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

[arch-general] Problems with Bluetooth packages
by Ricardo Hernandez 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

Greetings, i write about this right here because i can't file a bug report for an outdated package. Bluetooth in Arch is in a developing process and for that some apps are broken. For example, obexftp 0.22 can't be builded and don't seem to work with bluez 4.x. I build 0.23-alpha and compiled perfectly. Maybe i put it in AUR but i think is worth a dicussion for inclusion in Arch if is decided to use bluez 4.x and don't use bluez 3.x at all. Also, bluez 4.29 have some real big bug, it simply can't pair almost any device (not mine at least). That's reflected in the bluez page and there's a new version 4.30 that address this issues. One more time i know i can build my own packages but as i said it needs to be updated. I said all this because i think that for now is better to support bluez 3.x and 4.x. For example in gentoo, bluez 4.x is hard-masked, it has very little documentation, and the api and configs files change a lot, so for now adding support for bluez 3.x i think is not a bad idea. BTW, bluez 4.x don't include a passkey-agent (at least not with that name), i suggest to include in the pkgbuild to install test/simple-agent, like is mentioned here: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12851?string=passkey

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[arch-general] Upgrade to Kde 4.2 > nothing but blank desktop
by richard terry 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

I upgraded from 4.0 (which was sort-of-functional) to 4.2 this morning and on loading the kde desktop has nothing on it, dosn't respond to any keypresses. I created a new user, tried again> same thing. Any clues for a clueless user as to where to start? Regards Richard

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[arch-general] mpd 0.14 requires curl, glib && glib seems to be outdated
by Vincent Van Houtte 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Dear ML, mpd has been flagged out-of-date, so I'm encouraged to post my problem here instead of on the bugtracker. Installing mpd on a bare system does not resolve all dependencies, since I had to install: - curl (libcurl-*.so missing) - glib (libgthread-*.2.0.0.so missing) Next problem: glib installs both libgthread-*.1.2.0.so and libgthread.so, but mpd required v2.0.0 specificly. So: mpd needs to be rebuilt requiring another version of libgthread or glib needs to be updated (IMVHO). Possibly mpd has other dependencies - I will report them later. Vincent

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[arch-general] Acer Aspire One Instalation Issues
by Chris Wilson 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Hey all I'm having a major issue with the installation on my Aspire One. I've used unetbootin to create the USB startup disk and I've succesfully booted from it, but a few seconds into the startup process, I get the following: /sbin/hwdetect: line 336: 506 Segmentation fault modprobe $i > /dev/null 2>&1 ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. ath_hal: 0.9.30.13 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133) wlan: trunk ath_pci: trunk I've also tried this as well: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=283021 but when I come to reboot, I'm not presented with the menu that was mentioned and the thing just boots normally. I've tried it with the Fedora installation and it works fine there, so there just seems to be a problem with the Arch version. Thanks in advance for any help offered Chris

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[arch-general] Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
by Grigorios Bouzakis 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

I got Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender for both of these: http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2009-February/003630.html http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2009-February/003631.html hence the 2nd email. I assume you got the emails, and that i will get a delivery failure for this email too. Anyone else getting that? -- Greg

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Re: [arch-general] cdrecord instead of wodim
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

Joerg Schilling wrote: > Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386(a)yahoo.com.ar> wrote: >> ong discusion. But for example in my system can't write DVD because >> "DMA speed check fail" with cdrecord, and with cdrkit (the wodim) can >> record without problems. >> > > Rants without a proof do not help in case you really have a problem. > > There is no known problem in cdrecord related to the DMA test. > There are many known problems in the fork.... > > If you _really_ believe you found a problem in cdrecord, why don't you make a > bug report? Note that you of course need to verify that there is a problem > with the latest version. > > All known problems in the original software are fixed in typically much less > than two weeks. More than 95% of the bugs in the fork have not been fixed after > more than two years. Why do you like to use the fork if there is working > original software _with_ maintanance? > > Hi Jörg, Now i tested the latest alpha version of cdrecord ( cdrtools-2.01.01a57.tar.gz ) and its work perfect without the DMA problem. The version that failed was <= cdrtools-2.01.01a55.tar.gz, with these versions i need to set very low write speed (when i upgraded my DVD writer from PATA to SATA, both LG) Now inform this: "cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped." http://djgera.pastebin.com/m35195bbe I prefer to use cdrecord, is the soft that i used for 7 years with my previus distribution (Slackware Linux) and as you said, is updated very often. Thanks for the work! :) I take this message to make a consultation, this was one of the major topics of discussion between you and some Linux developers. Does cdrecord: allowing access through dev=/dev/xyz, or as the message says: "Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported". will be removed in future versions? PS: I apologize if my message was a bit confusing. -- 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] [PATCHES] About /var/run/ and /var/lock/ checks in daemons
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

Hi people! I interested to make Arch Linux suitable for use with a /var/run and /var/lock that are mounted as tmpfs. But this also helps, in the case that not mounted as tmpfs, to make more simple "purge function" for these directories at rc.sysinit step. In my case this is "just for fun!", but other users can be benefited by this, for example "netbook users". OK, i initially created rc-script patches for the packages in the extra repo that use /var/run/program-name-directory and fails if not exists. (these list was obtained with """ for x in $(find /usr/share/pkgtools/lists -type f); do egrep -l "var/run/.+" $x;done """ @@NOTE@@: I will send the patches to the FL individualy per package now, reference to this email in FL, and then copy the links to response in this email. ;) Please review it, thanks in advance. :) ** Actually work OK (/var/run) core/openswan-2.4.11-1 core/dbus-core-1.2.4-1 core/netcfg-2.1.2-1 extra/consolekit-0.3.0-3 ** Patched RC files (/var/run) extra/apache-2.2.11-2 extra/bind-9.5.0.P2-1 extra/clamav-0.94-1 extra/courier-imap-4.4.1-1 extra/courier-mta-0.60.0-1 extra/cyrus-sasl-2.1.22-10 extra/fetchmail-6.3.8-4 extra/hal-0.5.11-7 (patched for policykit) extra/laptop-mode-tools-1.47-1 extra/lighttpd-1.4.20-2 extra/mpd-0.14.1-3 extra/policykit-0.9-7 (no rc-script here, patched in hal) extra/samba-3.2.7-1 extra/wicd-1.5.8-1 ** Researched (/var/run) extra/iptraf-3.0.0-2 (Trivial patch for iptraf.c or using a profile.d/iptraf for creating a "iptraf()" or another solution) * Apparently these don't use /var/run/program-name-directory, but maybe a simple "mkdir" to rc-script for precaution. extra/bftpd-2.3-1 (The daemon uses directly /var/run/bftpd.pid) extra/networkmanager-0.7.0-1 (The daemon uses directly /var/run/NetworkManager.pid) extra/wesnoth-1.4.7-1 (this game don't have a rc-script for the daemon, if run the /usr/bin/wesnothd without /var/run/wesnothd it fails, solution: provide a rc-script) ** Pending for research (/var/run) community/pulseaudio-0.9.14-1 community/ultimate-ircd-3.0.2-1 community/xen-3.3.1-1 community/wdm-1.28-2 community/dspam-3.8.0-2 community/inn-2.4.5-3 community/gpsd-2.37-2 community/apache13-1.3.41-3 community/freeradius-2.1.3-1 community/lastfmsubmitd-0.35-1 community/selinux-pam-1.0.1-1 community/fail2ban-0.8.3-1 community/ircservices-5.0.62-3 community/p3scan-2.3.2-2 community/bind-geodns-9.4.1-1 community/jabberd14-1.6.1.1-3 ** Pending for research (/var/lock) core/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-2 extra/sane-1.0.19-2 -- 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] alsaplayer gtk2 interface lost?
by Javier Vasquez 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

Hi, My alsaplayer configuration file includes: % cat ~/.alsaplayer/config # # alsaplayer config file # # Only edit this file if the application is not active. # Any modifications might (will!) be lost otherwise. # http.buffer_size=1048576 main.default_interface=gtk2 main.default_output=alsa main.fallback_interface=text main.period_count=8 main.period_size=4096 main.play_on_start=false But when I run alsaplayer with verbosity I get: % alsaplayer --verbose AlsaPlayer 0.99.80 (C) 1999-2004 Andy Lo A Foe <andy(a)alsaplayer.org> and others. Output plugin: ALSA output v1.9.0beta12 Loading reader plugin: HTTP reader v1.3 Loading reader plugin: File reader v1.1 Loading Input plugin: MikMod player v1.0 Loading Input plugin: WAV player v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Ogg Vorbis player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: CDDA player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: flac player v1.1.3/1.1.4/1.2 Loading Input plugin: libsndfile plugin v0.1 Loading Input plugin: MAD MPEG audio plugin v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Audio File Library player v0.2.1 Interface plugin: TEXT interface v1.1 Nothing to play. I'm not sure why the text interface was started. I tried changing the fallback interface to gtk2, and things fail like: % alsaplayer --verbose AlsaPlayer 0.99.80 (C) 1999-2004 Andy Lo A Foe <andy(a)alsaplayer.org> and others. Output plugin: ALSA output v1.9.0beta12 Loading reader plugin: HTTP reader v1.3 Loading reader plugin: File reader v1.1 Loading Input plugin: MikMod player v1.0 Loading Input plugin: WAV player v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Ogg Vorbis player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: CDDA player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: flac player v1.1.3/1.1.4/1.2 Loading Input plugin: libsndfile plugin v0.1 Loading Input plugin: MAD MPEG audio plugin v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Audio File Library player v0.2.1 Failed to load text interface. This is bad (gtk2,gtk2,/usr/lib/alsaplayer) Any idea why gtk2 alsaplayer interface doesn't seem to work? The package is i686: % pacman -Qs alsaplayer local/alsaplayer 0.99.80-1 ... Thanks, -- Javier

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[arch-general] HTML email will be rejected
by Aaron Griffin 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

Hello all, I am writing to inform you that I have changed all the Arch lists to reject HTML formatted email. Please send messages in plain text only. Note: This is true of all lists, but I am only sending this message to the higher trafficked lists. Cheers, Aaron

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[arch-general] HAL issues
by Leonid Grinberg 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

Hello, I just upgraded to networkmanager 0.7, which comes with a hal upgrade. Following this new upgrade, I am unable to mount devices from Dolphin as I used to be able to -- it now gives me a "PermissionDeniedByPolicy mount-removable-extra-options no" error. I followed the instructions on [1] but it did not help. Can someone help me? -- Thanks, Leonid [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#Permission_Denied_with_automounter

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