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

[arch-general] AUR / Official Repo version problem
by Brendan Long 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

So I've been having a strange problem on my computer with updates. The xulrunner package in the official repos didn't want to update because firefox-branded (from the AUR) depends on an old version, but firefox-branded won't update because it needs a newer version of xulrunner. I got it to work by removing firefox-branded, updating, then installing it again, but it's a complicated solution and entirely not obvious what's going wrong. The error message made it sound like there was just no update for xulrunner available: :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: firefox-branded: requires xulrunner=1.9.1.7 Not sure how this could be made easier, but I thought I'd mention how confusing it is. -Brendan Long

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[arch-general] Dark Red & Gold KDE4 Theme - brighten your desktop for a bit (DR - you might even like it :-)
by David C. Rankin 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Guys, I never thought red and gold would work on a kde4 desktop, but I think it looks great. While I figure out how to package them and where to put them, I could use some feedback on whether they need any more work. Below are links to the RedGold theme, a background to go with it, and an emerald theme as well. All three of the gold themes (BlackGold, DeepBlueGold, DarkRedGold), work best with either Nitrogen, Ozone or Oxygen 'window & style' decorations. Bespin works very well as a window decoration for all three, but the Bespin 'style' is very finicky with the Red for some reason. If you use a 'style' other than Ozone, Nitrogen, Oxygen or Bespin, your theme color will look black instead of Red or Blue due to how faint the colors are in the color definition. For the best results, 'uncheck' the option to blend the title bar with theme colors in the Appearance -> Window system settings. The charcoal titlebar works well into the theme. You can also use Crystal, Modern, Laptop or Glow window decorations and they will look pretty good as well. A screenshot: (140k) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/ss/kde4/DcrDarkRedGoldKDE4.jpg The color theme: (2k) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/kde4/color-schemes/DcrDarkRedGoldKDE4.colo… The background: (112k) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/kde4/color-schemes/wp/heatLightWind1440.jpg ** the gold satin background works well too (300k): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/dt/kde4/color-schemes/wp/goldsatin-1440… The emerald theme: (70k) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/emerald/dcr-BlackGold.emerald ** Note: you can grab all the current color schemes at: (3.2k) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/kde4/color-schemes/dcrKDE4Colors-Current.t… Enjoy :p -- 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] A bug in compiz-core
by Nilesh Govindarajan 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi, I was trying to configure compiz and kde, when I ran fusion-icon on the terminal, it told me that /usr/lib/compiz/libpng.so.14 could not be loaded as required by compiz. But I found /usr/lib/compiz/libpng.so and symlinked to libpng.so.14 that fixed the problem. But is this a bug to be reported ?? Also I don't see bug reporting for community packages in 'Category' list of bug tracker. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Adminstrator www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] Recent update to php-apache breaks LAMP stack.
by wahjava.ml＠gmail.com 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi, I'd recently updated php, mysql, and php-apache packages to following versions: php 5.3.1-4 mysql 5.1.43-1 php-apache 5.3.1-4 After update my existing webapps started showing error: Unable to connect to database, with nothing changed on the webapps side. After assuming that recent update cause them to break, I downgraded all related packages, and then upgraded them one-by-one. Following is the final combination which worked for me: php 5.3.1-4 mysql 5.1.43-1 php-apache 5.3.1-3 If anyone also exhibits this behaviour, then I can report this as bug. Thanks Ashish SHUKLA -- They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin

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[arch-general] Mounting tmpfs on /dev. Why?
by AlannY 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi there. I'm newbie in Archlinux and I have another lame question. Recently, I've found that Arch mounts tmpfs on /dev. And, as you may see, this makes big problem to some applications. I see: "none on /dev type tmpfs" in the output of mount program. This mount is not placed in /etc/fstab. So, I think this is done by some of init scripts. I've looked at the /etc/rc.d folder and grep "mount" `find`. But nothing interesting found. I really don't want to mount tmpfs on /dev. How to don't do it? Thanks for patience.

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[arch-general] Video Resolution, Grub2 and Kernel 2.6.32
by Steve Holmes 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

When I installed grub2 a short while back, I was using the kernel 2.6.31.6 and I enjoyed a full screen of 1024.768 32K color depth. I followed the steps outlined here <http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2#Setting_the_framebuffer_resolution> to the letter and all was great. But when the kernel26 package upgraded to 2.6.32.2, This functionality broke. I ended up having to remove the video related stuff from my grub line to get my system to boot. When I say this didn't work anymore, basically my system wouldn't boot and I end up with a blank screen showing. When I experimented by removing the insmod statement and using vga=790 by itself, the best I get is a 30 line display with 80 columns width. Anyone know what changed? It would appear that we may need to update the wiki page with new info for grub2 and video resolution.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed
by Henning Garus 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

On Tue, 02.02.2010 um 19:13 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Bump! Virtually nobody has performed any testing (except the people I > poked about it). Also, I still don't have fixed raid or dmraid hooks, > nor any suggestion for implementing root on NFS (of the last three, I > use neither). I could write raid, but I have no idea if it will work. I > don't know what exactly needs to be done in the NFS case, because that > was all hidden inside "ipconfig" from klibc. > > The part that works (standard hooks, keymap, cryptsetup, lvm2) has been > 100% stable and has worked perfectly for all of the testers so far > (which aren't many, so you never know). > I switched to the kill-klibc repo and my system still boots, using: HOOKS="base udev autodetect sata encrypt filesystems"

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[arch-general] Colored Output
by Carlos Williams 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

I noticed that when I login to my new Arch server & attempt to use commands like 'ls' or 'ls -l', I have no color. It's just white text so it's hard to visually differentiate the difference between files and directories. I did read the Wiki below which advises me to modify my ~/.bashrc which comes from /etc/skel/.bashrc however when I am logged in as root, I want to have this colored output feature. I checked and my /root directory has no .bashrc file. When I attempt to create one & add the parameters I have in my ~/.bashrc, I then log out and log back in as root but still have no color. How do I make this system wide? When I modify my regular user's .bashrc file, I do get my desired color output but I can't figure out how to achieve this for 'root'. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt

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[arch-general] extra/libmtp update
by Alexander Kojevnikov 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Hi list, extra/libmtp package [0] has been out of date for 5 months. Attached PKGBUILD updates it to the recently released 1.0.2, it would be great if one of the developers could commit it. Thanks, Alex [0] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libmtp/

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Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit
by Joerg.Schilling＠fokus.fraunhofer.de 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Heiko Baums wrote: >I don't know anything about the technical differences between cdrkit >and cdrtools but http://cdrkit.org says: >News >2009/10/11 >Cdrkit 1.1.10 has been released. >So the last stable release was not a year but only three months ago. >This looks like an active development for me. Please have a closer look on _what_ was changed in this "release". This have been mainly single char typo corrections but the > 100 well known bugs that exist as long as the fork exists have never been fixed. On the original software, you see more changes (enhancements and fixes) in a lazy week than the "cdrkit project" did get since May 6th 2007 in total. In the fork, problems are ignored. In the original software, problems are fixed very soon; typically within hours. This is why there are no known problems in the original software. The fork did not publish a single version that was known to be without bugs at the time of publishing. The original cdrtools project did publish more than 70 releases in the same time and more than 60 of them did have not a single bug when they have been published. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js(a)cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily

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