October 2011 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] agetty doesn't take effect on keys like M-! or C-?
by 清显 20 Oct '11

20 Oct '11

and any other keys which need to press the Shift as well as Meta or Ctrl at the same time. not sure if that's a problem with agetty, or perhaps some setting problem somewhere else. does anybody knows the reason why this happen, or how to solve that problem? P.S: it's working well when using xterm.

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.0.7-1
by Tobias Powalowski 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for 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] Forums search interval
by Heiko Baums 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

In the forums https://bbs.archlinux.org it's only possible to run one search within 60 seconds (1 minute). This is very annoying if someone has a problem, a search term doesn't give a search result, and a new search with a different search term has to be done. So, could this interval, please, considerably be reduced? A suitable interval would be 10 or 15 seconds. There's also a bug report since more than 8 months now: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22739 It would really be nice if this could be fixed soon. I don't need the forums and its search function so many times, but if I need it I need to do more than one search in a short interval. Heiko

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[arch-general] Problems with pacman 4.0.0-2
by Timothée Ravier 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Hi, I'm using pacman from testing and I ran into some troubles. I set "SigLevel = Optional TrustAll" in pacman.conf, but I'm still getting a lot of warnings even after I add the keys to the repo. It also takes an ENORMOUS amount of time to do I don't know what right after checking packages integrity, and then fails with : "invalid package or corrupt signature" _without_ telling me which package had a problem. As a workaround, I'm using "SigLevel =Never", but well, this isn't the solution. It "fixes" both the performance issue & the signing (as expected). I tried using an other mirror, hoping that was only a temporary corruption, but this isn't. I attached a sample pacman output log. As for performance concerns, I'm using an intel quad core cpu, with 8Go ram, and pacman doesn't seem to use any ressource at all. It looks like it's the gpg-agent command launched by pacman that takes all this time to complete (and fail in the end ?). I don't have a clue what it is doing, because that's why I used "Optional TrustAll" in the first place. I got three Arch box which are affected by this problem (on different networks, if it matters for gpg-agent). Any ideas are welcome. This could be unrelated to pacman itself. Tim

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[arch-general] Pacman 4 XferCommand and 404 errors
by Alex Ferrando 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

Using an XferCommand in pacman.conf causes a bunch of 404 errors while downloading databases complaining about testing/core/extra.db.sig not found, but it doesn't do the same if it's using the default download method without an XferCommand. An example of that: :: Synchronising package databases... --2011-10-17 20:36:18-- http://mirror.devnu11.net/archlinux/testing/os/x86_64/testing.db Resolving mirror.devnu11.net... 78.46.68.28 Connecting to mirror.devnu11.net|78.46.68.28|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 35855 (35K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/var/lib/pacman/sync/testing.db.part' 100%[========================================================================================================================================================>] 35,855 197K/s in 0.2s 2011-10-17 20:36:18 (197 KB/s) - `/var/lib/pacman/sync/testing.db.part' saved [35855/35855] --2011-10-17 20:36:18-- http://mirror.devnu11.net/archlinux/testing/os/x86_64/testing.db.sig Resolving mirror.devnu11.net... 78.46.68.28 Connecting to mirror.devnu11.net|78.46.68.28|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2011-10-17 20:36:18 ERROR 404: Not Found. A more complete example in [1] Found similar troubles with curl or aria2, and as said before nothing without XferCommands. It might seem quite obvious because the files that the downloaders complain about doesn't exist in the mirrors. However, this seems odd to me and after searching the ML and BBS I found nothing about it. [1] http://pastie.org/2713149

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[arch-general] Libreoffice in [testing] older than the [extra] one
by Alex Ferrando 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

I've configured pacman to use [testing] this morning with the intention of trying pacman 4.0 (so far without troubles after reading a few topics on the BBS and ML) but I've noticed something "weird" after the second update, the one after pacman. Libreoffice from testing seems a build behind: testing/libreoffice-common 3.4.3-3 (libreoffice) [installed] common files for LibreOffice - a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites extra/libreoffice-common 3.4.3-4 (libreoffice) [installed: 3.4.3-3] common files for LibreOffice - a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites I've checked with the packages' page and also shows the same. [1] Is this done intentionally or is some kind of mistake? [1] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=libreoffice+&maintainer=&last_up…

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[arch-general] A question about installing Arch
by Christian 16 Oct '11

16 Oct '11

Hi all, I just have a question and I really need to install Arch. Unfortunatly, I only have the 2010-05 release CD here and I am not able to burn the new one. Is it correct that it will not be able to download the system and install it? If not, are there any other ways for me to get this installed? Many thanks for any help, Christian

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[arch-general] [signoff] kbd-1.15.3-2
by Tobias Powalowski 16 Oct '11

16 Oct '11

Hi, added fix for colemak keyboard layout, 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] How to setup Xorg on VirtualBox?
by Croco 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

I am a newbie of ArchLinux. I have installed Arch on VirtualBox (Running on windows 7), but unable to startx, does anyone know some instructions about this?

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[arch-general] OpenVAS in AUR not compiling
by Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

Hello guys, I require you to test some stuff. Trying to compile OpenVAS, I get Error 2 or some other things. Now I ask, it's my fault or...? Let me know if openvas-libraries in AUR builds fine for you ;) -- Bl@ster / dottorblaster

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