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

[arch-general] VLC and Wine have been out-of-date too long.
by Lauri Niskanen 26 Jun '10

26 Jun '10

Hello, usually Arch Linux have had very quick updates to packages when the upstream bumbed a version. However, I am slightly annoyed by the fact that VLC [1] and Wine [2] have been out-of-date for a long time. VLC 1.1.0 was released about a week ago and Wine 1.2-rc1 was released on 2010-05-21. Now there is Wine 1.2-rc5. I should also note that regardless of the Wine being a release candidate it is as stable release as 1.1.x-versions including the currently packaged 1.1.44. The officially "stable" version is 1.0.1, but 1.1.x and 1.2rc are considered very stable, yet they are officially both "development version". I agree with the one who packaged 1.1.x in Arch, it is stable enough for Arch and 1.0.1 is just too out date. Please update vlc to 1.1.0 and Wine to 1.2-rc5. [1] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/vlc/ [2] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/wine/ -- Ape <Lauri Niskanen>

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[arch-general] Archiso with custom kernel
by Andre "Osku" Schmidt 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

Hello, i was wondering if anyone has tips on how i could combine these two: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archiso http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Customization_with_kernel26_Pack… to create a custom kernel for an archiso image ? (replacing/removing the arch stock kernel) i have successfully created various images with archiso, even with custom packages. but this kernel stuff just gets over my knowledge, and i fail on booting with my custom one (if its even build correctly...) cheers .andre

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[arch-general] Arch Linux
by Josef Tupag 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

Has anyone tried Arch Linux on their thinkpad? I just want to know how fast it is. I don't like the long boot that is found in Ubuntu and many other distro. Josef Tupag best humidifiers <http://thebesthumidifiers.com>

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[arch-general] Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders
by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

[***URGENT***] 15 June 2010 Tuesday 5:50 P.M. Singapore Time To (long list of recipients): Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters without Broders) International Comittee of the Red Cross International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs President of the United States of America Barrack Obama First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland David Cameron President of the Fifth French Republic Nicolas Sarkozy Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Australia The Honorable Kevin Rudd MP Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Ma Ying-jeou President of the European Union Jose Manuel Barroso Members of the European Parliament The Oprah Winfrey Show The Rachel Ray Show The Ellen DeGeneres Show Larry King Live TV Show Charlie Rose TV Show International Court of Justice International Court of Human Rights European Court of Human Rights European Court of Justice Public Broadcasting Service American Broadcasting Company (ABC) National Broadcasting Company CBS Broadcasting Inc. Fox News The CW Television Network Ion Television Bloomberg Television America One Omni Broadcasting Network CNN BBC News Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Amnesty International The Carter Center Every Human Has Rights RE: Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders Dear Sir/Madam, I have uploaded photos, videos, and audios of myself, scanned images of my ECG Graphs, laboratory blood test reports, X-Ray films and medical notes to Facebook (Facebook account: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)) and other preferred image sharing sites. Hopefully, my online accounts, including Facebook, will not be compromised by my antagonists. I hope that the content (text, video, and audio) in my data sharing sites will remain fully intact without unauthorized alteration, modification, and deletion by my adversaries. And hopefully nobody will close my facebook account without my authorization and consent ether. I am exceedingly concerned that I might have heart/coronary artery disease and that it might be in the late stages. My physical symptoms are: 1) Aching in the upper left of my chest since beginning January 2009 90% of the time, sometimes it may migrate to the right side 2) Shortness of breath from time to time 3) Palpitations in the last few days (I can feel my heart beat very hard and irregularly) 4) Muscle aches in the hands and legs, sometimes my hands(palms) will cramp 5) Involuntary movement of fingers/thumbs occasionally 6) Facial spasms occasionally 7) Sometimes I will feel my body "vibrating" anywhere from head to toe 8) When I tried to feel the pulses on my wrists, the pulses will "disappear" after a while. This is contrary to what doctors, nurses, and others have been telling me. That my pulses are consistent. 9) Sometimes when I am just about to fall asleep, I will get a sudden jerk or have a feeling that I am falling or my heart is going to pop out 10) giddiness/dizziness/light-headedness from time to time 11) Sometimes I will feel weak after just waking up, especially in the hands 12) discomfort at the back of my head from time to time I have visited many doctors at A&E departments of many general hospitals here but they all try to brush me off and tell me I am fine. My request for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for the brain and (more specifically the) heart is usually declined. It seems that the doctors are stalling for time, dragging and delaying until maybe it is too late to do anything for me. I have been unemployed since October 2009 and have depleted all my personal savings. In May 2009, which is just last year only, I have done a MIBI heart perfusion study (radioisotope IV + gamma camera) and the cardiologist/heart specialist told me I have NO heart/coronary artery disease (even though I have high cholesterol and it could be managed). LVEF was 64% and MIBI was negative for ischemic at Stage 2 Bruce (as at 21st May 2009). How could it then have progressed, from NO heart/artery disease to the above-mentioned physical symptoms, in such a very short period of time?! This is all very very very strange. Could it be some other problem instead? Heart/coronary artery disease takes many many years to develop. As you can observe, I am nowhere as obese as Moses Lim, a Singaporean Mediacorp TV actor. References, photos, and videos of Moses Lim: (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Lim (2) http://moseslim.com/content/ (3) http://www.xndo.net/moseslim.html (4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sHKOiegnS8 Yet he is already 60 years old. I also had a grandmother who was very very obese and she was able to live until 60+ years old. There are many many people who are far fatter and have far greater builds than me. They do not have any physical complaints like mine. Why do I have weird/strange physical symptoms like giddiness/dizziness, chest aches, muscle aches in the limbs, shortness of breath, hyperventilations, and palpitations all of a sudden at 32 years old? Foul play? !?!?! Could it be that my neighbours have been frightening/terrifying/threatening me everyday 24x7 non-stop for the past 3-4 years with all sorts of terrible/horrible things that can happen to me? Maybe my heart couldn't take the stress under such an intensive, constant and prolonged psychological abuse? I have also heard them talk about me to various people while I am at home. I think they do that purposely. But I have had totally no say at all from start to finish because I am not allowed any chance for direct involvement. I am being excluded and not given any chance to know anything. They also seem to have gathered/amassed a lot of private information about me. I seriously wonder how they do that. They appear to be extremely resourceful and motivated. There appears to be some intrigue and cloud of secrecy around me. These people know all of my online monikers and email addresses. They have been submitting online forms using my identity and have even attempted to submit password reset instructions for me without my knowledge and consent. I actually overheard my neighbours claiming to have passwords/complete access to all my email accounts and other online accounts. They may also create phony email accounts and send messages impersonating as me without my knowledge. Thank you very much for your kind attention. PS. (1)My neighbours have claimed that they will never stop or waver in their psychological warfare on me unless I commit suicide. Or they will wait patiently until I have a heart attack or stroke. How callous they are! I want to live and live to a ripe old age. And I wish for a long and healthy life too. (2)I have a severe panic attack on 27 May 2010 Thursday and several panic attacks after that. Due to the panic attacks and the severe anxiety caused by my neighbours, I have been warded in Changi General Hospital (Ward 14) for 2 weeks (from 1st June 2010 to 15th June 2010). I am actually on home leave today to write this letter. I will be going back to the ward at night, hopefully before 8 P.M. (3)Most of the nurses in Ward 14 CGH have been very nice and friendly to me. Hopefully they are not putting on a false front. But the doctors there are as obstinate as mules. They stubbornly and stoutly refuse to give me any advanced heart imaging tests, e.g. MRI (preferred), CT-scan (not preferred), echo cardiogram, and ankle brachial indel (ABI) tests. (4)I have a medical appointment at the National Heart Center Singapore on 17 June 2010, which is next Thursday. I hope that the heart specialist there will allow me to do the advanced imaging tests (brain/heart) that I want and tell me the absolute truth about my medical condition. Yours sincerely, Mr. Teo En Ming Hanyu Pinyin Name: Zhang Enming Citizenship: Singapore Citizen Facebook: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Mobile Phone (Starhub Prepaid): +65-8369-2618 For online photos of me when I was a kid, please scroll down to the bottom of my signature. MY ONLINE PHOTO(1): http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/6264/enmingteodscf2510.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(2): http://i41.tinypic.com/adnfx5.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(3): http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7534/enmingteodscf2511.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(4): http://i40.tinypic.com/dc7hmq.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(5): http://i.imgur.com/SIICh.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(6): http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2233/enmingteodscf2512.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(7): http://i40.tinypic.com/2u8l62r.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(8): http://i.imgur.com/CLifZ.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(9): http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/fa956dddab.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(10): http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/f93b37b773.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(11): http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/ce0cd663ef.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(12): http://img5.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5415/54156759ac8ecbba1e2368c63d203a… MY ONLINE PHOTO(13): http://img9.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5415/5415679e958679286a919425aca4c2… MY ONLINE PHOTO(14): http://img4.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5415/54156847596a5a067d2a7267362ebf… MY ONLINE PHOTO(15): http://xs.to/image-68D0_4BEB7F90.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(16): http://xs.to/image-A7E3_4BEB7FE7.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(17): http://xs.to/image-E303_4BEB802E.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(18): http://i39.tinypic.com/bet4yf.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(19): http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/5139/teoenmingzhangenming.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(20): http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/a0e0744c82.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(21): http://img6.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5415/5415686db861b07e07c010d8b610b1… MY ONLINE PHOTO(22): http://xs.to/image-4016_4BEB806B.jpg Dip(Mechatronics) BEng(Hons)(Mechanical Engineering) Alma Maters: (1) Singapore Polytechnic Graduated 1998 (2) National University of Singapore Graduated 2006 My Primary Blog: http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com My Secondary Blog: http://enmingteo.wordpress.com My Youtube videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/enmingteo Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore ZIP: 470103 Place of Birth: Singapore NRIC/National Identity Card No: S78*6*2*H Date of Birth: 5th March 1978 Race: Chinese Dialect Group: Hokkien Height: 1.78 meters Online photos of myself when I was a kid: (1) http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/9020/nursery01.jpg (2) http://i40.tinypic.com/k4jhhf.jpg (3) http://imgur.com/Ywca3.jpg (4) http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/2db37a4403.jpg (5) http://img8.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5416/54166180c1dec144cde2b6275ad5da… (6) http://xs.to/image-C02E_4BEBBF47.jpg Email: space.time.universe(at)gmail.com Alternate email: teo.en.ming(at)gmx.com

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[arch-general] Need software to do a few tasks.
by Madhurya Kakati 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

Hi, I need a few apps for media transcoding and video and audio editing. Thanks

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[arch-general] Weird problem with firefox
by Nilesh Govindarajan 24 Jun '10

24 Jun '10

When I try to use google groups on firefox, it keeps redirecting in a loop. groups.google.com homepage loads, then when I click on any group, it goes to google's ssl for login validation, then back to groups then again to ssl... keeps going on. What can be the problem ? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] b43: wireless issues
by Magnus Therning 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

I'm having problems getting my wireless connection to work properly. It's a broadcom card, using the b43 driver. It connects fine on login, but once I actually use the network I'm disconnected and all attempts to re-connect fail. I've found some reports of similar behaviour online, but none seem to offer any good solutions to it :-( So I'm trying my luck in here instead. One person mentioned that things started working much better if he limited the network to 802.11b (not g), but I haven't seen any obvious way of achieving this. Any hints on what I can do to test that myself? $ lspci -vnn |grep 14e4 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01) I did extract some stuff from dmesg that might be of importance, but I really couldn't tell: b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode15.fw b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0initvals15.fw b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0bsinitvals15.fw b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 00:50:23) b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x00000800, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000 b43-phy0 ERROR: This device does not support DMA on your system. Please use PIO instead. b43-phy0: Controller RESET (DMA error) ... b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 00:50:23) b43-phy0: Controller restarted Cheers, 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] Important notice on the Arch Security Team to the whole Arch Linux community.
by Ananda Samaddar 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

Dear Arch community, I thought I'd post a follow up on some of the things said in the last thread I created on this list. I'm using upper case for headings just to make things easier to read and not to shout! Please post or cc all follow ups to the Arch General list, and read this message carefully before replying. 1. DISCUSSION ABOUT SECURITY ON ARCH-GENERAL AND THE GOOGLE GROUP It's been mentioned that because my proposition for an arch-security list was rejected, I'm trying to circumvent that by posting stuff about setting up a security team to arch-general. That's not my intention. I am proposing a compromise. Internal communications on security issues will be kept to the Google Group. An irregular 'newsletter' will be posted to arch-general when major things are done to keep Arch users who are not on the Google Group informed. Also when security alerts do eventually start getting issued they *will* be posted to arch-general. I believe that all Arch users should benefit from the work that will be getting done. Doing it this way will keep email traffic on security issues on arch-general to a minimum. 2. THE RELEVANCE AND USEFULNESS OF AN ARCH SECURITY TEAM. There's been some murmurings that this undertaking is pointless. Happily this has mostly come from users and not developers. In fact it has the direct or indirect support of at least two Arch developers, Pierre Schmitz and Hugo Doria: http://www.osnews.com/story/22692/Arch_Linux_Team/page6/ This is just as much an experiment as anything else. It remains to be seen if setting up an Arch Security team is worthwhile. Evidence based on other distros seems to point to the fact that it is. If you are not convinced that's fine, but please provide constructive criticism and not mindless trolling like suggesting naming a security team after a Mexican food dish or the British English slang word for buttocks. If you don't want any part of this, other than the odd email on arch-general you won't be hindered or pestered in any way. 3. WE NEED YOUR HELP There is no Arch security team as of now. Hopefully there soon will be. If you want to help it would be helpful if you have the following skills or experience: -Ability to modify PKGBUILDs, rebuild and test packages. -Know how to patch and compile software -Are willing to subscribe to several security related mailing lists -Know basic usage of GPG in email -Are willing to hang out in the arch-security IRC channel -Are willing to file bugs in the Arch bug tracker You don't need to be security guru, just willing to help out, learn and with a desire to make our favourite Linux distro even better than it already is. If you want to help out please subscribe to the Google Group and submit a message with the subject "I want to join the team", without quotes. http://groups.google.com/group/arch-security If you don't have or don't want to create a Google account, please send me a personal email and I'll add you to the member list. 4. SCOPE OF THE SECURITY TEAM It is my intention that at this point, the security team will only deal with finding and fixing security related issues. This will entail providing interim pkgbuilds, reporting issues on the bug tracker and sending out alert notices via email. All communications to the 'outside world' (emails, wiki articles etc) from the team will state that (for now) the team's work is completely unofficial and unsupported by the Arch Developers. This is to avoid sullying the reputation of the Arch developers. 5. LONG TERM GOALS Most Arch stuff starts out as external projects than then merge with the main distro. If our work turns out to be useful, and I hope it will be, I would like us to become an official Arch Team. We could then having something like Debian does, with two mailing lists, one for security discussion and a read only list where announcements are posted. The details of this remain to be determined as this initiative is only just starting out. 6. FINAL WORDS I hope this message has made things a bit clearer for everyone. I won't start on the actual process/policy documents till after this weekend coming as I have some things to attend to before that. Of course feel free to suggest things on the Google Group, I'd like to make things as open and transparent over there as possible. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to post on the Google Group or email me personally. Thanks, Ananda Samaddar

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[arch-general] How to install perl plugins in pidgin ?
by Nilesh Govindarajan 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

How to install perl plugins in pidgin ? The default pidgin doesn't have perl support, so I compiled it with --enable-perl from ABS, but the perl plugin in ~/.purple/plugins with executable perm doesn't show up in the list. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] - makepkg now aborts automatically with any errors during packaging
by Evgeny Burmentyev 22 Jun '10

22 Jun '10

Hello. With such an addition, how do I make a given command not interrupt makepkg? Like command || ignore_errors

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