October 2010 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

Re: [arch-general] Odd message on boot
by Aljosha Papsch 20 Oct '10

20 Oct '10

It means, D-BUS (or any message bus) is missing a group specified in its configuration file. A solution might be to just create the group.

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[arch-general] Odd message on boot
by David Rosenstrauch 20 Oct '10

20 Oct '10

Been seeing a strange message recently on boot. Seems to have only appeared in the last few weeks. 'Unknown group "netdev" in message bus configuration file' Anyone know what's causing it and/or how to get rid of it? Thanks, DR

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Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] Libreoffice in AUR
by Heiko Baums 20 Oct '10

20 Oct '10

Am Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:19:26 +0300 schrieb Ionuț Bîru <ibiru(a)archlinux.org>: > somebody already uploaded a new build, libreoffice-new. the name is > kinda stupid and it makes me want to delete it. I'd second this. It also seems to be a duplicate to libreoffice-bin. And libreoffice-build should be deleted, too, renamed to libreoffice and updated to the latest beta. Btw., libreoffice-new is missing the "-beta" in $pkgver. Why I'm crossposting this to aur-general and arch-general is this article: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OpenOffice-Council-asks-LibreOffice-… It's conceivable that OpenOffice and LibreOffice won't cooperate and will be developed independently from each other. So they most likely will differ and provide different features rather soon. So I'd like to see LibreOffice in [extra] besides OpenOffice. I think LibreOffice is or will soon be too important to just have it in AUR or [community]. Nevertheless regardless whether LibreOffice is in AUR, [community] or [extra] there should be clean packages and naming schemes which comply with the packaging and naming schemes for OpenOffice. Ensuring this is another reason to put it officially to [extra]. Heiko

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[arch-general] no python3 package?
by Angus 20 Oct '10

20 Oct '10

I'm glad Arch did the python3 transition and I agree with python3 being the default version (i.e. having 'python' symlink to 'python3.x'). But what's the reason for no longer having a package named 'python3' with a symlink to 'python3.x'? It would make (/have made) the transition a little easier, no? Any harm done in providing it?

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[arch-general] pacman -Syu ==> NOT included depencies (with reasons): ...
by David C. Rankin 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Here is a new one for me A system update tonight provided the following note: ==> NOT included depencies(with reasons): - sidplay - we do not have sidplay 2 series in repos; also it's somehow connected with resid i guess(not in repos also) this is the first time I've seen this and it looks like pacman got confused looking for the sidplay 2 series package. What I don't understand is: "also it's somehow connected with resid i guess(not in repos also)" What the heck is 'resid' and who is 'i' that is guessing?? (what?) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] PostgreSQL 9.0.1 in [testing]
by Jan Steffens 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Community feedback welcome as well, but this is now in testing now > that the Python rebuild has moved on. Please let me know (good and > bad) how things are going with it so I can move it along to [extra]. Lots of stuff seems to be missing from the package (e.g. adminpack.so).

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[arch-general] Upgrading while using a package (WAS: Re: pacman -Syu -- then tons of kio and kbuildsycoca warnings. Bug or coincidence?)
by diederick 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

On 10/13/2010 11:03 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > On 10/09/2010 12:57 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> Guys, just updated and got a slew of warning dumped back to konsole: > Nothing strange to me at all: you're upgrading qt while you're in KDE > (which uses qt). It's never a good idea to upgrade a package while it's > being used. If you're upgrading a daemon, shut down the daemon first; > if you're upgrading qt, exit KDE first; if you're upgrading the kernel, > udev, etc., drop to single user mode first. I didn't know that, nor did I read that somewhere on the wiki. Why is this? Aren't programs copied to memory (i.e. loaded) before being used? In that case, isn't the upgraded version left alone until it is loaded the next time the program is started? Where can I find more on this? Thanks, Diederick -- http://www.diederickdevries.net/

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Re: [arch-general] GDM Locked
by karl 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

On 06:51 Tue 19 Oct , Guillermo Leira wrote: > > After the last Pacman -Syu, I can't login with gdm. As soon as I clikc on my > > username, the system seems to freeze... Although not completely: I can ping > > from other computer, but I can't ssh. > > > > Before I click on the username, the "switch off" icon at the right down corner > > works. Once I click on the username, nothing else works, and I neither can > > ctrl-alt-F1 to the console... > > > > Any suggestions/questions? > > I have removed GDM and installed SLIM. Now I can login, but the screen shows nothing... And if I try to CTRL-ALT-F1 to the console, the system locks again. It is not a GDM problem. > > If I run startx from the command line, X starts. > > Any advice? > > Best regards, > > Guillermo > The behaviour that switching to the console freezes the output happens normaly, when kernel mode settings aren't activated / functioning / vesa instead of the nouveau-driver (radeon, intel, whatever) is used. Have a look ... http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KMS http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau Kind regards, Karl

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[arch-general] Gnome question (that is unanswered on the gnome mailinglist)
by Magnus Therning 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

I thought I'd try my luck on here, even though this is a rather Gnome-specific question: In the past I've been using seahorse to provide both a gpg agent and an ssh agent. Recently I noticed that gnome-keyring-daemon provides both of those agents. I must say though that it seems to be very flaky. I'll switch back to using seahorse for now, but I'm still wondering why it is that there are two Gnome components with so much overlapping functionality. Will one replace the other? /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] Anybody else having trouble with Virtualbox after upgrade
by Pico Geyer 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Hi all. I hope this is the right place for me to raise my issue. After doing a pacman -Syu and then rebooting I noticed that I could no longer start my VirtualBox vms I get the following error: Failed to open a session for the virtual machine My_VM Callee RC: NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057) Virtualbox then crashes (segmentation fault). I had the testing repo enabled, so I thought that one of the packages from testing might have broken it. So I disabled the testing repo in pacman.conf and removed all testing packages with: pacman -Syy pacamn -Suu I then recompiled my virtualbox drivers and rebooted. But that did not help at all. I created a core dump file by following these instructions: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Core_dump So the stack trace is 41000 lines long :-| I'll paste just the first and last few lines: #0 0xb5cad825 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #1 0xb5ca7b27 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #2 0xb5ca9760 in QTextEngine::itemize() const () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #3 0xb5caeca8 in QTextLayout::beginLayout() () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #4 0xb5b9b550 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #5 0xb5b9c1b1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 [snip] #41537 0xb5a36407 in QApplication::exec() () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #41538 0xb6b5405b in TrustedMain () from /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so #41539 0x08048d9f in ?? () #41540 0xb76ccc76 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 #41541 0x08048c81 in ?? () Any advice? Should I file a bug in the arch bug tracker? Thanks in advance. Pico

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