November 2012 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Forum and wiki registration bug
by Karol Blazewicz 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

The current registration question for the forums is What is the output of "date -u +%W$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'"? and for the wiki What is the output of "date -u +%W`uname`|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'"? so I guess the wiki is csh-friendly. The code breaks in the first week of the year. Old forum thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=132824 New forum thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=152460 Allan suggested a fix, but it hasn't been implemented: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2011-December/02229… I can open a bug report for this, but there are also ideas how to make it easier for people using other shells or non-Linux systems, e.g.,: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1151464#p1151464 There already is https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32066 open.

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[arch-general] midori-git/webkitgtk3 not using openjdk/icedtea?
by Javier Vasquez 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

Hi, According to: http://wiki.xfce.org/midori/faq It's reported that midori works with openjdk and icedtea plugin. However for some reason on arch (x86-64) midori-git (gtk3 support) + webkitgtk3 doesn't grab java at all. I don't see java applets loading on web pages requiring them, and java.com doesn't recognize any java installed... Is this just me, or is there anyone working with midori-git + webkitgtk3 and openjdk+icedtea? Thanks, -- Javier.

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[arch-general] Permanent settings for touch screen
by Sergi Pons Freixes 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

Hi All, I am trying to configure the touch screen, for finger touch, for a Thinkpad X200 Tablet. Using xinput_calibrator, I got the correct Area valeus for having it calibrated, so with: $ xsetwacom --set "Serial Wacom Tablet WACf008 touch" Area 43 81 952 937 I tested it and worked perfectly. To make the changes permanent, I created: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf Section "InputClass" Identifier "Touch Calibration" MatchProduct "Serial Wacom Tablet WACf008 touch" Option "Area" "43 81 952 937" EndSection But after rebooting, it doesn't work, it just takes the default uncalibrated values, as can be seen on: $ xsetwacom --get "Serial Wacom Tablet WACf008 touch" "Area" 0 0 1024 1024 What I am doing wrong? I also tried setting MatchProduct "touch|Touch|TOUCH" just in case, but it doesn't work anyway. Cheers, Sergi

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[arch-general] acpi doesn't detect an external battery
by thorsopia＠lavabit.com 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

Hello, acpi doesn't detect an external battery. Using two batteries (external and internal): Battery 0: Charging, 99%, charging at zero rate - will never fully charge External only: Battery 0: Unknown, 0% Is there a way to fix this? The external one has an indicator, but it's not enough (I'd like to know the remaining time).

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[arch-general] PowerDNS has new dependencies
by Δημήτρης Ζέρβας 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

pdns needs openmpi and hwloc. Also wildcard option in configuration is not supported any more. Can you update the package please? -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Bug Squashing Day: Saturday 17th November
by Karol Blazewicz 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

Why are some bug descriptions truncated? Is: FS#26200 - [gnome-control-center] 3.2.0-1 does not show any items when used Should be: FS#26200 - [gnome-control-center] 3.2.0-1 does not show any items when used with LXDE https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26200 Why not use the wiki template for bug reports https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Template:Bug ?

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[arch-general] Restarting at-spi2?
by kendell clark 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

hi all I am currently using orca v3.6.1 on xfce 4.10. Occasionally orca will crash causing me to have to restart it. This will sometimes also crash the at-spi2 bridge, causing orca to restart but then refuse to read anything on the screen until i reboot. I've tried to track down the processes responsible for at-spi. Typing ps -e | grep -i at-spi gives me two processes. at-spi2-dbus-launcher and at-spi2-registryd. I tried to write a script to restart at-spi2 by simply killall -9 at-spi2-dbus-launcher and at-spi2-registryd, then restarts them. but I get a command not found error when trying to restart both of them. Knowing nothing about dbus, I'm lost here. can anyone help? I've tried looking at the .config/autostart/at-spi2-registryd file provided with xfce, but it doesn't have the command I need to start at-spi2. I've researched on the web, but haven't found anything promising, only old bug reports that have been closed, and some forum posts, also about old bug reports. my search term was "restarting at-spi2." Any help/documentation/manpages are greatly appreciated.

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[arch-general] xf86-video-ati -- trouble ahead
by phanisvara 11 Nov '12

11 Nov '12

as per https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56986, there's some trouble with ver. 7.0.0 of this driver. it needs KMS mode now, but according to a couple comments, it doesn't wok with that either. if it doesn't, it took me almost 5 min. to downgrade to the previous version, 6.14.6. -- phani.

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[arch-general] pacman error: target not found
by Mathias Huber 11 Nov '12

11 Nov '12

Dear Archers, I've been a happy Arch Linux user for years, but now I'm having trouble updating. Can anyone help? [root@archlinux huber]# pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... [...] :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace libwebkit with extra/webkitgtk2? [Y/n] [...] resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... warning: removing 'libgl' from target list because it conflicts with 'nvidia-utils' error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: nouveau-dri: requires libgl=9.0 [root@archlinux huber]# pacman -R nouveau-dri error: target not found: nouveau-dri How do I resolve this? Best, Mathias

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] "adm" and "log" groups
by Leonid Isaev 11 Nov '12

11 Nov '12

On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:46:24 +0100 Jan Steffens <jan.steffens(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The meaning of these two groups ("adm" and "log") seems to be > identical. Both allow read access to system logs, except "adm" is used > by journald and "log" by syslogd (and tomcat, apparently). > > Wouldn't it make sense to do away with one? Is there a guarantee that `adm` group will be confined to only journald and not include wider priviledges in the future? By default it is probably unnecessary to have a log group as supplied by `filesystem`, but I I would still keep its creation in syslog-ng.install and similar. This way users who need a better logger than the journal will have a proper group setup... -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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