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

[arch-general] Fwd: Core package [libusb] marked out-of-date
by Tobias Powalowski 23 May '12

23 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Core package [libusb] marked out-of-date Datum: Wed, 23 May 2012 12:12:24 -0000 Von: Arch Website Notification <nobody(a)archlinux.org> An: tpowa(a)archlinux.org zhang(a)citrix.com wants to notify you that the following packages may be out-of-date: * libusb 1.0.9-1 [core] (i686): https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/i686/libusb/ * libusb 1.0.9-1 [core] (x86_64): https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/libusb/ The user provided the following additional text: No stable releases in more than a year and a half. Should be replaced by libusbx : http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/libusbx

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[arch-general] is scsi hot swap broken?
by Sergey Manucharian 23 May '12

23 May '12

Hi folks, Just noticed after the recent update to kernel 3.3.6, an attempt to remove a SATA HDD: # echo scsi remove-single-device 3 0 0 0 > /proc/scsi/scsi takes very long time: $ dmesg sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache sd 3:0:0:0: timing out command, waited 360s sd 3:0:0:0: timing out command, waited 360s sd 3:0:0:0: timing out command, waited 360s sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x00 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Stopping disk then adding an another HDD to ANY scsi channel does not work anymore. I've checked three differeent HDDs with the same result. The controller is : $ lspci | grep SATA 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 01) I used to use the hot swapping frequently before, never had such a problem. Am I missing something? Thanks for advices/ideas. Sergey

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[arch-general] Cannot record any video in gnome since last nvidia update on [testing]
by fredbezies 22 May '12

22 May '12

Hello. Everything is in the subject, adding that I'm using gnome and its record tool. Got this in my .xsession-errors log file : Recording to /home/fred/Vidéos/Vidéo d'écran 22-05-2012 11:55:53.webm Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension ** Message: Error: Le flux ne contient aucune donnée. gsttypefindelement.c(954): gst_type_find_element_activate (): /GstPlayBin2:play/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstDecodeBin2:decodebin20/GstTypeFindElement:typefind: Can't typefind empty stream totem-video-thumbnailer couldn't process file: 'file:///home/fred/Vid%C3%A9os/Vid%C3%A9o%20d'%C3%A9cran%2022-05-2012%2011:55:53.webm' Reason: Took too much time to process. webm file is only 300 bytes. Any idea ? -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] NAS drive revisited
by P .NIKOLIC 21 May '12

21 May '12

Hi .. I am still not able to write to my external NAS drive an iomega home media drive So lets approach it from a different angle we will say i have not done anything yet just plugged it into the network What packages am i looking to install and what configuration changes do i need to make . I am trying this way round as i am chasing my tail up somewhere dark and nasty right now . I know the drive works perfectly i have just tried it with an old Suse distro on the Laptop and instant read/write no problem now if it can work on there why wont it work on Arch .. Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.3.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun May 13 10:52:32 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] rubygems, the arch way and the aur
by martin kalcher 21 May '12

21 May '12

Hey archers, i am not sure if this topic belongs to aur-devel or arch-general so i will post it here, because i think the aur-devel readers will read this list too. I think rubygems is very nice. It makes it pretty easy to manage your gems and it doesnt conflict with the "Arch way" as long as you install your gems in your $HOME. But many users want system wide available gems. Hmm, no problem with the --no-user-install switch, pretty KISS. But it violates the "Arch way" at the point, that we want to use pacman to install software, because we know and trust pacman and we dont want to use random software to install/remove files at critical locations of our systems. There are some solutions. Many people uploaded ruby-* PKGBUILDs to the AUR. Great Idea. But they are constantly out of date, because it requires some work to keep on track with rubygems.org (I am not sure if this is a correct english sentence, but i think you will get it.). So somebody wrote pacgem, wich is a ok idea, but its a little bit outdated too. I think the AUR solution is better, but we have to solve the problem with the outdated PKGBUILDs. My suggestions I wrote a simple python script that creates PKGBUILDs from the rubygems.org API. I wrote it just to figure out if this works, so its pretty straight forward and i dont want to publish it it yet. It worked quite nice - it can resolve dependencies and stuff like that - but there is one problem at the moment. The API does not provide any checksums for the gems, but i opened an feature request [0]. With this script i could imagine two things. Setting up a virtual AUR user, who handles all ruby-* packages. Then we create a rubygems account for this user, so we can create a custom rubygems feed for this user, with the gems we have in the AUR. Once a day a script checks the feed for updated gems and creates new PKGBUILDs, if needed. Pretty awesome! If it is possible to integrate this into the AUR, this would be my favorite solution. But i could imagine, that some of you will yell: 'This not what we consider KISS!' The second solution is to provide my own litte archgems website, that does exactly the same. But having this stuff at a single place (AUR) would be really cool. Let me know, what you are thinking. Cheers, ushi [0] https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/427

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[arch-general] acpi_listen has no output of Lenovo mic mute button , while ubuntu does
by Aaron Lewis 20 May '12

20 May '12

Hi, I'm running latest Arch Linux ( Linux kerenl 3.3+ ) / Ubuntu 12.04 (3.2 +) acpi_listen has no output of mic mute button on Arch Linux , but Ubuntu does. (xev has no output on both Linux system) Where should I start from ? Thanks -- Best Regards, Aaron Lewis - PGP: 0xDFE6C29E ( http://keyserver.veridis.com ) Finger Print: 9482 448F C7C3 896C 1DFE 7DD3 2492 A7D0 DFE6 C29E

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[arch-general] makepkg is creating BOTH a /pkg and pkgusr on build??
by David C. Rankin 18 May '12

18 May '12

Guys, Building a small app (GNU External Ballistic Calculator) for Arch. When the PKGBUILD goes to package the file it create both /pkg /pkgusr directories. It puts the .PKGINFO in /pkg and then the executable and libs under /pkgusr -- what is up with that?? Anybody seen this before? I've grepped the source (Makefiles, etc..) and there is no reference to "pkgusr" so what's up? Literally, the package part creates: 00:21 nirvana:~/arch/pkg/bld/tmp> ls -l total 268 drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 4096 May 18 00:13 pkg drwxr-xr-x 4 david david 4096 May 18 00:13 pkgusr drwxr-xr-x 3 david david 4096 May 18 00:03 src -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 560 May 18 00:13 gebc-1.07-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 136471 May 17 23:58 gebc-1.07-src.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 107212 May 17 23:58 gebc.diff -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 904 May 17 23:58 gebc-fl_draw.diff -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 1393 May 17 23:57 PKGBUILD 00:21 nirvana:~/arch/pkg/bld/tmp> l pkg total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 4096 May 18 00:13 . drwxr-xr-x 5 david david 4096 May 18 00:13 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 573 May 18 00:13 .PKGINFO 00:21 nirvana:~/arch/pkg/bld/tmp> ls -l pkgusr total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 4096 May 18 00:13 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 4096 May 18 00:13 lib The resulting package gebc-1.07-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz doesn't contain anything but the pkginfo file. Where do I look to figure out why this new /pkgusr dir has popped up? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Is fcitx must executed under a chinese locale?
by adrian sun 17 May '12

17 May '12

Hi buddy, I am using fcitx for inputting chinese words. I got a problem. If I change my locale to en_US.UTF-8, I can not invoke FCITX by pressing the 'CTRL+Space'. After I changed my locale to zh_CN.UTF-8, FCITX worked well. The question is can I use FCITX under the english locale? if I can, how to configure it? I read the english wiki of fcitx and it says I should check my locale. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fcitx Well, only if I change locale to chinese, FCITX works. For some reasons, I dont want to work under a chinese environment. I find a little difference on wikis that chinese wiki says I can work under english locale, but the way I tried didn't work. Any idea or solution? Thanks!!! Adrian.

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[arch-general] Console font not working anymore
by "Jérôme M. Berger" 17 May '12

17 May '12

Hi, Following a system update, I noticed that the console font is not set anymore (I can't tell how recent this is since I don't go to the console everyday). After some judicious editing of /etc/rc.d/functions (to remove a 2>/dev/null and add a sleep so that I can see the error messages) and some googling, I found that the issue was due to the framebuffer not being initialized. I now have two issues: First issue: how can I find the right value for the vga= option? According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_resolution there are three ways, none of which work: - GRUB recognized value -> does not list my monitor resolution (1920x1080) and the other 16:9 codes listed (1280x720) appear to be wrong since they result in a distorted display; - hwinfo --framebuffer -> does not show anything. I looked through the full hwinfo output without options, but there didn't seem to be anything framebuffer related there; - vbetest -> does not work in 64 bits. Second issue: when I activate the framebuffer with some default resolution (say 1024x768 vga=773), the font is set properly, but it is not kept: a few seconds after setting the font, the screen resolution changes and the font goes back to the default. Once the computer has finished booting, if I log in as root, source /etc/rc.conf and /etc/rc.d/functions, then call set_consolefont manually, the console fonts are set properly and kept until I reboot. I have a fully up to date 64bits Arch install. The relevant hardware is: - CPU: Athlon 64X2 3800+ - Graphic card: ATI Radeon HD 4350 - Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster P2370 Thanks in advance, Jerome -- mailto:jeberger@free.fr http://jeberger.free.fr Jabber: jeberger(a)jabber.fr

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[arch-general] error installing package that relies on soprano (k9copy)
by D. R. Evans 16 May '12

16 May '12

When I try to install k9copy, I receive the following error message: :: Retrieving packages from extra... error: failed retrieving file 'soprano-2.7.5-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz' from ftp.archlinux.org : Given file does not exist 1. Is this a packaging error of some kind (presumably in the k9copy package)? 2. Is there something I can do to allow me to avoid this problem and install k9copy? Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR

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