Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.6 feedback

2012-10-03 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/03/2012 08:52 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: ... https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/194 For those not following the entire thread - there seems to be some debate about firmware loading in udev vs in kernel space and some recent changes leading to some problems. Best I can tell, while there

Re: [arch-general] Full mailing-list moderation

2012-10-03 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-10-03 12:01:55 +1000] Allan McRae: > All post to the mailing list are now moderated. As this takes time away > from us actually maintaining the distribution, this will only occur > intermittently. I have disabled full list moderation but turned on everyone's moderation bit. Therefore, the n

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.6 feedback

2012-10-03 Thread Genes MailLists
There is also some noise around udev as well and firmware loading: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/194 (it's a bit of a long thread) gene

Re: [arch-general] mkinitcpio: mdadm_udev Hook

2012-10-03 Thread Simon Perry
On 03/10/12, Thomas Bächler wrote: | First of all, once you add the mdadm.conf file, the mdX names will | follow the naming usual scheme - the md126+ names will only be used when | the array is not mentioned in mdadm.conf. | | Second, you can always use /dev/disk/by-uuid/. Cool, makes sense, and

[arch-general] mkinitcpio: mdadm_udev Hook

2012-10-03 Thread Dave Reisner
> On 03/10/12, Thomas B?chler wrote: > >> You need to create a file /etc/mdadm.conf. mdadm --examine --scan will >> generate the right lines for you. This file will be added to the >> initramfs and your names will be fine again. > > Yep, that's what I've done, and I've used the mdadm hook as I ha

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.6 feedback

2012-10-03 Thread Genes MailLists
I have not been hit by this - but there is some buzz around the symlink security addition - see this thread for more details: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/473 gene

Re: [arch-general] mkinitcpio: mdadm_udev Hook

2012-10-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.10.2012 22:07, schrieb Simon Perry: > Based on the mkinitcpio wiki page, and the forum post, I'm under the > impression that using mdadm_udev to auto-assemble the arrays is what I > should be using (and is what will be supported in the future). > > The mdadm_udev hook does work as advertised

Re: [arch-general] mkinitcpio: mdadm_udev Hook

2012-10-03 Thread Simon Perry
On 03/10/12, Thomas Bächler wrote: | You need to create a file /etc/mdadm.conf. mdadm --examine --scan will | generate the right lines for you. This file will be added to the | initramfs and your names will be fine again. Yep, that's what I've done, and I've used the mdadm hook as I have in the p

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.6 feedback

2012-10-03 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 03/10/12||07:33, Genes MailLists wrote: > > kernel 3.6-1 testing report: > > I am running 3.6 from testing on 3 machines. 1 laptop and 2 > desktops. All are fully updated from testing repo. > > 1 of the desktop didn't come up right - seemed to have trouble > with root filesystem (initis

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.6 feedback

2012-10-03 Thread Bastian Beischer
I'm suffering from this regression: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/26/53 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47961 which causes my HDA intel sound to be distorted and cracky. Reverting the change mentioned in the LKML thread fixes it. I already mailed the Arch linux kernel maintainer about

Re: [arch-general] pacman update dependency problem today for kdegames

2012-10-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:40 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > Today I tried to update with pacman -Syu > > I got this: > :: Starting full system upgrade... > resolving dependencies... > warning: cannot resolve "kdegames-knavalbattle", a dependency of > "kde-meta-kdegames" > warning: cannot resolve "kdegam

[arch-general] pacman update dependency problem today for kdegames

2012-10-03 Thread mike cloaked
Today I tried to update with pacman -Syu I got this: :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... warning: cannot resolve "kdegames-knavalbattle", a dependency of "kde-meta-kdegames" warning: cannot resolve "kdegames-ksnakeduel", a dependency of "kde-meta-kdegames" :: The following

[arch-general] GHC 7.6.1 now in [testing]

2012-10-03 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
Hey everyone! It's that time again for arch to get the latest ghc! GHC 7.6.1 comes with a bunch of new and exciting features: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.6.1/html/users_guide/release-7-6-1.html This morning, all the haskell packages should have been rebuilt against the latest ghc and I have

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.6 feedback

2012-10-03 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > kernel 3.6-1 testing report: > > I am running 3.6 from testing on 3 machines. 1 laptop and 2 desktops. All > are fully updated from testing repo. > > 1 of the desktop didn't come up right - seemed to have trouble with root > filesys

Re: [arch-general] mkinitcpio: mdadm_udev Hook

2012-10-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.10.2012 14:41, schrieb Simon Perry: > Hi, > > I've just been re-installing a box, and saw that the wiki says regarding > using the mdadm_udev hook: > >> "This is the preferred method of mdadm assembly (rather than using the >> above mdadm hook). " > > I've tried to use the mdadm_udev hook,

[arch-general] mkinitcpio: mdadm_udev Hook

2012-10-03 Thread Simon Perry
Hi, I've just been re-installing a box, and saw that the wiki says regarding using the mdadm_udev hook: > "This is the preferred method of mdadm assembly (rather than using the > above mdadm hook). " I've tried to use the mdadm_udev hook, but the devices get named: > normal md0 (/boot)

[arch-general] kernel 3.6 feedback

2012-10-03 Thread Genes MailLists
kernel 3.6-1 testing report: I am running 3.6 from testing on 3 machines. 1 laptop and 2 desktops. All are fully updated from testing repo. 1 of the desktop didn't come up right - seemed to have trouble with root filesystem (initiscripts still not systemd). On second reboot it came up

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.5.5-1

2012-10-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
[spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ uname -a Linux archlinux 3.5.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 2 22:30:55 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux I get two waiting periods at startup, one short waiting period regarding to ATA not ready and a relatively long waiting period for raw EDIT. Apart from that everything star