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

[arch-general] Issue with man
by Damien Churchill 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

I've got a rather confusing issue with man. Whenever I try and view a man page I just end up with a blank screen. http://www.imagebam.com/image/41dd5973332829 This occurs for any page, even for local ones. I was wondering if anyone would be able to shed any light on why this is occuring? Thanks, Damien

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[arch-general] upcoming Xiph releases
by Ray Kohler 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Just a heads-up to package owners that there will be several xiph.org releases very soon now. libao appears to be the only thing with a soname bump (2.1.3 -> 4.0.0). I don't think the rebuild list for it should be very long. See below. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <xiphmont(a)xiph.org> Date: Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [Vorbis-dev] upcoming releases (was: adding directory contents to ogg123 playing in sorted order?) To: Ray Kohler <ataraxia937(a)gmail.com> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Can I take it that the releases of libao and vorbis-tools are > imminent, then? The doc updates from the last day have that feel to > them also. > > I ask because I'd like to give a heads-up to the Arch devs since the > libao release will have a soname bump, and thus they'll have some > rebuilding to plan. (And is libvorbis getting a release soon as well?) I will be releasing libogg, libvorbis, libao and vorbis-tools by the end of the week (I hope). Schedule is actually 'tomorrow', but some small amount of slippage is traditional. Monty

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[arch-general] New Using AUR
by Carlos Mennens 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

I had two questions about using the AUR. I have never done it before and read of the How-To on the Wiki but could someone please answer the following two questions I have: 1. If I build a tarball on 'PC1' downloaded from AUR with the 'makepkg -s' command, can I then transfer the created tarball to 'PC2' and install it even though PC2 didn't have any of the required packages used to create the tarball from the AUR? 2. Once a package is installed from the AUR, when I do a system upgrade via Pacman, will outdated packages I installed via AUR get automatically upgraded or do I have to do all my AUR packages manually?

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[arch-general] Chromium default browser
by Nilesh Govindarajan 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

How to make Chromium as default browser ? I'm using KDE. But I'll like to have the same setting in GNOME too. I changed the command at systemsettings from 'firefox' to 'chromium' It although opens chromium, but doesn't open the link in it. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dbus-core 1.2.24
by Ng Oon-Ee 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 12:43 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote: > Following the crasher release of 1.2.22, this should fix FS#18796. > Please test and signoff. > User signoff x86_64, I reported that bug. 1.2.24 does not show the specific issue reported in FS#18796.

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[arch-general] Battery Monitor Applet (kde4) hangs after s2ram
by Markus Golser 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hi, after I resume from s2ram my battery monitoring applet does not refresh anymore. It shows 100% loaded and plugged in all the time. I have to kill plasma every time in order to get the current charge. cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_now <- shows the correct charge. Maybe someone can help me. Notebook = Dell Inspiron 9400

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[arch-general] MySQL Starts But Fails to Restart
by Carlos Mennens 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

I don't understand this issue so I am posting this here. I noticed today that I had an issue with restarting MySQL on my server: 1. I verify MySQL is not running: Code: [root@ghost /]# ps -ef | grep -i "mysqld" root 1706 1216 0 16:45 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i mysqld 2. I start the 'mysqld' service: Code: [root@ghost /]# /etc/rc.d/mysqld start :: Starting MySQL Server [DONE] 3. I verify that the daemon is running: Code: [root@ghost /]# ps -ef | grep -i "mysqld" root 1715 1 0 16:45 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql mysql 1813 1715 0 16:45 pts/0 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --log-error=/var/lib/mysql/ghost.err --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/ghost.pid --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock --port=3306 4. I then run the command to restart the daemon for MySQL and it fails... Code: [root@ghost /]# /etc/rc.d/mysqld restart :: Stopping MySQL Server [DONE] :: Starting MySQL Server [FAIL] I can use the 'start' and 'stop' commands for /etc/rc.d/mysqld but 'restart' for some reason fails and this concerns me. Can anyone help me understand what is wrong?

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[arch-general] Unable To Rendor PHP Pages in Apache
by Carlos Mennens 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

I today installed Apache on my Arch Linux server. I did the following: # pacman -S php apache php-apache mcrypt pcre Then I edited the /etc/php/php.ini file & un-commented the following: [...] extension=mcrypt.so extension=mysql.so extension=mysqli.so ;extension=odbc.so ;extension=openssl.so ;extension=pdo.so ;extension=pdo_mysql.so [...] I then restarted the 'httpd' service and when I try to render a HTML page with PHP code, it wont rendor the code properly and just looks like a script / code. I don't understand why I can't get Apache to render PHP pages. Does anyone know what I am missing? This is only a problem for me on Arch. RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu. and Slackware all work out of the box. Any suggestions?

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[arch-general] PyPy Build
by Vivek Ayer 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Hi guys, I'm having a little bit of trouble building pypy and pypy-svn from AUR. Any chanced someone has a prebuilt arch package for i686 already? If so, may I download it? My X41 only has a 1GB of RAM and the HD on it has degraded. I started the build for pypy on it last Thursday and it's still building! It's using all my RAM and ~400 MB of Swap space. I'd really appreciate any help. Thanks, Vivek

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[arch-general] libpng12 and libjpeg6 from AUR fix kdemod3 100%
by David C. Rankin 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Guys, Just dropping a note on the build and install of libpng12 and libjpeg6 from AUR to fix the problem I had with the kdemod3 install on my new arch box. After installing the two packages, kde3 seems to be 100% healthy. Immediately, all icons and graphic handling returned just like you would expect. Now if I could just figure out how to create a kde3 menu item in the kdm greeter, it would be perfect. Currently, I have to drop to tty1, kill kdm and then use startx with /opt/kde/bin/startkde specified in my ~/.xinitrc file to get kde3 started. How does one create a desktop entry in the kdm greeter scheme so I can launch kde3 from there? It can't be that hard, I have pekwm, blackbox, openbox and fluxbox and gnome entries in there along with kde4, but I don't know where the "magic switch" is so kde3 will appear. What's the trick? -- 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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