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[arch-general] The ultimate Home Theater / media center computer
by RedShift 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hi list Somehow I got it into my head that I want a home theater PC. I'm growing tired of having to watch television and movies on my computer's 17" LCD screen. At the shop I used to work at, once in a while we'd build a media center computer, but the concept never really took off here (Belgium). There are many reasons for that, such as: * Television is major suckage here (thanks to That Big Company and Government-Not-Governing). The entire country is split into very small regions where broadcast frequencies differ, there's no unified TV guide system, not all regions can receive all channels. Digital television is even worse: That Big Company forces you to buy one of their proprietary decoders. The only way to receive digital television without restrictions is DVB-T with a very limited number of channels (basically nothing). * At that time, the hardware sucked (noisy, too big, not stylish enough to put it along your other hi-fi components, not powerful enough, limited digital outputs, etc...). The software wasn't much better (too complicated, took a long time to start, etc...). Anyway, my goal is to build the *ULTIMATE* HTPC. As such, strong demands must be met: The hardware: * It should be stylish, a timeless look which fits with your other hi-fi components. * It must be entirely silent. Zero moving components. No exceptions. * Unrestricted fully digital outputs. * Must be able to play at least 720p MKV's using x264 encoded video. * Easy remote control. No remote controls with more buttons than there are stars in the sky and certainly no "dual function" buttons (those functions in a different color which you need to flick a switch or are context dependent). * Able to receive DVB-C. The software: * There is no room for "Digital Rights Management" fascism. All content must play flawless and in the highest quality possible. In some cases this will mean circumventing protections. That'll probably make the device illegal in some countries, but I don't care. * Easy user interface (also see hardware remote control point). * Can connect to NAS or other storage devices such as USB sticks. In total: * Must be a complete replacement for your DVD player and other media devices. The goal here is keeping the number of remote controls down. Ideally you should only have two: one for controlling your HTPC and one for your hi-fi set. * It is geared towards modern television, that means stuff like HDTV and no legacy connector stuff (like composite). With those goals set, I started looking for hardware. Here's what I've come up with: * Case: Silverstone LC19 http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_spec.php?pno=lc19&area=usa + Fanless PSU. + Casefans can be removed + Comes with PCI-e and PCI risercards + Integrated cardreader and slimline optical slot + Available in black and silver + Accommodates standard ATX I/O shield + Room for a 3.5" storage device (SSD?) + Vents right above the CPU + Slim - Fits only small motherboard sizes - Only 120 watt PSU - No infrared receiver, no remote control * Motherboard: Asus P5N7A-VM http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=8YiUFvK51IergAqY&templete=2 + Powerful on-board graphics (nVidia 9300) + Supports 16 GB of RAM + eSATA port + Optical audio output + HDMI, DVI and VGA video output + Gigabit ethernet + Solid caps - nVidia on-board graphics (requiring proprietary driver) - On-board graphics use system memory - Crappy realtek audio codec * DVB-C receiver: ? I have zero experience with DVB-C receivers for computers. I've come across the "DVBWorldDTV Cable" (http://www.worlddvb.com/product/htm/pcic.htm) which seems to provide what I'm looking for. Anyone know how good this hardware actually is and how well it's supported by linux? I have an old hauppauge PVR-350 card which works well, unfortunately hauppauge doesn't seem to have DVB-C products. * Remote control: ? I want to have something simple here. Maybe a small USB infrared receiver and a simple remote control with buttons up, down, left, right, enter? Anyone know if such hardware exists? * Processor: Intel Celeron? No idea how much processing power would be required for a decent HTPC. Preferably as low powered as possible, as the CPU will have to be passively cooled. * Processor cooling: ? I was thinking of a big block with small fins which you see a lot in 1U rackservers. Copper would be the logical choice but from what I've read, aluminum allows for better heat transfer to the environment. So a copper base with alu fins would be ideal. * Storage: ? For storing the operating system I was thinking of those IDE compact flash cards. Downside is that they are very slow. An SSD can be considered but I want to leave the option open to use the 3.5" bay for a hard drive for people that don't have the luxury of a NAS or don't want to leave a NAS running all times. Moving along. The most annoying aspect: software. Obviously we want all our software to be open source. A shortlist of open source media center software: * MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org/) * XBMC (http://xbmc.org/) * Elisa (http://elisa.fluendo.com/) The point I really want to focus on is ease of use. Take this as a benchmark: you only have to explain your parents once how it works. Any suggestions, comments, thoughts, etc... are appreciated. Thanks, Best regards, Glenn

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[arch-general] syslog-ng build error
by Baho Utot 05 Jul '09

05 Jul '09

Making syslog-ng 3.0.1-6 i686 in Clean Chroot ==> Making package: syslog-ng 3.0.1-6 i686 (Wed May 27 19:31:24 UTC 2009) ==> Checking Runtime Dependencies... ==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies... ==> Installing missing dependencies... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/eventlog -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -MT main.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/main.Tpo" -c -o main.o main.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/main.Tpo" ".deps/main.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/main.Tpo"; exit 1; fi gcc -march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -o syslog-ng main.o libsyslog-ng.a -lrt -lnsl -Wl,-Bstatic -lfl -lglib-2.0 -levtlog -lssl -lcrypto -lz -lz -lwrap -lcap -lpcre -Wl,-Bdynamic -ldl /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcap collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [syslog-ng] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/build/src/syslog-ng-3.0.1/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/src/syslog-ng-3.0.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 ==> ERROR: Build Failed. What is -lcap ? Is it looking for a static lib cap?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Assigning bugs proposal
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 14 Jun '09

14 Jun '09

Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys. > quite a lot of bug assigning happened lately, could you please add: > [packagename] ... > at the beginning of each bug topic, > this way it's much easier to sort things on bugtracker. > > thanks > greetings > tpowa > Hi Yes I can do it. ;) I did the change in some task but not in others. Another thing is that I think is important in changing the "status" field if task is assigned, it's much simpler to manage and allocate the missing. Many task are currently assigned to people but this field is in "unconfirmed". There any objection if I change the "status" to all the task currently assigned, but this field does not reflect the state? Unconfirmed -> Assigned (if task have people assigned) Good Luck! -- 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] Help understanding which interface OpenOffice is using?
by David C. Rankin 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Listmates, I have installed openoffice-core on my x86 box and I am trying to understand what user interface it is using and how to change it if I can. I suspect the very block like interface and large menu and menubar fonts are the result of the GTK interface oo on arch uses by default. (I could have this backwards). The default UI looks really awkward to me. It brings back bad memories of the days when the UI was limited to what you see on xpdf. The wiki(http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openoffice) suggests an environment variable setting of OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde soffice, but warns that "KDE look will be removed in Openoffice3". What's the status of that? When will the QT interface go away? What is the best way to get a better looking interface on KDE3. I have tried using 'OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde soffice', but so far I get an error when attempting this over XDMCP. Is there something that will work in this situation as well? Thanks for any help or suggestions you can give. -- 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] speakers don't turn off when headphones inserted
by Scott Weisman 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Hello, I just obtained a Fujitsu P7120 notebook (a very nice model, by the way). Overall, I am getting this working with Arch just fine (although I would definitely appreciate pointers from anyone else who has installed Arch, especially as I have been using a desktop until now and haven't had the need to configure notebook-type features). One problem I am having that I don't know how to fix is that when I plug in headphones, the speakers don't turn off. Alsamixer shows that the headphones and speakers have separate controls, something I have never seen in a notebook before. While cool, I would really love to have this automatically toggle as expected. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks, Scott

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Re: [arch-general] SRCDEST="/path/to/folder"
by Baho Utot 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 23:37 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Allan McRae wrote: > > Baho Utot wrote: > >> I am Building in a clean chroot according to the wiki > >> > >> The Chroot sub-directory is /home/Chroot/root > >> > >> I have set SRCDEST="/sources" in the makepkg in /home/Chroot/root/etc > >> and then > >> mkdir /home/Chroot/root/sources chmod 777 /home/Chroot/root/sources > >> > >> Is this correct to get makepkg to store the sources in that > >> sub-directory? > >> > >> It presently doesn't work for me or I did something wrong. > >> > >> Can anyone help? > >> > > > > As far as makepkg goes, it should store the sources in /sources. But > > my guess is makechrootpkg is moving the source files from there to the > > directory you launched it from. Have not actually looked at this though. > > Or an even better explanation (which also could be wrong), it puts them > in the rw portion of the union filesystem and that gets cleared. > > I think the message to take from this is that this setup will probably > not work... > > Allan > > Ok I'll have to fix my build script to do it

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Re: [arch-general] [signoff] lvm2-2.02.47-1
by Eric Bélanger 31 May '09

31 May '09

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > lvm2-2.02.47-1 is in testing. Minor upstream updates (from 2.02.45). > Please test/signoff. > > Eric > > bump. Anyone? I believe only another dev use this so signoff from users would be good.

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[arch-general] agg 2.5-2 i686 build error
by Baho Utot 31 May '09

31 May '09

Building in a clean chroot per wiki gcc version 4.4.0 20090505 (prerelease) (GCC) ==> Making package: agg 2.5-2 i686 (Sun May 31 12:35:08 UTC 2009) libtool: compile: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../include -I../../../include -I -march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -c agg_platform_support.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libaggplatformX11_la-agg_platform_support.o /bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -I../../../include -I -march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -version-info 2:4:0 -L -o libaggplatformX11.la -rpath /usr/lib libaggplatformX11_la-agg_platform_support.lo -lX11 libtool: link: require no space between `-L' and `-o' make[3]: *** [libaggplatformX11.la] Error 1

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[arch-general] SRCDEST="/path/to/folder"
by Baho Utot 31 May '09

31 May '09

I am Building in a clean chroot according to the wiki The Chroot sub-directory is /home/Chroot/root I have set SRCDEST="/sources" in the makepkg in /home/Chroot/root/etc and then mkdir /home/Chroot/root/sources chmod 777 /home/Chroot/root/sources Is this correct to get makepkg to store the sources in that sub-directory? It presently doesn't work for me or I did something wrong. Can anyone help?

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[arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 30 May '09

30 May '09

Hi, Many package manage user/groups in many differents ways. (no much problem here) Many do things like: @ when installed 1) check if not user foo exists then create it 2) check if not group foo exists then create it @when removed 1) remove the user foo (without check) 2) remove the group foo (without check) Because by default the option USERGROUPS_ENAB is set to yes, when user "foo" is removed also the group "foo" is removed, so the groupdel command will fail, then pacman show the message: "error: scriptlet failed to execute correctly". The solution is trivial, check with getent before remove, just like some packages do it before create the user. My question here, is there interest in resolving this? Currently I have the choice of those who fail (both extra and comunity). Do you send a report to everyone who fail to flyspray with the patch (low priority)? Also I can unify the user creation step, some .install check with "grep" and others with "getent". I prefer the proper getent method. The only package in [core] that have this issue is dbus-core [#1] and is actually reported. [#1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14810 -- 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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] .so bump - icu 4.2
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 30 May '09

30 May '09

Andreas Radke wrote: > I'm just loading new icu up to testing. This will requiere rebuilds > (from our packages webside): > > * brltty > * go-openoffice > * libflashsupport > * libwebkit > * openoffice-base > * openoffice-base-beta > * openoffice-base-devel > * tin > > > I'll do the rebuilds one by one. This will take some time especially > for the OOo packages... > > Please report if more packages will need a rebuild. > > -Andy > > Yes, [extra] is OK and this is from [community] dwdiff-1.5.2-1 libfbclient-2.1.2.18118-1 open-vm-tools-2009.04.23-5 openttd-0.7.0-1 parrot-1.0.0-3 sword-1.5.11-3 xiphos-3.0.1-2 yaz-3.0.45-1 -- 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] pidgin memory leak?
by Gregory T Helton 30 May '09

30 May '09

Noticed this when my music started skipping and glanced at my conky to see 3.82gb memory usage (out of 4). I had to kill the process with `killall -9 pidgin`. I've also noticed pidgin locking up more often with 100% cpu usage on one core lately. ps before I killed it: kano 26176 0.5 86.1 5454392 3490168 ? Rl May27 8:42 pidgin Is anyone else having problems with pidgin? My gf's laptop with ubuntu doesn't seem to have any problems, so I wonder if it maybe an arch issue.

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Re: [arch-general] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14873
by Baho Utot 30 May '09

30 May '09

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 09:53 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 09:25 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > > >> Baho Utot wrote: > >> > >>> This bug was closed with "It is not a bug " and BTW you solution is > >>> wrong. > >>> > >>> Flac fails with "command not found line 20" when built under clean > >>> chroot > >>> > >>> > >>> This is line 20: > >>> > >>> patch -p1 < ../flac-1.2.1-gcc-4.3-includes.patch || return 1 > >>> > >>> Please fix > >>> > >>> > > > > Do you have patch in your chroot? > > > > Yes the chroot was installed with base base-devel sudo as per wiki > > And the chroot fuction/built the entire abs/core so it should be > > working. > > > > I am building extra alphbeticaly and it stops on flac after fixing flac > > to > > > > patch -p1 -i ${startdir}/flac-1.2.1-gcc-4.3-includes.patch || return 1 > > > > it works. > > > > That is why I entered a bug report. > > > > > >>> As a side note which is correct ${startdir}/patch.file or > >>> ${srcdir}/patch.file > >>> > >>> I have be disciplined for both > >>> > >>> > >> As a general rule, you never should use $startdir in a PKGBUILD. > >> > >> > > > > I have seen $startdir in a lot of PKGBUILDs in core and extra, what is > > wrong using it? > > > > $startdir is no longer guaranteed to have any relationship to $srcdir. > $srcdir is where the source files from the "source" array get copied so > you should use that. The packages in the main repos are graually > getting change to reflect that. > > BTW, what is up with your emails coming in to the mailing list several > hours earlier than what you replied to. It is getting annoying... > > Allan Don't know. The clock displayed in gnome is right to UTC and local. I may have started with my using evolution rather that thunderbird. I have used evolution to post all my emails for the month of June. I use to have ntp running but after I did a clean install with gnome as my desktop I havn't set it up. I'll look into it and install ntp Thanks for letting me know.

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[arch-general] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14873
by Baho Utot 30 May '09

30 May '09

This bug was closed with "It is not a bug " and BTW you solution is wrong. Flac fails with "command not found line 20" when built under clean chroot This is line 20: patch -p1 < ../flac-1.2.1-gcc-4.3-includes.patch || return 1 Please fix As a side note which is correct ${startdir}/patch.file or ${srcdir}/patch.file I have be disciplined for both

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Re: [arch-general] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14873
by Baho Utot 29 May '09

29 May '09

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 09:25 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > This bug was closed with "It is not a bug " and BTW you solution is > > wrong. > > > > Flac fails with "command not found line 20" when built under clean > > chroot > > > > > > This is line 20: > > > > patch -p1 < ../flac-1.2.1-gcc-4.3-includes.patch || return 1 > > > > Please fix > > > Do you have patch in your chroot? Yes the chroot was installed with base base-devel sudo as per wiki And the chroot fuction/built the entire abs/core so it should be working. I am building extra alphbeticaly and it stops on flac after fixing flac to patch -p1 -i ${startdir}/flac-1.2.1-gcc-4.3-includes.patch || return 1 it works. That is why I entered a bug report. > > > As a side note which is correct ${startdir}/patch.file or > > ${srcdir}/patch.file > > > > I have be disciplined for both > > > > As a general rule, you never should use $startdir in a PKGBUILD. > I have seen $startdir in a lot of PKGBUILDs in core and extra, what is wrong using it?

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[arch-general] openjdk6 - 1.5 update
by Andreas Radke 29 May '09

29 May '09

the new version is in testing for x86_64, i686 will follow soon. please test it. look for the new features and especially if all fonts and characters are ok for you. I still expect some problems with Asian fonts. You can to some character tests here: http://www.pccl.demon.co.uk/java/unicode.html -Andy We are proud to announce the release of IcedTea6 1.5. The IcedTea6 project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK6 (http://openjdk.java.net) using Free Software build tools. What's New? ----------------- - Static trace support through systemtap. When given the configure option --enable-systemtap IcedTea will build hotspot with the dtrace static markers enabled and install an hotspot tapset that can be used to dynamically trace execution of java applications at runtime. See the tapset/hotspot.stp file for documentation of the various trace points and arguments available. - Allow building of other virtual machines besides the default VM. Additional virtual machines on architectures where hotspot is available are cacao and zero (or shark), and cacao, where zero (or shark) is available. It's not possible to build cacao as the default VM, and zero as additional VM. - Update to latest HotSpot minor build (hs14b10-->hs14b15) from the new HotSpot Express repository. - Updated to OpenJDK b16 build. - VisualVM updated to 1.1.1. - Updated to support CACAO 0.99.4. - Several web browser plugin and javaws support fixes: - Fixed security handling to prevent access denials when there is a site specific exception in the policy file - Allow extentions (chrome) to run Java code with full permissions - Added non-trusted SSL support to WebStart (javaws) - Added proxy support - Other improvements that were breaking specific sites (tag parser fix, nested jar support, etc.) - Added JVM Console (used by http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/) - Removed gcjwebplugin support. - LCMS security fixes. - Many build improvements. - Many gervill, java2d, nio2, pulse java, zero/shark, jtreg fixes. - Experimental out-of-the-box cross-compilation support (not yet finished) - Other bug fixes.

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[arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 29 May '09

29 May '09

Listmates, I installed koffice and attempted to open an openoffice (.odt) document and kword crashed immediately. Next I opened kword again to read through the help file and any notes, and the help doesn't seem to work either: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/koffice.jpg The backtrace for the kword crash is: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/kword.kcrash Is there a work-around that will let me get the help file working? It looks to be a kde3 desktop/kde4 runtime issue. Any help appreciated. -- 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] KDE stoped working
by Nicolas Bigaouette 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hi all, I'm using KDE 4.2.3 on all my (up-to-date) machines. My workstation crashed an hour ago so I had to reboot. But then KDE would not launch anymore. I'm clueless of what could have gone wrong... I login normaly via KDM, launched as runlevel 5 (inittab). KDM works: I can enter my login information. Then KDE starts loading. But then, as soon as the hardrive icon is fuly "unblured", it shutdown and bring me back to KDM. Same thing if I try via startx (startkde in .xinitrc). I then get this error in my terminal: > X.Org X Server 1.6.1 > Release Date: 2009-4-14 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 > Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.29-ARCH x86_64 > Current Operating System: Linux soundwave 2.6.29-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed > May 20 06:42:43 UTC 2009 x86_64 > Build Date: 15 April 2009 11:01:49AM > > Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org > to make sure that you have the latest version. > Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, > (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed May 27 14:34:14 2009 > (==) Using default built-in configuration (39 lines) > (EE) Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist, 0) > (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) > Setting master > xset: bad font path element (#23), possible causes are: > Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions > Directory missing fonts.dir > Incorrect font server address or syntax > startkde: Starting up... > kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher > kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kded4 > kded(7702): Communication problem with "kded" , it probably crashed. > Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did > not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" " > > kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kcminit_startup > kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/ksmserver > startkde: Shutting down... > klauncher: Exiting on signal 1 > startkde: Running shutdown scripts... > startkde: Done. > > waiting for X server to shut down Dropping master > DBus is running: > > ps aux | grep dbus > dbus 4157 0.0 0.0 8500 940 ? Ss 14:50 0:00 > /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system > nicolas 6206 0.0 0.0 23864 712 tty2 S 15:03 0:00 > dbus-launch --autolaunch 6f2374eec76b3f19172c118549c7da6d --binary-syntax > --close-stderr > nicolas 6207 0.0 0.0 8400 888 ? Ss 15:03 0:00 > /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session > and same thing with HAL: > ps aux | grep hal > hal 5907 0.0 0.1 28128 4964 ? Ss 15:02 0:00 > /usr/sbin/hald > root 5908 0.0 0.0 15680 1188 ? S 15:02 0:00 > hald-runner > root 5936 0.0 0.0 17792 1140 ? S 15:02 0:00 > hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event2 > /dev/input/event1 > hal 5974 0.0 0.0 15388 1012 ? S 15:02 0:00 > hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpi kernel interface /proc/acpi/event > root 5976 0.0 0.0 17796 1132 ? S 15:02 0:00 > hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 16 sec) > I even tried launching "startkde" via strace to see what was happening, but it seems fine: > [...] > stat("/usr/bin/xinit", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=15408, ...}) = 0 > rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT CHLD], [], 8) = 0 > lseek(255, -217, SEEK_CUR) = 4276 > clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, > child_tidptr=0x7fa98151d7c0) = 7650 > rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 > rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0 > rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 > rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0 > rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x435840, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fa98075f350}, > {0x4467e0, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fa98075f350}, 8) = 0 > wait4(-1, > > X.Org X Server 1.6.1 > Release Date: 2009-4-14 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 > [...] Anyone having an idea what could be wrong?? Thanx!!

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Re: [arch-general] [radeonhd] [PATCH] PM patches: logic fix, feature, cleaning, memory downclocking
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 29 May '09

29 May '09

On or about Friday 29 May 2009 at approximately 00:01:26 Rafał Miłecki composed: > 2009/5/29 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. <drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com>: > > Rafał, > > > > That's what I needed to know. I'm am not familiar with 'git' and > > the > > > > git checkout -t -b downclocking origin/master > > git am ~/archlinux/radeonhd/patches/*patch > > > > parts were the parts I knew nothing about. I'll pull the patches, apply > > and report back. Something really has to give here. The heat is > > unbearable. To get the actual temp data, I have a digital multimeter with > > a great surface temperature probe on it ( Craftsman Model No. 82400 ) and > > I took the temperature readings on the left palm rest and left fan > > discharge of my laptop with the radeonhd driver active. The results: > > > > Left Palm Rest Temp: 96 Deg. F > > > > Left Fan Discharge: 147 Deg. F > > > > The inside of this box is cooking.... That's with: > > > > Option "ForceLowPowerMode" > > Option "LowPowerModeEngineClock" "140000" > > > > I'll keep my fingers crossed and report back. > > Nice, tests with your multimeter would be absolutely great. You may > also try to reduce EngineClock later. For example change it from > 140000 to 120000. If it doesn't cause any corruptions you can still > try decreasing that. Don't worry about values you may use 139999, > 139998, 139997, end so on.AtomBIOS will round it to something > acceptable. > > -- > Rafał Miłecki Rafał, (also cc'ed to archlinux list for those interested) Here is a quick Summary of what I did: 23:54 alchemy:~/archlinux/apps/radeonhd> git checkout -t -b downclocking origin/master Branch downclocking set up to track remote branch master from origin. Switched to a new branch 'downclocking' 23:55 alchemy:~/archlinux/apps/radeonhd> git am patches/*patch Applying: PM: fix broken engine clock setting logic /home/david/archlinux/apps/radeonhd/.git/rebase-apply/patch:30: trailing whitespace. "calculated engine clock at %ldHz\n", warning: 1 line adds whitespace errors. Applying: PM: add RHDGetDefaultMemoryClock Applying: PM: get rid of EnableForced field Applying: PM: add memory downclocking. Commented out for now. /home/david/archlinux/apps/radeonhd/.git/rebase-apply/patch:28: trailing whitespace. "calculated memory clock at %ldHz\n", warning: 1 line adds whitespace errors. 23:56 alchemy:~/archlinux/apps/radeonhd> find . -name 'rhd_pm.c' ./src/rhd_pm.c 23:57 alchemy:~/archlinux/apps/radeonhd> vi src/rhd_pm.c #if 1 unsigned long defaultMemory = RHDGetDefaultMemoryClock(rhdPtr); if (defaultMemory) { Pm->ForcedMemoryClock = defaultMemory / 2; xf86DrvMsg(rhdPtr->scrnIndex, X_INFO, "ForceLowPowerMode: " "calculated memory clock at %ldHz\n", Pm->ForcedEngineClock); } <snip> Reboot & check /var/log/Xorg.0.log <snip> (II) RADEONHD: version 1.2.5, built from git branch downclocking, commit 0de8b484 + changes <snip> The current log file is at: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/radeonhd/downclock/Xorg.0.log.290… I haven't pulled any additional temperatures for comparison because there wouldn't be that much difference, it's still HOT. Looking through the log file, it is quite a coincidence that the downclocking chose 140000 as the memory clock downclock because that was exactly what I had been setting with the: Option "LowPowerModeEngineClock" "140000" At least we know that the patch applies OK and that it has the desired effect on the memory clock. Now if we can just figure out what else we need to power down to get the temps under control, we will be home free! Thank you for your patch. As I said before, I have the perfect box for testing, so let me know when you have the next one ready and I'll be happy to test it. -- 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] Network Shutdown Prior to umount on cifs mounts hangs shutdown
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 29 May '09

29 May '09

Listmates, I am experiencing a hang on shutdown with Arch every time I don't manually unmount any samba/cifs shares before shutting down. This is due to the shutdown sequence killing my network connection before unmounting the samba shares. This basicly leaves all samba shares mounted and [Busy] which frustrates the unmount filesystems call late in the shutdown sequence. Is there any way to move the network shutdown until after samba shares are unmounted in the shutdown sequence. Or conversely, move or add a samba/cifs shares unmount to the sequence at a time before the network shuts down? -- 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] /etc/rc.d/foo restart
by Daenyth Blank 28 May '09

28 May '09

2009/5/28 Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin(a)resel.fr>: > I'm just an user, but... if I ask the service to be restarted when it is > not started yet, I would expect the rc script to fail as early and > loudly as possible, no ? > > -- > Fred > Currently the rc scripts just do a "stop" followed by a "start" to restart. Should this be done differently? Personally I have no issue with this, and it's beneficial to me.

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[arch-general] [gnutls] Rebuild list (soname bump)
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 28 May '09

28 May '09

This is the list of current dependency (at least at dynamic shared library level) of gnutls-2.6.6 -> 2.8.0 [extra] aria2-1.3.0-1 gnutls-2.6.6-1 aria2-1.3.0-1 bitlbee-1.2.3-1 claws-mail-3.7.1-1 cups-1.3.10-3 epdfview-0.1.7-3 ghostscript-8.64-5 gnome-vfs-2.24.1-2 gtk-vnc-0.3.8-1 gtk2-2.16.1-1 gtklp-1.2.6-5 gutenprint-5.2.3-1 kvm-86-1 lftp-3.7.14-1 libcups-1.3.10-2 libepc-0.3.9-1 libgnomecups-0.2.3-4 libgnomeprint-2.18.6-1 libsoup-2.26.2-1 liferea-1.4.28-1 loudmouth-1.4.3-1 msmtp-1.4.17-1 qemu-0.10.5-1 samba-3.3.4-1 vinagre-2.26.2-1 vino-2.26.2-1 vlc-0.9.9a-3 weechat-0.2.6.1-1 wireshark-1.0.7-3 wput-0.6.1-2 xfce4-mailwatch-plugin-1.1.0-2 xfprint-4.6.1-1 xmlsec-1.2.11-2 [community] ario-1.2.2-1 cupsddk-1.2.3-4 e-modules-extra-svn-40500-1 e-svn-40500-1 ecore-svn-40503-1 edje-svn-40500-1 eet-svn-40500-1 efreet-svn-40500-1 ekg2-20090418-2 elitaire-svn-40502-1 emprint-svn-40500-1 entrance-svn-40500-1 epsilon-svn-40500-1 esmart-svn-40500-1 etk-svn-40500-1 evas-svn-40500-1 ewl-svn-40500-1 exhibit-svn-40500-1 filezilla-3.2.4.1-1 gg2-2.3.0-2 gimmie-0.2.8-6 gloox-0.9.9.6-1 gnome-cups-manager-0.33-6 gnustep-base-1.18.0-1 gnustep-gui-0.16.0-1 gobby-0.4.10-1 gtk-gnutella-0.96.6-1 gwenhywfar-3.8.0-1 hardinfo-0.5.1-1 iksemel-1.3-4 jabberd14-1.6.1.1-5 kazehakase-0.5.6-1 mailutils-2.0-5 net6-1.3.9-1 nzbget-0.6.0-1 obby-0.4.7-1 openlh-core-0.2-1 pokerth-0.7-1 python-certtool-0.1-5 python-gnutls-1.1.8-1 splix-2.0.0-1 xen-3.4.0-1 -- 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] imlib2
by Baho Utot 28 May '09

28 May '09

Building 1.4.2-2 i686 has a dependency for libungif pkgname=imlib2 pkgver=1.4.2 pkgrel=2 pkgdesc="Library that does image file loading and saving as well as rendering, manipulation, arbitrary polygon support" url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/enlightenment/" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('BSD') depends=('libtiff' 'libungif' 'bzip2' 'freetype2' 'libxext' 'libpng' 'libid3tag' 'libjpeg') There is not libungif in core/extra or AUR

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[arch-general] No color with asus M50VC webcam
by richard terry 28 May '09

28 May '09

Wondered if anyone had any clues as to why no colour. The cam pictures in skype/xawtv which I tried B&W and pretty dim. Regards Richard

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[arch-general] network-plasmoid-svn on extra? (WAS: KDE, Bluetooth and Wifi)
by Andrea Scarpino 27 May '09

27 May '09

On 27/05/2009, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > How about adding this to extra? It seems NM is very popular, and until > it is part of kdenetwork we should not force a high percentage of our > users to build it from AUR. we could, I was waiting a stable version. what others DEV think about this? -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[arch-general] KDE, Bluetooth and Wifi
by Manne Merak 27 May '09

27 May '09

So, I am new here, just installed ArchLinux on my work laptop. Had some issues with getting X and KDE4 up, but all fine now. KDE4 is different, I can see why some people dislike it - still needs that polished feeling that 3.5 had, but hey that will come with time. My biggest concern at the moment is Bluetooth mouse and Wifi. KBluetooth looses my mouse, randomly, and there is no KNetworkManager (well a finished one) at the moment. So my question, what does the ArchLinux KDE community use for Bluetooth and Wifi management. (I can fiddle round with bluez and wpa_supplicant config files, but would rather use some higher level config util) Manne ps. I come from the OpenSUSE world, so excuse my desire for management tools.

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[arch-general] libarchive - bsdtar producing weird archives?
by Michael Towers 27 May '09

27 May '09

The result of a makepkg run produced what looked like a totally garbled package, when viewed in mc's virtual file system. That led me to investigate a bit, so I tried packing up a few directories with bsdtar and sometimes got similarly garbled results. However, unpacking worked completely normally, as also did viewing the archives in xarchiver or squeeze. If I use tar instead of bsdtar to do the packing, they appear normally in mc. Does anyone know what's going on here? Is it mc that is getting something wrong, or bsdtar?

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[arch-general] lilo 22.8-3 - compile - latest gcc
by Baho Utot 26 May '09

26 May '09

==> Making package: lilo 22.8-3 i686 (Mon May 25 18:31:24 UTC 2009) ==> Checking Runtime Dependencies... ==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies... ==> Retrieving Sources... -> Using cached copy of lilo-22.8.src.tar.gz -> Using cached copy of gcc-44.patch -> Using cached copy of lilo.conf ==> WARNING: Integrity checks (md5) are missing or incomplete. ==> Extracting Sources... -> bsdtar -x -f lilo-22.8.src.tar.gz ==> Entering fakeroot environment... ==> Starting build()... patching file checkit ./checkit GCC version 2.91 or later is required gcc is not present AS86 version 0.16.10 or later is required as86 version 0.16.17 OKAY LD86 version 0.16.10 or later is required ld86 version 0.16.17 OKAY BCC version 0.16.10 or later is recommended bcc is not present You will not be able to make floppy2, diag2.img, or lilo.com make: *** [test.img] Error 1 ==> ERROR: Build Failed.

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 55, Issue 46
by Keith 26 May '09

26 May '09

On Tue, 26 May 2009 at 10 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, they're cross posts. Note the [arch-dev-public] in the subject line. Those are cross posts from the public dev list (which is read-only to non devs) Ah - got it. Thank you. Regards...K

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[arch-general] libnl 1.1-1 i686
by Baho Utot 26 May '09

26 May '09

Source package URL gone => Making package: libnl 1.1-1 i686 (Mon May 25 18:31:16 UTC 2009) ==> Checking Runtime Dependencies... ==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies... ==> Retrieving Sources... -> Downloading libnl-1.1.tar.gz... --2009-05-25 18:31:17-- http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl/files/libnl-1.1.tar.gz Resolving people.suug.ch... 85.118.1.10, 2001:770:15f::2 Connecting to people.suug.ch|85.118.1.10|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/files/libnl-1.1.tar.gz [following] --2009-05-25 18:31:17-- http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/files/libnl-1.1.tar.gz Resolving www.infradead.org... 85.118.1.10, 2001:770:15f::2 Connecting to www.infradead.org|85.118.1.10|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2009-05-25 18:31:17 ERROR 404: Not Found.

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Re: [arch-general] DeveloperWiki:Building in a Clean Chroot
by Baho Utot 26 May '09

26 May '09

On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 11:56 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > I am missing something here ? > > > > > > sudo makechrootpkg -r /home/Build/root -- -u > > building union chroot > > ERROR: No unionfs available. Abandon ship! > > > > > > I have aufs2-utils installed and I did a modprobe fuse and modprobe aufs > > > > You need to patch makechrootpkg with this: > http://code.phraktured.net/cgit.cgi/devtools/commit/?id=2269e5c9 > > Allan > > > Since unionfs has been dropped from kernel-2.6.29.4-1 Please can someone push devtools-2269e5c9 to the repo that devtools installs from. And update the DeveloperWiki:Building in a Clean Chroot to say you need kernel-2.6.xx and aufs2-utils. I lost 3 days trying to fix this. I needed to build a few packages for a server. Since I have done a Clean install from the latest install CD and sync'd/updated the system my build system broke and following the wiki no longer works. Thanks

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[arch-general] Problem w/Digest?
by Keith 26 May '09

26 May '09

Below are the 1st and last messages contained in the copy of Vol. 55 #44 I received, dated May 24, 5:56 PM EDT. Note the timestamp on message #1: May 23, 9:17 AM UTC. Yet the message quoted within message #10, timestamped May 24, 11:52 UTC, isn't in the digest (or anywhere else I can find). I've noted this numerous times recently and wrote it off to a lousy memory. But it's clearly more than that. Are these cross-posts being replied to? Is the digest dropping messages? Thanks...K Message: 1 Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 09:17:27 +0000 From: Baho Utot <baho-utot(a)columbus.rr.com> Subject: Re: [arch-general] DeveloperWiki:Building in a Clean Chroot To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> Message-ID: <1243070247.15748.7.camel(a)desktop.bildanet.com> Content-Type: text/plain On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 11:56 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > Baho Utot wrote: > >> > > I am missing something here ? >> > > >> > > <snip> Message: 10 Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 00:55:59 +0300 From: Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] testing repo clean-up To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org Message-ID: <20090524215559.GA3136@dark> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:52:15PM +0200, Thomas B?chler wrote: > > Tobias Powalowski schrieb: > >> >> moved in lilo,openvpn,openswan and capi4k-utils to extra >> > > > > I'd like to keep openvpn in core. I'd even maintain it, but I use the > > openvpn 2.1 release candidates and thus don't test or use the 2.0.X > > releases. > > > The first three were moved to core not extra. Its just capi4k-utils that was moved in a different repo than it was before. -- Greg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/attachments/20090525/b1695e…>

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[arch-general] run-parts source URL bad
by Baho Utot 25 May '09

25 May '09

==> Making package: run-parts 2.31-1 i686 (Mon May 25 18:31:59 UTC 2009) ==> Checking Runtime Dependencies... ==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies... ==> Retrieving Sources... -> Downloading debianutils_2.31.tar.gz... --2009-05-25 18:31:59-- http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debianutils/debianutils_2.31.tar.gz Resolving ftp.debian.org... 130.89.149.226 Connecting to ftp.debian.org|130.89.149.226|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2009-05-25 18:32:00 ERROR 404: Not Found. ==> ERROR: Failure while downloading debianutils_2.31.tar.gz Aborting...

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[arch-general] licenses 2.4-1 - MD5SUM error
by Baho Utot 25 May '09

25 May '09

==> Making package: licenses 2.4-1 i686 (Mon May 25 18:31:20 UTC 2009) ..... ==> Validating source files with md5sums... LICENSE-2.0.txt ... Passed cc-by-3.0.txt ... Passed cc-by-nc-3.0.txt ... Passed cc-by-nc-nd-3.0.txt ... Passed cc-by-nc-sa-3.0.txt ... Passed cc-by-nd-3.0.txt ... Passed cc-by-sa-3.0.txt ... Passed cc-readme.txt ... Passed cddl-1.0.txt ... Passed eclipse-1.0.txt ... Passed gpl-2.0.txt ... Passed gpl-3.0.txt ... Passed lgpl-2.1.txt ... FAILED lgpl.txt ... FAILED fdl.txt ... FAILED lppl.txt ... Passed MPL-1.1.txt ... Passed perlartistic.txt ... Passed 3_0.txt ... Passed LICENSE.txt ... Passed cpl-1.0.txt ... Passed python-2.txt ... Passed LICENSE.ralink-firmware.txt ... Passed ZopePublicLicense.txt ... Passed ==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!

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[arch-general] xorg crash with setxkbmap frequently use
by Sergey Manucharian 25 May '09

25 May '09

Hi folks, X server crashes randomly with the following error: [xkb] BOGUS LENGTH in write keyboard desc, expected 5576, got 5592 Graphic card is Intel G965, driver xf86-video-intel, tried both from [extra] and [testing]. I'm using the Caps_Lock key to change the keyboard layout via a script. I do not want to use "grp:caps_toggle" in xkb options since I need to do something else besides just layout switching. My bash script toggles between layouts running "setxkbmap -layout us" or "setxkbmap -layout ru" commands depending on the current one. Once in a while X server crashes on the toggling. Before I used the "stock" method "grp:caps_toggle", and it never crashed. Google finds several bug reports with the similar error string, but they are not related to layout switching. Thanks for ideas! Sergey.

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[arch-general] vi again
by Baho Utot 25 May '09

25 May '09

I am trying to build vi in core.....any one have a patch to make it compile without me preforming surgery on the PKGBUILD and bash scripts? Thanks

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[arch-general] namcap
by Baho Utot 25 May '09

25 May '09

I tried namcap a freshly built fakeroot from the latest abs sync Here is what it said namcap fakeroot-1.12.2-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz fakeroot E: Dependency detected and not included (bash) from files ['usr/bin/fakeroot'] fakeroot W: Dependency included but already satisfied (glibc) fakeroot W: Dependency included and not needed (filesystem) fakeroot W: Dependency included and not needed (grep) fakeroot W: Dependency included and not needed (sed) This is the dependency line from the PKGBUILD depends=('glibc' 'filesystem' 'grep' 'sed') What is namcap telling me ? Could fakeroot be built from a PKGBUILD without those dependencies? And is missing the bash dependency?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] testing repo clean-up
by Grigorios Bouzakis 24 May '09

24 May '09

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:52:15PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Tobias Powalowski schrieb: >> moved in lilo,openvpn,openswan and capi4k-utils to extra > > I'd like to keep openvpn in core. I'd even maintain it, but I use the > openvpn 2.1 release candidates and thus don't test or use the 2.0.X > releases. > The first three were moved to core not extra. Its just capi4k-utils that was moved in a different repo than it was before. -- Greg

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Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] Was: telepathy/empathy removed from [testing]
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 24 May '09

24 May '09

Allan McRae wrote: > Hi, > > Due to lack of developer time to package this fully, the > telepathy/empathy packages sat in [testing] for a long time and become > out dated. Now they have been removed, so these packages are free to > go into [community] if a TU wishes to do so. > > Allan > > > > Hello What about squid? i686 Testing squid 2.7.STABLE6-2 Orphan 2009-03-12 x86_64 Testing squid 2.7.STABLE6-2 Orphan 2009-03-13 i686 Extra squid 2.7.STABLE6-1 Orphan 2009-05-10 x86_64 Extra squid 2.7.STABLE6-1 Orphan 2009-04-26 As can see, the version in extra is more recent (at least in date) that te version in testing (+2 months old) The diff between 1 and 2 is the addition of libcap=>2.16 to depends array. Cheers, -- 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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] sqlite3 3.6.14.1-1
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 24 May '09

24 May '09

Andreas Radke wrote: > bump. anyone? No issues with Firefox? > > -Andy > > Works fine here. -- 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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [PATCH] Start sequences of daemons in background
by Florian Pritz 23 May '09

23 May '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Rayner wrote: > This patch allows you to background a whole sequence of daemons, > rather than an individual daemon. As a result, you can get a very fast > parallel boot. I suppose this could be considered an 'arch like' > parallel boot setup. This isn't my idea, I'm sure someone has made a > patch like this before however I couldnt find it and it never got > merged. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12476 (last comment has a good patch) Greetings Florian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJKGBIlAAoJEG0WVcFM4cE+OJgP/RMehbQ9dO/E5bQ22IRGoZ6L feSfcF8S3+xLUcZ06A5IrMrSIMlLltVA7yMiS1OGtg+H9+sRmPg3xZndCVWGV5Bz AcKXHO8OYxy/EzErF447f+wGZtnIV9mz6QDvov6TUFrYwj5IdzBSPvbiO6WV/uUv WyMmDuKbvN8jFEZhVjfWNbhfEtDc8pgWUF/RPMIRbqZeii8ZzweD/pBCFsM1Tx1n 50MhF8i0dF8kDRqrNuyAJeN5D++YoZq8CtsXASx+vj2+k+qr3YnqybOu69Dx+RHA axmUDX0D5COyCz0q/XHSRdupr7IjMgNbMwWGy9EaTbbWC5kcgA40PBUkBcZold7d jW52X4q6FVcaU4rkdi3Jx0YUvT5XRRTqM1k6GpUR9fhKOFwK0aVcOuGSLevZ1Ibc qamjCiohqXGx0Xa5YvHre2bB+AKloSj7OshQRi4HjAm7sUebPdvIDG2MWbi0lS5Z 55F8l6vLa1iMFmvlVKlFTEcb5HjnIhVqT+khWBfWjJdOoJMoYDDA7qBl2wLi3eTr J2ytpe4LVfQJhPpWfeVZVpzcW14wVFv2MDuH1UGMKliO0hGbXKl2PhX3fdqXqXYP p7o+A08hWvMQGnktJpr3b6Xe+vvxq2cfBhjrokPMZ9YcdcHpxV+cacGZYX3jyjtQ FaZT0Y1hPtsFUVVrdtVs =6WZX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [PATCH] Start sequences of daemons in background
by Damjan Georgievski 23 May '09

23 May '09

> This patch allows you to background a whole sequence of daemons, > rather than an individual daemon. As a result, you can get a very fast > parallel boot. I suppose this could be considered an 'arch like' > parallel boot setup. This isn't my idea, I'm sure someone has made a > patch like this before however I couldnt find it and it never got > merged. > > The major benefit is that boot doesnt get held up by slow starting > dependencies, like hal and network. I can't background network because > I have other services that depend on it such as nfs, ssh, iptables, > ntpdate and cups. Similarly, I cant background hal, as gdm depends on > it. ssh, iptables and cups can be started before your network is up... even more, iptables SHOULD be started before network is up, since it needs to protect you from the first moment > For example... > DAEMONS=(@net-auto,ntpdate,cups @acpi,hal,gdm syslog-ng cpufreq bluetooth crond) > Comma delimited groups are started in background and run in sequence. > > Bootchart testing > I saw a consistent improvement of at least 5s, from 31s to 26s. One > boot somehow acheived 23s, and that was with full auto wireless > enabled. I used a fixed modules list to avoid any inconsistency in > udev time, so udev was always 1.9-2.1 seconds. I also used a wired > connection for network as wireless connection time varied too much. > There is a more noticable improvement with wireless, as it takes > longer and can be backgrounded with the patch. > -- damjan

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Re: [arch-general] DeveloperWiki:Building in a Clean Chroot
by Baho Utot 23 May '09

23 May '09

On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 11:56 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > I am missing something here ? > > > > > > sudo makechrootpkg -r /home/Build/root -- -u > > building union chroot > > ERROR: No unionfs available. Abandon ship! > > > > > > I have aufs2-utils installed and I did a modprobe fuse and modprobe aufs > > > > You need to patch makechrootpkg with this: > http://code.phraktured.net/cgit.cgi/devtools/commit/?id=2269e5c9 > > Allan > > > $ sudo makechrootpkg -r /home/scrat/Build/root -- -u building union chroot ERROR: No aufs available. Abandon ship! $ cat /proc/filesystems nodev sysfs nodev rootfs nodev bdev nodev proc nodev binfmt_misc nodev debugfs nodev securityfs nodev sockfs nodev pipefs nodev anon_inodefs nodev tmpfs nodev inotifyfs nodev devpts nodev ramfs nodev mqueue jfs nodev fuse fuseblk nodev fusectl nodev usbfs ext2 The modprobe -q aufs did not happen, lsmod did not show it. modprobe aufs and retrying still fails with no aufs --> ERROR: No aufs available. Abandon ship! Using the latest kernel 2.6.29-4

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[arch-general] calender pgm
by Baho Utot 23 May '09

23 May '09

I am looking for a calander program like the one in evolution but is a standalone or web based Any Suggestions?

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[arch-general] DeveloperWiki:Building in a Clean Chroot
by Baho Utot 22 May '09

22 May '09

I am missing something here ? sudo makechrootpkg -r /home/Build/root -- -u building union chroot ERROR: No unionfs available. Abandon ship! I have aufs2-utils installed and I did a modprobe fuse and modprobe aufs

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[arch-general] DeveloperWiki:Building in a Clean Chroot
by Baho Utot 22 May '09

22 May '09

Which unionfs should I use? unionfs-utils or aufs2-util They are both marked as ophans

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[arch-general] Subversion server - authentication problem
by Paulo Santos 22 May '09

22 May '09

Greetings everyone, I've been trying to create a Subversion repository without success. I end up always with the same error: 403 Forbidden. I've followed the wiki [1] doing exactly the same as described there (except the path and username) and I don't understand. I set the permissions, checked the ssl paths over and over again, the same with .svn-policy-file and nothing... Trying the link in the browser, accept the certificate and pass the basic authentication and there it is, the 403 page. I don't get prompted again for authentication so it's the right one. Using svn -co, the same thing: svn: Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden) in response to OPTIONS request for 'https://localhost/svn/repo' Does anyone have any idea what can be wrong? Maybe some common mistake or something... Thanks in advance, Paulo Santos [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Subversion_Setup

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[arch-general] dictionary for evolution
by Baho Utot 22 May '09

22 May '09

What dictionary does evolution use for spell checking? It tells me I have only the Turkish available, but since I don't know Turkish I need to change this to something I know about. Thanks

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[arch-general] libdrm stuck at 2.4.9
by Damjan Georgievski 22 May '09

22 May '09

Does anyone know why the i686 version of libdrm is stuck at version 2.4.9 (the x86_64 is up-to-date at 2.4.11)? http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=libdrm I don't mind it much, since I've compiled my own package, but each time I try to -Syu pacman wants to downgrade to 2.4.9 and it's a bit annoying :) -- damjan

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] glibc-2.10 toolchain
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 21 May '09

21 May '09

Allan McRae wrote: > Hi, > > Now that gmp is fixed... it is about time to signoff for these packages. > > binutils 2.19.1-3 > gcc 4.4.0-2 > gcc-libs 4.4.0-2 > glibc 2.10.1-1 > gmp 4.3.1-2 > kernel-headers 2.6.29.3-1 Currently running on it (both 32 and 64) since these pkg are on my mirror ;) > > I will draft an announcement about the kernel minimum requirement > change from 2.6.16 -> .18. > Maybe a good idea is to add these two links to note: about porting to GCC 4.4.0 [#1] and glibc-2.10 changes [#2] especially for the part of "C++ compliance". [#1] http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/porting_to.html [#2] http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20948.html Good Luck! -- 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] hal has lost its mind again.
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 21 May '09

21 May '09

Listmates, On my laptop, automounting of usb drives and mmc/sd cards were working fine, now I get the "...mount.removable no <-- (action, result)" Full error dialog: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/hal-mount.removable.jpg The system configures the drives or cards just fine, it just will not create the directory under /media to allow access. It is really ironic because the drives/cards are fully accessible under "media:/". So, nothing in "/media", but OK in "media:/". I am concerned that changes made in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/20-ntfs-config-write-policy.fdi to allow NTFS mounts messed something else up. The file contains: <deviceinfo version="0.2"> <device> <match key="volume.fstype" string="ntfs"> <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="true"> <merge key="volume.fstype" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge> <merge key="volume.policy.mount_filesystem" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge> </match> </match> </device> </deviceinfo> which is straight from the wiki. The everything log contains the following: May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: tifm_core: MMC/SD card detected in socket 0:1 May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: mmc1: new SD card at address e624 May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: isa bounce pool size: 16 pages May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: mmcblk0: mmc1:e624 SD02G 1.89 GiB May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: mmcblk0: p1 May 17 02:55:20 alchemy hald: mounted /dev/mmcblk0p1 on behalf of uid 0 May 17 03:06:54 alchemy kernel: ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off interrupt mode. I don't know if the ACPI kernel message is evidence of the problem, but I included it just in case. I am slowly trying to make friends with hal/dbus, but I could use any help you can give in sorting this out. 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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[arch-general] Arch Linux on Go-OO download page?
by Ondřej Kučera 21 May '09

21 May '09

Hello, a couple of Linux distributions are mentioned at http://go-oo.org/download/ with a short info about how to install it. However, Arch Linux is not among them. I expect that if someone wrote them that Arch Linux has Go-OO in its repository as well, they'd be willing to add that message there. I'd write them myself but I suppose it would be better if it was done by someone "more official" (e. g. a developer). Opinions? Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera

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[arch-general] kde dark themes
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 21 May '09

21 May '09

kdeusers, If you haven't tried a dark theme for your kde desktop yet, you are missing out on some really cool looks. I toyed with dark themes over the years, but never really found one that worked. After being inspired to try again by senior Rosenstrauch posted one to the list, I took another look and came up with something I really like. It consists of color-themes for kde, emerald, and kate/kwrite. Other than that you just need to change the foreground color for konqueror and any of your web browsers, etc. I'll just post the links to the themes since you can't post it all here. Give it a shot, I bet you will like it. Small screenshots of the desktop theme and kicker background: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/screenshots/kde-dark-them… http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/screenshots/kickersteel.j… kde color-schemes (import under kde control center -> colors): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/color-themes/dcr-Blue.kcs… emerald theme for compiz (import in emerald theme manager): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/emerald/dcr%20Dark%20Blue-Gra… kate/kwrite/quanta color scheme (put in ~/.kde/share/config): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/kateschemarc A kicker background (kde control center -> Desktop -> Panel -> Appearance): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/kicker/kickersteelarch2.p… There are a few alternate themes and backgrounds in the above directories, so you can pick and choose if you like. And DR, since you started this whole thing, and I appreciate it, if you notice the "R" icon on my kicker panel that is set atop flames, I've put two sizes on the server (40x40 and 140x140) just in case you have a use for them ;-) See: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/icons/ -- 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] pan crashes with bug report
by Baho Utot 20 May '09

20 May '09

pan is crashing when I try to send a reply to any news group This is the bug report from bug-buddy System: Linux 2.6.29-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 9 12:47:43 UTC 2009 i686 X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation X Vendor Release: 10601000 Selinux: No Accessibility: Disabled GTK+ Theme: Clearlooks Icon Theme: gnome GTK+ Modules: canberra-gtk-module, gnomebreakpad Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0 CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0 ----------- .xsession-errors (76 sec old) --------------------- camel-imap-provider-Message: Unable to load summary: no such table: Trash Unmatched element: citerefentry Unmatched element: refentrytitle Unmatched element: citerefentry Unmatched element: refentrytitle ** (evolution:4230): DEBUG: mailto URL command: evolution %s ** (evolution:4230): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution camel-imap-provider-Message: Unable to load summary: no such table: Drafts camel-imap-provider-Message: Unable to load summary: no such table: Kumusta camel-imap-provider-Message: Unable to load summary: no such table: Trash -------------------------------------------------- MDRawHeader Any help with this?

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[arch-general] :: Starting acpid -- acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 20 May '09

20 May '09

Listmates, I am chasing down an issue with the radeonhd driver to force downclocking of the gpu. In my Xog.0.log I am receiving the message: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) I have installed acpid, but acpid will not start and gives the following error: [10:24 alchemy:/home/david] # /etc/rc.d/acpid start :: Starting acpid [BUSY] acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy [FAIL] What's the trick with acpid? -- 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] Can't compile digikam 0.10 on archlinux.
by Markus Golser 20 May '09

20 May '09

Hi I try to build digikam 0.10 on archlinux. I have kdegraphics 4.2.3-1 installed and still can't compile digikam sudo abs cp -r /var/abs/extra/digikam/ /tmp cd /tmp/digikam/ makepkg PKGBUILD -- The C compiler identification is GNU -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works -- Detecting C compiler ABI info -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done -- Looking for Q_WS_X11 -- Looking for Q_WS_X11 - found -- Looking for Q_WS_WIN -- Looking for Q_WS_WIN - not found. -- Looking for Q_WS_QWS -- Looking for Q_WS_QWS - not found. -- Looking for Q_WS_MAC -- Looking for Q_WS_MAC - not found. -- Found Qt-Version 4.5.1 (using /usr/bin/qmake) -- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib/libX11.so;/usr/lib/libXext.so;/usr/lib/libXft.so;/usr/lib/libXau.so;/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so;/usr/lib/libXpm.so -- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib/libX11.so;/usr/lib/libXext.so;/usr/lib/libXft.so;/usr/lib/libXau.so;/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so;/usr/lib/libXpm.so - found -- Looking for gethostbyname -- Looking for gethostbyname - found -- Looking for connect -- Looking for connect - found -- Looking for remove -- Looking for remove - found -- Looking for shmat -- Looking for shmat - found -- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE -- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE - found -- Found X11: /usr/lib/libX11.so -- Looking for include files CMAKE_HAVE_PTHREAD_H -- Looking for include files CMAKE_HAVE_PTHREAD_H - found -- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads -- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found -- Looking for pthread_create in pthread -- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found -- Found Threads: TRUE -- Found Automoc4: /usr/bin/automoc4 -- Found Perl: /usr/bin/perl -- Performing Test _OFFT_IS_64BIT -- Performing Test _OFFT_IS_64BIT - Failed -- Performing Test HAVE_FPIE_SUPPORT -- Performing Test HAVE_FPIE_SUPPORT - Success -- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_W_OVERLOADED_VIRTUAL -- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_W_OVERLOADED_VIRTUAL - Success -- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY -- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY - Success -- Phonon Version: 4.3.0 -- Found Phonon: /usr/lib/libphonon.so -- Found Phonon Includes: /usr/include/KDE;/usr/include -- Found KDE 4.2 include dir: /usr/include -- Found KDE 4.2 library dir: /usr/lib -- Found the KDE4 kconfig_compiler preprocessor: /usr/bin/kconfig_compiler -- Found automoc4: /usr/bin/automoc4 -- checking for module 'lcms' -- found lcms, version 1.18 -- Found lcms version 1.18, /usr/lib/liblcms.so -- Found JPEG: /usr/lib/libjpeg.so -- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib/libz.so -- Found PNG: /usr/lib/libpng.so -- Found TIFF: /usr/lib/libtiff.so -- Found Jasper: /usr/lib/libjasper.so -- Check Kdcraw library in local sub-folder... -- Check Kdcraw library using pkg-config... -- WARNING: you are using the obsolete 'PKGCONFIG' macro use FindPkgConfig -- PKGCONFIG() indicates that libkdcraw is not installed (install the package which contains libkdcraw.pc if you want to support this feature) -- Check Kexiv2 library in local sub-folder... -- Check Kexiv2 library using pkg-config... -- WARNING: you are using the obsolete 'PKGCONFIG' macro use FindPkgConfig -- PKGCONFIG() indicates that libkexiv2 is not installed (install the package which contains libkexiv2.pc if you want to support this feature) -- Check Kipi library in local sub-folder... -- Check Kipi library using pkg-config... -- WARNING: you are using the obsolete 'PKGCONFIG' macro use FindPkgConfig -- Found libkipi release < 0.2.0, too old -- Found gphoto2: -L/usr/lib -lgphoto2_port;-L/usr/lib -lgphoto2 -lgphoto2_port -lm -- checking for module 'libkdcraw>=0.4.0' -- package 'libkdcraw>=0.4.0' not found -- checking for module 'libkexiv2>=0.5.0' -- package 'libkexiv2>=0.5.0' not found -- Found KdepimLibs: /usr/lib/cmake/KdepimLibs-4.2.3/KdepimLibsConfig.cmake -- WARNING: you are using the obsolete 'PKGCONFIG' macro use FindPkgConfig -- Found LensFun: /usr/include -- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- digiKam 0.10.0 dependencies results <http://www.digikam.org> -- -- Qt4 SQL module found................ YES -- libjpeg library found............... YES -- libtiff library found............... YES -- libpng library found................ YES -- libjasper library found............. YES -- liblcms library found............... YES -- libkipi library found............... NO -- CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:175 (MESSAGE): digiKam needs libkipi library >= 0.2.0. You need to install libkipi first -- libkipi website is at http://www.digikam.org/sharedlibs -- -- libkexiv2 library found............. NO -- CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:185 (MESSAGE): digiKam needs libkexiv2 library >= 0.5.0. You need to install libkexiv2 first -- libkexiv2 website is at http://www.digikam.org/sharedlibs -- -- libkdcraw library found............. NO -- CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:195 (MESSAGE): digiKam needs libkdcraw library >= 0.4.0. You need to install libkdcraw first -- libkdcraw website is at http://www.digikam.org/sharedlibs -- -- libgphoto2 library found............ YES -- libkdepimlibs library found......... YES (optional) -- libmarblewidget library found....... NO (optional) -- -- digiKam will be compiled without geolocation using Marble widget support. -- -- liblensfun library found............ YES (optional) CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:269 (MESSAGE): digiKam will be compiled............ NO (Look README file for more details about dependencies) -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

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[arch-general] Firefox bug that may be Arch specific
by Emmanuel Benisty 20 May '09

20 May '09

Hi List, Just for information, there has been already two bug reports in Bugzilla that mention a bug in the display size of textboxes. Until now, only Archers seems to suffer from this bug and one of the mozilla developers has marked this issue as specific to Arch. Therefore, I thought it could be interesting to let Arch developers and users to be informed about this. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491114 Thanks+regards.

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[arch-general] Marking a package as a dependency
by Magnus Therning 20 May '09

20 May '09

I just recently bothered reading part of pacman's man page and found that I probably should have performed a `pacman -U --asdeps mypkg.tar.gz` as I installed dependencies for packages I build manually. However I didn't, so can I retro-actively change the reason-for-installation of an already installed package without re-installing it? (No, I couldn't decipher whether the man page already tells me how to do this :-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 20 May '09

20 May '09

Listmates, I'm building a local repo for boxes to update via the lan instead of redownloading. I have my repo on my local server as: arch/ x86/ x86_64/ I have moved all files for my two x86_64 boxes to the arch/x86_64 dir and I am filtering with a script to eliminate dups by moving the lesser numbered packages to arch/x86_64/oldpkgs. Testing the script before the actual move of packages, I ran across this anomaly in some filenames: (script output) [1] <snip> ttf-isabella-1.003-3.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs ttf-isabella-1.003-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz tunepimp-0.5.3-5.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs tunepimp-0.5.3-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz tzdata-2009f-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs tzdata-2009g-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz unrar-3.8.5-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs unrar-3.9.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz <snip> As shown above, there are multiple packages where the earlier version did *not* contain the x86_64 designation where the current package now does. Are these the same packages? If so why did earlier packages not have the x86_64 and when was the architecture added? Are all packages now going to have the architecture specified? Footnotes: [1] Filtering done by a simple look ahead and the output created as follows: PKGFILES=( $(ls -1 /home/backup/archlinux/x86_64) ) for ((i=0;i<${#PKGFILES[@]}-1;i++)); do if [[ ${PKGFILES[$i]%%-[[:digit:]]*} == ${PKGFILES[$i+1]%%-[[:digit:]]*} ]]; then echo -e "${PKGFILES[$i]} -> oldpkgs\n${PKGFILES[$i+1]}\n" fi -- 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] broken john package
by Sébastien Duquette 18 May '09

18 May '09

The package for john is broken, it is missing files that make it unusable. I filled a bug report (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14422) a month ago and other users complained about this issue. The current maintainer is andrea and the package was last updated on april 8th. Can someone please fix this ? Thanks, Sébastien

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[arch-general] netcfg SCAN patch
by Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi, a typing error on src/connections/wireless. [ ]s -- Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto Robinho robsonpeixoto(a)gmail.com Telefone: (19) 8821-0396 Computer Science Master's degree student, University of Campinas Archlinux-br Developer Team - http://archlinux-br.org Linux Counter #395633

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[arch-general] error dumped to terminal: kdeinit4: ... /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 on kdemod3?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 18 May '09

18 May '09

Listmates, Here is a curious one. I am getting KDE4 errors dumped back to the screen on my KDE3 (kdemod3) screen hours after kdiff3 was run from the terminal? Here is what is getting dumped back to my terminal through stderr on my x86_64 install: kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KBuildServiceFactory::createEntry: Invalid Service : "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" kbuildsycoca4(25149) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/opera.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/scribus.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KBuildServiceFactory::createEntry: Invalid Service : "/usr/share/applications/scribus.desktop" Anybody ever seen something like this before. It looks like it will be a kdemod issue related to the fact that kdiff3 was built against the kde4 runtime, but I thought I would ask hear to see if anyone else has seen something like this before? I have a bug open with kdemod: http://www.chakra-project.org/bugs/showreport.php?bugid=271 where additional details can be found. The times associated with running kdiff3 and then the above error messages have me confused. Specifically I ran kdiff3 and got the following output on stdout at 2:12 am: 02:12 alchemy:~/tmp/cursor/xcursorgen-1.0.2/mycursors> kdiff3 QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kded4 kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(16647) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/opt/kde/share/applications/kde/k3b.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). kbuildsycoca4(16647) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/opt/kde/share/applications/kde/filelight.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). <snip> Then hours later, I received the stderr messages: [05:15 archangel:~/tmp] # kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kconf_update kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4 (21983)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line <snip> [09:05 archangel:~/tmp] # kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line Now I'm not trying to run kdeinit4, that just what is coming back trough stderr and my prompt just happens to have a timestamp in it to help gage time. Is there anything I can do with kdiff3 to prevent the call to kdeinit4? -- 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] Howto create initial xorg.conf for intel 915?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 18 May '09

18 May '09

Listmates: I have been throught http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_Graphics, and even added the section on howto calculate your VideoRam value, but I didn't find anything about generating an initial xorg.conf for the intel card. Currently I have no xorg.conf and things are working, but not as fast as they could. I would like to configure the card to use UXA accell, but I need an xorg.conf to tweak. Anybody know a quick way to create one? 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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[arch-general] Xpdf pl3 PKGBUILD
by Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto 18 May '09

18 May '09

PKGBUILD for xpdf pl3 [ ]s -- Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto Robinho robsonpeixoto(a)gmail.com Telefone: (19) 8821-0396 Computer Science Master's degree student, University of Campinas Archlinux-br Developer Team - http://archlinux-br.org Linux Counter #395633

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[arch-general] AARG! kinit: cannot open dev(8,7) kernel panic
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 17 May '09

17 May '09

Listmates, I am in a fist-fight with grub again most likely due to /dev/disk/by-uuid and I'm losing the battle. First, the situation. I'm moving and resizing partitions from an 80G drive to a 500G drive. No issues there. The partitions setup is: /dev/sda1 WinXP /dev/sda2 Extended /dev/sda5 /home /dev/sda6 / /dev/sda7 swap /dev/sda8 /boot After moving and resizing the partitions windows boot fine and Arch boots until it gets to kinit and then throws a kernel panic. I have updated the disk/by-uuid labels in /boot/grub/menu.lst and in /etc/fstab, but still the kinit error. As far as my grub install goes, the system boot to the grub menu and it is reading /boot/grub/menu.lst because I can boot XP from the grub menu, but not boot Arch. Gurus... What to check? Throw a brother a bone.... Where else is the disk by-uuid stuff hidden? -- 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] Bugs again
by Damjan Georgievski 16 May '09

16 May '09

Sorry to bring this again, but something has to change in the way bugs are handled in Arch. I've open this bug report http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13905 about the awesome package in community. The package maintainer just closes the bug, not solving it, claiming it's upstream, and not even investigating the problem. He suggests I ask upstream. Ok, I play a good citizen, I do ask upstream, we find the problem, a sollution is found - it turns out the PKGBUILD was wrong from the begining - but still I submit a patch to awesome so that building it is much easier. I request reopening the bug .. it's a small text-area, not very usable, so I just write "New information" .. since the bug was closed with "You may want to ask upstream why they install those files by default.". And then I get the answer: Reason for denial: You need to be more specific that "New information" in a reopen request... Now, it's not like I enjoy hanging out in the bug system opening bugs, investigating them, hoping to improve ArchLinux's packages.. and I don't see how I could've deserved this behaviour. The bug report shouldn't have been closed in the first place, since the problem was not even solved. -- damjan

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[arch-general] Setting up print to postscript in openoffice 3
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 16 May '09

16 May '09

Listmates, While I was on the subject, I thought I would pass this tip along. Let me know if this should go to forums instead of here. Printing to pdf is no problem in ooo3, just hit the button, but if you want to print to postscript, then things take a little more work. Printing to kprinter is nebulous in ooo3, so there has to be another way -- and there is. The simplest way I have found is to: (1) install cups & cups-pdf from extra; (2) start cups with /etc/rc.d/cups (Add to deamons line in /etc/rc.conf to start automatically at boot) (3) access the cups print manager: http://localhost:631 and select: Administration -> Find New Printers Select CUPS-PDF (Virtual PDF) Make: Generic Driver: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer Done! Now to print to postscript, just print as usual, choose "CUPS-PDF" as the printer and then select the checkbox for "print to file", hit print and enter the filename.ps and 'print' Handy for faxes, etc... Since cups pdf uses the ps2pdf utility as the background, you are simply stopping the process with "print to file" before the ps2pdf utility is called. -- 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] gparted dependency failure `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 16 May '09

16 May '09

Listmates, Attempting to run gparted from the local drive (after installing all listed optional dependencies of gparted) to resize a partition on a usb drive disclosed a dependency failure: [09:33 supersff:/home/david/linux/partition-copy] # gparted /usr/sbin/gpartedbin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found (required by /usr/sbin/gpartedbin) Hmm should this be reported as a bug or chocked up to stupidity on my part? -- 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] System Upgrade - networkmanager conflicts with libnetworkmanager
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 16 May '09

16 May '09

Listmates, I don't know how to handle this dependency error and I want to make sure I don't break my kdemod3 install by replacing libnetworkmanager with extra/networkmanager. I presume it would be a 1-for-1 drop-in replacement, but I thought I would ask first. Anybody know? :: Synchronizing package databases... kdemod-legacy is up to date core 33.5K 104.4K/s 00:00:00 [#############################################] 100% extra 384.2K 127.0K/s 00:00:03 [#############################################] 100% community 361.9K 132.0K/s 00:00:03 [#############################################] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace libnetworkmanager with extra/networkmanager? [Y/n] n resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: networkmanager conflicts with libnetworkmanager. Remove libnetworkmanager? [Y/n] n error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: networkmanager: conflicts with libnetworkmanager -- 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] problem while bridging network
by ludovic coues 16 May '09

16 May '09

hi listmate, I'm posting 'cause I have some problem when I bridge a connexion. I wanna set up a virtual machine with windws 7 to play eve online (no support for linux at this time, and I can't make it run on wine). So I've follow the wiki for setting up network with the virtual machine. But now, I'm starting my computer with eth0 and vbox0 bridged, but I can't use my wifi connexion on wlan0. If I delete the bridge with a «brctl delbr br0», I can connect to the wifi through wlan0, but my VM haven't any network. To be exact, I can connect me to my personnal network, but this have no internet connexion. Weird. If any one might help me with this, it would be nice. -ludovic

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[arch-general] Themes for Gnome
by S Andrews 16 May '09

16 May '09

Where can I find themes for gnome, I am looking for Graphite theme

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[arch-general] Did new kernel version removed vesa FB?
by Javier Vasquez 16 May '09

16 May '09

Hi, I few minutes ago I upgraded a arch box (x86_64), and to my surprise, something that was working before, loading the kernel with parameter "vga=0x37D" is no longer working (nothing happens). The new version is 2.6.29.3-1. The resolution for nvidia quadro fx 570m is "1920x1200", but the nvidiafb module has never worked, so I need to use the vesa FB... Well I tried a other vga modes, like 0x31B, 0x307, and then the screen goes blank and freezes... I don't know what happens, but it seems like the vesafb which used to be compiled built-in, is not longer working properly... Thanks, -- Javier

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[arch-general] Running setserial from rc.local
by Sergi Pons Freixes 15 May '09

15 May '09

With the new Xorg, I need to run the command: setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x0200 irq 5 autoconfig At every boot to get the stylus working in a Tablet PC. I have put the line in /etc/rc.local, as it contains "all the things which are not daemons that you want to run at boot". But it is not working. KDM (therefore, X) starts without using the stylus. If I switch to a terminal, run the command, and the return to X, the stylus is recognised. Any clue about what is I am doing wrong? I know that the command can not be executed from an X terminal (this is why I switch to a "normal" terminal), but running it from rc.local should work, right?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [aur-general] Get notified on website updates
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 15 May '09

15 May '09

Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 18:19:12 schrieb Abhishek Dasgupta: > >> Some other similar programs: >> * http://jue.li/crux/ck4up/ >> > > I did not know about this, but it looks really nice. Its a little more complex > and it does not display what has changed. > > On the other hand being able to define some regexp might be usefull. > > Hi, I personally use it, is very simple, this is my config file [#1] Can control with a regex, what part of page you watch :) a sample run (striped) $ ck4up -k sudokuki ....... diff: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180199&package_id=208… -k is for not touch the internal database if you run with -d (debug) can see all matches: $ ck4up -kd <snip> sudokuki-0.9.12.tar.bz2 sudokuki-0.9.12.tar.gz sudokuki-0.9.11.tar.bz2 sudokuki-0.9.11.tar.gz <snip> sudokuki ....... diff: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180199&package_id=208… <snip> run with -v to be verbose: $ ck4up -kv rewrite ........ ok netpipes ....... ok xjobs .......... ok <snip> sudokuki ....... diff: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180199&package_id=208… dbm ............ ok papyrus ........ ok lsyncd ......... ok <snip> another interest parameter is -p that show the config file with all macros expanded Enjoy! [#1] http://djgera.pastebin.com/f4202cba5 -- 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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Get notified on website updates
by Grigorios Bouzakis 15 May '09

15 May '09

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 06:13:09PM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hello, > > maybe you are familar with the following problem: > > You want to get notified when there is a new upstream release. The problem is > that not all projects offer rss feeds or an announce mailing list. And if they > do they are sometimes too verbose or don't cover the updates you like. > > So needed something to watch a certain website and tell me if anything > changed. There are a lot of webservices, firefox plugins etc..; but they are > all too complicated and just don't offer what I need. > > So I though it would be quite easy to write something myself using cron and > lynx. So I after a few minutes I had a simple Bash script whih just does the > job. > > It loops through an url list and prints the diff to the previous run. Running > this by cron I get an email including the diff everytime one of the observed > websites are updated. > > Maybe someone else has some use for it, too. And perhaps I'll even create a > git repo for it; though I don't think I should add much more "features". ;-) > > http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/packages/src/w3watch/ > Frugalware has been doing similar stuff for a long while but they have an up2date field in their build scripts. See for example: http://www.mail-archive.com/frugalware-git@frugalware.org/msg20141.html They recently converted that to a Flasttar function: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-stable.git;a=blob_… The source is somewhere in here: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-current.git;a=blob… -- Greg

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[arch-general] Virtualbox Window Transparent??
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 15 May '09

15 May '09

Listmates, Here is one for the experts. I installed virtual box on my Arch laptop, and upon starting my XP guest machine, I discover that the VB window is almost completely transparent?? This is really strange and I can't explain what is happening, so a picture (screenshot) is worth a 1000 words: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/vb-transparent2.j… [139k] As you can see, the Virtualbox window background is almost 100% transparent as well as some parts of the applications running in it. This can make it quite challenging to get things done. I am using the radeonhd driver. I tried it with compiz running and then again with kwin. It made no difference. Other than virtualbox being transparent, everything else was OK. Any ideas on this one?? cc: radeonhd list -- 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] Radeonhd - Use EXA Accel instead of XAA Accel
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 15 May '09

15 May '09

Listmates, If you use the radeonhd driver, use EXA acceleration instead of XAA. I just found out about this today and it is a 100% improvement in speed, etc. over XAA acceleration. It isn't as fast as fglrx, but it is a world of improvement over the alternative. To make use of EXA acceleration, simply enable it in your xorg.conf in the device section. Example: Section "Device" BoardName "RS690M" Driver "radeonhd" Identifier "Device[0]" Option "GARTSize" "256" Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" Option "EnablePrivateBackZ" "no" Option "VideoOverlay" "on" Option "no_dri" "no" Option "UseFastTLS" "1" Option "no_accel" "no" Option "mtrr" "off" VendorName "ATI" EndSection -- 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] Autowifi not in AUR
by ludovic coues 15 May '09

15 May '09

Hi listmates, I've seen sometimes ago a link to autowifi. And I wonder why this one can't be found in AUR. I'm using autowifi since I found it, and it's great. No need to care about anything when wpa_supplicant have a right config. Just open a browser, and go on. It could be a great app in the the repo, but without any trace in the AUR, we can't vote for it, and I wonder how it can be add to the repo if it have no vote... 'cause wlan0 haven't to be more complicated than eth0. -ludovic

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Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox Window Transparent?? [solved - sort of]
by Smith Dhumbumroong 15 May '09

15 May '09

Hi, I also have the problem same you described on Openbox + Xcompmgr. I "solved" it by disable guest's 3D acceleration. Another solution is to disable the composite. I'm using radeon driver so I guess this problem might have more to do with VirtualBox or KDE's widget/theme engine than the driver it self (I might be wrong, though). Regards, Smith Dhumbumroong

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[arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 15 May '09

15 May '09

Listmates, When I need to run apps a root for configuration purposes like kate, or konqueror "File Management", I either put the command in the Alt+F2 run dialog or create a menu entry and then check [ ] run as different users and put 'root' in the different user text box. Even though I have configured sudo I am inevitably prompte for a password. With suse we "patched" this by using kwriteconfig as your regular user: kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group super-user-command --key super-user-command sudo This wasn't the "recommended" way, but it was the way most chose to get around a mess with kdesu. When I try and access the apps I want to run as root, not only do I get the initial password prompt, but I get a second prompt after the app is closed. That has left me scratching my head. The other option is just to create the menu entries as "sudo command" which doesn't complain wheen opening whatever I need. What says the braintrust? Is this an arch issue or is it a kdemod issue? Any help would be appreciated, 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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[arch-general] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 14 May '09

14 May '09

Listmates, I have the most atavistic sound known to mankind on my laptop running arch. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The card specs are: 0:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff08 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin ? routed to IRQ 16 Region 0: Memory at f8700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel The Intel modules loaded are: snd 65928 13 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer snd_hda_codec 68112 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hda_intel 29256 1 snd_page_alloc 9760 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm snd_pcm 80920 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec When I first start arch and start kde, everything is fine. However, if I log out and then back it, most times the sound is gone -- dead. The sound will not start again until I reboot. Anybody got any ideas on what to check or what to keep a watch out for? Also, any ideas on how to bring the sound back once it dies without having to reboot? Thanks for any help you can provide. I always hated chasing sound problems. -- 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] Option "XkbLayout" doesn't work?
by Sergey Manucharian 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hi folks, It looks like the setting of keyboards layouts in xorg.conf doesn't work anymore, or I'm missing something? ----------------------8<---------------------- Section "InputDevice" ..... Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "evdev" Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru,am" Option "XkbVariant" ",phonetic,phonetic" ..... EndSection ----------------------8<---------------------- The only way I can set up the kbd layout is the using "setxkbmap" with the same settings in my "~/.xinitrc". Is it a bug of a "feature" of the new X? Cheers, Sergey

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[arch-general] Gnome update failed
by Manolo 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hello everyone, the last month when I was trying to update with pacman -Syu, this error message showed up: usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 18: 21838 Violaci�n de segmento GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /usr/share/gconf/schemas/${pkgname}.schemas > /dev/null When I rebooted, I couldn't enter into Gnome again. The only thing I could see was a gray screen, but with the compiz effects activated (cube). I tried to downgrade and to force the installation of the package gnome, xorg-server and so on, but nothing happened. Now, I'm usin LXDE (a nice DE, by the way), but the update of gnome package keeps failing. Anyone with this trouble, any ideas about solving this issue? Thanks, Manolo.

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[arch-general] Arch artwork & compiz screenshot
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 13 May '09

13 May '09

Listmates: Needing to spruce up the cube caps on cube rotation in compiz (the old opensuse artwork just wouldn't do), I started messing around with some of the archlinux-artwork. I found one that I like and then added some finishing touches in gimp. A screenshot of the resulting cubecaps and desktop is here: [69k] http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/archglass-cyl.jpg The actual cubecap file is found here: [450k due to transparency] http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/archglass-compizcaps.p… Use it at will. If you have no interest, just hit [del]. -- 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] kdm3 crash on logout - no apparrent errors
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 13 May '09

13 May '09

Listmates, After the kernel update, my kdm3 is crashing with each user logout. Basically, on logout you are dumped back to tty1 and must then login and issue kdm3 restart to restore the display manager. I am using the radeonhd driver. Before the latest update this didn't occur. What can I check to get information to help solve this puzzle? I've checked /var/log/messages.log and Xorg.0.log, but nothing is out of the ordinary. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- 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] Opera Segfaults on x86_64 after kernel update
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 13 May '09

13 May '09

Listmates, After the kernel update to kernel26 2.6.29.3-1, opera is segfaulting for some reason. Opera doesn't event splash anything on the screen, it just dies. Here is what I get from the cli: 23:28 alchemy:~> opera -debugxerror opera: X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0 I have no idea what a BadAtom is or if that is the problem. I haven't run across anything else in the past hour since the update. What should I check? -- 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] new Ruby on Rails page on the wiki
by Sébastien Duquette 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hi, Just wanted to let you know that I created a Ruby on Rails page on the wiki. It's not really long but the basis is there to quickly set up a rails application. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RubyOnRails As always, please feel free to comment and edit the wiki. Sébastien Duquette

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Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention
by Aaron Schaefer 12 May '09

12 May '09

Since I can't reply to the dev mailing list thread: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Tobias Kieslich <tobias(a)justdreams.de> wrote: >> On Tue, 12 May 2009, Magnus Therning wrote: >> That means all plugins need to be rebuild and some users that set fixed >> pathes in .vimrc will have to adjust. > > Looks like we have a new rebuild list then: > > $ pacman -Sqs vim- ... This will mean that all plugin packages will have to be rebuilt for each minor Vim release? Is that how other distro's handle it? Seems a bit odd... -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer

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[arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention
by Tobias Kieslich 12 May '09

12 May '09

Hi, Finally, the new vi* packages are up. There will be a little migration pain. For optimal results, I recommend to "sudo rm /usr/bin/{view/rview}" before you run "sudo pacman -Syu" -T

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] grub2 image support
by Damjan Georgievski 12 May '09

12 May '09

Maybe the "General Discussion about Arch Linux" mail list is better place about this? (ps. I just now notice http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-general - the description has a typo "Discusson") On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 00:23, Ronald van Haren <pressh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > For those of you who are using grub2 and are interested in making your > boot selection menu a bit nicer, the newly uploaded grub2 supports > backgrounds and stuff. > > Config syntax in your grub.cfg is similar to: > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then > set gfxmode="1024x768x32" > insmod gfxterm > insmod vbe > terminal_output gfxterm > if terminal_output gfxterm; then true ; else > terminal gfxterm > fi > fi > insmod tga > background_image /boot/grub/archlinux.tga > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > though obviously a background image is not included. Other image types > should work as well if you load the correct modules (see the .mod > files in /boot/grub) > > Ronald > > ps. I had to add a bdf-unifont package to the repo in order to make it > work a bit easier. It is now a makedepend of grub2. > -- damjan

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] LZMA - in or out? ([signoff] libarchive 2.6.0)
by Grigorios Bouzakis 12 May '09

12 May '09

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:03:43AM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 02:06:31 schrieb Dan McGee: > > Yes, of course. I think we can take some time to let it bake, as there > > is not an immediate need, and when 5.0 comes out we can move it to > > core and then rebuild libarchive with support for both. > > Sure, no need to hurry. Slackware has achieved a decrease of size from 1,9GB > to 1,4GB of their main repo. Our ratio should be lower as we don't have source > packages in our repos. But it should be easy to test once the tools are ready. > (du -h;gunzip *.gz;xz *.tar;du -h) Just for the record, Slackware didnt move the sources to xz. Just the compiled packages. The descrease in size you are reffering to is more or less correct. My local rsynced tree is 1.6Gb with .xz while it was around 2.0Gb with .tgz. The gain should be 20-25% from what i can estimate. -- Greg

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[arch-general] Dovecot
by Baho Utot 12 May '09

12 May '09

Anyone got a simple configuration file ( dovecot.conf ) that has simple auth login? like clear text? thanks

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[arch-general] Gnome - Nautilus and Evolution, Fresh Install
by Baho Utot 11 May '09

11 May '09

I have just completed a new install using the latest Install/Live CD 2009.02 I followed the Beginners Guide (exactly :) including the update. I continued until I finished with install Xorg and Gnome. After setting up .xinitrc to run Gnome I issued a startx to start Xorg and Gnome. 1. When clicking the "Users home dir icon" to launch Nautilus and browsing to test it, I then clicked the "X" to stop the app from running ( upper right on the window ) Nautilus crashed and Gnome restarted, cleared the desktop (refreshed) and generated a bug report to be set to gnome.org (via bug buddy). 2. After installing Evolution ans running the app I made some errors when I initially set it up for my imap server. Clicking/running from the Edit->Preferences menu caused evolution to crash and generating a bug report. I can not use the Edit->Preferences menu at all, making the evolution installation worthless as I can not change any settings. How stable is Gnome on Arch Linux? I need to move from KDE3 to Gnome until KDE4 is finished and debugged. Comments/Fixes Anyone? Thanks

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[arch-general] requesting mysql man pages
by Felipe Tanus 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi all, It's me or the mysql package don't come with man pages? I guess that would be good to have manpages for stuff like mysqlcheck, mysqldump, mysqlshow... Is there a reason for it not be avaliable at the mysql package? thanks for your time! []'s -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fotanus(a)gmail.com Blog: http://fotanus.blogspot.com/ Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ ----- Aperture Science: We do what we must because we can For the good of all of us except for the ones who are dead

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[arch-general] xorg trouble
by Baho Utot 10 May '09

10 May '09

I have done a new install using the 2009-02 install cd Then sync and updated the system with pacman install alsa and the xorg I have installed hal and it is running When I start xorg I get no "X" on the screen. Thanks

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[arch-general] Strange wpa_supplicant error
by Edgar Kalkowski 10 May '09

10 May '09

Hello Arch! I’m connecting to my WPA2 encrypted wireless network via wpa_supplicant. The configuration in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf looks like this: network={ ssid="Hochst van Vaarenhochst" key_mgmt=WPA-PSK proto=WPA pairwise=TKIP group=TKIP psk="my_really_very_secret_passphrase" } I start wpa_supplicant in rc.local (and also start dhclient afterwards) and usually everything works just fine. I’m connected to my WLAN after startup and can surf the internet. However sometimes it occurs that wpa_supplicant does not reach the “Completed” stage but rather remains in the “4-Way-Handshake” stage forever. When observing wpa_supplicant e.g. via wpa_cli it writes “Associated to <bssid>” with the correct bssid of my access point on and on and on ... A log file that was generated by $ wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd > bug.txt can be found at http://xpeter.de/bug.txt. The described behaviour occurs randomly on startup or wakeup from suspend and usually even a reboot does not fix this problem (just time or many reboots does). I’ve also tried to restart my WLAN router but that did also not solve the problem. Can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong or what could cause this error? Or, if not, does someone know where I could post this error to people who know? Best regards! Edgar PS: wpa_supplicant is version 0.6.9 and I’m on stock 2.6.29-ARCH kernel with ndiswrapper driver for my “Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter” (as madwifi did not work half a year back when I tried). Anything else I could provide that might help?

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[arch-general] Transmission package out of date
by Brendan Fahy 10 May '09

10 May '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The package Transmission-gtk has been out of date for some time now. I sent an e-mail to the package maintainer a few months ago with an updated PKGBUILD and never received a response. To update the package all that is required is changing the version number and check sums. # Maintainer: Alexander Fehr <pizzapunk gmail com> # Contributor: Brendan Fahy <brendan(a)f4hy.com> pkgname=transmission-gtk pkgver=1.60 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client (GTK+ GUI)" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://www.transmissionbt.com/" license=('MIT') depends=('curl' 'libnotify' 'desktop-file-utils' 'hicolor-icon-theme') makedepends=('intltool') optdepends=('notification-daemon: Desktop notification support') replaces=('transmission') install=transmission-gtk.install source=(http://mirrors.m0k.org/transmission/files/transmission-$pkgver.tar.… md5sums=('8b30cf189240f0c50ccd11c618a6906a') build() { ~ cd "$srcdir/transmission-$pkgver" ~ ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-wx --disable-cli --disable-daemon || return 1 ~ make || return 1 ~ make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install || return 1 ~ # Remove web client ~ rm -rf "$pkgdir/usr/share/transmission" || return 1 ~ install -D -m644 COPYING "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/transmission-gtk/COPYING" || return 1 } - -- Brendan Fahy <brendan(a)f4hy.com> www.f4hy.com 714.310.7627 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoGNvQACgkQO7SvxW5E8xrD2ACeJSI/rIVyIIc2C6k9fp2AaxgX QAEAn05okb3D0aCzuGotE1lrqQXPeoHI =MLjp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] default ~/.config/compiz/compizconfig prevents compiz start with radeonhd
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 10 May '09

10 May '09

Listmates, I thought I would pass along a bug and a solution. I struggled trying to get compiz running on my arch x86_64 install on my laptop with the radeonhd driver for my x1200 card. After pulling my xorg.conf apart, swapping between the radeon and radeonhd driver and posting to the compiz list, I got the solution from a reply on the compiz list. The problem is with the archlinux default ~/.config/compiz/compizconfig/config supplied along with the compiz-fusion-kde package. The default is: [kde_session] profile = For some reason this prevents compiz from starting with either the radeon or radeonhd driver. SYMPTOMS: Upon Compiz start, the display behaves exactly like it is going to work. The display goes blank, sequentially erasing and redrawing each window, but then it never actually starts. The windows are just left there with no decor. You can sill provide input to them, but you cannot move or resize them. Issuing kwin --replace & causes the reverse to happen (windows destroyed, black screen, windows then redrawn with kde decor. SOLUTION(S): From the compiz list, the suggestion was made to go ahead and let compiz try to start. Since you still have input capability, issue ccsm from the command line and then configure compiz forcing a new config to be written, then reload compiz. I did the equivalent, but took a shortcut by simply rsyncing ~/.config/compiz from another working machine. Problem solved. REMAINING ISSUES WITH ARCH GLX: When issuing glxinfo from a konsole cli as $USER everything works fine. However, if you are su to root $UID then glxinfo fails: [23:07 alchemy:/home/david] # glxinfo No protocol specified Error: unable to open display :0.0 Dunno if this is a bug or feature, but I thought I would pass it along. I'll file a bug report on the default config issue, fixing it will save a lot of folks a lot of heartache and newbies from thinking Linux doesn't work. -- 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] vi/vim/gvim without ruby support
by Tobias Kieslich 09 May '09

09 May '09

Allan, the ruby in testing as of 3 days ago. That would be 1.8 I think. we can build gvim(the only one with ruby enabled) without ruby support for the time being. I don't think that many people actually script vim with ruby and there aren't all that many ruby-vim scripts out there. Now I can be wrong, but I think it's only fair to NOT let gvim stall the ruby packages. Once we have ruby 1.9* support in vim we enable it again. No big deal. As for the OP: vim is a symlink to vim-normal because upon installation of gvim it becomes a symlink to vim-full (more powerful, better script support, etc ... all the bells and whistles) where gvim will be a symlink to the same binary it just automatically invokes it with GUI support. That's just how vim works. -T On Sat, 09 May 2009, Allan McRae wrote: > Kessia 'even' Pinheiro wrote: >> Hi all, >> Tobias, i`m without a machine, so, i can`t check the vim version. Did you >> compile new vim with witch version of ruby? >> > > It will be with ruby-1.8 because 1.9 is not in the repos yet... I am > waiting for the vi(m)'s to move out of [testing] before I do the ruby > update. > > Allan > >

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[arch-general] bluez
by Juan Diego 09 May '09

09 May '09

hello everyone I was having some troubles using my bluetooth headsets with bluez 4.37, I got some extrange "unable to open seid 64" errors, so I updated the PKGBUILD to 4.39 version now it works perfectly the only changes to the PKGBUILD were the pkgver and md5sums variables I attach the src.tar.gz in case someone is having the same problem have a nice day

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