Arch Linux

[dedanna1029]

I am more than confident that what I'm experiencing with this is upstream; however, can not verify this, so figured it has to start somewhere, that being with the Arch bugzilla. As good as the Arch devels are at stabilizing things, I am more than certain that they can, and will, figure out as to whether it's upstream, or local, and will notify me either way.

Until then, I have screensavers - both xscreensaver and gnome-screensaver - turned off, and am using the power button on my monitor when I leave the computer.

I am sure if you do the same with Mandriva, and file a bug on it at their bugzilla, they will figure out the same; however, this is about Arch, since that is now what I'm using solely (and is the title of this thread).

[dedanna1029]

I have had an annoying teeny niggle for a while now, I think since updates previous to this last batch. When I use yaourt, and it gets to the point of putting in the root password to install, I put it in 3x, and it still doesn't get it for whatever reason, then asks for it with a complaint, and finally "gets it" when I put it in then:

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Password:
Password:
Password:
You are not allowed to launch /usr/bin/pacman with sudo
Please enter root password
Password:
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Any clue what's up with this?

Thanks.

[viking60]

I would have loved to see the prior command here. Did you start yaourt with sudo?

[dedanna1029]

Nope.

Just a snippet here:

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-->note the prompt $ yaourt cope-git
1 aur/cope-git 20100512-1 (66)
    A colourful wrapper for terminal programs
==> Enter n° (separated by blanks, or a range) of packages to be installed
==> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
==> 1


==> Downloading cope-git PKGBUILD from AUR...
bsdtar: Removing leading '/' from member names
x cope-git.install
x PKGBUILD

Comment by: Ghost1227 on Wed, 12 May 2010 20:49:36 +0000
Rebuild the depends (perl-class-inspector perl-env-path perl-file-sharedir perl-io-stty perl-io-tty perl-list-moreutils perl-params-util perl-regexp-common) and it works. Not sure which one specifically as I automated it and rebuilt them all.   

Comment by: stuffcorpse on Thu, 13 May 2010 03:09:27 +0000
Thanks! that works :)

I narrowed down to either perl-io-tty or perl-list-moreutils or both.   

Comment by: wtchappell on Thu, 13 May 2010 03:18:41 +0000
Well, just in case I bumped all of the perl requirements that I own up a pkgrel as well as cope-git, so that at least some of the requirements will get a rebuild.   

Comment by: coroa on Fri, 14 May 2010 13:24:02 +0000
For me it was: perl-list-moreutils.   

Comment by: jasonwryan on Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:59:12 +0000
Segfaults after the perl 5.12.1-2 upgrade - I've tried rebuilding, to no avail...   

Comment by: jasonwryan on Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:53:34 +0000
Today's perl-list-moreutils-0.22-4 fixed it...   

First Submitted: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:25:45 +0000   
cope-git 20100512-1 : A colourful wrapper for terminal programs
( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! )
==> Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ------------------------------------
==> n

==> cope-git dependencies:
 - perl>=5.1 (already installed)
 - perl-class-inspector (already installed)
 - git (already installed)
 - perl-env-path (building from AUR)
 - perl-file-sharedir (building from AUR)
 - perl-io-stty (building from AUR)
 - perl-io-tty (package found)
 - perl-list-moreutils (package found)
 - perl-params-util (package found)
 - perl-regexp-common (building from AUR)


==> Edit cope-git.install ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> --------------------------------------------
==> n

==> Continue building cope-git ? [Y/n]
==> ----------------------------------
==>
==> Building and installing package
==> Install or build missing dependencies for cope-git:
Password:
You are not allowed to launch /usr/bin/pacman with sudo
Please enter root password
Password:
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (3): perl-io-tty-1.08-2 [0.03 MB]  perl-list-moreutils-0.22-4 [0.04 MB]
             perl-params-util-1.01-1 [0.02 MB]

Total Download Size:    0.09 MB
Total Installed Size:   0.43 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from community...
 perl-io-tty-1.08-2...    35.2K   62.0K/s 00:00:01 [######################]  36%
 perl-list-moreutil...    77.9K    4.8K/s 00:00:16 [######################]  80%
 perl-params-util-1...    96.7K    3.1K/s 00:00:31 [######################] 100%
checking package integrity...
(3/3) checking for file conflicts                  [######################] 100%
(1/3) installing perl-io-tty                       [######################] 100%
(2/3) installing perl-list-moreutils               [######################] 100%
(3/3) installing perl-params-util                  [######################] 100%

==> Downloading perl-env-path PKGBUILD from AUR...
bsdtar: Removing leading '/' from member names
x PKGBUILD


First Submitted: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:19:51 +0000   
perl-env-path 0.18-2 : no description available
( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! )
==> Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ------------------------------------
==> n

==> perl-env-path dependencies:
 - perl (already installed)


==> Continue building perl-env-path ? [Y/n]
==> ---------------------------------------
==>
==> Building and installing package
==> Making package: perl-env-path 0.18-2 (Thu Oct 21 20:36:12 MDT 2010)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Downloading Env-Path-0.18.tar.gz...
--2010-10-21 20:36:12--  http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DS/DSB/Env-Path-0.18.tar.gz
Resolving search.cpan.org... 64.235.248.44
Connecting to search.cpan.org|64.235.248.44|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://cpan.uchicago.edu/pub/CPAN/authors/id/D/DS/DSB/Env-Path-0.18.tar.gz [following]
--2010-10-21 20:36:17--  http://cpan.uchicago.edu/pub/CPAN/authors/id/D/DS/DSB/Env-Path-0.18.tar.gz
Resolving cpan.uchicago.edu... 128.135.10.29
Connecting to cpan.uchicago.edu|128.135.10.29|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10411 (10K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: “Env-Path-0.18.tar.gz.part”

100%[======================================>] 10,411      45.7K/s   in 0.2s   

2010-10-21 20:36:23 (45.7 KB/s) - “Env-Path-0.18.tar.gz.part” saved [10411/10411]

==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    Env-Path-0.18.tar.gz ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
  -> Extracting Env-Path-0.18.tar.gz with bsdtar
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting build()...
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Env::Path
cp Path.pm blib/lib/Env/Path.pm
cp envpath blib/script/envpath
/usr/bin/perl -MExtUtils::MY -e 'MY->fixin(shift)' -- blib/script/envpath
Manifying blib/man1/envpath.1p
Manifying blib/man3/Env::Path.3pm
Installing /tmp/yaourt-tmp-dedanna/aur-perl-env-path/pkg/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Env/Path.pm
Installing /tmp/yaourt-tmp-dedanna/aur-perl-env-path/pkg/usr/share/man/man1/envpath.1p
Installing /tmp/yaourt-tmp-dedanna/aur-perl-env-path/pkg/usr/share/man/man3/Env::Path.3pm
Installing /tmp/yaourt-tmp-dedanna/aur-perl-env-path/pkg/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/bin/envpath
Appending installation info to /tmp/yaourt-tmp-dedanna/aur-perl-env-path/pkg/usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/perllocal.pod
==> Tidying install...
  -> Purging other files...
  -> Compressing man and info pages...
  -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries...
  -> Removing empty directories...
==> Creating package...
  -> Generating .PKGINFO file...
  -> Compressing package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: perl-env-path 0.18-2 (Thu Oct 21 20:36:32 MDT 2010)

==> Continue installing perl-env-path ? [Y/n]
==> [v]iew package contents [c]heck package with namcap
==> ---------------------------------------------------
==> y

Password:
Password:
Password:
You are not allowed to launch /usr/bin/pacman with sudo
Please enter root password
Password:
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): perl-env-path-0.18-2 [0.02 MB]

[viking60]

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You are not allowed to launch /usr/bin/pacman with sudo

So you have no idea where this comes from?
Could you have entered the wrong password?

[dedanna1029]

Rightie-oh. On the first prompt for the password, I put it in. Then it won't accept it. This process repeats 3x, then it gives me that "You are not allowed..." garbage, at which time I put it in a fourth time, and it accepts it. I am in the sudo group, btw, but don't use sudo. This happens every single time I use yaourt now.

[viking60]

Hm the sudo password is the same as your user password and NOT the same as the root password. I think the solution lies right there.

[dedanna1029]

No. When it gets to the installation point, it is supposed to ask for the root password when not using sudo, so it has access to install the package. It has always been this way, up until the batch of updates prior to this last one, and never gave me any grief doing it (again, I don't use sudo; I have HUGE issues with using it).

It's doing it again as we speak, note the point it is at:

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==> Tidying install...
  -> Purging other files...
  -> Compressing man and info pages...
  -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries...
  -> Removing empty directories...
==> Creating package...
  -> Generating .PKGINFO file...
  -> Compressing package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: perl-io-stty 0.30.0-3 (Thu Oct 21 21:01:26 MDT 2010)

==> Continue installing perl-io-stty ? [Y/n]
==> [v]iew package contents [c]heck package with namcap
==> ---------------------------------------------------
==> y

Password:
Password:
Password:
You are not allowed to launch /usr/bin/pacman with sudo
-------->Please enter root password
Password:

[viking60]

Your description above is correct so something must be influencing the password prompt.
What is the output of

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cat /etc/group |cut -d: -f1

What did you mean by being a member of the sudo group?

[dedanna1029]

I had added myself (my user) to the sudo group, is what I meant. But now in hindsight, it is possible that I didn't because I haven't wanted to use it; trying to remember, but I don't. I take issue with the Ubuntified way of doing things, and feel it to be insecure to use sudo.

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$ cat /etc/group |cut -d: -f1
root
bin
daemon
sys
adm
tty
disk
lp
mem
kmem
wheel
ftp
mail
uucp
log
locate
rfkill
smmsp
http
games
network
video
audio
optical
floppy
storage
scanner
power
nobody
users
dbus
avahi
hal
dedanna
galynda
tiger
usbmux
camera
mysql
postgres
rtkit
pulse
pulse-access
pulse-rt
deluge
gdm
kdm
diaspora

I will check for a response in the morning. I am well beyond being able to work with anything any more tonight. I must sleep. I should've some 4-5 hours ago.

[viking60]

What was the name of the (sudo) group you added your user to?

[dedanna1029]

If I did, it would have been just to the "sudo" group.