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

[arch-general] Emacs 23 window resize on startup
by Edgar Kalkowski 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hello list! I know this is not an Arch specific question but I thought maybe something similar occurred to someone here and he knows a solution. I just updated to Emacs 23 which has new fancy font code with antialiasing etc. However the default font of 12pt is way too big for my taste. So I changed it to 10pt and saved the configuration to my ~/.emacs file. Everything works fine -- the font is smaller now -- but: Every time I start Emacs now the window first resizes to the dimensions that would be needed by the old (bigger) font. The (yet empty) window is then displayed and layouted by the window manager (KDE 4’s kwin). I configured it to center all new windows by default because I like it that way. Then the Emacs window resizes itself to match the new (smaller) font and the window is no longer centered! This may seem like a minor issue and I know it is. But it nevertheless annoys me and I did not find a way to change this behaviour! Is there a way to do so? Emacs should just first resize the window to match the font size the user has actually configured and then display the window! Greetings! Edgar

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[arch-general] abs issues
by Sascha Siegel 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

hi, "sudo abs" deletes the repos core, extra and testing and creates "comunity" AND "community". i think theres something wrong with the abs-sync. /etc/abs.conf says: REPOS=(core extra community testing) but ls on /var/abs sais: community comunity local README tryed differend servers. no success ;\ someone have the same problem? greetings

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[arch-general] archboot stills depends of portmap
by mathieu p 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Maybe someone should fix that, since portmap has been replaced by rpcbind some time ago (and portmap can no longer be found on any repo). (archboot is in [extra] )

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] grub-0.97-16
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Ronald van Haren wrote: > It's time for the 16th release in the grub 0.97 series. Grub 0.97 is > now allowed to have drinks ;-) > > This release fixes FS#14363. The old inode patch caused in some > circumstances a division by zero which is no good, the new patch fixes > this. > > In testing for both architectures. Please signoff. > > Ronald Sign-off i686 and x86_64 Reinstalled grub via grub-install /dev/sda (i686) and grub-install /dev/sdd (x86_64) Both systems boot OK. FS: EXT3 -- 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] Run commands as user once network is up (NetworkManager)
by Magnus Therning 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

I'm currently using NetworkManager's ability to run scripts once the network is up[1], but that seems to only be on a system level. Is there some way of also running scripts/programs as the logged in user once network is up? Especially I want to start dropbox only when the network is available. It seems completely incapable of coping with a network that appears after it's been started. /M [1]: I've put a short script in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ that will start and stop openntpd when the network goes up and down. -- 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] vim syntax file broken??
by David C. Rankin 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Listmates, Attempting to enable syntax in vim, I received the following: Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/syntax.vim: line 42: E216: No such group or event: filetypedetect BufRead Press ENTER or type command to continue It has always worked before, so this is something new. -- 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] where is xorgversion.m4
by David C. Rankin 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Listmates, I can't build the radeonhd driver any longer due to a missing xorgversion.m4. I have both m4 1.4.13-1 xorg-util-macros 1.2.2-1 installed but I can't find the xorgversion file. Any ideas? -- 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] pppoe-start resets eth0 MTU
by b4283 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Hi, I usually set my eth0 adapter's MTU value to 7200 to get reach of Jumbo Frame function of my hub. But after I run pppoe-start (comes from rp-pppoe), it seems that the program will automatically reset the MTU value of eth0 to 1500, which is a big bugger. Does anyone know how to prevant this from happening that I wouldn't have to run "sudo ifconfig eth0 mtu 7200" again? -- b4283.

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[arch-general] Latest updates messed up kdemod3 libjpeg.so.62?
by David C. Rankin 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Listmates, Up until this past week kdemod3 and kde4-unstable had lived side-by-side quite harmoniously. However, now kcontol in kdemod3 will not run until the following link is created: ln -s /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.7 /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 After the link is made, kcontol will start, but any attempt to access the panel or taskbar settings (among others) results in a complete kcontrol crash. The backtraces are generally the same: [KCrash handler] #5 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #6 0x00007f3a2e4f29b5 in jpeg_CreateDecompress () from /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 #7 0x00007f3a2d92de78 in ?? () from /opt/qt/plugins/imageformats/libqjpeg.so #8 0x00007f3a337d32f9 in QImageIO::read () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #9 0x00007f3a337d3696 in QImage::load () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #10 0x00007f3a2a9e1b3d in KBackgroundRenderer::doWallpaper () from /opt/kde/lib/kde3/kcm_kicker.so #11 0x00007f3a2a9e270a in KBackgroundRenderer::render () from /opt/kde/lib/kde3/kcm_kicker.so #12 0x00007f3a2a9e2a28 in KBackgroundRenderer::qt_invoke () from /opt/kde/lib/kde3/kcm_kicker.so #13 0x00007f3a337fd3cf in QObject::activate_signal () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #14 0x00007f3a337ff726 in QObject::activate_signal () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #15 0x00007f3a3381d8a5 in QTimer::event () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #16 0x00007f3a3379fc75 in QApplication::internalNotify () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #17 0x00007f3a337a0dca in QApplication::notify () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #18 0x00007f3a34f91ee2 in KApplication::notify () from /opt/kde/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #19 0x00007f3a33796353 in QEventLoop::activateTimers () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #20 0x00007f3a337517b8 in QEventLoop::processEvents () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #21 0x00007f3a337b6609 in QEventLoop::enterLoop () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #22 0x00007f3a337b64c2 in QEventLoop::exec () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #23 0x00007f3a2f0555fa in kdemain () from /opt/kde/lib/libkdeinit_kcontrol.so #24 0x00000000004076e8 in ?? () #25 0x0000000000407e85 in ?? () #26 0x0000000000408562 in ?? () #27 0x0000000000408ea4 in ?? () #28 0x00007f3a313d69ed in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 #29 0x0000000000404549 in ?? () #30 0x00007fff9c658818 in ?? () #31 0x000000000000001c in ?? () #32 0x0000000000000005 in ?? () #33 0x00007fff9c659ad5 in ?? () #34 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () Do I need to create another link or a different link to solve this problem. Also, where should this bug report go? Chakra or Arch? -- 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] VirtualBox keeps crashing
by Tim Gelter 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Hello listmates, I'm having semi-frequent virtualbox crashes with existing and newly created virtual machines. Here is a snippet from /var/log/kernel.log : Jul 29 08:24:17 guapArch kernel: VirtualBox[5142] trap int3 ip:7f7dde81dd9a sp:7f7dd003bf00 error:0 Jul 29 11:38:43 guapArch kernel: VirtualBox[6559] trap int3 ip:7f4bcedacd9a sp:7f4bc0b74f00 error:0 Jul 29 11:56:47 guapArch kernel: VirtualBox[6589] trap int3 ip:7f1fd205ad9a sp:7f1fc4622f00 error:0 Jul 29 13:47:46 guapArch kernel: hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #0. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj. Jul 29 14:08:30 guapArch kernel: VirtualBox[7034] trap int3 ip:7f8f29938d9a sp:7f8f154e3f00 error:0 I've googled around a bit and don't see anything anywhere. Do any of you happen to have any ideas as to what is going on here? root ~ # pacman -Q virtualbox_bin virtualbox_bin 3.0.2-2 root ~ # uname -r 2.6.30-ARCH root ~ # pacman -Q kernel26 kernel26 2.6.30.2-1 root ~ # pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date kdemod-core is up to date kdemod-extragear is up to date kdemod-playground is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... local database is up to date Thanks! Tim

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