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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.2.12-1
by Tobias Powalowski 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

Hi guys, please signoff 3.2.12 series for both arches. package is not in testing, please grab it from here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ This will move to [core] directly, because 3.3 is in [testing]. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up orphaned packages
by Lukas Fleischer 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 04:19:25PM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hi all, > > while the rebuild of unsigned packages is about to be finished we > should start to think about our orphaned packages. ATM there about 430 > of them in core and extra 1); some of them are 8probably) not needed by > any other package 2) > > Here is my proposal: > * Everybody please review the list and adopt packages that you use and > might be willing to maintain. > * If you maintain a package that depends on an orphan, please adopt it. > It does not make sense to depend on an maintained package. Note that > packages can have mroe than one maintainer; so you should share the > workload. > * If a TU wants to maintain an orphan that is currently in [extra], > please let us know. I remember that some packages were hold back and weren't moved to [community] on former [extra] cleanups, even though they didn't have a maintainer (I'm not sure about the reasons anymore; I remember some of them were used on gerolde or so, not sure if that is still relevant). You should probably double-check these. Apart from that, +1 to this idea. I already checked the list of unneeded orphans and there's >20 packages I'd like to maintain if they aren't picked up in [extra]... > * Maybe we can also have a small team that adopts all orphans that > nobody wants to adopt on their own but is needed. Sounds like a good idea as well, at least for packages that are easy to maintain ("easy" meaning that upstream releases don't require much more work than bumping the pkgver and updating checksums). Packages that require a packager, who actually uses them, can still be dropped/moved. > > The goal should be to adopt all needed/wanted orphans and remove > everything else. > > Greetings, > > Pierre > > > 1) > https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&arch=any&arch=x86_64&repo=Core&re… > 2) https://www.archlinux.org/devel/reports/unneeded-orphans/ > > -- > Pierre Schmitz, http://pierre-schmitz.com

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[arch-general] a bit more script
by pete 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Hi folks . Sorry to be a pain but i am still having a bit of fun (or not as the case may be) with scripting here thanks to previous help i have for f in *jpg ; do echo "<a class=\"highslide\" href=\"$f\" onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\"><img src=\"thumbs/\"$f\"></a>" ; done > awardgallery.html which works well and generates <a class="highslide" href="img_0004.jpg" onclick="return hs.expand(this)"><img src="thumbs/"img_0004.jpg"></a> The slight problem is in this part <img src="thumbs/"img_0004.jpg"> thumbs is a sub dir off the main photos with thumbnails in it they are named img_0004_s.jpg and i can get it to pick this fact up that means i have an edit job every time . help with mods please folks Thanks pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.11-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 15 09:19:02 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] pacman ignore packages by pattern?
by XeCycle 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Hello, Is it possible for pacman to ignore packages by a pattern like --ignore xorg-*? I remember the painful days I've spent when using catalyst, so I switched to xf86-video-ati, so as not to be bothered by xorg packages. --ignoregroup xorg won't work perfectly, since not all xorg packages belong to that group. But some packages do need to be in sync with xorg-server, e.g. xorg-server-common. It will be handy if I can just put "IgnorePkg = xorg-*" in my /etc/pacman.conf. Thank you. -- 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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[arch-general] Why has the version numbering of gnome-desktop package changed?
by Hector Martinez-Seara 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Hi, I find weird the new version of gnome-desktop my system wants me to upgrade: "extra/gnome-desktop 3.2.1-1 -> 1:3.2.1-1" It is just a typo or the change was on purpose. Hector -- Hector Martínez-Seara Monné mail: hseara(a)gmail.com Tel: +34656271145 Tel: +358442709253

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[arch-general] Start a daemon, show a syntax error
by 大熊 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

No matter I manual start any a daemon, I always see a error shown on console: /etc/rc.d/functions: line 506: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /etc/rc.d/functions: line 506: ` done < <(findmnt -mrunRo TARGET,FSTYPE,OPTIONS /) But it seem that the daemon can run correctly, so should I need to fix it and how to fix it ?

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[arch-general] Can't boot, root device not found
by Josh Silard 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Hi list, I recently performed an update of udev and my kernel and after this I am unable to boot the normal kernel or the fallback. When I try I get this error: ERROR: Unable to find root device '/dev/disk/by-uid/03619a2f-908f-4724-ba4b-1fb3985e382b' You are being dropped to a recovery shell Type 'exit' to try and continue booting sh: can't access tty; job control turned off Typing exit results in me dropping to another shell and if done repeatedly a kernel panic. I attempted to boot via the grub console using the sda device block but I came up with the same error. When I look in /dev through the recovery console that comes up the sda* blocks aren't present. I need to know if there is a way to do this without entirely reformatting my system, I also don't have easy access to another computer but I have an android phone. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Josh

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[arch-general] ../libtool: line 2083: ark_part.cpp: command not found?
by David C. Rankin 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Guys, I need help, or a link, to find out why libtool isn't working. libtool is attempting to use an undeclared variable as a command. The libtool file generated includes (beginning at line 2071): # func_to_tool_file ARG LAZY # converts the file name ARG from $build format to toolchain format. Return # result in func_to_tool_file_result. If the conversion in use is listed # in (the comma separated) LAZY, no conversion takes place. func_to_tool_file () { $opt_debug case ,$2, in *,"$to_tool_file_cmd",*) func_to_tool_file_result=$1 ;; *) $to_tool_file_cmd "$1" func_to_tool_file_result=$func_to_host_file_result ;; esac } # end func_to_tool_file The tdeutils build fails at make on the very first file (ark_part.cpp). The line that fails is line 2083: 2083| $to_tool_file_cmd "$1" The problem is '$to_tool_file_cmd' is never declared in 'libtool' resulting in the error: ../libtool: line 2083: ark_part.cpp: command not found Basically, libtool is trying to execute 'ark_part.cpp' as the command since '$to_tool_file_cmd' is never declared or initialized and is just blank in the command '$to_tool_file_cmd "$1"'. What I need to learn is whether this is a libtool problem or whether it is a tdeutils problem. tdeutils from the same source builds fine on slack, debian, etc.., so I wonder if this is a libtool version problem or something similar. I am building in an arch chroot and he PKGBUILD file used does: cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname#*-} cp /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 ./admin cp /usr/share/libtool/config/ltmain.sh ./admin make -f admin/Makefile.common ./configure \ --prefix=${TDEDIR} \ --with-qt-dir=${QTDIR} \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var \ --enable-debug=full \ --enable-closure make The complete error, which I don't fully understand is: /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -I/opt/trinity/include -I/opt/tqt3/include -I. -include tqt.h -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -fno-builtin -g3 -fno-inline -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -I/usr/include/tqt -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -MT ark_part.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/ark_part.Tpo -c -o ark_part.lo ark_part.cpp ../libtool: line 2083: ark_part.cpp: command not found I have also tried 'make SHELL=/bin/bash' after googling that the environment could cause shell extension issues if part was done with bash and make was using sh, but that made no difference. Anybody familiar with libtool know if this is a libtool problem or if this is a problem with the tdeutil code? If it is libtool, any work-arounds? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] An empty /etc/crontab file maybe needed bo be add in to package filesystem.
by 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Due to cronie doesn't contain an /etc/crontab anymore, there are losts of msgs of missing crontab as shown below in errors.log. > /usr/sbin/crond[1236]: (root) CAN'T OPEN (/etc/crontab): No such file or directory

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Re: [arch-general] mach64 "undefined symbol: xf86MapDomainMemory" fix
by Ionut Biru 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

On 03/19/2012 05:41 AM, Daniel F. Savarese wrote: > > Anyone using the xf86-video-mach64 package who has had their X server > fail after updating to xorg-server 1.12, reporting > "undefined symbol: xf86MapDomainMemory", you can get it working again > by applying the following patch (I've inlined it because I don't know > if the mailing list accepts attachments). This is an upstream issue > fixed in revision control, so there's no point opening a bug report. > It will be resolved when a new release of xf86-video-mach64 becomes available. > report a bug report. > --- src/atividmem.c.orig 2012-03-18 23:01:56.666029002 -0400 > +++ src/atividmem.c 2012-03-18 23:03:28.809154407 -0400 > @@ -84,7 +84,11 @@ > if (!pATI->pBank) > return; > > +#ifndef XSERVER_LIBPCIACCESS > xf86UnMapVidMem(iScreen, pATI->pBank, 0x00010000U); > +#else > + (void) pci_device_unmap_legacy(pATI->PCIInfo, pATI->pBank, 0x00010000U); > +#endif > > pATI->pBank = NULL; > } > @@ -219,9 +223,14 @@ > * No relocation, resizing, caching or write-combining of this > * aperture is supported. Hence, the hard-coded values here... > */ > - pATI->pBank = xf86MapDomainMemory(iScreen, VIDMEM_MMIO_32BIT, > - Tag, 0x000A0000U, 0x00010000U); > - > +#ifndef XSERVER_LIBPCIACCESS > + pATI->pBank = xf86MapDomainMemory(iScreen, VIDMEM_MMIO_32BIT, > + Tag, 0x000A0000U, 0x00010000U); > +#else > + (void) pci_device_map_legacy(Tag, 0x000A0000U, 0x00010000U, > + PCI_DEV_MAP_FLAG_WRITABLE, > + &pATI->pBank); > +#endif > if (!pATI->pBank) > return FALSE; > > > -- Ionuț

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[arch-general] package information error
by Auguste Pop 18 Mar '12

18 Mar '12

hi, somtimes the installed size information is simply wrong.e $ pacman -Si thunderbird Repository : extra Name : thunderbird Version : 11.0-1 ...... Download Size : 15409.89 KiB Installed Size : 7968.00 KiB Architecture : x86_64 $ xz -l thunderbird-11.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Strms Blocks Compressed Uncompressed Ratio Check Filename 1 1 15.0 MiB 40.0 MiB 0.376 CRC64 thunderbird-11.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz $ mkdir thunderbird && tar xf thunderbird-11.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -C thunderbird && du -sh thunderbird tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags' 41M thunderbird the installed size should be around 40M while pacman and the package website show only about 8M. best regards,

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[arch-general] Erlang R15B
by Kevin Arthur 18 Mar '12

18 Mar '12

Hello! I noticed that Erlang recently got moved from extra to community, and was flagged as out-of-date. I think someone mentioned R15B, the latest release, on this list about a month ago, but it doesn't look like it went anywhere. I've attached a patch that will update the PKGBUILD to the latest version. The ejabberd package will need to be rebuilt, but doesn't require any other changes (I've tested it, and it's working fine). The couchdb and yaws packages will probably have to be rebuilt too, although they've both been marked out-of-date as well. Could one of the developers update the package? Thanks! Kevin Arthur

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[arch-general] spamd failure
by pete 17 Mar '12

17 Mar '12

Hi just noticed that that spamd has failed reporting /usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory but locate libperl.so gives /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/CORE/libperl.so but there is no libperl.so in /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/CORE/ this was working fine untill yesterdays pacman -Suy which completed without a reported problem Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 1 09:31:13 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] About SHFS "Transport endpoint is not connected" error
by 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) 17 Mar '12

17 Mar '12

I don't know if you guys ever encontered this problem while using sshfs. I set up a virtual machine to do some PKGBUILD makepking stuff, because some dependcies need bo be installed and I do not want messed up my host machine. So, I set up a sshfs filesystem connect from a virtualbox arch guest to my arch host. Every thing works fine, but each time I ran to following command, the sshfs just hangs up with the same error bellow. Then, I have to remount it again to get it working. command: find . -name Makefile -print | xargs sed -i "s:/usr/bin/install:/bin/install:g" error: sed: cannot remove ./maintscripts/sedP7sQnH: Transport endpoint is not connected Here is my sshfs mount command: sshfs -o sshfs_sync,no_readahead,sshfs_debug,port=64,idmap=user,reconnect,allow_other,workaround=all techlive@home:/home/abs /home/abs I have tested both following, they are all failed. sshfs -o port=64,idmap=user,reconnect,allow_other,workaround=all techlive@home:/home/abs /home/abs sshfs -o port=64,idmap=user,allow_other techlive@home:/home/abs /home/abs I have googled a lot, but none of them could help. So, What do you guys say, is there a known bug or something?

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[arch-general] A Couple of Questions about files under etc which owned by no package
by 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) 17 Mar '12

17 Mar '12

I ran the script below to see the files which owned by no package. export LC_ALL=C for dir in bin etc lib usr var sbin;do find /$dir -type f -exec pacman -Qo {} \; 2>$dir 1>/dev/null done I got the following. error: No package owns /etc/crontab error: No package owns /etc/localtime error: No package owns /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt Are these files necessary now, could I delete them?

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[arch-general] Firefox fonts are not anti-aliased after installing xorg-fonts-100dpi
by Ankur Sethi 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hi, I recently installed emacs-color-theme from AUR which, for some reason, required xorg-fonts-100dpi. After installing xorg-fonts-100dpi, some websites in Firefox no longer have antialiased fonts. For example, this is what the Mozilla Developer Center looks like on my computer: http://imagebin.org/203464 I see the same issue on Twitter, Hacker News and several blogs. Removing xorg-fonts-100dpi fixes the issue. I've checked my installed pacakges and I have all the web fonts that are recommended by the Arch Wiki. In any case, I don't think missing fonts are the issue here. The same websites that look wonky in Firefox work well on both Chrome and Opera. Secondly, the emacs-color-theme package from AUR works just fine without xorg-fonts-100dpi. I don't understand why that is listed as a dependency in the PKGBUILD. So can someone enlighten me? Why does emacs-color-theme require xorg-fonts-100dpi, and why does installing xorg-fonts-100dpi make Firefox sad? -- Ankur Sethi

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[arch-general] X doesn't start for 3.0-rt, X 1.12, nv 2.1.18-5
by Ralf Mardorf 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Perhaps the current X update has broken my install. At least in 2012-Feb-21 this kernel-rt worked with X and the nv driver. I tried to boot the kernel-rt to build a new module for VBox. # pacman -Qi linux-rt xorg-server xf86-video-nv | grep Version Version : 3.0.14_rt31-1 Today updated: Version : 1.12.0-1 Version : 2.1.18-5 This does work with X 1.12: # uname -r 3.2.9-1-ARCH # pacman -Qi nvidia | grep Version Version : 295.20-3 Anybody using current nv driver with kernel-rt 3.0 or current version 3.2.9_rt17-1 from AUR? -Ralf

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[arch-general] lxdm-binary takes 100% cpu
by Maciej Mazur 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Hello, After upgrading to latest packages (and rebooting) I have a problem with LXDM. After logging in the lxdm-binary takes 100% CPU all the time. I think this is due to upgrade of udev or util-linux. Below are the packages that were upgraded. I use xmonad as a window manager and by default it have always had dark blue desktop background, but now after a second since logging in it goes black and lxdm-binary goes 100% CPU Does anybody has this problem and/or knows how to solve it? [2012-03-15 18:19] upgraded firefox (10.0.2-1 -> 11.0-2) [2012-03-15 18:19] upgraded libedit (20110802_3.0-1 -> 20120311_3.0-1) [2012-03-15 18:19] upgraded libpurple (2.10.1-1 -> 2.10.2-1) [2012-03-15 18:19] upgraded lua (5.1.4-9 -> 5.1.5-1) [2012-03-15 18:19] upgraded mkinitcpio-busybox (1.19.2-1 -> 1.19.4-2) [2012-03-15 18:19] udev changes: [2012-03-15 18:19] * if your kernel does not provide /dev/loop-control, you need to manually [2012-03-15 18:19] load the 'loop' module before using losetup [2012-03-15 18:19] upgraded udev (181-2 -> 181-4) [2012-03-15 18:19] upgraded util-linux (2.20.1-2 -> 2.21-5) [2012-03-15 18:19] warning: /etc/mkinitcpio.conf installed as /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.pacnew [2012-03-15 18:19] upgraded mkinitcpio (0.8.2-3 -> 0.8.4-1) [2012-03-15 18:19] upgraded openssl (1.0.0.g-1 -> 1.0.0.h-1) [2012-03-15 18:19] upgraded pidgin (2.10.1-1 -> 2.10.2-1) [2012-03-15 18:20] In order to use the new version, reload all virtualbox modules manually. [2012-03-15 18:20] upgraded virtualbox-modules (4.1.8-5 -> 4.1.10-1) [2012-03-15 18:20] upgraded virtualbox (4.1.8-2 -> 4.1.10-1) [2012-03-15 18:20] upgraded virtualbox-additions (4.1.8-1 -> 4.1.10-1) [2012-03-15 18:20] installed mtdev (1.1.2-1) [2012-03-15 18:20] upgraded xf86-input-synaptics (1.5.99-0.2 -> 1.5.99.901-1) [2012-03-15 18:20] installed girara-gtk2 (0.1.1-1) [2012-03-15 18:20] >> pdf/djvu/ps support is in plugins now. Search for additional zathura-plugin-* packages. [2012-03-15 18:20] upgraded zathura (0.1.1-2 -> 0.1.1-3) [2012-03-15 18:22] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-maciej/PKGDEST.aOk/google-talkplugin-2.7.5.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' [2012-03-15 18:22] upgraded google-talkplugin (2.6.1.0-3 -> 2.7.5.0-1) Maciej Mazur

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[arch-general] About sshfs multi user idmap
by 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

Is there a way to map multiple users via sshfs? If I am using connect to a remote host through root, and I want to other user have access to it with allow_other, then, I hope their id could be mapped, ie. local http map to remote http, local user1 map to remote user1, and so on. both of them have the same user id and group id with the remote. How can I accomplish that?

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[arch-general] vbox - X won't start -> no screens -> "vboxvideo" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
by David C. Rankin 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

Guys, I don't know if this is the new xorg sever upgrade or what, but after updates, X will not start on my archlinux guest in vitrualbox. I have reinstalled virtualbox-archlinux-additions (4.1.8-2) and still no joy. I get the following when trying startx: X.Org X Server 1.12.0 Release Date: 2012-03-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.9-1-ARCH i686 Current Operating System: Linux tdepv 3.2.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 1 09:10:44 UTC 2012 i686 Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/ed9a0dc2-64b7-4e14-884c-bec2ad12f8d1 ro vga=0x31a Build Date: 05 March 2012 06:02:28AM Current version of pixman: 0.24.4 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Mar 12 17:12:10 2012 (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d" (EE) module ABI major version (11) doesn't match the server's version (12) Fatal server error: no screens found Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. So looking at Xorg.0.log I get: [ 51.021] (EE) module ABI major version (11) doesn't match the server's version (12) [ 51.028] (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module requirement mismatch, 0) [ 51.037] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0) [ 51.050] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) [ 51.050] (EE) No drivers available. I have vboxvideo.so in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/, so I'm a bit stumped on the mismatch. Does this mean I have to install another version of virtualbox or what? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Recent bug in Kalarm?
by David Rosenstrauch 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

Seems like a recent upgrade of Kalarm (or something else in the bowels of KDE) has broken some key pieces of functionality: the abilities to edit the time of an alarm, or to delete one. Can some other KDE/kalarm user please confirm this issue? (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28891) I'd like to file an upstream bug report, but need to know it's not something specific to my configuration. Thanks, DR

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Re: [arch-general] Support additional binary formats at boot
by Matthew Monaco 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Does this really need to be done automatically? Up until now all of the mounting that rc.sysinit does is essential. This is definitely optional. Can't it just be a commented line in fstab in the filesystems package? ( essential except /dev/shm maybe... a fstab.d would be nice =/ )

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[arch-general] plugins for zathura
by Pham Bao Trung 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

I am a user of zathura. Recently it have been updated to 0.1.1 with girara but there are not any plugins in [community] for zathura, which makes it unable to view any files. Any suggestions? Trung

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[arch-general] grub2 efi image files
by Carsten Mattner 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Hi, I could swear that some time back some version of archboot media gave me the choice to select grub2-efi-32-bit. Was this dropped? I've been trying to install arch only (single boot) on a EFI-32 mac. Due to not being able to convinve (bless) rEFIt without having OS X installed to not come up with a delay of >= 20seconds, I wanted to use EFI. The mac has onboard intel i915 graphics which I know to work out of the box. Would this give me any issues like the nvidia guys with using EFI? What is the exact issue I have to be careful about to not brick the firmware with EFI? I know I shouldn't use efitbootmgr on mac efi. What else is dangerous? Thanks, Carsten

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[arch-general] How can I change thunderbird profile dir form .thunderbird to .mozilla/thunderbird?
by 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Is there any compile flag or something I could alter? I think that would be easy to do. I just want to clean my home folder, backup firefox and thunderbird data. I only want to backup a .mozilla directory and not .mozilla and .thunderbird them two. So,anyone knows? Besides, I don't want to symlink .mozilla/thunderbird to .thunderbird, that won't solve the problem, I am willing to recomplie the whole thunderbird if necessary. Regards, Techlive Zheng

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[arch-general] Compiling qt-4.8rc1 from [testing] fails
by Bjørn Øivind Bjørnsen 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, The latest qt-package in testing broke one of the applications I am working on at the moment. It compiles fine, but crashes during runtime, so I tried to compile qt with debug symbols. I did the same thing as I usually do when I have to poke qt-internals - added '!strip' to the options in the PKGBUILD and tried to compile the package again. The PKGBUILD and friends were obtained from abs. However, the compilation fails in tools/assistant, with the following errors: make[4]: Entering directory `/home/bo/pakker/qt-4.8rc1/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.0/tools/assistant/tools/assistant' compiling helpviewer_qwv.cpp helpviewer_qwv.cpp:168:1: error: expected class-name before ?{? token helpviewer_qwv.cpp:173:13: error: ?QWebPage? does not name a type helpviewer_qwv.cpp:174:32: error: ?WebAction? has not been declared helpviewer_qwv.cpp:176:42: error: ?QWebFrame? has not been declared helpviewer_qwv.cpp:177:41: error: ?NavigationType? has not been declared helpviewer_qwv.cpp: In constructor ?HelpPage::HelpPage(QObject*)?: helpviewer_qwv.cpp:189:7: error: class ?HelpPage? does not have any field named ?QWebPage? helpviewer_qwv.cpp: At global scope: helpviewer_qwv.cpp:197:1: error: ?QWebPage? does not name a type helpviewer_qwv.cpp:207:30: error: variable or field ?triggerAction? declared void helpviewer_qwv.cpp:207:30: error: ?WebAction? was not declared in this scope helpviewer_qwv.cpp:207:48: error: expected primary-expression before ?bool? make[4]: *** [.obj/release-shared/helpviewer_qwv.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/bo/pakker/qt-4.8rc1/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.0/tools/assistant/tools/assistant' make[3]: *** [sub-assistant-make_default-ordered] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/bo/pakker/qt-4.8rc1/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.0/tools/assistant/tools' make[2]: *** [sub-tools-make_default-ordered] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bo/pakker/qt-4.8rc1/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.0/tools/assistant' make[1]: *** [sub-assistant-make_default-ordered] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bo/pakker/qt-4.8rc1/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.0/tools' make: *** [sub-tools-make_default-ordered] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). I noticed that qtwebkit was split out of this package. Have I missed some other piece of vital information which allows me to compile this, and does anyone else see this? I could reproduce this on two x86_64 machines here, -Syu'ed as of today. I would be thankful for any tips :) Regards, Bjørn Øivind -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJOuS6BAAoJEAPvNxjF/T/2kR0P/2ycR9+3LlYaJOnosVJnSuRH 9tN9eT/WZY1cHEyxQAJuux2GQ0L2oECYc6BumPPQ6EJ7WLgKe9jgwoYTJZN5QSxC Mp5noNmiyqInWp75p53kzyAg30XKYKWqRZbaV+mcXHra3aZ4ydC1rxEEG5FDVQx2 GauKhGqaZ5RKdtO4b/6rCQtAjGSv4l7QvLErFkRAYSqsaK7XKiDGatPOAkalxw6X /T0dhyKDP4r6V8DHUOqekbrNX9Oupso8GPHRMhTqO8jSuOtUD/ie0D6lkepArG+v HXDYsxVF+Fepr1CLfAD2xM3p8JrKqdiPjbXdnqmcSGiWMzkSonlWl66Y4Lcnrs5c Uqa8XFVcLYvJ9MOgV3VBdpJijGIzvrYWKI8FunxU1EeOPNmPYig+zg85ArP8OTiT ZtNgM4jTrQGGQCMK5tjY2Ji8YhVL5b0nv4yroV9jQ8q9yhY4pOgiEqxdYAPtw0QY bFsSrlQH8QQD/SNd98xIl3qzNeq7Nq5Dc/OwP9I/scA+Je2DM9P2oX0X++mVvkiL fN7Qtst1j8u2TyXDfPf2cSCw+kPIZLct++0+5UmC92p1UPcddmVTg4JZl68EZPNe 3u7yjJ9lfHZjktb5P/fyaTfxiZ4gshuQL2fITwR5MFjZ/o6TB0TFCSfBF9+HlZZk aa9dFnmP/REmH8oQUdEO =bFqE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] Join my network on LinkedIn
by Erwin José López Pulgarín via LinkedIn 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

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[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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[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 09 Mar '12

09 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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[arch-general] Xulrunner as makedepend while eclipse is installed
by Alexandre Ferrando 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Because of [ 0 ] now eclipse and xulrunner packages conflict. I maintain two AUR packages [ 1 ] that need xulrunner at build time and I also have installed eclipse. I know building that packages in a clean chroot can be a solution but I'm afraid that is not what I can assume they will do about all users of the mentioned packages. Any idea of what could be done? [ 0 ] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28724 [ 1 ] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=firetray-svn&do_Search=Go

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Re: [arch-general] arch-o-matic
by headmastersquall＠gmail.com 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Andre, I haven't ran your program, but I looked at the code and wanted to say good job. I thought it was very clean and readable. Squall

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[arch-general] arch-o-matic
by Andre "Osku" Schmidt 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

hello world, the day i saw that wiki page on how to manually install archlinux, i've been playing with ways to automate it. yesterday i got this -most likely not new- idea hacked together: https://github.com/oskude/arch-o-matic no readme, but the example and source should be pretty straight forward. (warning: the example does sgdisk /dev/sda --zap-all, among others "bad" things) just for fun .andre ps. yes, i'm aware of aif, just wanted to scratch an itch, post it and move along :P

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[arch-general] Shisen-Sho very slow
by pete 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Hi all Just been trying to play Shisen-Sho and it is so slow it is unplayable has anyone else noticed this running KDE 4.8.0 Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.8-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 27 21:51:46 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] qt applications over ssh tunnel: very slow redrawing
by Sergey Manucharian 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Hi folks, Regularly I do not use many Qt applications, mostly Skype. I run it over ssh tunnel from another computer within the same local network for long time. After recent system update I noticed it became very slow refreshing its graphics. I checked several Gtk and Qt applications and found that Gtk ones work almost with the "native" speed, while Qt ones with that damn slow redrawing... I tried ssh with both "ForwardX11" and "ForwardX11Trusted" - there is no difference. I'm using no DE with xmonad WM (tried TWM - no difference either) in x86_64 box. Any directions/advices/ideas? Thanks! -- Cheers, Sergey

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[arch-general] secure package signing related websites (was: Re: Keyring package for real)
by Christian Hesse 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Hello everybody, (As I am not allowed to post to arch-dev-public resending it here.) ok, not really related to the keyring package, but it came to my mind when installing it and while signing the key: I think it makes sense to not allow pages related to package signing being delivered via http. Instead automatically redirect to https to avoid man in the middle attacks. First site that comes to my mind: https://www.archlinux.org/master-keys/ -- Best regards, Chris O< ascii ribbon campaign stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up orphaned packages
by Bartłomiej Piotrowski 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

On 02/24/2012 04:19 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > * If a TU wants to maintain an orphan that is currently in [extra], > please let us know. Then if you could move following packages to [community], I'd be glad to take them: * gftp * midori * orage * ristretto * pwgen * vsftpd -- Bartłomiej Piotrowski Arch Linux Trusted User http://archlinux.org/

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[arch-general] fakeroot package() -> mkdir: cannot create directory : Permission denied
by David C. Rankin 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

Guys, This is the first time I've seen makepkg not be able to create the $pkgdir/<dir> needed to package a file. I take it from the forum posts that this usually means that makepkg is trying to create the file in the actual filesystem instead of in the fakeroot $pkgdir. (eg: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=999088) However, I cannot figure out what is causing it to do so on this simple package. The actual error I receive is: ==> Packaging - tde-tqca-tls mkdir: cannot create directory `/opt/tqt3/plugins/crypto/': Permission denied make: *** [install_target] Error 1 What has me puzzled is this is a simple little package. The entire $srcdir/$pkgname after building is just: 16:24 nirvana:/mnt/nv1/home/chroot/david/build> l src/tqca-tls total 388 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Mar 3 16:22 . drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody nobody 4096 Mar 3 16:22 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 nobody nobody 11839 Mar 3 16:22 configure -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 436 Mar 3 16:22 conf.log -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 128 Mar 3 16:22 conf.pri -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 26430 Feb 16 11:55 COPYING -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 74 Mar 3 16:22 extra.pri -rwxr-xr-x 1 nobody nobody 98829 Mar 3 16:22 libqca-tls.so -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 3557 Mar 3 16:22 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 1743 Feb 16 11:55 openssl.qcm -rwxr-xr-x 1 nobody nobody 62 Feb 16 11:55 prepare -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 10409 Feb 17 17:22 qca.h -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 6028 Feb 16 11:55 qcaprovider.h -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 29465 Feb 16 11:55 qca-tls.cpp -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 1014 Feb 16 11:55 qca-tls.h -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 143896 Mar 3 16:22 qca-tls.o -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 478 Feb 16 11:55 qca-tls.pro -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 148 Feb 16 11:55 qca-tls.qc -rwxr-xr-x 1 nobody nobody 119 Feb 16 11:55 qcextra -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 360 Feb 16 11:55 README Looking at the Makefile generate by configure, the install part of the makefile is: install_target: all @$(CHK_DIR_EXISTS) "$(INSTALL_ROOT)/opt/tqt3/plugins/crypto/" || $(MKDIR) "$(INSTALL_ROOT)/opt/tqt3/plugins/crypto/" -$(INSTALL_FILE) "$(TARGET)" "$(INSTALL_ROOT)/opt/tqt3/plugins/crypto/$(TARGET)" -strip --strip-unneeded "$(INSTALL_ROOT)/opt/tqt3/plugins/crypto/$(TARGET)" The complete makefile is: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/arch/err/Makefile-tqca-tls.txt I'm not sure what makepkg needs to tell it to put the packages in the $pkgdir from within the Makefile. Anyone else been bitten by this? Any quick fix? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Firefox search add-ons for Arch Linux
by Usagi Ito 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

Hi, folks. I was released some firefox search add-ons for Arch Linux users: Arch Linux Package Database Search https://addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/addon/archlinux-packa/ Arch Linux AUR Search https://addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/addon/archlinux-aur/ Arch Linux Wiki Search https://addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/addon/archlinux-wiki/ You can search these Arch Linux resources to quickly and easily with firefox if you want. Thanks. -- Usagi ITO in Wonder Rabbit Project. http://www.WonderRabbitProject.net/

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[arch-general] Release firefox search add-ons for Arch Linux users
by 伊藤兎 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, folks. I was released some firefox search add-ons for Arch Linux users: Arch Linux Package Database Search https://addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/addon/archlinux-packa/ Arch Linux AUR Search https://addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/addon/archlinux-aur/ Arch Linux Wiki Search https://addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/addon/archlinux-wiki/ You can search these Arch Linux resources to quickly and easily with firefox if you want. Thanks. - -- Usagi ITO in Wonder Rabbit Project. http://www.WonderRabbitProject.net/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPU0kJAAoJEGNWs1QwfxcsS8kH/RDYPqqaj9+9W0LB73V/rsfQ nJQE+k2oSyRZO4MLXA6b5pYwxLwZC3bUkvXIIIO+d2tD5tFV8Z+s/T+Ol2du/MlL bhBfEgF1aPBrQVA4AFvz5Oc0T9g9wB7GZRyr2k2Q2z5OwmnK7PPEiCJFgO8yqRlv VCUT8Z5OHY+mX4t5/4so3EDKC8aUh6/aTFRXbJJFWCJDGquC5NzX+lPRYwaKzE5p OiElYn00ixJuG8DLrXA5AFtNSUy9XW0isJ3Pkz+daW/Mf6goDJaj7r/ZIziKGvNo dkjJNq4KL5DlJB2n3APPM0eQUA7vq8dRc5Xs0Z/OOjGBrR/mNp6Q+j5UzGLQAOc= =leIX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] merge /bin, /sbin, /lib into /usr/bin and /usr/lib
by Matthew Monaco 03 Mar '12

03 Mar '12

On 03/03/2012 10:49 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Ionut Biru <ibiru(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >> I'm against moving kernel modules in any other directory because is NOT >> improving cross-distro at all and mostly breaks every application that >> expects /lib/modules/`unamer -r`. > > This is an important point: referencing /lib/modules/ will still work > exactly as before, due to the symlink. Otherwise, this would have been > crazy. > > -t /lib -> /usr/lib/ /usr/lib/{modules,firmware} -> /kernel/{modules,firmware}/

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[arch-general] ghc 7.4.1 moved to extra
by Thomas Dziedzic 03 Mar '12

03 Mar '12

I have finally moved the new ghc to arch repos. With this cleanup comes a bit of change. The decision has been made that ghc will be updated to the latest stable version and haskell-platform will be moved to the aur. This means you should remove the haskell-platform related packages before updating. I will also keep only essential packages and their dependencies related to haskell in [extra]. For now this means cabal-install and ghc + their depends. I have closed the following bugs with this release: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23247 - [ghc 7.0.2] ghci -package ghc causes panic https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27132 - [ghc] re-enable the strip makepkg option https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18917 - [ghc] ghc.install :: test if directory exists https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28758 - [haskell-text] uninstallable due to removal of haskell-deepseq https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25991 - haskell-glut: undefined references to pretty much all glut functions https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25072 - [alex][happy][cabal-install] missing makedepnds The following bugs are still open which I will fix as soon as cabal-install and darcs are buildable: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27249 - [cabal-install] Add bash completion support https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26955 - [darcs] missing makedependence haskell-hashed-storage<0.6 There are still some issues left with the current situation of haskell on arch, but these will take time and communication with upstream. *I need to figure out what to do about haddock since ghc only packages the binary and thus provides only half the package with ghc. This is the reason why we packaged haskell-haddock even though the ghc package already provides the haddock binary. *The post-install messages related to haskell packages can get pretty long. There is a proposed solution with a patch, but I need to figure out if there is any way we can work it out with upstream first. *There is no cabal-install or darcs version that is marked as stable and currently builds with ghc 7.4.1 These packages are statically linked so it shouldn't matter for now. I will be keeping an eye on these packages and waiting for upstream to provide new stable versions that builds against the latest ghc. Cheers!

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[arch-general] command line utility questions
by Jude DaShiell 03 Mar '12

03 Mar '12

What does arch linux use for burning cd's and dvd's? It's not cdrecord or wodim I checked for those two and found nothing, unless I need to add a repository to my searching. Also what does arch linux use for a spreadsheet for command line users? Finally, what would a pacman search designed to find all spreadsheet programs in arch linux look like? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>

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[arch-general] arch with sata drives
by Jude DaShiell 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

So far as I can tell, it works fine and arch has no problem with amd K8 machines either. I have Tim Brennan's talking arch installed on a 1.5TB sata disk and that was something debian couldn't do. Slackware also had no problem with the sata drive either. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>

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[arch-general] Gringotts, alternatives?
by Magnus Therning 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Gringotts has stopped working with a not completely uncommon error: ***MEMORY-ERROR***: [10817]: GSlice: failed to allocate 1008 bytes (alignment: 1024): Cannot allocate memory Given the time since the last release I'd be surprised if it's fixed any time soon. Also, I've never been extremely impressed with it so maybe this is a good time to look for an alternative. This means I now have two problems to solve, and any help on either would be appreciated: 1. How do I get the data out of the gringotts vault? Is there any other application that can read it and help me pull everything out? (I suppose I can always move the vault over to a Ubuntu box and extract it there, but I'd rather avoid that if possible ;-) 2. What alternatives to gringotts exist? What do other ArchLinux users keep their secret notes save? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus

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[arch-general] mkinitcpio
by Myra Nelson 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

I don't think this is significant enough to warrant a bug. Since the linux-3.2.6-1 kernel updates ( I don't remeber which version of mkinitcpio, sorry), I've been getting the following warning when mkinitcpio runs during the kernel install: cp: warning: source file `/lib/modules/3.2.9-1-ARCH/kernel/fs/ext4/ext4.ko.gz' specified more than once I originally thought it was due to my inclusion of the mkinitcpio-numlock hook from the AUR, but I have a fresh install on a new machine, without the numlock hook and get the same warning. I searched the bug tracker and found no reference to this. /usr is not mounted on a separte partition. my box HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems usb usbinput fsck numlock" new box HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems usb usbinput fsck" Since it's a warning not an error and doesn't appear to have any deliterious effects, it's not a problem. I just wondered if it's something I'm doing or if it's something in the hooks in mkinitcpio. Ciao for now Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] renaming files
by pete 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Hi folks Bit sort of off topic but hopefully ok I have some 350 picture files with names along the lines of "IMG_7127 EOS-1D Mark III copy.jpg" i would like to rename them all to more like "IMG_7127.jpg" i have tried a few times tonight and cant get my head around it anyone got a script that can do it Thanks Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.8-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 27 21:51:46 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] permission problem /var/lib/ntp after update (should it be ntp:ntp ?)
by David C. Rankin 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Guys, After update of ntp to 4.2.6.p5-4, I get the following log entries: Mar 1 09:55:50 archangel ntpd[1180]: frequency file /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied Checking password and group, there is a ntp for each. Should the UIG:GID for /var/lib/ntp be ntp:ntp? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Howto look outside chroot for local git tree?
by David C. Rankin 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Guys, Is it possible to look outside of the chroot while building in an archroot from the PKGBUILD to check for a local copy of a git tree? Logically, what I want to do from inside the archroot is: (1) check for an existing git source in the ${srcdir} (if so, then use it) (if not, then...) (2) check for a local copy of the git tree outside chroot (if found) (3) change to that directory and update and copy to ${srcdir} (else) (4) clone new copy into ${srcdir} Is this even possible? I have made an attempt at implementing this, but I think I'm prevented from looking outside the chroot. Everything works except for (2) above. The check for the local copy always fails forcing a new clone into ${srcdir} instead of simply being able to update the local tree and copy to ${srcdir}. ## GIT repository variables and location _gitlocal="/home/david/tde/tde/main" _gitname="${pkgname#*-}" _gitdir="${_gitlocal}/dependencies/${_gitname}" _giturl="$url" _gitsfx="-git" _prefix="/opt/tde" build() { cd ${srcdir} <snip> ## update or clone from GIT msg "Checking for existing GIT source: $_gitname" if [ -d $_gitname ] ; then msg "Using existing source in: ${srcdir}/${_gitname}" else msg "Looking for local GIT tree: $_gitdir" if [ -d $_gitdir ] ; then msg "Updating local tree: $_gitdir" cd $_gitdir && { git pull git submodule init git submodule update --recursive git submodule foreach --recursive "git checkout master" git submodule foreach --recursive "git pull" } cd ${srcdir} && cp -a "$_gitdir" . msg "The local files are updated." else msg "Connecting to GIT server...." msg "Cloning new source from: $url" git clone --depth 1 $_giturl fi msg "GIT checkout done or server timeout" fi msg "Starting configure..." # ./configure \ msg "Building - ${pkgname}..." # make } The output from makechrootpkg is always the same even though the local copy of the git tree is present: ==> Making package: tde-libart-lgpl 1.3.2.4-1 (Wed Feb 29 23:55:20 UTC 2012) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving Sources... ==> Extracting Sources... ==> Starting build()... ==> Checking for existing GIT source: libart-lgpl ==> Looking for local GIT tree: /home/david/tde/tde/main/dependencies/libart-lgpl ==> Connecting to GIT server.... ==> Cloning new source from: http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/libart-lgpl Cloning into 'libart-lgpl'... ==> GIT checkout done or server timeout ==> Starting configure... ==> Building - tde-libart-lgpl... ==> Entering fakeroot environment... ==> Starting package()... ==> Packaging - tde-libart-lgpl-1.3.2.4 Possible? Or would the solution be to set the local copy of the git tree up inside a apache (or whatever it takes) and pretend to run a local copy? Even then, there would be no way to check for its existence from inside the chroot? What say the experts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] How to update all the VCS packages at the same time?
by 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

I have installed several VCS packages from AUR which the PKGBUILD has not been updated for a while, is there a way to force update them all together? By the way, I use yaourt, but I don't know if there is a option can do that. Thanks

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[arch-general] Howto prevent LDFLAGS --sort-common, --as-needed, <snip>, --hash-style=gnu
by David C. Rankin 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Guys, I'm working on building kwin-style-crystal and I have patched acinclude.m4, aclocal.m4 and configure to remove references to --as-needed, but when I run configure, I still get the three unwanted LDFLAGS put back in the makefile somehow? Example: Makefile:LDFLAGS = -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu I just want it to read: Makefile:LDFLAGS = -Wl,-O1,-z,relro What magic autotool does this and how do I fix it? The flags show up in the Makefiles and the config.status file. I have completely searched the source code with grep -r and after patching none of the unwanted flags are present before starting the build. When the build craters, I check the Makefiles and config.status and the unwanted flags are back. This results in the build failing with: /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --mode=link --tag=CXX g++ -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu -o embedtool -L/opt/trinity/lib -L/opt/qt3/lib -L/opt/trinity/lib/trinity embedtool.o -lqt-mt -lz -lpng -lz -lm -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -lpthread g++: error: unrecognized option '--sort-common' g++: error: unrecognized option '--as-needed' g++: error: unrecognized option '--hash-style=gnu' What's the trick? Thanks. Extra info: For those interested, the source is: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=13969 and the patch I'm applying to try and get rid of the flags is: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/arch/src/crystal-1.patch -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] /var/run should not be contained in the package file list.
by 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Due to /var/run now is a tmp filesystem, so the path /var/run/* should not be packaged anymore. Instead, rc.script should take care aware create needed /var/run stuff. Otherwise, there are a missing wraning while running "pacman -Qk".

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Re: [arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows
by mercator 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:41:05 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote: > Not quite sure what you mean by "touch panel", I guess mine is not > though. It is a Fn+<something> combination. > > Cheers, > > Tom > My wifi switch is not a button, and there's no function key for it. I think it is activated through infrared light sensor or something similar to that. And thank you guys for replying. I think I'd better consider sell this HP and buy a new laptop instead. :P Regards, Tony

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[arch-general] Need translations for small project
by martin kalcher 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Hey hey, i started to localize my 'local repo manager' [1][3] and i just speak 1.5 languages, so i need some help to translate it. It would be great, if some of you guys would do that! What is done? * en as default gettext language (needs to be reviewed) * de What have to be done? * as many languages as possible Interrested people should read the README [2]. There is a short description of some few steps (clone, add, test). Its important to checkout the devel branch before doin anything. Thank you very much, ushi [1] https://github.com/ushis/local-repo [2] https://github.com/ushis/local-repo/blob/devel/README.md [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=56876

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[arch-general] Using <Shift> + F1 on XFCE
by Vitor Garcia 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Good morning. I have an Arch Linux x86_64 installation on my laptop, and I use a couple of programs that requires me to use <Shift> + F1 to start a few functions, but every time I do that I'm dropped to the Virtual Console, and then I have to use <Ctrl> + <Alt> + F7 to get back to XFCE. It is not possible to change the shortcuts of the softwares I use, so I need to disable this feature in XFCE, but so far I haven't found anything on Google/Arch Wiki. Any ideas of how to do that? My system is: Arch x86_64 XFCE4 (started with startx, I don't use a login manager) Cheers, Vitor

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[arch-general] dovecot.conf moved to dovecot.pacsave - why?
by David C. Rankin 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

All, Why does the new dovecot package move the dovecot.conf to dovecot.conf.pacsave? The same 2.0 configuration works with 2.1, why leave the user without any dovecot.conf at all? [2012-02-27 15:17] warning: /etc/ssl/dovecot-openssl.cnf saved as /etc/ssl/dovecot-openssl.cnf.pacsave [2012-02-27 15:17] warning: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf saved as /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf.pacsave [2012-02-27 15:17] upgraded dovecot (2.0.18-1 -> 2.1.1-3) Why not a just a warning that: warning: basic configuration options have been updated, see: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/BasicConfiguration -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] moving away from gnome
by Andrea Crotti 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

I would like to move away from Gnome, which I don't need at all since I only need to launch: - emacs - conkeror - thunderbird - gnome-terminal and I don't even use the menu but Alt-f2 for that. The main problem though is that on this laptop (a dell latitude E6420) if I'm not using gnome I can't make it suspend properly. The strange thing is that if I am in a gnome-session closing the lid or calling suspend from the gnome menu everything works. But if I fire up awesome only then closing the lid doesn't work anymore. So the question is, what is gnome magically firing up that other window managers don't? I would also like to try xmonad finally, but I've never been able to configure it yet. I have an ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs file (the default one copied) that compiles perfectly, but if I try a startx the screen just stays blank, without logging any error in the Xorg.0.log. Any idea of what it could be?

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[arch-general] tab completion is mucking up prompt spacing - started a week or so ago - any ideas?
by David C. Rankin 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

All, I have always used the following prompt because it provides and immediate cut-n-paste for ssh or rsync directory information: User: PS1="\[\e[0;37m\]\A\[\e[1;34m\] \h:\w> \[\e[0m\]" Root: PS1="\[\e[1;34m\][\[\e[1;31m\]\A \[\e[1;34m\]\h\[\e[0;31m\]:\w\[\e[1;34m\]] # \[\e[0m\]" Lately on some tab completions using ~/, I've noticed that the tab-completion automatically fills in /home/david for ~/ and on other operations it does not. It seems in some cases that tab completion tries to automatically account for the extra spacing needed by inserting /$HOME in place of ~/ but it doesn't do it correctly resulting in my cursor being moved a line ABOVE the current line? What package is most likely responsible for this? bash-completion? Also, is anyone else seeing this? Here is an example: 17:20 providence:~/tde/bld/trinity-tqtinterface> trinity.profile.sh d.tar.gz 17:21 providence:~/tde/bld/trinity-tqtinterface> lrinity-tqtinterface-3513_git-5-i686-build.log l.tar.gz total 1416idence:~/tde/bld/trinity-tqtinterface> trinity-tqtinterface-3513_git-5-i686-package.log o.tar.gz drwxrwxr-x 2 david david 4096 Feb 22 17:21 .rinity-tqtinterface.install -.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x 11 david david 4096 Feb 22 14:26 .. dependencies-tqtinterface.tar.gz dependencies-tqtinterface.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody root 1361984 Feb 21 16:21 dependencies-tqtinterface-old.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 2510 Feb 19 02:55 PKGBUILD -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody root 680 Feb 21 16:21 tqtpc-location.patch -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody root 512 Feb 21 16:21 trinity.profile.csh -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody root 423 Feb 21 16:21 trinity.profile.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 26789 Feb 21 16:24 trinity-tqtinterface-3513_git-5-i686-build.log -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 25408 Feb 21 16:24 trinity-tqtinterface-3513_git-5-i686-package.log -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 116 Feb 15 21:49 trinity-tqtinterface.install I had used mv trini<tab> trini<tab> to set up a way to back up and add -old to the trinity-tqtinterface.tar.gz (just before the .tar.gz). When I used <tab> for the second instance of the filename and touched the left-arrow key, the cursor jumped up one line each time I would type a character in 'old'. Look at the actual text above (it looked like this on the right-side of the screen): d.tar.gz l.tar.gz o.tar.gz Then after the successful 'mv' of the file, the cursor went back to normal, but it was on a line that already had text on it. Notice the: 'lrinity-tqtinterfac... line' That was the next line after the move where I had type 'l' (alias='ls -al') This is obviously prompt/completion related, but any guesses which file is responsible for the weirdness? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] ruby 1.9.3_p125-1 in [extra]
by Thomas Dziedzic 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

I have released ruby 1.9.3_p125 into [extra]. This is a version bump (p0 -> p125) and all tests passed for me. Along with the update, I will be introducing the following new conventions as part of my ruby cleanup project. /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby is now the correct location where non-gem ruby libraries installed with pacman should go. If your package installs anything to /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby, you have to update to the new location. Site_ruby is only there for files installed specifically by the user without a package manager. A new file will be created at "/etc/gemrc" where I add --user-install as the default option for gem. This will install all gems by default to "$HOME/.gem/ruby". You will have to add the new bindir to your PATH if you decide to install gems that provide binaries. export PATH="$PATH:$(ruby -rubygems -e 'puts Gem.user_dir')/bin" As a result of the above change, all ruby gem packages will have to add a --no-user-install flag when running gem in the PKGBUILD. If you run sudo gem install foo, it will install to /root/.gem/ruby To install to the system-wide gems location (not recommended), you will have to either remove --user-install from /etc/gemrc or you will have to pass the --no-user-install flag when using gem as root. Cheers!

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[arch-general] keyboard problem
by Andrea Crotti 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

I'm trying to remove Gnome from another machine, but here starting Xorg with startx gives the following error: (EE) Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000: failed to initialize for relative axes. While GDM works perfectly fine. How can it make a difference? And where should be the driver for that keyboard that I can't find anywhere in aur? This is the configuration (very simple) of the keyboard from Xorg: Section "InputClass" Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall" MatchIsKeyboard "on" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Driver "evdev" Option "XkbLayout" "it" EndSection Thanks, Andrea

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Re: [arch-general] ruby 1.9.3_p125-1 in [extra]
by Paul Gideon Dann 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 14:04:03 Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > If you run sudo gem install foo, it will install to /root/.gem/ruby Are you sure? Won't it install to your normal user's home, but with root privileges? Paul

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[arch-general] Building taskjuggler 2.4.3 form AUR fails
by Thorsten 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

Hi List, on a freshly updated arch with a freshly pulled AUR I can't install taskjuggler (2.4). Taskjuggler3 can be installed, but I want to use Emacs orgmode's taskjuggler export, thats geared towards taskjuggler 2.4. Anybody with the same problem? --------------------- make[2]: Entering directory `/home/tj/abs/taskjuggler/src/taskjuggler-2.4.3/TestSuite' Testing in CSV-Reports ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Testing in HTML-Reports ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. ... ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Testing in Misc ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. ... ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Testing in Scheduler Testing in Syntax Testing in TJX-Reports ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Syntax error in XML file 'tjxreport-1-Export.tjx'. cmp: EOF on tjxreport-1-Export2.tjx gzip: tjxreport-1-Export2.tjx: unexpected end of file 1,1022d0 < <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> < <!DOCTYPE taskjuggler PUBLIC "-//The TaskJuggler Project//DTD TaskJuggler 2.0//EN" "http://www.taskjuggler.org/dtds/TaskJuggler-2.0.dtd"> < <taskjuggler> < <project timezone="GMT" timingResolution="3600" shortTimeFormat="%H:%M" weekStartMonday="1" timeFormat="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z" yearlyWorkingDays="260.714" dailyWorkingHours="8" version="1.0" id="prj" name="tjxreport test" > < <start humanReadable="2003-01-01 00:00:00 GMT" >1041379200</start> < <end humanReadable="2003-04-01 00:00:00 GMT" >1049155200</end> < <now humanReadable="2003-02-01 00:00:00 GMT" >1044057600</now> < <currencyFormat fracDigits="0" fractionSep="." signPrefix="(" thousandSep="," signSuffix=")" /> < <workingHours> 2 errors detected! make[2]: *** [all-local] Fehler 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tj/abs/taskjuggler/src/taskjuggler-2.4.3/TestSuite' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tj/abs/taskjuggler/src/taskjuggler-2.4.3' make: *** [all] Fehler 2 ==> FEHLER: Ein Fehler geschah in build(). Breche ab ... ~/abs/taskjuggler $ ls PKGBUILD pkg src taskjuggler-2.4.3.tar.bz2 ~/abs/taskjuggler $ sudo pacman -U taskjuggler-2.4.3.tar.bz2 loading packages... error: missing package metadata in taskjuggler-2.4.3.tar.bz2 error: 'taskjuggler-2.4.3.tar.bz2': invalid or corrupted package ~/abs/taskjuggler $ -- cheers, Thorsten

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[arch-general] FreePascal doesn't see the module 'graph'
by Abdourazak Osmanov 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

When I compile this code: program radar; > > uses > crt, graph; > > var > DriverVar, ModeVar : integer; > > begin > DriverVar := Detect; > ModeVar := 2; > InitGraph(DriverVar, ModeVar,''); > SetColor(4); > LineTo(100,100); > end. > I get an error message: mao@mao-note-arch Pascal $ fpc radar.pas > Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.0 [2012/01/02] for x86_64 > Copyright (c) 1993-2011 by Florian Klaempfl and others > Target OS: Linux for x86-64 > Compiling radar.pas > Fatal: Can't find unit graph used by radar > Fatal: Compilation aborted > Error: /usr/bin/ppcx64 returned an error exitcode (normal if you did not > specify a source file to be compiled) > Why is this happening?

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[arch-general] pacman -Qdt
by Andrea Crotti 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

I've been using this very nice command after removing a lot of stuff, and it's great to find orphans. But I think there are some issues.. For example I just installed python2-tinkerer from aur, which needs python2-sphinx. I had installed python-sphinx and they interfere with each other. So I removed python-sphinx and reinstalled again. All the dependencies are satisfied and tinkerer is installed correctly. But now look at what I get: # pacman -Qdt python-jinja 2.6-2 python2-sphinx 1.1.2-2 which seems wrong to me. Is it maybe that packages from aur don't have the same weight when checking for reverse dependencies?

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[arch-general] How to set grub2 resolution to 1366x768
by Bill Sun 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

Hi, I want to have a 1366x768 resolution for grub2. Unfortunately, `vbeinfo` shows that my computer doesn't support that resolution (up to 960x640/1024x768). So, can I load some additional modules for grub2 so that it can support 1366x786 resolution in my computer? I tried to do the following steps in grub2 command line: 1) insmod 915resolution 2) 915resolution 5c 1366 786 After step2, grub2 command line became completely black and unresponsive. I had to press the power button to force halt my machine. System information: Archlinux x86_64 grub2-common 1.99 grub2-bios 1.99 Thinkpad X220 (with Intel Sandy Bridge CPU graphic card) Regards

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[arch-general] inotify and locate
by Andrea Crotti 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

It's a bit a shame that there isn't any default good indexing system for Linux. Now there is also a inotify implementation and tools to set up watchers on the filesystem, so why are we still mainly stuck with locate and the expensive updatedb? Are there other problems with the inotify approach maybe or just lack of developer interest?

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[arch-general] oracle installation problem
by 孙建希 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

hello everyone: i'm a chinese,my english is poor. my arch is 64 architecture i have install all package,but the result of check is all missing.can you help me?

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[arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows
by mercator 25 Feb '12

25 Feb '12

On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:37:22 +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Moncef Baazet <mob.ajm(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > At Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:35:26 +0800, > > mercator wrote: > >> > >> Hi guys, > >> > >> After switching from Linux Mint to Archlinux, my wireless card refused > to > >> show up in lspci. It DOES worked fine under Linux Mint, but .... Below > is > >> my output of 'lspci -vnn |grep Broadcom' : > >> > >> 10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M > Gigabit > >> Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) > >> > >> > >> My laptop is hp 6515b, with a touch panel for the toggle of wifi on/off > >> etc. After a search in google I found the problem may be that the power > of > >> wifi has been shut down, and solution is to boot into windows and turn > wifi > >> on, because the touch panel will not work under Linux (as far as I > know), > >> > > n> And the I found a software named rfkill, hoping it will work. 'rfkill > list' > >> out put as follows : > >> > >> 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN > >> ? ? ? ? Soft blocked: yes > >> ? ? ? ? Hard blocked: yes > >> > >> After 'rfkill unblock all', I get: > >> > >> 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN > >> ? ? ? ? Soft blocked: no > >> ? ? ? ? Hard blocked: yes > >> > >> And still no wireless card detected. So my question is, is there any > way to > >> power the wifi on without booting into windows? (in fact, windows has > >> diappeared from my laptop for 3 years, and there is no partition on my > >> harddisk supporting windows install). > > Hi, > > I don't know if this is gonna help, but when I first installed Arch > > I had the same problem. What solved it was bringing my wireless > > interface up manually after activating the wifi switch. > > > > So check out your `ifconfig` output. If you don't see your wireless > > interface bring it up. `ifconfig wlan0 up`, or whatever your wireless > > interface name is. > > Hi, > > Is not ifconfig deprecated now? It is probably not present on the > OP's pc. There should be an equivalent command in the replacement. > You would probably have to use the following command. I am not sure > about the correctness, so please refer to the link. > > ip link set wlan0 up > > More information can be found at http://linux.die.net/man/8/ip > > > Hi Moncef and Jayesh, Thank you for your advice. I've tried both 'ifconfig' and 'ip link set', with 'wlan0' and 'eth1', and both said 'no such device'. So I think it's still a wifi power switch thing. On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:25:03 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote: > I had a similar problem with another HP laptop. I was able to switch > on the wifi by pressing the wifi switch when I was in BIOS, but YMMV. > > Cheers, > > Tom > And thank you Tom. I tried pressing my wifi switch when in BIOS. But it is in a touch panel, so I cannot switch it on manually. And I wonder whether your wifi switch is in a touch panel or a seperate button? Thanks!

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[arch-general] Character encoding on new install
by Tim Stella 25 Feb '12

25 Feb '12

Hello! I seem to have an issue with my character encoding in a new arch install. Here [0] [1] are a couple screenshots. I have locales set correctly in /etc/locale.gen: en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 en_US ISO-8859-1 and according to 'locale', all my variables seem to be in order: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= It happens in terminals (sakura, urxvt, xterm) and also in firefox for some characters. I'm at a loss for where to go on this, any ideas? Thanks! Tim [0] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3232776/mc-encoding.png [1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3232776/encoding.png

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[arch-general] Default route not restored (deleted?) after VPN - Juniper Network Connect
by Qadri 25 Feb '12

25 Feb '12

Hi all, I've regularly used a VPN to access my school network. I use Juniper ncsvc to connect. It is worked into a script such that I can just call it, and then C-c to stop the VPN. Previously, the default route would be restored after I killed the VPN connection, so I could close the vpn connection and resume my internet use without thought. Now, I need to restart networkmanager (or that's the quickest/dumbest way I could mindlessly think of) to restore the connection (see output below). What has changed this behavior, and what methods can I take to getting the old behavior back? Thanks, MAQ. #Output #Note that echos indicate events that took place in another terminal $ route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0 $ echo "Start VPN" Start VPN $ route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface default 123.45.67.89 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 tun0 default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 10 0 0 wlan0 vpn.school.edu 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.255 UGH 1 0 0 wlan0 192.168.1.0 123.45.67.89 255.255.255.0 UG 1 0 0 tun0 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 10 0 0 wlan0 192.168.1.1 * 255.255.255.255 UH 1 0 0 wlan0 $ echo "Stop VPN" Stop VPN $ route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0 $ echo "Restart networkmanager" Restart networkmanager $ route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 303 0 0 wlan0 $ route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0 $

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[arch-general] mplayer steals system sound
by Thorsten 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

Hi list, my system-sound (alsa) was working, until I installed mplayer. Now mplayer is working - but system-sound is gone. No way to regulate volume in alsamixer, it seems mplayer has occupied the system. How can I use mplayer _and_ have sound for youtube etc again? Thanks for any tips. cheers -- Thorsten

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[arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows
by mercator 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

Hi guys, After switching from Linux Mint to Archlinux, my wireless card refused to show up in lspci. It DOES worked fine under Linux Mint, but .... Below is my output of 'lspci -vnn |grep Broadcom' : 10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) My laptop is hp 6515b, with a touch panel for the toggle of wifi on/off etc. After a search in google I found the problem may be that the power of wifi has been shut down, and solution is to boot into windows and turn wifi on, because the touch panel will not work under Linux (as far as I know), And the I found a software named rfkill, hoping it will work. 'rfkill list' out put as follows : 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes After 'rfkill unblock all', I get: 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes And still no wireless card detected. So my question is, is there any way to power the wifi on without booting into windows? (in fact, windows has diappeared from my laptop for 3 years, and there is no partition on my harddisk supporting windows install).

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[arch-general] /var/log/btmp empty
by gt 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

Hello folks My failed login attempts aren't being recorded, and lastb shows no output. The permissions are correct: -rw------- 1 root root 0 Nov 15 06:39 /var/log/btmp Reading a previous message on the mailing list, i tried setting FTMP_FILE /var/log/btmp in /etc/login.defs. But this gives the following error (right after typing the username on a tty): configuration error - unknown item 'FTMP_FILE' (notify administrator) So two questions: 1. Why isn't the option being recognised, even though it is present in the man page for login.defs? 2. How do i enable logging to /var/log/btmp? -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

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[arch-general] Scripting assistance
by pete 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Hi .. Some i would like to do with the laptop when at home but not out and about When i am at home i would like the laptop to mount my NAS drive on boot always connect via ETH cable never wiFi but out if i connect via cable or wirless do not try to mount NAS drive , My thoughts Would it be possible to script it so that it checks for an specific MAC address before trying to mount the NAS as IP address would not work lots of 192.168.x.x networks out there Cheers Pete .

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Re: [arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows
by mercator 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Hi Vladimir, In fact I've tried 'lspci -vnn | grep 14e4' before, and this is the output, JUST one row: 10:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1693] (rev 02) If I just type 'lspci' I will not find anything related to wireless card either. About the kubuntu thing, did you mean this? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349025 I've read it before open this thread. My problem is just the same as that of stark222000: it's wifi card CANNOT be powered on, not that driver thing listed in archwiki or linux wireless. He solved it through booting into windows. But I don't have windows installed and I don't want to install it anymore. So I opened this thread as 'how to power on my wifi card' instead of 'my wifi card dose not work', which will of course be classified as a driver issue. And if I missed anything after my explanation, plz let me know. Thanks! On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:07:03 +0900, Vladimir Lomov wrote: > Hello, > ** mercator [2012-02-22 23:35:26 +0800]: > > > Hi guys, > > > After switching from Linux Mint to Archlinux, my wireless card refused to > > show up in lspci. It DOES worked fine under Linux Mint, but .... Below is > > my output of 'lspci -vnn |grep Broadcom' : > > > 10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M > Gigabit > > Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) > > Sorry, if you find my answer a rude but did you use search engines? See > wiki.archlinux.org? E.g. > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless > > IMHO, proper command must be > $ lspci -vnn | grep 14e4 > > > My laptop is hp 6515b, with a touch panel for the toggle of wifi on/off > > etc. After a search in google I found the problem may be that the power > of > > wifi has been shut down, and solution is to boot into windows and turn > wifi > > on, because the touch panel will not work under Linux (as far as I know), > > Ah, broadcom and HP (6515b), something familiar. I remember a problem > with HP notebook with broadcom wireless card about a year or two ago. > The problem was solved by downloading kernel module source compiling > then and installing (not Archlinux, Kubuntu). > > This Google returns me for "broadcom linux bcm4311" > > http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 > > > And the I found a software named rfkill, hoping it will work. 'rfkill > list' > > out put as follows : > > > 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN > > Soft blocked: yes > > Hard blocked: yes > > > After 'rfkill unblock all', I get: > > > 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN > > Soft blocked: no > > Hard blocked: yes > > > And still no wireless card detected. So my question is, is there any way > to > > power the wifi on without booting into windows? (in fact, windows has > > diappeared from my laptop for 3 years, and there is no partition on my > > harddisk supporting windows install). > > --- > WBR, Vladimir Lomov > > -- > FORTRAN rots the brain. > -- John McQuillin >

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[arch-general] apache 2.4
by Genes MailLists 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Hi Does anyone know what the plans might be for apache 2.4 in testing? Thanks! gene

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[arch-general] Best way to adjust cron.daily or updatedb execution time? (root's crontab?)
by David C. Rankin 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

Guys, What is the best way to set the cron.daily items to run at 3 am. Currently they run at 3 pm which is a pain. I have checked the cron.daily entries and the other /etc/cron.x directories, but I can't find a time setting anywhere. I have checked man crond and crontab, but I didn't find a reference to setting the execution time globally for cron.daily stuff. I have added an entry to root's crontab: 0 3 * * * /root/cron/cron-daily Is this where this needs to go? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Unable to shutdown recently (not always)
by XeCycle 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hello, recently I'm experiencing shutdown problems. I installed everything (except /boot) on LVM, using LXDM as the display manager and sawfish as the window manager. Usually I cannot shutdown, the computer gets stuck --- wallpaper is still there, panel is gone, so does other windows; the HDD LED may flash sometimes; neither NUM LOCK nor CAPS LOCK is responding. So I need to press the power button to force a shutdown, and, on next boot, filesystems will be recovering journal, looks like it got stuck before the filesystems unmounted. But this doesn't always happen to me, usually if the computer is used for a long time it will; but if I want to test what is the cause, i.e. startup -> do sth. -> halt, I cannot yet figure out what is the problem. This is my rc.conf (comments grepped out): --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- LOCALE="zh_CN.UTF-8" DAEMON_LOCALE="no" HARDWARECLOCK="UTC" TIMEZONE="Asia/Shanghai" KEYMAP="us" CONSOLEFONT= CONSOLEMAP= USECOLOR="yes" MODULES=(acpi-cpufreq cpufreq_ondemand tg3) UDEV_TIMEOUT=30 USEDMRAID="no" USEBTRFS="no" USELVM="yes" HOSTNAME="XeCycle" NETWORK_PERSIST="no" DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus @crond @networkmanager) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Thanks for any help. -- 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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[arch-general] Current PKGBUILD that pulls directly from git?
by David C. Rankin 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Guys, I've read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines regarding git and it will get me going, but does anyone know of a current PKGBUILD using git that would also be a good additional reference? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] howto build shadow 4.1.5 with share libraries enabled?
by David C. Rankin 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

All, I am having trouble building the new shadow (4.1.5) from ABS so that libshadow.so.0 is created and installed. I have tried modifying lib/Makefile.am like was done in 4.1.4: #Ugh, force this to build shared libraries, for god's sake sed -i "s/noinst_LTLIBRARIES/lib_LTLIBRARIES/g" lib/Makefile.am But that produces no pkg/lib at all in the build directory. I have also tried setting the --enable-share configure option, but the build fails with that option set: libtool: link: gcc -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z -Wl,relro -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -o login login.o login_nopam.o ../libmisc/libmisc.a ../lib/.libs/libshadow.a -lcrypt -lpam -lpam_misc login.o: In function `get_failent_user': login.c:(.text+0x1a): undefined reference to `getdef_bool' login.o: In function `main': login.c:(.text.startup+0x4ec): undefined reference to `getdef_unum' login.c:(.text.startup+0x517): undefined reference to `getdef_unum' login.c:(.text.startup+0x52f): undefined reference to `getdef_unum' <snip> I know /lib/libshadow.so.0 was dropped in the move from shadow 4.1.4.3-5 > 4.1.5, but is it possible to build the new shadow and have it create libshadow.so.0? If so, how? This might be basic, but obviously I'm ignorant to the solution. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel config change in testing
by Keshav P R 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 23:08, Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalowski(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi > new kernel in testing has: > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25341 > - ext4 manages now ext2/ext3 and ext4 > > Please report if any issues happen, here all went fine on all machines. > I had not to change any config file like fstab or mkinitcpio.conf. > No x86_64 kernel https://www.archlinux.org/packages/testing/x86_64/linux/? Why is x86_64 still treated as a second class citizen? tpowa? Regards. Keshav > greetings > tpowa > > -- > Tobias Powalowski > Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) > http://www.archlinux.org > tpowa(a)archlinux.org > > > >

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[arch-general] Drop windowmaker-crm-git from [extra], use windowmaker package
by Daniel Isenmann 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hi, now that Window Maker development resumed and the new source for the official Window Maker package is the git repository of crm, there is no need anymore to have the crm-git package in the [extra] repository beside the official stable package. I will move it to AUR soon and will maintain it at the AUR. To all the users of the windowmaker-crm-git package, please install the windowmaker package from the [extra] repository, which is the latest stable source from windowmaker.org and even newer than the crm-git package. All features which are in the crm-git package are merged to the official windowmaker package because of the same source. -Daniel

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[arch-general] shadow - ABS build - public key verification failed
by David C. Rankin 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Allan, All, Rebuilding shadow from ABS, I got the following warning for public key verification failure: ==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg... shadow-4.1.5.tar.bz2 ... FAILED (unknown public key 5A0A399AEA7CF5AD) ==> WARNING: Warnings have occurred while verifying the signatures. Please make sure you really trust them. I don't know if this is important or just a side-effect of the new pacman package, but I thought I would pass it along. Does this type of warning need a bug report? I'm happy to file it if it does... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] How to set grub2 resolution to 1366x768
by Bill Sun 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 05:51:29AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Did you check by running "sudo hwinfo --framebuffer" too? It shouldn't > differ, but perhaps there's something fishy with vbeinfo. I just checked `sudo hwinfo --framebuffer`, the attachment below is the result. Cheers, Bill

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[arch-general] GHC 7.4.1 or HP 2011.4.0.0??
by Magnus Therning 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

It's been out for a day now... this would be a good time to decide whether ArchLinux should be bold and move to a haskell-platform-free state, or trudge on with HP and the ache it causes. If we're moving to 7.4.1 there's a lot of work with getting ArchHaskell in shape for it, so the longer notice the better :) If we're to trudge on with HP then we really ought to move to 2011.4.0.0, which also means a new version of GHC and a lot of work on ArchHaskell, so the longer notice the better :) Please, please, please, can we move on this soon? I'm available to help out with [extra]&[community] packages if need be, updating PKGBUILDs, building, verifying other's changes, etc. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus

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[arch-general] quick test
by P Nikolic 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Quick test list seems very quite is it .. Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.6-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 16 10:10:02 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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Re: [arch-general] How to set grub2 resolution to 1366x768
by Don deJuan 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

On 02/20/2012 08:51 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 11:21 +0800, Bill Sun wrote: >> According to `vbeinfo` under grub2, the maximum resolution my laptop (or >> my laptop's BIOS, I have no idea about this) supports is 1024x768. >> However, in Linux, I got a 1366x768 console by default (without further >> configuration). That's why I am thinking about insert some modules into >> grub2 and it may give me a proper console resolution. > > I wasn't aware that there are commonly used non-standard resolutions > available. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions#Other_commonly_available_… > > Did you check by running "sudo hwinfo --framebuffer" too? It shouldn't > differ, but perhaps there's something fishy with vbeinfo. > > - Ralf > > > I think in grub you can only go as big as 1280x800. Do not hold me to this but I have never been able to use non standard sizes passed to grub or grub2 and then once X has started it switches to my actual screen rez of 1900x768 or something like that. For me though when I run 1280x800 in grub when I am outside of X everything seems fine no large text and everything fits on screen. Not sure if any of this actually if of help but figured would be worth sharing in case it spurs some other ideas for you.

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[arch-general] NAS drive read ok cant write
by P Nikolic 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Hi . I have an Iomega NAS drive that i used to be able to read and write to using opensuse now i need to write to it and am completely unable to i can still read from it . I have 2 directory on it mounted using mount.cifs //192.168.0.154/music /home/pete/Music -o user=**** pass=pass mount.cifs //192.168.0.154/movies /home/pete/Movies -o user=**** pass=pass I can also read only from them How do i regain write permissions Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.6-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 16 10:10:02 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] I can't really poweroff my pc
by 朱格宏 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Recently, i found my Dell D630 can't poweroff . when i shutdown my laptop, it will shutdown all device except power,i must use power button forced to close it. but i don't know what the matter is.

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[arch-general] crashes
by P Nikolic 19 Feb '12

19 Feb '12

Hi I am getting logs full of the following along with bad crazy Kmail behaviour Also problems writing to my NAS drive i dare say the NAS problem is me not finding the right setting ( i have been a suse user since suse 5.3 so a long time with yast) any ideas anyone Feb 15 09:38:05 7-of-9 kernel: [ 386.295383] nepomukservices[1462]: segfault at 100000000 ip 00007fb2b1ba0eef sp 00007fb262ffb6b0 error 4 in libsoprano.so.4.3.0[7fb2b1b5c000+f9000] Feb 15 09:38:55 7-of-9 kernel: [ 435.960894] nepomukservices[1512]: segfault at 100000000 ip 00007fee7771eeef sp 00007fee5dff96b0 error 4 in libsoprano.so.4.3.0[7fee776da000+f9000] Feb 15 09:41:48 7-of-9 kernel: [ 609.009982] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode Feb 15 09:48:51 7-of-9 dbus[514]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper) Feb 15 09:48:51 7-of-9 org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper: QDBusConnection: system D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. Feb 15 09:48:51 7-of-9 dbus[514]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' Feb 15 09:50:06 7-of-9 dbus[514]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper) Feb 15 09:50:06 7-of-9 org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper: QDBusConnection: system D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. Feb 15 09:50:06 7-of-9 dbus[514]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' Feb 15 09:51:21 7-of-9 dbus[514]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper) Feb 15 09:51:21 7-of-9 org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper: QDBusConnection: system D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. Feb 15 09:51:21 7-of-9 dbus[514]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' Feb 15 10:21:01 7-of-9 -- MARK -- Feb 15 10:36:43 7-of-9 dbus[514]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper) Feb 15 10:36:43 7-of-9 org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper: QDBusConnection: system D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. Feb 15 10:36:43 7-of-9 dbus[514]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' Feb 15 10:39:13 7-of-9 dbus[514]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper) Feb 15 10:39:13 7-of-9 org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper: QDBusConnection: system D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. Feb 15 10:39:13 7-of-9 dbus[514]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' Feb 15 10:39:30 7-of-9 dbus[514]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper) Feb 15 10:39:30 7-of-9 org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper: QDBusConnection: system D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. Feb 15 10:39:30 7-of-9 dbus[514]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' Feb 15 10:39:37 7-of-9 kernel: [ 4078.129329] fuse init (API version 7.17) Feb 15 10:54:07 7-of-9 kernel: [ 4948.201916] nepomukservices[1811]: segfault at 100000000 ip 00007f78f0b3eeef sp 00007f78d77fc6b0 error 4 in libsoprano.so.4.3.0[7f78f0afa000+f9000] Feb 15 10:54:56 7-of-9 kernel: [ 4997.642525] nepomukservices[1887]: segfault at 100000000 ip 00007f75cb0a2eef sp 00007f75b15f06b0 error 4 in libsoprano.so.4.3.0[7f75cb05e000+f9000] Feb 15 10:57:16 7-of-9 dbus[514]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper) Feb 15 10:57:16 7-of-9 org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper: QDBusConnection: system D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. Feb 15 10:57:16 7-of-9 dbus[514]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' Feb 15 10:58:31 7-of-9 dbus[514]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper) Feb 15 10:58:31 7-of-9 org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper: QDBusConnection: system D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. Feb 15 10:58:31 7-of-9 dbus[514]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' Feb 15 10:59:46 7-of-9 dbus[514]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper) Feb 15 10:59:46 7-of-9 org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper: QDBusConnection: system D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. Feb 15 10:59:46 7-of-9 dbus[514]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' Cheers Pete -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 7 08:34:36 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] xdebug install error (pacman)
by Michaël Bruneel 19 Feb '12

19 Feb '12

Hi, I got a bash error on xdebug package install or upgrade. #pacman -S xdebug [...] /tmp/alpm_SbEGbE/.INSTALL: line 4: [: too many arguments [...] Regards, -- Michaël Bruneel +32 497 24 39 35 (BE) Alêthês - Free and Open Source Software Solutions www.alethes.be

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[arch-general] blueman failed to send file to device without obexftp service
by XeCycle 19 Feb '12

19 Feb '12

Hello, I have an Android 2.3 phone, and blueman failed to send file to it. Nor did obexfs mount the phone. After some check, I found the phone doesn't support OBEX FTP, but supports OBEX Object Push. So I managed to send the file with ussp-push. Is there a workaround for blueman? Or have I misconfigured something? Thank you. -- 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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[arch-general] rebuilding shadow 4.1.4.3-5 fails DSO problem with libattr - where to patch?
by David C. Rankin 18 Feb '12

18 Feb '12

Guys The update to shadow has caused problems and I needed to rebuild shadow 4.1.4.3-5. I have run into the DSO error regarding libattr. I know I need to update the Makefile.am or patch the Makefile after the ./configure, but I'm not having any luck. The error is: /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu -lcrypt -o useradd useradd.o ../libmisc/libmisc.a ../lib/libshadow.la -lpam -lpam_misc -lacl libtool: link: gcc -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z -Wl,relro -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -o .libs/useradd useradd.o ../libmisc/libmisc.a ../lib/.libs/libshadow.so -lcrypt -lpam -lpam_misc -lacl /usr/bin/ld: ../libmisc/libmisc.a(copydir.o): undefined reference to symbol 'attr_copy_fd@@ATTR_1.1' /usr/bin/ld: note: 'attr_copy_fd@@ATTR_1.1' is defined in DSO /lib/libattr.so.1 so try adding it to the linker command line /lib/libattr.so.1: could not read symbols: Invalid operation collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I think I need the explicit -llibattr in the CFLAGS line of the Makefile, but trying to patch it after ./configure isn't working. How do I properly handle this? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] boot hangs on hal load after updates today.
by David C. Rankin 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

All, Strange behavior on boot with both standard and LTS kernels. After updates today. Boot hangs on hal load when encountered in DAEMONS line of rc.conf. hal IS started, but boot hangs with both the normal kernel and LTS. This behavior is confirmed when starting hal manually. This occurs with both the old hal 0.5.14-6 and version 0.5.14-7 from aur. This stops the boot process dead in its tracks requiring a ctrl+alt+del to kill the hang. I had to boot to 'single' user mode to bring my box up enough to remove hal from the daemons line. Any ideas which package may be causing this? I know hal is on the way out, but it is needed currently for development of Trinity. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] avahi wiki addition of airprint services - please review
by David C. Rankin 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

All, I updated the avahi wiki to include a useful snippet about enabling print capabilities from mobile devices. Please review and revise if there are any tweaks needed. Thanks. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Avahi#Airprint_from_Mobile_Devices -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] problem installing octave
by Fons Adriaensen 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

Hello all, I tried to install octave (after a pacman -Sy). root@zita1:/home/fons> pacman -S octave pacman: /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libalpm.so.7) Octave gets installed, but refuses to run due to the missing library. ??? -- FA Vor uns liegt ein weites Tal, die Sonne scheint - ein Glitzerstrahl.

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[arch-general] systemd's journal and syslog-ng
by Tobias Frilling 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

On 02/09/2012 03:29 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > - With the journal enabled (and it is enabled by default), you no longer > need to run a syslog daemon (i.e. syslog-ng or rsyslog). The journal, > by default, writes to /run/systemd/journal (meaning logs will poof on > reboot). If you want to keep your logs, simply create > /var/log/journal. If you really want to keep using a syslog daemon, > you must tell it to read from /run/systemd/journal/socket, NOT > /dev/log. I know I do not longer need to run a syslog daemon, but I like my logs in human readable form. So, being a obedient ml reader, I configured my syslog-ng to read from said new socket unix-dgram("/run/systemd/journal/socket"); instead of the old /dev/log. But since then my logs are incomplete at best. So here are my questions: - Why are the logs read from /run/systemd/journal/socket incomplete and how do I fix this? - Why do I even have to change the socket? /dev/log is still there and still works like a charm.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] disowned pmount
by Thorsten Töpper 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:04:20 +0100 Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalowski(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Am 15.02.2012 09:18, schrieb Pierre Schmitz: > > Am 15.02.2012 09:10, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > >> Hi > >> feel free to adopt it, I don't use it anymore. > >> greetings > >> tpowa > > Why not just drop it entirely? Afaik it was once used by KDE3 but > > isn't needed by any package anymore. > > > +1 > Drop it to [community] I'll adopt it. -- Jabber: atsutane(a)freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ GPG-Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4

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[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel config changes in testing
by Keshav P R 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 18:09, Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalowski(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi > new kernels in testing have: > - ipv6 builtin https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27994 > - removed the old framebuffer devices (as wished on mailinglist) > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25341 ? and it may be early but 3.3 kernel has CONFIG_EFI_STUB ( http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commitdiff;h… ) which should also be enabled once it is released. Regards. Keshav

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[arch-general] Join my network on LinkedIn
by Erwin José López Pulgarín via LinkedIn 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

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[arch-general] Intel AES-NI module doesn't get loaded automatically
by Karol Babioch 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

Hi, my hardware supports the AES-NI instruction set, which is a performance boost. I'm pretty sure that the appropriate module (aesni_intel) was loaded automatically in the past, which seems not to be the case anymore. I probably could place it in /etc/rc.conf or something like that, but before going for it, I would like to know why it doesn't get loaded automatically in the first place any longer. Is this something intentional or some sort of bug/regression? Maybe it has something to do with the switch to kmod a few weeks ago? Anyone else experienced this? Best regards, Karol Babioch

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[arch-general] Cannot upgrade.
by Madhurya Kakati 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

Greetings, The command pacman -Su fails(I ran -Sy separately before this). I last updated the system day before yesterday. $ sudo pacman -Su :: The following packages should be upgraded first : pacman :: Do you want to cancel the current operation :: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: gcc-libs and gcc-libs-multilib are in conflict. Remove gcc-libs-multilib? [y/N] N error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: gcc-libs and gcc-libs-multilib are in conflict Do I have to remove gcc-libs-multilib? -- Madhurya Kakati () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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[arch-general] Fw: Re: Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed [BUSY]
by gt 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Well it would seem he still found it useful. But forgot to cc the mailing list. ----- Forwarded message from Rob Lewis <rrl125(a)gmail.com> ----- Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:20:20 -0500 From: Rob Lewis <rrl125(a)gmail.com> To: gt <codered12(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed [BUSY] Thanks! That thread at least confirms that two others will the same laptop are having the same issue. As for what the problem is, not quite sure yet but I will try reverting to a older kernel. On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:50 PM, gt <codered12(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:45:54PM -0500, Rob Lewis wrote: > > I am running into an issue I have never really run into in the past with > my > > current laptop. Upon installing arch linux I reboot and face the > following > > issue which hangs forever during the bot process: > > > > Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed [BUSY] > > > > I have a Lenovo Thinkpad W520 with NVidia Optimus and I enabled NVidia > > Discrete mode in the BIOS. I cannot boot into my system after > installation, > > however sometimes it will skip by this error and I will lose all keyboard > > input and cannot login as a result. My workaround for the moment is to > put > > the BIOS into Optimus mode (Intel and NVidia cards are enabled) and use > the > > Intel video driver. I have tried nomodeset during the boot process but no > > luck. Googling the problem i find most people get a timeout after 30 > > seconds to find out what is causing the problem, but my system hangs > > forever. > > > > Is anyone else running into this issue or experienced enough to help me > > find out what the problem is? I have been running Arch since August 2011 > > with no issues up until now. > > > > Any help is appreciated, > > -Rob > > Maybe this thread can help. Many people seem to have problems with udev > recently. > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134012 > > -- > O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org > ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Ruby directory clean up proposal.
by Peter Lewis 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Hi, I'm not a dev, so am replying on arch-general, but a TU who uses a lot of ruby on Arch. Thanks for thinking about this. I too have been trying to come up with my own sane way of using ruby - gems particularly - with Arch. On Sunday 12 Feb 2012 17:37:17 Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > Current layout: > /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby - packages either installed here > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/[ruby_base_version] - or here, this directory > contains both pacman installed packages and packages installed using > the gem tool. > > Planned layout: > /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby - manually installed files by user go here, > packages shouldn't touch this > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/[ruby_base_version] - pacman packages built from gems go > here /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby - ruby packages installed with pacman which > aren't gems go here > $HOME/.gem/ruby/[ruby_base_version] - used by the gem command to > install packages unmanaged by pacman +1 from me, except that we should probably emphasise that /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby really is for site-specific stuff. Anything that is generic enough to be able to go in a pacman package (and/or a gem) should do. > /etc/gemrc - contains "gem: --user-install" to install user installed > gems with gem to $HOME/.gem/gems I didn't know about --user-install, but I just set GEM_HOME (actually, I use RVM). Can what you want be done by globally setting GEM_HOME to be based off of $HOME? Or is --user-install the preferred way? > If the user chooses to install gems using gem, they will have to add > the bin directory to the $PATH: > export PATH="$PATH:$(ruby -rubygems -e 'puts Gem.user_dir')/bin". Yep, or just something derived from $GEM_HOME if we were to use that approach instead. > Benefits of this change include: > Using the proper directory layout introduced in ruby 1.9 (using > vendor_ruby). Clean separation of pacman installed packages > (/usr/lib/ruby/gems/[ruby_base_version] & /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby) > from gem installed packages ($HOME/.gem/ruby/[ruby_base_version]). > > Problems left: > The user will still be able to install to the system wide gem > directory /usr/lib/ruby/gems/[ruby_base_version] if they remove > --user-install from /etc/gemrc > > Possible remedies: > 1) Leave it as is. > If the user runs gem with --no-user-install then gem will still > install the files to the system wide directory at > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/[ruby_base_version] and will install binaries to > /usr/bin > This should provide a clean default and is the easiest path. > This option is still better than the one we currently use where we > try to install to the system wide location by default. I think it's worth separating out the "user" and the "admin" in this argument. To install a gem system-wide, you have to do something like "sudo gem install XXX", right? This is almost always a bad idea, IMO, and people hopefully won't do it at least during the normal run of working with ruby. Personally, I don't let gem mess with anything outside my home directory. And plain "gem install XXX" will not accidentally install system-wide, right? Ruby is quite good for separating between development and deployment environments - it seems to make sense for us to do a similar thing here, seeing the Arch OS layer itself as a particular kind of deployment, where things are managed by pacman. > 2) Change all ruby pacman packages to use local > _gemdir='/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby' > This would free up /usr/lib/ruby/gems/[ruby_base_version] which we > could move to /var/lib/ruby/gems/[ruby_base_version] for system wide > gems installed with the gem command. And as much as I have to admit that I'd really like to be able to install gems system-wide and use their built-in dependency management, bundler etc... I think that road probably leads to madness and death, especially when many popular gems will still be managed by pacman (and rightly so). So, I would be careful about doing this, and would suggest that we go for only letting 'gem' install things under $HOME. Anything that should go system-wide should have a PKGBUILD. > I'm currently leaning towards 1 since it will be a simple solution > with no changes needed to existing ruby-* packages. Yep. Of course, suggesting RVM for user-installed gems(ets) is probably also a good idea. Pete. PS. A while ago I was getting very frustrated that the version of rubygems bundled with ruby itself was so out-of-date so quickly, but 'gem update --system' is a very bad idea in combination with pacman. So, I spent a while hacking together this package, which installs the latest version of rubygems itself alongside ruby, system-wide: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50346 It's hacky, but it works :-) I wish there was a cleaner way.

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[arch-general] Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed [BUSY]
by Rob Lewis 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

I am running into an issue I have never really run into in the past with my current laptop. Upon installing arch linux I reboot and face the following issue which hangs forever during the bot process: Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed [BUSY] I have a Lenovo Thinkpad W520 with NVidia Optimus and I enabled NVidia Discrete mode in the BIOS. I cannot boot into my system after installation, however sometimes it will skip by this error and I will lose all keyboard input and cannot login as a result. My workaround for the moment is to put the BIOS into Optimus mode (Intel and NVidia cards are enabled) and use the Intel video driver. I have tried nomodeset during the boot process but no luck. Googling the problem i find most people get a timeout after 30 seconds to find out what is causing the problem, but my system hangs forever. Is anyone else running into this issue or experienced enough to help me find out what the problem is? I have been running Arch since August 2011 with no issues up until now. Any help is appreciated, -Rob

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[arch-general] Kmail crashes
by P Nikolic 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Hi all . Kmail seems to have developed a like for just vanishing like bang gone . I had to reboot the box this morning to get kmail to start at all as in power off reboot then it can up with no mails listed no inbox nothing another reboot and it came up ok but now just vanishes from the screen this was after yesterdays updates "pacman -Suy" it had been reasonably ok prior to that apart from the filters dont work very well (no where near as good as the non akondaified version Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 7 08:34:36 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] broken PKGDEST?
by Lukas Fleischer 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 02:10:50PM +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi, > since quite some time, PKGDEST breaks testingpkg etc. > It only can upload the arch package and not the other, eg. x64_64 is not > able to upload the i686 package. > Any ideas or fix for this? It really breaks my workflow. I'm not sure what you want to do... Are you trying to release to a architecture that isn't specified in the PKGBUILD's "arch" array? Or does commitpkg fail to upload an architecture you actually specified? Just to be sure, commitpkg currently behaves as follows: 1. Iterates over all architectures that you specified in your PKGBUILD (unless you use "$commit_arch"). 2. Searches for package files for each of these architectures (and it looks in "$PKGDEST" if that is used). If it cannot find a package file for one architecture, it displays something like "Skipping $_pkgname-$fullver-$_arch: failed to locate package file" and skips that architecture. 3. Searches for signature files, bails out if one of them cannot be found or is invalid. 4. archreleases to all remaining architectures. 5. Uploads package and signature files. If it doesn't behave like that for you, you should probably file a devtools bug. If it behaves like that and you need another feature, file a feature request :) > > greetings > tpowa > > -- > Tobias Powalowski > Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) > http://www.archlinux.org > tpowa(a)archlinux.org > >

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[arch-general] Multi-audio player script-based control?
by Oon-Ee Ng 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

I use mpd for 'regular' music playing, but once in a while (like today, V-Day) I use other players (like Exaile) for various purposes. I currently use xbindkeys to bind various keyboard shortcuts to mpc next, mpc prev etc. Of course, finger memory means I still press those even though I'm currently using another music player (which results in two different songs playing). Anyone know of an existing script which controls the active player (so if I press my 'next song' keyboard shortcut and VLC is active, it receives the signal, if Exaile/amarok whatever is active, it receives it, if nothing is active it defaults to mpd)? Thought about hacking something up in bash but would like to check if something already exists, first.

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[arch-general] Set BUILDDIR in makepkg.conf
by 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Hey, guys, is there a way to set BUILDDIR in makepkg.conf to a place like /var/abs/mybuilds/$pkgname? I tried set BUILDDIR="/var/abs/mybuilds/$pkgname",but it didn't work,it builds in /var/abs/mybuilds,not in /var/abs/mybuilds/$pkgname.

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[arch-general] [mirrorlist] Remove ftp mirrors from the default list
by Abdul Halim Mat Ali 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

I don't find download small files is slow especially when the mirror is at your country. Furthermore, my country namely Singapore only have one mirror and that one mirror using FTP. Arch-devs. Kindly do not delete FTP from the list. The mirrors list are user config and not everybody use the same mirror and it is up to us to use which mirror. So, I don't see a point on remove the ftp mirrors.

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[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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[arch-general] update to cups 1.5.2 - test print OK, but nothing else prints - jobs just sit in que until canceled
by David C. Rankin 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

Guys, Cups 1.5.2 update caused all user submitted jobs to stick in que and not print. However, if I use the web interface and print a test page or print a test page from kde print manager - everything works. I have been through the cupsd.conf page a cups.org and though my config and I can't find any reason jobs would just stop printing. Is anyone else having problems submitting jobs to a network cups server. With LogLevel set to debug, I get the following in error_log: D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdAcceptClient: 17 from 192.168.6.102:631 (IPv4) D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 17 GET /printers/LaserJet.ppd HTTP/1.1 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients and printing jobs", busy="Printing jobs" D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs", busy="Active clients and printing jobs" D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 17 WAITING Closing on EOF D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 17 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs", busy="Printing jobs" D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 15 POST /printers/LaserJet HTTP/1.1 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients and printing jobs", busy="Printing jobs" D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 15 1.1 Get-Job-Attributes 1 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] Get-Job-Attributes ipp://192.168.6.17:631/printers/LaserJet D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] Returning IPP successful-ok for Get-Job-Attributes (ipp://192.168.6.17:631/printers/LaserJet) from 192.168.6.102 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs", busy="Active clients and printing jobs" D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 15 POST /printers/LaserJet HTTP/1.1 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients and printing jobs", busy="Printing jobs" D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 15 1.1 Get-Printer-Attributes 1 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] Get-Printer-Attributes ipp://192.168.6.17:631/printers/LaserJet D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] Returning IPP successful-ok for Get-Printer-Attributes (ipp://192.168.6.17:631/printers/LaserJet) from 192.168.6.102 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs", busy="Active clients and printing jobs" Does this indicate an error to anyone familiar with cups output? Something changed, but what? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] DPMS
by P Nikolic 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

Morning folk Back to this one again i need to find a working position for "xset -dpms" i am getting sick and tired of every time i reboot i get the darn screens turning off i hate that with vengance if i wqnt them off i turn them off simples So where can i put the xset command for it to work correctly every time Thanks Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 7 08:34:36 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] Alps touchpad problems
by mike cloaked 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

I am trying to get a laptop touchpad working properly with arch fully up to date as of today. The machine is a recent Dell Vostro and has an Alps touchpad. I can't get vertical scrolling to work in KDE, and the mouse cursor occasionally moves erratically. I have seen previous posts some time back recommending installing the psmouse-alps package from AUR, and indeed it would appear that the 3.3 kernel may have a working psmouse module. However for the moment with kernel 3.2.5 the touchpad is detected as P/S 2 Generic - instead of the correct detection. I have tried installing psmouse-alps and rebooting but it made no difference so I uninstalled it again. the Xorg log has: [ 16.850] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PS/2 Generic Mouse (/dev/inpu t/event8) [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchal l" [ 16.850] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'PS/2 Generic Mouse' [ 16.850] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: always reports core events [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event8" [ 16.850] (--) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Found 3 mouse buttons [ 16.850] (--) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Found relative axes [ 16.850] (--) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Found x and y relative axes [ 16.850] (II) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Configuring as mouse [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200 [ 16.850] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input8/event8" [ 16.850] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "PS/2 Generic Mouse" (type: MOUSE, id 12) [ 16.850] (II) PS/2 Generic Mouse: initialized for relative axes. [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1 [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) acceleration profile 0 [ 16.851] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000 [ 16.851] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4 [ 16.851] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PS/2 Generic Mouse (/dev/input/mouse0) [ 16.851] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [ 16.851] (II) This device may have been added with another device file. Does anyone have current experience with this issue and know the best way to work around the problem until the 3.3 kernel is released? Thanks -- mike c

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[arch-general] thinkpad_acpi out of date?
by Genes MailLists 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

Hi: (1) Fully updated with test repos. Thinkpad W520. I have kernel 3.2.5-1. I see this in logs: lap3 kernel: [282571.053156] thinkpad_acpi: unknown possible thermal alarm or keyboard event received lap3 kernel: [282571.053160] thinkpad_acpi: unhandled HKEY event 0x6040 lap3 kernel: [282571.053161] thinkpad_acpi: please report the conditions when this event happened to ibm-acpi-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net (2) lsmod shows thinkpad_acpi is running. I found in /lib/modules was kernel/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.ko.gz and possibly kernel/drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.ko.gz The first one seems to be version 0.24 but I cannot tell if its the 0.24-20110604 version or earlier - at least by poking at the .ko. (3) http://sourceforge.net/projects/ibm-acpi/files/thinkpad-acpi/0.24-20110604/ Suggests this is/may be fixed in this version - could our version of thinkpad_acpi be out of date? Thanks gene

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[arch-general] Where are the i686 community-testing updates?
by Karol Blazewicz 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/3/?repo=Community-Testing&sort=-last_upda… Is it a bug or are they coming out later?

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[arch-general] Ad hoc
by Ralf Mardorf 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

The PPPoE connection works after running '# ifconfig eth0 up && netcfg pppoe' as usual. After preparing ad hoc [1] I loaded the module by '# modprobe rtl8192se'. Then I tried to run 'newlan -n', but it doesn't work [2]. 1. How can I run 'newlan'? 2. Do I need to reboot to load the firmware? 3. Do I have to change the lines modprobe -r ath_pci modprobe ath_pci autocreate=adhoc to something like modprobe -r ath_pci modprobe ath_usb autocreate=adhoc when using an USB device? [root@archlinux src]# modprobe -r ath_pci FATAL: Module ath_pci not found. [root@archlinux src]# modprobe ath_usb autocreate=adhoc FATAL: Module ath_usb not found. [root@archlinux src]# modprobe ath_pci FATAL: Module ath_pci not found. Rebooting now without a starting the adhoc script or loading the module at startup ... Regards, Ralf ********** [1] **************************************** [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ cd /usr/src [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33927923/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009.t… [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ su [root@archlinux src]# tar -xzOf rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009.tar.gz \ > rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/firmware/RTL8192SE/rtl8192sfw.bin > \ > /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/rtl8192sfw.bin [root@archlinux src]# ls /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/rtl8192sfw.bin -hAl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75K Feb 9 10:19 /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/rtl8192sfw.bin [root@archlinux src]# exit [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ne/newlan/newlan.tar.gz [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ tar xzf newlan.tar.gz [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ cd newlan [spinymouse@archlinux newlan]$ makepkg -si [spinymouse@archlinux newlan]$ cd .. [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ leafpad adhoc [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ cat adhoc #!/bin/bash ####### this part should change or simply be removed depending on the network card #recreates the ath0 interface in ad hoc mode modprobe -r ath_pci modprobe ath_pci autocreate=adhoc wlanconfig ath0 destroy wlanconfig ath create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode adhoc ####### #starts the ad hoc server ifconfig ath0 down iwconfig ath0 mode ad-hoc iwconfig ath0 channel 4 iwconfig ath0 essid 'mine' ifconfig ath0 10.0.0.1 up #forwards the ad hoc network to the router iptables -A FORWARD -i ath0 -o eth0 -s 10.0.0.0/24 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE sh -c "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" ********** [2] **************************************** [root@archlinux src]# sudo newlan -n mynewprofile This application was designed for ArchLinux, to run anyway add --force. [root@archlinux src]# sudo newlan --force -n mynewprofile WARNING: Application execution forced, use at own risk. ArchLinux netcfg Easy Wireless LAN 1.0.0.8 Invalid argument, try 'newlan --help' for more information. [root@archlinux src]# newlan --help This application was designed for ArchLinux, to run anyway add --force. [root@archlinux src]# newlan --force --help WARNING: Application execution forced, use at own risk. ArchLinux netcfg Easy Wireless LAN 1.0.0.8 Invalid argument, try 'newlan --help' for more information. [root@archlinux src]# newlan --force -n mynewprofile WARNING: Application execution forced, use at own risk. ArchLinux netcfg Easy Wireless LAN 1.0.0.8 Invalid argument, try 'newlan --help' for more information.

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Re: [arch-general] the problem about app's popup menu
by Northwoods 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Then it is a bug and should be reported to gnome devs. There is not much I can help. In fact I wouldn't bother) Gehong Zhu <zhugehonghn(a)gmail.com> wrote: >在 2012-02-09四的 02:53 -0500，mountpeaks(a)lavabit.xn--com:-7z8fk634a >> > äºŽ 2012å¹´02æœˆ09æ—¥ 01:30, Northwoods å†™é“: >> >> Zhu Ge Long, could you make a screenshot, its difficult to say. Maybe >> >> your fonts are way big. >> >> >> >> æœ±æ ¼å®<zhugehonghn(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi,guys: >> >>> I have a question about gnome-shell popup menu,I found actives bar >> >>> will block app's popup menu when popup menu too long. is it my setting >> >>> have some problem?? >> > http://imagebin.org/197986 >> > you can see actives bar block list >> > >> Ok, I didn't notice anything out-of-ordinary on your screenshot, seems >> like its ok since the focused application is on top layer and overlaps the >> bar. I don't think that is a bug. >> 你会放心点儿:) >> >> >ok,beacause actives bar is transparent , please notice list top >position,if actives bar isn't transparent, you will not see the top of >list > >

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Re: [arch-general] the problem about app's popup menu
by Northwoods 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Zhu Ge Long, could you make a screenshot, its difficult to say. Maybe your fonts are way big. 朱格宏 <zhugehonghn(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Hi,guys: > I have a question about gnome-shell popup menu,I found actives bar >will block app's popup menu when popup menu too long. is it my setting >have some problem??

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[arch-general] Wi-Fi rtl8192s
by Ralf Mardorf 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Hi, does anybody know if the first driver mentioned here [1] is ok, in other words, won't there be dropped connections? [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup#rtl8192s Anybody using a Sempre WU300 on Arch Linux with kernel 3.0-rt, to connect an iPad 2 to the Internet? Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Can't rebuild audiofile 3.2 from PKGBUILD?
by David C. Rankin 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Guys, I have almost survived the updates from today, but the last issue I have is audiofile 3.2->3.3 kills sound in trinity and kills basket-notepads. I am trying to rebuild from the 3.2 pkgbuild, but the build fails: /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu -o power power.o ../libaudiofile/libaudiofile.la libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z -Wl,relro -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -o .libs/power power.o ../libaudiofile/.libs/libaudiofile.so /usr/bin/ld: power.o: undefined reference to symbol 'log10@@GLIBC_2.0' /usr/bin/ld: note: 'log10@@GLIBC_2.0' is defined in DSO /lib/libm.so.6 so try adding it to the linker command line /lib/libm.so.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [power] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/david/arch/pkg/abs/audiofile/src/audiofile-0.3.2/examples' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/arch/pkg/abs/audiofile/src/audiofile-0.3.2' make: *** [all] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... I am using the pkgbuild from: http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk/PKGBUILD?h… I can see the main problem is: /usr/bin/ld: power.o: undefined reference to symbol 'log10@@GLIBC_2.0' /usr/bin/ld: note: 'log10@@GLIBC_2.0' is defined in DSO /lib/libm.so.6 so try adding it to the linker command line but how do I modify the PKGBUILD to account for this? Shouldn't audiofile be backwards compatible from 3.3->3.2? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Phonon backends not loading
by Kacper Żuk 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

All Phonon based apps (I've tried Kadu, Phonik (aur), and my little app) fail to initialize Phonon backend: WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to Phonon::AudioOutput ( no objectName ). I have backends installed: [kaz@Dmitrij ~]$ pacman -Qs phonon local/phonon 1:4.6.0-1 local/phonon-gstreamer 4.5.1-1 local/phonon-vlc 0.4.1-1 I've tried with only one backend installed (tried both...), but it still doesn't work. I'm using testing repo if that matters. Is it something with my configuration or is it a bug in Arch Linux?

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[arch-general] Beep no longer works
by Sébastien le Preste de Vauban 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

#beep Could not open /dev/tty0 or /dev/vc/0 for writing open: No such file or director beep 1.3-2 Before update beep was working ok.

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[arch-general] Debugging a kde app
by Myra Nelson 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Caveat: I know this is probably an upstream bug so I'm just looking for some general info. This is my first try at debugging. I'm using the wiki articles for my guidance. I some questions about debugging a KDE app, kshisen which is included in the kdeames package. The best I can describe the behavior is "it hangs at random intervals. Either when you select a tile it takes several seconds to highlight it, after the first selection the matching selection takes 5 to 10 seconds, then continues without crashing". I've tried to get a screenshot but an unable to when kshisen is hung up. I've recompiled the dependencies and kshisen like this and built the packages in a clean chroot with extra-x86_64-build. options=('!strip') build() { export CFLAGS="-fbuiltin -g -march=native -O1 -pipe -fstack-protector-all --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" export CXXFLAGS="-fbuiltin -g -march=native -O1 -pipe -fstack-protector-all --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu" cd $srcdir mkdir build cd build cmake ../../${pkgbase}-${pkgver} -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python2 make } Next I ran [ valgrind --leak-check=full --track-origins=yes --time-stamp=yes /usr/bin/kshisen ]. Valgrind reports several memory leaks. As an example: ==00:00:07:20.414 32628== 24 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 139 of 425 ==00:00:07:20.414 32628== at 0x4C2993D: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==00:00:07:20.414 32628== by 0xBA3A75A: FcPatternCreate (in /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.4.4) ==00:00:07:20.414 32628== by 0xBA3861D: FcFontRenderPrepare (in /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.4.4) ==00:00:07:20.414 32628== by 0xBA3883C: FcFontMatch (in /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.4.4) ==00:00:07:20.414 32628== by 0x60BB2D7: QFontDatabase::load(QFontPrivate const*, int) (in /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4.8.0) ==00:00:07:20.414 32628== by 0x6098586: QFontPrivate::engineForScript(int) const (in /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4.8.0) ==00:00:07:20.414 32628== by 0x60AC187: QFontMetrics::height() const (in /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4.8.0) ==00:00:07:20.414 32628== by 0x62E1949: QStatusBar::reformat() (in /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4.8.0) ==00:00:07:20.414 32628== by 0x62E1C59: QStatusBar::setSizeGripEnabled(bool) (in /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4.8.0) ==00:00:07:20.414 32628== by 0x62E2007: QStatusBar::QStatusBar(QWidget*) (in /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4.8.0) ==00:00:07:20.414 32628== by 0x515E55D: KStatusBar::KStatusBar(QWidget*) (in /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.5.8.0) ==00:00:07:20.414 32628== by 0x513F989: KMainWindow::statusBar() (in /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.5.8.0) Next I ran [ strace -eopen /usr/bin/kshisen ], which spits out quite a few missing/not found files. As and example: open("/usr/lib/tls/x86_64/libjson.so.0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/tls/libjson.so.0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/x86_64/libjson.so.0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) There is no directory /usr/lib/tls. Then I ran [ readelf -a /usr/bin/kshisen | grep interp ] with the following results. [ 1] .interp PROGBITS 0000000000400238 00000238 [Requesting program interpreter: /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2] 01 .interp 02 .interp .note.ABI-tag .note.gnu.build-id .gnu.hash .dynsym .dynstr .gnu.version .gnu.version_r .rela.dyn .rela.plt .init .plt .text .fini .rodata .eh_frame_hdr .eh_frame Then I ran [ LD_DEBUG=files /usr/bin/kshisen > kshisen-lddebug.log 2>&1 ] which produces a long log. If it would help I can put all the files in a pastebin. I may be into overload but was trying to have enough info up front. First question. Would a backtrace do any good? Second question (sort of). I would like to bisect this app by cloning the svn repo then compiling a previous version. Will I (my belief is yes) need to set up a virtual environment to work on say the 4.7.9 version? Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] backing up a blackberry phone
by P Nikolic 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Hi .. I have a Balckberry Curve i could do with backing up again on suse i used to use BarryBackup has anyone provided this for Arch or what do people use to backup their Balckberrys .. Cheers Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Feb 4 10:53:01 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] libpng 14/15 - anyway to workaround by having parallel installs?
by David C. Rankin 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Guys, The libpng issue breaks nearly all of trinity. Is there a way to work around the libpng 1.5 update by having both 1.5 and 1.4 installed or with softlinks until all the rebuilds can be done? I'll play with it, but if anyone knows how to approach this workaround (if possible), I would welcome your thoughts. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] help building aoe block driver against kernel 3.2.4
by Chuck Remes 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Like the subject says, I need a hand building the latest aoe block driver (available here [1]). The built-in aoe driver is back at version 47... there have been *many* improvements, particularly for performance, that I need in the later driver releases. I had great success building the driver against kernel26 for the past 3 years. This is my first try with the 3.x kernel series. In the gist below, I attached 3 sets of detail. The 'install_readme.txt' is a set of instructions I wrote up on how to prepare the kernel sources so that the driver could be built against it. These are the instructions (slightly updated to use the 'linux' package name versus the old 'kernel26' package) that I have successfully used for the last several years to keep the driver up to date as new kernels rolled out. The 'stdout.txt' section of the gist contains the output of my terminal session from when I do the driver build. It throws some errors out and points to a few lines in a specific file (aoeblk.c) as being incorrect. I have compared that code to other drivers and it looks correct to me. Lastly, I included a copy of the aoeblk.c file that contains these supposed errors (to save any helpful soul who wants to see the source without downloading the tarball [1] linked to earlier). https://gist.github.com/1713964 I also took another approach where I copied the updated driver sources directly into the kernel source tree and rebuilt the package. However, it throws the same error. I cannot get support from the vendor (Coraid) because they only officially support the 2.6 kernel series even with a paid plan. I'm at a loss as to what to try next. Any suggestions? [1] http://support.coraid.com/support/linux/aoe6-78.tar.gz

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[arch-general] Nvidia Driver issues
by Don deJuan 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

First off I just would like to start off by saying please do not tell me to use nouveau. They do not work and have not worked for me on multiple distros for well over a year now. I also need cuda support on my laptop. I am currently running the xorg-nv driver. I am at a complete loss as far as what is going wrong or what I am missing when trying to install the Nvidia proprietary driver. I have a Nvidia GeForce GTS 360m card. I am fully updated, just updated xorg to 1.14-1. I have been trying since installing which started me at xorg 1.11. What is going wrong is that everything installs fine, but any time I try and shutdown/reboot it goes to a red screen and locks up there, no blinking indicators on the keyboard, so does not appear to be a Kernel panic but an xorg issue. If I do not get the red screen, what happens it the screen goes black and sits there with a blinking cursor. There is no way to change terminals either. I have tried the nvidia nvidia-beta drivers and both have the same issue. Is this due to the nvidia and xorg 1.11 issues I keep reading about? What are my options to try and get this working properly? I have followed the wiki, postings on the bbs. I have tried basically everything I could find minus actually downgrading to xorg 1.10. Which from what I read is the only way to get the proprietary to work, but on arch forums and on here I read of many people with no issue with current X and nvidia closed source drivers, so I would think it must be me who is causing the issue. Thanks for any help, info and most of all your time

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[arch-general] What hapenned to netcfg ?
by Alfredo Palhares 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Hello, I was just talking about this on #archlinux-offtopic. No one is acepting patches[1] to the netcfg[2] project. I aplied as mainteiner when help was asked[3] (as masterkorp) . No replies. Can i apply again ? Is anyone taking care of it? I have a a local repo with the patches and bugfixes applied. [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=netcfg&project=1&search_name=&t… [2] https://projects.archlinux.org/netcfg.git/ [3] http://www.archlinux.org/news/contributors-wanted/ -- With the best regards, Alfredo Palhares

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[arch-general] Kernel 3.2.1 woes
by Norbert Zeh 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Hi folks, just a heads up (and maybe request for feedback whether anybody has seen similar issues with this kernel upgrade). The recent upgrade from kernel 3.1.9 to 3.2.1 produced two graphics-related issues: On my dual-Opteron Asus board with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460, the X server fails to start and says that it cannot initialize the device at PCI 4:0:0 (i.e., my NVIDIA card). Downgrading to 3.1.9 fixes this issue. On my Core i7 Dell Latitude 6510 laptop using the on-chip graphics chip and the 1920x1080 laptop screen, everything is fine until I suspend the machine to RAM. When resuming, I get a black screen and not even rebooting brings the screen back to life. I have to turn the machine off and then back on. In contrast, my Core i7 desktop at home with an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450 works just fine with the 3.2.1 kernel. I'm in the process of bisecting these issues (currently working on the laptop issue). I remember that back in the kernel 2.6.3x days, it took a long time for the Dell 6510 with 1920x1080 display and Intel graphics to boot without a black screen at all, and I seem to recall that this was because the patch that made it work apparently didn't do what it was supposed to do "right". Maybe they now found a way to do it right, only it doesn't work, at least after a suspend. Note that, even though I get a black screen after suspending, the machine is otherwise alive, as I can blindly switch to a TTY and reboot the machine cleanly from there. Bisecting is proving a bit painful because quite a few intermediate versions I'm testing result in a straight kernel panic after suspend. Cheers, Norbert -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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[arch-general] [translation] pacman 4.0.2 string freeze
by Dan McGee 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

More info: http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/translation-help.html Transifex page: https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/archlinux-pacman/r/4-0-2/ Thanks! -Dan

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[arch-general] Makepkg Traps non Zero Exit Codes
by Bastien Dejean 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Hi, There's a problem with all the mercurial based PKGBUILD, the following command: hg pull Returns with a non zero exit code if there's nothing to pull. In that case, makepkg fails with since it traps all non zero exit codes. I've found traces of this mercurial behavior dating from 2006, hence I presume that makepkg must have become picky lately? Greetings, -- b.d (| |) ^ ^

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[arch-general] ntp settings
by P Nikolic 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Hi . I am trying to set the timezone up correctly and setup ntp to run . I have tried using System Settings in KDE but for some reason it does not accept the password . If i enter the password (root password) it reply's failed to Authenticate and greys everyting out for a few seconds i have sudo installed as that was suggeted as the problem on the previous install that crashed and burned what else is missing ntp is installed as well .. Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 26 08:40:20 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] "Unable to contact the timeserver"
by P Nikolic 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Hi .. Thanks to the helper on the previos thread nw another one when i select an ntp server enter the password (users password) i get the Unable to contact the timeserver error i can ping the server from a terminal no problem Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 26 08:40:20 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] jackdbus
by Ralf Mardorf 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Hi :) I'll test if it will be possible to replace jack2 by jackdbus for my needs, e.g. if it's easy to change my session scripts for older audio productions to use it. I started it by $ jackdbus auto, now I've got $ pidof jackdbus 7201 and I'm unable to kill it. *google* $ jack_control --help Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/jack_control", line 12, in <module> import dbus ImportError: No module named dbus I tried QjackCtl, an app I won't use, if I don't need it, but if it would help, no prob, I'll launch it. Enabling DBus interface doesn't take effect. How do I set up jackdbus? $ ls .config/jack -hAl total 0 Any Wiki? http://www.google.de/#hl=de&cp=7&gs_id=17&xhr=t&q=jackdbus&pf=p&sclient=psy… I'm serious. I'll test it, but it's really not easy. Of course I just try it since 10 minutes or less. Cheers, Ralf

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[arch-general] FS#22732 - [kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde] KCModule error with Python 3 - SOLVED
by Marek Otahal 04 Feb '12

04 Feb '12

Hi, I reopened the mentioned bug in bugzilla as I had exactly same problem.. Just found solution now - that happens when cups is not running. So sudo /etc/rc.d/cupsd restart solves the issue. Please ignore my reopen request and maybe add this solution to the bug just FTR. Bye -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] KDE crash after latest updates
by Genes MailLists 04 Feb '12

04 Feb '12

Using testing repos - I just got 3.2.4 kernel and latest glibc (2.15-5 ) After rebooting to pick up new kernel - after I login via kdm to KDE desktop I get a crash from 'kdeinit4': Application: KDE Daemon (kdeinit4), signal: Aborted Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". [Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f2e9499d780 (LWP 1271))] Thread 3 (Thread 0x7f2e7ad2a700 (LWP 1274)): #0 0x00007f2e91f9a643 in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6 ... Thread 2 (Thread 0x7f2e7a529700 (LWP 1279)): #0 0x00007f2e8f178e62 in clock_gettime () from /lib/librt.so.1 #1 0x00007f2e93519204 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 hread 1 (Thread 0x7f2e9499d780 (LWP 1271)): [KCrash Handler] #6 0x00007f2e91ef4975 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 #7 0x00007f2e91ef5deb in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 #8 0x00007f2e91eed9ce in __assert_fail_base () from /lib/libc.so.6 #9 0x00007f2e91eeda72 in __assert_fail () from /lib/libc.so.6 #10 0x00007f2e68c4854b in snd_hctl_handle_events () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 #11 0x00007f2e68c539a9 in snd_mixer_handle_events () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 #12 0x00007f2e68f1584d in ?? () from /usr/lib/kde4/kded_kmixd.so #13 0x00007f2e68f0e0aa in ?? () from /usr/lib/kde4/kded_kmixd.so #14 0x00007f2e935d90d6 in QObject::event(QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 gene/

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[arch-general] change in mount behaviour?
by G. Schlisio 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

Hi all, i used to keep a folder in /media to serve as mountpoint if some manual mountis was needed. since some days, this folder disappeared, even if created again. is there any change in filesystems, kernel or whatsoever changing behavior there, is it intended (if so, why?) or a bug? every hint appreciated. georg

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[arch-general] Merge /bin to /usr/bin?
by Stephen E. Baker 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

A few days ago it was announced that Fedora 17 will be merging several root directories into their /usr equivalents and using symlinks for compatibility. The announcement can be found here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/158708 There are several good reasons for the change, outlined at: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge I wondered if this was something Arch was considering as well. Stephen E. Baker

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[arch-general] qtwebkit and html5 video
by Shridhar Daithankar 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

Hello All, this has been bothering me for some time, so just posting for wider audience. Facts, all applicable to rekonq and konqueror with webkit part - I have qtwebkit,kwebkitpart and rekonq installed - I am on youtube html5 demo trial. youtube.com/html5 reports support for webm and h.264 support - html5test.com reports video element support with MPEG-4/H.264/Ogg Theora/WebM. I have gstreamer phonon backend with most of the codecs installed. - youtube html5 video does not work. I get a progress bar but no video frames. example URL tested http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA1MTQ as it has couple of youtube videos embedded - videos from vimeo.com does not play either. google isn't helpful. and there is no bug in arch linux bug db. Does anybody else experience this too? -- Regards Shridhar

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[arch-general] Old pkgbuilds need to be removed from abs tree
by sitquietly 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

I've noticed that /var/abs/extra still contains kdeutils and kdeaccessibility, with PKGBUILDs for the old 4.7.4 version. Those have been replaced in kde 4.8.0 with a set of packages kdeutils-* and kdeaccessibility-* The obsolete directories should be removed from abs/extra. I build all packages from source code on my system using my own set of scripts. For example a daily update is pacman -Qqu | order | unify | build --merge --edit --save so I'm the guy to notice garbage in the abs tree (my scripts read the PKGBUILDs in the abs tree and my own tree to build a database of dependencies, including make deps, providers, splits, and package groups). It has happened once in a while that an updated PKGBUILD doesn't show up in abs, or is missing files, without manual intervention on someone's part. I've filed bug reports against several such packages, which seem to mystify the package maintainer, who then tells some other guy that there is NO problem with his package, who apparently moves the missing stuff into abs and makes me happy. , It also happens as with kdeutils and kdeaccessibility, that an obsolete directory is not removed from abs. It seems that the process for syncing the abs tree to the master repository needs fixing. The ABS, providing the build scripts for all packages, is a key feature of Archlinux for me and I greatly appreciate the work required to make it available.

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[arch-general] Google earth
by P Nikolic 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Well Kmail seems to be a little better behaved now thanks for the help . Now got Google earth installed (loads of 32 bit stuff added from multilib) now it starts up then bombs out after a few seconds with an error report as Major Version 6 Minor Version 2 Build Number 0000 Build Date Jan 23 2012 Build Time 17:11:07 OS Type 3 OS Major Version 3 OS Minor Version 2 OS Build Version 2 OS Patch Version 0 Crash Signal 11 Crash Time 1328125391 Up Time 5.39584 Stacktrace from glibc: ./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xc0af3)[0xf7681af3] ./libgoogleearth_free.so(+0xc0c73)[0xf7681c73] [0xf7707400] anyone got this working right up to date on kernel KDE ect ect uname -a Linux 7-of-9 3.2.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 26 08:40:20 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux 7-of-9:/ # Cheers Pete .

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[arch-general] Gtk update messed up thunderbird thread marker triangles??
by David C. Rankin 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Guys, It seems one of the latest updates did something to the little triangle thread markers in thunderbird that show when a thread has responses. Now the triangles for collapsed threads look like little squiglies. The downward facing triangles showing expanded threads look OK. Anybody else see this? Does this look like a Gtk issue or an issue with thunderbird? This screenshot shows what I'm seeing: [64k] http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/img/misc/tbird-triangles-arch.jpg -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] problem installing custom kernel
by Madhurya Kakati 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Hi, I tried compiling and installing the linux kernel from ABS. I modified the PKGBUILD file as mentioned in the wiki. The kernel compiles fine and the pkg gets built with the name linux-custom as specified in the PKGBUILD. But when I try to install it I get the following error: $ sudo pacman -Uv linux-custom-3.2.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Root : / Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf DB Path : /var/lib/pacman/ Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ Lock File : /var/lib/pacman/db.lck Log File : /var/log/pacman.log GPG Dir : /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/ Targets : linux-custom-3.2.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz loading packages... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: linux-custom and linux are in conflict (kernel26). Remove linux? [y/N] N error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: linux-custom and linux are in conflict I have attached the PKGBUILD. -- Madhurya Kakati () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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[arch-general] Kmail 2 problems
by P Nikolic 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Hi .. I am getting the following error on mail check Local Folders: Error opening: This folder is missing . I also get complaints about unable to delete (long number) on Kmail2 startup not sure if it is related but i have also had big problems with Akondai when trying to add my saved calenders with warnings of file on disc has been changed writing backup file i wound up with over 3000 files in a few mins had hell of a job dealing with that Pete . Sorry if this has landed trwice but i dont think kmail is working correctly

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[arch-general] Kmail2 errors
by Peter Nikolic 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Hi .. I am getting the following error on mail check Local Folders: Error opening: This folder is missing . I also get complaints about unable to delete (long number) on Kmail2 startup not sure if it is related but i have also had big problems with Akondai when trying to add my saved calenders with warnings of file on disc has been changed writing backup file i wound up with over 3000 files in a few mins had hell of a job dealing with that Pete .

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[arch-general] Sudo Vulnerability
by Kevin Chadwick 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudo_debug.html Is sudo on arch built with? -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 I couldn't find it in makepkg.conf anyway? -- Kc

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[arch-general] Updates
by Myra Nelson 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

I suppose this should go to the bug tracker, however I'll do it here first. It seems a bit much to file a pair of bugs for. During my updates this evening the libpng/libtiff rebuild bit. ( 7/85) upgrading gdk-pixbuf2 [----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100% g_module_open() failed for /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-svg.so: libpng14.so.14: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (29/85) upgrading libwmf [----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100% g_module_open() failed for /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-svg.so: libpng14.so.14: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I got the pkgbuilds from the svn repos, rebuilt the packages, and everything worked fine. Myra -- Chaos, panic, disaster, my work here is done!

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[arch-general] couple of log messages from kernel 3.2.2
by Genes MailLists 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

I noticed a couple of messages booting the new 3.2.2 kernel: (I) watchdog: --------------------- [287247.568009] NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. [287248.814530] watchdog: INTCAMT: cannot register miscdev on minor=130 (err=-16). [287248.814536] watchdog: error registering /dev/watchdog (err=-16). [287248.814540] mei: unable to register watchdog device. (I) acpi: --------------------- [ 4749.406097] thinkpad_acpi: unknown possible thermal alarm or keyboard event received [ 4749.406108] thinkpad_acpi: unhandled HKEY event 0x6040 [ 4749.406114] thinkpad_acpi: please report the conditions when this event happened to ibm-acpi-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net [ 4749.406834] thinkpad_acpi: EC reports that Thermal Table has changed suggestions on what I can do to track these down anymore ... or if it could be hard/firm ware issue on this lenovo W520 laptop. thanks. g

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[arch-general] Another Major glitch now
by P NIKOLIC 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

I have just updated the system now on kde4.8 but all i get is kmix and a white screen noting else works at all even that took 12 mins to come up (ps the update was a normal pacman -Suy ) Pete (sent from webamil on the lappy cus main machine is futzed )

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[arch-general] the big rebuild - libpng/libtiff in testing
by Ionut Biru 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Here are couples of instructions about dealing with broken packages. As usually, fully update your system before reporting bugs and don't forget about enabling community-testing along with multilib-testing(if necessary) What to do when one of your favorite application returns: libpng14.so.14: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory do $ LD_DEBUG=files yourapp > yourapp.log 2>&1 $ grep libpng14.so.14 yourapp.log $ pacman -Qo /path/to/soname/that/links/to/libpng14.so.14 If is not from the repo, rebuild it yourself, otherwise, report it on our tracker. -- Ionuț

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[arch-general] User actions following system package upgrades?
by Paul Gideon Dann 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

I've looked everywhere, but I can't find any reference to what the accepted wisdom is: I know that due to the way the kernel is upgraded, it is best to save kernel upgrade until the system can be rebooted, since the running kernel will be unable to load modules because the modules directory (/lib/modules/<version>) changes when a new kernel package is installed. For this reason, I have the "linux" package in my IgnorePkg line in pacman.conf, and upgrade it explicitly before a planned reboot. However, for what other packages is this true? I also have "udev" in IgnorePkg, but is this necessary? Is it safe to upgrade udev without rebooting? I suspect that certain rules may disappear or change, and the running udev may not be happy about that. I'm guessing it's also best to shut down X and restart DBus after a DBus upgrade too, although in practice a reboot is usually simpler, and that it would also be sensible to reboot after a "glibc" upgrade too, although that's rare. Any other thoughts? Are these sorts of considerations documented anywhere? This issue of upgrading system packages while the system is running feels like a potentially dangerous situation to me. Are we lucky that it doesn't cause too much trouble, or are in-place upgrades specifically handled gracefully by core system components such as udev? (I don't see anything special in udev's install script.) I suspect that most of us shrug it off and reboot only when we see breakage, but I hope you agree that's not a very safe way to work. Paul

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Keeping stuff in /bin, /lib, /sbin
by Dan McGee 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Genes MailLists <lists(a)sapience.com> wrote: > Dan - > > Forgive me emailing you directly - I follow the list but am not able > to post on it - and the reject suggested a direct email - and yours was > last post when I replied. > > If this is wrong etiquette I'm sorry (new to arch ... ) - if I should > not be doing this please let me know. I would reply to arch-general rather than just me; it doesn't help everyone else if our conversation is private. > My comment was just: > > Since kernel modules could go from /lib/modules to /usr/lib/modules, > they would need support from tools such as kmod etc .. I don't think we're even going down this road yet- the only /lib manipulation we would do at this point is actual libraries, not kernel modules or the dynamic linker. -Dan

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[arch-general] mail archive link
by Peter Nikolic 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi folks Someone sent me a link to the mail archive a couple of hours ago it seems i got canned by mistake can some kind sole resend it please . Thanks Pete

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[arch-general] [AUDIO] Terrasoniq phase X64 - ice1712 - configuration
by Lars Madson 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi Archers, I just received that external sound card, Terrasoniq Phase X64. It seems to be supported in the kernel using module ice1712. I've been reading about how to make it work in the last days. the closer I've been to see "it" was by listing some stuff (sorry for imprecision I forgot how since then), the card would appear with a number like this : 4ugxvhgblabla. I just installed alsa-tools-ice1712 1.0.25-1 But it cannot sees it. Alsaconf shows an ISA P-n-P card...can it be the Terrasoniq? I don't know really where to start, as making a rule in udev to launch a .sh script, but I guess first I should find a way to see that card pluged somewhere, it's usb. also how to tell my kernel to load ice1712 maybe. Any advice are welcome!! Thanks Laurent

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[arch-general] Bugreport: nvidia-rt and /lib/modules
by Ralf Mardorf 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi :) nvidia-rt was updated Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:29:42 +0000, but there's still the /lib/modules issue. Also directories for kernels that were removed by updates, are still present. There's less content in those dirs. So, nvidia-rt doesn't work. Regards, Ralf PS: [spinymouse@archlinux #linux-rt]$ ls /lib/modules 3.0-rt 3.1.9-1-ARCH 3.1.9-2-ARCH 3.2.2-1-ARCH extramodules-3.2-ARCH [spinymouse@archlinux #linux-rt]$ ls /boot grub initramfs-linux.img initramfs-linux-rt.img vmlinuz-linux initramfs-linux-fallback.img initramfs-linux-rt-fallback.img syslinux vmlinuz-linux-rt [spinymouse@archlinux nvidia-rt]$ makepkg -s ==> Making package: nvidia-rt 290.10-1 (Sun Jan 29 09:59:47 CET 2012) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving Sources... -> Downloading NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10-no-compat32.run... [snip] ==> Starting build()... You must have Creating directory NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10-no-compat32 Verifying archive integrity... OK Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 290.10... patching file nv-linux.h Hunk #1 succeeded at 265 (offset 3 lines). Hunk #2 succeeded at 852 with fuzz 2 (offset -2 lines). patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line NVIDIA: calling KBUILD... test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \ echo; \ echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \ echo " include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\ echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it."; \ echo; [snip] ==> Entering fakeroot environment... ==> Starting package()... ==> Tidying install... -> Purging unwanted files... -> Compressing man and info pages... -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries... ==> Creating package... -> Generating .PKGINFO file... -> Adding install file... -> Compressing package... ==> Leaving fakeroot environment. ==> Finished making: nvidia-rt 290.10-1 (Sun Jan 29 10:01:31 CET 2012)

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[arch-general] Arch & ILOM on a Sun Fire X4100
by Robert Wall 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi guys! I have the opportunity to get a sweet deal on a Sun Fire server to replace my somewhat-antique workstation. Most of the hardware looks like pretty standard stuff (AMD Opterons, standard RAID 0/1, SAS drives, etc.), but there's something that's throwing me. Sun apparently has something called ILOM ("Integrated Lights-Out Management"). Nearest I can tell, this is a subsystem that monitors drives, power supplies, and misc. other things within the system. I would *think* that this should all function separately from (and not interfere with) the installed OS, but I can't seem to pin that down concretely. Does anybody have any experience with this ILOM stuff? Any chance this server would be a Bad Place to run Arch? Any information you guys could share would be greatly appreciated!

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]
by Timothée Ravier 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Le 26/01/2012 08:24, Andrea Scarpino a écrit : > Hi all, > overnight the mirrors synced the latest stable release of KDE. > > I had no many time to work on it, so I pushed it in [testing] just to be sure > everything's ok. As I can't send to arch-dev-public, I'm sending this here: This release seems good to me. (signoff x86_64 ?) I've been using the packages available in kde-unstable, and I must say the packaging is well done! Good job! Tim

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[arch-general] iPad - FLOSS on the iPad - data transfer between an Arch PC and an iPad
by Ralf Mardorf 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi :) I won a MC770FD/A iPad 2 Wi-Fi 32GB Black. I'm uncertain if I should retain or sell it. The iPad was delivered today and I still didn't configure it. I don't need all those consumer toys and I don't like proprietary software, especially I don't like Apple regarding to the company's policy. It would be nice to have something for reading, instead of wasting money for ink cartridges, if I won't sit in front of my PC's monitor. Perhaps an iPad could be useful for drawing. Running Qt linguist also would be comfortable to do translations, when I won't sit in front of my PC's monitor. Additionally it would be good to have a portable audio recorder, since my DAT recorders are broken. Believing information from the Internet, running Linux on the iPad 2 shouldn't be possible and even original Linux apps that are available for MacOs shouldn't work on an iPad too. I wonder if Qt linguist and some FLOSS audio software would run on an iPad under it's iPad OS? Since my PC has got a wired connection to an ADSL modem (PPPoE), the PCI slots are used by 2 TerraTec EWX 24/96 cards used as MIDI interfaces and the PCIe slots are used for a RME HDSPe AIO card for audio and a GeForce 7200GS graphics, I only could connect the iPad by USB to the PC and Internet, because there are no free slots on my mobo. Because I never used Wi-Fi or Bluetooth I wonder if those elCheapo USB 2.0 solutions will work with kernel ex 3.0-rt or at least with kernel ex 3.2 without rt patch. http://www.reichelt.de/WLAN-Adapter/0/16/index.html?;ACTION=2;LA=2;GROUPID=… http://www.reichelt.de/index.html?ACTION=2;GROUPID=4321;SEARCH=Bluetooth Any hints are welcome, Ralf

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[arch-general] python problems while compiling Android 4.0
by Madhurya Kakati 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

Hi, I am trying to compile android 4.0 with the help of an article I found online[1]. When I execute a command I get the following error: $ python2 ~/bin/repo init -u http://git.android-x86.org/manifest -b ics-x86 File "/home/papul/android-x86/.repo/repo/main.py", line 149 except DownloadError, e: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax I think the problem is with python2. [1] http://hyper-choi.blogspot.com/2012/01/andorid-x86-ics-on-qemu.html -- Madhurya Kakati () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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[arch-general] New PC and data copying -- am I doing this right?
by Kwpolska 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

I bought a new PC. I'm going to get it a bit later, I need a plan for data movement. I created this, can someone please tell me if it's okay, and, if it's not, what should I change? 01. Remove the OLDPC drivers from Arch on OLDHDD. 02. Connect the NEWHDD to the OLDPC. 03. Create the appropriate partitions on the NEWHDD (with new sizes, EXCEPT Shared [NTFS]) 04. Copy (dd) some partitions from OLDHDD to NEWHDD (Arch, Home, Shared) 05. Use fsck on Arch and Home on NEWHDD (just in case.) # Should I do something to get them to work with the new sizes? # 07. Resize Shared (NTFS) to the approperiate size. 08. Boot into Windows twice in order to check it. 09. Install GRUB on NEWHDD, shut down OLDPC and connect the NEWHDD to the NEWPC. 10. Install NEWPC drivers to Arch on NEWHDD. (audio/video) 11. Install Windows 7 on the NEWPC. 12. Connect the NEWHDD back to the OLDPC. Re-install GRUB. 13. Boot into Windows XP on the OLDHDD. Copy some bigger Steam games to the NEWHDD. 14. At long last, profit. -- Kwpolska <http://kwpolska.tk> stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16 | Arch Linux x86_64, zsh, mutt, vim. # vim:set textwidth=70:

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[arch-general] Nouveau: 16bit Color Depth?
by Bastien Dejean 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

Hi, I tried the nouveau driver and I noticed gradients were rough, I thought it might be related to the color depth but I didn't found any relevant option in the nouveau manual, so I tried passing depth parameters to startx but it didn't help. Any hints? Greetings, -- b.d (| |) ^ ^

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[arch-general] /usr on a seperate drive
by P NIKOLIC 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

Hi . Well still fighting it how does one go about putting /usr on a seperate drive i can not seem to get it right just complains about /usr mounted unable to e2fsck cannot continue and falls to maintenance mode i cant unmount the drive because it contains /usr how do im get rount that one these days .. Pete .

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[arch-general] audio gone west
by Peter G Nikolic 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

Hi .. Well getting almost back to rights now but i now have no audio using an external usb soundcard that was working fine before the KDE update wreaked havoc Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0d8c:0102 C-Media Electronics, Inc. CM106 Like Sound Device Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 1.10 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 8 idVendor 0x0d8c C-Media Electronics, Inc. idProduct 0x0102 CM106 Like Sound Device bcdDevice 0.10 iManufacturer 0 iProduct 2 USB Sound Device iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: i dare not include the entire output way too long i have been thru the Pulse Audio Volume Control Pulse Audio Preferences KDE System setting multimedia in the PAVC i can actually see the bar moving with the audio everything seems ok just no sound the speakers/amps are ok not sure where to look next Pete . -- Powered by Kernel: 3.2.2-1-ARCH KDE Development Platform: 4.8.00 (4.8.0 00:31:20 up 56 min, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.09, 0.13

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[arch-general] Google earth
by Peter G Nikolic 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

Hi Does anyone have a method of getting google earth to work i HAVE tried the stuff in AUR it fails completely the packages it complains about are all out of date and have so many deps that are also out of date it is like chasing your own tail up your own backside I have looked at the AUR wiki and found nothing of relevance to getting a working google earth Thanks Pete . -- Powered by Kernel: 3.2.2-1-ARCH KDE Development Platform: 4.7.4 (4.7.4) 13:11:12 up 20:20, 5 users, load average: 0.11, 0.09, 0.07

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[arch-general] Wine 1.3.37-1.1
by Ralf Mardorf 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

Hi :) regarding to the "fixme"s I googled "You can ignore these, they are harmless", but I didn't found information about the error(s). [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ WINEARCH=win32 winecfg wine: created the configuration directory '/home/spinymouse/.wine' fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented. err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0xc9e8cc, overlapped 0xc9e8b0): stub wine: configuration in '/home/spinymouse/.wine' has been updated. [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi wine Name : wine Version : 1.3.37-1.1 - Ralf

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Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD help
by John K Pate 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

> Yes been there but all that happens is i get a load of failed deps one of > which it seems cannot be satisfied and all 32 bit stuff this is a 64 bit the > PKGBUILD mentions 64 bit but goes for 32 bit the fails also complains about > google-earth.install is missing so i dont know where to look next It installs 32-bit libraries because the google-earth binary is 32-bit. You can still run 32-bit programs on a 64-bit system. I've got a 64-bit system and it's installed and runs fine. The missing dependency is probably ld-lsb, which you have to get from the AUR and install prior to installing google-earth. If it is complaining about a missing google-earth.install, probably you downloaded just the PKGBUILD. Download and extract the full tarball and you'll have google-earth.install. I should point out that all of this information is available at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR == John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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[arch-general] root not remounted rw
by Philipp Überbacher 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

Hi there, on one of my laptops, the one that runs Arch since 2+ years now, root isn't remounted rw for some reason. Manually remounting ("sudo remount -r remount,rw /dev/sda3/ /") after boot works fine. There are no errors in dmesg. This problem persists since a few weeks, the system is fully updated. I couldn't figure out what the problem could be, so I hope you could help me on this one. One additional piece of information, related or not, is that apparently the mainboard battery has gone flat, the laptop thinks its 2006 after every boot until ntpd corrects the time. This happened a couple of weeks before the remount problem showed up, so I doubt it's related. Things I've tried: - filesystem check - SMART check - re-install of various packages Regards, Philipp

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[arch-general] PKGBUILD help
by Peter G Nikolic 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hi .. I am trying to install my favorite editor joe now i have the "PKGBUILD" file have run "makepkg" it has built ok no erors but how the heck do i install it says installed but it has not it has just created the directorys in the build dir but not actually installed it on the system . I am also still unable to get anywhere near that close with google earth just piles of complaints (all 32 but complaints but the system is 64 bit i have the .deb 64 bit down to no avail . Is there any clear concise documentation for the PKGBUILD / makepkg system most times so far with arch i have fund what i needed but this time :-( Pete . -- Powered by Kernel: 3.2.1-2-ARCH KDE Development Platform: 4.7.4 (4.7.4) 15:33:55 up 2 days, 16:02, 5 users, load average: 0.35, 0.14, 0.08

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[arch-general] bashrc path not being enforced
by gt 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hello list Earlier I had appended my personal bin directory to /etc/profile's PATH, and it worked perfectly. Now, i am trying to add PATH to my user's .bashrc, but it doesn't come into effect. Though adding it to .bash_profile works. I am using urxvt and have set it to start as a login shell. What can be the reason? -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

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[arch-general] Upgrade of bluez breaks A2DP?
by Karol Babioch 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hi, I've recently upgraded bluez from version 4.96 to 4.97 and a few days later to 4.98. When trying to use my Bluetooth headset (Sennheiser MM 550) I realized that it doesn't work anymore. Using gnome-bluetooth I can in fact discover my headset and even connect to it, but it doesn't get listed in the audio section where it normally can be found. Consequently I can't redirect any sound to it. When downgrading to version 4.96 it works like expected. As I'm only using gnome-bluetooth I can't really say whether it is a problem with bluez itself, or whether gnome-bluetooth doesn't support the newer versions of bluez at this point in time. Furthermore I'm not that experienced with using hcitool and its relatives, so it may well be that I'm missing something here. It seems just to affect A2DP, because my Bluetooth mouse works still like a charm. However I wanted to make sure whether anyone has experienced something similar after the upgrades? I couldn't find any bug reports so far about this, so is there anything I could have missed? Or am I the only one using a Bluetooth headset on a regular basis ;)? Best regards, Karol Babioch

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[arch-general] Question concerning curl package
by Oon-Ee Ng 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

I see that curl was updated in [core] (and probably through [testing] first?) to 7.24.0 With this update, my AUR package (don't jump me yet, please) rainlendar-beta-unstable, when run, gives me the following error message:- rainlendar: /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_3' not found (required by rainlendar) Now, I understand that binary-distributed packages such as rainlendar usually have lib version related problems, but in my (not very long) experience those show up in terms of 'library not found' because they're looking for, maybe, libcurl.so.3 or something like that. If rainlendar is actually looking for the right lib version, does that mean that curl has made changes to the API (or was it ABI) without bumping release number? Basically wondering whether to place the blame on rainlendar or curl here. P.S. - don't think its important, but the curl package has a a patch called fix-J-with-O-regression.patch which does not seem to be used.

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[arch-general] Printer config problem
by Peter G Nikolic 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hi . one more slight problem with the printer this time trying to get my printer working across all software i went into the kde system settings ---> Printer Configuration a i get the following The service 'Printer Configuration' does not provide an interface 'KCModule' with keyword 'system-config-printer-kde/system-config-printer-kde.py' The factorey does not support creating components of the specified type. then 2 suggestions of fixes neihter of which makes any sense The prionter is an HP Deskjet D4360 i have the HPLIP package installed but can not print from gimp Firefox they will print to file but show no printer Pete . -- Powered by Kernel: 3.2.1-2-ARCH KDE Development Platform: 4.7.4 (4.7.4) 22:17:52 up 1 day, 22:46, 5 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.05

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[arch-general] bug? Close the notebook‘s lid，that will cause the system reboot
by 大熊 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

My nb is Asus a50af, Ath.64 M320 + ATI Mobility Radeon HD5145 $ uname -a Linux bearhouse 3.2.1-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 23 12:40:01 UTC 2012 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) II Dual-Core M320 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux After I upgrade to kernel 3.2, meet a strange problem: I set the desktop to close screen when I close lid. If I do so, when I reopen the lid, the screen remain closed, any key can not open the screen. Even sometime after I reopen the lid, the system will reboot immediately！ I try it under kde4 and gnome3， same problem.**

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