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

[arch-general] 'Please enter summary' issue in our bugtracker
by Karol Blazewicz 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

I can assume that 'Please enter summary' text was included in the bug report template to remind people they should enter a summary of the bug they're reporting and not just "tag" it with e.g. '[arptables]'. I don't know when exactly was this introduced, but in the past month I've noticed several bug reports with titles like '[arptables] PLEASE ENTER SUMMARY'. The titles have sometimes been fixed by the person the reports got assigned to and 13 such reports out of over 500 is not bad: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28324 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28362 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28404 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28454 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28464 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28534 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28539 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28574 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28666 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28711 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28763 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28791 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28847 I think the design of our bug reports leaves something to be desired but upstream seems dead http://flyspray.org/ so we have to make do. Is it possible to put the cursor in the summary field to make it clear that this part should be edited? If such questions should be posted to the bugtracker and not the mailing list, should I file them under Arch Linux project in Web Sites category?

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[arch-general] Weird Konqueror quirk
by David Rosenstrauch 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

Been seeing a weird quirk with KDE's konqueror recently. Was wondering if this is something unique to my personal configuration, or if it's an upstream bug that needs to be filed. Can some KDE user confirm? 1) Launch konqueror in file manager mode. e.g.: [darose@daroselin ~]$ konqueror /tmp 2) Go to the right pane, which lists the files in /tmp. Find an empty area in the pane and right-click on it. (i.e., don't right-click on a file) That pops up a menu. 3) Select "Create New". That pops up a sub-menu. 4) Select "Text File ...". That pops up a box to enter the file name. 5) Enter a file name of (for example) "foobar.txt". 6) The file that gets created is "foobar.txt.desktop". 7) WTF?!?!?!?!?!? Anyone else seeing this behavior too? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] pacman: relocation error
by Sebastian Lipp 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Today I updated pacman to 4.0.2 and now I get errors I don't understand when trying to install anything: $ sudo pacman -S gpgme pacman: /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libalpm.so.7) resolving dependencies... [...] Proceed with installation? [Y/n] pacman: relocation error: /usr/lib/libalpm.so.7: symbol gpgme_check_version_internal, version GPGME_1.1 not defined in file libgpgme.so.11 with link time reference Searching the web revealed nothing and I've got no clue how to proceed in order to solve this. Any ideas? Thanks, basti

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[arch-general] Preventing cups from trying to access avahi-server
by Leonid Isaev 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Hi, When I spool a document to cups for the 1st time, I see this in the logs: ----- dbus[552]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.Avahi': timed out ----- It times out because I don't have avahi-* running, but this message starts to annoy me. I have already disabled (in cups webconfig) the sharing of local printers, showing of printers attached to other systems, and DNSSD protocol altogether, but still cups wants to connect to avahi. Is there any config handle in dbus/avahi/cups to disable this? 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] Xorg 1.12 moves soon to testing for stabilization phase
by Andreas Radke 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

New Xorg has Xinput 2.2, Mesa 8.0 and many major library updates. Expect some bugs and broken packages. Most recent Xorg stuff is used in Fedora RawHide for a while where fixes can be found. Most noticeable changes will be: - Mesa 8.0 drops 3D support for some chips. These packages are gone now: unichrome-dri, mach64-dri, mga-dri, r128-dri, savage-dri, sis-dri, tdfx-dri - I couldn't find patches to get Xorg 1.12 support in xf86-video-sisemedia and xf86-video-xgi. Both should be of very low interest (not included in FC at all). We might drop them if no fix can be found. - State of closed drivers: Nvidia has a beta pkg out with Xorg 1.12 support. Let's pray it's already in usable state. Catalyst (AUR) users will stay in the dark as on every major Xorg release for a while. -Andy

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[arch-general] kopete and google talk
by Shridhar Daithankar 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hello, I have configured a gmail account in kopete and google talk/libjingle is enabled. However if I right click on the contact properties, "Call google talk contact" is always disabled. What do I need to do to get it working? TIA. -- Regards Shridhar

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Re: [arch-general] partition mount, strange entry in log
by gt 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jason Steadman > Sent: 03/08/12 02:40 PM > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > Subject: Re: [arch-general] partition mount, strange entry in log > > On 8 March 2012 09:05, gt <static.vortex(a)gmx.com> wrote: > > > > Is it something new in the kernel or something arch specific? Also, what > > does it mean to the end user? Are my ext3 partitions behaving like ext4 > > now? > > > > Is it something like this: > > > > http://v.gd/Gt8PhR > > Explained here - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25341 Thanks, it's clear now.

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[arch-general] partition mount, strange entry in log
by gt 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

>From the past few weeks, i get this in the log during boot: kernel: [ 8.165927] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem kernel: [ 8.194637] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) Here's the relevant part of the fstab: UUID=<------> /mnt/sdb1 ext3 auto,users,rw,exec,noatime 0 2 I understand that this isn't anything worrysome, but what exactly does this mean: "using the ext4 subsytem" -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

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[arch-general] archroot - proper way to Start Over? (rm -r $CHROOT/$USER)?
by David C. Rankin 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Guys, What is the best way to clean a chroot without doing another mkarchroot? In the chroot I have /root and /david. With Trinity there are 2 different Qt dependencies that can be used Qt3 and TQt3. I have built a set of packages on Qt3, not I want to rebuild starting with TQt3. I don't want any stray dependency mismatches, so I want to start with a fresh chroot. I know I can just save my [local] repo and blow away the whole chroot and start over, but can I do just as well by deleting /david and then build my first package? Or, is it better to just start over with mkarchoot? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] sane - 'sane-config --libs' returns NON library information causing some CMake builds to fail - bug or feature?
by David C. Rankin 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Guys, Ran into a big problem with sane 1.0.22-6 causing builds to fail due to the return of 'sane-config --libs' returning non-library flags which results in CMake botching the link config. From the sane-config man page: --libs Print the additional libraries that are necessary to link a SANE frontend to libsane. Currently, on arch, 'sane-config --libs' returns: 10:51 providence:~/bld/david> sane-config --libs -lsane -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu -L/usr/lib -lnetsnmp -lcrypto -lm -ldl -lv4l1 -lm -ltiff -ljpeg -lgphoto2 -lgphoto2_port -lm -lexif -lusb -lavahi-common -lavahi-client -lusb I don't know exactly why (I presume it has to do with the interpretation of the '--' information by CMake), but it results in run-together link strings: <snip> CMakeFiles/kscan-shared.dir/imgscaninfo.cpp.o -L/opt/trinity/lib -L/opt/tqt3/lib /opt/trinity/lib/libkio.so.4.2.0 -lsane-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu-L/usr/lib -lnetsnmp -lcrypto -lm -ldl -lv4l1 -ltiff -ljpeg -lgphoto2 -lgphoto2_port -lexif -lusb -lavahi-common -lavahi-client /opt/trinity/lib/libtdeui.so.4.2.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig /opt/trinity/lib/libtdesu.so.4.2.0 -lutil /opt/trinity/lib/libkwalletclient.so.1.0.1 /opt/trinity/lib/libtdecore.so.4.2.0 /opt/trinity/lib/libDCOP.so.4.2.0 /opt/trinity/lib/libtdefx.so.4.2.0 -ltqt -ltqt-mt -lXrender -lX11 -lz -lidn -lXcomposite -lICE -lSM -Wl,-rpath,/opt/trinity/lib:/opt/tqt3/lib: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsane-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu-L/usr/lib collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Here the problem is the run-together: '-lsane-Wl'. What I need to know is this a "bug --or-- feature" on arch? Looking at the current sane in extra, this behavior isn't something that arch is configuring or patching. However, the string returned by sane-config --libs is the makepkg.conf string for $LDFLAGS plus the lib information for sane... What say the experts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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