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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.1.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hi guys, please signoff 3.1 series for both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Problems with alsamixer after system update
by Daniel Hilst Selli 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

I have made a system update today with pacman -Syu.. After that I'm facing problems with alsamixer. It works o tty but not on xterm or gnome-terminal Here is the error: [geckos@archlinux ~]$ alsamixer alsamixer: hcontrol.c:574: snd_hctl_load: Assertion `list_empty(&hctl->elems)' failed. Aborted Any idea? Thanks, []'s

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[arch-general] LinuxCon Brazil
by Albino Biasutti Neto 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hi people. Among some day it will be the second LinuxCon Brazil in São Paulo - SP. Someone will attend the Arch Linux project? PS.: I will not be this year. Last year I attended the event. Sorry my english. Cheers, -- Albino Biasutti Neto www.tux-es.org www.binoinformatica.com <http://blog.binoinformatica.com/> "A mente que se abre a uma nova idéia jamais volta ao seu tamanho original". Albert Einstein Chave GPG: 1A867107

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[arch-general] Wiki
by Albino Biasutti Neto 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hello. The problem in Wiki ? No acess. wiki.archlinux.org Cheers, -- Albino Biasutti Neto www.tux-es.org www.binoinformatica.com <http://blog.binoinformatica.com/> "A mente que se abre a uma nova idéia jamais volta ao seu tamanho original". Albert Einstein Chave GPG: 1A867107

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[arch-general] how to give Date&Time root priviledge
by adrian sun 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

Hi all, I use kde4.7. As the time zone does not set correctly, I tried to change the timezone as "America/Toronto" in rc.conf. it did work but the time still not right. So I used date&time --KDE control module to adjust time, it said 'System policies prevent you from saving the date/time setting', and asked me input the password for root. The authentication failed, I am quite sure the password was correct. I guess I didn't add time in user group. Any solution about this? Thanks a lot. Adrian

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[arch-general] Where has my /etc/networks gone?
by Magnus Therning 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

I'm playing around with schroot and when creating a chroot with "type=directory" I at first failed to start it. The reason seems to be the lack of the file "/etc/networks". I created an empty one, and that was accepted by schroot. However, the man page (networks(5)) is rather cryptic, so what is this file for? Would it not be better to always have one (albeit empty) by default? /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] aur xfce4-dev
by Xavier D. 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

Hello, Due to a lack of time, I'll orphan all the xfce4-dev aur packages this evening. If someone is interested in adopting them. Tcho

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[arch-general] Evolution Missing from Testing
by Steve Holmes 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

When I do a 'pacman -Syu', I'm getting an error that evolution-3.2.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz cannot be found though the testing list file shows that file. It sounds to me that the repo is not in sync or something.

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[arch-general] Gnome Shell freezes
by Max 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

Dear arch users and developers, I have posted this issue also in the archlinux forum [1]. I didn't get much feedback there. So I'm hoping some people here might have an idea of how to resolve the problem. Problem: gnome shell freezes from time to time (actually daily). Freezing: "Freezing" means, the screen becomes unresponsive but everything seems to continue working (sound and videos continue playing; even the mouse pointer can still be moved). Most of the time I'm able to switch to a virtual console although sometimes it takes 10-20 seconds after CTRL+ALT+F1 to show up. Then, however, everything is running smoothly. It's not possible to restart X since it will freeze again at the gdm login screen, or even without using gdm when loading the desktop. What triggers the problem: Usually it happens while scrolling on websites or pdfs. I feel like it happens more often if there are large images. Hardware: IBM T60 ATI X1400 I think it's an issue with the open source radeon drivers. However, this problem doesn't occur using other desktop environments. I tried to look into some log files but I couldn't find noticeable error messages. Looking forward to your suggestions, Max [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129481

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[arch-general] [translation] pacman 4.0.1 release
by Dan McGee 13 Nov '11

13 Nov '11

I'd like to release 4.0.1 later this week. String changes are very minimal if you were up to date before; 3 new ones in pacman scripts and 2 capitalization changes in pacman. https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/archlinux-pacman/r/4-0-1/ Languages below could use some love if anyone is interested- please sign up as a team member through Transifex to get started: * Chinese (Taiwan) * Swedish * Danish * Russian * Kazakh * Slovak These are close but not quite up to date as of 4.0.0: * Polish * Turkish * Finnish * Portuguese Thanks! -Dan

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[arch-general] Time delay problem with latest [core] kernel
by XeCycle 13 Nov '11

13 Nov '11

Hi, I'm using the latest kernel from [core] (linux 3.1-4), and experienced a terrible delay of software MIDI synthesizers. I'm using fluidsynth, using ALSA as the output driver (I simply can't get jack working), and VMPK as a keyboard MIDI event generator. The delay used to be fine, but with the latest kernel, it's longer than 0.5 secs --- that's unusable. I believe this should be kernel-related, could you please suggest some solutions or workarounds? -- 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] Display issues with Linux 3.1
by Taylor Hedberg 13 Nov '11

13 Nov '11

Since updating to Linux 3.1 yesterday, I've been having strange problems with the display on my laptop. The first reboot after updating the kernel went normally, but every subsequent boot since then has had problems. This is a Dell Latitude D620 laptop with the following graphics-related lines in the lspci output: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) During boot, at the stage where it says "Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed", the backlight normally blinks and the display mode changes, presumably due to udev detecting my graphics hardware. Since the kernel update, the backlight still blinks off momentarily, but when it comes back on, the screen remains blank. Rather than seeing the rest of the boot messages, the display is just black (but backlit). The system still seems to boot like normal; I boot to the virtual console rather than starting X automatically, and once the hard disk activity stops after booting, I can blindly type my login credentials and issue shell commands, though I still can't see any output. Additionally, after the first reboot following the update (which did not have the aforementioned display problems), I had issues with the display backlight after starting X. If I shut the laptop lid, the backlight usually shuts off, and comes back on when I reopen it. However, after the kernel update, around 80% of the time, the backlight seemed to come back on at about a third of its usual brightness. I had to close and reopen it several times, and eventually it would come on at full power like normal. I managed to boot the system in single-user mode using the fallback initcpio image (any other combination of boot options seemed to result in the blank screen), and then downgraded the kernel back to 3.0.7. After downgrading, all of these problems seem to have disappeared. I've scanned through dmesg output and I don't really see anything out of the ordinary. But I admit that I don't really know what I'm looking for. Any thoughts or suggestions?

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[arch-general] Systemd Questions / Problem
by Eric Griffith 13 Nov '11

13 Nov '11

Hey everyone, I've been reading up on Systemd lately, trying it out in a VM just to see how the setup and everything and I've run into 1 problem, along with a few questions about it. The main question I have about it related to its "On Demand Loading" of daemons. What exactly does this mean in a desktop or server environment? Such as, if my desktop is just sitting there, no configuration done beyond just installing openssh, and I'm at my laptop and I tell it ssh root@desktop. Will systemd automatically spot the incoming ssh connection, since its watching the ssh socket, and start sshd, and then stop it again when I close the connection? Or would I still need to issue "systemctl enable sshd.service" so that sshd is permanently enabled after a reboot? Related to the above; whats the difference between 'enabled' and 'started' / 'active.' following a reboot? The reason I ask is because after I got systemd setup in the VM, and enabled network.service, i rebooted. When I got back into the VM, i tried to ping google, and it wouldn't go through. I checked the status of network.service, it said it was enabled, but "started (inactive)," So i'm confused. If its enabled, and started...why was it inactive? If we assume for a second that systemd temporarily killed the network because nothing was being done with it, then why didnt systemd restart it when it caught activity on the network from me issuing the ping command? The problem I'm having is after sym-linking /etc/systemd/system/default.target to /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target, when I reboot I get dropped into a rescue shell saying: "Failed to issue method call: Unit graphical.target is masked." Anyone able to translate that?

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[arch-general] Gnome's notification
by Carlos Alberto Ospina 12 Nov '11

12 Nov '11

Hi everybody / hola tod@s [english] some time ago that gnome notifications doesn't work, rthymboxand the integration of empathy doesn't work. Anyone have the same problem? Any suggestion? [español] hace un tiempo que las notificaciones de gnome no funcionan, rthymbox y la integracion de empathy no trabajan. Alguien tiene el mismo problema? Alguna sugerencia? Greetings / un saludo Carlos Alberto Ospina E. Linux User #506652

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[arch-general] Building coreutils
by Myra Nelson 12 Nov '11

12 Nov '11

I changed the cflags in makepkg.conf and have been rebuilding packages and have a problem building coreutils. The following is an excerpt from the check log with the appropriate line numbers. 1501 ================================ 1502 1503 Skipping test: no chinese GB18030 locale is installed 1504 1505 FAIL: test-parse-datetime (exit: 134) 1506 ================================= 1507 1508 test-parse-datetime.c:142: assertion failed 1509 1510 SKIP: test-setlocale1.sh (exit: 77) 1511 =================================== 1512 1513 Skipping test: no locale for testing is installed 1514 My current settings in makepkg.conf are: CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-all --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-all --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu" MAKEFLAGS="-j3" I run with testing repos enabled so I don't cherrypick anything, I simply rebuild my packages with the above configuration, and in 90% of the cases I manage to figure out my problems and fix them. I always assume it's something I've done my self first, then look elsewhere later. The way I get my PKGBUILDS etc is [ svn checkout --depth-empty ] then [ svn update [ pkgname ] ] then build the trunk version. If that doesn't work I try the testing repos, which I assume is the same as trunk but try it anyway. After that I search for bugs relating to the package, this time coreutils and the only thing I could find was related to ISO-8601 [ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2011-10/msg00096.html ] but wasn't sure it was directly related. This from the end of the check: 1 of 269 tests failed (25 tests were not run) See gnulib-tests/test-suite.log Please report to bug-coreutils(a)gnu.org ====================================== make[6]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1 make[6]: Leaving directory `/mnt/myra/myra/build/arch_svn/packages/coreutils/trunk/src/coreutils-8.14/gnulib-tests' make[5]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 2 make[5]: Leaving directory `/mnt/myra/myra/build/arch_svn/packages/coreutils/trunk/src/coreutils-8.14/gnulib-tests' make[4]: *** [check-am] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory `/mnt/myra/myra/build/arch_svn/packages/coreutils/trunk/src/coreutils-8.14/gnulib-tests' make[3]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/myra/myra/build/arch_svn/packages/coreutils/trunk/src/coreutils-8.14/gnulib-tests' make[2]: *** [check] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/myra/myra/build/arch_svn/packages/coreutils/trunk/src/coreutils-8.14/gnulib-tests' make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/myra/myra/build/arch_svn/packages/coreutils/trunk/src/coreutils-8.14' make: *** [check] Error 2 [1m38;5;1m==> ERROR:A failure occurred in check() [1m Aborting... This from test-parse-datetime.log FAIL: test-parse-datetime (exit: 134) ===================================== test-parse-datetime.c:142: assertion failed This from test-parse-datetime.c 136 /* ISO 8601 extended date and time of day representation, 137 'T' separator, local time zone */ 135 p = "2011-05-01T11:55:18"; 137 expected.tv_sec = 1304250918 - gmtoff; 138 expected.tv_nsec = 0; 139 ASSERT (parse_datetime (&result, p, 0)); 140 LOG (p, expected, result); 141 ASSERT (expected.tv_sec == result.tv_sec 142 && expected.tv_nsec == result.tv_nsec); After checking all these I cloned the git repo for coreutils, applied the patch files, bootstraped the build which clones the gnulib repo and builds it, then ran [ ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/coreutils \ --enable-install-program=su \ --enable-no-install-program=groups,hostname,kill,uptime \ --enable-pam CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-all --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" \ LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu" ] which duplicates the PKGBUILD and my makepkg.conf, then make -j3, then [ make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check ] and all the tests passed. I did this twice just to make sure I'd done it the same both times and achieved the same results I previously built this package as below with no problems with the following makepkg.conf [ CFLAGS="-march=amdfam10 -m64 -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu" ] [myra@gandalf ~]:pacq coreutils Name : coreutils Version : 8.14-1 URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils Licenses : GPL3 Groups : base Provides : None Depends On : glibc shadow pam acl gmp libcap Optional Deps : None Required By : ca-certificates dbus-core filesystem hwdetect initscripts linux linux-pf mkinitcpio mlocate netcfg perl pkgstats rpmextract sysvinit Conflicts With : None Replaces : mktemp Installed Size : 13860.00 KiB Packager : Myra Nelson <myra.nelson(a)hughes.net> Architecture : x86_64 Build Date : Sat 15 Oct 2011 02:07:03 AM CDT Install Date : Sat 15 Oct 2011 02:08:51 AM CDT Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package Install Script : Yes Description : The basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system Apparently something changed between know and then as my only changes were in my makepkg.conf file and I know use localepurge to remove locales that I don't use. My assumption in not having the extra locales on my machine casued the failure, but thought I would put this out there anyway to make sure. Thanks for your time and assistance. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] Bad LUN and bad target number messages during boot
by Lorenzo Bandieri 12 Nov '11

12 Nov '11

Hello archers, I'm running Arch Linux on an Acer Aspire One D257 [1]. Since last month, I've notices these messages showing up during the boot process: (from dmesg | less) [ 6.714686] Bad LUN (0:1) [ 6.715042] Bad target number (1:0) [ 6.715437] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk #I usally don't see this one [ 6.715733] Bad target number (2:0) [ 6.716020] Bad target number (3:0) [ 6.716308] Bad target number (4:0) [ 6.716594] Bad target number (5:0) [ 6.716937] Bad target number (6:0) [ 6.717225] Bad target number (7:0) Just before the aforementioned messages, I see also: (this time from less /var/log/everything.log ) [ 5.730996] acer_wmi: No or unsupported WMI interface, unable to load I don't know if these messages are connected (I don't think so) Apparently, this doesn't lead to further problems. My google searches did not return anything useful, except that others experienced similar messages; there is even one thread in the Arch Forum [2], but didn't get much attention. As far as I can see, there are no bug reports or documentation concerning messages like these. It seems something regarding SD card reader... Now, I'm wondering: - Is it a known problem? - What do these messages mean? - Can it cause problems or harm my hardware? Should I be worried? - Should I fill a bug report...? Now, some output: # ls /sys/block/ sda sdb # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 244198584 sda 8 1 104391 sda1 8 2 2048287 sda2 8 3 51207187 sda3 8 4 190836135 sda4 # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00097750 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 208844 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 208845 4305419 2048287+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 4305420 106719794 51207187+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 106719795 488392064 190836135 83 Linux # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: Hitachi HTS54322 Rev: ESBO Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: Generic- Model: xD/SD/M.S. Rev: 1.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 #cat /etc/fstab # # /etc/fstab: static file system information # # <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0 UUID=0d3cf67e-565e-495c-bac8-66dfd290b882 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1 UUID=21b920dc-54a0-43a5-9e37-e7c7e85e4cba /home ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 1 UUID=5d8f2ea7-de29-4972-a127-0ea2363d65fd swap swap defaults 0 0 UUID=784fbd71-712f-4b1f-9ea7-f2c681cdbbda / ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 1 [1] http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/LU.SFS0D.002 [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=124139 Thanks to everyone. Best regards, Lorenzo

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[arch-general] [OT, maybe] "Secure Key Generation"
by Gr., F. 12 Nov '11

12 Nov '11

Hi, I think the following is interesting: "However, this imply another problem: all the signatures made on other keys would be invalid too after the expiration of our key, unless we renew it periodically. Moreover, if we decided not to renew our old key after its expiration but to generate a new one, we would need to collect again on the new key all the signatures that other persons made on the old one." (source: <http://tjl73.altervista.org/secure_keygen/en/en.html>) In short (for who knows GPG): - create a public key -- RSA (sign only) - backup your '.gnupg' dir and keep it in a secure place - add a subkey for encryption - export your subkey - delete secret and public key - import your subkey - to modify our key we can type the command 'gpg2 --no-permission-warning --homedir <your path> --keyring ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg --secret-keyring <your path> --trustdb-name ~/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg --edit-key <keyid>' - to sign other keys 'gpg2 --no-permission-warning --homedir <your path> --keyring ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg --secret-keyring <your path> --trustdb-name ~/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg --edit-key <key imported>' That's all. :-) -- Law is mind without reason. --Aristotle

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.48-1
by Tobias Powalowski 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Latest LTS kernel is in testing, Attention: - This version uses the /lib/modules/extramodules-2.6.32-lts for self compiled modules - uname -r now reports the real kernel version, like the 3.x series does please signoff for both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] linux 3.1-4 - two i686 lockups after ~ 5 hours of operations. two x86_64 seem OK
by David C. Rankin 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

tpowa, Upgraded 5 i686 boxes and 2 x86_64 boxes to linux 3.1-4 yesterday night. This morning, one i686 server is dead, other i686 box responded to xterm (return input) and then locked (ssh connection was left up after login to confirm reboot). Two other i686 boxes (under no load) still running. The boxes are remote. I'll pull the logs when I get to the site and send. Anybody else seeing this with linux 3.1-4? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] rlocate status
by SanskritFritz 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

I saw rlocate was moved into community in 2008 and again back to aur. I remember trying it once, but could not compile it. Now it complains "configure: error: *** rlocate needs kernel 2.6 to work". What is the status of this project now, is it usable in archlinux? I find the idea very attractive.

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[arch-general] codecs/codecs64 - what's the scoop? Why the massive difference.
by David C. Rankin 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Guys, I'm trying to figure out why the i686 codecs package (rm from extra now in aur) is so massively different from the x86_64 codecs64 package in aur. The i686 package seems fine, but the x86_64 package seems to be nothing but a shadow of a package: 183164 Nov 10 00:08 codecs64-20071007-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 183k? The codecs i686 package is: 18465084 Nov 9 17:51 codecs-20110131-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz 18.4M ? I read the aur notes about the i686 and x86_64 bit versions use different upstream releases and contain completely different codecs, but I don't understand why or how this can possibly work. I have also read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Codecs which seems a bit 'tounge-in-cheek', but provides no additional information. Anybody know more? Does the x86_64 package even work? If you use these, please let me know. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.47-1
by Tobias Powalowski 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

Latest LTS kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] timezones
by Jorge Almeida 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

I have HARDWARECLOCK="UTC" TIMEZONE="right/Portugal" in /etc/rc.conf, but I'm not sure this is the right thing to do. I use clockspeed to keep the clock synchronized with a ntp server, and other sofware requires a "right/*" timezone. Anyone has any knowledge to share about this issue? For example, "date" gives output that ignores leap seconds. Is this a date issue, unrelated with rc.conf? Anyone else using a right/* timezone? TIA J.Almeida

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[arch-general] KDE panel broken after last upgrade
by Lorenzo Bandieri 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Hello archers, Last massive KDE upgrade broke my KDE desktop. In particular, after the reboot, the panel was gone. I tried to "Add Panel": Default Panel crashes Plasma Shell; Empty panel works. Then I added one by one the widget I had in my original panel (which was pretty standard). I determined that the "culprit" is task manager: when I try to add this widget, KDE crashes. Any workaround? Thanks, Lorenzo

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[arch-general] KDE: shortcut configuration broken
by Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Hi archers and KDE users, Can I have confirm of a strange behaviour in my KDE? I can't open, in KControl (the control center), the shortcut and gestures configuration dialog: when i double-click the item, KControl freezes. Sometimes the configuration center for shortcuts opens up itself after a lot of time. What's happening? Bug? Other? Enlight me please. Bl@ster

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Re: [arch-general] [signoff] cryptsetup 1.4.0-2
by Thomas Bächler 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Am 03.11.2011 19:51, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > Upstream update. > > This also adds the new (optional) options field to cryptsetup. If you > use a SSD, you can change > cryptdevice=/dev/foo:bar > to > cryptdevice=/dev/foo:bar:allow-discards > to enable discard functionality on the crypto mapping. > > In -2, I fixed a bug in "cryptsetup status" for plain volumes where the > key size would always be displayed as 0. Can anyone confirm that the i686 package works?

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[arch-general] Issues compiling Jepp
by Sergi Pons Freixes 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Hi All, I'm trying to install Jepp ( http://jepp.sourceforge.net/ ), but even after talking with the developer we cannot get it right. So, I'm gonna try asking here just in case somebody could give us some insight. I have a Linux 3.0-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500 CPU @3.30GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Using openjdk for java: openjdk6 6.b22_1.10.4-1 And Python 2.7: python2 2.7.2-2 Actually, my default Python is python 3.2.2-1, but as Jepp has not been ported to Python 3, before beginning the installation procedure I do an "export PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2", so it uses the path to the Python 2 binary (and libraries, as I can see on the logs). So, there is no problem when running autogen.sh (automake 1.11.1-2 here), and ./configure also runs ok. When doing the "make", it stalls with: ... Making all in jep make[3]: Entering directory `/home/sergi/installs/jep-2.4/src/jep' /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/include -I/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/include/linux -I/usr/include/python2.7 -g -O2 -MT jep_object.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/jep_object.Tpo -c -o jep_object.lo `test -f 'python/jep_object.c' || echo './'`python/jep_object.c mv -f .deps/jep_object.Tpo .deps/jep_object.Plo mv: cannot stat `.deps/jep_object.Tpo': No such file or directory make[3]: *** [jep_object.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/sergi/installs/jep-2.4/src/jep' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sergi/installs/jep-2.4/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sergi/installs/jep-2.4' make: *** [all] Error 2 Apart from that, I cannot glance any problem, missing dependency or warning before, so no clue of why it's not building correctly. I've also tried with other gcc versions, no luck. Mike Johnson, the developer of Jepp, pointed: "That's weird, the -MF flag is passed to the compiler and gcc should have written out that file." and "...any idea why that is. It must be a bug in autotools, you can try to upgrade them. Or you can manually make the .deps folder and an empty file for each one it complains on. The dependency files are just make rules used to regenerate just the changed objects if a source file changes. Unless you're changing stuff, it won't matter..." So... any suggestion? Regards, Sergi

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[arch-general] fluxbox with dbus session freezes.
by Javier Vasquez 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

Hi, I don't use d-bus much, since I don't use desktop environments and I tend to use light and configured things like autofs, fluxbox itself and the like. On my x86-64 machine running under arch-linux, I tried starting dbus sessions prior to executing fluxbox as follows: dbuslaunch="`which dbus-launch 2>/dev/null`" if [ -n "$dbuslaunch" ] && [ -x "$dbuslaunch" ] && [ -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ]; then eval `$dbuslaunch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session` fi exec startfluxbox When running startx, it starts OK... Problem is if I leave X to do something in the console, and the same tty where I started the X session, and come back to X, fluxbox is already frozen. I opted for not starting the dbus session, or as I work around make sure when leaving X temporally, make sure nothing is done on the same tty where X started... Has anyone experienced the same? Thanks, -- Javier.

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[arch-general] Problem automatically importing key for signed package.
by Peter Lewis 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

Hi, I've been trying to get to grips with the package signing stuff, and have just added my first signed package (choqok) to [community], but am having a problem installing it from the repo, when pacman doesn't already know about my key. I'm probably missing a step somewhere, or maybe I've found a bug, not sure. I followed the instructions on the wiki, with the slight difference that I already had a key, so just used that one. Here's the problem. After successfully building in a chroot and submitting and signing the package, all using devtools, I get this: % sudo pacman -S choqok ... error: choqok: key "22AD5874F39D989F" is unknown error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. I tried the obvious cache clearing and -Syy'ing, just to be sure, but that didn't fix it. For other people's packages, after the "key XXX unknown" message, I get the option to get it from the keyserver and add it to pacman's keyring. But I don't get that option for my own key. But: % gpg --homedir gpg-temp --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 22AD5874F39D989F gpg: requesting key F39D989F from hkp server pgp.mit.edu gpg: key E19DAA50: public key "Peter Richard Lewis <pete(a)muddygoat.org>" imported gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 And just to be sure, in my build directory: % gpg --verify choqok-1.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.sig gpg: Signature made Sat 05 Nov 2011 05:27:56 PM GMT using RSA key ID F39D989F gpg: Good signature from "Peter Richard Lewis <pete(a)muddygoat.org>" gpg: aka "Peter Richard Lewis <prlewis(a)letterboxes.org>" gpg: aka "Peter Richard Lewis <p.r.lewis(a)cs.bham.ac.uk>" gpg: aka "Peter Richard Lewis <plewis(a)aur.archlinux.org>" At first I thought that maybe pacman wouldn't support multiple UIDs, but then pacman-key -l shows up that several devs and TUs have this. Did I miss something that I should have done? Thanks, Pete.

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[arch-general] About updating /etc/shells
by Nyuszika7H 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hi, It seems that updating /etc/shells causes new shells to go after the '# End of file' comment. This doesn't seem to cause any problems, but it looks weird when you open that file. For example, if I want to install zsh: /etc/shells (before): # # /etc/shells # /bin/sh /bin/bash /bin/ksh /bin/csh /bin/dash # End of file /etc/shells (after): # # /etc/shells # /bin/sh /bin/bash /bin/ksh /bin/csh /bin/dash # End of file /bin/zsh This is only a minor issue, but it would be nice to have a workaround for it. nyuszika7h

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[arch-general] /usr/bin/ksh support should be dropped
by Nyuszika7H 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hi, I get the following warning when starting up ksh: WARNING: you should be calling ksh with /bin/ksh, not with /usr/bin/ksh. Please execute chsh to fix this. Legacy /usr/bin/ksh support will go away! $ Considering csh and tcsh were also moved to /bin/, it would be a good idea to remove the /usr/bin/ksh binary (it exists in /bin/, too). Note: I'm using zsh as my primary shell, but I installed other shells so users can use them if they wish. nyuszika7h

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[arch-general] [signoff] gettext-0.18.1.1-4
by Tobias Powalowski 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hi, signed rebuild, please signoff both arches, 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] Package signoffs page
by Lukas Fleischer 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 10:16:19AM -0500, Dan McGee wrote: > Devs, > > This seems like a good time to get the ball fully rolling on the > package signoffs page: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/ > > I and a few others would like to make this the goto for signoffs- > fewer emails, easier to see at a glance what signoffs are pending, > etc. Given we have a large set of packages in [testing] right now for > some [core] signature rebuilds, this seems like an ideal time to get > some feedback so we can fully migrate to using this page. > > So this is a call for (constructive) feedback on what more I need to > implement to make it useful to all of you. A list below is things > already on the todo list that definitely need to be done; if there are > other things that *need* to be done, please let me know. If there are > other things that would be nice, let me know too, but that might be > worth a feature request that can be worked on after we switch. > > Must haves: > * A way to cancel a signoff > * Signoff "blacklist" or modification- basically say "this package > doesn't need signoffs, just remove it from display" > * A daily summary email saying "hey gang, here are today's pending signoffs" +1. And +1 to a "red flag"/block feature to ensure packages that nuked someone's system won't be moved until this is resolved. By the way, are TUs encouraged to give their sign-offs as well or is this a dev-only thing? Oh, how will we handle user sign-offs in the future (I remember that these were asked for a few times)? Replies to the daily summary mails?

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-atm-2.5.2-1
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, bump to latest version, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] xinetd-2.3.14-8
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, signed rebuild, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.6-1
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, bump to latest version, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] sysfsutils-2.1.0-7
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, signed rebuild, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] rpcbind-0.2.0-5
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, signed rebuild, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] libusb-1.0.8-2
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, signed rebuild, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] librpcsecgss-0.19-7
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, signed rebuild, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] iputils-20101006-2
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, signed rebuild, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] isdn4k-utils-3.2p1-7
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, signed rebuild, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] hdparm-9.37-2
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, signed rebuild, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] groff-1.21-2
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, signed rebuild, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [ signoff] findutils-4.4.2-4
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, signed rebuild, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] gawk-4.0.0-2
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, signed rebuild, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] findutils-4.4.2-4
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, signed rebuild, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] cracklib-2.8.18-2
by Tobias Powalowski 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, signed rebuild, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Best way to make makepkg use pacman-color
by Alex Ferrando 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

I've been using pacman-color since a while ago (now pacman-color-testing as I'm using [testing]) and a few days ago I noticed that pacman-color is not used by makepkg. I got curious and started looking for information about a way of doing makepkg to use pacman-color instead of pacman. However the only way found is to modify the makepkg script itself, if I'm not wrong editing the line 2089: PACMAN=${PACMAN:-pacman} So now I have some questions about the right way to do this a) creating a package that conflicts with pacman because of makepkg being inside the pacman package (not very happy with this idea) b) creating a package that provides another makepkg script (lets say makepkg-color) that calls pacman-color instead of pacman c) something that I'm forgetting Any advice on this? Right now I'm only considering a package to keep track of the file and not editing the file because of ( possible ? ) troubles with updates. Alex

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[arch-general] Why not create a new repo specified for games ?
by goodmenzy＠gmail.com 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hi all, I noticed that there are some games in the community repo. Some of them has _HUGE_ data packages. Why not create a new repo for those games? That will save some bandwidth if a mirror maintainer decided to not support games. By far, not everyone play game on our ArchLinux.

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[arch-general] ALSA problems with linux-3.1
by Nyuszika7H 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hi, I upgraded to linux-3.1-2 from [testing] a few days ago (x86_64), and I had problems with ALSA. Sound was broken - KMixer treated Headphone as master, and alsamixer has changed, too. I tried everything but I couldn't get sound to work. Did anyone else have this or a similiar issue? I can't test it unfortunately, as I would have to reboot even to load a new kernel module after upgrading because of changed paths. I could test it in a VM, but the result might not be the same because of different, virtual hardware. nyuszika7h

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux 3.1-3
by Thomas Bächler 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Compared to the last release, a few bugfixes: Fix FS#19234, FS#26674, FS#25939, FS#26528 and a wrong drm error. Please sign off.

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[arch-general] permission denied on key
by Gr., F. 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hi, I've just noticed the following warning in the /var/log/boot file: " Sun Oct 23 10:35:26 2011: error: permission denied on key 'net.ipv4.conf.all.mc_forwarding' Sun Oct 23 10:35:26 2011: error: permission denied on key 'net.ipv4.conf.default.mc_forwarding' " What does it mean?

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

Hi guys, please signoff 3.1 series for both arches. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Archlinux Changes: - $(uname -r) reports now the full kernel version - all external modules should be installed in /lib/modules/extramodules-3.1-ARCH now - disabled the old IDE subsystem, marked as deprecated for quite some time All users of the old ide hook in mkinitcpio should make the transition to pata hook now! - disabled the old ACPI /proc files, marked as deprecated for quite some time, everything is available in /sys 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] [signoff] cryptsetup 1.4.0-1
by Geert Hendrickx 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

Appears to work fine, however I noticed a change in cryptsetup status output: /dev/mapper/cryptswap is active. type: PLAIN cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 - keysize: 256 bits + keysize: 0 bits device: /dev/xvda1 offset: 0 sectors size: 2097152 sectors (both on the existing crypted partition and after re-configuring it using the newer cryptsetup) Is this to be worried about? Geert -- geert.hendrickx.be :: geert(a)hendrickx.be :: PGP: 0xC4BB9E9F This e-mail was composed using 100% recycled spam messages!

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[arch-general] coping with damaging updates
by Mick 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

Following yet another update that has disabled user control of USB sticks, cameras, etc. and blocked user from shutting down from the desktop (in my case xfce4), I am at the end of my tether. Is there some way to be fore-warned of these updates coming online and avoid them or be ready with clear info on how to repair the damage they are set to create. mick

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[arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.
by Dwight Schauer 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

I've been using Arch Linux for about 4 years now. I have it on a few important systems at work and it has been doing very well. This morning I saw "/usr is not mounted. This is not supported." in my boot up after a recent rc.sysinit update. What is this, bait and switch? I've been running Linux and BSD systems since 1996 and typically always have /usr in a separate partition (as well as /var, /home/ and /tmp, but lately been using a ram /tmp). Why does /usr even exist if it can't be on a separate partition? Why not just combine /usr/lib and /lib? And /usr/bin and /bin? And /usr/sbin and /sbin? Why have the distinction at all if it can't be on separate partition? I understand that historically that /usr often use to be on different drive, and that is not really an issue nowadays. Only this year have I started not putting /usr into separate partitions because I've been making thumbdrive installs, and did not really see any benefit to making so many partitions (automatically created anyways, with a custom install script). Does this "/usr is not mounted. This is not supported." mean I'm going to have to eventually fix (dump/fix/restore) all my systems that are now currently running fine (and that I and others are depending on at my work) because Arch Linux no longer supports /usr on a different partition (due to rc.sysinit failing, not just printing an error message)? I run Arch Linux on more than 10 systems, and about 6 or 7 of those are at work (where Arch has been working out very well). I'm not looking forward to redoing all these systems that are running fine if this is where Arch is headed and rc.sysinit is not fixed to take out this new requirement. I know this a bit of a rant, but this "/usr is not mounted. This is not supported." error message is definitely not getting this day off to a good start... Definitely not wanting to give up Arch for such a simple issue.... Dwight

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[arch-general] zsh and ssh just fills my RAM, not doing anything else
by Rasmus Steinke 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

I have a very nasty problem, which started around the time, arch changed its locale configuration. i cannot use ssh in a zsh session. All it does is filling my RAM until the computer stalls. If i run the very same ssh command in a bash session, all is working fine. I tried with blank config files too - here it gets even more odd. With a blank config file it has the same problem in gnome-terminal, but suddenly works in urxvt. This is very annoying, since i dont like bash too much, but i am forced to use it now. Also i have absolute NO plan where to start searching for this issue. Regards, Rasi

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[arch-general] Error when upgrading texlive-bin-2011.1-3-i686
by Lorenzo Bandieri 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

Hi archers! On 2011-09-15 TexLive was upgraded (see [1]). Initially I had no problems, but in the following days there had been two subsequent upgrades of texlive-bin, the last of wich yesterday (or today, last time I upgraded was two days ago), that caused errors. In both cases, the error was the same: (5/5) upgrading texlive-bin [##################################################] 100% >>> texlive: updating the filename database... mktexlsr: Updating /etc/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf-dist/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Done. recreating all formats...Error: `eptex -ini -jobname=eptex -progname=eptex *eptex.ini' failed ############################################### fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully. Visit the log files in directory /var/lib/texmf/web2c for details. ################################################## This is a summary of all `failed' messages: `eptex -ini -jobname=eptex -progname=eptex *eptex.ini' failed done. (logs are under /var/lib/texmf/web2c/<engine>/<formatname>.log) Since errors were somewhat expected in non-fresh install [2], the first time I solved reinstalling everything. However, on the last texlive-bin upgrade (texlive-bin-2011.1-3-i686) the error showed up again, as I stated. To me it's odd that I have to reinstall all texlive-most and texlive-lang on every update, but on the bug report there is no workaround provided. I googled but I didn't find anything, and searching on the forum returned no hits. So, I wonder if anyone had the same problem and if there is a solution (apart from reinstalling texlive-most and texlive-lang...). Thank you! Regards, Lorenzo [1] http://www.archlinux.org/news/texlive-2011-update/ [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25250

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] linux-3.1-2
by Peter Lewis 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > >>> Archlinux Changes: > >>> - $(uname -r) reports now the full kernel version Interesting... can someone clarify what's going on with this? I was under the impression that under the new versioning scheme some versions would only have two numbers now, e.g. 3.0. Is this not the case any more and we will always have a third number? Is this an Arch specific thing or an upstream thing? (I've just been fixing some software to cope with the case when uname doesn't return a third number... perhaps that would no longer be necessary?) Thanks! Pete.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-174-1
by Myra Nelson 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 02:00, Tom Gundersen <teg(a)jklm.no> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Dave Reisner <d(a)falconindy.com> wrote: >> I'll push a new mkinitcpio this weekend to adjust for the path changes >> and the *_id helpers going away. It's not crucial as image creation >> continues to work just fine, but I'm sure there will be some noise about >> the missing file errors if I don't tag a new rel. I've also been meaning >> to get busybox 1.19.2 out, but it requires a minor change to init as >> well... > > I forgot to warn about the ERRORS for missing files. They are harmless > as you say, but a bit scary. > > When you push the next busybox could you include the init app (if it > is not already switched on). Also, what is the status of Thomas' cp -x > patch? It would be nice to have that too for the shutdown hook (and > hence the /usr hook) to finally work. > > Cheers, > > Tom > Error messages yes, but no warning about problems with the image and the image is created and boots fine. Keeping up with the mailing list makes all the difference in the world. Keep up the good work. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] Can't upgrade GCC from testing, clang requires 4.6.1
by Alex Ferrando 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

With the last push of GCC in testing, I have some kind of trouble to get pacman to update it. It seems that clang, which I'm using fro vim-clang-complete from AUR requires a fixed version of GCC ( and LLVM, but this now is not the my main concern) which makes me impossible to update GCC: error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: clang: requires gcc=4.6.1 So, my question now is if it is safe to rebuild clang without the fixed version dependencie on GCC and then upgrade. Would clang break if the GCC version is different from 4.6.1?

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[arch-general] [signoff] pam-1.1.5-1
by Tobias Powalowski 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Hi Release 1.1.5 * pam_env: Fix CVE-2011-3148 and CVE-2011-3149 * pam_access: Add hostname resolution cache * Documentation: Improvements/fixes please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Monitoring changes to [core], [extra], [community]
by Magnus Therning 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Is there some convenient way of monitoring changes to the Arch repos? The reason for asking is the work we do in ArchHaskell. Due to how ghc (the Haskell compiler) works it's necessary to re-compile and re-link a package when one of its dependencies changes. In this case "changes" includes a bump of pkgrel as well. Currently we're not trying to track any changes to the dependencies living in [extra] and [community], which means that at times packages in ArchHaskell breaks until a user notices it. Are there any tools that can help out with this? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay

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[arch-general] [signoff] pciutils-3.1.8-1
by Tobias Powalowski 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

* Released as 3.1.8. * More capabilities: Transaction Processing Hints, Latency Tolerance Reporting. Thanks to Jesse Barnes. * Added BeOS and Haiku ports. Contributed by Francois Revol. * pciutils.pc now uses Libs.private properly. * When we format a name and it does not fit in the buffer, we truncate it instead of returning "buffer too small" instead. This works on all platforms with sane (i.e., C99-compatible) snprintf(). * Various minor bug fixes. * Updated pci.ids to the today's snapshot of the database. Please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Programs Not Closing
by Squall Lionheart 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Hello, Ever since the upgrade to KDE 4.7 several weeks ago, a lot of programs seem to hang in the Task Manager after I close them. They will remain for a long time or until I open another application. I also have an occasional application crash when I shutdown. Unfortunately, the crash message tells me nothing of what program is crashing and I'm not sure if it's related. My question for everyone is regarding the programs hanging around since it's a regular thing and is most likely the cause of the latter. Is this a common thing or do I have some conflict somewhere, or a service that isn't happy? I run pacman -Suy almost daily and use Firefox, Thunderbird, Kopete, Yakuake, VirtualBox, Terminal, Kwrite, and BOINC on a regular bases. I put my system to sleep nightly and shutdown at the end of the week. DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus network !netfs crond alsa @cupsd @boinc @samba). I hope that's enough info. Thank you -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual

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Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.
by Leif Warner 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

So a convention continuously in use longer than I've been alive is dropped, and the notification for this is tucked in the init script that you get to see on your next (broken) reboot? I had just partioned and set up an Arch system with seperate /usr, /var, /tmp, and /home partitions, as always, last week. A little heads-up might've been nice. At the very least, a message in the .install script to get notified on upgrade would be helpful. And yes, things are more broken than before: minilogd was moved from /sbin to /usr/sbin. Any other changes that drop boot support coming down I should know about? -Leif

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[arch-general] update
by Carlos Alberto Ospina 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

hi everyones!! cuando corro pacman -Syu se demora muchisimo, todo esto despues de actualizar gnome 3.2. Rhytmbox tampoco me corre. somebody know when i update, its very slowly. Rhytmbox doesnt work too. All this after upgrading gnome 3.2. un saludo a tod@s -- Carlos Alberto Ospina E. Linux User #506652

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[arch-general] no ACPI estimate in powertop with latest kernels
by Neal Haslam 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Hello everyone, Powertop reports "no ACPI power usage estimate available" with x86_64 kernels 3.0.6-1 and 3.0.6-2. Downgrading to kernel 3.0.4-1 restored power estimates. Older kernels had always worked in the past. Processor is Intel i3, quad core, in a ThinkPad Edge 14 running Gnome 3.2 fully upgraded daily. -- Neal

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[arch-general] See the llvm volumes from GRUB console
by Alfredo Palhares 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Hello, I upgarded a remote machine recently. And i got loocked out of the system. I still have acess to the machine trough serial console (KVM). Is there any way to list the lvm volumes from there ? Since my /dev/mapper/Root-root doesn't work. -- Regards, Alfredo Palhares

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[arch-general] Pacman makepkg and signatures
by Myra Nelson 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Since I don't listen in on irc conversations and haven't picked up on this being discussed on the mailing list, I thought I would go ahead and ask a seemingly dumb question. When building a pacakge from core, extra, or community with makepkg should I locate the signature key for the source tarball and import it into the pacman-key database, or will there be a mechanism for this in the future, or since the same package is used by the devs is it completely unnecessry for me to worry about? Obviously the build completes after issuing the warning about a problem with signature verification and being sure you trust the package so it's not a problem, I'm just trying to stay ahead of the curve. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] Discussion on usage of [testing] repo - minimal requirements?
by Oon-Ee Ng 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Testing#.5Btesting.5D states the following (paraphrased for summary):- [testing] is for experienced users who can deal with broken systems, not for the 'absolute latest' package versions. It may break critical/[core] packages, as such users are strongly encouraged to subscribe to [arch-dev-public] and watch the [testing] sub-forum. Second reference - this forum thread - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=128682 A user basically is using [testing] without fulfilling the above requirements. Should the user be advised not to use [testing] or is this counter-productive to the purpose of [testing]? This discussion is not meant to be commentary on any of the personalities involved in the thread, the thread did spark this but I'd like to hear (esp from devs/TUs) opinions on the general case, not the specific case. The reason for this is that its possible there's quite a bit of difference in opinions, and some clarity would (IMO) help. My personal opinion - If you don't fulfil the above requirement you should not use [testing], and other Arch users should graciously inform you as such. Sorry for the long email, feel free to mute this thread, since I do know its got high potential for unproductive cross-chatter.

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[arch-general] Quiet Updates Lately
by Steve Holmes 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

I've been doing 'pacman -Syu' for several days in a row lately to see no updates. Is bibleo.org still a good repo in the US? Is aArch all that quiet lately or am I missing something?

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[arch-general] Forums down
by Erwin José Lopez Pulgarin 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Greetings Just to communicate that the archlinux forum pages are all down for the time being, I guess you already know that but just wanting to make sure in case you didn't.

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[arch-general] Wiki & forum down?
by Taylor Hedberg 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Apologies if I've missed something obvious, but both the wiki and forum seem to have been down for at least a few hours now (I think they are located on the same host). Does anyone know what the situation is?

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[arch-general] Proposal: Translate extension for the wiki
by atilla ontas 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Hi. I'm trying to translate some articles into Turkish. While looking to the net, i've found a wiki extension named Translate extension. Advantages of this extension as well as the contact information of authors can be found here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate Features include: In-wiki localisation, proofreading and exporting of software interface messages (or just about anything) AJAX enabled web-based translation in supported browsers, as well as gettext based export and import for off-line translation. Structured content page translation using the same system as interface translation. Various aids to make the job of translators easier: Display of translations in globally defined other languages, optionally expanded with user defined languages Collaborative editing of documentation of the use and context of messages Translation memory and machine translation with external tools (tmserver, Google Translate, Apertium) Display of the latest change in the source message Warnings about common mistakes like parameters that are not used. Pre-made modules for various open source products you can use as an example. A versatile plug-in system to make it easy to add new projects as a message group. Various statistics (requires PHPlot for graphics) Translation completion percentages for all message groups in all supported languages Daily updates of completion percentages in all supported languages for any supported message group (if configured). Tool for making activity graphs for spans of time. Can display either number of edits or active users daily or hourly and includes many filters. A more detailed manual for the Translate extension is available at translatewiki.net. This extension can significantly ease up maintenance of the translations with no additional efforts to sync translations with original (automatic synchronization). Also it give us a chance to have "separate wiki for each language" without loosing untranslated information, besides it may eliminate English_Title (Language) weirdness. I think, exporting wiki pages to gnu gettext catalogs format should boosts translations may be using transifex or pootle with wider contributions. I can't find information about this extension in the forums if it have been discussed before. Also i'm just a humble contributor so i don't know if it can be implemented. What do you think about this?

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Re: [arch-general] System Cron jobs not running
by Jason Towell 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Hi Alex, I think in a default configuration crond handles hourly and runs anacron to handle the daily, weekly, etc. I was having trouble running a daily until I realized my cron.daily shell script environment path did not include /usr/local/bin. Placing the full path to my perl script fixed the issue. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Ferrando" <alferpal(a)gmail.com> To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 9:05:56 AM Subject: Re: [arch-general] System Cron jobs not running Maybe I'm getting it wrong, but is dcron the one that runs the cron.hourly/daily and so on folders as the crontab in the wiki with reference to that default crontab for dcron, not cronie On Fri 21 Oct 2011 05:55:33 PM CEST, R7h0re4 wrote: > Karol Blazewicz<karol.blazewicz(a)gmail.com> writes: > >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:54 AM, R7h0re4<r7h0re4(a)att.net> wrote: >>> >>> I made a custom script that I want to put into the weekly system cron >>> job and according to my logs the script is not running weekly like it >>> should. >>> >>> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 87 Aug 4 13:39 cool_script.sh >>> >>> According to my information the permission are correct as only root >>> should be able to run system cron jobs. >>> >>> This is the only thing I have seen in my logs. >>> >>> Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Anacron started on 2011-10-20 >>> Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Job `cron.weekly' locked by another an >>> acron - skipping >>> Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 12 min. >>> Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Jobs will be executed sequentially >>> Oct 20 03:02:01 localhost anacron[14151]: Job `cron.weekly' started >>> Oct 20 03:02:02 localhost anacron[14151]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated >>> Oct 20 03:02:02 localhost anacron[14151]: Normal exit (1 job run) >>> Oct 20 03:13:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Job `cron.daily' started >>> Oct 20 03:13:55 localhost anacron[14161]: Job `cron.daily' terminated >>> Oct 20 03:13:55 localhost anacron[14161]: Normal exit (1 job run) >>> >>> I do not have Anacron installed, and my script does not run weekly like >>> it is supposed too, I would like fix this problem. >>> >>> Any suggestions are welcome! >>> >>> R7h0re4 >>> >>> >> >> Are you using cronie, dcron or some other cron? cronie provides anacron. > > I do have Cronie installed but I am still wondering why the script won't > run if put in the weekly cron folder. My understanding is the > documentation is a little week concerning this topic on the Wiki. Do I > need to fill a bug report, or is something out of place. > > R7h0re4 > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and contain information that may be confidential and/or legally privileged. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete the message. Any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this communication by someone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio-0.7.5, mkinitcpio-busybox-1.19.2
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

On 10/23/2011 05:12 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > Hi all, > > I've tagged and rolled mkinitcpio 0.7.5 which is mostly more minor > fixes. Ideally, this is the last release of the 0.7.x series before I > start doing some more serious work. Shortlog is small and found below. > > I've also rolled up a new busybox package to go with it. I've tested > this new combo a variety of setups. > > Dave Reisner (11): > init: refer to busybox by full path on --install > move manpage to section 8 > mkinitcpio: avoid stomping on TMPDIR from the environment (FS#26373) > mkinitcpio: ensure get_kernver always returns a kver > install/pcmcia: fix syntax error (missing&&) (FS#26427) > manpage: correct section number in manpage header > install/udev: relocate udevd for udev 174 > install/base: include new_root as part of build process > init_functions: tighten up mount option gathering > init_functions: replace grep/sed with PEs > init_functions: avoid setting var without LHS > > > Please signoff both architectures. > > Regards, > Dave > > sign-off i686 for archiso. builds/boot OK, shutdown with deinitramfs is working now (Many thanks), so persistense is now working. -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1

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[arch-general] Arch and Gnome 3problems
by Christian 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Hi all on this list, First, I really apologize if this is off list, but I had trouble registering on the forum's. But OK, now to my problem. I used Gnome in the passed, v2.30 with no issues and I had to do a reinstall of my system and now I am running the latest Arch. However, Gnome seems to be working fine, I think, but I am having problems when I try to use Orca, the screen reader for Gnome. I am visually impaired so I rely on speech and or braille. Here is a short summery of what I did after the installation of Arch was complete I added my user and added it to some of the groups, like audio,video,storage,optical, etc. Then, I did: pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-utils xorg-server-utils pacman -S xf86-video-ati pacman -S gnome gnome-extra pacman -S xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse rc.d start dbus pacman -R gnome-shell gnome-screensaver /etc/rc.d/gdm start Isn't this correct for getting Gnome up and running? Many thanks for any help, Christian

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[arch-general] udevd related warning after initscripts update
by Mauro Santos 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

After the latest initscripts update I get a warning (?) from udevd (?) when shutting down, it goes like this: ... Deactivating Swap [Done] Sending SIGTERM to processes [Busy] udevd[pid]: 'udisks-part-id /dev/sda2' [pid] terminated by signal 15 (terminated) [Done] Saving random seed [Done] ... In my case sda2 is the swap partition, nothing seems to break as swap still gets enabled when the machine boots but I was wondering if this is expected and if this might cause trouble for some corner case. -- Mauro Santos

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[arch-general] What's wrong with the xorg-apps packages group?
by Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Hi, With the command `pacman -Qm' it shows me `xorg-apps' as a foreign package, but this doesn't happen with other groups I have installed like `texlive-lang'. What makes different to `xorg-apps'? Just curious... Regards -- Ricardo (http://r.untroubled.be/)

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[arch-general] Is /etc/locale.conf optional in the last upgrade?
by Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

I did a system upgrade. So /etc/locale.conf is optional, right? I just create it if necessary, but it is not created by default, isn't it? And if I understand correctly, LOCALE is been used as always from /etc/rc.conf if /etc/locale.conf doesn't exist, does it? Thanks in advance, regards. -- Ricardo (http://r.untroubled.be/)

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[arch-general] arch4ec2 - EC2 AMI bootstrapping scripts
by Peter Schuller 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Hi, I have scripted from-scratch bootstrapping of EC2 AMI:s for Arch: https://github.com/scode/arch4ec2 Feedback appreciated. It was originally based on https://github.com/yejun/ec2build Currently it's only tested on 32 bit and I have only created a pre-bootstrapped image in the eu-west-1 region. I figure better to wait for some initial feedback before creating images for all the permutations. -- / Peter Schuller (@scode, http://worldmodscode.wordpress.com)

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[arch-general] syslog-ng ignores filter boolean logic
by Leonid Isaev 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

Hi, I just updated syslog-ng 3.2 -> 3.3 and noticed that my iptables logs go into every possible logfile, i.e. /var/log/{messages,kernel,iptables}.log. This is despite the fact that syslog-ng.conf contains lines like: filter f_kernel { facility(kern) and not filter(f_iptables); }; I tried modifying the rules in filter f_iptables() and moving this filter before f_kernel and f_messages (by default it is after), but still get firewall logs everywhere :( Does anyone have this problem? 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] problem with qingy - broken after logout
by J. Bakshi 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

Dear list, I have come from the debian world. I am a debian user and stick to the light-weight applications since beginning. I have found arch wiki/tutorial etc... are extremely knowledge based.. hence I have joined the list to gain my knowledge and experience and also to get help on some critical issues. I am using quingy as a framebuffer login manager. It runs well. But when I logout from the console; the qingy comes back with a complete broken look.. where no input is possible. qingy has some resolution issue which I have fixed by editing /etc/directfbrc with the following `````````````` mode=1024x768-76 depth=32 `````````````` But still suffering with this broken qingy after logout. Has anyone have any clue to fix it ? Thanks

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[arch-general] Samba: Access Denied
by Eric Griffith 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

So I'm trying to figure out why Samba won't allow me to share the folder: /home/admin/data on my home server; but it will share: /home/ just fine. /home/admin/data is chmodd'ed 777 because its gonna be the 'public share' folder with nothing personal in it, the user is admin, the group is users. Whenever I try to access the folder from my laptop TO the server; I get "Access Denied" Relevant SMB.conf section: [Public] path = /home/admin/data/ available= yes browsable = yes public = yes writable = yes create mask = 0777 guest ok = yes [admin@server ~]$ ls -l total 12 drwxrwxrwx 2 admin users 4096 Oct 21 13:09 data drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 21 12:58 ftp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 21 13:49 http [admin@server ~]$ Just incase this is the issue: the permissions on /home/admin (the admin folder specifically) are [admin@server home]$ ls -l total 4 drwx------ 5 admin users 4096 Oct 21 13:53 admin [admin@server home]$ So could the problem be that /home/admin's permissions wont allow me to share a subfolder, even though the subfolder's permissions are fine? If so; what would be an okay permission setup to use for /home/admin so that I CAN share /home/admin/data, without letting everyone have access to my overall /home? The reason im doing Samba instead of NFS is because there's windows machines on the network as well

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[arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal
by Philipp 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

Hi there, I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It works fine for a while but after a couple of minutes I get disconnected and need to reconnect manually. I think that happens pretty regularly, so I assume that some kind of connection renewal doesn't work for some reason. Any idea what could be wrong, how to fix it or how to reconnect automatically? Regards, Philipp

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[arch-general] System Cron jobs not running
by R7h0re4 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

I made a custom script that I want to put into the weekly system cron job and according to my logs the script is not running weekly like it should. -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 87 Aug 4 13:39 cool_script.sh According to my information the permission are correct as only root should be able to run system cron jobs. This is the only thing I have seen in my logs. Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Anacron started on 2011-10-20 Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Job `cron.weekly' locked by another an acron - skipping Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 12 min. Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Jobs will be executed sequentially Oct 20 03:02:01 localhost anacron[14151]: Job `cron.weekly' started Oct 20 03:02:02 localhost anacron[14151]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated Oct 20 03:02:02 localhost anacron[14151]: Normal exit (1 job run) Oct 20 03:13:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Job `cron.daily' started Oct 20 03:13:55 localhost anacron[14161]: Job `cron.daily' terminated Oct 20 03:13:55 localhost anacron[14161]: Normal exit (1 job run) I do not have Anacron installed, and my script does not run weekly like it is supposed too, I would like fix this problem. Any suggestions are welcome! R7h0re4

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[arch-general] Problem with pgp & pacman 4.x (testing)
by Stefano Z. 20 Oct '11

20 Oct '11

Hello, i'm having problem with latest updates, http://pastebin.com/b5e5mUbn after i've done pacman-key --init (after i've installed the new pacman 4.x), i receive also those errors, what is the problem ? Sorry for my english & newbe :) thanks

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[arch-general] agetty doesn't take effect on keys like M-! or C-?
by 清显 20 Oct '11

20 Oct '11

and any other keys which need to press the Shift as well as Meta or Ctrl at the same time. not sure if that's a problem with agetty, or perhaps some setting problem somewhere else. does anybody knows the reason why this happen, or how to solve that problem? P.S: it's working well when using xterm.

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.0.7-1
by Tobias Powalowski 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Forums search interval
by Heiko Baums 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

In the forums https://bbs.archlinux.org it's only possible to run one search within 60 seconds (1 minute). This is very annoying if someone has a problem, a search term doesn't give a search result, and a new search with a different search term has to be done. So, could this interval, please, considerably be reduced? A suitable interval would be 10 or 15 seconds. There's also a bug report since more than 8 months now: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22739 It would really be nice if this could be fixed soon. I don't need the forums and its search function so many times, but if I need it I need to do more than one search in a short interval. Heiko

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[arch-general] Problems with pacman 4.0.0-2
by Timothée Ravier 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

Hi, I'm using pacman from testing and I ran into some troubles. I set "SigLevel = Optional TrustAll" in pacman.conf, but I'm still getting a lot of warnings even after I add the keys to the repo. It also takes an ENORMOUS amount of time to do I don't know what right after checking packages integrity, and then fails with : "invalid package or corrupt signature" _without_ telling me which package had a problem. As a workaround, I'm using "SigLevel =Never", but well, this isn't the solution. It "fixes" both the performance issue & the signing (as expected). I tried using an other mirror, hoping that was only a temporary corruption, but this isn't. I attached a sample pacman output log. As for performance concerns, I'm using an intel quad core cpu, with 8Go ram, and pacman doesn't seem to use any ressource at all. It looks like it's the gpg-agent command launched by pacman that takes all this time to complete (and fail in the end ?). I don't have a clue what it is doing, because that's why I used "Optional TrustAll" in the first place. I got three Arch box which are affected by this problem (on different networks, if it matters for gpg-agent). Any ideas are welcome. This could be unrelated to pacman itself. Tim

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[arch-general] Pacman 4 XferCommand and 404 errors
by Alex Ferrando 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

Using an XferCommand in pacman.conf causes a bunch of 404 errors while downloading databases complaining about testing/core/extra.db.sig not found, but it doesn't do the same if it's using the default download method without an XferCommand. An example of that: :: Synchronising package databases... --2011-10-17 20:36:18-- http://mirror.devnu11.net/archlinux/testing/os/x86_64/testing.db Resolving mirror.devnu11.net... 78.46.68.28 Connecting to mirror.devnu11.net|78.46.68.28|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 35855 (35K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `/var/lib/pacman/sync/testing.db.part' 100%[========================================================================================================================================================>] 35,855 197K/s in 0.2s 2011-10-17 20:36:18 (197 KB/s) - `/var/lib/pacman/sync/testing.db.part' saved [35855/35855] --2011-10-17 20:36:18-- http://mirror.devnu11.net/archlinux/testing/os/x86_64/testing.db.sig Resolving mirror.devnu11.net... 78.46.68.28 Connecting to mirror.devnu11.net|78.46.68.28|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2011-10-17 20:36:18 ERROR 404: Not Found. A more complete example in [1] Found similar troubles with curl or aria2, and as said before nothing without XferCommands. It might seem quite obvious because the files that the downloaders complain about doesn't exist in the mirrors. However, this seems odd to me and after searching the ML and BBS I found nothing about it. [1] http://pastie.org/2713149

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[arch-general] Libreoffice in [testing] older than the [extra] one
by Alex Ferrando 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

I've configured pacman to use [testing] this morning with the intention of trying pacman 4.0 (so far without troubles after reading a few topics on the BBS and ML) but I've noticed something "weird" after the second update, the one after pacman. Libreoffice from testing seems a build behind: testing/libreoffice-common 3.4.3-3 (libreoffice) [installed] common files for LibreOffice - a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites extra/libreoffice-common 3.4.3-4 (libreoffice) [installed: 3.4.3-3] common files for LibreOffice - a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites I've checked with the packages' page and also shows the same. [1] Is this done intentionally or is some kind of mistake? [1] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=libreoffice+&maintainer=&last_up…

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[arch-general] A question about installing Arch
by Christian 16 Oct '11

16 Oct '11

Hi all, I just have a question and I really need to install Arch. Unfortunatly, I only have the 2010-05 release CD here and I am not able to burn the new one. Is it correct that it will not be able to download the system and install it? If not, are there any other ways for me to get this installed? Many thanks for any help, Christian

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[arch-general] [signoff] kbd-1.15.3-2
by Tobias Powalowski 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

Hi, added fix for colemak keyboard layout, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] How to setup Xorg on VirtualBox?
by Croco 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

I am a newbie of ArchLinux. I have installed Arch on VirtualBox (Running on windows 7), but unable to startx, does anyone know some instructions about this?

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[arch-general] OpenVAS in AUR not compiling
by Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

Hello guys, I require you to test some stuff. Trying to compile OpenVAS, I get Error 2 or some other things. Now I ask, it's my fault or...? Let me know if openvas-libraries in AUR builds fine for you ;) -- Bl@ster / dottorblaster

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[arch-general] cannot generate enough entropy for pacman-key --init
by Alper Kanat 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

Hey There, I have an Arch Linux box inside Virtualbox on a Mac that I use for development purposes. I connect to this machine via SSH without any visual interface. It's on [testing] and just upgraded to pacman 4.0 and after installation it asked me to run pacman-key --init to generate the necessary keys for my system. I did all of these inside GNU Screen (also tried without it without any luck): $ sudo pacman-key --init gpg: Generating pacman keychain master key... Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 300 more bytes) I pressed random bits with the keyboard but it didn't work so I fired up another window inside screen and did cat /dev/urandom > /dev/null but that also didn't work. So I found this [1] article and tried it again without any luck. So I'm basically stuck here. Can someone please help me? Since pacman is bricked, I can't also install anything. Now I have to manually downgrade pacman if I can't succeed. Thanks! [1] http://www.thingy-ma-jig.co.uk/blog/22-01-2010/generate-entropy-gnupg --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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[arch-general] VirtualBox not running properly
by Madhurya Kakati 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

Hi, I installed Virtual/box from the official repos. However when I try to run a Virtual OS it gives me the following error. http://i.imgur.com/sBzl4.png I followed all the instructions after installing it.

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[arch-general] How to setup Xorg on VirtualBox?
by Jason 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

I am a newbie of ArchLinux. I have installed Arch on VirtualBox (Running on windows 7), but unable to startx, does anyone know some instructions about this?

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[arch-general] Problems with .install file and pacman 4.0
by fredbezies 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Hello. I don't have any powers to post on arch-dev-public, so I'm writing here. Since I upgraded to pacman 4.0 (and building tools related to pacman 4.0), some packages which have both an install file and a name like something-git won't build. For example, if I try to build vlc-git, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16084, I cannot get it build until I comment install=() line : [fred@fredo-arch vlc-git]$ makepkg ==> ERROR : install file (('vlc-git.install')) doesn't exist But a little ls tells me : [fred@fredo-arch vlc-git]$ ls PKGBUILD vlc-git.install Known bug ? install file line in this package : install=('vlc-git.install') I can see the same for a package I try to maintain, kvm-git : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22041 Any ideas ? -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] Yaourt and pacman 4.0
by fredbezies 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

A little tip for yaourt users having problem with pacman 4.0 in testing. You will have to build both package-query-git and yaourt-git. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35478 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18676 -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] In reply to [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 4.0.0-2
by Karol Blazewicz 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > I see my text was probably hard to read, but it was not about some > packages not being updated for pacman 4.0 yet but a possible bug (or > two) in pacman itself. > > -- > Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre > Same thing happened when I installed yaourt: [2011-10-14 14:36] Running 'pacman -S yaourt' [2011-10-14 14:36] warning: /etc/pacman.conf installed as /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew [2011-10-14 14:36] warning: /etc/makepkg.conf installed as /etc/makepkg.conf.pacnew [2011-10-14 14:36] upgraded pacman (4.0.0-2 -> 3.5.4-4) [2011-10-14 14:36] installed package-query (0.9-1) [2011-10-14 14:36] installed yaourt (0.10.2-1) Now when I want to upgrade to pacman 4 it behaves as expected: resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: package-query: requires pacman<3.6

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[arch-general] pacman 4.0.0 signing
by Sander Jansen 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

After upgrading to the new pacman 4.0, the system update following fails due a lot of untrusted signatures (unknown trust error). I'm guessing we need to verify we really trust these signatures. I've found this guide regarding validating gpg keys: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/pgp-validating.html. I assume this will be a lot similar, except using the pacman-key frontend to do the verification. So let me step through and see if understand correctly: All the developers keys seem to be published here: http://www.archlinux.org/developers/ and http://www.archlinux.org/trustedusers So to trust Andrea Scarpino's key I would get the pgp key from the above webpage (PGP Key: 0xD30DB0AD) and finger it: pacman-key --finger 0xD30DB0AD then compare the finger print with the one thats linked to his profile: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&fingerprint=on&exact=on&searc… It seems to match, so there is a good chance it's the real deal, so now I can locally sign it: pacman-key --lsign-key 0xD30DB0AD Correct? In examples of the article also marks the key as trusted. Would that be a good idea? We have to do this for each and every Arch developer I guess? Is there a faster way? Sander

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 4.0.0-2
by Oon-Ee Ng 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Rémy Oudompheng <remy(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On 2011/10/13 Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: >> Am 13.10.2011 20:22, schrieb Dan McGee: >>> The most anticipated release EVER has landed in [testing]. Do I expect >>> it to make it out before we need a 4.0.1? Not really. :) >>> >>> Upstream NEWS/changes: >>> http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/NEWS?h=maint >>> Disregard the 4.0.1 stuff that isn't in this package yet and hasn't >>> been actually released. >>> >>> Questions? Concerns? Comments? >> >> Big thanks to everybody involved with this great release. About that >> issue I am not supposed to talk here I'll send a mail tomorrow. :-) >> >> Good thing you moved this into testing so there are no excuses not to >> test the new pacman. Do you know if porting pyalpm will be easy or is >> already done? Would be beter to have this sorted out before moving 4.0 >> to core. (pyalpm is needed by namcap) I also need to have a look at this >> code: >> https://projects.archlinux.org/dbscripts.git/tree/cron-jobs/check_archlinux >> But should be easy enough to port if even necessary. > > I've followed pacman API changes in pyalpm's trunk all along and will > do the appropriate release asap. > > Rémy. > Something to note, even though pyalpm is updated to support pacman 4.0 some user intervention would be required, since they'd get this error on upgrade if they answer Y to the question below:- :: 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... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: pyalpm: requires pacman<3.6 Don't think there's a way to deal with that though, either the user answers 'n' or upgrades pacman with -d? Both are manual-intervention-required =)

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[arch-general] wintv-hvr 850 (hybrid) not detecting any signal.
by Javier Vasquez 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Hi, I'm not able to get my wintv-hvr 850 to work. It fails to find signal in both x86-32 and x86-64 machines... Some of the things I get (dmesg): [ 143.746636] cx231xx v4l2 driver loaded. [ 143.746862] cx231xx #0: New device Hauppauge Hauppauge Device @ 480 Mbps (2040:b140) with 6 interfaces [ 143.746865] cx231xx #0: registering interface 1 [ 143.747068] cx231xx #0: Identified as Hauppauge EXETER (card=8) [ 143.747189] IR RC5(x) protocol handler initialized [ 143.761855] IR RC6 protocol handler initialized [ 143.763836] IR JVC protocol handler initialized [ 143.767621] IR Sony protocol handler initialized [ 143.772576] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 249 [ 143.778304] IR LIRC bridge handler initialized [ 143.911324] cx231xx #0: cx231xx_dif_set_standard: setStandard to ffffffff [ 143.933691] cx25840 3-0044: cx23102 A/V decoder found @ 0x88 (cx231xx #0) [ 143.951787] cx25840 3-0044: Firmware download size changed to 16 bytes max length [ 145.954902] cx25840 3-0044: loaded v4l-cx231xx-avcore-01.fw firmware (16382 bytes) [ 146.002106] i2c-core: driver [tuner] using legacy suspend method [ 146.002109] i2c-core: driver [tuner] using legacy resume method [ 146.039520] All bytes are equal. It is not a TEA5767 [ 146.039526] tuner 4-0060: Tuner -1 found with type(s) Radio TV. [ 146.058870] tda18271 4-0060: creating new instance [ 146.061146] Unknown device (0) detected @ 4-0060, device not supported. [ 146.061149] tda18271_attach: [4-0060|M] error -22 on line 1275 [ 146.061152] tda18271 4-0060: destroying instance [ 146.066665] tuner 4-0060: Tuner has no way to set tv freq [ 146.067769] cx231xx #0: cx231xx #0: v4l2 driver version 0.0.1 [ 146.081785] cx231xx #0: cx231xx_dif_set_standard: setStandard to b000 [ 146.155662] cx231xx #0: video_mux : 0 [ 146.155670] cx231xx #0: do_mode_ctrl_overrides : 0xb000 [ 146.156407] cx231xx #0: do_mode_ctrl_overrides NTSC [ 146.163080] cx231xx #0: cx231xx #0/0: registered device video0 [v4l2] [ 146.163173] cx231xx #0: cx231xx #0/0: registered device vbi0 [ 146.163179] cx231xx #0: V4L2 device registered as video0 and vbi0 [ 146.163188] cx231xx #0: EndPoint Addr 0x84, Alternate settings: 5 [ 146.163194] cx231xx #0: Alternate setting 0, max size= 512 [ 146.163200] cx231xx #0: Alternate setting 1, max size= 184 [ 146.163205] cx231xx #0: Alternate setting 2, max size= 728 [ 146.163211] cx231xx #0: Alternate setting 3, max size= 2892 [ 146.163217] cx231xx #0: Alternate setting 4, max size= 1800 [ 146.163224] cx231xx #0: EndPoint Addr 0x85, Alternate settings: 2 [ 146.163230] cx231xx #0: Alternate setting 0, max size= 512 [ 146.163235] cx231xx #0: Alternate setting 1, max size= 512 [ 146.163241] cx231xx #0: EndPoint Addr 0x86, Alternate settings: 2 [ 146.163247] cx231xx #0: Alternate setting 0, max size= 512 [ 146.163252] cx231xx #0: Alternate setting 1, max size= 576 [ 146.163258] cx231xx #0: EndPoint Addr 0x81, Alternate settings: 6 [ 146.163264] cx231xx #0: Alternate setting 0, max size= 512 [ 146.163269] cx231xx #0: Alternate setting 1, max size= 64 [ 146.163274] cx231xx #0: Alternate setting 2, max size= 128 [ 146.163280] cx231xx #0: Alternate setting 3, max size= 316 [ 146.163285] cx231xx #0: Alternate setting 4, max size= 712 [ 146.163291] cx231xx #0: Alternate setting 5, max size= 1424 [ 146.163452] usbcore: registered new interface driver cx231xx [ 146.171942] cx231xx #0: cx231xxcx231xx: called cx231xx_uninit_vbi_isoc [ 146.171947] cx231xx #0: cx231xx_stop_stream():: ep_mask = 10 [ 146.172279] cx231xx #0: cx231xx_stop_stream():: ep_mask = 8 [ 146.183690] cx231xx #0: cx231xx-audio.c: probing for cx231xx non standard usbaudio [ 146.183955] cx231xx #0: EndPoint Addr 0x83, Alternate settings: 3 [ 146.183957] cx231xx #0: Alternate setting 0, max size= 512 [ 146.183960] cx231xx #0: Alternate setting 1, max size= 28 [ 146.183962] cx231xx #0: Alternate setting 2, max size= 52 [ 146.183964] cx231xx: Cx231xx Audio Extension initialized [ 146.193525] cx231xx #0: Changing the i2c master port to 1 [ 146.316797] dvb_init: looking for tuner / demod on i2c bus: 4 [ 146.336561] tda18271 4-0060: creating new instance [ 146.338672] TDA18271HD/C2 detected @ 4-0060 [ 146.338800] cx231xx #0: UsbInterface::sendCommand, failed with status --32 [ 146.338811] tda18271_write_regs: [4-0060|M] ERROR: idx = 0x0, len = 39, i2c_transfer returned: -32 [ 146.537690] DVB: registering new adapter (cx231xx #0) [ 146.537703] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (LG Electronics LGDT3305 VSB/QAM Frontend)... [ 146.538628] Successfully loaded cx231xx-dvb [ 146.539056] cx231xx: Cx231xx dvb Extension initialized [ 205.380044] cx231xx #0: Reloading firmware for XC5000 [ 205.382731] cx231xx #0: UsbInterface::sendCommand, failed with status --32 [ 205.382736] tda18271_write_regs: [4-0060|M] ERROR: idx = 0x0, len = 39, i2c_transfer returned: -32 [ 205.584115] tda18271: performing RF tracking filter calibration [ 207.151305] tda18271: RF tracking filter calibration complete [ 207.151310] cx231xx #0: XC5000 firmware download completed [ 207.181681] cx231xx #0: cx231xx_dif_set_standard: setStandard to b000 [ 207.255567] cx231xx #0: video_mux : 0 [ 207.255569] cx231xx #0: do_mode_ctrl_overrides : 0xb000 [ 207.256316] cx231xx #0: do_mode_ctrl_overrides NTSC [ 207.280078] tuner 4-0060: Tuner has no way to set tv freq [ 207.280105] cx231xx #0: vidioc_s_std : 0x1000 [ 207.297331] tuner 4-0060: Tuner has no way to set tv freq [ 207.302954] cx231xx #0: do_mode_ctrl_overrides : 0x1000 [ 207.303702] cx231xx #0: do_mode_ctrl_overrides NTSC [ 207.317904] cx231xx #0: cx231xx_stop_stream():: ep_mask = 8 [ 207.319284] cx231xx #0: cx231xx_initialize_stream_xfer: set video registers [ 207.319577] cx231xx #0: cx231xx_start_stream():: ep_mask = 8 [ 207.338332] cx231xx #0: cx231xx_dif_set_standard: setStandard to 1000 [ 207.414696] cx231xx #0: video_mux : 0 [ 207.414702] cx231xx #0: do_mode_ctrl_overrides : 0x1000 [ 207.415440] cx231xx #0: do_mode_ctrl_overrides NTSC [ 207.421954] tuner 4-0060: Tuner has no way to set tv freq [ 207.421969] cx231xx #0: vidioc_s_std : 0x1000 [ 207.421971] tuner 4-0060: Tuner has no way to set tv freq [ 207.427577] cx231xx #0: do_mode_ctrl_overrides : 0x1000 [ 207.428312] cx231xx #0: do_mode_ctrl_overrides NTSC [ 207.507462] cx231xx #0: Enter vidioc_s_frequency()f->frequency=2900;f->type=2 [ 207.515705] tuner 4-0060: Tuner has no way to set tv freq [ 207.515708] cx231xx #0: cx231xx_tuner_post_channel_change dev->tuner_type =083 [ 207.517325] cx231xx #0: if_frequency is set to 5400000 [ 207.517328] cx231xx #0: Enter cx231xx_set_Colibri_For_LowIF() [ 207.537963] cx231xx #0: colibri_carrier_offset=4832000, standard=0x1000 [ 207.537971] cx231xx #0: if_freq=10232000;spectral_invert=0x1;mode=0x1 [ 207.540340] cx231xx #0: Enter IF=2489 [ 207.555844] cx231xx #0: Set New FREQUENCY to 2900 [ 210.794599] cx231xx #0: Enter vidioc_s_frequency()f->frequency=2804;f->type=2 [ 210.802958] tuner 4-0060: Tuner has no way to set tv freq [ 210.802962] cx231xx #0: cx231xx_tuner_post_channel_change dev->tuner_type =083 [ 210.804582] cx231xx #0: if_frequency is set to 5400000 [ 210.804585] cx231xx #0: Enter cx231xx_set_Colibri_For_LowIF() [ 210.824119] cx231xx #0: colibri_carrier_offset=4832000, standard=0x1000 [ 210.824122] cx231xx #0: if_freq=10232000;spectral_invert=0x1;mode=0x1 [ 210.826593] cx231xx #0: Enter IF=2489 [ 210.840973] cx231xx #0: Set New FREQUENCY to 2804 [ 213.461728] cx231xx #0: Enter vidioc_s_frequency()f->frequency=1332;f->type=2 [ 213.470088] tuner 4-0060: Tuner has no way to set tv freq ... Any hints? I don't have ms-windows machine, but I asked a guy to try the usb device with the proprietary CD that came with it, and it worked out out of the box (what a surprise for these things thought for ms-windows only), so the device is working nice. I would really appreciate any help you can provide. BTW: core/linux 3.0.4-1 (base) [installed] The Linux Kernel and modules extra/v4l-utils 0.8.5-1 [installed] Userspace tools and conversion library for Video 4 Linux community/linuxtv-dvb-apps 1.1.1-4 [installed] Viewer programs for DVB cards community/tvtime 1.0.2-2 [installed] A high quality television application for use with video capture cards I've tried channels scan with scantv, tvtime and tvtime-scanner. Neither detect a thing, :-( Thanks, -- Javier.

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[arch-general] In reply to [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 4.0.0-2
by Karol Blazewicz 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

I don't have the permissions to post to [arch-dev-public] so I'm posting it here. On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The most anticipated release EVER has landed in [testing]. Do I expect > it to make it out before we need a 4.0.1? Not really. :) > > Questions? Concerns? Comments? I'm telling you as little as possible > about this release and how to make things work to put more people in > the "standard user who doesn't follow development like a hawk" shoes. > > -Dan A question about the manpage and '-xx' switches e.g.: -u, --sysupgrade <snip> Pass this option twice to enable package downgrade; in this case pacman will select sync packages whose version does not match with the local version. This can be useful when the user switches from a testing repo to a stable one. <snip> People often overlook it - especially for '-dd'. Compare this with 'pacman -Sh' output: <snip> -u, --sysupgrade upgrade installed packages (-uu allows downgrade) <snip> '-uu' is explicitly mentioned. Do you think pacman manpage should be made more scannable (i.e. you can just glance over and know what to do) / searchable - the '-uu' switch is not exp[licitly mentioned anywhere, you can't grep it. On the other hand 'pacman -Sh' doesn't tell you about '-yy': -y, --refresh download fresh package databases from the server What do you think about such changes? Do you want them at all and if yes, will you write them or do you prefer I come up with a proposal / patch? -Karol

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[arch-general] pacman transition - follow up
by fredbezies 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

I upgraded pacman flawlessly. Just had to run one pacman-key, and waiting for yaourt to be updated I installed packer. I will need to go back to simple mail for arch-general :[ -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] How-to for pacman 4.0 transition ?
by fredbezies 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Hello. I saw on arch-commits list that pacman 4.0 is in testing. So, is there somewhere a how-to to follow to ease the transition ? Thanks a lot ! -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] Howto find alternate ABS source download mirror?
by David C. Rankin 12 Oct '11

12 Oct '11

Guys, Where do I find a list of ABS download mirrors? I was working with ffmpeg and the download from ftp.archlinux.org was painfully slow due to the throttled connection. Is there somewhere mirrors for ABS sources are listed? Usually it doesn't matter because most sources are relatively small, but with packages like ffmpeg (50 meg), the throttling difference can be extreme. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.0.6-2
by Tobias Powalowski 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

Latest kernel is in testing, - fixed archiso support - revert to performance governor please signoff both arches, 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] [arch-projects] [HEADSUP] udevd moved out of PATH
by Myra Nelson 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:32, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg(a)jklm.no> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> This is really f***ing stupid of upstream. > > > > Unlikely. > > > >> Why are they doing this > >> outside of simply wanting to break everything? > > > > What is breaking? > Everything I outlined below? Restarting a daemon, which shouldn't > involve having to restart my computer to do so? > > >> I'm not a fan of this > >> as we are making upgrades way too fragile, > > > > How? We always require udev, initscripts and mkinitcpio to be in sync, > > running udev should not be affected. > Throw the filesystem package into that bucket too. What I meant to say > is we have at times had this dependency happen, but it seems like > every single upgrade as of late as absolutely required it. This was > never the case a year ago. I realize I'm coming across as a old, > resistant to change, pesky thorn in the side here, but we're doing > things that are beginning to clash mightily with the Arch way here. > > >> not to mention moving what > >> is very clearly a *binary* into a non-binary path, which is totally > >> bogus. > > > > There are plenty of binaries in libexec (and there are plenty of > > non-binaries in bin), I don't see the problem. > So let me make sure I understand here since the upstream commit wasn't > linked- upstream moved it to libexec, which we normally move into to > /usr/lib, but this particular binary is moving to /lib? > > >> I know I've done `killall udevd && udevd --daemon` before to > >> get the new version running; sounds like this is not going to work at > >> all anymore. > > > > That does not sound like a good idea, you'll at least lose events. > Am I the only one that does this? Because the handy-dandy, still on my > path `udevadm` command definitely doesn't have any sort of documented > 'restart' function for those of us that don't like to reboot our > installs once a week. > > Are you sure about losing events? I thought the kernel cues them up if > udevd isn't running. Maybe I need to add a `udevadm --exit` or > something else to my incantation, I don't know. > > >> I would honestly pester upstream and have them justify the color of > >> their hat this week; > > > > Unless you can come up with some real problems caused by this, I think > > that would be a waste of time. Even if they did not explain their > > reasoning very well this time, I'm pretty sure they have some, and > > won't revert just because some random people say "I don't like it". > > > >> -1 from me on this whole change, upstream decision > >> or not. > > > > -1 on what? What exactly are you proposing? > At the very least we should symlink this to the former location until > there is a udevadm that actually covers all of the use cases. Real > problem #1- how do I restart this? #2 without having the path > memorized? > > Re: upower, udisks, and polkit running out of libexec: I don't think > this is seen as an advantage by many around here. At least I see it as > a negative; why are we making things harder on the user to have > control of their system? > > I also think having to hardcode *any* path to a binary (user-usable or > not, WE still have to use it) like this is a real issue; what happens > when the Kool-Aid color of the week moves it again? We continue to > play along? > > -Dan > I'm not a dev but would like to stick my two cents in here anyway. The following statement by Dan McGee highlights some of my concerns with a lot of distros and why I chose Arch to begin with. "At least I see it as a negative; why are we making things harder on the user to have control of their system?" With Arch I still have control of my machine. I do not care for what, IMHO, is the drive to appease the corporate user types who insist everyones' machine look the same and force everyone into a common way of doing things. It may be great for the office, but not for other users. Like Dan I'm coming accross as old and resistant to change. Change is good and necessary unless it's change for changes' sake. I realize the Arch way dictates minimal patching and staying current with upstream, but what happens if upstream goes the wrong direction? I had a steep learning curve because I wanted to use Arch and I still have a long way to go, but at least I remember how to set up, maintain and use a computer again. I still have to look/ask for help ocassionally, but I'm getting there. Please keep Arch simple and useable. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] [translation] pacman 4.0.0 string freeze
by Dan McGee 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

If you've helped us out before, or are looking to get involved, the string freeze for the magic 4.0 release is now in effect. Translators: http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/translation-help.html Transifex release page: https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/archlinux-pacman/r/4-0-0/ I've set the deadline 7 days from today. -Dan

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[arch-general] xdm, who and X sessions
by Norbert Zeh 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

Hi folks, wanting to go lightweight, I just switched back from kdm to xdm, but I ran into a little snag, which I reported as bug FS#26395 on the bug tracker. I'm no longer sure this is actually a bug, at least not of "who". The problem: After loggin in via xdm, "who" does not show any logged in users. "who /var/run/utmp" on the other hand does show the logged in user. Using kdm, "who" and "who /var/run/utmp" both reported the same result. The reason: There's a small difference between running "who" with or without argument. When run without argument, "who" checks whether the process associated with a session in /var/run/utmp is dead or alive. If it is dead, the entry is not listed in the output. Now, when using xdm, sessreg is run from Xstartup and registers the shell running Xstartup as the PID associated with the session. The shell running Xstartup exits and then xdm fires up Xsetup to start the user's session. Since the shell running Xstartup has exited, there is no longer any process with the PID associated with the session in /var/run/utmp. Hence, who does not report this session. While this explains the source of the problem, I have no idea how to fix it. It seems that what would be needed is to run sessreg as root from a process that stays alive while the user is actually logged into the X session. kdm, for example, does in fact stay alive while the user is logged in. So does xdm, but the PID recorded in /var/run/utmp is not the one of xdm but of the shell it spawns to run Xsetup. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Norbert

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Re: [arch-general] FW: no sound coming from speakers after update
by Roman V.Leon. 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

> On Monday, October 10, 2011, Martti Kühne wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Madhurya Kakati >> >> wrote: >> > On Sunday, October 9, 2011, Martti Kühne wrote: >> > >> >> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Madhurya Kakati >> >> > >> >> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > The last entry in mpd.log is from 02 oct. I doubt that will help. >> >> However >> >> > when I try to start mpd I get this error, [papul@archlinux ~]$ >> >> > sudo rc.d start mpd >> >> > :: Starting Music Player Daemon >> >> > [BUSY] /etc/rc.d/mpd: line 6: 9910 Aborted >> /usr/bin/mpd >> >> > /etc/mpd.conf &>/dev/null >> >> > >> >> >> >> Usually I put in hashes ('#') into the /etc/rc.d/mpd script to >> >> check what output there is destroyed. Could be useful. >> >> >> >> cheers! >> >> mar77i >> >> >> > >> > After adding '#' in /etc/rc.d/mpd here's what I get when I try to >> > start >> it, >> > [papul@archlinux ~]$ sudo rc.d start mpd >> > :: Starting Music Player Daemon >> > [BUSY] listen: bind to '0.0.0.0:6600' failed: Address already in >> > use (continuing anyway, because binding to '[::]:6600' succeeded) >> > output: No "audio_output" defined in config file >> > output: Attempt to detect audio output device >> > output: Attempting to detect a alsa audio device ALSA lib >> > pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: >> > Connection refused >> > >> > alsa: Error opening default ALSA device: Connection refused >> > output: Attempting to detect a oss audio device >> > oss: Error opening OSS device "/dev/dsp": No such file or directory >> > oss: Error opening OSS device "/dev/sound/dsp": No such file or >> > directory >> > output: Attempting to detect a pulse audio device >> > mpd: src/output/pulse_output_plugin.c:400: pulse_output_wait_connection: >> > Assertion `po->mainloop != ((void *)0)' failed. >> > /etc/rc.d/mpd: line 6: 27833 Aborted /usr/bin/mpd >> > /etc/mpd.conf >> > >> > [FAIL] >> > >> >> >> wow that fails for several reasons. you should: >> 1. configure alsa in mpd.conf, then mpd will be mixed over dmix (which >> won't fix the actual problem) 2. make sure the user which runs mpd to >> the audio group and figure out why both alsa and pulse would refuse >> the connection. >> who (uid/gid) runs those, what other security mechanisms could stick >> in between, like a too restrictively configured firewall etc. >> >> oh and you should figure out if mpd is already running, or if this >> config option is plain wrong that makes mpd try to "bind to >> '0.0.0.0:6600' failed: Address already in use" ... sometimes mpd hangs >> up and you have to kill it with SIGABRT / 6. >> >> I'm just at a very similar issue a friend of mine is having with mpd >> and jack. you should get those permissions right in the first place... >> :) I'll go there and adjust /etc/group until it works, I guess. >> >> cheers! >> mar77i >> > > > Forget about mpd. Why doesn't audio play on vlc and in browsers? I regularly visit sites like grooveshark,com. Also I do have my username in audio group. > Everything was fine until I ran pacman -Syu. :( Hello Martti. Please show 'ls -l /dev/snd/' output and try to launch alsamixer(under root and unprivileged user) copy all error messages. Be sure that you have alsa-utils installed and alsa daemon is running. Cheers, Roman. ______________________________ Распродажи купальников on-line. Сравнение цен. Описания, отзывы http://metamarket.ua/ru/odezhda-obuv-i-aksessuary/zhenskaya-odezhda/kupalni…

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nvidai 285.05.09 and xorg-server 1.11.1
by Matthew Gyurgyik 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

On 10/10/2011 04:56 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: > I have decided to revert this commit in our packages. There's a 1.11-2 > package with some additional upstream patches and this reverted commit > on its way to testing. > If nobody has any objections, I'd like to move this to extra tomorrow. I had issues with 1.11-1 (nvidia 9400 GT). No problems with -2. For what it's worth, I have no objections. ~pyther

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[arch-general] GLiv freezes when quitting with nVidia GPU
by Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

Hi everyone, It seems that with the latest version of GLiv using a nVidia GPU when trying to quit the program with File->Quit or just hitting `q' it freezes and then starts eating all the CPU. Anybody have experienced the same issue? As far as I can tell, this problem was not present with previous versions of GLiv and/or nVidia driver. My GPU is: nVidia Corporation G73GL, Quadro FX 560 I'm on an updated Arch, so my package versions are: nvidia 280.13-1 gliv 1.9.7-1 I sent an email to the author of GLiv, but as it could be nVidia's fault (see backtrace below), it is possible that he can't help. Here it is the gdb backtrace when trying to quit GLiv: #0 0x00007f73935b1ba4 in _nv012tls () from /usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.280.13 #1 0x00007f73978f6dfd in ?? () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 #2 0x00007f73978d64b9 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 #3 0x00007f739ac061e5 in _dl_fini () from /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 #4 0x00007f73962a5281 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 #5 0x00007f73962a5305 in exit () from /lib/libc.so.6 #6 0x000000000041bfad in quit (code=0) at main.c:247 #7 0x000000000041c870 in gui_quit () at main.c:305 #8 0x00007f7398b500e4 in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #9 0x00007f7398b6206a in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #10 0x00007f7398b6b6f1 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #11 0x00007f7398b6b892 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #12 0x00007f739a81827e in gtk_widget_activate () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #13 0x00007f739a71353d in gtk_menu_shell_activate_item () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #14 0x00007f739a7138d7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #15 0x00007f739a7000d8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #16 0x00007f7398b500e4 in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #17 0x00007f7398b61e9f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #18 0x00007f7398b6b4c3 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #19 0x00007f7398b6b892 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #20 0x00007f739a819081 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #21 0x00007f739a6fe2d3 in gtk_propagate_event () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #22 0x00007f739a6fe633 in gtk_main_do_event () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #23 0x00007f739a37384c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 #24 0x00007f739827f85d in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #25 0x00007f7398280058 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #26 0x00007f7398280592 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #27 0x00007f739a6fd687 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #28 0x0000000000410cff in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffc3875478) at main.c:355 Regards -- Ricardo (http://r.untroubled.be/)

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[arch-general] gnome-shell-extension-dock broke with gnome 3.2.0-1 update
by Chad Kellerman 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

Anyone else's gnome-shell-extension-dock break after the update? I've done some searching and it doesn't look like anyone has run into this issue. Just wondering if anyone would know how to get it back? I've removed it, installed it, enabled it, it just doesn't show, and nothing shows in the .xsession-errors file. Thanks, Chad -- A grasshopper walks into a bar and the bartender says "Hey, we have a drink named after you." And the grasshopper says "Really, You have a drink named Murray?"

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[arch-general] no sound coming from speakers after update
by Madhurya Kakati 09 Oct '11

09 Oct '11

Hi, I ran pacman -Syu just now after a gap of almost 3 weeks. After the update I restarted my system and now I can't play audio. Even mpd doesn't start up. alsamixer shows Card: PulseAudio and Chip:PulseAudio. Please help me as I can't do work on my computer with listening to music. :( I have pulseaudio installed just because gdm needs it. Other than that I use alsa.

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[arch-general] Can't install e4rat from AUR: pacman fails to install missing dependencies
by Lorenzo Bandieri 09 Oct '11

09 Oct '11

Hello everyone! I'm having problems installing E4rat from the AUR ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=e4rat&SeB=x) Installation fails: $ makepkg -s ==> WARNING: Sudo can not be found. Will use su to acquire root privileges. ==> Making package: e4rat 0.2.1-2 (Sun Oct 9 17:34:22 CEST 2011) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Installing missing dependencies... Password: error: target not found: audit ==> ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies. I performed a search with pacman -Ss, and audit seems not to be in the repos. Has anyone encountered this problem yet? Thanks. Lorenzo

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] linux-3.0.6-2
by Rogutės Sparnuotos 09 Oct '11

09 Oct '11

Thomas Bächler (2011-10-09 09:47): > Am 09.10.2011 06:22, schrieb Tom Gundersen: > > Could you point me to some more info about this (I couldn't find any > > bug reports)? > > If I remember right, if you load p4-clockmod and try to set ondemand as > governor, cpufreq will refuse the to change the governor. On i686, linux > even refuses to build the performance governor as a module, even if it > is not the default. Doesn't the kernel config discourage the use of p4-clockmod? " This driver should be only used in exceptional circumstances when very low power is needed because it causes severe slowdowns and noticeable latencies. Normally Speedstep should be used instead. " -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

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[arch-general] non-login bash
by Jorge Almeida 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

Please help me to understand how bash does its initialization when started as a non-login shell. The manual says it sources ~/.bashrc and that's it. The Arch Wiki says it sources /etc/bash.bashrc and then ~/.bashrc. Sure enough, it does what the Wiki says... It occurred to me to look in the Wiki, after much trouble, the kind of trouble that happens from trusting the manuals. Did I misunderstood the manual or is Arch distributing a patched version? (Somewhat contrary to the Arch way, if I understood it.) TIA Jorge Almeida

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[arch-general] Orphans in svn
by Sergej Pupykin 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

Hi, here is the list of packages that are in SVN, but has empty repos subdirectory. Should not they be removed? abcm2ps abcm2ps-devel achessclock acroread adzapper aide alacarte apolos ar9170-fw archiso archlinux-themes-gdm arts ascii azureus bcm43xx-fwcutter bglibs bincimap bioperl bitlbee-devel black-box bluez-gnome bumprace bungmeter catalyst-mm ccmalloc cgoban checkpassword circuslinux clanlib clustalw clusterit dailystrips devicekit devicekit-disks devicekit-power dirsync duhdraw eggdbus emboss emelfm expectk fasta fontcacheproto foomatic-db-hpijs foomatic-db-ppd fortunelock fortune-mod-buffy fortune-mod-xfiles fprint_demo freepops frostwire fte fwlogwatch gav gdisk gen-init-cpio gforth gfpoken giftcurs gimp-print-lprng ginac gir-repository gmoo gnash-kde gnome-build gnome-pilot-conduits gnotime go-openoffice gozer gscanbus gspcav1 gtk2-themes-collection gtk3-engines gtkatlantic gtklife gts gwenview gwenview-i18n haskell-hp-parallel haskell-utf8-string hibernate-script hmmer host ices ifp-line intel-536ep intel-537 iptraf ipw3945 ipw3945d ipw3945-mm ipw3945-ucode ivman iwlwifi-1000-ucode iwlwifi-3945-ucode iwlwifi-4965-ucode iwlwifi-5000-ucode iwlwifi-5150-ucode iwlwifi-6000-ucode j jabberd jdk jikes jpegpixi jre kdeaddons kde-common kdetv kdmtheme kernel26 kernel26mm kiosktool kkbswitch klogic kmyfirewall knetload knockd konq-plugins kqemu kvm labplot lancelot lde lexter lft libaal libcapsinetwork libdjvu libeap libfprint libfwbuilder libkexif libmath++ libopensync libpano12 libticables libticalcs libtifiles libusb1 libvisual-bmp libxfontcache lirc-mm madwifi-mm madwifi-utils maelstrom mage magicpoint mailx makepasswd martian-utils mbrowse metatheme mkinitrd mod_hosts_access monodoc mousepad mozillaqs mpage mplayer-svn ms-sys muscle nagios-nrpe nant netris nhc98 nip2 nip2-devel njb-sharp nouveau-drm nph nvidia-71xx nvidia-71xx-utils nvidia-96xx nvidia-96xx-mm nvidia-96xx-utils nvidia-mm ooodi2 oooqs2 openoffice-base openoffice-base-beta openoffice-base-devel openoffice-i18n openoffice-spell-de openoffice-spell-en openoffice-spell-es openoffice-spell-fr openoffice-spell-nl openoffice-spell-pt openoffice-spell-ru openoffice-spell-sv openupsmart opera opera-devel pam_fprint pam_passwdqc pavuk pcsx-df penguin-command pente perl-archive-tar perl-lmap-cid2spf perl-newt phylip pipemeter pmt pngwriter prekin proxsmtp pycairo pycmail python-pysqlite-legacy quick-lounge-applet rasmol reiser4progs rip rt2870usb-fw rt2x00-rt61-fw rt2x00-rt71w-fw sash schafkopf scheme48 scsh sdl_perl seahorse-plugins selectwm seom-svn setuptools sfs showimg sim skim sn snapscreenshot sonypid spicctrl sqlite2 ssldump stow synaesthesia synaptics system-config-printer-gnome tcoffee teg termcap-compat terminatorx tetex texlive-latex3 tiacx-mm tilp toppler tpop3d trm tuxmath tuxnes tuxtype twisted-web ucspi-ssl ucspi-tcp ucspi-unix ulogd util-linux-ng vectoroids vips vips-devel vtun wimax wimax-tools wlan-ng26 wlan-ng26-mm wlan-ng26-utils xalf xconq xf86-input-calcomp xf86-input-citron xf86-input-digitaledge xf86-input-dmc xf86-input-dynapro xf86-input-elo2300 xf86-input-jamstudio xf86-input-magellan xf86-input-magictouch xf86-input-microtouch xf86-input-palmax xf86-input-spaceorb xf86-input-summa xf86-input-tek4957 xf86-input-ur98 xf86-video-i810 xf86-video-intel-legacy xf86-video-vga xfce4-icon-theme xfce4-messenger-plugin xfce4-playercontrol-plugin xfce4-screenshooter-plugin xfce4-xmms-plugin xfce-mcs-manager xfce-mcs-plugins xgalaga++ xpenguins xpenguins_themes xpp xrally xscorch xvattr yabasic yudit zebra zope zope2 zsync

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[arch-general] 2011.10-1 archboot "2k11-R6" ISO hybrid image released
by Tobias Powalowski 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

Hi Arch community, Arch Linux (archboot creation tool) 2011.10-1, "2k11-R6" has been released. To avoid confusion, this is not an official arch linux iso release! Homepage and for more information on archboot: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archboot Forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=127923 Summary: - Only use one lzma initrd for each architecture, plain bugfix release. Hybrid image file and torrent is provided, which include i686 and x86_64 core repository. Please check md5sum before using it. Hybrid image file is a standard CD-burnable image and also a raw disk image. - Can be burned to CD(RW) media using most CD-burning utilities. - Can be raw-written to a drive using 'dd' or similar utilities. This method is intended for use with USB thumb drives. Please get it from your favorite arch linux mirror: - https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/archboot/2011.10/ - <yourmirror>/iso/archboot/2011.10/ Have fun, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Pacman 4.0.0rc2
by Dan McGee 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

You don't need to be as daring this time- we've had some 246 commits since RC1. The most relevant changes is signing is about 95% functional at this point- see directions below the links. * pacman -U http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc2-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz * pacman -U http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz Please report any issues you may find with this package, as it is getting very close to being an actual releasable version. These are debug builds with symbols, so getting stack traces and helpful logging should be relatively straight forward if necessary. == How to enable package signature checking == 1. Install above pacman RC package. 2. sudo pacman-key --init 3. `SigLevel = Optional` in pacman.conf is the default- for more info, see man pacman.conf, but this means signatures will be checked *if available*, and there will be no error if they are not. However, due to us not having a web of trust for Arch developer keys, you will need to add this to the [options] section: SigLevel = Optional TrustAll 4. Run -Syu or any other operation that fetches packages from sync databases. When it comes time to check package integrity, you may be prompted to import keys that are not in your keychain. If a signature is available, it will be used instead of sha256sums/md5sums. -Dan

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[arch-general] ArchLinux Cheat Cube (english)
by Aurélien Chabot 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Here is my job on the cube, i did some change on the content according to my taste. Hope you like it. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B2ztTvm_… -- Aurélien Chabot

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[arch-general] scim and uxterm/urxvt
by Pham Bao Trung 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Can scim work with uxterm/urxvt? If so, could somebody help me to make them work together, please? Of course, I have been throught wiki and googling but nothing helps. Kind regards, Trung

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[arch-general] backpac: A package state snapshot and restore tool
by Ethan Schoonover 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

I've finished basic implementation of 'backpac', which is a package state snapshot and restore tool for Arch Linux with config file save/restore support. I've posted a summary to the forum, an AUR package and a github repo: BBS: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=127768 AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52957 GIT: https://github.com/altercation/backpac It's alpha but usable and, I hope, useful. Essentially it is a system state save/restore tool. Save lists of (explicitly installed only) groups, packages (separate official/aur). Uses a user created simple list of files to snapshot system config data. Feedback solicited. -Ethan Ethan Schoonover es(a)ethanschoonover.com http://ethanschoonover.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [prerelease] initscripts-2011.09.2-1
by Geert Hendrickx 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 16:00:52 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > * /etc/localtime may now be a symlink, and is not written to unless it is > necessary. Hi, why not always make it a symlink, so updates to tzdata package are applied immediatly and don't require a reboot? Is it for scenario's where /usr is not available? Geert -- geert.hendrickx.be :: geert(a)hendrickx.be :: PGP: 0xC4BB9E9F This e-mail was composed using 100% recycled spam messages!

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[arch-general] ArchLinux Cheat Cube (english)
by Madhurya Kakati 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Hi, I saw cheat cubes for Fedora and Ubuntu. However someone has created a cheatcube for archlinux but it is in Spanish. I was wondering if anyone could translate it into english. Here is the link for the Spanish cheatcube http://elblogdepicodev.blogspot.com/2010/03/arch-linux-cheat-cube.html Thanks.

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.0.6-1
by Tobias Powalowski 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches Changes: - changed default governor to ondemand instead of performance - added ubifs support - reworked archlinux MTD session based on fedora # enable rico XD card reader support: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25889 # added alix2 led support https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25950 # change default compression to gzip https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25875 # remove ACPI_PROCFS https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25845 greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] python2-werkzeug and python2-flask moved to [community].
by Thomas Dziedzic 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

I decided to pull these brilliant projects into [community]. I have renamed them from python-* to python2-* so please adjust your dependencies accordingly.

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[arch-general] perl-readline-gnu
by Jorge Almeida 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

I'm trying to update the system, and cannot: # pacman -Su :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: shorewall: local (4.4.23.3-1) is newer than custom (4.4.12.1-1) resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: perl and Term-ReadLine-Gnu are in conflict (perl-term-readline). Remove Term-ReadLine-Gnu? [y/N] error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: perl and Term-ReadLine-Gnu are in conflict (perl-term-readline) ~ This is an innovation indeed. What to do? I assume the package perl-term-readline install the Perl package Term::ReadLine. Please correct me if I'm wrong. The Perl package Term::ReadLine does, essentially, nothing. (http://search.cpan.org/~flora/Term-ReadLine-1.07/lib/Term/ReadLine.pm) This is a show-stopper. TIA Jorge Almeida

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[arch-general] Gnome 3.2 - gdm login ignores disabled user list
by Richard Ullger 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

The recent upgrade from 3.0 to 3.2 has caused the gdm login screen to display a list of user names despite /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list being set to true. Was working in 3.0. This has been reported upstream https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660660 Should I log this in FS and link to the upstream bug? Richard.

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[arch-general] gnome 3.2 in testing
by Ionut Biru 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Hi, take for a spin gnome 3.2 from testing and report any packaging bugs to our tracker. TUs, check your packages and rebuild for eventually soname bumps(e.g evolution-data-server). NVIDIA users be aware that xorg-server 1.11 from testing is incompatible with the current nvidia driver, even with IgnoreABI. You can switch to nouveau or add xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-synaptics xorg-server-common xorg-server to Ignorepkg. -- Ionuț

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[arch-general] Can't mount a certain type of ISO CDs
by Bastien Dejean 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Hi, I can't mount a whole bunch of CDs/DVDs I've burned back in the days I was using Mac OS X. They've been burnt with the 'Hybrid Mac/PC' scheme of the following program: http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html isoinfo -d dev=/dev/sr0 Gives the following output: CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format System id: APPLE COMPUTER, INC., TYPE: 0002 Volume id: MY_CD Volume set id: NOT_SET Publisher id: Data preparer id: Application id: TOAST ISO 9660 BUILDER COPYRIGHT (C) 1997-2005 SONIC SOLUTIONS - HAVE A NICE DAY Copyright File id: Abstract File id: Bibliographic File id: Volume set size is: 1 Volume set sequence number is: 1 Logical block size is: 2048 Volume size is: 2275987 Joliet with UCS level 1 found NO Rock Ridge present Unfortunately, mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd responds: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so and generates the followings dmesg entries: attempt to access beyond end of device sr0: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=sr0, iso_blknum=16, block=16 Regards, -- Bastien

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[arch-general] lxde + fluxbox.
by Javier Vasquez 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Hi, I'm not a DE (desktop environment) user, and I'm not planning to become one. I'm pretty comfortable with plain fluxbox... However when people wonders about how to start on a linux kernel based OS, specially to be able to run on old or low end machines, they really expect a DE, not knowing that both major ones (gnome and kde) are really bloated and they better stay out of their way, :-) So LXDE sounds like the DE I'd like to experiment with, but I'd like to use fluxbox instead of openbox. I'm not familiar with LXDE, so perhaps a pointer to a tutorial or howto for this WM switch might be useful. I'd guess is not just calling startfluxbox in some configuration file (like ~/.xinitrc), but some care is required for keyboard management as well since fluxbox offer its own keybinding, :-) Also I'd liek to know what problems are to be faced because of using fluxbox before hand if possible... Any help will be greatly appreciated, :-) Thanks, -- Javier.

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[arch-general] Recently orphaned [community] packages, TUs should take a look if they might be interested in adopting them.
by Thomas Dziedzic 02 Oct '11

02 Oct '11

Hi, I recently went over all my packages in community, and have decided to orphan the following due to lack of interest and because I haven't used them in a long time celt - Low-latency audio communication codec extrema - Extrema is a powerful visualization and data analysis tool. ghdl - A complete VHDL simulator, using GCC technology. gnofract4d - A fractal browser with PyGTK gui grass - Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization. gtkwave - A wave viewer which reads LXT, LXT2, VZT, GHW and VCD/EVCD files gts - GNU Triangulated Surface Library. luakit - luakit is a highly configurable, micro-browser framework based on the WebKit web content engine and the GTK+ toolkit."Stable" release mpdscribble - An mpd client which submits track info to last.fm netbeans - Netbeans IDE development platform. protege - Free, open source ontology editor and knowledge-base framework wordpress - Blog Tool and Publishing Platform All of them are working as far as I know, and they have no outstanding bugs except a couple which are in the list of pushing the .desktop file upstream https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23387 (already reported) and luakit has an extremely minor upstream bug https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25761 which is also reported. Cheers!

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[arch-general] remove grub from base group?
by Ray Kohler 01 Oct '11

01 Oct '11

Since aif now supports syslinux and grub equally, does it make sense that grub no longer needs to be in the base group? syslinux isn't in base. I'll open an FS for this if that's wanted.

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Re: [arch-general] xmodmap
by Jorge Almeida 01 Oct '11

01 Oct '11

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 4:15 PM, marshall <marshall(a)mcleave.orangehome.co.uk> wrote: > > Hopefully this time I'll make the list. > > My enviroment file. > > setxkbmap gb > xmodmap /home/marshall/.Xmodmap > > I used run xmodmap from ~/.config/openbox/autostart > but that ceased to work after the openbox 3.5 upgrade. I then tried to > run it from my .xinitrc file, this also fails to work as expected. > OK, I found it. The problem was "setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" _after_ xmodmap! As I use setxkbmap just to recover the traditional Ctrl-Alt-Backspace behavior that Xorg developers decided to drop, it didn't occur to me that it might interact with xmodmap. I changed the places of both commands and it works now. It works regardless of whether it is run before the openbox binary (via environment file, or equivalent) or after openbox (via --startup flag). It is also independent of the fact that I'm using a non-standard setup. Thanks Jorge

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[arch-general] xmodmap
by Jorge Almeida 01 Oct '11

01 Oct '11

I have a very annoying problem with xmodmap: Inside X, in an xterm: $ echo $DISPLAY :1 In console (agetty1): $ echo $DISPLAY $ xmodmap .Xmodmap xmodmap: unable to open display '' $ xmodmap -display :2 .Xmodmap xmodmap: unable to open display ':2' Until now, everything as expected. The problem is: $ xmodmap -display :1 .Xmodmap $ echo $? 0 So, everything seems fine, but switching to the vt where X is I find that xmodmap didn't load anything. Note that if running "xmodmap .Xmodmap" from X it works. In console, I tried also setting the env variable DISPLAY (the only one relevant to xmodmap, according to the manual), to no avail. You might wonder why is this a problem, since it works from X. I have a xmodmap command in the startup file of the window manager (openbox). Other X related commands work, only xmodmap fails. It seems that xmodmap requires being run from an emulator inside an X session, which it's not supposed to. Any help about this essentially undocumented piece of software would be appreciated. Alternatively, anyone knows whether there is some alternative to xmodmap? xkb doesn't seem to be able to replace it, judging by what poor documentation there is out there. TIA Jorge Almeida

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [prerelease] initscripts-2011.09.2-1
by Oon-Ee Ng 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On 30/09/11 00:00, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> Towards read only /etc: >> * /etc/profile.d/locale.sh is now a static file, rather than being >> generated on every boot (this means we need to use -f when updating) > Please do not encourage using -f when updating (people will use "pacman > -Syuf", which is evil...). Instead, "mv /etc/profile.d/locale.sh{,.bak}" > and then update. I presume the new local.sh will be generated in exactly the same way, and hence there's no real need for *.bak?

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[arch-general] [signoff] nfs-utils 1.2.5-1
by Tobias Powalowski 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Hi guys, please signoff nfs-utils, upstream release - enabled now libmount support https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26129 greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Enable FLTK Octave backend?
by Stefano Avallone 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Hi, I read in the Octave documentation [1] that a newer (than gnuplot) plotting capability is provided by the FLTK/OpenGL backend. This new backend is not available in the current octave arch package, because the fltk library is required to be installed at build time. I read that the FLTK backend is rather faster (for 3d plots) than the gnuplot backend, and also some options (e.g., Postscript level 3 or pdflatex outputs of the print command) are only available with the new backend. I installed fltk from extra and recompiled octave. The new backend seems to work fine and it is also enables to zoom (or rotate) and pan the current plot. I don't know if the addition of the FLTK backend has been discussed in the past and abandoned for some reasons, but I see no issues in including it, since the default backend seems to still be gnuplot. So, adding the support for the FLTK backend would be as simple as putting fltk in makedepends and optdepends. Should I open a bug to track this feature request? regards, Stefano [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Introduction-to- Plotting.html#Introduction-to-Plotting

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[arch-general] Setting Computer Hostname via DHCP Server
by Thomas Misilo 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to have archlinux set it's hostname based on what the DHCP server tells it is? As I noticed while using a CentOS Server, that it does do this by default. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction on enabling this, as I searched around and was unable to find anything. Thanks for your time, Tom

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[arch-general] bash variable PS1 confuses the terminal somehow
by bfsc.yb＠gmail.com 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

13 PROMPT_COMMAND=' 14 if (($?)); then 15 warn="^[[31mWARNING^[[m" 16 else 17 warn= 18 fi 19 date=`date` 20 PS1="^[[s^[[$(($COLUMNS-28))C^[[0;33m$date^[[u^[[0;31m$warn^[[0;32m[^[[1;33m\u^[[0;32m@^[[1;36m\w^[[0;32m]\$^[[m" 21 ' i'm using this PROMPT_COMMAND to set PS1 everytime it is played, it seems to work perfectly except later i found a strange behavior of the terminal, both in xterm under X and agetty under the console. for example, when under the console, i found the terminal column indicated by the bash variable $COLUMNS is 160, however, when i type some command about 50 characters long, the line which i'm typing wraps to the begining, and destroys what i typed earlier, this makes typing long commands really difficult...and everything is just fine when i just set the PS1 variable to a very simple value without escape sequences. anyone knows how to fix this?

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[arch-general] startup messages gone
by Jorge Almeida 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed and the login prompt appears. I had (and have) in /etc/initttab: c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -8 38400 tty1 linux I added the "-i" to prevent clearing the terminal, and it worked. Not any more. Not even with Shift+PageUp. Anyone knows what changed? TIA Jorge Almeida

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[arch-general] Skype mic
by Carlos Alberto Ospina 26 Sep '11

26 Sep '11

Skype doesn't work. Installing windows (virtual box) I thought that the problem would continue. when I do the test call in skype me back without allowing too much noise to hear what i record. and it's the same machine virtual and my arch. Just when i speak, i hear perfectky the other person. -- Carlos Alberto Ospina E. Linux User #506652

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[arch-general] Unable to run java applets in browser. Using openjdk
by Madhurya Kakati 26 Sep '11

26 Sep '11

Hi, I am unable to run the java applet on the site keepvid.com(or any other video downloading site for that matter). I tried both firefox and chromium. I have openjdk6 6.b22_1.10.3-1 installed. Thanks.

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[arch-general] Virtual box
by Carlos Alberto Ospina 26 Sep '11

26 Sep '11

When i start Windos in Virtual box get the following message error: The virtual box linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or ther is a permission problem with (dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the kernel module by executin rc.d setup vboxdrv as root. This package keepr trackc of linuex kernel changes andrecompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary. I execute the instuccion but this message show again. If someone has already happened, i would apreciate you help. greetings -- Carlos Alberto Ospina E. Linux User #506652

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[arch-general] Clojure 1.3.0 update and removal of clojure-contrib from [community].
by Thomas Dziedzic 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Hi Archers, I have just pushed clojure 1.3.0 to [community]. A list of changes can be found at [1]. One major recent change is that upstream has split up the monolithic contrib package into separate sub-projects [2]. This means that clojure-contrib is no longer necessary for clojure 1.3.0 and individual contrib projects should be packaged separately into the AUR. I have removed clojure-contrib from [community] as a result. Have a nice weekend! Clojure 1.3.0 changes [1] - https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/1.3.x/changes.txt Where did clojure.contrib go? [2] - http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Where+Did+Clojure.Contrib+Go

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[arch-general] ConvertXToDVD alternative for Linux.
by Madhurya Kakati 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Hi, One of the very few reasons that I still Dual boot windows is that I don't know how to convert media files from one format to another in Linux. On windows I use 2 very easy to use softwares namely FormatFactory and ConvertXToDVD for my needs. Can you guys tell me about any Linux alternative to that? I tried installing ConvertXtoDVD using wine. The main program installs fine but the DVD menu templates, though installed, aren't detected by the program and hence I cant use the DVD menus. Thanks.

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[arch-general] Daylight Saving Time canceled in Ukraine, will Arch know?
by Barton 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Beginning this year, Ukraine is switching to year-round DST and will permanently reside in UTC+3 timezone (where it is now). Normally, the switch to UTC+2 would have occurred some time in October, but no longer. How would Arch Linux handle it for the users who do not have NTP configured? Would Arch somehow know not to switch the clock this year or should zoneinfo file for Kiev be updated to reflect this change and to avoid users' clocks being skewed?

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[arch-general] mcabber failing to connect (loudmouth+openssl issue)
by Robin Martinjak 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Hi, if anyone else has problems using mcabber (or freetalk?) with ssl, rebuilding loudmouth wih "--with-ssl=openssl" fixes the issue: https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/issue/81/cant-establish-tls-ssl-c… Regards, Robin

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[arch-general] What about packaging something like "emacs-goodies" in AUR?
by XeCycle 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Hello list. I found the package `emacs-goodies-el' quite useful when I was using Ubuntu, but Arch doesn't seem to have a equivalent package. I know I can install them myself, but it may be better to pack some of the most used into one package? So that most people could just install this, which is of course not very big, and get what they wanted. So I'm asking here, what extensions to package? -- 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] GTK X Clipboard Keyboard Bindings
by Bastien Dejean 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Hi, I'm sure I must be missing something obvious but: What are the default keyboard shortcuts, in GTK2, to paste the PRIMARY/CLIPBOARD X clipboards? Cheers, -- Bastien

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] db 5.2.36-1
by Geert Hendrickx 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:20:59 -0400, Stéphane Gaudreault wrote: > Upstream update. Only python{,2}-bsddb should need a rebuild as it contain > hardcoded version strings. Openldap should be rebuilt as well, as slapd fails to start: bdb_back_initialize: BDB library version mismatch: expected Berkeley DB 5.2.28: (June 10, 2011), got Berkeley DB 5.2.36: (September 14, 2011) Geert -- geert.hendrickx.be :: geert(a)hendrickx.be :: PGP: 0xC4BB9E9F This e-mail was composed using 100% recycled spam messages!

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[arch-general] Any suggestions on frequently rebuilding a git package?
by XeCycle 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Hi, I build Emacs from git quite frequently, about twice a month or so. However the PKGBUILD from AUR rebuilds everything each time, which takes too many time I think. Perhaps Emacs is small, but I think there should be a way to prevent too many rebuilds --- is that possible? -- 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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] util-linux-2.20-3
by Damjan 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

> * enable libmount > > With libmount we get support for /etc/mtab being both a regular file > and a symlink to /proc/self/mountinfo. The latter is "the future", but > we won't force that as not all mount helpers (such as cifs, fuse, ntfs > and nfs) have been ported yet. If you don't use any of the unported > mount helpers, you can delete /etc/mtab and make it a symlink > manually. What is the expected problem with fuse filesystems when /etc/mtab is a symlink? I have /etc/mtab as a symlink for quite some time, since I moved to systemd, and haven't noticed any problems with encfs or sshfs - both of which are fuse filesystems -- дамјан

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] util-linux-2.20-3
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

On 09/19/2011 07:17 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > Hi guys, > > A new util-linux is in [testing]. > > Changes: > > * add to patches from upstream, in particular fixing > <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26059> and > <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737091>. > > * enable libmount > > With libmount we get support for /etc/mtab being both a regular file > and a symlink to /proc/self/mountinfo. The latter is "the future", but > we won't force that as not all mount helpers (such as cifs, fuse, ntfs > and nfs) have been ported yet. If you don't use any of the unported > mount helpers, you can delete /etc/mtab and make it a symlink > manually. I guess you want to say /proc/self/mounts ;) > > I'd especially appreciate signoffs from people using the unported > helpers, and especially with the "user" mount option, or anything else > non-standard. There was a problem with this when we tried libmount > with util-linux 2.19.1, but I (and Dave) could not reproduce this with > 2.20. > > Please test and signoff. > > Cheers, > > Tom > -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1

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[arch-general] vpack - vABS Packaging Utility
by Estêvão Valadão 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

Hey guys, Take a look at vpack - vABS Packaging Utility: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=51856 Opinions and suggestions are welcome! Thanks, -- Estêvão Valadão

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Re: [arch-general] [signoff] mdadm-3.2.2-4
by Tobias Powalowski 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Am 14.09.2011 11:46, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > Hi guys, > - restores the old mdadm hook, > - udev initialisation moved to mdadm_udev hook > There were several issues with udev initialisation mdadm arrays on more > complex setups. > > Bugs for reference: > - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25566 > - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25158 > - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25132 > > please signoff both arches > greetings > tpowa bump anyone? -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] What about nvidia drivers 275.28 and Xorg 1.11 ?
by fredbezies 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

Hello. As I am using testing and a nVidia graphic card, I had to use NouVeau in order to get xorg 1.11 working. I saw that a new driver was released, fixing the compatibility problem, nvidia 275.28 : http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=166025 Any tests going on it ? I wanted to build a version on my computer to see if it works, but I want some feedback before. Any infos ? Thanks a lot ! -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] Nvidia drivers.
by Frederic Bezies 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

Sorry for answering this way, I enabled digest version of this mailing list. Thanks Ionut for the info. I build by myself new nvidia drivers, and there working quite right. So, I will wait until next xorg release, keeping fingers crossed meanwhile. Have a good day. -- Frederic Bezies - fredbezies(a)gmail.com Blog : http://frederic.bezies.free.fr/blog/

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[arch-general] ejecting after cdparanoia
by Jorge Almeida 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

I just used cdparanoia (for the very first time) and I tried to eject the CD by pressing the button. Nothing happens. I can eject the CD with "eject /dev/sr0", so it's not really a big problem. I just wonder whether this behavior is normal. I'm used to cdda2wav (from cdrtools), and it never happened, that I recall. Note that cdparanoia ended normally ( and successfully, BTW). I run it with speed 1. The drive is: $ cdrecord dev=1,0,0 -checkdrive Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.00 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2010 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '1,0,0' scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34 Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR ' Identifikation : 'DVDR PX-L890SA' Revision : '1.02' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE AUDIOMASTER FORCESPEED Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R LAYER_JUMP cdrecord: Warning: Cannot read drive buffer. cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped. ~ $ pacman -Q cdparanoia cdparanoia 10.2-3 TIA Jorge Almeida

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[arch-general] [signoff] texlive-bin 2011.1-1 and texlive-* 2011.*
by Rémy Oudompheng 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

Hello, TeXLive 2011 has been officially released. Packages in [testing] have been updated to reflect this. * biblatex-biber is not packaged and depends and a whole lot of Perl packages. You can find it on AUR, or some for some developer to package it and its dependencies * eptex format generation fails, I don't understand how to fix it, so if anyone has an idea... Rémy.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Pacman 4.0.0 RC1 "release"
by Myra Nelson 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:28, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > For the daring, pick your poison (by architecture): > > * pacman -U http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz > * pacman -U http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz > > Allan, Dave, and I (and probably a few others) run pacman-git on most > of our systems with no problems, so their should be no real shockers > or problems if you give this a spin. There are no database upgrades or > changes this time so downgrading later should work fine if truly > necessary. > > What we're looking for feedback on: > > * any build failures in makepkg you may see > * if you manage a custom repo, how does repo-add work for you > * does pacman behave as it did before > * if you want to sign packages, does the functionality in makepkg and > the documentation make sense > * same for signing repos- does it work for you > > What we know isn't there yet: > * translations > * a developer keyring (or keyring package)- if you delve into this, > you will need to look at pacman-key for now > * great error messages on verification failure, or ability to import > keys on the fly if it is unknown > > Note that we'd love testing even if you don't plan on touching any of > the new signing stuff- there were 500+ commits worth of changes in > this release, including a switch to curl as the download library, so > anything out of the ordinary should be reported. Please choose -git as > the version in the bugtracker if you do it that way, otherwise email > pacman-dev. > > Happy testing! > > -Dan > This may not be in the right place but I just experienced an error while upgrading. This is the first hiccup I've noticed since installing the pacman-4.0.0.rc1. I put a copy of the pacman log for the last two days and the error messages I'm receiving here: http://pastebin.com/WsCJPpqk . This is a sample of the error, :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/avahi-0.6.30-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). It was the same for device-mapper, eject, fakeroot, and lvm2. I tried changing mirrors from rit.edu to mirrors1.kernel.org and resyncing with pacman -Syy. I still received the same errors. Other packages upgraded just fine, inetutils; net-tools; atool. Since I'm not familiar enough with the pacman code I'm not sure where to go next. If I need to file a bug report I will be glad to. Thanks. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] imagemagick and calibre have problems with libtool in testing
by Myra Nelson 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

Not sure this warrants a bug report but here's what happened. I'm running testing repositories and building my own packages, after I upgraded libtool last night calibre would not start. Did crtl + alt + F1 to read the error message and found this -- imagemagick cannot load libltdl.so.7. This prevented calibre from running. Solution was to rebuild imagemagick against the new libltdl installation then rebuilt calibre (possibly and unneeded step but did it anyway). Everything works fine now. Just thought I would pass this on in case anyone else has the same problem. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] PyconFR
by Seblu 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

Hello, Will there be members of archlinux at French Pycon? http://www.pycon.fr/conference/edition2011 Cheers, -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net

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[arch-general] CIFS gives input/output error
by Pavel Löbl 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

Hi, I'm having trouble using my public samba share. The server setup is following (some lines omitted) ... security = user map to guest = Bad User unix extensions = no [public] path = /srv/samba comment = Public Share public = yes browsable = yes available = yes writable = yes and this is related part of the fstab on the client. //lada/public /mnt/samba cifs gid=network,dir_mode=0770,file_mode=0770,noauto,password=none,workgroup=PRIVAT 0 0 Basically it works but when i transfer some larger file, after a couple of minutes, i get the input/output error. This is all i've found in log files. /var/log/samba/192.168.2.218.log [2011/09/12 19:44:05.305132, 0] smbd/process.c:244(read_packet_remainder) read_fd_with_timeout failed for client 0.0.0.0 read error = NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_RESET. [2011/09/12 19:44:19.687109, 0] smbd/process.c:244(read_packet_remainder) read_fd_with_timeout failed for client 0.0.0.0 read error = NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_RESET. [2011/09/12 19:44:36.815509, 0] smbd/process.c:244(read_packet_remainder) read_fd_with_timeout failed for client 0.0.0.0 read error = NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_RESET. [2011/09/12 19:44:57.005984, 0] smbd/process.c:244(read_packet_remainder) read_fd_with_timeout failed for client 0.0.0.0 read error = NT_STATUS_END_OF_FILE. I'm not sure but it seems to me this is caused by the client side ? I've tried to enable unix extensions and simplify mount options but it didn't help either. Both machines are running arch, samba is 3.6.0-8 and cifs 4.9-3. I'm quite new to samba so any help would be greatly appreciated. pl

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[arch-general] no desktop: howto change default browser?
by clemens fischer 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

Hi, when using eg. "evince" to view a PDF document, links open in "epiphany", which seems to be a gnome default browser. I need to change this, but all the links the <search engine> comes up with hint at using menus like "system -> ... -> browser". I only run a window-manager, no desktop, so there's no such thing as a "system" menu entry. I have used "gconf-editor", added the directory chain "~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/{http,https}" with keys "command" -> 'firefox "%s"', "enabled" -> ticked, "needs_terminal" -> not-ticked, but these settings don't help. Does somebody know how to change the setting for default-browser when no desktop is used? clemens

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[arch-general] Mongodb 2.0.0 out for testing in [community-testing]
by Thomas Dziedzic 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

Hello, I will keep mongodb 2.0.0 in [community-testing] for a day or 2 so that users can test it out. Please report any issues you have. I switched to using the new --shutdown flag in the rc.d script to stop the daemon. I have tested the new mongodb and everything seems to work fine for me, but I want to be cautious and not have a repeat of last time I changed something in mongodb :) Have fun testing! The release notes http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/2.0+Release+Notes The changelog https://jira.mongodb.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=10140

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[arch-general] libtool(-multilib) and libltdl
by F.Gr. 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

Hi, I'm using Arch64. The latest updated for libtool(-multilib) and libltdl breaks some software (transmission-gtk, emacs): "emacs: error while loading shared libraries: libltdl.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" -- Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. --Edmund Burke

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[arch-general] Udev Automounting Rule
by Bastien Dejean 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

Hi, I'm using the first rule given here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev When I plug a USB (fat32) stick, the permissions of the corresponding directory under /media are fine (root:users), but when I plug an external HD (ext3, also through USB), I get the following user:group settings: 1001:1001. What the... ?! Regards, -- Bastien

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Re: [arch-general] wvdial and ppp configuration
by kevku 11 Sep '11

11 Sep '11

well on windows it works something like this tried it but no success. some modems (mostly non usb) support AT*ENAP=1,1 which could work better mayb i just missed something AT^NDISDUP=1,1,"apn.isp.net" OK AT^DHCP? ^DHCP:4cc8bb53,f8ffffff,49c8bb53,49c8bb53,429cf7d4,469cf7d4,7200000,5760000 # no idea what this means OK dhcpcd wwan0 dhcpcd[2150]: version 5.2.12 starting dhcpcd[2150]: wwan0: rebinding lease of 83... dhcpcd[2150]: wwan0: NAK: from 83... dhcpcd[2150]: wwan0: broadcasting for a lease dhcpcd[2150]: wwan0: offered 83... from 83... dhcpcd[2150]: wwan0: acknowledged 83... from 83... dhcpcd[2150]: wwan0: checking for 83... dhcpcd[2150]: wwan0: leased 83... for 7200 seconds dhcpcd[2150]: forked to background, child pid 2179 route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 0.0.0.0 83... 0.0.0.0 UG 205 0 0 wwan0 83... 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.248 U 205 0 0 wwan0 ping 8.8.8.8 -.- nothing [ 912.008526] cdc_ether 2-1:1.1: wwan0: CDC: unexpected notification 01!

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[arch-general] Distorted sound with extra/vlc 1.1.11-4
by Bernardo Barros 10 Sep '11

10 Sep '11

Last VLC package is giving me distorted sounds, not happening with vlc-1.1.7-6 from http://arm.konnichi.com/extra/os/x86_64/vlc-1.1.7-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Or with *any other* program installed in my computer, just VLC after version 1.1.7-6 Anyone experiencing this bug? https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25914 I think further investigation would be good, A 'it works for me' from one single person is enough to close the issue? Cheers, Bernardo

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[arch-general] wvdial and ppp configuration
by Fons Adriaensen 10 Sep '11

10 Sep '11

Hello all, Since my (unknown) neighbour finally got smart enough to lock me out of his wireless access point (still unencrypted, probably filters on MAC address now), I got a Vodafone USB internet key, and even managed to make it work. But I've the impression that my current configuration isn't really optimal. The key identifies as 19d2:1013, and usb_modeswitch changes this to 19d2:1015. At that point I also get a new network interface called 'usb0'. So my first idea was that all I had to do was to configure and bring up that interface, but using netcfg to do this results in a 'No connection' error. Some more googling resulted in the following wvdial config which indeed does the job: [Dialer vodafone] Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","web.omnitel.it" Modem Type = USB Modem Phone = *99***1# ISDN = 0 Username = prova Password = prova Modem = /dev/ttyACM0 Baud = 460800 [Dialer pin] Modem = /dev/ttyACM0 Baud = 460800 Init1 = ATZ Init2 = AT +CPIN="****" The 'pin' target is required once after power up. The 'vodafone' target results in: --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.61 --> Cannot get information for serial port. --> Initializing modem. --> Sending: ATZ ATZ OK --> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 OK --> Sending: AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","web.omnitel.it" AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","web.omnitel.it" OK --> Modem initialized. --> Sending: ATDT*99***1# --> Waiting for carrier. ATDT*99***1# CONNECT 14400000 --> Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt. --> Don't know what to do! Starting pppd and hoping for the best. --> Starting pppd at Sat Sep 10 17:52:39 2011 --> Pid of pppd: 4140 --> Using interface ppp0 --> pppd: �[05]�[08]@�[08]�[07]�[08] --> pppd: �[05]�[08]@�[08]�[07]�[08] --> pppd: �[05]�[08]@�[08]�[07]�[08] --> pppd: �[05]�[08]@�[08]�[07]�[08] --> pppd: �[05]�[08]@�[08]�[07]�[08] --> local IP address 109.113.40.0 --> pppd: �[05]�[08]@�[08]�[07]�[08] --> remote IP address 10.0.0.1 --> pppd: �[05]�[08]@�[08]�[07]�[08] --> primary DNS address 83.224.70.77 --> pppd: �[05]�[08]@�[08]�[07]�[08] --> secondary DNS address 83.224.70.54 --> pppd: �[05]�[08]@�[08]�[07]�[08] plus a new network interface 'ppp0' and a working internet connection - I'm using it to write this post. But there are some strange things: 1. The 'Don't know what to do! Starting pppd and hoping for the best.' line from wvdial looks suspect. 2. The fact that I have _two_ new network interfaces. The existence of the 'usb0' one seems to suggest I don't need pppd at all, but how then to bring it up ? Any information / suggestions to improve this will be appreciated. Also, if at all possible I'd like to put all this into a neat netcfg profile. TIA, -- FA

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[arch-general] Waking from Suspend by Keyboard Activity
by Bastien Dejean 10 Sep '11

10 Sep '11

Hi, How can I let my USB keyboard be a waker? I tried to add echo USB0 > /proc/acpi/wakeup to rc.local but, after boot, /proc/acpi/wakeup doesn't contain any USB related line. Regards, -- Bastien

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[arch-general] Konqueror aesthetic peeve
by David Rosenstrauch 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

I know this is a minor thing, but a) it's bugging me, and b) it's bugging me more that I can't fix it! :-) I thought someone here might be having the same problem and/or know how to help. Although I'm an XFCE user, I still use KDE's konqueror as my file manager. (Old habits die hard. Plus, I've not yet found a file manager that's better.) I use qtcurve as my widget style throughout my system - i.e., both with KDE/QT apps and with GTK apps - and so am able to achieve a uniform look to my UI, which I like very much. A few days ago, though, a recent pacman upgrade messed up konqueror's widget display and I can't seem to figure out how to get it back. Normally, konqueror displays like so: http://www.darose.net/KonquerorUnderKDE.png (Note the ">" icons in the sidebar on the left, for expanding the tree.) And konqueror still is displaying itself this way when I run it under any other DE (KDE, fluxbox, etc.). However, when I run it under XFCE (my DE of choice), it displays like so: http://www.darose.net/KonquerorUnderXFCE.png (Note the use of the windows-style "+" icons in the sidebar.) I find this situation very odd and irritating: 1) Why is this only happening under XFCE? 2) Why is this only happening in the *sidebar* portion of the window? (If you look at the XFCE screenshot, konqueror is clearly using the qtcurve-style arrow widgets in other portions of the GUI.) Anyone else experience this and/or have any idea what pacman update caused this and/or have any idea how to fix? TIA! DR

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[arch-general] Can't build libwebkit
by Bastien Dejean 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

Hi, I'm trying to add WebGL support to libwebkit but makepkg stops with the following error: ==> ERROR: replace-switch-with-given-when.patch was not found in the build directory and is not a URL. Regards, -- Bastien

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[arch-general] Adopting start-stop-daemon in archlinux
by Clemens Fruhwirth 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

If you use Debian, you might have come across start-stop-daemon. It's part of the dpkg package and encapsulates all the knowledge, they learnt when dealing with starting and stopping daemons. It has plenty of features ranging from: * handling pidfiles more intimately (checking the pid files content, verifying that the pid given actually is the executable in question) * changing UID/GID * chrooting, nice-ing * retry starting if daemon dies * creating pid files when the process doesn't do it, etc, etc. curl http://clemens.endorphin.org/start-stop-daemon.c | less if you want to have look for yourself. It's a single C file. To me handling pid files correctly is the biggest win. The paradigm used commonly in arch PID=`pidof -o %PPID /usr/bin/executable` [ -z "$PID" ] && /usr/bin/executable is flawed and does not work reliably as shown here https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17138 I propose to switch to start-stop-daemon and deprecate the method above. http://clemens.endorphin.org/sshd-start-stop-daemon.diff is an example of an rc.d script ported to start-stop-daemon. The paradigm -- to my personal taste -- is clean and simple. The diffstat is negative LOC-wise. We could either take the aur/start-stop-daemon packaging which references dpkg.tar.gz or include into another core package. start-stop-daemon.c is public domain. -- Fruhwirth Clemens http://clemens.endorphin.org

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[arch-general] Bochs need gdb-stub support, right?
by goodmenzy＠gmail.com 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

Hi, I think bochs should add --enable-gdb-stub option when configuring. I build the modified PKGBUILD, It works. The pkgbuild script is in the attachment. Kevin, Could you please adopt my adives?

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Re: [arch-general] X fails to start after editing ~/.xinitrc
by Igor Mosyagin 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Hello there. Would your system still fail with empty .xinitrc? (mv ~/.xinitrc ~/dangerous_xinitrc && touch ~/.xinitrc) You don't need ampersand for fonts rehashing. Is that line is only one you have in your .xinitrc? Do you have system xinitrc? (/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc) Is it empty? Igor Mosyagin cellular: +79265279171 jabber: cramur(a)talk.mipt.ru skype: cr4mur > Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 03:54:37 +0000 (UTC) > From: "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva(a)gmail.com> > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] X fails to start after editing ~/.xinitrc > Message-ID: <j46ptt$jt0$1(a)dough.gmane.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:45:49 +0200, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Juan R. de Silva >> <juan.r.d.silva(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> 3. In case net-tools package from core does not provide hostname any >>> more as well, what would be a solution then for one that would like to >>> use "terminus" fonts which by default installed into >>> /usr/share/fonts/local? >> >> I've never had any problems with Terminus being added to fontpath in >> .xinitrc but you can use xorg.conf for that too. > > To use xorg.conf I would need first to create one, since my system works > without it so far. Unless I really must to create it I would prefer to > leave things as their are for now. > >> If you have net-tools installed, you shouldn't be getting errors about >> hostname being missing. > > Yes, net-tools is installed. However the error is as I said. > >> hostname will be provided by inetutils, as was explained in the mailing >> list message I linked to. I'm currently running testing and I have no >> problems with X, hostname does its job (whatever that might be ;P), I'm >> using Terminus and have 'xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local &; in my >> .xinirtc - all seems to work. > > You typed above: 'xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local &; > > Is it a typo or you meant to say your .xinitrc has line like this? > > 'xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local &' - with ampersand at the end > > If the last is true then it differs from my entry, which is > > 'xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local' - without ampersand. > > Does it make sense to add it?.. > > >> When I downgrade to [core] (i.e. I'm not using [testing] anymore), >> things still work, so the current net-tools should be all you need. > > Here a snippet I found in 'man xset': > > [ fp rehash: > > The rehash argument resets the font path to its current value, > causing the server to reread the font databases in the current > font path. This is generally only used when adding new fonts > to a font directory (after running mkfontdir to recreate the > font database). ] > > I actually never run 'mkfontdir' after Terminus fonts were installed > since the Fonts Installation wiki page I referred to mentions that > executing 'mkfontscale' and then 'mkfontdir' is needed only for "older > applications that do not support fontconfig". > > Do you think this might be a problem? > >

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[arch-general] X fails to start after editing ~/.xinitrc
by Juan R. de Silva 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

I have a new arch install with basic X environment added and successfully tested. Following instructions here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts I installed "terminus" fonts, created ~/.xinitrc file and added to it the following lines as advised: xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local xset fp rehash After this X fails to start with error: "/usr/bin/startx: Line 127: hostname: command not found" When ~/.xinitrc file deleted, X starts as before just fine. Could somebody help me to figure out what am I doing wrong, please?

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[arch-general] packagekit
by Myra Nelson 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

I'm running pacman4 rc1 and everything seems to be working fine. My question is, I'm not in a hurry or anything, it's just a question. When will packagekit etc be updated to work with pacman4? As I said, I currently have no problems and simply ignore them on updates. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] [anikom15@gmail.com: odd compress command]
by Westley Martínez 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

I don't think my previous email went through. I apologize and disregard if it did. Here is the original message: ----- Forwarded message from Westley Martínez <anikom15(a)gmail.com> ----- Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 00:44:46 -0700 From: Westley Martínez <anikom15(a)gmail.com> To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org Subject: odd compress command User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Hello, on my [Arch] system the compress program is actually a wrapper to gzip. This has caused a test to fail for Python <http://bugs.python.org/issue11340>. The bug is quite old but it is still relevant and I've been working on fixing it. I'd like to ask if anyone knows exactly why Arch's compress program outputs .gz files and not .Z files. I honestly could not find any information concerning its history or its rationale, and I come to this mailing-list as a last resort. Likewise, I think it would be appropriate to adopt the true compress program or not include a compress command at all, because, as you can see, problems have been created. ----- End forwarded message -----

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[arch-general] pacman -Sl
by Joker-jar 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

Hello! I just made `pacman -Ql ...` analogue for don't installed packages. Enjoy ;) http://paste.org.ru/?h5cg9y

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dnsutils-9.8.1-1
by Thorsten Töpper 04 Sep '11

04 Sep '11

On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 12:52:21 +0300 Evangelos Foutras <evangelos(a)foutrelis.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Gaetan Bisson <bisson(a)archlinux.org> > wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > A new dnsutils package lies in [testing]... again - an upstream > > update this time. No big changes, mostly bug fixes. For the curious: > > > > https://deepthought.isc.org/article/AA-00446/81/ > > > > Please test and signoff. > > Signoff x86_64. signoff i686 -- Jabber: atsutane(a)freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] diffutils-3.2-1
by Thorsten Töpper 04 Sep '11

04 Sep '11

On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:30:13 +1000 Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On 03/09/11 20:42, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Allan McRae<allan(a)archlinux.org> > > wrote: > >> Upstream update: > >> > >> > >> * Noteworthy changes in release 3.2 (2011-09-02) [stable] > >> > >> ** Changes in behavior > >> > >> --ignore-file-name-case now applies at the top level too. > >> For example, "diff dir inIt" might compare "dir/Init" to "inIt". > >> > >> ** New features > >> > >> diff and sdiff have a new option --ignore-trailing-space (-Z). > >> > >> ** Packaging > >> > >> The texinfo documentation no longer specifies "front-cover" or > >> "back-cover" texts, so that it may now be included in Debian's > >> "main" section. > >> > >> > >> Signoff both, > > > > Signoff x86_64. > > > > Anyone for i686? > > Allan signoff i686 -- Jabber: atsutane(a)freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4

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[arch-general] How big really is the MBR?
by Eric Griffith 03 Sep '11

03 Sep '11

Whats up guys, Was planning on re-install Arch on my laptop, started writing a couple scripts to handle the usual things I do. One of the NEW things im going to be trying is grub2. Now, the Grub2 wiki says to run dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=440 count=1 to wipe out grub-legacy from the MBR. And since the Arch-devs removed "No Bootloader" as an option in the AIF, you can't follow the "during installation" instructions for Grub2. Here's my problem, just by sheer luck was I roaming the web today, and noticed a few other threads (in various forums for various distros / blogs) and they all had a similar command to run if youre grub-legacy was screwed and you needed to write over it. The only issue, and the reason for this email? They had different commands. Not completly different, but different enough that raised an eyebrow. In dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=440 count=1 They had various numbers for bs=, some 440, some 446, some 506, and some 512. Normally I would've just shrugged and followed the wiki, but notice on one said that if you zero out too far, you wipe out hte partition table...which I wouldn't enjoy haha. So can anyone confirm that the command above, from the wiki, is correct? And that it IS 440, and not something different. I'd hate to pick the wrong one and zero out my partition table, or not completly zero out grub-legacy and run into a whole different set of problems. Thanks!

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[arch-general] Unreachable system and general ARP weirdness
by swh 03 Sep '11

03 Sep '11

Beginning a few months ago, two of the systems on my LAN, a desktop and a laptop, have periodically become mutually uncommunicative. I believe it started occurring when I did a massive -Syu on the laptop, installing six months worth of updates for the laptop at once and effectively upgrading 1/2 of the installed packages... but I'm not positive. The issue still occurs regularly with both systems running 3.0.x kernels. The issue typically occurs after the desktop has been up for a few days, but on rare occasion it's present when the desktop boots. When the issue does occur, other systems on the LAN are able to reach both systems as per normal. It's a simple switched network, and both systems have manually-assigned static IPs. I've done a fair bit of testing with tshark and have determined that the issue presents itself as such: The laptop is able to reach the desktop, with ICMP echo requests and nmap scans going through just fine. However, a response is never received by the laptop. When running tshark on the laptop and sending traffic from the desktop, an oddity occurs. Although the laptop's static IP is 192.168.0.3 (and this is explicitly present as an argument to ping, nmap, etc.) the desktop is actually sending out an ARP broadcast, attempting to get the MAC of an IP in the Philippines - far outside the LAN's 192.168.0.0/24 range. What makes this doubly odd is that I've manually added a correct entry into the desktop's ARP cache for the laptop's IP (via arp -s), yet it's apparently ignored and the bogus ARP broadcasts continue. Interestingly, the arping utility is able to broadcast for the correct IP's MAC, and does receive a reply from the laptop - but the issue persists for everything except arping. If I put an unused IP (e.g. 192.168.0.32) along with the laptop's MAC into the desktop's ARP cache and ping that new address, predictably the ICMP echo requests do get to the laptop, but of course aren't acknowledged as the laptop isn't using that IP. Actually moving the laptop to another IP results in the systems being able to reach each other normally, but the bizarre ARP broadcasts persist when attempting to reach the laptop's old IP, 192.168.0.3. A further observation I made (which simply added to the confusion): An Arch VM, running with bridged networking on the desktop, is perfectly capable of reaching the laptop - I can SSH in without issue. Yet nothing (aside from arping) is even able to get a reply from the laptop when run from a shell on the desktop. Because the VM works, I've essentially ruled out any sort of hardware or driver issue. The part where I'm stuck is... what's below the ARP cache? I have no idea why "ping 192.168.0.3" doesn't work when there is an explicitly-placed entry for the IP in the ARP cache, and how an explicitly-specified IP can turn into an ARP broadcast for a completely different IP (in the Philippines, no less) just baffles me. Any help is appreciated.

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[arch-general] Error updating related to pygobject, pygobject-devel, Python, and Python2
by Myra Nelson 03 Sep '11

03 Sep '11

It would seem I have something misconfigured on my machine. I haven't noticed anything on the mailing list or on the Arch news about this, checked the bug tracker and followed the links to the Python mailing list, and I'm still a little confused. Below is an example of what I get back from pacman -Sy and pacman -Su, the rest is in a pastebin at http://pastebin.com/3dBxsGvE. myra@gandalf ../repos/extra-x86_64]:pacsu (equivalent to pacman -Su) :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: pacman: local (4.0.0rc1-1) is newer than core (3.5.4-4) :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-gobject2? [Y/n] y :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-gtkhtml2? [Y/n] y :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-gtkspell? [Y/n] y :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-httplib2? [Y/n] y :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-libgnome? [Y/n] y :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-nose? [Y/n] y :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-numpy? [Y/n] y :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-pip? [Y/n] y :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-pyopenssl? [Y/n] y :: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-pyqt? [Y/n] y --- adnauseum resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: python2-nose and python-nose are in conflict The adnauseum got 1455 line of repetition through pygobject and pygobject-devel. Based on the Python mailing list referenced in FS25747 on the bug tracker, I'm not sure what to do next. You'll notice in the pastebin I stopped hitting the Y and just pressed enter (yes I really did that). No problems prior to today, but it seems as though I've borked something up. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] Down doesn't stick
by Jorge Almeida 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Two days ago I did a one week -due general upgrading. After rebooting, the "Down" key changed its usual behavior: keeping the key pressed should keep producing Down events (I use it sometimes to scroll a google page without the mouse, or to move down across a text editing page). Now, it only sends one event. If I want to scroll down two lines I have to press twice. The Up key still has the usual behavior. I checked with xev that events are not being sent (i.e., they are not just being ignored). I suspected a keyboard hw probem, and so I used xmodmap to map another key (AltGr, right next to the space bar) to be another Down. It worked well yesterday, but today, after booting, new and old key have both the same strange behavior. I have no idea what package may be causing this... Jorge Almeida

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.0.4-1
by Tobias Powalowski 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] emacs-color-theme: please use a snapshot
by XeCycle 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Hope I'm not disturbing~ But I don't know whether this worth a bug report. The package `emacs-color-theme' uses the stable release, released in 2006. In 2007, there's a commit fixing a bug (for me, the bug causes conflict with Gnus), but the upstream didn't release a new version since then. So I would suggest on using a snapshot version --- I fixed that bug myself. Following is more about that bug and how I fixed it: Function `replace-in-string' is provided in XEmacs but not GNU Emacs, so the author of color-theme defined his own. Yes, he checks whether the function exists. Gnus also defined one, but the name is `mm-replace-in-string'. Gnus checks whether `replace-in-string' is present, and if it does, the `mm-' is just an alias to that. All right, Eh? But the author of color-theme defined the function different from XEmacs did. So Gnus was confused, then it complained about something like "wrong number of arguments" when using it --- for example, when EasyPG is trying to verify a PGP/MIME signature. I fixed that by renaming the defun in color-theme.el to `color-theme-replace-in-string', by adding a sed line in the build() function before the compilation. -- 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] moving cups 1.5.0 to extra
by Andreas Radke 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

New cups is sitting in testing now for some time. No bug reports so far. It works fine for me. Any objections moving this to extra? -Andy

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[arch-general] New GTK update make LibreOffice 'save' document type unreadable
by David C. Rankin 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Guys, I think the GTK update made the LibreOffice 'save' dialog 'document type' list box unreadable. Where you used to be able to read: "All Formats" "Open Document Text .odt" "Word 97 .doc", etc..., now the entire list is squished down into a 1/2 of screen space and is unreadable. Here is a screenshot: [107k] http://phoenix/dl/img/newGTK-bug.jpg This happened as a result of the updates this morning. The updates were: [2011-08-31 10:13] Running 'pacman -Syu' [2011-08-31 10:13] synchronizing package lists [2011-08-31 10:13] starting full system upgrade [2011-08-31 10:27] upgraded apache (2.2.19-1 -> 2.2.20-1) [2011-08-31 10:27] upgraded b43-fwcutter (014-1 -> 015-1) [2011-08-31 10:27] upgraded nss (3.12.11-1 -> 3.12.11-3) [2011-08-31 10:27] upgraded evolution-data-server (3.0.2.1-2 -> 3.0.3-1) [2011-08-31 10:27] upgraded gtkhtml4 (4.0.1-1 -> 4.0.2-1) [2011-08-31 10:27] upgraded evolution (3.0.2-1 -> 3.0.3-1) [2011-08-31 10:27] upgraded gtk-update-icon-cache (2.24.5-3 -> 2.24.6-1) [2011-08-31 10:27] upgraded gtk2 (2.24.5-3 -> 2.24.6-1) [2011-08-31 10:27] upgraded firefox (6.0-1 -> 6.0.1-1) [2011-08-31 10:27] upgraded linux-firmware (20110727-1 -> 20110822-1) [2011-08-31 10:28] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ... [2011-08-31 10:28] >>> MKINITCPIO SETUP <snip> [2011-08-31 10:28] upgraded kernel26-lts (2.6.32.45-1 -> 2.6.32.46-1) [2011-08-31 10:28] upgraded libwnck (2.30.6-2 -> 2.30.7-1) <snip> [2011-08-31 10:28] upgraded linux (3.0.3-1 -> 3.0.4-1) [2011-08-31 10:28] upgraded linux-headers (3.0.3-1 -> 3.0.4-1) [2011-08-31 10:29] upgraded mesa (7.11-1 -> 7.11-2) [2011-08-31 10:29] upgraded playonlinux (4.0.9-1 -> 4.0.11-1) [2011-08-31 10:29] upgraded thunderbird (6.0-1 -> 6.0.1-1) [2011-08-31 10:29] upgraded xulrunner (6.0-2 -> 6.0.1-1) The only update that looks relevant is: gtk2 (2.24.5-3 -> 2.24.6-1). Is anyone else seeing this? If so, any idea whether this is a GTK2 bug or a Libre bug? I'm just trying to figure out where this bug goes.... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Kernel.org compromised. Are Arch users safe?
by Paulo Guedes 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Since mirrors.kernel.org is one of the main mirrors used in Arch what's the best measureus to take right know? Format the computer and reinstall arch? Uninstall any update since last week?

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