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

[arch-general] [signoff] udev-163-1
by Tobias Powalowski 10 Oct '10

10 Oct '10

Hi guys, udev 163 ======== Bugfixes. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] hdparm-9.33-1
by Tobias Powalowski 10 Oct '10

10 Oct '10

Hi guys, please signoff both arches hdparm-9.33 - fix AHCI issues in sg16(): don't ask for sense_data on DATA-xfer commands - fix compiler warnings on old systems - fixed compilation on old systems lacking __be16 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] Warning: MESA 7.9 going to testing
by Andreas Radke 09 Oct '10

09 Oct '10

Am Sat, 9 Oct 2010 09:55:43 +0200 schrieb Andreas Radke <a.radke(a)arcor.de>: > I'm working on the new MESA release today. Please don't -Syu until all > 3D drivers have been rebuild properly. If you have trouble with your > card catch me in out IRC channels. > > -Andy > So far no ddx driver rebuild seems required. I'm running the new MESA on my Ati X200m(R300) notebook with the new gallium driver. It renders well (was broken since KMS+classic mesa useage) but very slowly. Maybe we can imrove this. My desktop is running Nouveau and Supertuxkart is fast and really usable now. A big step forward. Please test the all driver. Usually even a minor libdrm bump breaks the drivers. Give feedback. -Andy

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[arch-general] Xterm urgency hint
by Norbert Zeh 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Hi folks, I've just run into a strange problem. In order to highlight terminal windows that require my attention, I make the application running in the window beep, and I have set xterm*bellIsUrgent:true. The problem: xterm seems to simply ignore this setting. I can also go into the xterm menu and activate/deactivate bell urgency, but it makes no difference. I always hear a beep instead of the window's urgency WM hint being set. I'm almost certain that's an upstream bug introduced fairly recently because I had the same problem on my Debian machine. Does anybody have a clue where to report this bug? I simply can't find a decent project web page for xterm. Thanks, Norbert -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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[arch-general] nvidia and xorg-server 1.9
by Matthew Monaco 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

I was following the discussion about holding back xorg 1.9 because of the nvidia driver, but I either missed the end of it, or it was left open. Do the nvidia and nvidia-173xx drivers in [extra] work with 1.9? If they do work, either or both, are they still plagued by this performance regression (stuff like rendering fonts as far as I can remember). If either does have this performance hit, does anyone know of a target version that resolves the regression? Thanks

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[arch-general] Creation of startup scripts
by Christian 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Hi all, I am learning more and more about Linux, but I would like to learn how to create startup scripts for my programs, any good resource? Where should I start? Many thanks, Christian

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[arch-general] umount usb stick via udev
by Benjamin Sambale 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Dear arch users, I managed to mount my usb stick automatically via udev rules (hal isn't running). However, if I unplug the stick while thunar is open, the umount command hangs. After that I can't even reboot. But if I close thunar before unplugging the stick umount works fine. Here is my udev rule: SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="07A10809D5B952B9", KERNEL=="sd*", SYMLINK+="unistick%n" SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="07A10809D5B952B9", KERNEL=="sd*", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/bin/sudo -u benjamin /bin/mount /media/unistick" SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="07A10809D5B952B9", KERNEL=="sd*", ACTION=="remove", RUN+="umount /media/unistick" And here is the corresponding line of fstab: /dev/unistick1 /media/unistick vfat rw,noauto,user,utf8,noatime 0 0 Thanks for any help, Benjamin

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[arch-general] Dovecot: bug or user error?
by Norbert Zeh 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Hi archers, I've just made one of my machines an arch box, and one thing that gave me headaches no end was setting up dovecot on it. In my setup I'm using PAM authentication with a passwd userdb. So no reliance on mysql or postgreql. When installing dovecot, pacman informs me that I may want to install some mysql or postgresql libraries as *optional* dependencies if I want to use those backends. Since I don't, I didn't install these libraries at first. After some long debugging sessions, I realized that my failure to connect to my freshly setup dovecot server was because dovecot-auth failed. It was looking for the mysql and postgreql shared libraries that were not installed. After installing these libraries, all was fine. So now I'm wondering whether there may be something wrong with my setup that forces dovecot to at least try the mysql/postgresql backends, which it would need those libraries for. The other option is that I did everything right, and dovecot-auth is simply linked against those libraries and cannot run without them, no matter what the configuration file says. In the former case, I'd appreciate some enlightenment as to what I should be looking for in my configuration to remove dovecot's dependency on these libraries. In the latter case, I'd say a bug report is in order because if dovecot-auth relies on these libraries, they should be pulled in as dependencies instead of being declared optional. Cheers, Norbert -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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[arch-general] AWN applets crashing
by Scott Olsen 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Hello, For the past week or so, most of my awn applets have been failing to load (with the exception of the cairo menu, task manager, clock, and notification area). The modules that is is failing to load (pygtk, awn, etc.) are present in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages. However /usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages is empty (aside from README). My guess is that awn is running using python3, since /usr/bin/python is symlinked to python3. Is there a way I can confirm this? If this is the case, how would I go about fixing it? Relative packages installed: python 3.1.2-2 (python testing) python 2.7-2 (python2 testing) avant-window-navigator 0.4.0-8 (community-testing) awn-extras-applets 0.4.0-6 (community-testing) Here is the stdout: --- scott@ahab% avant-window-navigator Screen is composited ** (avant-window-navigator:20514): DEBUG: Updating dialog colours ** (avant-window-navigator:20514): DEBUG: Spawned awn-applet[20516] for "cairo-menu.desktop", UID: 1279819072, XID: 35651638 ** (avant-window-navigator:20514): DEBUG: Spawned awn-applet[20518] for "stacks.desktop", UID: 1281624089, XID: 35651639 ** (avant-window-navigator:20514): DEBUG: Spawned awn-applet[20519] for "taskmanager.desktop", UID: 3, XID: 35651640 ** (avant-window-navigator:20514): DEBUG: Spawned awn-applet[20520] for "notification-area.desktop", UID: 1279819179, XID: 35651641 ** (avant-window-navigator:20514): DEBUG: Spawned awn-applet[20521] for "battery.desktop", UID: 1279818918, XID: 35651642 ** (avant-window-navigator:20514): DEBUG: Spawned awn-applet[20522] for "bandwidth-monitor.desktop", UID: 1279827763, XID: 35651643 ** (avant-window-navigator:20514): DEBUG: Spawned awn-applet[20523] for "weather.desktop", UID: 1279819372, XID: 35651644 ** (avant-window-navigator:20514): DEBUG: Spawned awn-applet[20524] for "digital-clock.desktop", UID: 1279822483, XID: 35651645 ** (avant-window-navigator:20514): DEBUG: Spawned awn-applet[20525] for "slickswitcher.desktop", UID: 1279910614, XID: 35651646 ** (avant-window-navigator:20514): DEBUG: Spawned awn-applet[20526] for "cpufreq.desktop", UID: 1283547769, XID: 35651647 ** (avant-window-navigator:20514): DEBUG: Spawned awn-applet[20527] for "thinkhdaps.desktop", UID: 1283549629, XID: 35651648 File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/stacks/stacks_applet.py", line 314 self.emit("stacks-item-created", self.backend.get_store(), iter) ^ TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/battery/battery.py", line 373 except dbus.DBusException, e: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/bandwidth-monitor/awn-bwm.py", line 666 step = 1L ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/weather/weather.py", line 187 except IOError, e: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/slickswitcher/slickswitcher.py", line 21, in <module> import awn, sys ImportError: No module named awn ** (awn-applet:20519): CRITICAL **: File not found: '/usr/share/applications/amdcccle.desktop' ** (awn-applet:20519): DEBUG: task_manager_refresh_launcher_paths: Bad desktop file '/usr/share/applications/amdcccle.desktop' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/cpufreq/cpufreq.py", line 21, in <module> import pygtk ImportError: No module named pygtk Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/thinkhdaps/thinkhdaps.py", line 20, in <module> import pygtk ImportError: No module named pygtk ** (awn-applet:20519): CRITICAL **: File not found: '/usr/share/applications/amdcccle.desktop' ** (awn-applet:20519): DEBUG: task_manager_refresh_launcher_paths: Bad desktop file '/usr/share/applications/amdcccle.desktop' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named gconf ** (avant-window-navigator:20514): DEBUG: Spawned awn-applet[20565] for "thinkhdaps.desktop", UID: 1283549629, XID: 35651648 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/thinkhdaps/thinkhdaps.py", line 20, in <module> import pygtk ImportError: No module named pygtk --- -- Scott Olsen

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[arch-general] update to kde 4.5.2 - no sound - tries to remove my devices??
by David C. Rankin 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Guys, I updated to 4.5.2 today and on start, kde4 asked to remove all my sound devices. So I chose - 'manage devices'. All of my sound devices are grayed out and the 'default' doesn't work. (screenshot of devices dialog here): [81k] http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/bugs/kde4-nosound.png The sound is "HDA Nvidia (ALC888 Analog)" and the same for digital and HDMI. I looked through dmesg to see if there was anything glaring, but there wasn't. (dmesg output here): [44k] http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/bugs/dmesg-20101006.txt Has anyone else seen this with the new kde4? If so any ideas how best to troubleshoot? Thanks for any help you can provide. -- 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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