October 2011 - Arch-announce - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-announce] wiki and bbs downtime
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Ionuț Mircea Bîr u 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

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/

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[arch-announce] initscripts update - manual intervention required
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Tom Gundersen 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

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…

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[arch-announce] Hostname utility moved from net-tools to inetutils
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Eric Bélanger 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

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…

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[arch-announce] GNOME 3.2.0 in extra
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Ionuț Mircea Bîr u 01 Oct '11

01 Oct '11

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/

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