/irqbalance.service exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Sometimes it is okay to pacman -Sf things. Keep a backup copy of this file, just in case? -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.
For having used systemd myself, I am inclined to believe that it definitely fits the KISS principle. Systemctl is only a frontend to simplify the addition and removal of services. Simplicity is only a matter of learning new commands (systemctl enable daemon.service, e.g.). What systemctl really does when you enable a service is that it creates symbolic links in /etc/systemd/system/target.wants.target/ that point to appropriate deamon launch helpers located in /usr/lib/systemd/system/. The proper target folder (graphical, multi-user, single-user) is obtained by reading the actual target file, but this can be overridden if you do the links manually. What I find really powerful of systemd is that it hooks onto the daemon itself and monitors exit codes and log files. Finding what's wrong with your sshd service is only a matter of typing systemctl status sshd.service. You get current activity, its PID, the actual command it ran to start it, its status code if it ceased working, and the few last lines from the log file. To find out what runs at startup, you may use systemctl. I don't know the particular command, so I don't use it myself. I managed to figure out how to do it in a couple of seconds: you only have to ls the right directory. Graphical mode? ls /etc/systemd/system/graphical.target.wants. Multi-user: ls multi-user.target.wants. Could not be simpler. I have also found that my system boots much more rapidly with systemd. I can have a fully logged-in system running XFCE4, on older hardware (Intel Pentium 64-bit laptop) in less that 40 seconds. -- Sébastien Leblanc
[arch-general] Huge log file for SLiM
Dearest Arch Linux Mailing List, So I was installing a few packages on a fairly recent Arch install, when I got an error message from pacman: 8888 : Retrieving packages from community... error: failed retrieving file 'package' from mirror1 : Failed writing body (1435 != 1448) error: failed retrieving file 'package' from mirror2 : Failed writing body (104 != 4344) error: failed retrieving file 'package' from mirror3 : Failed writing body (6 != 2896) warning: failed to retrieve some files from community error: failed to commit transaction (download library error) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. 8888 I immediately thought of a full hard drive. `df` reported that my / partition was full. My root FS partition is around 33G in size: that's not huge, but since it is a fairly recent install, I thought there was no way it could be normally that full. I ran `du -sh` on things in my / drive, and it reported that /var/log was using up 27G of space. The culprit was SLiM's log: it was making up 99.99394 of all the space occupied by logs on my system. For some reason, log rotation does not occur with SLiM on my system. All other applications with logs work fine. Is anyone having this issue? I could not test it on other systems as it is the only one I have running SLiM. -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] Huge log file for SLiM
That might be somewhat of an issue as I am running systemd and not the default initscripts, therefore there is no rc.conf file on my system... Also, `ps` does not report a syslog process running. Running `systemctl start syslog.service` responded that the syslog service could not be found. And this made me realise that only apps with self-managed logs are currently leaving logs on my system. The last time kernel.log was updated is on May 31... The only logs that are up-to-date are 'faillog', 'lastlog' and self-managed apps like pacman, X and SLiM. `pacman -Ql slim` taught me that there's a file located in /etc/logrotate.d/ that defines configuration for log rotation. This in turn is used by logrotate(8) which is usually invoked automatically through cron. This led me to the conclusion that cron(ie) was not running on my system. Fortunately, cronie includes startup scripts for systemd, and I was able to start cron through these commands: # systemctl enable cronie.service # systemctl start cronie.service I deleted the /var/log/slim.log file, however the filesystem still reports being full... That is weird. Sure, 27G files aren't a common occurence. I hope my filesystem is not thrashed. Thanks a lot Mikkel for your insight! On 3 July 2012 16:05, Mikkel Kristiansen mester.kristian...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sébastien I have tried it once with SLiM, though the problem was that syslog-ng wasn't placed in DAEMONS in rc.onf... So you could check that. -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] archlinux install failed
It appears you have to setup your preferred mirror in /etc/pacman.conf. You must edit the file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and uncomment a mirror that is located in your country, or nearby. You can uncomment multiple lines, for redundancy, and move them around, for performance. -- Sébastien Leblanc
[arch-general] `multicat` package added to AUR
Hi, I made a PKGBUILD for VideoLAN's multicat utility. It is a content-agnostic (optimized for MPEG TS) uni/multicast streaming software suite. It is often considered a multicast version of the netcat utility. It is very lightweight: a compiled package weighs 41K It is available on the AUR under the name `multicat`. From their website: Simple and efficient multicast and transport stream manipulation The multicat package contains a set of tools designed to easily and efficiently manipulate multicast streams in general, and MPEG-2 Transport Streams (ISO/IEC 13818-1) in particular. The multicat suite of applications is very lightweight and designed to operate in tight environments. Memory and CPU usages are kept to a minimum, and they feature only one thread of execution.
Re: [arch-general] ntp settings
Myself being a non-vi user, I find that visudo is hard for people used to nano. Besides, use of visudo is only critical for systems where no one knows the root password (default Ubuntu for example). If you know the root password and are on a generally single user system where there is no risk that two people would be modifying the sudoers file at the same time, don't be afraid to edit /etc/sudoers with nano. If you manage to break sudo, you can always fix it with su -c nano /etc/sudoers and by typing the root password. -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] ntp settings
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 17:40, Lukas Fleischer archli...@cryptocrack.de wrote: visudo(8) does more than locking. It performs basic syntax checks after editing and tells you if (and where) any errors were found. It's the right tool for this job, so why bother with workarounds if using another editor is as simple as setting $VISUAL or $EDITOR (which you should do in your shell rc file anyway if you're not used to using vi(1))? $EDITOR is already set in my .bashrc. I always tried to run it this way: ~ $ sudo visudo but it never worked. Even putting vars before invoking sudo does not work: ~ $ EDITOR=nano VISUAL=nano sudo visudo I just found out that sudo clears (at least some) environment variables and you have to put this variable after 'sudo'. ~ $ sudo EDITOR=nano visudo I did not use visudo because I never bothered trying to make it work with nano. Thanks to you, I now know how. -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] How do I uncomment a locale?
Basically, many config files using this syntax, when read, will strip everything that is located to the right of hash signs (#) including those hash signs (except when enclosed with quotes or other cases). This makes it that the only lines that will be left in the locale.gen file are those that do not contain hash signs, or have text preceding it. In your case it would be the Australian English locale (en_AU, I think). Yes, you could erase all the other lines, but it serves no use to do so, and might make it slightly harder if you later wish to add another locale (foreign visitor, learning a new language, troubleshooting deficient locales...). -- Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] Does anybody still have kde3 running? libpng problems preventing apps from running?
David, are you running kdemod-legacy? If not, you should try it. Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] Pacman upgrade fails due to file conflits
Just `rm' those files, problem solved! Sébastien Leblanc
[arch-general] ca-cf keyboard layout in hal
I cannot find the cf variant in the ca layout (canadian french) in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst. What happened with it? I am trying to use a USB keyboard on my laptop, however it gets set as US instead of ca-cf. I check the file 10-keymap.fdi in /etc/hal/fdi/policy, but when I put ca as layout and cf as variant, my keyboard does not respond when I plug it in. Any other layout (that exists) works. Did Xorg remove the ca-cf layout? Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] ca-cf keyboard layout in hal
Actually, I tried the variant fr even if it was not listed and it worked. How come that variant is not listed in the evdev.lst file? Should that problem be reported upstream? Strangely, in the kcontrol Keyboard layout selection menu, the variant fr for the canadian keyboard does appear. As for the ca-fr layout, it is very particular in that it accepts dead keys as input, for accented letters. The fr-legacy does not, but the fr-dvorak does, although I am still not quite ready with dvorak layouts. Thanks for your help!
Re: [arch-general] unclean filesystem
There you go.
Re: [arch-general] unclean filesystem
Are you using automatic time synchronisation (NTP) on any of the systems? This might be the problem. Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] Yikes! kernel26-2.6.32-1-x86_64 leaves Toshiba laptop unbootable
Did you know you can append 3 to the kernel line in the boot menu of GRUB in order to boot in init 3? This would avoid loading X and could be useful for you. I have no idea what could be causing your problem, however. Sébastien Leblanc
Re: [arch-general] peaceful suggestion to clarify the arch way to avoid this to happen AGAIN
Arvid: Linux from scratch.
Re: [arch-general] peaceful suggestion to clarify the arch way to avoid this to happen AGAIN
Please, stop filling my inbox with useless junk.
Re: [arch-general] New user
Why, hello there. If you have any questions, you can send me mail directly.
