October 2009 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] SMPlayer and Qt
by Lars Tennstedt 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Hi there, SMPlayer version 0.6.8 (SVN r3213) form the repository is compiled with Qt 4.5.2. At the moment the version of Qt is 4.5.3. Is it time to rebuild SMPlayer? Bye, Lars

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[arch-general] GDM + Xfce
by Lars Tennstedt 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Hello, sorry that I have to annoy you again but you were always very helpful. I have a second Arch Linux install with GDM as login manager and Xfce as desktop environment. This installation is up-to-date. Since the version 2.28 of GDM or better GNOME was released, I noticed some little problems. I read the site about the GNOME 2.28 changes on wiki.archlinux.org and I now know how to configure the new GDM. But sometimes the login process from GDM to Xfce hangs forever and if I can login, it will take a much longer time now. These problems did not exist in the past. Can you help? Greetings Lars

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[arch-general] mplayer needs a rebuild
by Caleb Cushing 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

I've tried to play video's with smplayer but they wouldn't play after the gtk upgrade so I rebuilt mplayer and installed with the pkgbuild in abs and now it works -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] Why does kde4 over vnc look bad if host is Arch, looks fine if suse?
by David C. Rankin 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Guys, This has puzzled me for a while now. If I need to do something on a remote host that is something more than what I want to do over ssh (something that requires 4-5 windows or apps or configuring the actual remote desktop) I use vncserver/vncviewer. If I need a kde4 app and the remote host is opensuse, then there is no problem at all running the app. If the remote host is arch, then I am kind of screwed because there is some setting causing kde4 (which I understand uses native 24bit color) to look terrible. The vncserver setting on both suse and arch are identical. The start script I use for vncserver is: 20:24 dcrgx2:~> cat bin/vncs #!/bin/bash GEOMETRY=${1:-1280x800} DEPTH=${2:-24} SCREEN=${3:-1} vncserver -geometry $GEOMETRY -depth $DEPTH :$SCREEN & echo -e "\n vncserver returned $?\n" exit 0 The xstartup scripts are the same as well: Archlinux: 20:29 dcrgx2:~> cat .vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & #twm & startkde & #e16start & #enlightenment_start & suse: 20:19 dcrgx:~> cat .vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey #xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & #twm & startkde & #openbox & However, the resulting vncsession with Arch looks all garbled (pixilated) while the suse session looks great: Arch: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/arch-kde4overvnc.… suse: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/suse-kde4overvnc.… There must be some setting that controls this behavior. I would like to figure out what it is, because even if I use enlightenment or openbox on arch as my desktop over vnc, if I have to call a kde4 app, everything looks terrible. Where should I start looking to find the difference? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] udev and high load.......
by David Houston 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Hi all, Over the last day or so, udev has been sending my system load though the roof?!? Nothing has changed on the system. I have included a screencap of htop for your viewing pleasure. Anybody got any idea why udev is freaking out? It is now loagging my system. Oh yeah, problem presists after a reboot. :( ------- SCREENCAP ------ 1 [|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||100.0%] Tasks: 240 total, 8 running 2 [|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 63.2%] Load average: 3.54 1.67 0.64 Mem [||||||||||||||||||||||| 496/2024MB] Uptime: 00:14:35 Swp [ 0/258MB] PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command 629 root 16 -4 34288 33084 424 R 79.0 1.6 2:17.77 /sbin/udevd --daemon 5975 dave 20 0 394M 150M 33428 S 5.0 7.4 0:25.51 /usr/bin/firefox 1773 root 19 -1 810M 34324 10696 S 5.0 1.7 0:12.00 /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp 1336 hal 20 0 6524 4404 3464 R 5.0 0.2 0:08.01 /usr/sbin/hald 1333 dbus 20 0 2360 944 716 R 4.0 0.0 0:07.41 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system 1807 dave 20 0 25456 5460 4552 R 1.0 0.3 0:02.20 Thunar --sm-client-id 2fbdcc117-ace0-4cb5-ba5c-12c5be6a1816 --daemon 1812 dave 20 0 15128 2844 2140 S 1.0 0.1 0:02.44 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id 2c8d537b7-1939-40f3-9fbe-2263f4160bf4 13561 dave 20 0 2752 1528 944 R 1.0 0.1 0:00.16 htop 1659 root 18 -2 2076 904 432 R 0.0 0.0 0:01.82 /sbin/udevd --daemon 1811 dave 20 0 62480 20852 18448 S 0.0 1.0 0:01.66 xfdesktop --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 2bf627c6b-32d8-4f35-9abc-272c1365f117 1806 dave 20 0 25888 16276 13912 S 0.0 0.8 0:01.87 xfwm4 --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 21fd626f9-d774-4cd5-98a4-2f6a1b3027ff 1 root 20 0 1684 564 500 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.68 ini 1263 root 20 0 4664 484 268 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 supervising syslog-ng 1264 root 20 0 4844 1784 1392 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.03 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng 1303 root 20 0 1872 312 220 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /sbin/dhcpcd -q eth0 1315 root 20 0 6152 976 620 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/sshd 1339 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.52 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1341 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1342 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1343 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1344 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1345 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1346 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1348 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon ---------- END SCREENCAP ------- Dave ------------- root(a)crankyadmin.net cranky(a)archlinux.us

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[arch-general] screen
by Juan Diego 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Hello everyone the screen applications had stopped working on my computer, I am experimenting this only during X sessions, I have the theory that it might be because of the recent tty changes, but Im not sure exactly which were the changes so I cant really tell the only way I can make it run is giving it a name to the screen session, something like this: screen -S term anyone got similar behaviour? any ideas of how to fix this? Good bye

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[arch-general] Drupal Packages
by David Campbell 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Greetings all, I am wondering if anyone would be interested in working with me to create a repository containing the most commonly used Drupal modules, themes, and installation profiles. I feel like a major lacking of Drupal is that it does not have a good way for managing its packages. Drush is a start, but being able to set up and maintain sites with something like pacman would be so much more powerful and useful. I also know there are some major hosting companies such as slicehost which support Arch servers/VPS which might be pleased to have good package manangement for a major CMS. The packages might also help to enforce good file structure practices etc.. Let me know what you think or if you know anyone who might be interested in working on the project (also, if I should be posting this somewhere else). -David Campbell

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[arch-general] OpenOffice Calc - Setting Cell Background Color does Not Display on Screen - prints OK
by David C. Rankin 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Guys, I'm having a problem with openoffice calc. When I highlight a few cells or few rows and then change the background color, no color is shown on the monitor for the cells. Moving the input box up/down across the rows or cells that the background color was set on, the color indication in the toolbar correctly changes showing where the color has been set, but still no background color is displayed in the cells on-screen. Oddly, when I print the spreadsheet, the background color is correctly printed?? Can some one confirm this on your install or let me know "works for me" so I can have some additional info before filing a bug report. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] List of packages that could be rebuilt if you have nothing better to do...
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Allan McRae wrote: > Hi, > > I have created a list of packages the could use a rebuild but for > which there is no hurry. These include packages without the arch in > their filename, packages containing a .FILELIST file, packages with > man pages in /usr/man or uncompress man and info pages. See > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Unimportant_Rebuild_List > > Do people think this is useful and should I move it to the DeveloperWiki? > > Allan > Good job. And for "Packages that can be converted to arch=any" sometime ago I sended a list of tentative packages [#1]. Its old and some of listed packages [#2] are now "any" [#1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-July/005960.html [#2] http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/misc/any.txt -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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[arch-general] can't unlock a luks encrypted partition. (urgent).
by Hussam Al-Tayeb 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Hi, I'm having a problem with disk encryption using luks. I have my /home disk (on a separate disk 'sdb') encrypted using luks. I have this in /etc/cryptsetup home /dev/sdb1 ASK and this in /etc/fstab /dev/mapper/home /home ext4 defaults,user_xattr 0 1 Suddenly today, it won't accept the passphrase on boot. I'm sure that I'm entering it correctly. It took me 32 tries the first time and many more the second reboot after kernel 2.6.31.3 update. The annoying thing is that archlinux only takes three tries then fails and I have to reboot to try again. Any idea please? I'm 100% sure I'm entering the passphrase correctly. I don't have another operating system installed or anything and I go back to work in a few days so looking for a new distribution or operating system is not a favorable option. I really need help please :/ [root@LARS hussam]# cryptsetup status /dev/mapper/home /dev/mapper//dev/mapper/home is active: cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 keysize: 128 bits device: /dev/sdb1 offset: 1032 sectors size: 156295290 sectors mode: read/write

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