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

[arch-general] KDE Thumbnail bug?
by Nilesh Govindarajan 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Recently after upgrading KDE on my arch64 installation, neither dolphin or konqueror don't show thumbnails for images. They just show the thumbnail as a question mark (like that for an unknown file). I deleted the configuration, etc. but still no solution. What can be the problem? A bug or something to do with configuration / arch? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps

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[arch-general] Hard disc clicks
by Rafael Beraldo 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Recently I got preoccupied with the hard disc clicking sounds I have been hearing since I installed Arch Linux on my Asus 1201N. Anyway, I remembered that there was an issue that could dramatically reduce the life of the hard disc, then I looked up on Google and found this article [1]. I ran smartctl -A and noticed that each time I heard a click, one was added to Load_Cycle_Count. Then I ran hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda, but the Arch Wiki [2] says that it is best to set a smaller value, like 128, if you move your laptop a lot. The thing is, 128 keeps the hard disc spinning down a lot. In fact, 254 is quite noiseless, but as from 253 the clicking sound returns. I read this bug page [3] but found nothing new. It is worth remembering that, sometimes, when I'm watching a movie or TV show with mplayer, it stops for less than I second, then I hear the disc spinning faster and the video continues. So, how did you guys set the power manager with hdparm in your laptops? Does anybody else have this problem? Since I move my netbook often, should I set it to 128 even if it spins down more than four times a minute? Than you all. [1] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_hard_drive_clicking [2] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop#Hard_drive_spin_down_problem [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pm-utils/+bug/361680 -- Rafael Beraldo http://cabaladada.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] mdadm-3.1.4-1
by Tobias Powalowski 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Two fixes related to configs that aren't using udev: - Don't remove md devices which 'standard' names on --stop - Allow dev_open to work on read-only /dev And fixed regressions: - Allow --incremental to add spares to an array - Accept --no-degraded as a deprecated option rather than throwing an error - Return correct success status when --incrmental assembling a container which does not yet have enough devices. - Don't link mdadm with pthreads, only mdmon needs it. - Fix compiler warning due to bad use of snprintf - Fix spare migration Please signoff both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] KDE 4.5.1 Bug Kopete need much Memory
by Carsten Feuls 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Helly Everybody I have got a problem with Kopete extra/kdenetwork-kopete 4.5.1-1 [5,04 MB] (kde kdenetwork) [Installiert] Instant Messenger After I had update KDE 4.5.0 to KDE 4.5.1 my system becomes Slowly. Then i found out that my system has 890MB Ram in use and 800 MB Swap. Then I have tried to close some programms and after I have closed Kopete my system only use 212 MB Ram und 193 MB Swap. Is it a bug in Kopete or is there some error in building the Kopete Programm. I have found out that the same problem is in my 2 others PC when I run Kopete it need much memory When you start kopete the memory becomes more and more in use by kopete 1Mb per Sec I looks like a memory leek Sincerely yours Carsten

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[arch-general] kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds
by Caleb Cushing 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Does anyone know if the workarounds are still needed or if that was a fixed bug? I read the changelog but was unable to discern whether or not these were on the list of fixed kwin bugs. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.com

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[arch-general] HAL .fdi files stopped working
by Linus Eklöf 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

After an upgrade in the beginning of summer (don't remember what was updated) my hal fdi files in /etc/hal/fdi/policy stopped working, I had to change the keyboard mapping in the xfce settings and haven't been able to use my joypad since. I can't find anything on it with google and I've upgraded my system a couple of times since, but it still isn't working. Anybody who knows what might cause this?

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