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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel-2.6.29.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 09 May '09

09 May '09

Hi fixes: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14568 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14565 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11778 greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] (partially) Inactive
by bardo 07 May '09

07 May '09

2009/5/6 Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org>: >> I am an university student so I can use from 08AM to 07PM (GMT+1) the >> wireless connection at my university but it is over HTTP proxy: I will >> cannot use ssh/cvs/git/ftp/irc/jabber protocols. >> >> I hope to be totally active soon. > > You should complain about that. In my eyes, having internet access without > these basic services is no internet access at all, and whoever the admin is > (or the guy who tells the admin what to do) is a moron that still lives in > the past. > That's pretty normal in Italian universities. They tend to lock you out from everything, sometimes because they fear what you could do and sometimes because of nearly-fascist laws that would oblige them to log everything. Filtering out is easier, and it really helps with bureaucracy. That said, I once managed, as a student, to meet the whole IT team in my university, and in an official encounter I demanded to open at least some more ports... You see, there are exams where you *have* to use CVS/SVN for your projects, and the ports are filtered out from the inside. It's not an annoyance, it's just plain stupid: you often work with people who live very far from the city and you can't work together at the university. Well, they refused to open ports citing legislations, the need to filter p2p apps, the heaviness of level 7 filters... Heck, we didn't even have IMAP! I told them that, with https open, we could tunnel everything where we wanted. They know it and don't care, because it's a really small niche of students that can do it. I can assure you that I was very, very tempted to write an easy to use tunneling app and publish it for all the students to use. This is the situation in a country that is in the G8 ("economic power" my ass) for unknown reasons... old tech, misunderstandings and censorship. Sorry for the rant. Corrado

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[arch-general] Must i do the toolchain update or can i wait
by Attila 07 May '09

07 May '09

Hello together, my question is about that if the toolchain update comes do i have to do it to get no problems with the rest of my system or can i wait if i find patches or hints to solve possible problems with my own packages? For the case that i can wait i will block the upgrade of this packages: * gcc{,-libs}-4.4.0-1 * glibc-2.9-7 * bintuils-2.9-7 * kernel-headers-2.6.29.1-1 And i will stay from this point on with kernel26-2.6.29.2-1. My next question is that i want to know if this will be enough or should i block more packages? The base is that i still stay with kde3 which i have packaged in the arch way (one package at example kdenetwork) but with the sources from kdemod3. It is no question that this is my problem and has to be solved only by myself but perhaps anyone has some good hints or a url to informations about it. See you, Attila

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] file-5.01
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 07 May '09

07 May '09

Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > >> Upstream bug fix release. >> >> > > file 5.02 is out. > > And now 5.03 :) -- 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] kde control center "Use my KDE style in GTK applications" causes ooo buttons to disappear
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 06 May '09

06 May '09

Listmates, I have an interesting one for you, in openOffice, all of the icons on the toolbars and all of the text of the context menus disappear when I click on a document in writer. If I brush the mouse over the toolbar or menu, the icons/text reappears while the icon or text has focus, but then disappears again when the focus leaves. I have a number of illustrative screenshots here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-menus-missing.jpg http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-menus-missing1.jpg http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing.… http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing1… http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing2… Version Information: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-about.jpg The problem seems to have started after changing the kde control center setting for "Appearance & Themes" -> "GTK Styles and Fonts" -> "Use my KDE style in GTK applications". I just confirmed this on an X86_64 box that I had not made this setting on. I opened ooowriter and all buttons were there in a very flat and ugly style. I then changed the above setting which required a KDE restart. So I logged out and logged back in, reopened the same document and all of the buttons started disappearing. Has anyone else seen anything like this? More importantly, how do I fix 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] Alsa state and my front speakers
by Magnus Therning 06 May '09

06 May '09

I had no problems at all configuring the basic setup for Alsa, everything worked perfect. At the end I issued `alsactl store` and rebooted hoping that my settings would be restored on boot. They were, almost; all settings except the unmute of the front speakers. This forces me to go in and use `alsamixer` each time I boot, just to unmute the front speakers. I've had a look at the the file `/etc/asound.state` but can't make heads or tails of it. Any suggestions on how I can get my front speakers to be unmuted on boot? /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] [signoff] jfsutils 1.1.14-1
by Tobias Powalowski 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hi update to latest version, please signoff for both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 05 May '09

05 May '09

Listmates, I'm fighting with PolicyKit to mount my USB drives and --- it's Winning! I've modified /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf to give all users and myself (david) explicit authority (as a member of wheel and as me) and I've *restarted* hal and still no-go? My conf file looks like this: <config version="0.1"> <define_admin_auth group="wheel"/> <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable"> <match group="users"> <return result="yes"/> </match> </match> <match user="david"> <return result="yes"/> </match> </config> No matter what I do I get: org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result) What gives?? -- 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] Corruption with new intel driver
by Nicolas Bigaouette 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hi all, I just fully upgraded on two of my machines. These packages related to xorg were updated: [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xf86-input-evdev (2.1.2-1 -> 2.2.1-1) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xf86-input-keyboard (1.3.2-1 -> 1.3.2-2) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xf86-input-mouse (1.3.0-1 -> 1.4.0-2) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xf86-video-intel (2.4.3-1 -> 2.6.3-3) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xf86-video-vesa (2.1.0-1 -> 2.2.0-1) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xorg-server-utils (7.4-3 -> 7.4-4) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xorg-server (1.5.3-5 -> 1.6.0-3) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xorg-utils (7.4-2 -> 7.4-3) Unfortunately, I am facing some screen corruptions, as seen on this screenshot: http://nbigaouette.inrs-emt.homelinux.net/linux/arch/xf86_video_intel_corru… The only way to make it disappear is to force a redraw. It is not sufficient to hide the window and make it appear again. If the corruption appears inside the text of a KDE editor, moving the cursor to the corrupted line should change its background color and thus force a redraw. Or if it appears in toolbars, I need to mouse over the toolbard to refresh it. This happens on both of my computers. One is an asus eeepc 1000: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) The other is a Dell Optiplex 755 desktop: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) Both are using kwin's compositing and no xorg.conf. These are what might look suspiscious from /var/log/Xorg.0.log: [...] (II) intel(0): Comparing regs from server start up to After PreInit (WW) intel(0): Register 0x61114 (PORT_HOTPLUG_STAT) changed from 0x00000000 to 0x00000b00 [...] (II) intel(0): I830CheckAvailableMemory: 4669436 kB available (WW) intel(0): DRI2 requires UXA [...] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:00:02.0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 10, (OK) drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 10 drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:00:02.0 (II) [drm] loaded kernel module for "i915" driver. [...] exaCopyDirty: Pending damage region empty! What could be the cause of that? Thanx!

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[arch-general] Why do I have 20-ups-nut-device.fdi in my / dir?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 05 May '09

05 May '09

Listmates, Picking around with mc, I saw a file that looked really out of place. In my / dir, I have 20-ups-nut-device.fdi. Shouldn't that be in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/. I plead the 5th, I don't know how it got there. This is on my x86_64 box. The date and time of the file are: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12367 2008-06-17 08:39 20-ups-nut-device.fdi [20:05 alchemy:/] # pacman -Qo 20-ups-nut-device.fdi error: No package owns 20-ups-nut-device.fdi Dunno? Can somebody take a quick check and see if they have this stray .fdi file in their / directory. It looks like a 'network ups tools' (nut) policy, but why it's in / escapes me. -- 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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