Ionuț Mircea Bîru wrote:
On October 23th the data center where our server is located had a power failure.
The server was rebooted and at the first look everything was fine.
In the morning we noticed that the performance was bad and started to
investigate and found out that one of the hard disks was failing.
The drive has been replaced and is now synchronizing.
We are sorry for the long downtime and we have adjusted our procedures so that
this won't happen again.
URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/wiki-and-bbs-downtime/
Tom Gundersen wrote:
TL;DR: Please manually delete `/etc/profile.d/locale.sh` before updating. If `.
/etc/rc.conf` fails in your login shell, please read the full announcement.
Changes to locale handling:
`/etc/profile.d/locale.sh` is now a static file that sources the correct config
files in order to set your locale, rather than being generated at boot. The
benefit of this is one less write to `/etc`, and it allows changes to the locale
to take effect without rebooting (just relogin).
We add support for `/etc/locale.conf`. The settings in this file takes
precedence over `/etc/rc.conf`, and those who use shells that cannot source
`/etc/rc.conf` are required to move to this new format. `/etc/locale.conf`
contains a new-line separated list of variable assignments. The variables we
support are `LANG` as well as the `LC_*` variables (with the exception of
`LC_ALL`). The format is shared with [systemd][1].
[1]: http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/locale.conf.html
URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/initscripts-update-manual-intervention-requir…
Eric Bélanger wrote:
The hostname utility was removed in net-tools 1.60.20110819cvs-1. The inetutils
package, which was recently moved into the base group, will provide hostname
from now on. Please make sure to install inetutils especially if you have
problems with network utilities.
URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/hostname-utility-moved-from-net-tools-to-inet…
Ionuț Mircea Bîru wrote:
As promised multiple times on the forums, GNOME 3.2 was just released and we
have it! Shinier and full of new features, noticeable are gdm's brand new look,
gnome-online-accounts, gnome-contacts, gnome-documents, new user menu and better
chat integration. Along with that, nautilus received a new file previewer named
sushi.
Packaging changes:
* gnome-power-manager moved to gnome-extra since most of its functionality
moved to gnome-settings-daemon and the package basically only contains the
statistics viewer
* aisleriot, gnome-contacts, gnome-documents, gnome-disk-utility, tracker and
sushi added to gnome-extra
* gobject-introspection support was dropped from {python,python2}-gobject2
2.28 and moved to {python,python2}-gobject 3.0.1. Maintainers should change
accordingly if their packages rely on gobject-introspection.
* gnome-system-tools dropped since most functionality was moved into gnome-
control-center
* splitting libgdu out from gnome-disk-utility. gvfs based file managers
should benefit from this split.
If you have problems login into the session, try resetting your settings by
moving away ~/.config/dconf and ~/.gconf.
As always, packaging bugs should be reported on our [bugtracker][1] and anything
else considered bugs should be report to the [Gnome bugzilla][2].
[1]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/
[2]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/
URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/gnome-320-in-extra/