Re: [arch-general] What happens with extra?

2009-08-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sergej Pupykin schrieb: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686/ has ~140 packages This is known and should be fixed soon. Sadly, it takes a while until everything is rsynced again. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] What happens with extra?

2009-08-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Thomas Bächler schrieb: Sergej Pupykin schrieb: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686/ has ~140 packages This is known and should be fixed soon. Sadly, it takes a while until everything is rsynced again. Okay, we just found out WHY exactly those packages got removed (an error in our

Re: [arch-general] Painful installation of 4.3 - some general advice needed.

2009-08-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
richard terry schrieb: 1) the libjepg.7 vs 62 problem - I've exhaustively tried every solution over the last few hours on the forums and cannot get kmail to work - loads but 'poof; up in smoke once the gui appears On a fresh install, there is no issue with libjpeg at all, there's just the .so.

Re: [arch-general] Painful installation of 4.3 - some general advice needed.

2009-08-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
Ali H. Caliskan schrieb: Well, I'm not a Chakra or kde user but I can say that I quite familiar with the PKGBUILDS of core and extra packages, and needless to say, it's not always consistent most of the times. So stop blaming others and work your ass off when required! Very polite of you. Let m

Re: [arch-general] Painful installation of 4.3 - some general advice needed.

2009-08-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
Ali H. Caliskan schrieb: ...says the "sweet talker" who knows what he talks about. Why don't you patch your fracking mount as you patch the PKGBUILDS! If there was in fact something broken, you could tell me what it is. But you don't do that, you are simply trolling, that's it. So, what sho

Re: [arch-general] Painful installation of 4.3 - some general advice needed.

2009-08-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
Nathan K. Bathory schrieb: On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:10:27 +0200 "Ali H. Caliskan" wrote: ...says the "sweet talker" who knows what he talks about. Why don't you patch your fracking mount as you patch the PKGBUILDS! please, please don't disrupt this list with your negativity... i have personall

Re: [arch-general] Problems with install Iso

2009-08-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
richard terry schrieb: I tried to ask this a couple of days ago and for some reason it ended up as a flame war about chakra between people I don't even know and I'm not sure what triggered it, so I'll try again. Sorry about that, it happens. However, this post has more details about what exact

Re: [arch-general] Problems with install Iso

2009-08-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Thomas Bächler schrieb: As you seem to be good with Linux and Arch, you can try the following: - Boot the Arch install CD, partition everything as you like it and mount it manually before even launching /arch/setup - Skip all "mount partitions" steps in /arch/setup and simply proce

Re: [arch-general] bluetooth pairing with cellphone

2009-08-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Dieter Plaetinck schrieb: I have a system where everything is up to date, bluez is installed etc. the configs are all pretty much default. I did need to enable HID2HCI_ENABLE="true" in /etc/conf.d/bluetooth otherwise the bluetoothd daemon would abort immediately after startup ( ? ) Your blueto

Re: [arch-general] which package provides ifup & ifdown command ?

2009-08-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Partha Chowdhury schrieb: i cannot find ifup and ifdown in any of the paths- not as a normal user nor as root user. only command i can use is ifconfig. so i was wondering which package provides these two binaries ? alias ifup='/etc/rc.d/network ifup' alias ifdown='/etc/rc.d/network ifdown' Th

Re: [arch-general] Script for finding and "moving" older duplicate packages from /var/cache/pacman/pkg

2009-08-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Patrick Brisbin schrieb: A while back i wrote a similar script which extracts the .PKGINFO file from each package in one's cache. slow, but I think this is a more accurate way to compare versions. We had that discussion on arch-dev-public a while ago. makepkg always puts .PKGINFO to the beginn

Re: [arch-general] introducing kernel26-lts

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
David C. Rankin schrieb: > How do you handle the situation where you are running the nvidia driver on the normal kernel and then boot to the lts kernel? The kernel boots fine, but X is dead, presumably because the nvidia driver isn't compiled against that kernel and laughs when you tell it to

Re: [arch-general] arch-release

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
Gerhard Brauer schrieb: Neat! Or the percentage of our roadmap to world domination (BTW: i always missed this in Roadmap on Flyspray) It's not nearly complete. Right now, Arch runs on a very small percentage of computers world-wide. We need at least 20% until we can inject our world-domi

Re: [arch-general] 404 on 'view svn entries' in package details on archlinux.rog

2009-08-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
solsTiCe d'Hiver schrieb: hello, when you click on 'View svn entries' on quite a few package in details on archlinux.org, you end up on 404 page. is it a side effect of the massive package deletion reported some time ago ? is it another quirk or hiccup, or server migration ? This is due to ar

Re: [arch-general] Problem with udev 145?

2009-08-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sebastian Schwarz schrieb: I can also confirm this. I have exactly the same problem here. One of my two external encrypted USB drives doesn't have a /dev/disk/by-uuid symlink with udev-145-1. However all other /dev/disk/by-* links for this drive are present. It is always the same drive that i

Re: [arch-general] Problem with udev 145?

2009-08-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sebastian Schwarz schrieb: I forgot to mention that I do not use any custom udev rules. Just Arch's defaults. On 2009-08-29 at 01:43 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: It's an external drive for you, so can you run: udevadm --kernel --udev --env and then plug it in? Maybe we can find the

Re: [arch-general] Problem with udev 145?

2009-08-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sebastian Schwarz schrieb: On 2009-08-29 at 13:52 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: Can't see anything here. Can you call blkid /dev/sdb1 (or whetever the partition is)? The following command for the partition in question did not output anything: $ blkid /dev/sdc1 Yes, I am sure this i

Re: [arch-general] Problem with udev 145?

2009-08-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sebastian Schwarz schrieb: On 2009-08-29 at 14:26 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: So we narrowed the problem down. Does cryptsetup luksDump show the UUID for both of them. And cryptsetup luksUUID? I'll have to look into blkid and see why it fails. Yes, both luksDump and luksUUID show the

Re: [arch-general] Problem with udev 145?

2009-08-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sebastian Schwarz schrieb: As I had nowhere enough space to backup the hard drive and recreate the LUKS volume I was desperate enough to use the dd method Karel Zak mentioned in his second post: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1 seek=1080 count=2 conv=notrunc It worked just fine on the (f

Re: [arch-general] A little weirdness at boot time

2009-08-31 Thread Thomas Bächler
Tom K schrieb: SImplest, most Arch-like solution is to load the modules in the required order in the rc.conf MODULES array. I hope that's what you mean by "manually". :) With the asynchronous "trigger && load MODULES=() && settle", there is no way anymore to ensure module loading order! You

Re: [arch-general] A little weirdness at boot time

2009-09-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
JM schrieb: There appears to be an optional udev rule to sort this out (/etc/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules.optional). Since I removed the ".optional" from the filename I am no longer experiencing this issue. However, this file is not described in the wiki and no one at #archlinux

Re: [arch-general] An evil idea --- use Git to manage the repositories

2009-09-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
goodme...@gmail.com schrieb: Is it possible? advantage: 1 The mirrors do not need download the total new pkgs if it just updated several files. 2 old versions of package can be retrived. 3 GIT is fast. 4 It seems cool! dis-advantage: 1 It is a torture of GIT 2

Re: [arch-general] since the fglrx legacy driver is now static - any will to make a run at getting it to work?

2009-09-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
David C. Rankin schrieb: Now with the driver static, I wonder if it might not be worth looking into to see if it is even feasable to try and make it work with the current arch setup. That doesn't change anything. The driver is incompatible with the current Xorg ABI - and if it isn't, be sure

Re: [arch-general] Audio cd ripper

2009-09-04 Thread Thomas Bächler
o...@larstennstedt.de schrieb: Hello, I am searching for an audio cd ripper for my Arch Linux box and have some questions about that. 1.) K3B fails to encode to mp3 (lame) on my computer maybe because of being an alpha version. Encoding to ogg works fine. Can anyone confirm this behaviour? 2.)

Re: [arch-general] Audio cd ripper

2009-09-04 Thread Thomas Bächler
Fabian Schölzel schrieb: 2009/9/4 Thomas Bächler : There is an awesome and easy converter in KDE (already in KDE3), but it's invisible since KDE4 (they forgot to add a UI that appears when you insert a CD). Fire up konqueror or dolphin, enter "audiocd:/" into the URL field an

Re: [arch-general] archlinux.org/~thomas/autowifi = 404

2009-09-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Rogutės Sparnuotos schrieb: And, after writing the initial question, I've read the man page for wpa_cli: wpa_cli -iwlan0 -a/path/to/wpa_action_script.sh seems to be able to fully replace autowifi, except for logging to syslog. Need to test this more, though. It doesn't when your AP is brok

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] device-mapper & lvm2 2.02.52

2009-09-21 Thread Thomas Bächler
Eric Bélanger schrieb: Hi, device-mapper & lvm2 2.02.52-1 are now in testing. Update: - Minor upstream update: lvm2: 2.02.48 -> 2.02.52 device-mapper: 1.02.33 -> 1.02.37 - Implemented split package. For this to work, I had to set the package version of device-mapper to 2.02.5

Re: [arch-general] dd and bash_completion

2009-09-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Thomas Göbel schrieb: Hi all, i noticed that bash_completion and dd do not work together. Tiping dd if=/h will not complete to if=/home. Without bash_completion everything works fine. Maybo someone knows how to fix this? Same here. If you come up with a fix, tell me. signature.asc Descripti

Re: [arch-general] dd and bash_completion

2009-09-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
goodme...@gmail.com schrieb: I have the same problems. Maybe it is a good design? After all, dd is a danger cmd It is supposed to work if you look at /etc/bash_completion and search for _dd. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] dd and bash_completion

2009-09-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Alessandro Doro schrieb: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:15:25PM +0200, Thomas Göbel wrote: Hi all, i noticed that bash_completion and dd do not work together. Tiping dd if=/h will not complete to if=/home. Without bash_completion everything works fine. Maybo someone knows how to fix this? After t

Re: [arch-general] dd and bash_completion

2009-09-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Xavier schrieb: Before this update, bash completion was enabled by default only for login shells. After this update, only for non login shells. Wrong. /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh still exists and is executed for login shells. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] dd and bash_completion

2009-09-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Xavier schrieb: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Xavier schrieb: Before this update, bash completion was enabled by default only for login shells. After this update, only for non login shells. Wrong. /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh still exists and is executed for

Re: [arch-general] dd and bash_completion

2009-09-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Xavier schrieb: I just tried git, before realizing there was a good pkgbuild for it : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27520 and it does not work either. I also checked the git code for dd and it is identical to the 1.0 code. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] dd and bash_completion

2009-09-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Aaron Griffin schrieb: And this appears to be fixed in git http://code.phraktured.net/cgit.cgi/bash-completion/commit/?id=f733e71e1f8d63c072a402346d8162f9c6b63ae2 http://code.phraktured.net/cgit.cgi/bash-completion/commit/?id=f871fe4101ed89cb98e201aed8c975fd3061905b I can confirm this is fixed

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.1-1

2009-09-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
Kernel is in testing for both architectures, please sign off (at least one for x86_64, two for i686). I think tpowa had the kernel all ready to move to core, except he was waiting for the .1 release, which is there now. The only thing bugging me is http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16149, opinio

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.1-1

2009-09-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Damjan Georgievski schrieb: Just be aware of this problem http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=627145 This Arch user lost /dev/tty0,1,2,3 device nodes on boot with 2.6.31 from the Arch testing repositry. A friend of mine also had the same issue with a self compiled 2.6.31. On my laptop th

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.1-1

2009-09-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Damjan Georgievski schrieb: The problem is mentioned here too http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/24/444 but there hasn't been any response. I was unaware of this, as there is no bug report assigned to me about it. Does this also happen with 2.6.31.1? yes there's a bit of discussion here... but, afai

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird

2009-09-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Ondřej Kučera schrieb: Hello, I've been meaning to ask. What's going on with the thunderbird package? Version 2.0.0.23 was released more than month ago, it isn't usual with Arch for such a package to be left outdated for so long (especially since it is a security update). I know I can use A

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird

2009-10-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Thomas Bächler schrieb: Ondřej Kučera schrieb: I've been meaning to ask. What's going on with the thunderbird package? Version 2.0.0.23 was released more than month ago, it isn't usual with Arch for such a package to be left outdated for so long (especially since it is a securi

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sergej Pupykin schrieb: I do not want to split packages into /etc, /usr/share and /var folders with kludge symlinking. Would it be good if I replace /srv/http with /var/www/ or something like this? I would say, use /usr/share/www/ (or similar) for static/php files, and provide proper config

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sergej Pupykin schrieb: >> I would say, use /usr/share/www/ (or similar) for static/php files, and provide proper configuration >> files that set the correct Alias and Directory directives for popular servers like apache and >> lighttpd. Users can then use Include directives (in case of apa

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sergej Pupykin schrieb: >> Patching them is overkill, it would be an example of the unnecessary patching we do not want in >> Arch. I would keep them self-contained, no matter which solution will be used in the end. I >> wouldn't even have such a big problem with having configuration in >>

Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again

2009-10-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sergej Pupykin schrieb: I put new phpmyadmin into community-testing To use it you should: - add FollowSymlinks options - append directories to php.ini open_basedir = /usr/share/webapps/:/etc/webapps - change web-alias to /usr/share/webapps/phpMyAdmin What do you think about this solution

Re: [arch-general] archweb isn't updating its record.

2009-10-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Aaron Griffin schrieb: Looks like it was just a timing thing. The DB is only updated every hour. I ran the script manually and it succeeded. And the packages are only synced from sigurd to gerolde every hour, half an hour or so. So it might take a while until they show. signature.asc Descr

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-10-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Dan McGee schrieb: 3. We aren't using an Arch dom0 on our main (virtualized) Arch server, so you probably shouldn't either. :) The domU is Arch, however, running the Debian provided domU kernel. That will probably change: I will test if a 2.6.31.2 pv_ops Xen kernel will work as domU. signa

Re: [arch-general] Plasma segmentation faults

2009-10-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Lars Tennstedt schrieb: Hello, Plasma crashes several times a day on my Arch Linux installation (32 bit) with a segmentation fault and recovers immediately. The problem has been occured since the release of version 4.3.0. I did not remember such a problem using version 4.2.x. My system is up-

Re: [arch-general] Which security setting in Arch prevents forwarding X apps when su root?

2009-10-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
David C. Rankin schrieb: Listmates, Which setting in Arch prevents forwarding apps when you ssh -X in an Arch box, su and then try to start a kde app, etc.? X forwarding works just fine as a user, but when trying it su'ed to root, I get the following error: [23:29 archangel:/etc] # kwrite X1

Re: [arch-general] Master mode and Intel 4965AGN

2009-10-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Adam Lloyd schrieb: The issue seems to be that the card won't enter master mode. Trying to set it up manually with `iwconfig wlan0 mode master` results in "SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument." (As an interesting side note, I can easily put it into ad-hoc, managed, or even monitor mod

Re: [arch-general] /dev/tty* borked ...

2009-10-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Firmicus schrieb: Hi folks, My system is uptodate with the current testing repo. During bootup today I noticed the error message: /etc/rc.sysinit: line 364: /dev/tty[0-9]*: no such file or directory To my surprise, only /dev/tty was present, but none of tty0..9. Instead there was a device li

Re: [arch-general] /dev/tty* borked ...

2009-10-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Xavier schrieb: Unfortunately we can no longer check the cvs repo afaik. We cannot see earlier than April 2008 : http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/udev/trunk/PKGBUILD?view=log I am also curious to know how did that file stay. Why wasn't it tracked and removed by pacman ? The old cvs-arch a

Re: [arch-general] /dev/tty* borked ...

2009-10-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Aaron Griffin schrieb: On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Xavier schrieb: Unfortunately we can no longer check the cvs repo afaik. We cannot see earlier than April 2008 : http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/udev/trunk/PKGBUILD?view=log I am also curious to know how did

Re: [arch-general] can't unlock a luks encrypted partition. (urgent).

2009-10-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Hussam Al-Tayeb schrieb: Hi, I'm having a problem with disk encryption using luks. I have my /home disk (on a separate disk 'sdb') encrypted using luks. I have this in /etc/cryptsetup home/dev/sdb1 ASK and this in /etc/fstab /dev/mapper/home /home ext4 defaults,user_xa

Re: [arch-general] can't unlock a luks encrypted partition. (urgent).

2009-10-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Heiko Baums schrieb: Well, I can't say anything about this issue, but I'd like to suggest not to move kernel26 2.6.31.3 from testing to core, until this issue is fixed, because I think this is a major issue, if it's really kernel related. It is very unlikely to be kernel related. And 2.6.31 has

Re: [arch-general] can't unlock a luks encrypted partition. (urgent).

2009-10-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
solsTiCe d'Hiver schrieb: i am beginning to think there really is a problem. i have a luks encrypted partition that i automatically mount at boot via /etc/crypttab with a *keyfile* so this has never failed and it can't fail except if the keyfile is damaged. and today the luks partition failed to

Re: [arch-general] can't unlock a luks encrypted partition. (urgent).

2009-10-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
solsTiCe d'Hiver schrieb: it has been sometime ago # grep cryptsetup /var/log/pacman.log [2008-07-16 11:03] upgraded cryptsetup (1.0.6-1 -> 1.0.6-1) [2008-10-08 14:29] upgraded cryptsetup (1.0.6-1 -> 1.0.6-2) [2009-06-19 21:52] upgraded cryptsetup (1.0.6-2 -> 1.0.6-3) [2009-08-10 14:52] upgrad

Re: [arch-general] can't unlock a luks encrypted partition. (urgent).

2009-10-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Hussam Al-Tayeb schrieb: I compiled 1.1.0rc2 then copied cryptsetup libcryptsetup.so libcryptsetup.so.1 libcryptsetup.so.1.0.0 to /tmp/testfolder then cd /tmp/testfolder then LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./ ./cryptsetup --debug luksOpen /dev/sdb1 home and it unlocks it correctly everytime! Nice. I suggest

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux installation only with pacman

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Ciprian Dorin, Craciun schrieb: Hello all! I remember looking at the installation script about one year ago, and all it had done (to install the base packages), was to use pacman. Now if I try to use the same procedure now (or what I remember from it), I get a lot of errors from the inst

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux installation only with pacman

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Thomas Bächler schrieb: Install to /mnt as root (provided you have a working pacman.conf in .) # mkdir -p /mnt/var/lib/pacman/{local,sync} # ./pacman.static --root /mnt --config ./pacman.conf -Sy base That's it, all you need to do is configure the system (you need to know how) and inst

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux installation only with pacman

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Ciprian Dorin, Craciun schrieb: Thank you all for your feedback! I'm more confident now that I can just ignore those errors. One observation though: having dev, proc, and sys mounted in the new chroot, wouldn't it misslead the scriptlets? Because these special files would be from the liv

Re: [arch-general] packages deleted from db but still on repos

2009-10-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi schrieb: And this is a complete list, doing a complete scan for all repos: [ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/community/os/i686/] arora-git-20090531-1.pkg.tar.gz aurtools-1.5.6.2-1.pkg.tar.gz katapult-0.3.2.2-1.pkg.tar.gz knetdockapp-0.82.3-1.pkg.tar.gz libgadu-1.8.2-2.pkg.tar.gz li

Re: [arch-general] Is it possible to move Mumble to community repository?

2009-10-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Lauri Niskanen schrieb: Hello, Mumble [1] is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software. It has a stable version package on AUR [2]. Would it be possible to have Mumble in [community]? Mumble is very popular application and it doesn't have any license issues [3]. It has 216 v

Re: [arch-general] Is it possible to move Mumble to community repository?

2009-10-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Lauri Niskanen schrieb: I would be willing to maintain it myself. But was it so that the maintainer in community or at least in extra must be a TU (or have a special status of some kind)? -- Ape The maintainer has to have ssh access to our repository servers, so yes, only TUs and Devs can d

[arch-general] [signoff] iw 0.9.17-1

2009-10-18 Thread Thomas Bächler
Upstream update, please sign off (due to the low usage of this package among developers, I also ask users to sign off). signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[arch-general] [signoff] openvpn 2.1_rc20-1

2009-10-18 Thread Thomas Bächler
Upstream update, please sign off (due to the low usage of this package among developers, I also ask users to sign off). signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] makepkg git download agent

2009-10-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Ciprian Dorin, Craciun schrieb: Hello all! Just a small question: is there somewhare a download agent for makepkg that uses Git? Thanks, Ciprian. Wouldn't the PKGBUILD-git.proto do what you want? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] can't unlock a luks encrypted partition. (urgent).

2009-10-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Hussam Al-Tayeb schrieb: Done! I updated to 1.1.0-rc2 then I also upgraded to kernel 2.6.31.4 After rebooting, things are still fine. /dev/sdb1 unlocked correctly :) Someone else hit this too: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16735 My last comment might provide a fix. signature.asc Descriptio

Re: [arch-general] CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set

2009-10-22 Thread Thomas Bächler
Sascha Siegel schrieb: Hi, can someone tell my whats the reason for building the arch-kernel with "# CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set"? Thank you! Optimizing for size sacrifices performance. Read the gcc documentation about the -O{1,2,3,s} options. signature.asc Description: Open

Re: [arch-general] Full system encryption with support for hibernation

2009-10-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Karol Babioch schrieb: Hi, I've recently set up full encryption of my system (including swap), but therefore lost the possibility to suspend my device to disk (hibernate). The only way mentioned in the wiki is highly not recommended as you would have to place your key on the unencrypted boot pa

Re: [arch-general] Full system encryption with support for hibernation

2009-10-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Thomas Bächler schrieb: How do you get both hibernation and full encryption working together? It is possible. Consider the following setup: You have two partitions, one small (50MB) /boot /dev/sda1, the rest /dev/sda2. Now you create a LUKS-Volume in /dev/sda2, let's call this volum

Re: [arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

2009-10-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
RedShift schrieb: This thread will probably erupt in a massive flamewar, yet I decided to post my story anyway. I am talking about the desktop experience in general, not the technical details behind it. Keep that in mind. I've been working these past few months with KDE 4.3 and it feels very

Re: [arch-general] Full system encryption with support for hibernation

2009-10-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
vlad schrieb: > Thanks, helpful hints. But does this also work with "suspend-to-ram"? I mean, when suspending to ram everything remains unencrypted? Do I see this right? Suspend to RAM always works - however, there are potential attacks where people freeze your laptop, take out the (frozen) R

Re: [arch-general] Encrypted ram disk?

2009-10-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Ciprian Dorin, Craciun schrieb: Just out of curiosity: what solution did you use for full system encryption? And if this thread was started, what solutions do other ArchLinux users recommend? Ciprian. I guess that would be it: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2009-Oc

Re: [arch-general] Encrypted ram disk?

2009-10-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Tamir Daniely schrieb: >From a technical prospective, reading ram post system shutdown or crash is definitely possible, the data is preserved for several minutes depending on the ram technology, and the time the data can be accessed can be increased significantly by cooling or freezing the ram i

Re: [arch-general] Why qemu/kqemu conflict to kvm ?

2009-10-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
goodme...@gmail.com schrieb: OK, ok, I want install qemu+kqemu and KVM in my machine. Why does they conflict? Sometime, I want my virtual machine run faster, so KVM is a great choice. But sometime, I need simulate other CPU: ppc arm ... , so qemu is the best choice. Why does them con

Re: [arch-general] netcfg

2009-10-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
f...@kokkinizita.net schrieb: The one remaining problem is with netcfg 2.2.1. On my laptop I have the drivers e1000 and ipw2200 loaded in rc.conf, providing the devices eth0 and eth1 in fixed order. It's not guaranteed to provide a fixed order any more, you should really look into udev rules o

Re: [arch-general] Encrypted ram disk?

2009-10-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Karol Babioch schrieb: On Mi, 2009-10-28 at 18:50 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: ryptsetup has (in its latest release candidate) gained a feature where you can "suspend" a volume by killing the encryption key and later "resume" it by reentering the passphrase. Have you mo

Re: [arch-general] ssh broken?

2009-10-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Tobias Kieslich schrieb: Hi, I frequently ssh into localhost to sync files with unison. THat seems to be broken after the lates pacman -Syu which removed /var/empty. Is there sombody else who sees the same behavior? -T http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16886 I'll push a versio

Re: [arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...

2009-10-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Preston C. schrieb: Thank you Magnus, very much. Windows is on the first SATA port, though. Any difference in the configuration of Grub since Windows is on the first SATA port? That's difficult indeed. Grub will be installed in the MBR of the first disk and as far as I know will need its files

Re: [arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...

2009-10-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Preston C. schrieb: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: That's difficult indeed. Grub will be installed in the MBR of the first disk and as far as I know will need its files to be on the same disk - in a FAT32, ext2/3/4, xfs, jfs, ... (not NTFS) partition. Having Ar

Re: [arch-general] Encrypted ram disk?

2009-10-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Santhosh Joseph schrieb: For disk encryption, why not use truecrypt ? Why use truecrypt? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Encrypted ram disk?

2009-10-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Santhosh Joseph schrieb: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Santhosh Joseph schrieb: For disk encryption, why not use truecrypt ? Why use truecrypt? http://www.truecrypt.org/ You didn't answer my question. We discussed dm-crypt and you suggested to use true

Re: [arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...

2009-10-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Preston C. schrieb: Swapping the boot device order in BIOS will do the same. Well that is good news. Now I do not have to open the computer! Magnus I have done some research, your way is right, although, it seems I should do something more like this. With the "map" parameter: # (2) Windows XP

Re: [arch-general] Encrypting remote system

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Karol Babioch schrieb: Hi, I'm wondering whether there is a possibility to encrypt a remote system using Arch Linux? I have installed Arch on a remote server, and don't like the idea that anyone with physical access to my system has access to my data. So is there something I can do about it? Us

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vacation Nov 7th - 14th

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Evangelos Foutras schrieb: Does this mean that RAID 1 is used and one of the two drives failed? :) Indeed. Actually, we failed it because performance was crappy due to the slowly dying drive. Also, is there a page describing the current Arch server(s) setup? I remember reading something abo

Re: [arch-general] Segmentation fault in X after last upgrade

2009-11-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Lars Tennstedt schrieb: Hi, Xorg with nvidia-96xx for a GeForce 3 Ti 200 does not start anymore on my Arch Linux installation (i686). First I thought that it was a failure caused by SLiM because the error output on screen was "respawning too fast" and I switched from respawn to once but that

Re: [arch-general] file system capabilities

2009-11-04 Thread Thomas Bächler
Jan de Groot schrieb: This can be done by default, but capabilities aren't preserved when making tarballs. Every capability has to be set from post_install/post_upgrade in such cases. Maybe this is something worth to implement though. Actually, bsdtar preserves them when packing, but upon extra

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
André Ramaciotti da Silva schrieb: The problem is: I can't use them at all. I'm using the default kernel, which, according to /proc/config.gz has: CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR=y and I'm using ext4, evidently. I've tried doing the following: $ echo 'asd' > test $ attr -s user.author -V andre test attr

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
André Ramaciotti da Silva schrieb: Thank you Thomas and Xavier. I just got a little worried though. Is there any reason for user_xattr not being enabled by default? Not sure, you may ask the ext2/3/4 developers. I usually enable it on /home, but not on other partitions. IIRC, SuSE enables it

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Priit Kivisoo schrieb: I just got a little worried though. Is there any reason for user_xattr not being enabled by default? I think it's because Arch doesn't use SELinux by default, as it's mostly for ACLs. Neither selinux nor ACL have anything to do with this options. Read man 5 attr.

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
André Ramaciotti da Silva schrieb: I'm sorry, I think I wasn't very clear in my question. It isn't the default in Arch Linux because it isn't the default upstream, Probably because we just set "defaults" in fstab and let the user worry about the rest. but why it isn't the default upstream?

Re: [arch-general] Cannot set xattr

2009-11-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Priit Kivisoo schrieb: Neither selinux nor ACL have anything to do with this options. Read man 5 attr. "They are often used to provide additional functionality to a filesystem - for example, additional security features such as Access Control Lists (ACLs) may be implemented using extended attr

[arch-general] New NVIDIA legacy drivers compatible with our latest xorg-server

2009-11-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
NVIDIA released new prereleases of their 173.xx.xx and 96.xx.xx drivers ([1], [2]). Driver packages and kernel modules for the 2.6.31-ARCH kernel are being uploaded now, they should start to appear on mirrors soon. Please test them and report. [1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php

Re: [arch-general] old firewire stack?

2009-11-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Dieter Plaetinck schrieb: Hi, according to http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/troubleshooting-and-common-problems/troubleshooting-firewire-capture we are using an old firewire stack. I'm having big problems with DV-video (firewire) stuff ( see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=655692 )

Re: [arch-general] netcfg v2.5 in [testing] - auto wireless configuration has changed

2009-11-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
James Rayner schrieb: 1. pacman -S core/wpa_actiond Still testing/wpa_actiond. About wireless: I don't think the rfkill stuff will work like that. You can specify RFKILL_NAME, but that might change over time (it may change everytime you unload/load the wireless module and is not guarantee

Re: [arch-general] stability of pbzip2 ?

2009-11-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Ian-Xue Li schrieb: Hi, I'm quote fond of pbzip2's ability to multitask the compression, which comes really handy when backuping large archives of server files. But just heard from my friend: pbzip2 has stability issues, sometimes leads to corruption of archive, and hence unable to recover th

Re: [arch-general] conclusion: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises

2009-12-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Arvid Picciani schrieb: Thanks to enough input i have learned two things of this thread: 1) The problem IS upstream related. Some packages do enable dbus when it is available, for the convenience of those users who do not understand what dbus is and hence need it. So every user who wants

Re: [arch-general] conclusion: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises

2009-12-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Arvid Picciani schrieb: like what? maybe you are feeling insecure about it? Yes, I am so insecure. You are right, I am going to kill myself just now. There is a saying in my native language that goes like: "Dogs only bite if you hit their spot." Old sayings like this are usually stupid. T

Re: [arch-general] coreutils 8.1 major problem

2009-12-04 Thread Thomas Bächler
Lukáš Jirkovský schrieb: Hi everyone, I've just noticed coreutils 8.1 in [testing] repo and I think I should warn you. Unfortunatelly it has one quite bad regression which can break quite many scripts. There is a change in rm command (it's fixed in git repository) that when you try to remove ""

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1

2009-12-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
nez...@allurelinux.org schrieb: On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 02:13:57PM +0100, Attila wrote: At Samstag, 5. Dezember 2009 09:56 Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: Isn't it against Arch philosophy to split packages it binary and header packages? First the headers from the kernel package was even a reduced amoun

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

2009-12-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Gabriel Morrison Lima Dantas schrieb: Hi, I installed kernel26 and kernel26-firmware from testing, and I'm experiencing some problems with KMS. During system initialization, the system requests the firmware radeon/R300_cp.bin, waits a couple of seconds and then proceeds normal initialization. But

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