Re: [arch-general] Question regarding the ArchLinux iso core image

2010-05-18 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 18.05.2010 11:56, schrieb Fons Adriaensen: > I agree (with Ng Oon-Ee). In one of the situations I work in > the install is going through an http proxy that systematically > corrupts some packages (always the same, IIRC perl, man-pages, > and another one) Just a side remark: In my opinion, when

Re: [arch-general] final final testing images

2010-05-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 17.05.2010 23:36, schrieb Fons Adriaensen: > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 05:17:28PM +0200, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > >> I built new images, dated 2010.05.16 (aka "final final images" ;)) in >> which this should be fixed, and which also come with updated core >> packages, most notably kernel26-2.6.3

Re: [arch-general] testing xorg packages may not be nvidia friendly

2010-05-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 17.05.2010 10:55, schrieb Jan de Groot: > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 18:37 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote: >> I tried installing testing on a box running nvidia drivers that I have >> at school. X didn't come up. I don't know why and didn't really >> investigate (as I was really testing to see if my box

Re: [arch-general] final release candidate images for testing

2010-05-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 16.05.2010 12:23, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: >>> 2010/5/15 Dries De Smet : archlinux-2010.05.13-netinstall-i686.iso , installed on asus 1005 HA, from usb stick, everything went fine. Just didn't detect wireless with kernel 2.6.32, but that's solved after updating. > > okay, where

Re: [arch-general] Arch shutdown because of firefox

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.05.2010 18:09, schrieb b1: > Well it seesm like you are not the only one with this problem. I think I > experience the same, although with a slightly different setup and > therefore alternate consequences. > I am running gnome on my 32bit Arch Linux machine, with a ati > graphics-card. Somet

Re: [arch-general] Arch shutdown because of firefox

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.05.2010 14:56, schrieb Handsome Cheung: > yes, I run hal, but don't use display manager. Your answer inspired > me, and I will check something about hal immediately. Thanks! Even if the user is allowed to use hal to initiate a shutdown, it would still be necessary to exploit a security weakn

Re: [arch-general] Arch shutdown because of firefox

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.05.2010 05:14, schrieb Handsome Cheung: > hi all, > > I am a newbie for ArchLinux. > > My computer often shuts down suddenly when I browse web site. It brings me > to TTY and said "The system is going down for system halt NOW!". I found > that is because of the crash of flash plugin of fir

Re: [arch-general] extra/hibernate-script out of date -> new version

2010-05-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.05.2010 15:57, schrieb Guillaume ALAUX: > OK So Thomas as you were the maintainer: could you just tell me which way > would be the best: git version as advised by Damjan or standalone as you did > for v1.99? In the past I always used the stable version. However, I never used it together with

Re: [arch-general] extra/hibernate-script out of date -> new version

2010-05-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.05.2010 15:13, schrieb Guillaume ALAUX: > Hi everyone, > > As stated by "mrbrich" in this thread [1], package extra/hibernate-script > [2] is out of date (old version 1.99 ; new version should be 2.0). I made > this new one [3] that installs fine but I can't test it. Could anyone using > i

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.33.3-2 (and aufs2)

2010-05-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.05.2010 20:03, schrieb Marek Otahal: > Thomas: > Why such an unfriendly tone.. Anyways, I did write it down and it goes: > Loading initramfs > Starting udevd > Done > /Init: export: line 52: Variable name missing... > > Thank you both for looking at this. I sincerely apologize, that was

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.33.3-2 (and aufs2)

2010-05-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.05.2010 19:37, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > Am 09.05.2010 19:23, schrieb Pierre Schmitz: >> I noticed the same. But this is caused by the mkinitcpio update and not >> the kernel. In my case "logo.nologo" in the kernel parameter line was >> causing this.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.33.3-2 (and aufs2)

2010-05-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.05.2010 19:23, schrieb Pierre Schmitz: >> please just test a bit more the new kernel, I have just rebooted to the >> new >> 2.6.33.3-2 kernel and got kernel panic on Init: ..something about > missing >> symbols, failed exec and 52 - I didn't take notes of that and don't know >> if >> it's

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.33.3-2 (and aufs2)

2010-05-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.05.2010 19:23, schrieb Pierre Schmitz: > I noticed the same. But this is caused by the mkinitcpio update and not > the kernel. In my case "logo.nologo" in the kernel parameter line was > causing this. That is plan bullshit. The mkinitcpio update didn't even _touch_ the init file, it is entir

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [toolchain] gcc 4.5 breakage

2010-05-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.05.2010 15:25, schrieb Rogutės Sparnuotos: > I wasted a lot of time yesterday: > > 1. Compiled the kernel from git (for radeon stuff), rebooted. > 2. 'ninit' segfaulted, 'ls' from busybox segfaulted. > 3. Read your mail about busybox breakage, upgraded busybox with >-fno-tree-pta, but...

Re: [arch-general] about arch

2010-05-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.05.2010 11:08, schrieb Juan Diego Tascón: > And one more question: is there a proposed starting date or a proposed > selection procedure or just additional information for the Junior > Developer scheme? I sent an email to Allan (@archlinux.org) the day it > opened but I have not received any

[arch-general] New device-mapper, lvm2 and cryptsetup packages in testing

2010-05-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
I put updated device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.64 and cryptsetup 1.1.1-rc2 packages to testing. These packages enable udev synchronization to finally get rid of all race conditions related to udev rules. I also cleaned up the PKGBUILDs massively and removed all static binaries and libraries from the packag

Re: [arch-general] 4k sector drives

2010-04-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.04.2010 01:37, schrieb bardo: > Parted automatically warned me about an unoptimal sector alignment > when I tried to put the first partition at 0 (the first partition > should start at 2MB), but if you want to be extra-sure just check the > the '-a optimal' parameter. About the disk reliabili

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

2010-04-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 29.04.2010 00:36, schrieb Linas: > Thomas Bächler wrote: >> We must have a system that allows pacman to automatically verify new >> developer keys and revoke old ones ... even more important, revoke them >> in a way that signatures made before a certain date are still a

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

2010-04-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.04.2010 19:18, schrieb Denis A. Altoé Falqueto: > I was thinking about this problem for sometime and the more complex > part is the key distribution and trusting. Now I maybe came to > something usefull. Finally, someone realizes that. The distrubution and trusting of keys is in fact the mos

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia Driver Installed But Not Running

2010-04-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.04.2010 16:48, schrieb Allan McRae: > On 29/04/10 00:45, Carlos Mennens wrote: >> I recently installed the nvidia driver from 'Pacman' and rebooted. I >> have not since updated / upgraded the kernel. I notice that when I try >> and open my 'nVidia X Server Config' window and it tells me: >> >

Re: [arch-general] kernel 2.6.33.3 freezes on boot

2010-04-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.04.2010 11:10, schrieb didier gaumet: > Le 28/04/2010 09:54, Thomas Bächler a écrit : > >> Likely the update breaks some external modules. Do you have any module >> packages installed that are not part of the kernel package? If yes, you >> can append "disablemo

Re: [arch-general] kernel 2.6.33.3 freezes on boot

2010-04-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.04.2010 09:43, schrieb didier gaumet: > Hi list, > > Since todays's update of the kernel (2.6.33.2 -> 2.6.33.3) my Dell > inspiron 1012-9118 (new mini 10) netbook freezes on boot (after > displaying "loading modules". I have to poweroff. It is an Atom N450 > proc and an x86_64 Archlinux (up-

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.33.3-1

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 26.04.2010 23:08, schrieb Ray Kohler: > The existing nouveau-drm module does not load into this kernel: > > 2010-04-26T16:51:01-04:00 amaranth kernel: BUG: unable to > handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0060 > > Rebuilding nouveau-drm fixes it for me (x86_64). > Uploaded

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.33.3-1

2010-04-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
This is an upstream kernel release, including security fixes. Packages will enter testing within the next hour. We had a gcc 4.4 -> 4.5 version bump, so the external modules are still compiled with 4.4, while the kernel is compiled with 4.5. If any external modules break (usual candidates are nvid

Re: [arch-general] 4k sector drives

2010-04-22 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 22.04.2010 21:43, schrieb Caleb Cushing: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> I think the very very latest util-linux-ng will have fdisk/cfdisk >> > > is that shipping on any of the install disks? > http://build.archlinux.org/isos/ The 2010.

Re: [arch-general] 4k sector drives

2010-04-21 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 21.04.2010 09:34, schrieb Jan de Groot: > On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 20:52 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote: >> has anyone installed arch on one of these drives? thinking about >> buying a pair and running them mirrored... but not sure if everything >> will be working optimal. note: since I'll have to migr

Re: [arch-general] HAL dependencies

2010-04-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 20.04.2010 13:22, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > Again, I have no idea what particular problem exists in Linux that > doesn't in Solaris, as you didn't even mention that. But again, this is > not the place to discuss about Solaris or Linux design. Especially not > about Solaris

Re: [arch-general] HAL dependencies

2010-04-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 20.04.2010 13:01, schrieb Joerg Schilling: > "Laurie Clark-Michalek" wrote: > >>> The important question is: by what will hal replaced? >> >> UDev > > Note that people have been talking about Xorg which is a highly portable > project. So this is most likely not correct as e.g. Solaris has no

Re: [arch-general] Ssl no more :(

2010-04-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 20.04.2010 12:19, schrieb Andrea Crotti: > Thanks to some symlinking and reinstalling it works again, but I see > that some are still using the old lib. > In general reinstalling them solve the problem right? > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > syslog-ng 175

Re: [arch-general] Ssl no more :(

2010-04-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 20.04.2010 11:35, schrieb Andrea Crotti: > I don't know how it could have happened, last thing I did was a "pacman > -Suy" which normally doesn't have such disastrous effects... If you had -Syu'd and your pacman database was clean, you would have pulled updates to libfetch and openssh which wou

Re: [arch-general] HAL dependencies

2010-04-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 18.04.2010 01:22, schrieb Rob Bean: > It looks like there are only 3: gnome-vfs, gstreamer0.10-good-plugins, and > vlc. I can use ABS to rebuild these without HAL, but I'm concerned that > these packages may actually need it. From short discussions with Jan, I determined that the HAL dependenc

Re: [arch-general] upgrade problems

2010-04-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.04.2010 16:15, schrieb Andrea Scarpino: >> :: kqemu: requires kernel26<2.6.33 >> :: madwifi: requires kernel26<2.6.33 >> >> I removed both these packages and the upgrade is proceeding. Just a heads >> up for others who actually need these packages. I don't know why I had >> madwifi as there i

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.33 and friends

2010-03-31 Thread Thomas Bächler
Now that Pierre fixed lirc for us (neither tpowa nor I were able to do it due to time constraints), here is the signoff for 2.6.33 and the related modules. Please sign off, so we can finally move 2.6.33. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] /etc/rc.local: "chown user: /dev/sda10" /etc/fstab: "defaults, owner, noauto"

2010-03-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 29.03.2010 23:58, schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook: > I do hope this is a valid adaption of the above template: > > SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_FS_LABEL}=="j10_lap-10", OWNER="jtwdyp", > GROUP="jtwdyp" Looks fine to me. > But I wonder if this would be applicable to my other linux as well? If i

Re: [arch-general] /etc/rc.local: "chown user: /dev/sda10" /etc/fstab: "defaults, owner, noauto"

2010-03-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 29.03.2010 15:01, schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook: > I was pleased to note that Arch evidently does think a rc.local is an > appropriate place for local initialization stuff to happen. However it's > come to my attention that about 5 out of the last 25 times I've booted Arch > only 2 of the 3 par

Re: [arch-general] tmpfs

2010-03-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 25.03.2010 17:12, schrieb Xavier Chantry: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> >> This is definitely NOT SAFE! >> >> If you don't have /dev/shm, POSIX shared memory will use the same tmpfs >> filesystem as /dev, which is currently li

Re: [arch-general] tmpfs

2010-03-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 25.03.2010 16:53, schrieb Juan Diego: > Good day everyone, > > I want to delete the next two lines from my fstab: > > none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > > however I would like to know the secondary effects of doing such > thing, all the information I could

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] dmraid-1.0.0rc16-3

2010-03-18 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 18.03.2010 19:31, schrieb Xavier Chantry: > Tobias, did you receive the last mail from dmraid developer ? > It seems we can solve this problem in a better way now with just a > runtime option. And keep just the dynamic binary. > I will see if I can get that running and working. > > Or do you st

Re: [arch-general] Dedicated Arch servers

2010-03-18 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 18.03.2010 18:00, schrieb Aaron Griffin: >> or you can try Linode which is my personnel fav provider for Unmanaged VPS > > Additionally, Slicehost is still good, but I think spec-wise, the > above 3 are better Linode has the nice advantage that a) it has pv-grub, so you can easily use kernel2

Re: [arch-general] Package signing (was: Arch Linux security is still poor)

2010-03-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 17.03.2010 01:06, schrieb Linas: > There are several ways to close the gap: > *Always download the package list from ftp.archlinux.org > It's the easier solution, but it only protects against the mirror > operator. Moreover, it increases load on that server and makes it a > single point of failu

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.32.10-1

2010-03-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Packages are NOT in testing (as 2.6.33 is there), but available from http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/kernel26/ Please sign off. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Customising arch iso

2010-03-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.03.2010 20:35, schrieb Aaron Griffin: > Well it *is* one command from a git checkout > > cd install-iso > make Let's make that 2: # pacman -S archiso # archiso-build-cd --arch i686 --format iso or something like that :) We have an archiso package from 2008 in extra. Any package is better

Re: [arch-general] Customising arch iso

2010-03-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.03.2010 16:37, schrieb Aaron Griffin: >> Using the core installing then just upgrading kernel26 and >> kernel26-firmware to 2.6.33 worked just in case anyone was wondering. >> Got networking up finally :) > > Yeah, I was going to suggest just pulling the kernel updates onto a > thumb drive o

Re: [arch-general] Security

2010-03-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.03.2010 10:49, schrieb Gordon Campbell: > Hi all, > > I am new to this list and fairly new to Arch Linux. My Question is do I > need to install a firewall? if so which one? > > Thanks in advance, > > Gordy You probably don't, but here is a link to some nice instructions for setting one up

Re: [arch-general] Bad Idea?

2010-03-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.03.2010 23:23, schrieb Carlos Mennens: > Is it a bad idea to install nVidia display drivers manually by > downloading them from nvidia.com and installing it by hand...or should > I use 'Pacman'? I read that I could mess up my system by manually > installing packages and should always use Pacm

Re: [arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

2010-03-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 07.03.2010 12:03, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: > Couldn't find any discussion about this, > but what about we maintain our packages in git instead of svn? > > pros: > 1) git is awesome > 2) we don't need abs/rsync anymore. users can just read from git. > 3) git network communication is more effici

[arch-general] Automatic LVM assembly - call for testers

2010-03-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Traditionally, LVM is assembled by running "vgchange -ay" manually. That has several problems, especially if one of the physical volumes is missing when the VG was supposed to be assembled. This has been experienced by people who use LVM on USB storage for their root device. I came up with a way o

Re: [arch-general] Problems with mkinitcpio

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.03.2010 00:27, schrieb Ihad: >>> How early? Maybe keeping the ramdisk mounted helps. This way udevadm >>> monitor could write its results do /somewhere. I did that with images >>> having a defined size, creating a container with an ext2 fs and then >>> mount it rw. If it's big enough we can

Re: [arch-general] Problems with mkinitcpio

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.03.2010 00:15, schrieb Ihad: >> There is udevadm monitor - we could start that very early and redirect >> the output into a file inside rootfs. Then, we kill it and look at the >> file. Not sure if that will work well, haven't tried it. > > How early? Maybe keeping the ramdisk mounted helps.

Re: [arch-general] Problems with mkinitcpio

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.03.2010 23:45, schrieb Ihad: >> Some rules with respect to IDE devices were in fact removed in a >> previous udev version. In fact, almost nobody still uses the IDE >> subsystem, most(!) drivers work better with the ATA subsystem these days. >> >> However, these "standard" nodes should still

Re: [arch-general] Problems with mkinitcpio

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.03.2010 23:12, schrieb Ihad: > Hi, > > Maybe this is more suitable for arch-dev, but I hope that the devs also read > here. Let me know if I should redirect this to arch-dev-public. arch-dev-public is read-only for non-developers. > The rebuilding device has devices connected to the PCI c

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.03.2010 18:28, schrieb Giovanni Scafora: > 2010/3/4, Juan Diego : >> Hello listmates, >> >> is there any special reason of why top-posting is a bad thing? > > Is not the RFC1855 [1] a special reason for you? > See 3.1.1 General Guidelines for mailing lists and NetNews > > [1] http://tools.

Re: [arch-general] Blacklisting of modules

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 02.03.2010 14:49, schrieb mb: > Hi Thomas, > > On Tuesday 02 March 2010 13:00:28 Thomas Bächler wrote: >> I had a short look at the thread and there are two explanations: >> 1) The modules in question are not loaded by udev, but by >> something/someone else. >

Re: [arch-general] Blacklisting of modules

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 02.03.2010 11:47, schrieb mb: > Hi Thomas, > On Tuesday 02 March 2010 11:18:27 Thomas Bächler wrote: >> This is not true. You didn't dig deep enough. Blacklisting in rc.conf >> works just fine. > no offence. My mail was never meant to be an accusation or something &g

Re: [arch-general] Blacklisting of modules

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 02.03.2010 11:14, schrieb mb: > Hi folks, > > After initscripts' update I noticed that the modules, being blacklisted in > rc.conf, were loaded. I tinkered around a bit (extended rc.sysinit with > calls to lsmod) and found out, that udev loads most of the modules > (rtc-Modules are loaded be

Re: [arch-general] kernel 2.6.33-1

2010-02-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.02.2010 03:57, schrieb Ignacio Galmarino: > Ok i do more research and 3d working now. This is what i find: > > 1) file /lib/firmware/radeon/R600_rlc.bin is missing from kernel26-firmware. Upstream bug. We use make firmware_install. > 2) This file can only be loaded if you use kms late star

Re: [arch-general] kernel 2.6.33-1

2010-02-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.02.2010 17:10, schrieb Mauro Santos: >> Arch Linux changes: >> - changed radeon kms enabled by default > > Anyone taking care of the libdrm, mesa, libgl, ati-dri and > xf86-video-ati rebuild so all the benefits of kms can be fully used? As > far as I know it is needed to make this work as we

Re: [arch-general] kernel 2.6.33-1

2010-02-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.02.2010 17:10, schrieb Roman Kyrylych: >> Arch Linux changes: >> - merged ext2/ext3 support into ext4 module > When there is ext2/ext3 in MODULES in mkinitcpio.conf > instead of filesystem in HOOKS (as on my VPS), > then image that is automatically regenerated during > kernel26 package update

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Clean up the base group

2010-02-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 26.02.2010 14:01, schrieb Heiko Baums: > Am Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:31:36 +0100 > schrieb Thomas Bächler : > >> We don't need rp-pppoe in base (IMO not even in core, but others >> disagree). > > I disagree because configuring a pppoe client with pure ppp is far t

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Clean up the base group

2010-02-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 26.02.2010 13:23, schrieb Heiko Baums: > cpio is probably not necessarily needed by the average user, but as far > as I know it's needed to uncompress or read the content of the initrd > (e.g. xzcat kernel26.img | cpio -t), which sometimes can be necessary > for debugging purposes. So I'm not su

Re: [arch-general] Was the kernel suspend to disk feature removed on 2.6.32.8-1

2010-02-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 19.02.2010 16:40, schrieb Ray Kohler: > Add the "resume" hook to the end of the HOOKS list in > /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and rebuild your initramfs. This has to be added > manually now with the non-klibc mkinitcpio. Actually, all documentation I knew of always said it was necessary to add it. The o

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 18.02.2010 02:19, schrieb f...@kokkinizita.net: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:36:31PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> Isn't this what rfkill is for? >> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill > > You're right: /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0/state > controls the wifi

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.30 on EEE and KMS

2010-02-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 15.02.2010 23:37, schrieb f...@kokkinizita.net: > rt2860, which is the same as in the 901. > > 'iwlist wlan0 scan' detects the network, but I've > not been able to configure it into a working state > either manually or using netcfg (2.2.1) > > So there maybe there is indeed a problem with 2.6.

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.30 on EEE and KMS

2010-02-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 15.02.2010 19:24, schrieb f...@kokkinizita.net: > Just did this, and X worked immediately. :-) > Still have to get the wireless to work, that > will be for later tonight. > > BTW, this is on a 1000H > > Grazie & ciao, > What's the wireless chip in this thing? Maybe it is already supported b

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.30 on EEE and KMS

2010-02-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 15.02.2010 17:04, schrieb f...@kokkinizita.net: > Hello all, > > I'm installing Arch on an EEE. Following the wiki, > I installed from a core image which hase 2.6.30, > blocked its update, and then updated all the rest. > > Starting X I get this: > > (EE) intel(0): No kernel modesetting drive

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 14.02.2010 17:38, schrieb Ray Kohler: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> Am 12.02.2010 03:26, schrieb Tomás Acauan Schertel: >>> I still got error message after using packages from [testing]. >>> Am I doing something wrong?? >> >&

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Let's agree on a common coding style

2010-02-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.02.2010 22:13, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: >> If you use braces only when necessary, it will not be consistent - you >> have braces sometimes and other times you don't. I thought coding >> style was about consistency. >> > > you can apply "only when needed" consistently. This is very unintuit

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Let's agree on a common coding style

2010-02-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.02.2010 21:57, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: >>> For example, in a PKGBUILD I would write ${pkgname}_$pkgver, >>> because _ can be part of a variable name, but I'd much rather >>> prefer to use $pkgname-$pkgver, since hyphens are not allowed in >>> variable names. >>> >>> Less typing, less ugline

[arch-general] [signoff] rp-pppoe-3.10-4

2010-02-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 01.02.2010 18:27, schrieb Daniel Isenmann: > Hi, > > this is a small fix for the bug reported here: > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=699763 > > Now, you have to set explicit the plugin path to the kernel mode > plugin if you want to use it. So, it's up to you if you need it or > no

Re: [arch-general] resume from suspend no longer works after new mkinitcpio 0.6

2010-02-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.02.2010 08:52, schrieb Hussam Al-Tayeb: > At boot, it no longer does the check for the resume image or data and > directly boots from new. That is because you didn't configure the resume hook into your initramfs image. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.02.2010 03:26, schrieb Tomás Acauan Schertel: > I still got error message after using packages from [testing]. > Am I doing something wrong?? Is the line number still 17? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] new mkinitcpio / harmless error message at boot

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 21:52, schrieb Hussam Al-Tayeb: > After doing a pacman -Syu and installed the mkinitcpio 0.6 , I'm getting > an error insmoding padlock-sha just after I enter the root device luks > encryption passphrase. I'm assuming there is an easy solution to this. > Any idea? I think I added th

[arch-general] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.6-1 and friends

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Please sign off these packages: mkinitcpio 0.6-1 - Remove klibc dependency - Rewrite many hooks to be better, have less bugs and work with busybox - Random other fixes mkinitcpio-busybox 1.15.3-5 - Core component of mkinitcpio 0.6: Busybox build especially configured for mkinitcpio mkinitcpi

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 18:47, schrieb Tomás Acauan Schertel: > # pacman -S testing/mkinitcpio > resolving dependencies... > looking for inter-conflicts... > > Targets (2): mkinitcpio-busybox-1.15.3-4 mkinitcpio-0.5.99.5-1 > > Total Download Size:0.00 MB > Total Installed Size: 0.44 MB > > Proceed

Re: [arch-general] When asked to test from [testing]...

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 16:35, schrieb Ng Oon-Ee: > I've seen that advise come up sometimes from a package maintainer. Can > this be assumed to mean (as I'm sure some will assume it to mean) that > its safe to cherry-pick just mkinitcpio from testing? Or does the tester > need to 'know' to -Syu from testing

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 15:32, schrieb Tomás Acauan Schertel: > This is the second time it happens. > When upgrading kernel, I got this message: > > :: Parsing hook [autodetect] > /lib/initcpio/install/autodetect: line 17: other:swap:2: command not found > :: Parsing hook [pata] > > Am I the only one seein

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-intel and KMS

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 14:28, schrieb Damien Churchill: > I think you can use video=...@refreshrate > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA#Kernel_Modesetting This is not documented in ArchWiki yet, and I think it has been a new feature in .31 or .32. For laptop displays, the right resolution should

Re: [arch-general] pacman too slow on reboot

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 02:28, schrieb Hamo: > Can I mount /var/lib/pacman/sync as tmpfs to gain a speed up? Definitely, just make sure you don't do the same with local. You have to pacman -Sy after every boot, but that shouldn't be a problem. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] udev and/or device-mapper problem

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 11:56, schrieb Karolina Lindqvist: >> Your custom kernel is misconfigured, the most likely candidate being: >> >> $ zgrep CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED /proc/config.gz >> # CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 is not set >> >> If this option is set to yes, udev will fail to create devices properly. >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] WARNING: mkinitcpio 0.5.99.3 (kill-klibc) live in testing!

2010-02-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.02.2010 18:46, schrieb Thomas Bächler: >> I am still looking for someone to implement NFS root with this, please >> contact me if you are interested. This will not be the final version, >> there is still some work to do, but for now this requires more testing. > > O

Re: [arch-general] pacman overwriting files (was Re: dcron 4.2)

2010-02-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.02.2010 21:30, schrieb Dimitrios Apostolou: > Guys that thing bit me again: During the big libpng upgrade > "initscripts" package got upgraded too and /etc/rc.{sysinit,shutdown} > got overwritten without notifying me. Because of special changes I've > made to mount /var as tmpfs, and because

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] WARNING: mkinitcpio 0.5.99.3 (kill-klibc) live in testing!

2010-02-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 07.02.2010 12:03, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > Okay, this is it. The busybox-based mkinitcpio is entering testing now. > BACK UP YOUR OLD (WORKING) INITRAMFS (kernel26.img) FILE! Also, do NOT > use this if you have root on NFS, it is NOT IMPLEMENTED yet. > > Known issues: If you

Re: [arch-general] udev and/or device-mapper problem

2010-02-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.02.2010 16:00, schrieb karolina.lindqv...@kramnet.se: > I updated my system, and then on reboot it could not find the disk /dev/sda > anymore. A pity, since it hold the boot and root file systems. I have a > custom > kernel, for various reasons, but now I could not get my custom kernel, of

Re: [arch-general] policykit vs polkit

2010-02-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.02.2010 19:11, schrieb Lukáš Jirkovský: > Hi, > I just found out that policykit on my package is no longer needed. > Because it looked strange to me a took a look at other packages and > found polkit package. What is the difference between these two > (policykit and polkit)? Both seems to pro

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openvpn 2.1.1-1

2010-02-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.02.2010 17:14, schrieb Damjan Georgievski: >>> Does not export the $route_net_gateway environment variable to my --up >>> script. >>> This is probably upstream bug, but still >> >> Did you check the ChangeLog? They keep changing all kinds of stuff >> w.r.t. the external scripts. > > the Cha

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openvpn 2.1.1-1

2010-02-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.02.2010 15:33, schrieb Damjan Georgievski: >>> Upstream update. >>> >> >> Bump! > > Does not export the $route_net_gateway environment variable to my --up script. > This is probably upstream bug, but still Did you check the ChangeLog? They keep changing all kinds of stuff w.r.t. the externa

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-02-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 08.02.2010 19:56, schrieb Ray Kohler: > I haven't seen a single reported problem from any of the recent big > rebuilds that wasn't the result of a user doing something they ought > not to do (usually piecemeal updates), an out-of-sync mirror (plus > users that can't even recognize this when they

Re: [arch-general] WARNING: mkinitcpio 0.5.99.3 (kill-klibc) live in testing!

2010-02-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 07.02.2010 16:43, schrieb pyther: > Not sure how to troubleshoot this, but when I'm booting "Activating RAID > arrays" states FAILED, however my RAID 1 loads without a problem. I > rarely restart this machine and when I do I usually neglect paying any > attention to the boot process. Therefore,

[arch-general] WARNING: mkinitcpio 0.5.99.3 (kill-klibc) live in testing!

2010-02-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Okay, this is it. The busybox-based mkinitcpio is entering testing now. BACK UP YOUR OLD (WORKING) INITRAMFS (kernel26.img) FILE! Also, do NOT use this if you have root on NFS, it is NOT IMPLEMENTED yet. Known issues: If you use 2.6.33 and enable the support for ext2/ext3 in the ext4 driver, root

Re: [arch-general] Mounting tmpfs on /dev. Why?

2010-02-04 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 24.01.2010 21:14, schrieb AlannY: > Recently, I've found that Arch mounts tmpfs on /dev. And, as you may see, > this makes big problem to some applications. What kind of problems? I don't know of any problems. > I see: "none on /dev type tmpfs" in the output of mount program. > > This mount i

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

2010-02-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.02.2010 13:52, schrieb Damjan Georgievski: >>> [kill-klibc] >>> Server = http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/kill-klibc/i686/ > >> Bump! Virtually nobody has performed any testing (except the people I >> poked about it). > > If it matters to anyone, It does to me. > the new mkinitcpio also

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

2010-02-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.02.2010 10:32, schrieb Uli Armbruster: > uresume is needed for uswsusp (from [community]) Good to know. This hook used glibc anyway, so there is no adjustment needed to the new initramfs. Less work for me. > In the wiki, it says that all of these udev rules don't work, because > there's no

Re: [arch-general] i586 phonon/qt dependency conflict

2010-02-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 02.02.2010 23:10, schrieb David C. Rankin: > Guys, > > Looks like there is a dependency conflict between qt and phonon with > the latest > packages. (note: below pms is an alias for 'pacman -Sy') Here is the issue: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-February/015

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

2010-02-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 02.02.2010 22:51, schrieb Uli Armbruster: > I use your kill-klibc repo on i686 and I just want to confirm, that it works > with > > % cat /etc/mkinitcpio.conf > MODULES="" > HOOKS="base udev pata uresume filesystems" Just out of curiosity, where's the uresume hook from, which package? > No p

Re: [arch-general] Recent update to php-apache breaks LAMP stack.

2010-02-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 02.02.2010 11:44, schrieb Ashish SHUKLA: > I'd recently updated php, mysql, and php-apache packages to following > versions: > > php 5.3.1-4 > mysql 5.1.43-1 > php-apache 5.3.1-4 > > After update my existing webapps started showing error: Unable to connect to > database, with nothing changed

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

2010-01-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 29.01.2010 02:42, schrieb Ng Oon-Ee: > Hi all, I'm using netcfg and recently have been noticing the following. > > When I resume from suspend I call 'netcfg home' which tries to connect > to my home's wifi network. ESSID and WEP key are correctly set. It > exist with a 'could not obtain IP addr

Re: [arch-general] udev and/or device-mapper problem

2010-01-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.01.2010 18:00, schrieb Hussam Al-Tayeb: > I updated to udev, cryptsetup and device mapper from testing the > installed kernel 2.6.32.6 and rebooted. > now /dev/mapper/root and /dev/dm-0 are not there but /etc/mtab > mentions /dev/mapper/root > /dev/mapper/home and /dev/dm-1 exist > The compu

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.01.2010 10:31, schrieb Allan McRae: > Joerg, > > The only thing that will definitely change our minds with regards to > this is actually seeing a copy of the report saying the linking > performed with cdrtools is not an issue due to license restrictions. > Until that time, this discussion is

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 25.01.2010 17:15, schrieb Joerg Schilling: > [ legal bla ] It would be nice if you updated your homepage (which would need a new look too, it reminds me of the old days when using the internet was annoying due to those ugly blinking websites). Quote from http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux

[arch-general] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

2010-01-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Quoted from http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17298 (which is also to be used for feedback, besides the threads on these mailing lists): So, now something can be tested. I recommend using it in conjunction with testing/udev only: [kill-klibc] Server = http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/kill-klibc/i686

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