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

[arch-general] X server gets shifted to Ctrl+Alt+F8
by Karol Babioch 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Hi, I'm not quite sure how to call this issue, maybe that's the reason, why I couldn't find anything on google nor in the bugtracker :(. I'm using the X server with GDM (Gnome), which is attached to Ctrl+Alt +F7 (btw: How do you call this?) during startup. Pretty normal. But as soon as I restart the X server (using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, but it doesn't matter) the X server gets attached to the next free "combo", which is quite obviously Ctrl+Alt+F8, whereas Ctrl+Alt+F7 shows just a blinking cursor. Interestingly this just happens once, so restarting the X server doesn't change anything, it stays attached to Ctrl+Alt+F8. I guess this could be known by some of you, I've experienced this on different machines already, but due to the fact that I don't know how to call this issue, I couldn't find any work-around. So, first of all I would like to know, whether you can reproduce this? Secondly I would like to know where the consoles are set up, so I can set up a seventh console, so the X server will get started on Ctrl+Alt +F8 in the first place. This has a different reason. My F8 key has a LCD printed on it (as it is also a function key to switch the output between the LCD and an attached monitor), so this would be a cool thing ;). But I don't know whether this would fix my main issue, or if the X server would then be shifted to Ctrl+Alt+F9. -- Best regards, Karol Babioch <karol(a)babioch.de>

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[arch-general] openoffice + lprng
by Javier Vasquez 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Hi, I have openoffice installed as well as lprng. Lprng used to work for openoffice providing I believe "Generic Printer" or similar. Some time back for it work under any gtk-2 application (like firefox) I had to add to the gtkrc: gtk-print-backends = "file,lpr,cups" This is still working for firefox and other gtk-2 applications, however it doen't help at all to openoffice. I launched spadmin to see if I could actually add a printer manually. But it doens't work, the most that can be done is trying to install a driver. So no luck... Has any one made lprng work properly with openoffice? Thanks, -- Javier.

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[arch-general] wireless card switch problem
by flay 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Hi all, today,when i use wired network,i turn off the wireless card switch in my notebook, but when i use wireless network,it seems my wirelss card can't work? how to fix this?thanks!

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[arch-general] /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/ is not a symbolic link
by slubman 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Since the openssl update, whenever I install or update a package with pacman, I've got this message as the last pacman output line when a package is installed (a new package or an update) /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/ is not a symbolic link But everything runs fine AFAIK. I'm using x86_64. Does someone know where is it coming from ? And How can I get rid off this message ? -- slubman site : http://www.slubman.info/

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[arch-general] where did /etc/conf.d/mysqld go?
by Milos Negovanovic 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Hi, on last update my /etc/conf.d/mysqld was packsaved and no new version was installed. Now my non default MYSQLD_ROOT DB doesnt start any more! Is this config file no longer supported? Regards -- Milos Negovanovic milos.negovanovic(a)googlemail.com

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[arch-general] IceCat and Novell Moonlight pre
by f. gr. 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Hi all, I'm trying to install Novell Moonlight plugin 3.0 preview 6 <http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/prerelease.aspx>. But I got this message: «GNU IceCat could not install the file at http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/downloads/2.99.0.6/novell-moonlight-2.99.0… because: Signing could not be verified. -260» I didn't get any error with the previous version (http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/downloads/2.99.0.3/novell-moonlight-2.99.0…) What did happen?

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[arch-general] gstreamer0.10-good-plugins need a whole load of GNOME stuff?
by Ananda Samaddar 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

Is there some reason that the gstreamer good plugins set needs a whole load of GNOME crap? http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins/ I've recently switched to XFCE and I'd like to avoid GNOME dependencies. Is it possible to recompile from abs without all these dependencies? thanks, Ananda

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[arch-general] what is this supposed to mean ?
by Fons Adriaensen 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

Hello, Trying to do a complete system update, I get: error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) cups: /etc/cups/printers.conf exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Certainly that file does exist, it probably has to in order to make my printer work. But why - is this an 'error' - does it block the update ??? And - What do I have to do to enable the system update ? And maybe pacman could be a bit more informative in such cases ? Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !

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[arch-general] Gstreamer good and good plugins without GNOME and some other dependencies
by Ananda Samaddar 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

The motivation behind creating these packages was to be able to use gstreamer based apps without GNOME dependencies. In my case I wanted to be able to use XFCE's media player Parole and the Decibel Audio player. Here are the packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36635 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36636 Compile time support removed: -OSS support -ESD support - seriously does anyone really use ESD any more? -gconf support -aalib support -libcaca support Make and binary dependencies removed: -libsoup-gnome - this is the worst culprit in my opinion -esound -libcaca -gconf -aalib Anything else will depend on the libraries you have installed. On my system for example the souphttpsrc module is built as I have Midori installed which has a libsoup dependency via Webkit. HAL support has not been removed. XFCE still relies on HAL I believe and when XFCE 4.8 comes out (it won't use HAL) the HAL dependency will be removed from my PKGBUILD. In the mean time you can edit the PKGBUILD yourself. I also had to split the packages as the AUR doesn't support split packages yet. Due to this you'll have to compile the whole source twice unfortunately. If you use an AUR helper you'll also download the source code twice too so you may want to run makepg manually. I've compiled and tested the packages on my X86-64 system and they work for me. As always with AUR though, ymmv. Ananda

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[arch-general] packman -S eterm [done] But: bash: eterm: command not found ????
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

Could be I'm missing something here... But shouldn't 'pacman -S eterm' put executable somewhere in the standard path??? This was done using a root shell in a konsole terminal under E17 on my recently updated Arch installation... I did search the wiki for eterm just in case there was something about eterm that requires more than a simple pacman install. Didn't find anything useful. Am I missing something obvious here??? UnderTree =-> pacman -S eterm resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (2): libast-0.7-2 eterm-0.9.5-3 Total Download Size: 0.91 MB Total Installed Size: 2.98 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y :: Retrieving packages from community... libast-0.7-2 260.8K 315.2K/s 00:00:01 [###############################] 100% eterm-0.9.5-3 674.3K 828.9K/s 00:00:01 [###############################] 100% checking package integrity... (2/2) checking for file conflicts [###############################] 100% (1/2) installing libast [###############################] 100% (2/2) installing eterm [###############################] 100% UnderTree =-> eterm bash: eterm: command not found UnderTree =-> Here are the last few lines of my pacman.log: [2010-04-17 00:35] synchronizing package lists [2010-04-17 00:38] installed roxterm (1.18.1-1) [2010-04-19 21:31] synchronizing package lists [2010-04-19 21:34] installed libast (0.7-2) [2010-04-19 21:34] installed eterm (0.9.5-3) I note roxterm works, eterm doesn't... I don't see any errors listed in the pacman.log... -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>>

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