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

[arch-general] [signoff] Netcfg 2.6.8-1
by Rémy Oudompheng 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

Hello, netcfg 2.6.8 is released. It is a bug fix release for bugs FS#25514 [1], FS#25473 [2], FS#25530 [3]. Please sign it off and move it to [core] when possible. [1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25514 [2] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25473 [3] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25530 Regards, -- Rémy.

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[arch-general] lost+found is quite big, although I haven't lost anything?
by Karol Babioch 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

Hi, since the free space on my system is getting less and less, I was about to clean it up when realizing that my "lost+found" directory on this ext4 formatted partition is about 37G big. The system hasn't crashed so far, wasn't shutdown improperly (as it is attached to a UPS), so its seems quite strange to me. I immediately unmounted the partition and ran an fsck (both with and without the force parameter), but it hasn't reported anything wrong, nor cleaned up the directory. I'm now a little bit concerned as to why this happened and what to do about the directory. Can it be safely removed? Where do this 37G come from? Best regards, Karol Babioch

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Pacman 4.0.0 RC1 "release"
by Myra Nelson 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:28, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > For the daring, pick your poison (by architecture): > > * pacman -U http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz > * pacman -U http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz > > Allan, Dave, and I (and probably a few others) run pacman-git on most > of our systems with no problems, so their should be no real shockers > or problems if you give this a spin. There are no database upgrades or > changes this time so downgrading later should work fine if truly > necessary. > > What we're looking for feedback on: > > * any build failures in makepkg you may see > * if you manage a custom repo, how does repo-add work for you > * does pacman behave as it did before > * if you want to sign packages, does the functionality in makepkg and > the documentation make sense > * same for signing repos- does it work for you > > What we know isn't there yet: > * translations > * a developer keyring (or keyring package)- if you delve into this, > you will need to look at pacman-key for now > * great error messages on verification failure, or ability to import > keys on the fly if it is unknown > > Note that we'd love testing even if you don't plan on touching any of > the new signing stuff- there were 500+ commits worth of changes in > this release, including a switch to curl as the download library, so > anything out of the ordinary should be reported. Please choose -git as > the version in the bugtracker if you do it that way, otherwise email > pacman-dev. > > Happy testing! > > -Dan Daring is fun. I haven't noticed any problems with normal, whatever that is, usage or with makepkg. At least so far. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] gnutls 3.0.0 pushed to testing
by Andreas Radke 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

We've just moved the gnutls 3.0.0 rebuilds to testing. Please check if anything is broken and report bugs or give us your ok to move them all to extra/community. -Andy

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[arch-general] [signoff] device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.87-1
by Eric Bélanger 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

Hi, device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.87-1 are now in testing for an upstream update. Please test and signoff. Signoffs from users are welcomed. Thanks, Eric

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[arch-general] Weird behaviour A/C vs battery
by Manolo Martínez 13 Aug '11

13 Aug '11

Hello everyone, I would like to ask you for help with a weird piece of behaviour of my arch box (now 3.0, but it was the same with older kernels): * Shutdown works OK when on A/C, but, when on battery, the computer ends up with fans on and the On button light on. In this state it is totally unresponsive -- it looks much as it does when it fails to suspend. * But, on battery (and A/C too), it reboots perfectly well. So I've resorted to rebooting when I want to shutdown on battery, and then plugging it off once it gets to the bios screen. I'm sure these will be tell-tale symptoms to more enlightened arch users. For my part, I am totally clueless. I would have suspected an acpid problem, but I have no shutdown event or action enabled. I don't see anything interesting in the logs either. Any piece of advise will be very welcome. Cheers, Manolo

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[arch-general] [signoff] openvpn 2.2.1-1
by Thomas Bächler 13 Aug '11

13 Aug '11

Upstream update, fix FS#24797, FS#19376. Please sign off.

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[arch-general] Ignored configuration settings in .gtkrc-2.0
by Bastien Dejean 13 Aug '11

13 Aug '11

Hi, I've added the following lines to my .gtkrc-2.0: gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" gtk-can-change-accels = 1 But they seem to be ignored... Thanks, -- Bastien

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[arch-general] 2011.08-2 archboot "2k11-R5" ISO hybrid image released
by Tobias Powalowski 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

Hi Arch community, Arch Linux (archboot creation tool) 2011.08-2, "2k11-R5" has been released. To avoid confusion, this is not an official arch linux iso release! Homepage and for more information on archboot: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archboot Forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=124293 Summary: - merge in linux 3.0 changes, plain bugfix release. Hybrid image file and torrent is provided, which include i686 and x86_64 core repository. Please check md5sum before using it. Hybrid image file is a standard CD-burnable image and also a raw disk image. - Can be burned to CD(RW) media using most CD-burning utilities. - Can be raw-written to a drive using 'dd' or similar utilities. This method is intended for use with USB thumb drives. Please get it from your favorite arch linux mirror: - https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/archboot/2011.08/ - <yourmirror>/iso/archboot/2011.08/ Have fun, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Writing my mother tongue in LibreOffice.
by Madhurya Kakati 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

Hi, I was quite surprised to see a language pack for LibreOffice for my mother tongue in the extra repo(libreoffice-as). I was wondering as to how to write it? Do I need to buy a special keyboard or will this qwerty keyboard work? Thanks

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