August 2008 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] no local login prompt
by Sergey Manucharian 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

Hi folks, After today's system update of my P4 machine I cannot get the login prompt to the local terminal. Initscripts run, I see a whole bunch of [DONE]s and that's it - the line with the last (from rc.conf) daemon on the bottom of screen and nothing happens. I can login via ssh with no problem, and I see nothing suspicious or unusual in the logs... Any ideas? Cheers, Sergey

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[arch-general] openoffice does not work
by Christian Leng 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

Hi, I'm a new user of Arch. I've installed openoffice via pacman. However, it doesn't work anyway. Accoring to the Arch Wiki, I added 'OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome' into my ~/.bashrc, but nothing changed. Clicking at the OOo items in the desktop menu, nothing happens. Then when I tried to run OOo from the terminal using command "$/usr/bin/soffice", error info is: ------------------- no suitable windowing system found, exiting. ------------------- I just don't know what is the matter.

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[arch-general] Libncurses Problem
by Robert Spangler 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

Hello all, First I want to start off by expressing my satisfaction with the Arch Linux distribution. I've played with about six of them and broke them all within the first week except for this one. Very hackable and does what I want it to do without fuss. Nice job. Now, it doesn't seem as though packages are always updated to link with newer libs. For instance, I got the new ncurses build a few days ago. Today, when I checked out snownews, it would not work because it was not linked against the new ncurses library. Of course, using the ABS PKGBUILD file to build my own from source fixed the problem but thought I would alert you all anyways. It was complaining about not being able to find libncurses.so.5. Rebuilding it linked it against the new version. Thanks for a great distro, Robby

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[arch-general] FW: libncurses in [testing]
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

Sorry, I tried to send this message to the arch-dev-public mailing list and was not allowed to do so. -----Original Message----- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:50:12 +0200 Subject: libncurses in [testing] From: "stefan-husmann(a)t-online.de" <stefan-husmann(a)t-online.de> To: arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org Hello, I think Eric Belangers list of packages that need a rebuild due to the libncurses package in testing ist not sufficient. I found (not using lddd, but findbrokenpkgs, a tool with a similar task from AUR) darcs emacs (tested for with emacs-otf from AUR, but on the comment-page of emacs-cvs is a similar remark by someone) octave3 gutenprint libcaca librep lua ocaml yaz mplayer rlwrap Some of them are community-packages. Please consider also to add an arch and license array to the PKGBUILD of librep. Thank you Sincerely Stefan

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[arch-general] Manpage(s) exist in filesystem
by Attila 17 Aug '08

17 Aug '08

Hi, since some days during a "pacman -Su" i get the message that some man pages exist in the filesystem and the upgrade stops. The crazy thing was that it was even a manpage from the package which gets upgraded. Because it was even only one or two files i delete them and run the upgrade again. But today with tcl there was too much files to ignore it.-) So i want to ask here if anyone has had the same problem or do i miss something what i have to configure? It is not realy a problem for mine because now i will do a de- and a reinstall (i like this more than forcing it with "-f") of this packages but perhaps there is a better solution. See you, Attila

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[arch-general] system upgrade not working
by Sentinel 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Hellou, I ran pacman -Syu two days ago on my arch and got a message, that pacman has found a new version of it self. So I upgraded pacman. After issuing the command pacman -Syu again I get the folowing error. root@sentinel:/home/sentinel# pacman -Syu <output ommited> :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: firefox: ignoring package upgrade (2.0.0.14-1 => 3.0.1-2) warning: ruby: forcing upgrade to version 1.8.7_p72-1 warning: vlc: forcing upgrade to version 0.8.6i-3 resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: linux-uvc-svn: requires kernel26<2.6.26 :: virtualbox-ose-additions-modules: requires kernel26<2.6.26 I tried pacman -S kernel26 -f, but did not help, the same error. Could anybody help? I did not find any bug report about it the arch site. Thnx a lot for your answers! Tom

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[arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)
by Nigel Henry 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Some days ago I ran the updates for my Don't Panic install, which said that KDE 3.5.9 was being upgraded to KDE4. I let this go ahead having asked on the list if there were likely to be any problems with KDE4. I also have recently installed Fedora 9 which comes with KDE4 as default, so this is not a pop at Archlinux, but more with KDE4, which I'm finding is virtually unuseable. I'm posting this from Fedora Core 2, which has KDE 3.2.2-14.FC2.2.legacy Red Hat, and apart from the odd konqueror crash when accessing certain web sites, there are no problems. KDE4 is a whole different ball game. The question is, is it possible to somehow revert back to KDE 3.5.9 without reinstalling. Reinstalling would mean that I only have the package versions that were on the install cd. I do have another instance of Dont Panic, that hasn't been upgraded to KDE4, and all the updates prior to the upgrade to KDE4 are available, and looking at /var/cache/pacman/pkg there don't appear to be any KDE updates until the transition to KDE4. If I do have to reinstall this instance of Don't Panic that has been upgraded to KDE4, is there some way to prevent the upgrade to KDE4 on the fresh install? Apologies if I'm offending anyone that loves KDE4, but I'm finding it a real problem to work with. Any help on this problem really appreciated. Nigel.

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[arch-general] problem with the new b43 module
by metin 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

hi all, I am having trouble with the new b43 module for my bcm4318 pci wireless device. I can connect to the internet without a hitch but the connection drops unexpectedly and randomly even in good conditions near the wireless modem after a couple of minutes or so; and it won't connect to the internet again automatically. I tried ndiswrapper with the same consequences. The interesting point is that the deprecated module bcm43xx worked flawlessly, but was removed from the updated kernel 2.6.26. I desperately need help!

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[arch-general] Kudos to the kdemod gang
by w9ya＠qrparci.net 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hey gang; I wanted to voice my appreciation to the kdemod folks for doing things the "Arch-way" and giving choice back to the user-base by creating the kdemod-legacy repo and packages. It is nice to see such a group doing something that is both worthwhile and definitely needed. AND it is nice to finally have something positive to say after kde4 was transfered from the testing to the "main-line" repo(s). Further, I am impressed that the kdemod group seemed to have seen through some of the rhetoric about how good kde4 is and prepare something for those of us that actually use the features of kde since kde1 that are missing or inoperative in kde4. (AFTERALL the kde folks are still maintaining kde3 so the idea that has been discussed on this e-mail reflector; that kde4 is the ONLY kde environment "officially sponsored", is specious.) Very best regards; Bob Finch Liviu Librescu - În veci pomenirea lui. (May his memory be eternal.)

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[arch-general] Sending files to printer question
by richard terry 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

This is not Arch specific, but I'll ask anyway in the hope someone will help. I have generated a html file which would show in a web-browser and hence will print from the web browsers print button. However I want to send that file directly to a printer from the command line, but have the output as if I'd sent it from the webbrowser, not just print the output of the text which is the HTML. I wondered if there was a command line utility to do the conversion. Thanks in anticipation Richard

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