December 2007 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] famd problems
by _saiko 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Famd has always been more problematic then useful for me. On random occasions after i plugged a mp3 player or an external usb drive it would just start using cpu @ 100% and there was no change at all. I had to kill the process. Just now i plugged my USB drive and wanted to copy something. CPU usage was 100% and iostat reported <3MB/s rate non sequential! I checked the processes and as expected ntfs-3g driver was using most but famd was there too! So i nicely killed famd once again... and transfer rate went @ ~22MB/s as expected Is there a way to live without famd since all it brings are problems for me? It's required by many things so i can't just remove it. I'm doing a regular -Syu and this problem was present ... since like forever Any explanation to this? Also i'm using xfce, 2GB ram, separate physical system drive Many thanks

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[arch-general] iwlwifi in [testing] feedback
by Tobias Powalowski 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Hi just wanted to know if some user already tested the iwlwifi driver from [testing], if it works for you. thanks for feedback greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Depends loop in gcc-gcj and eclipse-ecj
by Karolina Lindqvist 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

gcc-gcj depends on eclipse-ecj which depends on gcc-gcj, making a dependency loop.

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[arch-general] Advanced pacman dependency functions
by bardo 30 Dec '07

30 Dec '07

Hi all. I was looking for a way to do a couple of things with pacman that may be useful, mainly for package maintainers. Maybe they can already be done and I just didn't find out how. I used to use pt-deptree, but it hasn't been working for quite some time now. The first one is finding all the packages that directly depend on a specific package, even if they're not installed. This came to my mind considering those upgrades which break other software, like x264 and tcl/tk (8.5 has just been released): it could be a lot easier to test if all packages work properly with the new version or if it is necessary to rebuild them. Second, I often find myself looking for package dependencies along the tree, because I need to know, given two packages, if one of the two depends on the other or not. This is good when I'm deciding which dependencies should be put in a package, becuase the cycle edit-makepkg-namcap is sometimes impractical when the package has a lot of dependencies. Is anybody able to help? TIA, Corrado

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[arch-general] azureus and avidemux, a note
by Alexandros K-K 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

azureus hasnt been updated for ages: the version on the repos is 3.0.1.6 and the newest one is 3.0.4.2 it has been flagged as out of date for quite a long time too avidemux on the other hand still lists spidermonkey as a dependency, maybe other unecessary stuff too http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/index.php?title=Compiling_Avidemux#Mandator… cheerio, aeolist

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[arch-general] IRC Spammer / Impersonator
by Matthew 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

This morning I was informed by a TU via Private Message on IRC that there were spammer impersonating me. He first ask what happened last night and as I had no idea what he was talking about this was when I first discovered what happened. There are some wonderful people (for lack of a nicer term) who think its funny to impersonate me and spam the channel. My hostname is almost always adsl-75-33-32-137.dsl.bcvloh.sbcglobal.net very rarely do I connect to IRC using a different net connection (usually just ssh into my home box). The ip is dynamic so it will change, but it should match with mezoko.net I think these spammers are ajnewbold and impl. They helped me out with some php coding about a year ago. They were nice people, but they slowly started pull crap on me and I didn't put up with so I think this their revenge. **Ajnewbold and impl (he was under the alias of "hary" something, I don't remember) spammed the channel about a week ago so I'm not sure if they'll stop, hence the reason for this posting. So basically I want to clear up a few things 1. The spammers last night were not me 2. If username mezoko does not have a host name similar to dsl.bcvloh.sbcglobal.net there is a good chance it is not me 3. To any TU/OP/Dev please do not ban my user name from IRC, please ban the hostname if the problem arises again. Thank you all for your understanding, -Mezoko

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[arch-general] problem compiling for i586 with new makepkg
by Karolina Lindqvist 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

There is a problem with compiling with CHOST="i586" with the new pacman/makepkg. It simply refuses with the message: pkgname is not available for the 'i586' architecture. Note that many packages may need a line added to their PKGBUILD such as arch=('i586'). To edit each and every PKGBUILD for each and every package and every update appears like quite a big work. And since I could not find any option to turn that "feature" off, or any hook to SED it in, I just commented it out in makepkg. What was the thought with this? The -w option is also taken away from makepkg. Why? (I found the alternate solution, but still) Karolina

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[arch-general] xkeyboard-config 1.1-1
by Grigorios Bouzakis 25 Dec '07

25 Dec '07

Since todays update of xkeyboard-config 1.1-1 i have been getting some errors like the following: expected keysym, got XF86KbdLightOnOff: line 70 of pc expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessDown: line 71 of pc expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessUp: line 72 of pc As a result leds arent working & probably some other stuff i havent noticed yet. Anyone noticed similar behaviour? Greg

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[arch-general] texlive-bin depends on xorg-server, why?
by Dan Soendergaard 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

Dear Archers, This is the first time I use a mailing list, please bare over with me in case of any strange behaviour on my part (I've already mailed this message to the wrong address once, sorry!). I discovered that texlive-bin depends on the xorg-server package which seems strange for a terminal programme. Why this dependency and how can it be removed (if possible without breaking LaTeX)? I ask because I'm installing an Archlinux server and want the possibility of compiling my documents through SSH no matter what computer I'm on. Is it possible to circumvent the installation of xorg-server? Sincerely, Dan Sondergaard

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[arch-general] Problem connecting Sansa e250 with Arch
by Mordechai Peller 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

The Sansa e200 series can connect either via MTP or MSC. With the help of libmtp I can connect via MTP, but I need to be able to connect via MSC.When I booted an Ubuntu 7.10 LiveCD it worked fine, so the problem is with Arch, or at least my install of it. I suspect it's a udev or driver issue, but I'm not sure. Thanks

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