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

[arch-general] Softlink /media
by Ralf Mardorf 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Am I the only one mounting e.g. an USB stick by the desktop and then using a terminal emulation? Is /media still needed by anything? If not I would prefer a softlink media -> /run/media. Hm? There's no big difference between typing # ls /run/media/spinymouse/INTENSO and # ls /media/spinymouse/INTENSO I wonder if it's possible to use $HOME for the softlink? IMO an USB stick etc. should be auto-mounted at /media, I prefer to type /media/INTENSO only. For now I added the softlink media -> /run/media. Regards, Ralf Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Skype locks up my system, not even sysrq keys work
by SanskritFritz 05 Aug '12

05 Aug '12

When I do a videochat in skype, the whole system freezes after a while. This while can be a couple to 10+ minutes. The system locks up usually when I start or close some other apps in the background. When it happens the screen doesnt change anymore, and the sound stutters the last half second over and over again. Nothing helps, not even the magic sysrq keys (REISUB), which otherwise do work (tested it). I suspect this could be a result of a new videocard in the system (the problem started around that time, when I swapped the old GeForce 7300 GS to a new 8600 GT), but everything else works flawlessly, 3D games, movies, compiz, everything, except skype. Is it possible that a hardware problem causes a problem of this magnitude only with skype? I couldn't find anything in the logfiles after reboot. There is no overheating of the nvidia card or cpu, I constantly check it with conky. Later I'm going to switch back to the old videocard, and test, to see if it is hardware related. Please help me to find the problem if software related. Cheers SanskritFritz

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[arch-general] Install wiki - recommendations regarding 'swap' ?
by David C. Rankin 05 Aug '12

05 Aug '12

All, After installing without AIF, I want to update the install wiki to drop a note about swap. It isn't addressed at all. What is the current Arch recommendation regarding swap creation? I.E.: recommended for systems w/less that 1G of RAM, create swap file of what size? (256M?) Even if swap is not recommended, I at least want to drop that note in the basic install. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] [signoff] btrfs-progs
by Tom Gundersen 05 Aug '12

05 Aug '12

Hi guys, Seems not many of us yet use btrfs, I therefore would like to ask if any users can signoff on the btrfs-progs in testing (i.e. verify that the package appears to work). In particular, I'm interested to hear if someone who uses btrfs-progs and initscripts from testing could verify that the multi-device support still works? If you have the btrfs hook in your initramfs, then please enable udev too and regenerate the image to verify that that also still works. For those who are interested: the change we made was to scan btrfs devices for multi-device support using udev rules as the devices appear rather than doing it unconditionally after "all the devices should be ready". This approach should hopefully be more reliable than the old one. Cheers, Tom

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[arch-general] Makepkg's versioning for git packages
by Menachem Moystoviz 04 Aug '12

04 Aug '12

I am a bit confused regarding makepkg's versioning of packages. >From what Allan said on this mailing list a couple of days ago, custom support is being added to makepkg. In addition, from what I can see on the wiki and manpages, the only variable influencing the versioning is pkgver. However, from what I've heard, when running makepkg with _gitroot and _gitname set, makepkg will automatically set pkgver to the date of the last commit. Could someone clarify this? Also, the wiki pages regarding makepkg should mention this. Thanks, M

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[arch-general] [archboot] looking for 2012.08 beta testers
by Tobias Powalowski 04 Aug '12

04 Aug '12

Hi, please drop me an answer if you are interest in testing the next archboot release. Thanks greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] chromium crash when print dialog is invoked
by Scott Weisman 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

I started experiencing a severe problem with Chromium recently that makes web browsing a very tedious experience. It took a while to narrow it down, but it seems that whenever the print dialog is invoked, either manually (eg ctrl-P on the keyboard) or by a page when clicking on the "printer friendly format" link, the entire browser crashes. This happens on two separate Arch installs. I personally would love a method to disable the printer dialog from ever popping up anyway, since I don't even have one (so if someone can suggest a method, I'd love to hear it), but this bug is a serious problem, as the crash is unrecoverable. And if my session ends up with a page that invokes the dialog on its own, I have to clear out the entire session. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Can anyone suggest a solution?

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[arch-general] Build pacman statically
by Jack Silver 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

To exchange information I want to let know this list that I have filled a feature request form to ask for a statically builded pacman. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30993 Comments welcome in the bug manager. جاك الفضة

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[arch-general] gtk apps causing X cpu usage 85-100%
by David C. Rankin 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

Guys, Here is a new issue on the latest Arch with nvidia and any gtk app like Firefox or Thunderbird. When using Firefox or Thunderbird, X cpu usage skyrockets to 85+%, the Tbird cpu will be 20+%. Here is a top screenshot showing usage: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/arch/bugs/tbird-cpu.jpg Merely scrolling the new messages window or a web page causes X cpu usage to jump from a resting usage of 1-5% to over 30%. This is viewing all messages as plain text only. When tbird checks imap servers or sends messages both X and tbird CPU use goes way way up. Anybody else seeing something similar? gtk 1.2.10-11 gtk2 2.24.11-2 gtk3 3.4.4-1 linux 3.4.7-1 nvidia 302.17-4 firefox 14.0.1-1 thunderbird 14.0-1 xorg-server 1.12.3-1 xorg-server-common 1.12.3-1 It's like there is some very bad race condition created in X when using gtk apps with the nvidia driver? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Texlive package install
by Arno Gaboury 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

Dear list, I use Texlive + Texmaker to write some documents. I can't find an easy and solid way to install new packages from CTAN.Package tlmgr from AUR couldn't compil on my box and will not do the job.Installing manually new packages doesn't seem to be a good idea and is not very straightforward. Thank you for any advice.

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