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

[arch-general] arch as virtualbox guest - gpm -> mouse cursor stuck in middle of console?
by David C. Rankin 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Guys, IIRC, gpm used to work fine in archlinux when arch was installed as a guest os in virtualbox (virtualbox-bin 4.1.8-1). I have always used the same options with gpm: gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2 -a 3 Now when I start gpm and click in the virtualbox console window, all I get is a single cursor (character cell) in the center of the console. If I double-click, then the line with the cursor on in highlights, but I can never move the cursor from the middle. I've tried all other -t msX types. I've also tried -t ps2 which gives the same behavior as imps2. I've check the wiki Console_Mouse_Support and googled gpm cursor won't move, etc.. and haven't found anything relevant. Anybody see this behavior before or know of a workaround? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] `multicat` package added to AUR
by Sébastien Leblanc 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Hi, I made a PKGBUILD for VideoLAN's multicat utility. It is a content-agnostic (optimized for MPEG TS) uni/multicast streaming software suite. It is often considered a multicast version of the netcat utility. It is very lightweight: a compiled package weighs 41K It is available on the AUR under the name `multicat`. >From their website: > Simple and efficient multicast and transport stream manipulation > The multicat package contains a set of tools designed to easily and efficiently manipulate multicast streams in general, and MPEG-2 Transport Streams (ISO/IEC 13818-1) in particular. > The multicat suite of applications is very lightweight and designed to operate in tight environments. Memory and CPU usages are kept to a minimum, and they feature only one thread of execution.

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[arch-general] git software: howto remove files from history and its objects
by F. Gr. 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Hi, I'm a new user of git software. I imported a mercurial repository to a git repository. Now I want to remove some files from history and the objects in my repository. Are these the right commands? git filter-branch -d /dir1/subdir/ --index-filter 'git rm --cached -f --ignore-unmatch' -- --all rm -rf /git_repo/.git/refs/remotes/origin git reflog expire --expire=0 --all git gc --aggressive --prune=0 then (perhaps :-) I can push to my remote repository. I haven't tried the above commands yet because I don't want to break my repository.

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[arch-general] Mplayer and cdparanoia
by Leonid Isaev 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Hi, Currently cdparanoia is a dep. for mplayer, despite closed https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27970 and --disable-cdparanoia in PKGBUILD. Is there a reason for that? Thanks, -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] apparently bash export is broken for users
by Jude DaShiell 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

I tried setting up emacspeak and emacspeak needs two variables exported to the user's .profile file in order to work. The EMACSPEAK_DIR variable needs to point at the location of emacspeak and DTK_PROGRAM needs to point at the speech server you intend to use. The export commands did not create a .profile file for me nor did they update a .profile file for me with their contents in it. Using echo to create and populate the .profile also has no good effect. I'm about to use git to pull the current version of emacspeak down onto this system and try with that but I downloaded and built eflite and emacspeak that's on this machine from the aur repository. Fortunately, I can test emacspeak on debian without much difficulty and may need to check out where debian stores those export variables since the debian version I have made work in the past. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>

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[arch-general] export runs and emacspeak doesn't
by Jude DaShiell 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

Okay, changing DTK_PROGRAM=espeak produced identical results to DTK_PROGRAM=eflite which is process no speaker running as the final message in emacspeak. Apparently both servers need -Ltcl8.4. This is good to know since now I get some disk space back. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>

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[arch-general] export works, emacspeak doesn't
by Jude DaShiell 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

I think I know why too. emacspeak needs tcl8.4 library to even build the eflite server. I'll check and see if I can get the espeak server up without it next. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>

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[arch-general] Package signing: database signatures?
by Christian Hesse 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

Hello everybody, afaik, database files in official repositories are not signed yet. Are they? This forces one to set SigLevel to 'Optional' instead of 'Required'. Now if anybody wants to provide an infected package he/she only needs to provide no signature at all and the package is happily accepted, no? So when will database files from official packages be signed? And even more interesting: Does it make sense to add a new option 'PkgRequired'? This could force valid signatures for packages and make it optional for database files. -- Best regards, Chris O< ascii ribbon campaign stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

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Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend
by Thanasis Georgiou 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

> On Mar 10, 2012 2:34 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote: > At the beginning I only wanted to help, I didn't start that discussion > about PA for this thread, other people did start it. > > I hope we can stop it, thanx I can see your points and they are perfectly valid. I know how it feels to have hardware not working right with software, I was forced to dual-boot windows for 1 whole year until I finally made a TV tuner work in linux. But lets not create any more noise, the original problem is solved. -- Thanasis Georgiou

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[arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend
by XeCycle 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

Hello, I use pulseaudio on my laptop. I start it by `start-pulseaudio-x11` in something like .xinitrc (I use a standalone wm with lxdm). When I resume from pm-suspend, the system beeper issues several beeps; when I open a urxvt, a bash completion failure will issue a beep too. However when any program that talks to pulseaudio starts (or try again to talk to it), e.g. start pavucontrol, everything is normal again. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591

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