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

[arch-general] Invisible GNOME 3 Icons
by Ankur Sethi 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Hi, I use Arch with GNOME 3 on a Dell Vostro 1520 (late 2009). This machine comes with an nVidia 9300M GS GPU. I'm using the proprietary nVidia drivers. After a recent update, all the icons from my GNOME 3 top bar have become invisible. My login screen picture has also become invisible. When I say "invisible", I mean I can click them all right, but I can't see them. These screenshots will explain more: * http://imagebin.org/198830 * http://imagebin.org/198831 What's worse, some of the GTK+ UI elements have also become invisible. Here's what my System Settings app looks like: * http://imagebin.org/198832 As you can see, the checkboxes and slider handles are invisible. Does anyone know what might have caused this? How can I fix this? -- Ankur Sethi

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[arch-general] Crash under gnome shell using interactive search, nvidia beta driver bug ?
by fredbezies 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Wells, I deactivated all my extensions, and still crashing. Looks like it is a nvidia driver bug. Have to switch to nouveau for now... And will tell you if it still crashes. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] Weird crash under gnome 3 with testing repo enabled...
by fredbezies 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Hello. Can't say if it is related to an extension, but since I upgraded xorg packages with testing versions (and nvidia packages related to them), I got gnome shell to crash when I type "cal" (without quotes) in order to launch calculator or libreoffice calc :( Weird :\ -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] [pkgbuild] Erlang R15B (new major release)
by Vedant Kumar 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Hello, I've attached an updated PKGBUILD for the new major release of erlang. The build runs well on my machine. Can a dev update the version of erlang in the repos? best, vedant

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[arch-general] ffmpeg and libav
by Andrea Crotti 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

I am not part of the libav team, but I know many developers and I followed the story of the fork. I then also noticed that my beloved arch is still using ffmpeg and libav is not even in the official repository (but only in AUR). Is there a reason for that? There are quite a few good reasons to switch over and many already did: - debian unstable (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2011-De…) - vlc (http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2011-August/081317.html) - gstreamer (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26497) (And I'm quite sure also gentoo and Ubuntu but I don't find a link).

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[arch-general] kde 4.8 and syaptiks
by Genes MailLists 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

If I understand correctly there is a tool to configure touchpads is now available in kde 4.8.0 http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=114270 However I cannot find it on my desktop - I have the kde meta group installed. Anyone know where synaptiks is - is it available? Thanks! gene/

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Re: [arch-general] Strange sound behavior in some games
by Northwoods 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Adding user to audio group do not solve this issue. These are my groups: lp wheel games audio optical storage power users Laurent Carlier <lordheavym(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm getting strange sound issues in games, well in fact it is one issue, I have no sound in Dungeons of Dredmor and Wesnoth, but when I run the game under sudo "gamename" the sound appears miraculously. Can somebody explain me this? Thank you >> >> > >Perhaps you should try: > >usermod -a -G audio YourUser > >ps: man usermod >

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[arch-general] LibreOffice Base errors
by F. Gr. 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Hi, I'm trying to create a new database by the Libreoffice Database Wizard. I'm getting three errors: 1. The connection to the data source "database" could not be established. 2. Error code: 1000 The driver class 'org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver' could not be loaded.The additional driver class path is 'file:///usr/share/java/hsqldb.jar vnd.sun.star.expand:$OOO_BASE_DIR/program/classes/sdbc_hsqldb.jar'. 3. Error code: -1 org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver I'm using LibreOffice 3.4.5-2, jre7-openjdk 7.b147_2.0-6.

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[arch-general] Strange sound behavior in some games
by Mountpeaks 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

I'm getting strange sound issues in games, well in fact it is one issue, I have no sound in Dungeons of Dredmor and Wesnoth, but when I run the game under sudo "gamename" the sound appears miraculously. Can somebody explain me this? Thank you -- Mountpeaks <mountpeaks(a)lavabit.com>

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[arch-general] Possible hard drive failure, DMA errors.
by Jordan Windsor 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Hello, I was downloading 3 movies via sabnzbd (~5GB each), after awhile I noticed the system wasn't responding as much, RhythmBox wasn't playing anymore, sabnzbd wasn't making progress and my broswer also was slowing down a bit. I then decided to restart thinking it would solve what ever problems sabnzbd brought along, when I did that it didn't reboot it just logged me out, I couldn't log back in, it would accept my password and username but after that nothing would happen, I then hard powered it off, on start-up it wouldn't get past the "mounting local filesystems" part of the boot process, it would just print DMA errors and more. I'm running PassMark's DiskCheckup on both my disks, on the first the quick self check completes quickly without error, but the second drive doesn't get past 10% (starts on 10%) and shows "The last self-test routine completed with a failure of the read element." I was wondering is my disk 100% gone? or is the some chance of getting my RAID0 data off? although 90% is easily replaceable (movies). Thanks. (I'll reply later with the details of the error messages displayed during boot.)

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