Re: [arch-general] Quiet Updates Lately

2011-10-25 Thread Steve Holmes
I probably mis-spelled the name in my message; but the fact that ibiblieo hadn't updated in ten days is a good enough explanation for me. Gonna change servers. thanks for the additional info. On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 04:02:40PM +0200, Stefan Wilkens wrote: bibleo.org doesn't appear in the

Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

2011-10-25 Thread clemens fischer
Tom Gundersen wrote: From time to time we get bug reports that are really difficult to debug, and that eventually turn out to be due to a separate /usr. Once we figure out the cause, we usually end up having to say, sorry, there is nothing we can do about that, but in the meantime we have

Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

2011-10-25 Thread clemens fischer
Thomas Bächler wrote: No. Even if things fail entirely, we will provide a hook for mkinitcpio that mounts /usr before switching to the real root filesystem. This will eliminate all your potential bugs. However - this hook hasn't been written yet. Imagine somebody with a desktop arch-linux.

Re: [arch-general] Pacman makepkg and signatures

2011-10-25 Thread fredbezies
2011/10/25 Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com: A slight variation here; I just upgraded to pacman 4 and did the 'pacman-key --init' as directed but now I get validation errors for all keys while doing a pacman -Syuw'. It looks like this. error: vim-runtime: signature from Eric Belanger

Re: [arch-general] Pacman makepkg and signatures

2011-10-25 Thread Steve Holmes
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:00:50PM +0200, fredbezies wrote: In /etc/pacman.conf, uncomment : SigLevel = Optional TrustAll Yeah, I saw that and understand that is appropriate for local packages. But now that I uncomment it, what if I want to tighten up the sig tests in the future. How does

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-174-1

2011-10-25 Thread clemens fischer
'uname -rms' - Linux 3.0.7-spott x86_64 On Thu-2011/10/20-09:41 Myra Nelson wrote: Error messages yes, but no warning about problems with the image and the image is created and boots fine. Keeping up with the mailing list makes all the difference in the world. My system broke with

Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

2011-10-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 25.10.2011 14:12, schrieb clemens fischer: We are currently working on adding support for the second approach, but we are not there yet (I have some patches against mkinitcpio to add this, but they rely on a patch by Thomas against busybox that has not yet landed upstream). What patch

Re: [arch-general] Pacman makepkg and signatures

2011-10-25 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:00:50PM +0200, fredbezies wrote: In /etc/pacman.conf, uncomment : SigLevel = Optional TrustAll Yeah, I saw that and understand that is appropriate for local packages.  But now that I

Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

2011-10-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 25.10.2011 16:19, schrieb Dwight Schauer: Would the /usr location be determined when the initramfs is created, or would it determine the location at runtime via /etc/fstab? Just wanted to make sure it is the latter. Yes, you mounted root, so you can now look at fstab. By label? Is that

Re: [arch-general] Discussion on usage of [testing] repo - minimal requirements?

2011-10-25 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 19:38, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: -~ On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: -~ On (10/24/11 18:00), Karol Blazewicz wrote: -~ -~ On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: -~ -~ Besides,

[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.1-1

2011-10-25 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, please signoff 3.1 series for both arches. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Archlinux Changes: - $(uname -r) reports now the full kernel version - all external modules should be installed in /lib/modules/extramodules-3.1-ARCH now - disabled the old IDE

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.1-1

2011-10-25 Thread fredbezies
2011/10/25 Tobias Powalowski tobias.powalow...@googlemail.com: Hi guys, please signoff 3.1 series for both arches. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Archlinux Changes: - $(uname -r) reports now the full kernel version - all external modules should be installed in  

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.1-1

2011-10-25 Thread Yuan
wow, cheers Yuan On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Tobias Powalowski tobias.powalow...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi guys, please signoff 3.1 series for both arches. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Archlinux Changes: - $(uname -r) reports now the full kernel

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-174-1

2011-10-25 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:56 PM, clemens fischer ino-n...@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org wrote: My system broke with udev-174-1.  I have rules renaming eth* according to their MACs for consistency, guarding against dependency on order-of-detection, plus rules to customize a wlan running on an USB

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.1-1

2011-10-25 Thread Christian Hesse
Tobias Powalowski tobias.powalow...@googlemail.com on Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:12:22 +0200: Hi guys, please signoff 3.1 series for both arches. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Archlinux Changes: - $(uname -r) reports now the full kernel version - all external modules

Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

2011-10-25 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:12 PM, clemens fischer ino-n...@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org wrote: What patch would that be?  THE-FAVOURITE-SEARCH-ENGINE didn't pull anything useful for patch Thomas-Bächler busybox.  Can somebody point us to the relevant code, please? Thomas is right, that is not

Re: [arch-general] Discussion on usage of [testing] repo - minimal requirements?

2011-10-25 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: Say I want to try package X, but instead I download pkgs X, Y and Z from testing. Now my scripts which rely on /proc/.../BAT0/* fail because pkg Y is a new kernel, /dev/cdrom is gone since pkg Z is udev. And all I wanted

[arch-general] See the llvm volumes from GRUB console

2011-10-25 Thread Alfredo Palhares
Hello, I upgarded a remote machine recently. And i got loocked out of the system. I still have acess to the machine trough serial console (KVM). Is there any way to list the lvm volumes from there ? Since my /dev/mapper/Root-root doesn't work. -- Regards, Alfredo Palhares

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] linux-3.1-1

2011-10-25 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Tobias Powalowski tobias.powalow...@googlemail.com wrote: - disabled the old IDE subsystem,  marked as deprecated for quite some time  All users of the old ide hook in mkinitcpio  should make the transition to pata hook now! Did Dan's patches (or equivalent)

Re: [arch-general] Discussion on usage of [testing] repo - minimal requirements?

2011-10-25 Thread Myra Nelson
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:56, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: Say I want to try package X, but instead I download pkgs X, Y and Z from testing. Now my scripts which rely on /proc/.../BAT0/* fail because pkg Y is a

Re: [arch-general] See the llvm volumes from GRUB console

2011-10-25 Thread Nyuszika7H
Hi Alfredo, If you've got a live CD, boot it up and execute the following commands: [root@archiso]# modprobe dm-mod [root@archiso]# vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group YourVolGroup using metadata type lvm2 [root@archiso]# vgchange -ay NUM

Re: [arch-general] Pacman makepkg and signatures

2011-10-25 Thread Steve Holmes
On 10/25/11, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't understand what you mean by correct the errors and signature verification stuff doesn't work. Would you mind to elaborate on that? I meant that when I did the first updates this morning, I got an eror on every

Re: [arch-general] Pacman makepkg and signatures

2011-10-25 Thread Leonid Isaev
On (10/25/11 10:19), Steve Holmes wrote: -~ On 10/25/11, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: -~ -~ I didn't understand what you mean by correct the errors and -~ signature verification stuff doesn't work. Would you mind to -~ elaborate on that? -~ -~ I meant that when I did

Re: [arch-general] Pacman makepkg and signatures

2011-10-25 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: OK, remarks here: 1. Web of trust is something relevant when people actually know each other either directly or indirectly (e.g. through mutual friends). When developers are concerned, for any distro, this concept looses

[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.1-2

2011-10-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 25.10.2011 17:12, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: Hi guys, please signoff 3.1 series for both arches. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Archlinux Changes: - $(uname -r) reports now the full kernel version - all external modules should be installed in

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-174-1

2011-10-25 Thread clemens fischer
Tom Gundersen wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:56 PM, clemens fischer ... wrote: My system broke with udev-174-1.  I have rules renaming eth* according to their MACs for consistency, guarding against dependency on order-of-detection, plus rules to customize a wlan running on an USB device.  

Re: [arch-general] no ACPI estimate in powertop with latest kernels

2011-10-25 Thread clemens fischer
On Tue-2011/10/11-13:06 Neal Haslam wrote: @Tom Thankyou for pointing out powertop2. It allows for more control than the original powertop. The URL in the PKGBUILD is not correct because of kernel.org's changes. Googling for a new location was easy enough. If it was so easy, what was so

Re: [arch-general] Pacman makepkg and signatures

2011-10-25 Thread Steve Holmes
On 10/25/11, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: The trust problem is complex, indeed, but we can at least mitigate it doing the following (it's what I do): 1. set TrustedOnly, instead of TrustAll 2. import the keys when pacman asks 3. # pacman-key --edit-key email or id

Re: [arch-general] See the llvm volumes from GRUB console

2011-10-25 Thread Alfredo Palhares
Thank you. On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Nyuszika7H litemininyusz...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Alfredo, If you've got a live CD, boot it up and execute the following commands: [root@archiso]# modprobe dm-mod [root@archiso]# vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...

Re: [arch-general] no ACPI estimate in powertop with latest kernels

2011-10-25 Thread Neal Haslam
@clemens Thank you for pointing out my oversight. There is a patched powertop2 in the AUR with the correct URL in the PKGBUILD. -- Neal On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:59 PM, clemens fischer ino-n...@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org wrote: On Tue-2011/10/11-13:06 Neal Haslam wrote: @Tom Thankyou for

Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

2011-10-25 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:09 PM, clemens fischer ino-n...@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org wrote:    10  +In order for this to work, /usr needs to be in your /etc/fstab and it    11  +should be marked for not being fsck'ed (the last option should be 0). This is getting weird.  Who/what is going to

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.1-2

2011-10-25 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 25.10.2011 17:12, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: Hi guys, please signoff 3.1 series for both arches. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Archlinux Changes: - $(uname -r) reports now the full