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[arch-general] [PATCH 2/3] Fixing south scripts
by Angel Velasquez 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Table main_mirror was renamed to mirror_mirrors then it fails at the time to re-create the schema Signed-off-by: Angel Velasquez <angvp(a)archlinux.org> --- main/migrations/0008_mirror_tiering.py | 8 ++++---- main/migrations/0009_mirror_rsync_credentials.py | 8 ++++---- main/migrations/0010_kill_rsync_ip_hostname.py | 4 ++-- main/migrations/0011_mirror_notes_text_field.py | 4 ++-- .../migrations/0014_mirror_notes_rsync_optional.py | 8 ++++---- 5 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/main/migrations/0008_mirror_tiering.py b/main/migrations/0008_mirror_tiering.py index 3993289..9dfbd6f 100644 --- a/main/migrations/0008_mirror_tiering.py +++ b/main/migrations/0008_mirror_tiering.py @@ -5,15 +5,15 @@ from main.models import * class Migration: def forwards(self, orm): # Adding field 'Mirror.tier' - db.add_column('main_mirror', 'tier', orm['main.mirror:tier']) + db.add_column('mirrors_mirror', 'tier', orm['main.mirror:tier']) # Adding field 'Mirror.upstream' - db.add_column('main_mirror', 'upstream', orm['main.mirror:upstream']) + db.add_column('mirrors_mirror', 'upstream', orm['main.mirror:upstream']) def backwards(self, orm): # Deleting field 'Mirror.tier' - db.delete_column('main_mirror', 'tier') + db.delete_column('mirrors_mirror', 'tier') # Deleting field 'Mirror.upstream' - db.delete_column('main_mirror', 'upstream_id') + db.delete_column('mirrors_mirror', 'upstream_id') models = { 'auth.group': { diff --git a/main/migrations/0009_mirror_rsync_credentials.py b/main/migrations/0009_mirror_rsync_credentials.py index bbfc9d6..274490f 100644 --- a/main/migrations/0009_mirror_rsync_credentials.py +++ b/main/migrations/0009_mirror_rsync_credentials.py @@ -5,15 +5,15 @@ from main.models import * class Migration: def forwards(self, orm): # Adding field 'Mirror.rsync_user' - db.add_column('main_mirror', 'rsync_user', orm['main.mirror:rsync_user']) + db.add_column('mirrors_mirror', 'rsync_user', orm['main.mirror:rsync_user']) # Adding field 'Mirror.rsync_password' - db.add_column('main_mirror', 'rsync_password', orm['main.mirror:rsync_password']) + db.add_column('mirrors_mirror', 'rsync_password', orm['main.mirror:rsync_password']) def backwards(self, orm): # Deleting field 'Mirror.rsync_user' - db.delete_column('main_mirror', 'rsync_user') + db.delete_column('mirrors_mirror', 'rsync_user') # Deleting field 'Mirror.rsync_password' - db.delete_column('main_mirror', 'rsync_password') + db.delete_column('mirrors_mirror', 'rsync_password') models = { 'auth.group': { diff --git a/main/migrations/0010_kill_rsync_ip_hostname.py b/main/migrations/0010_kill_rsync_ip_hostname.py index 105fced..86d9a92 100644 --- a/main/migrations/0010_kill_rsync_ip_hostname.py +++ b/main/migrations/0010_kill_rsync_ip_hostname.py @@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ from main.models import * class Migration: def forwards(self, orm): # Deleting field 'MirrorRsync.hostname' - db.delete_column('main_mirrorrsync', 'hostname') + db.delete_column('mirrors_mirrorrsync', 'hostname') def backwards(self, orm): # Adding field 'MirrorRsync.hostname' - db.add_column('main_mirrorrsync', 'hostname', orm['main.mirrorrsync:hostname']) + db.add_column('mirrors_mirrorrsync', 'hostname', orm['main.mirrorrsync:hostname']) models = { 'auth.group': { diff --git a/main/migrations/0011_mirror_notes_text_field.py b/main/migrations/0011_mirror_notes_text_field.py index cb6347d..2bcc34d 100644 --- a/main/migrations/0011_mirror_notes_text_field.py +++ b/main/migrations/0011_mirror_notes_text_field.py @@ -6,12 +6,12 @@ class Migration: def forwards(self, orm): # Changing field 'Mirror.notes' # (to signature: django.db.models.fields.TextField(blank=True)) - db.alter_column('main_mirror', 'notes', orm['main.mirror:notes']) + db.alter_column('mirrors_mirror', 'notes', orm['main.mirror:notes']) def backwards(self, orm): # Changing field 'Mirror.notes' # (to signature: django.db.models.fields.CharField(max_length=255, blank=True)) - db.alter_column('main_mirror', 'notes', orm['main.mirror:notes']) + db.alter_column('mirrors_mirror', 'notes', orm['main.mirror:notes']) models = { 'auth.group': { diff --git a/main/migrations/0014_mirror_notes_rsync_optional.py b/main/migrations/0014_mirror_notes_rsync_optional.py index 21d1362..b4867a8 100644 --- a/main/migrations/0014_mirror_notes_rsync_optional.py +++ b/main/migrations/0014_mirror_notes_rsync_optional.py @@ -5,15 +5,15 @@ from main.models import * class Migration: def forwards(self, orm): # Changing field field 'Mirror.rsync_user' - db.alter_column('main_mirror', 'rsync_user', orm['main.mirror:rsync_user']) + db.alter_column('mirrors_mirror', 'rsync_user', orm['main.mirror:rsync_user']) # Changing field 'Mirror.rsync_password' - db.alter_column('main_mirror', 'rsync_password', orm['main.mirror:rsync_password']) + db.alter_column('mirrors_mirror', 'rsync_password', orm['main.mirror:rsync_password']) def backwards(self, orm): # Changing field field 'Mirror.rsync_user' - db.alter_column('main_mirror', 'rsync_user', orm['main.mirror:rsync_user']) + db.alter_column('mirrors_mirror', 'rsync_user', orm['main.mirror:rsync_user']) # Changing field 'Mirror.rsync_password' - db.alter_column('main_mirror', 'rsync_password', orm['main.mirror:rsync_password']) + db.alter_column('mirrors_mirror', 'rsync_password', orm['main.mirror:rsync_password']) models = { 'auth.group': { -- 1.7.2.3

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[arch-general] [PATCH 3/3] Adding changing of user profile details
by Angel Velasquez 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

The idea of this patch is allow to the dev's who have an account, to change their data without asking some admin to do it for them. Signed-off-by: Angel Velasquez <angvp(a)archlinux.org> --- devel/views.py | 16 +++++++++++----- templates/devel/profile.html | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/devel/views.py b/devel/views.py index c974806..a2dd0e3 100644 --- a/devel/views.py +++ b/devel/views.py @@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ def change_notify(request): return HttpResponseRedirect('/devel/') class ProfileForm(forms.Form): - email = forms.EmailField(label='E-mail Address') passwd1 = forms.CharField(label='New Password', required=False, widget=forms.PasswordInput) passwd2 = forms.CharField(label='Confirm Password', required=False, @@ -64,20 +63,27 @@ class ProfileForm(forms.Form): raise forms.ValidationError('Passwords do not match.') return self.cleaned_data +class UserProfileForm(forms.ModelForm): + class Meta: + model = UserProfile + exclude = ['allowed_repos', 'user'] + @login_required @never_cache def change_profile(request): if request.POST: form = ProfileForm(request.POST) - if form.is_valid(): - request.user.email = form.cleaned_data['email'] + profile_form = UserProfileForm(data=request.POST, instance=request.user.get_profile()) + if form.is_valid() and profile_form.is_valid(): if form.cleaned_data['passwd1']: request.user.set_password(form.cleaned_data['passwd1']) request.user.save() + profile_form.save() return HttpResponseRedirect('/devel/') else: - form = ProfileForm(initial={'email': request.user.email}) - return direct_to_template(request, 'devel/profile.html', {'form': form}) + form = ProfileForm() + profile_form = UserProfileForm(instance=request.user.get_profile()) + return direct_to_template(request, 'devel/profile.html', {'form': form, 'profile_form': profile_form}) @login_required def mirrorlist(request): diff --git a/templates/devel/profile.html b/templates/devel/profile.html index 0dde934..6e2053f 100644 --- a/templates/devel/profile.html +++ b/templates/devel/profile.html @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ <legend>Username: <strong>{{ user.username }}</strong></legend> {{ form.as_p }} </fieldset> + <fieldset> + {{ profile_form.as_p }} + </fieldset> <p><label></label> <input title="Save changes" type="submit" value="Save" /></p> </form> -- 1.7.2.3

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[arch-general] Kernel Rootexploit
by Moritz Rudert 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Hi everybody, unfortunately today a new root exploit appeared. Look at: http://sota.gen.nz/compat2/ After some tests I can say: It works on Archlinux and Ubuntu, but not on debian. The "bugfix" found on http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Sep/273 does not work on Arch and Ubuntu. The only current fix is to patch the kernel. allspark and me built new versions of the current Arch-kernel and the LTS-kernel. Kernel and PKGBUILD-tar can be found on: http://lorelei.h-ix.net/downloads/kernel26-2.6.35.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz http://lorelei.h-ix.net/downloads/kernel26-2.6.35.4-1.src.tar.gz http://lorelei.h-ix.net/downloads/kernel26-lts-2.6.32.21-2.src.tar.gz http://lorelei.h-ix.net/downloads/kernel26-lts-2.6.32.21-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz I will upload a new version of kernel26-vanilla to AUR later this day. Greetings Moritz <helios> Rudert

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[arch-general] kernel compilation makeflags
by Matthew Monaco 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

When I am compiling the kernel (in the chroot). My -j4 makeflag is getting lost. Is this expected?

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Re: [arch-general] community/e-svn 51937-1 BROKEN? themes fail screen resolution fail etc...
by Nicky726 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Dne St 15. září 2010 11:08:10 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook napsal(a): > ... > Is anybody else having a problem with community/e-svn 51937-1 (e17-svn)? > Or is it just me? Any suggestions would be welcome... But I already tried > moving my ~/.e directory and letting e17 start with a fresh user profile. > But it still wouldn't let me save my changes if they included screen > resolution changes. > ... Hello, Joe, I also noticed problems with the new release of E17 at my 32bit Arch. It seems, that there was some change upstream that broke compatibility with older themes/backgrounds/icons, so that they are listed in selections dialogs, but are not loaded. Rebuilding the e17-backgrounds, e17-icons and e17-themes packages from the AUR partially solves the problem, as more themes/backgrounds/icons can now be loaded, some still remains broken though. I've also seen the resolution being reset to default, but in my case the switch to desired one was flawless and logout succeeded (OSS ati drivers). Hope, this will be of some help, regards, Nicky -- Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone (Joni Mitchell)

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[arch-general] [namcap] [PATCH] Check for packages that should be 'any'
by David Campbell 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

If a package has no elf files but is not 'any', throw a warning saying that the package could be 'any'. --- Namcap/anyelf.py | 18 ++++++++++-------- namcap-tags | 1 + 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Namcap/anyelf.py b/Namcap/anyelf.py index f3414af..c037ff0 100644 --- a/Namcap/anyelf.py +++ b/Namcap/anyelf.py @@ -33,20 +33,22 @@ class package: def short_name(self): return "anyelf" def long_name(self): - return "If package is 'any' architecture, check for ELF files" + return """Check for ELF files to see if a package should be 'any' + architecture""" def prereq(self): return "extract" def analyze(self, pkginfo, data): ret = [[], [], []] - if pkginfo.arch and pkginfo.arch[0] != 'any': - return ret found_elffiles = [] - os.path.walk(data, scanelf, found_elffiles) - if len(found_elffiles) > 0: - for i in found_elffiles: - ret[0].append(("elffile-in-any-package %s", i)) - + + if pkginfo.arch and pkginfo.arch[0] == 'any': + if len(found_elffiles) > 0: + for i in found_elffiles: + ret[0].append(("elffile-in-any-package %s", i)) + else: + if len(found_elffiles) == 0: + ret[1].append(("no-elffiles-and-not-any-package", ())) return ret def type(self): diff --git a/namcap-tags b/namcap-tags index acb8e9c..4040136 100644 --- a/namcap-tags +++ b/namcap-tags @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ missing-license :: Missing license missing-maintainer :: Missing Maintainer tag missing-checksums :: Missing checksums missing-url :: Missing url +no-elffiles-and-not-any-package :: No ELF files and not an "any" package non-fhs-info-page %s :: Non-FHS info page (%s) found. Use /usr/share/info instead non-fhs-man-page %s :: Non-FHS man page (%s) found. Use /usr/share/man instead not-a-common-license %s :: %s is not a common license (it's not in /usr/share/licenses/common/) -- 1.7.1.1

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[arch-general] Installing createrepo/repoview on Arch Linux
by David C. Rankin 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Here is a quick synopsis of what is required to install createrepo on Arch in case you need to provide an rpm repository for rpm based distros hosted on your Arch server: AUR Package Summary (in order to build/install): beecrypt rpm (THIS PKG IS ORPHANED, BUT STILL CURRENT FOR rpm-5.1.9) yum-metadata-parser (OUT OF DATE -- updated PKGBUILD below) python-iniparse yum (the 'depends' line in the PKGBUILD must be fixed - see below) yum-createrepo (OUT OF DATE -- updated PKGBUILD below) kid repoview Detailed Build/Install Info: Install beecrypt http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16387 (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) makepkg -s sudo pacman -U beecrypt-4.2.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Installl rpm http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16857 (THIS PKG IS ORPHANED, BUT STILL CURRENT FOR rpm-5.1.9) (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) makepkg -s sudo pacman -U rpm-5.1.9-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Install yum-metadata-parser http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22978 (OUT OF DATE -- here is the updated PKGBUILD) (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) fix PKGBUILD as follows: # Maintainer: Chris Tusa <linisys(a)gmail.com> pkgname=yum-metadata-parser pkgver=1.1.4 pkgrel=2 pkgdesc="C-based metadata parser to quickly parse xml metadata into sqlite databases." arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('GPL') url="http://yum.baseurl.org/" groups=('lib') depends=('python' 'glib2') source=(http://yum.baseurl.org/download/yum-metadata-parser/${pkgname}-${pk… md5sums=('05289971e5cfde532631f2a99f6c58c7') build() { cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver} python ./setup.py build || return 1 python ./setup.py install --prefix=${pkgdir}/usr || return 1 } makepkg -s sudo pacman -U yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Install python-iniparse http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22977 (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) makepkg -s sudo pacman -U python-iniparse-0.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Install yum http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22976 (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) (the 'depends' line in the PKGBUILD must be fixed by changing rpm-org to rpm as follows:) #depends=('python' 'intltool' 'urlgrabber' 'rpm-org' 'python-pysqlite' 'yum-metadata-parser' 'python-iniparse') depends=('python' 'intltool' 'urlgrabber' 'rpm' 'python-pysqlite' 'yum-metadata-parser' 'python-iniparse') makepkg -s Targets (2): python-pycurl-7.19.0-4 urlgrabber-3.9.1-1 <snip> sudo pacman -U yum-3.2.28-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Install yum-createrepo http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22951 (OUT OF DATE -- here is the updated PKGBUILD) (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) fix PKGBUILD as follows (In work - not finished) : # Maintainer: Chris Tusa <linisys(a)gmail.com> pkgname=yum-createrepo pkgver=0.9.8 pkgrel=3 pkgdesc="A tool to create yum repositories from ArchLinux systems." arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('GPL') url="http://createrepo.baseurl.org" groups=('system') depends=('python' 'python-lxml' 'rpm' 'yum') source=(http://createrepo.baseurl.org/download/createrepo-${pkgver}.tar.gz createrepo0.patch createrepo1.patch) md5sums=('e37418bebb559e7420532574c1bdb18c' 'b074d7ccf1327346570ce14592470b05' 'b63a92689cfb7d4aea1cd0c7a0f55c56') build() { cd ${srcdir}/createrepo-${pkgver} # Apply Makefile patches to rename files during install cd ${srcdir}/createrepo-${pkgver}/docs patch -p1 < ${srcdir}/createrepo0.patch cd ${srcdir}/createrepo-${pkgver}/bin patch -p1 < ${srcdir}/createrepo1.patch cd ${srcdir}/createrepo-${pkgver} make || return 1 make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install || return 1 } makepkg -s Targets (1): python-lxml-2.2.8-1 <snip> sudo pacman -U yum-createrepo-0.9.8-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Install kid http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2831 (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) makepkg -s sudo pacman -U kid-0.9.6-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Install repoview (to gen html pages for rpms) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35377 (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) makepkg -s sudo pacman -U repoview-0.6.5-1-any.pkg.tar.xz Done, works fine, enjoy! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] [PATCH] commitpkg: error out if ~/staging/$repo doesn't exist
by Florian Pritz 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Signed-off-by: Florian Pritz <bluewind(a)xssn.at> --- commitpkg | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/commitpkg b/commitpkg index 03488e0..86485dc 100755 --- a/commitpkg +++ b/commitpkg @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ for _arch in ${arch[@]}; do fi echo -n 'uploading ' - rsync -p --chmod 'ug=rw,o=r' -c -h -L --progress $rsyncopts --partial "${pkgfile}" -e ssh $server:staging/$repo || abort + rsync -p --chmod 'ug=rw,o=r' -c -h -L --progress $rsyncopts --partial "${pkgfile}" -e ssh "$server:staging/$repo/$pkgfile" || abort done archrelease $repo-${_arch} || abort done -- 1.7.2.3

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[arch-general] Moving firehol back to [community]
by Jakob Gruber 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hi all, firehol [0] was moved to the AUR recently [1], and I'd like to move it back to [community]. It now builds from a known cvs snapshot. Any objections? schuay [0] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3971 [1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2010-June/009216.html

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[arch-general] Getting back the simple volume indicator?
by Magnus Therning 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

I have two arch systems I use regularly. On my home system, most recently installed, I have a rather simple and stylish volume indicator. On my other system I have an uglier, rather gaudy indicator (screenshot attached). I've completely forgotten what I did, so I don't know how to get the simple one back again. Anyone out there who knows? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] [wiki] reflect xorg changes
by Stefan Erik Wilkens 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hello all, A short while ago, I posted this topic: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=104651 Through here, I'm hoping to reach some more willing archers to assist in the updating of some keystone wiki articles. The bullet points: the changes that accompanied xorg 1.8.x have not been reflected in several important articles on the wiki: 1. The Beginner's Guide, specifically this section: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide#Step_2:_Install_X 2. The evdev article, specifically all mentioning of HAL policies (which are ignored as of 1.8.x: http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/) and the possible merge with the xorg article 3. in a less important way: Nvidia, ATI and the Synaptics article (which I am rewriting currently) The discussion page for the BG is filled with good intent since december 2009, as is the topic on the forums... But fact remains that the documentation is falling behind. I'm hoping to motivate one or several to help out in having a good look around our wiki so that we may keep our documentation on this as bleeding edge as our OS :) Out with the old, in with the new and all that. -Stefan p.s. of course these are suggestions, if any here has a better approach please do reply

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[arch-general] changed locale behavior /etc/rc.sysinit
by Ian-Xue Li 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hi, The new /etc/rc.sysinit introduced in initscripts-2010.07-1 has changed the original behavior of locale settings. The Code explains better: 369 # Flush old locale settings 370 : >| /etc/profile.d/locale.sh 371 /bin/chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/locale.sh 372 # Set user defined locale 373 [ -z "$LOCALE" ] && LOCALE="en_US" 375 echo "export LANG=$LOCALE" >>/etc/profile.d/locale.sh Now it flushes /etc/profile.d/locale.sh everytime the system boots. Usually this means setting `export LANG=en_US.UTF-8' on most computers, and to be included by shell (.bashrc or .zshrc) everytime, if the user included it at all. I.e.: source /etc/profile But for multilingual users, due to the fact that the initial console only displays ASCII, we often write the local LANG and LC_ALL setting in xinitrc, so to make an environment that uses English under console and local (multibyte) language within Xorg. With the introduction of /etc/profile.d/locale.sh, it would make a problem that cause Xorg program still using en_US when where we wanted zh_TW or zh_CN. My solution is as follows, changing some code in /etc/profile: 49 if test -d /etc/profile.d/; then 50 for profile in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do 51 if [[ $profile == "/etc/profile.d/locale.sh" && -n $DISPLAY ]]; then 52 continue 53 fi 54 test -x $profile && . $profile 55 done 56 unset profile 57 fi -- 李彥學 (Li Ian-Xue) http://b4283.ath.cx A student.

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[arch-general] Chromium crashes KDE 4.5.1
by Madhurya Kakati 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hi, I am using Chromium 6.0.x with KDE 4.5.1. Whenever any website presents a dialog box asking for confirmation for something (for example in gmail if i close the tab without logging out it presents a dialog box asking for confirmation) and after i click on any button on it the kde panel crashes. Also, i suspect plasma crashes too but applications that are open including chromium do not crash. This happened even in KDE 4.4.However it happens in KDE only and not in any other DE. Please tell me why this happens and how to stop it from happening. Thanks. P.S- Telling me to stop using KDE is not an appropriate answer :P

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[arch-general] Yesterday's qtcurve update...
by Peter Lewis 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Yesterday's qtcurve update totally broke compositing on my KDE desktop. Specifically, the qtcurve-kde4 window decoration doesn't allow OpenGL to load, only XRender (which is very slow). Anyone else got this? % lspci -vv ... Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) ... :-( Pete.

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[arch-general] community/e-svn 51937-1 BROKEN? themes fail screen resolution fail etc...
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

I just did a "pacman -Syu" And unfortunately I let it upgrade e17. according to "pacman -Ss enlightenment" I now have: community/e-svn 51937-1 (e17-svn) [installed] e17 no longer cooperates with personal themes I can select them, it remembers which theme is selected. But none of them have any effect on the appearance which is locked in on the default theme which is so dark that I can't even read the clock gadget And unlike my chosen theme there is no visible indication of which "button" will effectively be pushed if I press enter. (I'm a keyboard man mostly because I can use the keyboard for hours and hours, but 5 minutes of wrestling with the mouse is enough to cause my hands to start going numb...) So I NEED a theme that highlights the button currently in focus to use e17 effectively. It will let me change the screen resolution to one where I can read text without a microscope, But once I do I'm unable to logout cleanly. (It locks up and fails to save the configuration changes) While it's so locked up I can use <ctrl>+<alt>+<F2> to switch to another tty where I can log in and do a "ps -a" to see enlightenment is "running" But it doesn't respond to "killall enlightenment"... (Since I'm a startx user I can switch to tty1 {where I ran startx} and kill the X server with <ctrl>+C) I'm not really surprised (since it isn't listening to the theme) that my gadget and shelf settings were forgotten. It did let me put them back. (even if the clock is now useless) But at each and every change it presented me with an error that there could be only one system tray??? What that had to do with putting the sound mixer gadget back on the shelf I don't have a clue... If it matters I'm using an HP Pavilion a1410n with Amd 64 Athlon processors And an integrated Nvidia GeForce 6150 LE which didn't like the open source nouveau driver at all. So I'm using a pacman supplied proprietary Nvidia driver. I'm just glad that I've also got e16 installed or I'd really be crying in my beer. I don't suppose it's possible to roll back to the previous version of e17? Is anybody else having a problem with community/e-svn 51937-1 (e17-svn)? Or is it just me? Any suggestions would be welcome... But I already tried moving my ~/.e directory and letting e17 start with a fresh user profile. But it still wouldn't let me save my changes if they included screen resolution changes. -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>>

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Help on maintaining LXDE packages wanted
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

On 14.09.2010 21:11, Jürgen Hötzel wrote: > Hi, > > anyone wants help out on this topic? I personally don't use LXDE > anymore. > > Jürgen > I'd be interested. I use it on one machine. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[arch-general] Howto fix yum-createrepo PKGBUILD from AUR? (rpm is replaced by rpm-org - now rpm module missing?)
by David C. Rankin 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Guys, How do I fix the yum-createrepo PKGBUILD so that yum-createrepo looks for the module 'rpm-org' instead of looking for the outdated 'rpm' module? In the PKGBUILD, the depends currently is: depends=('python' 'python-lxml' 'rpm' 'yum') However, 'rpm-org' now provides 'rpm' so the depends line needs to be: depends=('python' 'python-lxml' 'rpm-org' 'yum') The problem is that when you build yum-createrepo with 'rpm-org' it fails with the following error: [12:19 archangel:/home/backup/rpms] # createrepo --update -d openSUSE_11.3/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 28, in <module> import createrepo File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 22, in <module> import yumbased File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/createrepo/yumbased.py", line 19, in <module> import rpm ImportError: No module named rpm So it looks to me like it tries to 'import rpm' and fails because 'package rpm' isn't installed, instead the new package 'rpm-org' is installed and provides rpm: 12:28 archangel:~/arch/pkg/bld/yum-createrepo> rpm --version RPM version 4.8.0 So what do I need to fix (by patch, symlink somewhere in python, or otherwise) to cure this problem? Currently I'm making an outline for what it takes to install createrepo and repoview on Arch for managing rpm repositories. There are quite a number of steps required to do this. For those interested, here is the sequence so far: Install beecrypt http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16387 (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) makepkg -s sudo pacman -U beecrypt-4.2.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Installl rpm-org http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30317 (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) makepkg -s sudo pacman -U rpm-org-4.8.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Install yum-metadata-parser http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22978 (OUT OF DATE -- here is the updated PKGBUILD) (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) fix PKGBUILD as follows: # Maintainer: Chris Tusa <linisys(a)gmail.com> pkgname=yum-metadata-parser pkgver=1.1.4 pkgrel=2 pkgdesc="C-based metadata parser to quickly parse xml metadata into sqlite databases." arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('GPL') url="http://yum.baseurl.org/" groups=('lib') depends=('python' 'glib2') source=(http://yum.baseurl.org/download/yum-metadata-parser/${pkgname}-${pk… md5sums=('05289971e5cfde532631f2a99f6c58c7') build() { cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver} python ./setup.py build || return 1 python ./setup.py install --prefix=${pkgdir}/usr || return 1 } makepkg -s sudo pacman -U yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Install python-iniparse http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22977 (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) makepkg -s sudo pacman -U python-iniparse-0.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Install yum http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22976 (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) makepkg -s Targets (2): python-pycurl-7.19.0-4 urlgrabber-3.9.1-1 <snip> sudo pacman -U yum-3.2.28-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Install yum-createrepo http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22951 (OUT OF DATE -- here is the updated PKGBUILD) (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) fix PKGBUILD as follows (In work - not finished) : # Maintainer: Chris Tusa <linisys(a)gmail.com> pkgname=yum-createrepo pkgver=0.9.8 pkgrel=3 pkgdesc="A tool to create yum repositories from ArchLinux systems." arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('GPL') url="http://createrepo.baseurl.org" groups=('system') depends=('python' 'python-lxml' 'rpm-org' 'yum') source=(http://createrepo.baseurl.org/download/createrepo-${pkgver}.tar.gz createrepo0.patch createrepo1.patch) md5sums=('e37418bebb559e7420532574c1bdb18c' 'b074d7ccf1327346570ce14592470b05' 'b63a92689cfb7d4aea1cd0c7a0f55c56') build() { cd ${srcdir}/createrepo-${pkgver} # Apply Makefile patches to rename files during install cd ${srcdir}/createrepo-${pkgver}/docs patch -p1 < ${srcdir}/createrepo0.patch cd ${srcdir}/createrepo-${pkgver}/bin patch -p1 < ${srcdir}/createrepo1.patch cd ${srcdir}/createrepo-${pkgver} make || return 1 make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install || return 1 } makepkg -s Targets (1): python-lxml-2.2.8-1 <snip> sudo pacman -U yum-createrepo-0.9.8-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz NOTE: yum-createrepo fails (rpm/rpm-org issue) with: [12:19 archangel:/home/backup/rpms] # createrepo --update -d openSUSE_11.3/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 28, in <module> import createrepo File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 22, in <module> import yumbased File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/createrepo/yumbased.py", line 19, in <module> import rpm ImportError: No module named rpm Install kid http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2831 (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) makepkg -s sudo pacman -U kid-0.9.6-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Install repoview (to gen html pages for rpms) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35377 (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) makepkg -s sudo pacman -U repoview-0.6.5-1-any.pkg.tar.xz -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] nfs4: access denied by server while mounting....
by Ananda Samaddar 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

I'm tearing my hair out over this one. I'm trying to export some directories using nfs. I've read the Arch Wiki and even been on the IRC channel but I can't fix this bloody problem. I have a desktop and a laptop both running Arch. The desktop is the server and the laptop the client. I'm using MAC-DHCP address reservation so the desktop has a static ip of 192.168.1.3 and the laptop 192.168.1.4. Here are the relevant configs: SERVER /etc/exports: /home/ananda/ 192.168.1.4(ro,fsid=0,no_subtree_check,async,nohide) /home/ananda/Music 192.168.1.4(ro,no_subtree_check,async,nohide) /etc/hosts.allow: nfsd: 192.168.1.4 rpcbind: 192.168.1.4 mountd: 192.168.1.4 I then start, rpcbind, nfs-common and nfs-server in order on the sever. CLIENT /etc/hosts.allow: rpcbind: 192.168.1.3 I then start rpcbind and nfs-common in that order on the client. There are no firewalls or iptables rules on the desktop and laptop as I'm behind a NAT and I'm lazy. The domain names in /etc/idmapd.conf are identical on both client and server too. When I try the command: mount -t nfs4 192.168.1.3:/home/ananda /mnt/shares I get the error message: mount.nfs4: access denied by server while mounting 192.168.1.3:/home/ananda The error is the same if I try nfs as the type. I've also run showmount on the client and the server at 192.168.1.3 shows the correct exports. I have no idea what's wrong. I've check and double checked everything. Any help will be appreciated. thanks, Ananda

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Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki
by David C. Rankin 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

On 09/12/2010 09:44 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: > Hey David, > > Thanks for the suggestion; when it comes to learning more about how to > do more with and get more out of the Arch environment, I'm all ears. > I'm keeping this message here for future reference when I might need > to maintain several machines under an Arch repo. This is cool indeed. > Thanks, Between home and office, I have 10-12 Arch boxes now. (I think I only have 3 suse boxes left). Finding a way to eliminate 300M downloads was a priority. With Arch, it was easier than I expected. (of course I needed help from the list to figure that out ;-) So I'm glad to help. After 1.5 years with Arch and even going through the pacman tar.gz to tar.xz changes, there are probably only 10-20 packages that I have had to manually move manually. (verses over 10,000+ that have passed through /var/cache/pacman/pkg) I do really full installs of Arch with many desktops (kde3, kde4, iceWM, fluxbox, openbox WindowMaker, Gnome, enlightenment e16 and e17) and full openOffice and compilation tools, etc.. and total packages per box run from ~2200 to ~2800 (for full-server installs). A simple way to manage updates between boxes over the LAN w/o having to re-download over the Internet is worth it's weight in gold. Especially at the office where 'business internet bandwidth' cost is ~ 5x the residential cost. (no wonder the US is losing its competitive edge). Anyway, glad I could help with the idea. Put it in your hip pocket for when you have multiple boxes. This simple little setup works like a champ. Also, as a final tip, if you don't currently use 'basket notepads' to keep your Arch/Linux notes squirreled away in. Give it a look. Even if you don't use kde3 or kde4, it's worth loading the runtime and installing basket notepads. (I'm running fluxbox right now and basket works just fine) It's like a flexible second brain for any type of notes/sounds/colors/images/etc.. (I try to limit it to text notes just to minimize the size) Here is a quick screenshot of some of what I use basket for to give you an idea of what it is and what you can do with it: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/img/misc/basket-example.jpg -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pkgstats 2.1-1
by Flavio Costa 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter(a)plaetinck.be>wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:32:50 +0200 > Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:22:03 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck > > > > You can setuid the file and give it a specific owner, it will be > > > run as that user. If that's what you're asking. > > > > Yes, thought about that too. But: nobody shouldn't own any files; > > especially executables. And: afaik you cannot suid a shell-script. The > > script is not run, but the interpreter which then runs the script. > > ah, right. is there a specific reason why nobody shouldn't own any > files? > > > > > Also, make sure we don't ddos ourselves. > > > > Well, collecting the data is not that expensive. But there is still > > some room to make it even cheaper if needed. But afaik weekly crons > > are not executed at the same milisecond and there are also different > > time zones and not every clock is in sync. > > > > sure, just thought i would mention. At my previous company an > iphone-app developer built an app which automatically polled our > servers every x minutes, and we got a self-inflicted ddos when it went > live :) > > Dieter > Couldn't we just submit these kind of statistics to somewhere "in the cloud". Google App Engine for example. -- Flávio Coutinho da Costa

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[arch-general] PostgreSQL 8.4.4-4 in [testing]
by Dan McGee 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

I put a new version (8.4.4-4) of Postgres in [testing] tonight that fixes quite a few issues and wanted to just give it a few days to bake before pushing it to extra. Let me know if you see any issues with the new package. * FS#20556 - [postgresql] should be compiled with more options and libs, for a features reach package * FS#16507 - [postgresql] $PG_ROOT created with incorrect permissions * FS#19687 - [postgresql] no logrotate config * FS#18756 - [postgresql] package doesn't have contribs except adminpack -Dan P.S. If you tried 8.4.4-3, ignore the fact that it ever existed...yes there were conflicting files in the two packages.

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[arch-general] [ABS][PATCH] Switch Contributor line with Maintainer line.
by David Campbell 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

This was already done with the prototypes in the pacman repository and should be done with these as well. --- prototypes/PKGBUILD-bzr.proto | 2 +- prototypes/PKGBUILD-cvs.proto | 2 +- prototypes/PKGBUILD-darcs.proto | 2 +- prototypes/PKGBUILD-git.proto | 2 +- prototypes/PKGBUILD-gnome.proto | 2 +- prototypes/PKGBUILD-haskell.proto | 2 +- prototypes/PKGBUILD-hg.proto | 4 ++-- prototypes/PKGBUILD-perl.proto | 2 +- prototypes/PKGBUILD-rubygem.proto | 2 +- prototypes/PKGBUILD-svn.proto | 2 +- 10 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-bzr.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-bzr.proto index d3e41fe..ac3ecf2 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-bzr.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-bzr.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines # for more information on packaging from Bazaar sources. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> +# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> pkgname=NAME-bzr pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-cvs.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-cvs.proto index 520087d..7e93cfd 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-cvs.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-cvs.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines # for more information on packaging from CVS sources. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> +# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> pkgname=NAME-cvs pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-darcs.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-darcs.proto index 0c3377c..821c4e2 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-darcs.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-darcs.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines # for more information on packaging from darcs sources. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> +# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> pkgname=NAME-darcs pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-git.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-git.proto index 3bbfddb..e00363f 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-git.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-git.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines # for more information on packaging from GIT sources. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> +# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> pkgname=NAME-git pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-gnome.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-gnome.proto index 8c7b695..c361501 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-gnome.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-gnome.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gnome_package_guidelines for more # information on Gnome packaging. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> +# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> pkgname=NAME pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-haskell.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-haskell.proto index 6d7322f..cc988f2 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-haskell.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-haskell.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell_package_guidelines for more # information on Haskell packaging. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> +# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> pkgname=NAME pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-hg.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-hg.proto index c589991..f6ee05b 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-hg.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-hg.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines # for more information on packaging from Mercurial(hg) sources. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> +# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> pkgname=NAME-hg pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 @@ -57,4 +57,4 @@ build() { ./configure --prefix=/usr make make DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install -} +} diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-perl.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-perl.proto index 2f8759a..4aa765b 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-perl.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-perl.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Perl_Package_Guidelines for more # information on Perl packaging. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> +# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> pkgname=perl-foo-bar pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-rubygem.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-rubygem.proto index c3b5533..e1768e3 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-rubygem.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-rubygem.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ruby_Gem_Package_Guidelines for more # information on Ruby Gem packaging. -# Contributor: YourName <YourEmail AT example DOT com> +# Maintainer: YourName <YourEmail AT example DOT com> pkgname=ruby-GEMNAME pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 diff --git a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-svn.proto b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-svn.proto index 588423b..b806aca 100644 --- a/prototypes/PKGBUILD-svn.proto +++ b/prototypes/PKGBUILD-svn.proto @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines # for more information on packaging from SVN sources. -# Contributor: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> +# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail(a)domain.com> pkgname=NAME-svn pkgver=VERSION pkgrel=1 -- 1.7.2.3

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins
by Evangelos Foutras 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

I noticed that my python-jinja, python-pygments and python-south packages aren't on the rebuild list. Shall I add them myself, or can the list be regenerated?

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[arch-general] Gvim is a blank, empty, grey window
by Simon Woolf 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

Hi all, Subject line says it all, really -- installed gvim, and on opening it, I get a blank, empty, grey window: http://i.imgur.com/DUUIO.png . That's if opening it normally; opened from a terminal, it prints: (18816) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Opening cache "/var/tmp/kdecache-simon/icon-cache.kcache" page size is 4096 (18816) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Attached to cache, determining if it must be initialized (18816) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Cache fully initialized -- attached to memory mapping (18816) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: 4636672 bytes available out of 10485760 ...And then nothing -- not even a grey window. Reinstalling gvim & vim-runtime has no effect. I would try aur/vim-gtk instead of extra/gvim, but it seems to be unbuildable -- one of the sources gives a 404. If relevant, Arch is up to date, and is broadly KDE4.5 (with compiz and bmpanel2 used in place of kwin and plasma). Since I haven't heard anyone else have this problem with gvim, I assume it's just me. Anyone had anything liike this before? Any ideas? Thanks to all in advance. Simon Woolf

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[arch-general] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

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

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[arch-general] Unable to start server kxkb
by Nilesh Govindarajan 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

Hi, I'm unable to use multiple keyboard layouts due to the error mentioned in the subject. What's the solution? This is happening after the kde upgrade. $ grep kglobalaccel .xsession-errors QDBusConnection: name 'org.kde.kglobalaccel' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.5' -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps

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[arch-general] Unable to Start PostgreSQL
by Carlos Mennens 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

When I installed the latest version of PostgreSQL today, I attempted to start the daemon so I could login and start creating databases but received the following error: [root@buster ~]# /etc/rc.d/postgresql start :: Starting PostgreSQL [BUSY] su: warning: cannot change directory to /var/lib/postgres: Permission denied could not change directory to "/root" pg_ctl: could not open PID file "/var/lib/postgres/data/postmaster.pid": Permission denied [FAIL] Anyone know what I am doing wrong? This is a brand new server and fresh install of both Arch & PostgreSQL.

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[arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs
by Steve Holmes 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

I have emacs 23.2 running in a normal text console and am trying to spell check using the ispell.el facility in the emacs lisp libraries. I also installed aspell and espell-en packages to resolve the binary program to be used by the emacs ispell function. When I do any of the emacs commands like ispell-buffer or ispell-region and the like, I keep getting a message in the prompt line of emacs saying "Text is read-only" The buffer where I am testing this is most definitely not a read-only buffer. I tested aspell out in a normal terminal on a test text file and that seemed to work OK. Do I have to do anything else to get this working right? I did not set up any config files for aspell; I'm not sure if I have to or not. Can anyone help me out?

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[arch-general] [PATCH] Ignore empty lines when grepping host's mirrorlist
by Evangelos Foutras 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

--- mkarchroot | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/mkarchroot b/mkarchroot index fe436f7..5cb9a0f 100755 --- a/mkarchroot +++ b/mkarchroot @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ if [ -z "$cache_dir" ]; then fi if [ -f /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist ]; then - host_mirror=$(grep -v '^#' -m1 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist | sed -E 's#/os/(i686|x86_64)#/os/\$arch#g') + host_mirror=$(grep -E -v '^(#|$)' -m1 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist | sed -E 's#/os/(i686|x86_64)#/os/\$arch#g') fi if [ -z "${host_mirror}" ]; then host_mirror='Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch' -- 1.7.2.3

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[arch-general] [PATCH] Remove 'Add your preferred servers here' comments
by Evangelos Foutras 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

These comments were removed from the default pacman.conf, so let's remove them from these default configuration files as well. --- pacman-extra.conf | 5 ----- pacman-multilib.conf | 6 ------ pacman-staging.conf | 7 ------- pacman-testing.conf | 5 ----- 4 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/pacman-extra.conf b/pacman-extra.conf index 911c23d..3a5d875 100644 --- a/pacman-extra.conf +++ b/pacman-extra.conf @@ -58,23 +58,18 @@ Architecture = auto # after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors. #[testing] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [core] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [extra] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist #[community-testing] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [community] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist # An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for diff --git a/pacman-multilib.conf b/pacman-multilib.conf index 7e0f1d7..8dfd584 100644 --- a/pacman-multilib.conf +++ b/pacman-multilib.conf @@ -58,27 +58,21 @@ Architecture = auto # after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors. #[testing] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [core] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [extra] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist #[community-testing] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [community] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [multilib] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist # An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for diff --git a/pacman-staging.conf b/pacman-staging.conf index 14323d5..f015e63 100644 --- a/pacman-staging.conf +++ b/pacman-staging.conf @@ -58,31 +58,24 @@ Architecture = auto # after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors. [staging] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [testing] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [core] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [extra] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [community-staging] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [community-testing] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [community] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist # An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for diff --git a/pacman-testing.conf b/pacman-testing.conf index 048e4f7..910e0bc 100644 --- a/pacman-testing.conf +++ b/pacman-testing.conf @@ -58,23 +58,18 @@ Architecture = auto # after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors. [testing] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [core] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [extra] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [community-testing] -## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [community] -# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist # An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for -- 1.7.2.3

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[arch-general] Many official packages don't also provide static libraries
by Ciprian Dorin, Craciun 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Hello all! I've seen that a lot of official ArchLinux packages don't also provide the static library variants (only the shared ones). (See at the end for a statistic, but summarized almost half of them are in this case.) These static variants of the libraries might be pointless for the "vanilla" distribution as most (all?) packages are dynamically linked. But as ArchLinux doesn't provide niche or obscure tools, I have to build them myself. (And by no mean I would like ArchLinux to have all the packages Debian has. I prefer ArchLinux to remain "slim".) And when I build them myself most of the time I can't make them statically link against the current installed libraries (as I have only shared ones). (I know the pros and cons of this. I don't want to debate static linking here.) But as the time goes and ArchLinux moves forward, old shared libraries just disappear, and my hand-built tools remain broken. (And of course I don't see they are broken when I break them, but instead just when I need them and I don't have time to fiddle around fixing them. And I've stumbled onto this multiple times until now, but it gradually gets annoying.) So my question is: what is the reason to not provide also the static library variants? Thanks, Ciprian. ~~~~ # number of packages which provide at least one `.so` library pacman -Ql | grep -E -e '/[^/]+\.so$' | grep -o -E -e '^[^ ]+' | sort -u | wc -l >> 378 # number of packages which provide at least one `.a` library pacman -Ql | grep -E -e '/[^/]+\.a$' | grep -o -E -e '^[^ ]+' | sort -u | wc -l >> 200 ~~~~

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[arch-general] grml-zsh-config and VCS_info
by F. Gr. 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

I'd know if there's a way to resolve the following issue: I use grml-zsh-config, but the VCS_info prompt inside a Mercurial repository doesn't work. The strange thing is that VCS_info prompt correctly works for git and bazaar (as you can see at <http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/6088/immagineqd.jpg>). I haven't modified anything in the /etc/zsh/zshrc. Does anybody know a solution? TIA

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] pkgstats: second try
by Kazuo Teramoto 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > > I did some improvements. The client now submits the mirror used by > pacman. On the server side statistics about the country (looked up by > geoip) are stored and more important all data are stored with a > timestamp. This way we should be able to see usage trends etc.. It would > also be possible to have users submit data regularly without messing up > all stats. Thanks for the work Pierre. So I can send it regularly, like put it in a cron job to send it every month? In the last time I submitted once, and never submitted again. Regards, Kazuo. PS. I love statistics XD -- «Dans la vie, rien n'est à craindre, tout est à comprendre» Marie Sklodowska Curie.

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 71, Issue 26
by Auguste Pop 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Thank you for such a quick reply. I have another little problem here. The desktop file in the package uses the icon /opt/sage/notebook/sage_logo.png, but this file is not installed. > Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:07:57 -0500 > From: Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] why is sage-mathematics so huge? > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTi=sBzYQc0VmbxVeHS5W3NtPAXmG7jWapaxPB-Yg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Auguste Pop <auguste(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I just noticed that there is a sage-mathematics package in community >>> repository and tried to install it and found out that the package is >>> really huge. >>> >>> I understand that sage is always shipped in a gigantic bundle, but the >>> arch package is considerably larger than official packages provided >>> for other Linux distributions. For lzma compressed archives, they are >>> typically around 330MB, while the arch package is about 630MB. Why is >>> the package so big? I have just noticed that the arch version is >>> 4.5.3, the version on its official site is still 4.5.2. Is this the >>> reason for the big package? >>> >>> Thank you for your kind attention. >>> >>> Yours, >>> >> >> Hi Auguste, >> >> I don't know the exact answer to this question, but I think I may know why. >> Currently, sage keeps all the spkgs in the package. >> Also it is built with fat binaries although this itself probably >> doesn't add such a significant amount. >> I'll investigate this and let you know. >> > > Back with some results :) > > I have gone through the directory to see what made it so big, and I > realized my initial suspicions were correct. > I have removed about 300mb of spkgs (compressed) and a lot of extraneous logs. > The changes are already in trunk along with a few other bug fixes. > Changes should be visible for the next sage release (4.6). > > Thanks for your interest! > >

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[arch-general] why is sage-mathematics so huge?
by Auguste Pop 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Hi, I just noticed that there is a sage-mathematics package in community repository and tried to install it and found out that the package is really huge. I understand that sage is always shipped in a gigantic bundle, but the arch package is considerably larger than official packages provided for other Linux distributions. For lzma compressed archives, they are typically around 330MB, while the arch package is about 630MB. Why is the package so big? I have just noticed that the arch version is 4.5.3, the version on its official site is still 4.5.2. Is this the reason for the big package? Thank you for your kind attention. Yours,

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] pkgstats: second try
by Mauro Santos 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

On 09/10/2010 09:27 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > > Well, we have discussed all this before. If I don't limit the > submission by ip it will be too easy for a single person to flood us > with false data making the whole stats pointless. The ip is the only > value you cannot easily spoof over internet. A malicious user could still flood you with false data even with the 1 submission per IP per 24H(1) limit, I don't know how other ISPs work, but here if I reboot my router I get a new IP, so it would be easy to continually reboot the router (or somehow disconnect and connect the the adsl link) and send the stats again with a new IP. (1) Here the lease seems to be for 36H, I don't know about other ISPs. -- Mauro Santos

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[arch-general] Removing HAL
by Галымжан Кожаев 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Hi list. Few days ago I've succesfully installed arch. It was booting really fast first time (i.e. without gnome, networkmanager, etc). After installing GNOME and some daemons, adding them to the rc.conf, the system now takes 30-40 seconds to load. I heard that HAL daemon takes a lot of time during boot and it's functionality can be replaced by udev. How could I completely remove HAL and still use GNOME without troubles? Is it possible? I have: - GNOME 2.30 - xorg 1.8 - hal 0.5 -- 2b || !2b

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Re: [arch-general] Broadcom releases a mac80211-based GPL2 driver for the 802.11n wireless chipsets
by Thomas Bächler 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Oops, this mail should have gone to arch-general in the first place, not to arch-dev-public: Am 10.09.2010 11:37, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > After > http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/07/20/microsoft-contributes-to… > in 2009, pigs start flying again in 2010: Broadcom has released a driver > for their newer 802.11n wireless chipsets that is > - licensed under GPL2 > - based on the linux-wireless mac80211 framework > - already included into linux-staging-next, which means it will be > available as a staging driver in 2.6.37 and it will be polished to be > included into the usual linux-wireless tree > > This is great news for everyone, as this means you can soon just buy any > laptop without having to worry about wireless chipset issues (Dell > usually uses those chips, but they are not the only ones). For more > information and the happiness of the linux wireless developers, see: > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/55418

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[arch-general] distributed bugtracking?
by Dieter Plaetinck 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

anyone knows this? http://bugseverywhere.org/be/show/HomePage the concept looks great, although i don't know anything about the implementation/usage. other then the advantages they list, I think something like this can be useful for downstream<->upstream communication. (ie someone reports a bug in the distro bugseverywhere, they can then more easily forward the bugs to upstream when needed) i blogged about stuff like this @ http://dieter.plaetinck.be/what_the_open_source_community_can_learn_from_de… if anyone cares. Dieter

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[arch-general] [PATCH 1/2] kill_everything: Reduce number of -f tests
by Dave Reisner 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Instead of checking for the existance of a file in /var/run/daemons on every iteration, handle the null case by setting nullglob. The shopt call is done inside a subshell as to not bother the environment since we may be going to runlevel 1 only temporarily. --- functions | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/functions b/functions index b9ba718..7a0c4f8 100644 --- a/functions +++ b/functions @@ -206,11 +206,13 @@ kill_everything() { # $1 = where we are being called from. # This is used to determine which hooks to run. # Find daemons NOT in the DAEMONS array. Shut these down first + ( + shopt -s nullglob for daemon in /var/run/daemons/*; do - [[ -f $daemon ]] || continue daemon=${daemon##*/} in_array "$daemon" "${DAEMONS[@]}" || stop_daemon "$daemon" done + ) # Shutdown daemons in reverse order for ((i=${#DAEMONS[@]}-1; i>=0; i--)); do -- 1.7.2.3

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[arch-general] IRC OPs
by Callum Scott 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

HI, Is it possible an IRC OP can contact me off list? Cheers Callum

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins
by Evangelos Foutras 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:05:47 +0200, Pierre Schmitz > <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: >> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:48:06 +1000, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> >> wrote: >>> Just a reminder for people to look at their packages and rebuild them >>> for this. We seem to of stalled majorly... >> >> Do you think a community-staging would be helpful? I could commit the >> needed changes to dbscripts and devtools; I'd like to do a new release >> soon anyway. > > FYI: support for community-staging was added to devtools 0.9.10 and > dbscripts. > > -- > Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre That's great news. I made copies of my stable chroots for i686 and x86_64 and enabled the {,community-}staging repos in them, per Ionuț's suggestion. I'm guessing once the community-staging repository is created on sigurd, we should be able to upload community rebuilds there. Right?

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[arch-general] Pacman's superslow
by Nilesh Govindarajan 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

I have an OpenVZ VPS running arch. For some reason pacman is superslow, and I'm not allowed to create/use loopback devices. pacman-optimize takes nearly 5 minutes per run, no matter the last run was just a minute ago. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xz 4.999.9beta_174_g41bc-1
by Florian Pritz 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

On 09.09.2010 11:55, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > this will hopefully the last update of xz for some time. :-) Maybe this > is a sign for the final 5.0 version to be near. I am now using the (very > strange) upstream versioning scheme. That's just git describe. <tag>-<commits since tagged commit>-<last commit id (short format)> signoff x86_64 -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}(a)server-speed.net

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[arch-general] sudoers file change - not much on dev list - reason for changes?
by David C. Rankin 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Guys, Got the sudo update with the new sudoers file, Noticed new %sudo group designation along with the traditional %wheel: ## Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to execute any command # %sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL Any reason that we would want a sudo group instead of using wheel? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] cairo xcb backend
by Damjan Georgievski 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

>> Fair enough, if enabling the xcb backend slows things down, especially >> if it is unmaintained so not likely to improve soon, we should remove >> it. >> It's a shame that awesome has to go but I'm sure the people using >> awesome know how to handle building from AUR/ABS and create a >> xcb-enabled cairo for it. > > If it was just an optional backend, I would leave it enabled. But the > fact is that the XCB backend replaces the Xlib version, resulting in > visual bugs and crashes. Have you tried --enable-xcb and --disable-xlib-xcb - this should keep the Xlib version as is, but still support the xcb version. I'd be willing to test this configuration if there's some reliable way to invoke the fore mentioned crashes. I don't usually use Seamonkey or Thunderbird, and my Firefox is a tarball download from Mozilla.com -- damjan

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[arch-general] [PATCH] rc.sysinit: condense calls to mkdir and chmod
by Dave Reisner 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

--- rc.sysinit | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit index f7df48c..bee4efb 100755 --- a/rc.sysinit +++ b/rc.sysinit @@ -276,8 +276,7 @@ stat_busy "Removing Leftover Files" : >| /var/run/utmp /bin/chmod 0664 /var/run/utmp # Keep {x,k,g}dm happy with xorg -/bin/mkdir /tmp/.ICE-unix && /bin/chmod 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix -/bin/mkdir /tmp/.X11-unix && /bin/chmod 1777 /tmp/.X11-unix +/bin/mkdir -m1777 /tmp/.{X11,ICE}-unix stat_done #status "Updating Shared Library Links" /sbin/ldconfig -- 1.7.2.3

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[arch-general] digital camera not showing as mass storage device
by Matthew Monaco 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

I can get my digital camera to work with libgphoto stuff like shotwell, but for months now it simply won't show up as a mass storage device. Am I missing a kernel module or something? I loaded usb-storage. I downloaded the Ubuntu 10.10 beta live CD, plugged the camera in, and it popped up fine as a hard disk /dev/sdX... In the logs I see a load-modules.sh error. Please advise.

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[arch-general] Issues with SFTP and Nautilus.
by wahjava.ml＠gmail.com 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Hi everyone, When I connect to my remote SFTP server (running FreeBSD) using GNOME Nautilus, I noticed that the in the "Permissions" dialog box, instead of user/group names, the numeric U/G IDs are being shown, whereas when I do 'sftp' from terminal, and execute 'ls -l', I can see the user/group names. Any ideas what might be wrong there ? Thanks -- Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 freebsd.org!ashish | http://people.freebsd.org/~ashish/ Avoid Success At All Costs !!

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[arch-general] [PATCH 01/48] Bashification of initscripts
by Victor Lowther 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Despite efforts to make the initscripts POSIX, we use bash 4.0 features. Bashifying this framework should result in about a 30% speedup, assuming no IO latency and that all programs we call also take zero time. :) --- functions | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/functions b/functions index 672eed2..023de35 100644 --- a/functions +++ b/functions @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# +#!/bin/bash # initscripts functions # -- 1.7.1

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Re: [arch-general] sudoers file change - not much on dev list - reason for changes?
by Auguste Pop 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

i tried to add myself into the sudo group to avoid possible future problems and found out that sudo group does not even exist. i will just ignore this and keep granting sudoer privilege by user.

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[arch-general] [Packages] [dbus-core] DeveloperWiki:CoreSignoffs wiki needs update
by Martín Cigorraga 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Hi, I'm using dbus-core 1.2.24-2 from [testing] on x86_64 since yesterday [0] and it works really good. I started caring about it because it's a corner-stone of KDE SC and that's why I think this wiki entry [1] should be updated to EVERYONE since everybody using KDE needs it. Regards! -Martín "Un buen antivirus, no debería dejar cargar Windows y sugerir instalar GNU/Linux xD" - omar_uy@#parabola@freenode [0] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=819683#p819683 [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:CoreSignoffs

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[arch-general] [signoff] device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.73-1
by Thomas Bächler 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Upstream update, please sign off.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openvpn 2.1.3-1
by Florian Pritz 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

On 06.09.2010 08:36, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Upstream update, please sign off. > i686 signoff -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}(a)server-speed.net

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[arch-general] Failed to upgrade!!
by Madhurya Kakati 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

hi, When i tried to run "sudo pacman -Syu" today got the following output. [papul@papuldesktop ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date catalyst is up to date multilib is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: lib32-hal: requires lib32-dbus Why cant i upgrade?? How do i install the mentioned dependency 'lib32-dbus'? Thanks.

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[arch-general] The principle behind MSN & Yahoo invisible scanners?
by Nilesh Govindarajan 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Go to google.com and search for MSN & Yahoo invisible scanners. You'll find a big list. So what's the principle of their working? I'm thinking of writing a pidgin plugin to catch invisible buddies. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps

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[arch-general] Unable to stop/restart network daemon if NETWORK_PERSIST=yes
by Konor John 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hello! If NETWORK_PERSIST=yes (in /etc/rc.conf) i can't stop/restart network daemon: :: Skipping Network Shutdown against :: Stopping Network It's seems not good

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[arch-general] Something is wrong with xbindkeys
by 大熊 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

I use xbindkeys under kde4 (start xbindkeys with kde's autorun), add some hotkeys: win+a, win+c, win+h, win+j, ... When kde4.4, All are OK. Few days ago I upgraded to kde4.5 , So something is wrong: When I just enter desktop, some keys( win+h, win+j) would be invalid, but when I restart xbindkeys, All keys will be OK again!

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dbus-core 1.2.24-2
by Guillaume ALAUX 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

On 6 September 2010 19:35, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Am 06.09.2010 14:09, schrieb Jan de Groot: >> Please signoff for both architectures. This release should fix the >> threading issues that crashes KDE a lot. >> >> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20604 > > Looking good so far, although I didn't have crashes. Sign off x86_64. > > > Looking good so far, although I didn't have crashes. Sign off x86_64. Same here so signoff i686 -- Guillaume

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xz 4.999.9beta-7
by Guillaume ALAUX 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

On 6 September 2010 19:57, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > So, here is another xz release. The upstream change from pkgrel=6 that > actually changes relevant code among some translation fixes is "xz: Use > an array instead of pointer for stdin_filename." > > Please sign off, > > Pierre > > -- > Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre > Signoff i686 (for pkgrel=7) -- Guillaume

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[arch-general] [OffTopic] Wireless keyboard Security
by Partha Chowdhury 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Recently I am looking for an ergonomic keyboard to replace my old samsung pleomax keyboard. I wanted to buy microsoft natural ergonomic keyboard 4000 but that is not in the market and the only other keyboard I find is logitech ergonomic keyboard K350.The keyboard is very comfortable to type and works out-of-the box with linux. But the thing is that it is wireless and after a search of "wireless keyboard security" on google i am a bit paranoid about using any wireless keyboard.Also I did not find any encryption option if used by the keyboard while using the logitech provided setpoint software on windows XP and logitech site does not mention if the keyboard uses encryption.Does this keyboard uses some hardware in-built encryption that logitech does not divulge ? If others on the list are using wireless keyboard, what are your experiences and recommendations ?

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[arch-general] wireshark 1.4.0-2 crashes
by mwnn 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi, I am running the x86 version of Arch. The recently updated wireshark segfaults on my machine. Here is the backtrace of the core file generated by gdb. (gdb) bt #0 0xb4e3731f in PyObject_IsInstance () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #1 0xb4e37bd7 in PySequence_Check () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 #2 0xb67487e3 in register_all_py_protocols_func () from /usr/lib/libwireshark.so.0 #3 0xb5c5725c in proto_init () from /usr/lib/libwireshark.so.0 #4 0xb5c440ba in epan_init () from /usr/lib/libwireshark.so.0 #5 0x0808d22b in main () (gdb) Regards, mwnn

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[arch-general] I'm testing packages
by Nilesh Govindarajan 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi, I've enabled testing & community-testing repos in pacman. I'd like to join the package testing team. How do I? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps

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[arch-general] Read permissions on /var/log/auth.log being reverted
by E Wilson 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi group When I make my auth.log file world-readable (big security risk), the system reverts it to unreadable by world. Could someone tell me what kind program/daemon is changing the permissions back and if said daemon has a log somewhere. I would like to shake its hand. something out of cron? This is Arch running in a hosted VM environment. Thanks E Wilson (New Linux and Arch User)

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[arch-general] [signoff] udev-162-1
by Tobias Powalowski 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi guys, udev 16 ======== Bugfixes. 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] inkscape finding a maintainer
by Loui Chang 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

On Mon 30 Aug 2010 19:24 +0200, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2010-08-30 19:54:44 +0300] Ionuț Bîru: > > Does anyone in our dev team uses inkscape like a daily bases and > > wants to maintain it? > > I use it about once a week or so; if you want inkscape to stay in > [extra] I could maintain it. Now if Laurent wants it, I'm also happy to > have it go to [community]. Hey... Did we gain some new developers that went unannounced?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dbscripts fails to move split packages
by Evangelos Foutras 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Ionuț Bîru <ibiru(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On 09/05/2010 05:18 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: >> >> Hi, >> i tried to move vim from testing into extra and it failed. >> >> $ arch/db-move >> ==> usage: db-move <repo-from> <repo-to> <pkgname|pkgbase> ... >> $ /arch/db-move testing extra vim >> ==> Moving packages from [testing] to [extra]... >> -> vim (i686) >> -> vim (x86_64) >> $ /arch/db-move testing extra vim-runtime >> ==> ERROR vim-runtime not found in testing >> ==> Removing left over lock from [extra] (i686) >> ==> Removing left over lock from [testing] (i686) >> ==> Removing left over lock from [extra] (x86_64) >> ==> Removing left over lock from [testing] (x86_64) >> >> >> is it safe to do it manually ? >> >> > > false alarm. it looks like only the output is kinda wrong :) > > -- > Ionuț It looks like the first command took care of all the split packages. The usage message also mentions pkgbase, so this would be expected behavior.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] sudo-1.7.4.p3-1
by Florian Pritz 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

On 05.09.2010 15:30, Allan McRae wrote: > On 22/08/10 17:46, Ionuț Bîru wrote: >> On 08/22/2010 07:39 AM, Allan McRae wrote: >>> Upstream bug fix release. >>> >>> Signoff both, >>> Allan >>> >> >> signoff x86_64 >> > > Any chance of an i686? i686 signoff -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}(a)server-speed.net

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[arch-general] How to convert a 32-bit system to 64-bit?
by Lauri Niskanen 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

I have a working 32-bit Arch Linux server. It's more like a testing playground than a production server. I decided to convert it to a 64-bit system. I could reinstall Arch, but is there any easier way to do the "upgrade"? I'd like to retain my list of applications, configuration and user files. -- Ape <Lauri Niskanen>

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[arch-general] X11 crashes after pacman -Syu
by Samuel Baldwin 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

I recently updated my system with pacman -Syu; everything worked fine, but since I've rebooted the machine, running 'startx' causes X to start, I see the 'nvidia' logo flash, and then crash. I updated 'nvidia', but now when it starts it complains of being unable to allocate DMA memory and aborts. My Xorg.0.log is here: http://sprunge.us/GOLS -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins
by Christopher Brannon 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng(a)gmail.com> writes: > I have generated the attached quick-and-dirty list of safe packages > from the wiki. There could be false positives, of course. ===begin list=== *SNIP* > jython Actually, this doesn't need a rebuild at all. jython doesn't rely on the C implementation of Python for anything. It made the rebuild list, because some of the files in its standard library start with #!/usr/bin/python lines. Should I just flag it as done? *SNIP* > python-foolscap This one installs things under /usr/lib/python2.6, so it doesn't belong in this list. *SNIP REST* ===end list=== -- Chris

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[arch-general] kde 4.5.1-1 looks much better.
by David C. Rankin 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Guys, Even from a kde4 hater, kde 4.5.1-1 is looking much better than prior releases. Way to go Arch on the packaging. It is starting to add some of the efficiencies k3 had that k4 has lacked. Simple case-in-point, just rt-click to change the desktop wp and you now have a clean 3 column thumbnail setup that provides 300% more info than the old slow single column thumbnail list. Not earth-shattering, but it is good to see some of the really awkward dialogs getting reworked. Don't get me wrong, k4 still needs work, but I'm more than willing to tip my hat and recognize good progress when it has been made despite the 2.5 years of hell I've been though with that desktop. (as an aside - the 3D chessboard wallpaper is just killer) We shall see where it goes... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] dovecot.conf kills update (conflicting file)
by David C. Rankin 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Guys, The dovecot update needs to be fixed. Currently, on upgrade you get: checking package integrity... (288/288) checking for file conflicts [#####################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) dovecot: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. which is a bit frustrating. I know we talked a little about fixing dovecot (and other packages that break if upgraded but not restarted) so I don't know if this is related (I thought the discussion/debate was whether to add a one-liner advising that a dovecot restart was required), but in any event, related or not, dovecot should update without failing due to the existing dovecot.conf Do I open a ticket or is this post enough? I have asked this question of whether to open a ticket on every bug or whether little items like this are preferred to be worked from the list w/o a ticket opened at least 3 times now and I have never received an answer (I apologize if I have missed it). I want to help Arch the best way I can. If you want bugs opened on everything, let me know -- I'm happy to open them. If you can work an issue from the list, then at least let me know "I'll take it from here" so I know things are not being missed. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Fwd: Re: [Nut-upsdev] usbhid-ups causing hang on boot with 2.6.35 - any ideas?
by David C. Rankin 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Guys, Below are the thoughts from the NUT developer on what to check in the Arch NUT package to see if recent changes to udev bus designations, and permission are incorporated. My guess is that it is udev related since 50% of the time it boots and loads usbhid-ups just fine and everything works, other times, it hangs loading usbhid-ups and nothing works. Hope this helps. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev] usbhid-ups causing hang on boot with 2.6.35 - any ideas? Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:49:27 +0200 From: Arjen de Korte <nut+devel(a)de-korte.org> To: nut-upsdev(a)lists.alioth.debian.org Citeren "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty>: > (Arjen - I apologize if you get two copies, I sent the first one to > the old de-korte.org address) That address isn't old, but the mailserver is configured to only accept messages from the mailinglist server. > Aug 30 20:31:03 archangel upsd[2295]: listening on 192.168.6.14 port 3493 > Aug 30 20:31:03 archangel upsd[2295]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 > Aug 30 20:31:03 archangel upsd[2295]: Can't connect to UPS > [archangel_ups] (usbhid-ups-archangel_ups): No such file or directory This means the driver isn't running (but you probably already knew that). > Aug 30 20:31:03 archangel upsd[2296]: Startup successful > Aug 30 20:31:03 archangel upsmon[2298]: Startup successful > Aug 30 20:31:03 archangel upsmon[2300]: Login on UPS > [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - got [ERR ACCESS-DENIED] > Aug 30 20:31:03 archangel upsmon[2300]: Login on UPS > [nirvana_ups(a)nirvana.3111skyline.com] failed - got [ERR ACCESS-DENIED] The above two error messages indicate there is a problem with logging into the server. You could run the server in debug mode, but my guess is this has to do with either NUT being build with tcp-wrappers support and you failed setting this up properly (see 'man 8 upsd') or the credentials you're using are incorrect. [...] > Looks like some type of udev issue or kernel issue, but I > thought I would check here to see if you guys have any more info on > the problem. Anybody seen this behavior before? This looks like the udev rules are incorrect. If memory serves, there have been some changes in the syntax (BUS was changed to SUBSYSTEMS). Other than that, there are no known issues. Best regards, Arjen -- Please keep list traffic on the list (off-list replies will be rejected) _______________________________________________ Nut-upsdev mailing list Nut-upsdev(a)lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] 2.6.35.4-1 still hangs waiting on udev with usbhid errors
by David C. Rankin 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Guys, There are still usbhid-ups problem on boot that hang the boot and don't configure the usbhid-ups driver. This is a flakey issue. I have booted twice, hung the first time (errors below), rebooted and got by the udev/usbhid load in boot and upsmonitoring worked fine. The problem is, there is no way I can remotely administer this box with a 50% chance of it hanging on boot. Any ideas? Here is the error log from everything.log Aug 30 20:30:28 archangel kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present Aug 30 20:30:30 archangel kdm_greet[2283]: Cannot load /usr/share/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory Aug 30 20:31:03 archangel upsd[2295]: listening on 192.168.6.14 port 3493 Aug 30 20:31:03 archangel upsd[2295]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 Aug 30 20:31:03 archangel upsd[2295]: Can't connect to UPS [archangel_ups] (usbhid-ups-archangel_ups): No such f ile or directory Aug 30 20:31:03 archangel upsd[2296]: Startup successful Aug 30 20:31:03 archangel upsmon[2298]: Startup successful Aug 30 20:31:03 archangel upsmon[2300]: Login on UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - got [ERR ACCESS-DENIED] Aug 30 20:31:03 archangel upsmon[2300]: Login on UPS [nirvana_ups(a)nirvana.3111skyline.com] failed - got [ERR ACC ESS-DENIED] Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: INFO: task modprobe:1579 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: modprobe D 0000000000000000 0 1579 1576 0x00000000 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: ffff88022616da28 0000000000000082 ffffffff8167eb00 ffff880200000000 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: 0000000000014f40 0000000000014f40 ffff88022616dfd8 ffff88022616dfd8 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: ffff88022616dfd8 ffff8802269c1bc0 ffff88022616dfd8 0000000000014f40 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: Call Trace: Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa0202ba5>] usb_kill_urb+0x85/0xc0 [usbcore] Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff810718d0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa02e0831>] usbhid_init_reports+0xb1/0x120 [usbhid] Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa02e0d53>] usbhid_start+0x4b3/0x5a0 [usbhid] Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa02ca6d8>] hid_device_probe+0x98/0xe0 [hid] Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff812877ea>] ? driver_sysfs_add+0x5a/0x90 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287ac6>] driver_probe_device+0x96/0x1c0 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287c90>] ? __device_attach+0x0/0x60 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287cdb>] __device_attach+0x4b/0x60 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff812866a4>] bus_for_each_drv+0x64/0x90 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff8128795f>] device_attach+0x8f/0xb0 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287115>] bus_probe_device+0x25/0x40 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81284e5f>] device_add+0x4ff/0x5e0 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa02ca0a7>] hid_add_device+0x87/0x1b0 [hid] Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa02de4b9>] usbhid_probe+0x329/0x500 [usbhid] Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa0207a2b>] usb_probe_interface+0xfb/0x1f0 [usbcore] Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287ac6>] driver_probe_device+0x96/0x1c0 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287c8b>] __driver_attach+0x9b/0xa0 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287bf0>] ? __driver_attach+0x0/0xa0 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff812869fe>] bus_for_each_dev+0x5e/0x90 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287789>] driver_attach+0x19/0x20 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287297>] bus_add_driver+0xc7/0x2e0 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287f01>] driver_register+0x71/0x140 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa02066f8>] usb_register_driver+0xb8/0x170 [usbcore] Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa0299000>] ? hid_init+0x0/0xd1 [usbhid] Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa0299093>] hid_init+0x93/0xd1 [usbhid] Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81002149>] do_one_initcall+0x39/0x1a0 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff8108cefb>] sys_init_module+0xbb/0x200 Aug 30 20:31:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81009e82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Aug 30 20:31:08 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:31:08 archangel upsmon[2300]: Communications with UPS archangel_ups@localhost lost Aug 30 20:31:08 archangel wall[2302]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (54 chars) Aug 30 20:31:13 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:31:13 archangel upsmon[2300]: UPS archangel_ups@localhost is unavailable Aug 30 20:31:13 archangel wall[2305]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (44 chars) Aug 30 20:31:18 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:31:23 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:31:28 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:31:33 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:31:38 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:31:43 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:31:48 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:31:53 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:31:58 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:32:03 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:32:08 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:32:13 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:32:18 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:32:23 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:32:28 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:32:33 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:32:38 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:32:43 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:32:48 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:32:53 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:32:58 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:33:03 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: INFO: task modprobe:1579 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: modprobe D 0000000000000000 0 1579 1576 0x00000000 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: ffff88022616da28 0000000000000082 ffffffff8167eb00 ffff880200000000 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: 0000000000014f40 0000000000014f40 ffff88022616dfd8 ffff88022616dfd8 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: ffff88022616dfd8 ffff8802269c1bc0 ffff88022616dfd8 0000000000014f40 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: Call Trace: Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa0202ba5>] usb_kill_urb+0x85/0xc0 [usbcore] Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff810718d0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa02e0831>] usbhid_init_reports+0xb1/0x120 [usbhid] Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa02e0d53>] usbhid_start+0x4b3/0x5a0 [usbhid] Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa02ca6d8>] hid_device_probe+0x98/0xe0 [hid] Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff812877ea>] ? driver_sysfs_add+0x5a/0x90 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287ac6>] driver_probe_device+0x96/0x1c0 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287c90>] ? __device_attach+0x0/0x60 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287cdb>] __device_attach+0x4b/0x60 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff812866a4>] bus_for_each_drv+0x64/0x90 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff8128795f>] device_attach+0x8f/0xb0 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287115>] bus_probe_device+0x25/0x40 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81284e5f>] device_add+0x4ff/0x5e0 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa02ca0a7>] hid_add_device+0x87/0x1b0 [hid] Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa02de4b9>] usbhid_probe+0x329/0x500 [usbhid] Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa0207a2b>] usb_probe_interface+0xfb/0x1f0 [usbcore] Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287ac6>] driver_probe_device+0x96/0x1c0 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287c8b>] __driver_attach+0x9b/0xa0 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287bf0>] ? __driver_attach+0x0/0xa0 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff812869fe>] bus_for_each_dev+0x5e/0x90 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287789>] driver_attach+0x19/0x20 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287297>] bus_add_driver+0xc7/0x2e0 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81287f01>] driver_register+0x71/0x140 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa02066f8>] usb_register_driver+0xb8/0x170 [usbcore] Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa0299000>] ? hid_init+0x0/0xd1 [usbhid] Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa0299093>] hid_init+0x93/0xd1 [usbhid] Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81002149>] do_one_initcall+0x39/0x1a0 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff8108cefb>] sys_init_module+0xbb/0x200 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81009e82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: INFO: task usbhid-ups:2006 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: usbhid-ups D 0000000000000000 0 2006 1 0x00000000 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: ffff880227789b98 0000000000000082 ffff880227789ae8 ffffffff00000000 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: 0000000000014f40 0000000000014f40 ffff880227789fd8 ffff880227789fd8 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: ffff880227789fd8 ffff880226c9b780 ffff880227789fd8 0000000000014f40 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: Call Trace: Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81371879>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x139/0x310 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81371a61>] mutex_lock+0x11/0x30 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffffa020c195>] usbdev_open+0x145/0x330 [usbcore] Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81127807>] chrdev_open+0x127/0x270 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff811276e0>] ? chrdev_open+0x0/0x270 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81121d2b>] __dentry_open+0x11b/0x3c0 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff811a263a>] ? security_inode_permission+0x1a/0x20 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81122f64>] nameidata_to_filp+0x54/0x70 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff811311f0>] do_last+0x480/0x740 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff8113169d>] do_filp_open+0x1ed/0x680 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff8113cc74>] ? alloc_fd+0xf4/0x150 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81122fe4>] do_sys_open+0x64/0x130 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff811230cb>] sys_open+0x1b/0x20 Aug 30 20:33:06 archangel kernel: [<ffffffff81009e82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Aug 30 20:33:08 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:33:13 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:33:18 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:33:23 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:33:28 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected Aug 30 20:33:33 archangel upsmon[2300]: Poll UPS [archangel_ups@localhost] failed - Driver not connected -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Remove duplicate packages from /var/cache/pacman/pkg script updated
by David C. Rankin 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

In case anyone uses it, I updated my fduppkg script that scans /var/cache/pacman/pkg and moves duplicate packages to a separate directory so you can either keep the current + last package sets or just delete the dups. This update just cleans up the output and adds an -s | --silent option that suppresses all screen output and simply writes to the log file. Additionally the screen output has been cleaned up so it looks like this now: [14:18 alchemy:/home/david] # fduparch fduppkg /var/cache/pacman/pkg -d /home/backup/pkg-old -l /home/backup/pkgdups.log Total packages to screen: 2858 Removing duplicates from: /var/cache/pacman/pkg Duplicates directory: /home/backup/pkg-old Log file location: /home/backup/pkgdups.log Verbose mode set: [use -q to stop pkg output | -s to stop all output] pkg [ 434] feh dup => feh-1.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz pkg [ 727] gstreamer0 dup => gstreamer0.10-ugly-0.10.15-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz pkg [ 785] gtranslator dup => gtranslator-1.9.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz pkg [1446] kernel26-docs dup => kernel26-docs-2.6.35.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz pkg [1869] lpsolve dup => lpsolve-5.5.0.15-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz pkg [1895] madwifi dup => madwifi-0.9.4.4119-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz pkg [2043] obexd-client dup => obexd-client-0.29-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz pkg [2070] openssh dup => openssh-5.5p1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz pkg [2263] pulseaudio dup => pulseaudio-0.9.21-8-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz pkg [2399] ruby dup => ruby-1.9.1_p429-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz pkg [2537] timidity++ dup => timidity++-2.13.2-9-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 11 duplicates moved to /home/backup/pkg-old I've set the package name field width to 26 as a compromise to handle most package names. (You wouldn't have any screen left if it was wide enough for all the screwy kde4 50+ char package names). If the output above wraps -- you get the drift. In verbose mode (default) you get a summary showing the total number of packages to be screened, being moved from /var/cache/pacman/pkg to the dupdir you specify and the files moved are logged in the logfile you specify. The package listing just shows the array index for the current package and any dups found are shown on the right. I find it handy, YMMV. The way I use it is to set up a 'wrapper script' to call fduppkg twice. Once to move dups from /var/cache/pacman/pkg => /home/backup/pkg-old Then again to move dups from /home/backup/pkg-old => /home/backup/pkg-older That way I have the current set in /var/cache/pacman/pkg and a clean last installed set in /home/backup/pkg-old. Plus moving to /home/backup will offload the storage from / to /home partitions on most installs. The main fduppkg scrip is here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/fduppkg The wrapper script I use to call fduppkg is here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/fduparch.sh I just link the scripts to /usr/local/bin as follows and then make sure /usr/local/bin is in your path: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Apr 18 19:17 fduparch -> /home/david/scr/arch/fduparch.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Apr 18 19:18 fduppkg -> /home/david/scr/arch/fduppkg Then once you have edited fduparch.sh and set the directories and options the way you like it, just call fduparch as root or 'sudo fduparch' and all dups will be moved to the directory you specify. (NOTE: this script uses the package DATE to determine which is the newest package, so if you have somehow reset all the ctime or mtime info on your files by block copying them without preserving the file attributes, it won't work) (Yes I know I have left comments and commented out stuff in the scripts, they are still works in progress :-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Multilib Repo Thanks
by b1 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Hello altogether and especially to the people contributing to the multilib repo. Having this repo is so damn great! Really good work. If I would have been asked to send in a wishlist, of my most desired features, a month ago such a repo would have been on place one!!! Thank you guys Benedikt

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[arch-general] KDE Thumbnail bug?
by Nilesh Govindarajan 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Recently after upgrading KDE on my arch64 installation, neither dolphin or konqueror don't show thumbnails for images. They just show the thumbnail as a question mark (like that for an unknown file). I deleted the configuration, etc. but still no solution. What can be the problem? A bug or something to do with configuration / arch? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps

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[arch-general] Hard disc clicks
by Rafael Beraldo 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Recently I got preoccupied with the hard disc clicking sounds I have been hearing since I installed Arch Linux on my Asus 1201N. Anyway, I remembered that there was an issue that could dramatically reduce the life of the hard disc, then I looked up on Google and found this article [1]. I ran smartctl -A and noticed that each time I heard a click, one was added to Load_Cycle_Count. Then I ran hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda, but the Arch Wiki [2] says that it is best to set a smaller value, like 128, if you move your laptop a lot. The thing is, 128 keeps the hard disc spinning down a lot. In fact, 254 is quite noiseless, but as from 253 the clicking sound returns. I read this bug page [3] but found nothing new. It is worth remembering that, sometimes, when I'm watching a movie or TV show with mplayer, it stops for less than I second, then I hear the disc spinning faster and the video continues. So, how did you guys set the power manager with hdparm in your laptops? Does anybody else have this problem? Since I move my netbook often, should I set it to 128 even if it spins down more than four times a minute? Than you all. [1] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_hard_drive_clicking [2] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop#Hard_drive_spin_down_problem [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pm-utils/+bug/361680 -- Rafael Beraldo http://cabaladada.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] mdadm-3.1.4-1
by Tobias Powalowski 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Two fixes related to configs that aren't using udev: - Don't remove md devices which 'standard' names on --stop - Allow dev_open to work on read-only /dev And fixed regressions: - Allow --incremental to add spares to an array - Accept --no-degraded as a deprecated option rather than throwing an error - Return correct success status when --incrmental assembling a container which does not yet have enough devices. - Don't link mdadm with pthreads, only mdmon needs it. - Fix compiler warning due to bad use of snprintf - Fix spare migration 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] KDE 4.5.1 Bug Kopete need much Memory
by Carsten Feuls 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Helly Everybody I have got a problem with Kopete extra/kdenetwork-kopete 4.5.1-1 [5,04 MB] (kde kdenetwork) [Installiert] Instant Messenger After I had update KDE 4.5.0 to KDE 4.5.1 my system becomes Slowly. Then i found out that my system has 890MB Ram in use and 800 MB Swap. Then I have tried to close some programms and after I have closed Kopete my system only use 212 MB Ram und 193 MB Swap. Is it a bug in Kopete or is there some error in building the Kopete Programm. I have found out that the same problem is in my 2 others PC when I run Kopete it need much memory When you start kopete the memory becomes more and more in use by kopete 1Mb per Sec I looks like a memory leek Sincerely yours Carsten

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[arch-general] kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds
by Caleb Cushing 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Does anyone know if the workarounds are still needed or if that was a fixed bug? I read the changelog but was unable to discern whether or not these were on the list of fixed kwin bugs. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.com

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[arch-general] HAL .fdi files stopped working
by Linus Eklöf 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

After an upgrade in the beginning of summer (don't remember what was updated) my hal fdi files in /etc/hal/fdi/policy stopped working, I had to change the keyboard mapping in the xfce settings and haven't been able to use my joypad since. I can't find anything on it with google and I've upgraded my system a couple of times since, but it still isn't working. Anybody who knows what might cause this?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins
by Evangelos Foutras 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On 18/08/10 01:46, Allan McRae wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have pushed the new python (3.1) and python2 (2.7) packages to the new >> [staging] repo so rebuilds can start there. Remember the staging repo >> should never be used outside a build chroot... If you do, everything >> python related will break on your system. >> >> TUs will not be able to start uploading rebuilds yet as they do not have >> a staging equivalent, but we will sort something out for them once we >> get all the db-scripts/devtools changes tested for the main one first. >> The package pool is going to save us a heap of issues when this gets >> moved so it is worth the wait. >> >> >> The key things to remember with the rebuild are: >> >> - build in clean chroots. Most packages will detect "python2" or >> "python-2.7" once they see no "python" and use that. Some will need >> simple patching. >> >> - change your dependencies to python2 >> >> - check files for #!'s with "/usr/bin/python" or "/usr/bin/env python". >> If you have those you will need to do a sed to change them to python2. >> >> >> If you come across a package that you can not easily fix, add it to >> >> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Python_Todo_List#Packages… >> and I will take a look at it. >> > > Just a reminder for people to look at their packages and rebuild them for > this. We seem to of stalled majorly... > > Allan Any updates regarding the creation of a [community-staging] repository?

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[arch-general] cannot run pacman in different operating system
by Łukasz Nowak 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hello Dear Archians, I need to install arch from existing operating system. This is Mandriva 2010.0 64 bit: uname -a Linux luker500 2.6.33.5-server-2mnb #1 SMP Thu Jun 17 21:11:54 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I am using (and contributing to): http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_From_Existing_Linux Let me show you which steps I have done so far: $ ARCH=`uname -m` $ echo $ARCH x86_64 $ pwd /home/luke/archtest $ wget -q http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/pacman/download/ http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/pacman-mirrorlist-201008… http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/libfetch/download/ http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/libarchive/download/ http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/openssl/download/ http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/xz/download/ $ ls libarchive-2.8.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz openssl-1.0.0.a-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz pacman-mirrorlist-20100825-1-any.pkg.tar.gz libfetch-2.33-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz pacman-3.4.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz xz-4.999.9beta-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz $ for f in *.tar.gz ; do tar xzf $f ; done $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/luke/archtest/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH $ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH /home/luke/archtest/usr/lib: $ ls -d /home/luke/archtest/usr/lib /home/luke/archtest/usr/lib/ $ export PATH=/home/luke/archtest/usr/bin:$PATH $ which pacman /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman So now it is time to try to run pacman: $ pacman --help -bash: /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman: No such file or directory I checked, this file really exists: $ file /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped But I cannot even do ldd: $ ldd /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman /usr/bin/ldd: line 119: /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman: No such file or directory So additionally I checked strace output: $ strace /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman execve("/home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman", ["/home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacm"...], [/* 78 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) dup(2) = 3 fcntl(3, F_GETFL) = 0x8002 (flags O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 33), ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f3180b61000 lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) write(3, "strace: exec: No such file or di"..., 40strace: exec: No such file or directory ) = 40 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x7f3180b61000, 4096) = 0 exit_group(1) = ? And now I am really stuck. Is it related to my configuration or glibc incompatibility? What more information you need to track this issue? What shall I try, maybe compiling pacman from source? Regards, Luke

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.21-1
by Tobias Powalowski 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Am Montag 30 August 2010 schrieb Andreas Radke: > Am Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:03:05 +0200 > > schrieb Tobias Powalowski <t.powa(a)gmx.de>: > > Latest kernel is in testing, > > please signoff for both arches. > > > > greetings > > tpowa > > signoff x86_64 > > -Andy anyone i686? -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Pacman wants to install older xf86-video-ati
by Damjan Georgievski 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

I've installed the new X stuff from the [testing] repo including the xf86-video-ati-6.13.1-2 Since that, I've commented out [testing] since I don't want other things from it, but now on each "pacman -Syu" it wants to install the older package from extra xf86-video-ati-6.13.1-1. Is something forcing this package and how can I find what? -- damjan

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[arch-general] 3 minutes and 12 seconds Youtube video of My Arch Linux
by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

I have just uploaded a Youtube video of my Arch Linux which was installed on an external 2.5" USB harddrive December last year (2009). The length of the video is only 3 mins and 12 secs. My Arch Linux is essentially a Linux from Scratch (LFS) 6.5 which I have compiled and installed from scratch, following the LFS 6.5 Handbook very closely. After finishing the basic LFS 6.5 installation, I have installed the pacman package manager from Arch Linux, essentially making the LFS 6.5 installation an Arch Linux installation. With the pacman package manager in place, I was able to install the X.org X Windowing Server and the GNOME Desktop Environment with ease. Please check out my Youtube video at the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If9TifbQVmQ At the time of this writing, there are 23 uploaded videos in my Youtube account. Yours sincerely, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Citizenship: Singapore Citizen/Singaporean Facebook account: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Facebook link:http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982 Facebook photos: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982#!/profile.php?id=100… <http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982#%21/profile.php?id=1…> Facebook videos: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982&v=app_2392950137 <http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982&v=app_2392950137> Mobile Phone (Starhub pre-paid): +65-8369-2618 Windows Live Messenger: teoenming at hotmail.com Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore ZIP: 470103 My Open Letter (Plea for Medical Help/Assistance) to World Leaders:- http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/mpich-discuss/2010-August/007811.html http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2010-August/295952.html http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-August/015849.html Photo of Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore: http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/5052/mrteoenmingzhangenmingo.jpg

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[arch-general] Do formulas work in Go-Openoffice?
by Alexander Lam 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hi all, Are formulas working properly for anybody else using extra/go-openoffice? I can create formulas just fine, but when I try to copy-paste them, the copy doesn't show up correctly (it just shows a picture of a plug and the text Object <some number>). The same thing happens to all the formulas if I save the document (as odt) and try to reopen it. Is this happening to anybody else? -- Alexander Lam

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[arch-general] [signoff] tcp_wrappers-7.6-12
by Tobias Powalowski 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hi guys, signoff for both arches please fixes: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16048 #ipv6 support greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] sound intel hda problem
by kuba guzik 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

od kuba guzik <kuba.g4(a)gmail.com> do arch-general(a)archlinux.org data 30 sierpnia 2010 01:17 temat sound intel hda problem wysłana przez gmail.com ukryj szczegóły 01:17 (2 godz. temu) Hi! Yesterday I've istalled arch linux on my hp laptop. Earlier I've used debian with the same kernel and alsa ver . I copied my sound configs from debian to /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf but they didn't work. I have also used alsaconf.. configs: alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1 model=hp-m4 OR hp-dv5 I have already tried different sound.conf configurations but they didn't work... I have also followed every step on alsa-arch wiki site. There are no errors at all, everything looks fine in alsamixer in sound.conf and rc.conf. Any suggestions? Thanks for help

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] new lighttpd package
by Evangelos Foutras 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > I have also rewritten the rc script to use lighttpd-angel and hopefully > made it more robust. This way graceful reload and shutdown is now > supported. This is a very nice feature to have. Thank you for implementing it in the rc script!

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[arch-general] [VirtualBox] Sudden reboots and freezes with latest kernel
by Martín Cigorraga 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

I wonder if anyone else is experimenting sudden reboots and freezes while trying to run VirtualBox with latest kernel. Arch: x86_64 Kernel: [core/kernel26 2.6.35.4-1] DE/WM: both KDE SC 4.5 and Awesome 3. On KDE everytime I want to launch a VM PC reboots all of a sudden, on Awesome simple freezes :S Video driver: [catalyst/catalyst 10.8-2] with xorg-server-backclear 1.8.1.902-1, xvba-video 0.7.3-1 and lib32-catalyst-utils 10.8-2 installed. VirtualBox: [aur/virtualbox_bin 3.2.8-1] v. 3.2.8r64453 /var/log/errors.log tail's: Aug 30 01:51:13 localhost sudo: pam_unix(sudo:auth): conversation failed Aug 30 01:51:13 localhost sudo: pam_unix(sudo:auth): conversation failed Aug 30 01:51:25 localhost kernel: vboxdrv: Warning: 2.6.31+ kernel detected. Most likely the hardware performance Aug 30 01:51:25 localhost kernel: vboxdrv: counter framework which can generate NMIs is active. You have to prevent Aug 30 01:51:25 localhost kernel: vboxdrv: the usage of hardware performance counters by Aug 30 01:51:25 localhost kernel: vboxdrv: echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_counter_paranoid Aug 30 01:53:12 localhost kernel: BUG: scheduling while atomic: VirtualBox/9282/0x00000002 Aug 30 01:53:12 localhost kernel: BUG: scheduling while atomic: VirtualBox/9254/0x00000003 Aug 30 01:53:12 localhost kernel: BUG: scheduling while atomic: X/8725/0x00000003 Aug 30 01:54:34 localhost NetworkManager[3623]: nm_setting_ip4_config_get_dhcp_hostname: assertion `NM_IS_SETTING_IP4_CONFIG (setting)' failed /var/log/kernel.log tail's: Aug 30 01:58:49 localhost kernel: EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0 Aug 30 01:58:49 localhost kernel: EXT4-fs (sdb2): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0 Aug 30 01:58:50 localhost kernel: EXT4-fs (sdc5): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0 Aug 30 01:58:50 localhost kernel: EXT4-fs (sdc1): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0 Aug 30 01:58:52 localhost kernel: Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15 Aug 30 01:58:52 localhost kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 31 Aug 30 01:58:52 localhost kernel: Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized Aug 30 01:58:52 localhost kernel: Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized Aug 30 01:59:07 localhost kernel: fuse init (API version 7.14) Aug 30 02:02:13 localhost kernel: warning: `VirtualBox' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use) I can't seem to find errors in the other log files (kernel, syslog and dmsg). -Martín "Un buen antivirus, no debería dejar cargar Windows y sugerir instalar GNU/Linux xD" - omar_uy@#parabola@freenode

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[arch-general] [smplayer] freeze at full screen
by Martín Cigorraga 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

SMPlayer freezes the system when I change to full-screen (allways), however, KMPlayer and Kaffeine, the other to media players I tried, work as usual. I forgot to tell in the previous email my system is a clean installation made four days ago and that I'm already using [multilib] repo from 2 days ago. -Martín "Un buen antivirus, no debería dejar cargar Windows y sugerir instalar GNU/Linux xD" - omar_uy@#parabola@freenode

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[arch-general] [signoff] udev-161-2
by Tobias Powalowski 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hi guys, - # fixed 20107, some simplification in PKGBUILD greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] ati\kms\kernel problems
by Waylls 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

So, such a problem. With 2.6.35(and, it starts from 2.6.34.3) with enabled KMS(ati videocard, HD4570) i can't run X with both xorg 1.8 and xorg 1.9. Now, i have mesa,libgl,ati-dri,xorg-* packages, xf86-video-ati from testing, 2.6.35.4 from here to and still nothing. With enabled KMS screen just freezes at startx(i'm using ion3, no DE) and that's it. No messages in log. No troubles in dmesg too, KMS starts normaly. Software versions: kernel: 2.6.35.4 (testing) X: xorg 1.9(testing) drivers: xf86-video-ati 6.13.1-2 (testing) libgl: 7.8.2-3 (testing) mesa: 7.8.2-3 (testing) -- With best regards, Waylls

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[arch-general] Firefox GRE Error O.o
by Nilesh Govindarajan 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

I just reformatted my system and installed arch64. And this is what firefox has to say now: Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.2.8 and 1.9.2.8. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps

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[arch-general] Bug in aur.archlinux.org
by joker-jar＠yandex.ru 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

I tried to send new package, made archive with makepkg --source. After uploading package, i saw package version ".-1" on the packages' page in aur. In the PKGBUILD: pkgver=2858 but build() function contains one interesting string: pkgver="$ver.$revision" it's for fix pkg version during the build ($ver gets from sources). I tried to change this string to: sleep 0;pkgver="$ver.$revision" and aur successfully discovered package version (2858)

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[arch-general] 1. Re: version control system for normal user (Magnus Therning)
by jewelshaw 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

Nice to get your suggestions. I'd better try git, since many recommend. As for svn, just "svnadmin create "a repository does work? PS: Sorry for my stupidity. I'm new to mailing list, and don't know how to reply a certain post. Thank you all 2010/8/27 <arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org> > Send arch-general mailing list submissions to > arch-general(a)archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > arch-general-owner(a)archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of arch-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: version control system for normal user (Magnus Therning) > 2. Re: version control system for normal user (Magnus Therning) > 3. Re: version control system for normal user (Philipp ?berbacher) > 4. Re: version control system for normal user (fons(a)kokkinizita.net) > 5. Re: version control system for normal user (Chris Bannister) > 6. Re: [arch-dev-public] [aur-general] Licenses, GPL3 only > (Tavian Barnes) > 7. Re: version control system for normal user (John Holbrook) > 8. Re: rc.conf man page (Joe(theWordy)Philbrook) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:02:40 +0100 > From: Magnus Therning <magnus(a)therning.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] version control system for normal user > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTi=f21UQK=ZKbYfbKw10j5kMS1XX-JjYbP7EY+K6(a)mail.gmail.com<ZKbYfbKw10j5kMS1XX-JjYbP7EY%2BK6(a)mail.gmail.com> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 15:58, Florian Pritz <bluewind(a)server-speed.net> > wrote: > > On 26.08.2010 16:56, jewelshaw wrote: > >> Hi, > >> ? ? I'm a normal user on a workstation, without root privilege. Usually, > I > >> have to test and revise the source code, > >> while after lots of revisions, I get confused about what's new and > what's > >> old. I tried subversion, but a svn server > >> with root privilege is required as daemon. So I wonder if there's a > version > >> control system which I can run as a > >> normal user. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance. > > > > Depending on your needs git or rcs (perfect for single files). Git is > > what the use for kernel develoment ;) > > Or darcs, or hg (mercurial), or monotone... pretty much any modern > de-centralised (disconnected) VCS will do. > > /M > > -- > Magnus Therning? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) > magnus?therning?org? ? ? ? ? Jabber: magnus?therning?org > http://therning.org/magnus? ? ? ?? identi.ca|twitter: magthe > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:05:13 +0100 > From: Magnus Therning <magnus(a)therning.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] version control system for normal user > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTi=XAGq1MKkNSXSwN8kg+P9HQFhN-OStO-V51vfe(a)mail.gmail.com<XAGq1MKkNSXSwN8kg%2BP9HQFhN-OStO-V51vfe(a)mail.gmail.com> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 16:02, David Rosenstrauch <darose(a)darose.net> > wrote: > > On 08/26/2010 10:56 AM, jewelshaw wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> ? ? I'm a normal user on a workstation, without root privilege. Usually, > I > >> have to test and revise the source code, > >> while after lots of revisions, I get confused about what's new and > what's > >> old. I tried subversion, but a svn server > >> with root privilege is required as daemon. So I wonder if there's a > >> version > >> control system which I can run as a > >> normal user. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance. > >> > >> Jiawei Shao > > > > darcs? > > Indeed http://darcs.net/ > > /M > > -- > Magnus Therning? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) > magnus?therning?org? ? ? ? ? Jabber: magnus?therning?org > http://therning.org/magnus? ? ? ?? identi.ca|twitter: magthe > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:05:27 +0200 > From: Philipp ?berbacher <hollunder(a)lavabit.com> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] version control system for normal user > To: arch-general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: <1282835019-sup-308@eris> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Excerpts from Florian Pritz's message of 2010-08-26 16:58:39 +0200: > > On 26.08.2010 16:56, jewelshaw wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm a normal user on a workstation, without root privilege. > Usually, I > > > have to test and revise the source code, > > > while after lots of revisions, I get confused about what's new and > what's > > > old. I tried subversion, but a svn server > > > with root privilege is required as daemon. So I wonder if there's a > version > > > control system which I can run as a > > > normal user. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance. > > > > Depending on your needs git or rcs (perfect for single files). Git is > > what the use for kernel develoment ;) > > I was surprised seeing rcs in the repos, given its age. > > git is really handy. I don't know whether/how to install it without root > privileges, but I imagine it's possible. > -- > Philipp > > -- > "Wir stehen selbst entt?uscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu > und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:02:40 +0200 > From: fons(a)kokkinizita.net > Subject: Re: [arch-general] version control system for normal user > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Message-ID: <20100826150240.GC4151@zita2> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:56:45PM +0800, jewelshaw wrote: > > > I'm a normal user on a workstation, without root privilege. Usually, > I > > have to test and revise the source code, > > while after lots of revisions, I get confused about what's new and what's > > old. I tried subversion, but a svn server > > with root privilege is required as daemon. So I wonder if there's a > version > > control system which I can run as a > > normal user. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance. > > If you are the only user of an SVN repo you can just put it in your > private file space, you don't need to run a server to use SVN. > > The alternative is GIT, quite different in the way it works, but > some people prefer it. > > Ciao, > > -- > FA > > There are three of them, and Alleline. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:31:27 +0100 > From: Chris Bannister <c.bannister(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] version control system for normal user > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTikp0u2yzLepAYByONRGk2+a=YqKDBe6AW0N+qd+(a)mail.gmail.com<YqKDBe6AW0N%2Bqd%2B(a)mail.gmail.com> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I used SVN at first then moved to git and havnt looked back since, > fantastic all round. Check out http://githup.com > > On 26 August 2010 16:02, <fons(a)kokkinizita.net> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:56:45PM +0800, jewelshaw wrote: > > > >> ? ? I'm a normal user on a workstation, without root privilege. Usually, > I > >> have to test and revise the source code, > >> while after lots of revisions, I get confused about what's new and > what's > >> old. I tried subversion, but a svn server > >> with root privilege is required as daemon. So I wonder if there's a > version > >> control system which I can run as a > >> normal user. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance. > > > > If you are the only user of an SVN repo you can just put it in your > > private file space, you don't need to run a server to use SVN. > > > > The alternative is GIT, quite different in the way it works, but > > some people prefer it. > > > > Ciao, > > > > -- > > FA > > > > There are three of them, and Alleline. > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:53:54 -0600 > From: Tavian Barnes <tavianator(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [aur-general] Licenses, > GPL3 only > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTimzjsx7=KU63QibSLJj81zV0ts+czCOGBvMwkwF(a)mail.gmail.com<KU63QibSLJj81zV0ts%2BczCOGBvMwkwF(a)mail.gmail.com> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 26 August 2010 06:23, Ray Rashif <schivmeister(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On 26 August 2010 19:16, Roberto Alsina <ralsina(a)netmanagers.com.ar> > wrote: > >> On Thursday 26 August 2010 08:12:23 Ronald van Haren wrote: > >>> My second point was that we don't know what the future will bring. > >>> Will new applications being licensed under GPL2 or later, GPL3 or > >>> later, GPL4, GPL4 or later... there are lots of options. There are > >>> lots of possibilities and I'm wondering if it is at all feasible to > >>> create a naming scheme which will fit all. > >> > >> Sure: > >> > >> GPL2 > >> GPL2+ > >> GPL3 > >> GPL3+ > >> etc. > >> > >> For convenience, you may want to make GPL the equivalent of GPL2+ > > > > Here's what is currently being done: > > > > ln -s GPL2 GPL > > > > So in fact, we don't even have the text of the "only" version. Neither > > does the FSF. > > > > There is no proper "example", "template" or "draft" for a GPLn-only > > license. For eg. the kernel has this in its COPYING: > > > > <quote> > > NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel > > ?services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use > > ?of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". > > ?Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software > > ?Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux > > ?kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it. > > > > ?Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel > > ?is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not > > ?v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated. > > > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Linus Torvalds > > </quote> > > > > That is the only difference between that license text and the one in > > /usr/share/common, i.e it is a special case, a GPL2 license with an > > "exception clause". Otherwise, both have exactly 2 occurences of "any > > later version". > > > > == GPL2 == > > If we want to honour cases like that, we would have to encourage the > > inclusion of the license. So, our kernel should mention: > > > > license=('custom:GPL2') > > > > And include /usr/share/licenses/kernel26/COPYING. All cases of > > "custom" should naturally imply that there is a license text to check > > out. > > > > All other "normal" GPL software should have: > > > > license=('GPL') > > > > Which needs no intervention. > > > > == GPL3 == > > Now, because the texts of the GPL2 and GPL3 are different, we cannot, > > for eg. symlink anything to GPL3. But in the above manner, software > > like the kernel need to have: > > > > license=('custom:GPL3') > > > > And include /usr/share/licenses/foobar/COPYING. > > > > While the rest of the GPL3 software can just have: > > > > license=('GPL3') > > > > == TL;DR == > > Basically, we just standardise the use of: > > > > license=('custom:GPLn') > > > > For software with GPL exception texts, and include the license. Only > > the kernel (and mysql? [1]) package needs to be changed to conform to > > this; nothing else needs to be done. Very "future proof", IMO. > > > > [1] > http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/01/04/mysqls-license-is-now-gpl-2-only/ > > > > > > -- > > GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD > > > > >From my understanding of copyright, it seems to me that we don't have > to treat GPL2-only and GPL2+ works any differently. Both were > distributed under the GPLv2, and can obviously be redistributed under > the same license. Whether a package decides to add the "or any later > version" extension isn't really our problem; we correctly identify the > licence under which the software was _actually_ released. If someone > wants to relicense it, they can go and get the actual source (which > they'll need anyway) and it'll say that they are free to distribute it > under later GPL versions. But of course, IANAL. > > -- > Tavian Barnes > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:02:54 -0700 > From: John Holbrook <johnholbrook(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] version control system for normal user > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTi=SERY0eP8zX1WrBT5WL392uKYTCVim0dq_Fc3H(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > "I used SVN at first then moved to git and havnt looked back since, > fantastic all round. Check out http://githup.com" > > I think you meant github.com > > ---- > > www.linuxgeek.ca > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:32:19 -0400 > From: "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] rc.conf man page > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Message-ID: > <alpine.LNX.2.00.1008261535260.4998(a)OpenSuSEme2010.localdomain> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > > It would appear that on Aug 26, Dave Reisner did say: > > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 01:35:33PM -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > > As a mere arch user who happens to think that the concept of well > > > commented configuration files such as Arch's rc.conf are WONDERFUL. > > > Especially when they include examples for beginners and those of us who > > > have difficulty remembering. ;-7 > > > > > > My only concerns about having a man page is that eventually the > > > configuration file (in this case rc.conf) might gradually become less > well > > > commented, or it's comments become outdated. And that man pages tend > to > > > be long on highly technical explanations that I for one have a hard > time > > > understanding and are often short on examples. So rather than having > the > > > rc.conf refer to a man page for instruction on how to use it. I'd much > > > prefer that the primary method of "guidance" remain in the rc.local and > > > perhaps include in any man page a url from which one can download a > > > current rc.local.example file. > > > > I don't follow -- how does relocating comments to a man page make them > > inherently any more technical? If you have specific concerns about the > > verbiage I've used, I'm happy to address them. > > Please don't misunderstand me to mean that I take exception to the your > "verbiage". In fact _IF_ I had to depend on a man page rather than a well > commented rc.config file someday, I rather hope the man page is very much > like yours. > > > I'm not opposed to the idea of leaving them in the file itself as well, > > but as brought up earlier, it then exposes the chance for the man page > > and the comments to be out of sync. I'll propose a middle ground -- > > syntax exists in both places (as its much less likely to change), but > > more detailed explanations are provided only in the man page. > > Now that might be good. A man page should have fully detailed explanations > as well as syntax (and I think at least some examples)... Where as an > actual > config file should be rich in commented out examples but as far as > explanations go, I think concise one liners that rely on the examples to > impart a goodly part of the instruction, are the way to go. Especially if > it's practical to include in the config file a hint that the man file > exists... > > I also think that the idea of including in the man page a url to an > example config file that is as 'up to date', and as 'in sync' with the > man page as possible, would be a good hedge against the mutable nature of > the config file. > > My feelings about man pages (and info documents) in general, stem from > years of scratching my head while trying to figure out how to do one > unfamiliar task or another with only such documentation to go by. I would > not really be surprised to find that most of the man pages found on an > Arch system might well be better written than the ones that made me feel > like they were meant to impress some professor rather than to impart > knowledge to those that don't already have a good grasp of the subject. I > know the Arch wiki at least does a real good job of imparting knowledge > (once you find the right document)... Which makes me wonder if at the end > of the man page, in addition to a url for a current version of the > commented config file, would it possibly be a good idea to also reference > any applicable wiki pages? > > -- > | --- ___ > | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook > | ^ J(tWdy)P > | ~\___/~ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>> > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > arch-general mailing list > arch-general(a)archlinux.org > http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-general > > > End of arch-general Digest, Vol 70, Issue 80 > ******************************************** >

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[arch-general] [ANNOUNCEMENT DRAFT] True multilib for Arch Linux x86_64
by Martín Cigorraga 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Hi Thomas, I'm having a missing package error: ‏‌‍error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: Starting full system upgrade... :: lib32-libstdc++5: requires lib32-gcc Regards -Martín (msx) "Un buen antivirus, no debería dejar cargar Windows y sugerir instalar GNU/Linux xD" - omar_uy@#parabola@freenode

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[arch-general] Open Letter (Plea for Medical Help/Assistance) to World Leaders
by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

My Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982 Scanned documents in the (currently 42) photo albums of my Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982#!/profile.php?id=100… Videos in my Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982&v=app_2392950137 ============================================================================================================================================== To: The Linux Community I am a big fan of Linux. In fact, I am running Fedora 11 x86_64 64-bit Linux on my home multimedia desktop tower system. In order to run multiple other Linux distributions at the same time without rebooting my home personal computer, I am using the open source Xen Type 1 hypervisor/virtualization solution. You may check out my work and in-depth technical details on VGA Pass-through for add-on PCI-Express x16 graphics card to Xen-based Windows XP Home Edition 32-bit guest operating system/HVM domU running inside my Fedora 11 64-bit host operating system at the xen-devel (Xen developers) mailing list at the following internet links from July to November 2009. July 2009: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-07/index.html August 2009: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-08/index.html September 2009: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-09/index.html October 2009: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-10/index.html November 2009: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-11/index.html You may also watch High-Definition (HD) videos of Intel VT-d VGA Pass-through for PCI-Express x16 graphics card to Windows XP Home Edition HVM domU guest operating system at my Youtube account. Please visit the following Youtube link to watch my videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/enmingteo My works on the open source Xen virtualization Intel VT-d VGA pass-through, Building a Rocks HPC Cluster with Xen Hardware Virtual Machines (HVM), How to Setup a Virtual Supercomputer Center or HPC Cluster using Xen Virtual Machines, and Using Xen Virtualization Environment for Development and Testing of Supercomputer and High Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster MPICH2 Applications were also listed on the official Xen.org website. http://www.xen.org/support/tutorial.html Besides running Fedora 11 64-bit Linux as my host operating system (my heavily customized Xen Paravirt-Operations Domain 0 or Parent Partition in Windows Server 2008 speak with various pv-ops Dom0-patched self-compiled kernels), I am also running other Linux distributions like Fedora 12 i386 32-bit Linux, FreeBSD amd64 UNIX, openSolaris 64-bit UNIX, openSUSE 11.2 Linux, NPACI Rocks HPC Cluster, Slackware64 13.0 64-bit Linux, and Ubuntu 9.10 Linux, either as para-virtualized (PV), or fully virtualized guest operating systems/domU. Non-*NIX operating systems like Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 have to be run as Hardware Virtual Machines (HVM) under a Xen pv-ops Dom0 Linux operating system. You may want to refer to my picture/screenshot tutorials of installing various Linux distributions, UNIX variants like FreeBSD, and UNIX operating system openSolaris as virtual machines/guest operating systems under a Linux host operating system at my wordpress.com website. Please click on the following internet link: http://enmingteo.wordpress.com/ This is my secondary IT blog. My primary IT blog is http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com/ Since Google Inc. announced the release of the open source 32-bit Chromium OS (which is actually a stripped down Ubuntu 9.10-based Linux operating system) for netbooks last year, I have made an un-official port of chromiumos to the x86_64 64-bit architecture, which I called ChromiumOS64 myself. In the later stages of development, I have added Jeremy Fitzhardinge's Xen paravirt-ops Dom0 capability to my un-official ChromiumOS64 project (ChromiumOS64-Xen). My ChromiumOS64 and ChromiumOS64-Xen projects are listed at the official Xen.org website. Please visit http://www.xen.org/community/projects.html I am also enthusiastic about customizing and compiling my own Linux kernels. To add basic security to my home personal Linux multimedia computer, I have installed the open source Snort Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) and the open source OSSEC Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS). A basic iptables script is also in force. I am also running SETI@Home (BOINC client) on my Linux PC to contribute to the search for extraterrestrials. And not forgetting that I have compiled Linux from Scratch (LFS) 6.5 from scratch following the LFS 6.5 Handbook and installed the PacMan Package Manager, essentially making it an ArchLinux Linux distribution. I hope that the above information that I have provided may be useful to you. ============================================================================================================================================== --UPDATED 28 August 2010 4:22 A.M. Singapore Time --UPDATED 11 August 2010 4:56 A.M. Singapore Time --UPDATED 22 July 2010 11:09 A.M. Singapore time [***URGENT***] 15 June 2010 Tuesday 5:50 P.M. Singapore Time To (long list of recipients): Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters without Borders) International Committee of the Red Cross International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies World Health Organization United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs President of the United States of America Barrack Obama First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama United States House of Representatives Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosy U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner United States Senate President of the U.S. Senate Joseph R. Biden, Jr. President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate Daniel K. Inouye U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland David Cameron President of the Fifth French Republic Nicolas Sarkozy Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Australia The Honorable Kevin Rudd MP Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Ma Ying-jeou President of the European Union Jose Manuel Barroso Members of the European Parliament The Oprah Winfrey Show The Rachel Ray Show The Ellen DeGeneres Show Larry King Live TV Show Charlie Rose TV Show International Court of Justice International Court of Human Rights European Court of Human Rights European Court of Justice Public Broadcasting Service American Broadcasting Company (ABC) National Broadcasting Company CBS Broadcasting Inc. Fox News The CW Television Network Ion Television Bloomberg Television America One Omni Broadcasting Network CNN BBC News Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Amnesty International The Carter Center Every Human Has Rights The Wall Street Journal USA Today The New York Times Los Angeles Times The Washington Post Daily News New York Post San Jose Mercury News Contra Costa Times The Oakland Tribune Chicago Tribune Houston Chronicle The Arizona Republic The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia Daily News Newsday The Denver Post Star Tribune St. Petersburg Times Chicago Sun-Times The Plain Dealer Oregonian !The Oregonian The Seattle Times The Dallas Morning News Detroit Free Press The San Diego Union-Tribune San Francisco Chronicle The Star-Ledger The Boston Globe The Kansas City Star The Sacramento Bee St. Louis Post-Dispatch The Sun The Orange County Register The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Indianapolis Star St. Paul Pioneer Press Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Orlando Sentinel Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Arkansas Democrat-Gazette The Courier-Journal South Florida Sun-Sentinel Las Vegas Review-Journal The Cincinnati Enquirer Miami Herald Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The Columbus Dispatch The Charlotte Observer Fort Worth Star-Telegram The Buffalo News The Virginian-Pilot The Tampa Tribune The Record The Times-Picayune Omaha World-Herald The Oklahoman The Detroit News The Commercial Appeal San Antonio Express-News Austin American-Statesman The Hartford Courant The News & Observer The Tennessean Boston Herald Investor's Business Daily Richmond Times-Dispatch Democrat and Chronicle The Palm Beach Post Fresno Bee The Blade The Florida Times-Union Asbury Park Press The Press-Enterprise The Birmingham News The Des Moines Register The Salt Lake Tribune Arizona Daily Star Daily Herald The Morning Call Akron Beacon Journal Dayton Daily News Lexington Herald-Leader Tulsa World Knoxville News Sentinel Grand Rapids Press The Providence Journal Press-Register Albuquerque Journal The News Journal Wisconsin State Journal The Post-Standard Los Angeles Daily News Sarasota Herald-Tribune The Post and Courier The News Tribune The Journal News The Times of Northwest Indiana The Gazette La Opinión The State Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era The Daily Telegraph Financial Times The Sunday Telegraph The Sunday Times The Guardian The Observer The Independent The Times Independent on Sunday The Herald The Press and Journal The Daily Telegraph The Courier Sunday Herald Scotland on Sunday The Sunday Times The Scotsman The Times The Independent The Guardian The Western Mail Y Cymro New York Times columnist William Lewis Safire Former President of Singapore Devan Nair Former Solicitor-General of Singapore Francis Seow, Harvard Law School Visiting Fellow Secretary of Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin Singapore Citizen/Singaporean Seelan Palay TIME.com Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Alfred Kissinger Dear Sir/Madam, RE: Open Letter (Plea for Medical Help/Assistance) to World Leaders I have uploaded photos, videos, and audios of myself, scanned images of my ECG Graphs, laboratory blood test reports, X-Ray films and medical documents to Facebook (Facebook account: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)) and other preferred multimedia sharing sites. Hopefully, my online accounts, including Facebook, will not be compromised by my antagonists. I hope that the content (text, video, and audio) in my data sharing sites will remain fully intact without unauthorized alteration, modification, and deletion by my adversaries. And hopefully nobody will close my Facebook account without my authorization and consent either. I am exceedingly concerned that I might have heart/coronary artery disease and that it might be in the late stages. My physical symptoms are: 1) Aching in the upper left of my chest since beginning January 2009 90% of the time, sometimes it may migrate to the right side 2) Shortness of breath from time to time 3) Palpitations in the last few days (I can feel my heart beat very hard and irregularly) 4) Muscle aches in the hands and legs, sometimes my hands(palms) will cramp 5) Involuntary movement of fingers/thumbs occasionally 6) Facial spasms occasionally 7) Sometimes I will feel my body "vibrating" anywhere from head to toe 8) When I tried to feel the pulses on my wrists, the pulses will "disappear" after a while. This is contrary to what doctors, nurses, and others have been telling me. That my pulses are consistent. 9) Sometimes when I am just about to fall asleep, I will get a sudden jerk or have a feeling that I am falling or my heart is going to pop out 10) giddiness/dizziness/light-headedness from time to time 11) Sometimes I will feel weak after just waking up, especially in the hands 12) discomfort at the back of my head from time to time I have visited many doctors at Accidents and Emergency (A&E) departments of many general hospitals here but they all try to brush me off and tell me I am fine. My request for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for the brain and (more specifically the) heart is usually declined. It seems that the doctors are stalling for time, dragging and delaying until maybe it is too late to do anything for me. I have been unemployed since 1st October 2009 and have depleted all my personal savings. In May 2009, which is just last year only, I have done a MIBI heart perfusion study (radioisotope IV + gamma camera) and the cardiologist/heart specialist told me I have NO heart/coronary artery disease (even though I have high cholesterol and it could be managed). LVEF was 64% and MIBI was negative for ischemic at Stage 2 Bruce (as at 21st May 2009). How could it then have progressed, from NO heart/artery disease to the above-mentioned physical symptoms, in such a very short period of time?! This is all very very very strange. Could it be some other problem instead? Heart/coronary artery disease takes many many years to develop. As you can observe, I am nowhere as obese as Moses Lim, a Singaporean Mediacorp TV actor. References, photos, and videos of Moses Lim: (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Lim (2) http://moseslim.com/content/ (3) http://www.xndo.net/moseslim.html (4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sHKOiegnS8 Yet he is already 60 years old. I also had a grandmother who was very very obese and she was able to live until 60+ years old. There are many many people who are far fatter and have far greater builds than me. They do not have any physical complaints like mine. Why do I have weird/strange physical symptoms like giddiness/dizziness, chest aches, muscle aches in the limbs, shortness of breath, hyperventilations, and palpitations all of a sudden at 32 years old? Foul play?!?!?! Could it be that my neighbours have been frightening/terrifying/threatening me everyday 24x7 non-stop for the past 3-4 years with all sorts of terrible/horrible things that can happen to me? Maybe my heart couldn't take the stress under such an intensive, constant and prolonged psychological abuse? I have also heard them talk about me to various people while I am at home. I think they do that purposely. But I have had totally no say at all from start to finish because I am not allowed any chance for direct involvement. I am being excluded and not given any chance to know anything. They also seem to have gathered/amassed a lot of private information about me. I seriously wonder how they do that. They appear to be extremely resourceful and motivated. There appears to be some intrigue and shroud of secrecy around me. These people know all of my online monikers and email addresses. They have been submitting online forms using my identity and have even attempted to submit password reset instructions for me without my knowledge and consent. I actually overheard my neighbours claiming to have passwords/complete access to all my email accounts and other online accounts. They may also create phony email accounts and send messages impersonating as me without my knowledge. Thank you very much for your kind attention and concern. PS. (1) My neighbours have claimed that they will never stop or waver in their psychological warfare on me unless I commit suicide. Or they will wait patiently until I have a heart attack or stroke. How callous they are! I want to live and live to a ripe old age. And I wish for a long and healthy life too. (2) I have a severe panic attack on 27 May 2010 Thursday and several panic attacks after that. Due to the panic attacks and the severe anxiety caused by my neighbours, I have been warded in Changi General Hospital (Ward 14) for 2 weeks (from 1st June 2010 to 15th June 2010) (EDIT: It's actually four weeks (from 1st Jun 2010 to 2nd July 2010)). I am actually on home leave today to write this letter (15 June 2010). I will be going back to the ward at night, hopefully before 8 P.M. (3) Most of the nurses in Ward 14 CGH have been very nice and friendly to me. Hopefully they are not putting on a false front. But the doctors there are as obstinate as mules. They stubbornly and stoutly refuse to give me any advanced heart imaging tests, e.g. MRI (preferred), CT-scan (not preferred), echo cardiogram, and ankle brachial index (ABI) tests. (4) I have a medical appointment at the National Heart Center Singapore on 17 June 2010, which is next Thursday. I hope that the heart specialist there will allow me to do the advanced imaging tests (brain/heart) that I want and tell me the absolute truth about my medical condition. (5) My neighbours have strangely and repeatedly commanded me hundreds of times to apply to work in a casino else I would not get medical treatment. Strange? Baffling? A casino environment is not suitable for me and I do not want to work in a casino. I want to work as an Information Technology (IT) engineer. This is my preferred profession. (6) After discharging from CGH on 2nd July 2010, I still have not managed to get any advanced medical imaging tests (MRI) for my heart/brain. The doctors at CGH have consistently refused to do the tests for me. (7) I went for an ABI test at National Heart Center Singapore on the day of discharge from CGH (2nd July 2010). The results appear to be okay. Please refer to my facebook account for the details of the test results. (Rt: 1.05 Lt: 1.04) (8) I am given a full echo cardiogram appointment at the National Heart Center Singapore on 2nd Sept 2010. But I am still not given any MRI tests for my heart/brain. Strange. (EDIT: I have brought forward my echocardiogram appointment to 11 August 2010 Wednesday 2:00 P.M. Singapore Time) (9) I am writing point number 9 onwards until point 29 on 11 Aug 2010 Wednesday Singapore Time. Please take note. (10) During my one month hospital stay at Changi General Hospital (Ward 14) from 1st June 2010 to 2nd July 2010, my neighbours did not come to harass me. The physical symptoms which I have described above (except my chronic chest pain) gradually subsided. Except for the very first day in the hospital ward when I have a number of panic attacks while talking to Dr. Sim Ching Ching in a consulting room and the following morning while talking to Dr. Lui, I did not have any more panic attacks and my anxiety levels decreased during the rest of my hospital stay. (11) After my discharge from CGH on 2nd July 2010, the disturbances from my neighbours have substantially decreased in frequency. I do not know why but all of a sudden, from 31st July 2010 Saturday Singapore Time onwards, my neighbours have re-started or resumed their operations in harassing, frightening, terrifying, threatening, and conducting psychological warfare on me in much increased intensity. They keep talking to me every few minutes every day 24x7 day and night. It's not a face-to-face talk that you might imagine. I didn't converse with them much. They just keep talking to me unilaterally. In Housing & Development Board (HDB) apartment flats in Singapore, you could hear your neighbours in the units to your immediate left, to your immediate right, and also in the units immediately above and below you, if they are to talk sufficiently loud. If you stay on the 2nd story, you could even hear people talking in the void deck (ground floor) and as well as from the carpark. It's a psychological warfare by my neighbours to instill fear and increase my anxiety. (12) My neighbours have proudly claimed that they have strong and powerful backing from their masters. They told me that they cannot stop harassing me at all because they are under orders/instructions from their masters. (13) I have thought of relocating my domicile but my neighbours claimed that even if I moved to another location in Singapore far far away from them, another set of people would be tasked to harass me and take over from them. (14) Shortly after graduating from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) degree in December 2006, I joined the Defense Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) in the Infocomm Infrastructure Division in February 2007 as an Information Technology (IT) engineer, administrating Linux, UNIX, and Windows Servers in its data center. DSTA is an agency under the Singapore Ministry of Defense. (15) Sometime before I left DSTA in August 2007, my neighbours and their friends *first* started to harass, stalk, and conduct psychological warfare on me by instilling fear and increasing my anxiety at home and almost everywhere I go. (16) Within a short period of time, I managed to secure a job as an IT engineer in National Computer Systems (NCS) Ltd, a subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications, in September 2007. The job, as far as I could remember, was to maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers, Windows Servers, and also perform daily tape backup operations in the data center. A strange phenomenon occurred during my stint in NCS Ltd. Colleagues and staffs in other departments started to whisper and gossip about me. When I approached them, none of them appeared to be willing to tell me anything. I had conjectured that some chain emails could be circulating about me in the organization. It seemed that some rumour mongering activities were going on around me in the organization. Without hesitation, my neighbours and their friends came into my mind. They had probably approached some people in NCS Ltd, who were probably very happy to entertain them and start the chain emailing around in the organization. My neighbours and their friends were soon operating in the surrounding area and began to harass me. I could not remember the exact date I started to develop panic attacks. They were of a much milder intensity than those which occurred between 27th May 2010 and 2nd June 2010. I was warded in Singapore General Hospital from 31st Jan 2008 to 5th March 2008. Just before the one-year contract expired, I left NCS Ltd. (17) Between leaving NCS Ltd and joining Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd, I was warded in Singapore General Hospital (SGH) a number of times for panic attacks. (18) After recovering from the panic attacks, I joined Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd in February 2009 as an IT/IS engineer. Asiasoft Online is an online game playing company in Singapore. The company offers online games such as Maple Story, Audition, Cabal, GetAmped, Sudden Attack, Yulgang, Monster Forest, Raycity, and Warriors of the 3 Kingdoms. I am in charge of all the Linux game servers in the company. My biggest and proudest achievement cum project was to setup and configure a fully working IP Security (IPsec) Virtual Private Networking (VPN) tunnel for the company. IPsec VPN is much harder and more complicated to setup than OpenVPN (which is based on SSL or Secure Socket Layer). My next task was to setup and configure a secondary/backup mail exchanger for the company using qmail MTA (Mail Transfer Agent). qmail is much harder and more tedious to configure than postfix MTA. (Yahoo! Singapore is using qmail MTA.) By far, sendmail MTA is the hardest and the most complicated in the Linux world to setup and configure. I was also in charge of the two Domain Name Service (DNS) servers (primary and secondary) in the company and maintaining and updating all the IPv4 forward and reverse zone records. Being in charge of the DNS servers allowed me to learn a bit about Sender Policy Framework (SPF), DomainKeys and DKIM. If my memory does not fail me, the DNS servers were installed by me using Fedora Linux and BIND 9 daemon/service. It is quite simple actually. The final assignment for me in the company was to install and configure all the Yulgang game servers. Majority of the Yulgang game servers are using openSUSE 10.2 32-bit Linux. Only a few Yulgang servers are using Windows servers. (William Phoon Choon Keong, who was my former IT department manager in Asiasoft Online before Melvin Lee came in to replace him towards the end of July 2009, installed and managed the Yulgang Windows game servers.) GetAmped is using Solaris UNIX. During the relocation of the company office from Singapore Post @ Paya Lebar to Tampines Central, I had a chance to play around with CISCO switches and routers and learn some CISCO IOS commands (mostly forgotten by now). But networking is not my forte. I am mostly an IT infrastructure engineer. I have yet to take the CCNA. By the way, the same rumour mongering that happened in NCS Ltd also surfaced in Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd. (19) My father suffered from a mild stroke on 13 September 2009 in which his left side of the body was affected and he was warded for 19 days. He was discharged from Changi General Hospital Singapore on 1st October 2009. On the same day, I resigned from Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd. (20) After resigning from Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd on 1st October 2009, my neighbours and their friends suddenly and unexpectedly increased their force and intensity tremendously in harassing, frightening, terrifying, threatening, and conducting psychological warfare/abuse on me, culminating in a severe panic attack on 27 May 2010 Thursday and several other panic attacks after that, leading to my hospitalization on 1st June 2010 in Changi General Hospital for a period of 32 days, and discharging on 2nd July 2010, which I have already described above. The 27 May 2010 panic attack was an extremely terrible experience for me. I thought I was having a heart attack and going to die. I was having a hyperventilation and my heart rate goes up to almost 150 beats per minute. Both my palms were totally cramped up. My heart was also aching. It took about an hour before the panic attack subsides. (21) As at 11 August 2010 4:03 A.M. Singapore Time, I am still having chest pain in the upper left side of my chest from time to time. Although the doctors at CGH stubbornly pinned everything on panic attacks and anxiety symptoms and ruled out the possibility of a heart/coronary artery disease, I am taking no chances at all. It is after all my life. I really suspect that I might have an underlying heart/coronary artery disease condition which could have been masked by my panic attacks and anxiety symptoms. I have a suspicion that my main blood arteries or veins in the chest could have been narrowed. Otherwise what could have given rise to a chronic chest pain since Jan 2009? I want a MRI test for my chest and a functional MRI (fMRI) test for my brain as well. I want to live and I want to live to a ripe old age. I want to have a long and healthy life. (22) Sometime in October 2009, my neighbours were saying that I have appeared on Singapore's national Mediacorp TV in the corridor of our apartment block. I could not independently verify whether I have appeared on the national TV during this period or some earlier period. But the strangest thing was that people started to avoid me. My relatives (maternal side) were initially reluctant to talk to me over the phone. They did not even visit my house during Chinese New Year 2010. My secondary school friends, polytechnic friends, army friends, NUS friends, NCS friends, Asiasoft Online friends, and ClubSNAP photography friends were suddenly refusing or were afraid to answer my phone calls! I have about 300 people on my Windows Live MSN list and more than 250 people have deleted me from their MSN list. Total strangers in the streets and public places started giving me weird looks, or whispering about me, or taking a few steps back away from me. Even patients, nurses and other staffs in government general hospitals were doing the same thing. What is actually going on? If I really did appear on the national TV, what was actually being reported about me? I want to know the answer. Maybe the Reporters without Borders could help. (23) One day in Shenton Way, I overheard a stranger in a food court saying that my neighbours and their friends were discussing about me on Singapore's Mediacorp radio stations. I could not independently verify whether I have actually been brought up on radio stations in Singapore. There are so many radio stations in Singapore! So which one should I tune in to? And what are the timings? (24) My relatives (maternal and paternal sides) did eventually visit us recently. My relatives (maternal side) visited my house 1-2 weeks ago after receiving a phone call from my mother in hospital. She was admitted on 9th July 2010 together with the assistance (or rather the presence) of CGH Medical Social Worker Miss Cerene Wong. My relatives (paternal side) visited our house a few days back though I don't even recognize them. Please note that I am writing this on 11 August 2010 Wednesday Singapore Time. (25) I am extremely baffled by my neighbours' knowledge of my conversations with doctors and nurses in Changi General Hospital Singapore and Singapore General Hospital. I am also baffled by their knowledge of my medical appointments and when I change my medical appointments. Who gave them all these information? (26) My neighbours told me that their masters' intention and motivation is to systematically destroy me. (27) Please don't fix me. Please. Please don't make my life miserable for eternity. Please. Please Please Please. Please leave me alone in peace. Please. Please don't make me keep on having panic attacks. I will definitely suffer from heart attacks very early on in life due to the protracted psychological abuse putting the extra strain on my heart. Please. Please Please Please. (28) I am hoping to get a job in the IT sector within the next 1-2 or 3 months. I am currently waiting for my mother to be discharged from the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) hospital. Dr. Malu (think I got the name wrong) there has already told me she would be discharged within a few days or a few weeks. Please don't do the same thing to me (harassing, frightening, terrifying, threatening, and psychological warfare/abuse) for my next job again. Please. I am anticipating that you will do it with an extremely high probability. (29) Please don't persecute me. Please. Please. Please. (30) I am writing point number 30 onwards until point number 34 on 28 August 2010 Saturday at 4:06 A.M. Singapore Time. (31) Backed by their masters, my neighbours have warned me time and again that what I am going through now is just the tip of the iceberg. The worst is yet to come for me. (32) My neighbours have brought up the issue of commanding me to apply to work in a casino here again. They have repeatedly told me: "Our masters want you to work at the casinos which have been built and completed in Singapore recently." (33) My neighbours seem to have state of the art thermal imaging cameras which can penetrate solid concrete walls. They can monitor all of my movements and every little action in my own house. And they purposely let me know that by describing what I am doing in my own house to me from time to time. Who gave or loaned them these state of the art technological equipment? (34) I have made numerous attempts to relay the message that I did not purposely, intentionally and deliberately offend/insult their masters through my neighbours by simply talking to them unilaterally (not face to face). However, my neighbours have consistently replied that my explanations are not accepted by their masters. I am at a lost as to what to do. I just want an avenue to offer my sincere apologies to their masters for using one of their names by mistake in a challenge/response situation with Melvin Lee (it was a casual conversation in Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd back in Aug/Sep 2009 I think when Melvin Lee challenged me to complete an IT assignment within a specified period of time) and hope that they [the masters] would not try to fix me. Yours sincerely, Mr. Teo En Ming Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Name: Zhang Enming Citizenship: Singapore Citizen/Singaporean Facebook: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Mobile Phone (Starhub Prepaid): +65-8369-2618 MSN/Windows Live Messenger: teoenming(a)hotmail.com For online photos of me when I was a kid, please scroll down to the bottom of my signature. Photo of Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore #1: http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/5052/mrteoenmingzhangenmingo.jpg Photo of Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore #2: http://i38.tinypic.com/2a6pp4z.jpg Photo of Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore #3: http://i.imgur.com/LAml2.jpg Photo of Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore #4: http://img7.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/6074/6074897a77d2320fd67b332fa4cd1f… MY ONLINE PHOTO(1): http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/6264/enmingteodscf2510.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(2): http://i41.tinypic.com/adnfx5.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(3): http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7534/enmingteodscf2511.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(4): http://i40.tinypic.com/dc7hmq.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(5): http://i.imgur.com/SIICh.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(6): http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2233/enmingteodscf2512.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(7): http://i40.tinypic.com/2u8l62r.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(8): http://i.imgur.com/CLifZ.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(9): http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/fa956dddab.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(10): http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/f93b37b773.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(11): http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/ce0cd663ef.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(12): http://img5.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5415/54156759ac8ecbba1e2368c63d203a… MY ONLINE PHOTO(13): http://img9.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5415/5415679e958679286a919425aca4c2… MY ONLINE PHOTO(14): http://img4.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5415/54156847596a5a067d2a7267362ebf… MY ONLINE PHOTO(15): http://xs.to/image-68D0_4BEB7F90.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(16): http://xs.to/image-A7E3_4BEB7FE7.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(17): http://xs.to/image-E303_4BEB802E.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(18): http://i39.tinypic.com/bet4yf.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(19): http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/5139/teoenmingzhangenming.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(20): http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/a0e0744c82.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(21): http://img6.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5415/5415686db861b07e07c010d8b610b1… MY ONLINE PHOTO(22): http://xs.to/image-4016_4BEB806B.jpg Dip(Mechatronics) BEng(Hons)(Mechanical Engineering) Alma Maters: (1) Singapore Polytechnic Graduated 1998 (2) National University of Singapore Graduated 2006 My Primary Blog: http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com My Secondary Blog: http://enmingteo.wordpress.com My Youtube videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/enmingteo Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore ZIP: 470103 Place of Birth: Singapore NRIC/National Identity Card No: S78*6*2*H Date of Birth: 5th March 1978 Race: Chinese Dialect Group: Hokkien Height: 1.78 meters Online photos of myself when I was a kid: (1) http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/9020/nursery01.jpg (2) http://i40.tinypic.com/k4jhhf.jpg (3) http://imgur.com/Ywca3.jpg (4) http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/2db37a4403.jpg (5) http://img8.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5416/54166180c1dec144cde2b6275ad5da… (6) http://xs.to/image-C02E_4BEBBF47.jpg Email: space.time.universe(at)gmail.com Alternate email #1: teoenming(at)hotmail.com Alternate email #2: zhang_enming(at)lavabit.com

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[arch-general] multilib repo and flashplugin
by Rafael Beraldo 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

I've just activated the multilib repository and installed flashplugin from there. But during installation, nspluginwrapper gives an error: nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/plugins/libflashplayer.so What is a viewer anyway? How can I solve this problem? Thanks. -- Rafael Beraldo http://cabaladada.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.4-1
by Tobias Powalowski 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

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] Vala out of date
by Jackson Alley 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

The vala package is several versions out of date and some packages now depend on the .9 branch like shotwell. Here's an updated PKGBUILD: http://dpaste.com/234866/ Jackson

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.21-1
by Tobias Powalowski 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

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] Interactive boot mode like in Gentoo
by joker-jar＠yandex.ru 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

What do you think about it? Need to be in Arch? During booting before starting daemons appears message: "Press I to enter interactive boot mode" Interactive boot allows to select action for each daemon such "start service" and "skip service"

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[arch-general] Makepkg $(srcdir) detection and false-positives
by Nathan Wayde 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

I'm not sure if this is the correct ML or not but whatever I'll post here anyway. I was just reading the ML where the quest? to finding why makepkg warns about $srcdir was brought up and a simple grep -R... seemed to be the method of detection. Anyway it reminded me of another message on the topic last week i think where someone said that it would warn on files with debugging symbols... TL;DR makepkg does a grep -q to decide if a package contains files that reference $(srcdir), this is inadequate as it causes a false-positive on files that contain debugging symbols. This can be eliminated by specifying the option `-I` a.k.a `--binary-files=without-match` to grep which makes prevents grep from matching binary files. Rationale: the only paths that binary files should contain based on buildtime setting are path such as '/usr/share/xyz'. If the pkgbuild *accidentally* uses a variable that resolves with $srcdir in it then I'd argue that the pkgbuild is broken and will most likely break the application in other ways and will be caught before sharing the pkgbuild. I can't be the only one that tests their packages before uploading to the AUR right? On another note, shouldn't there also be a check for $pkgdir. The only cases of this that I've ran into myself have been a reference to $pkgdir causing all sorts of nonsense such as broken symlinks and incorrect resource paths.

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[arch-general] rc.conf man page
by Dave Reisner 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

I threw together a man page for rc.conf based on info gleaned from the Wiki, rc.conf itself, and my own experiences. I offer it up for for adoption into the initscripts package along with comments, critcisms, and rotten tomatoes. The format is asciidoc, which is the same format used by pacman. If desirable, I'm willing to compile other pages for system config files in a similar manner. d

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kde 4.5.0
by Stefano Avallone 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

On Tuesday 24 August 2010 19:05:46 Andrea Scarpino wrote: > On Wednesday 18 August 2010 11:06:43 Ronald van Haren wrote: > > so far I've seen people reporting the following chipsets to be > > affected, but there may be others > > intel 910 > > intel 945 > > intel 965 > > ati 3450 > > After the update to Xorg 1.9 I had to disable compositing (editing > ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc). I own an intel gm45 chipset. I tried to update to xorg, mesa and intel video driver from [unstable], too, and found kde unusable with compositing enabled (huge flickering). So, I reverted all the stack back to [extra]. I own an intel gm45 chipset, too. Stefano

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[arch-general] restore hdd image to a bigger disk
by Marek Otahal 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hi all, I use dd command to make an image of entire /dev/sda (160GB) and back up it as netobook.hdd to an external storage. The disk contains both encrypted(dmcrypt/luks) and normal linux/win partitions. My question is, if my netbook died and I needed to recover from backup, can I just dd-copy the image to a new larger disk? Does it matter? 1/ it will do, but the size will remain 160gb ..is ok. 2/ will do & possibility to resize partitions later ..even better! :) I've searched the net, but I'd like someone to confirm it 100% works (just dd and reboot). Thanks in advance, Marek -- Marek Otahal :o)

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [ANNOUNCEMENT DRAFT] True multilib for Arch Linux x86_64
by Mario Figueiredo 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

On 26-08-2010 23:09, Thomas Bächler wrote: > [multilib] > Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Also planning a a multilib-testing?

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[arch-general] flashplugin
by Jason Reardon 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

I just noticed flashplugin x86_64 in the 'Recent Updates' section of the frontpage. Adobe is supporting Flash for 64 bit Linux again?

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[arch-general] version control system for normal user
by jewelshaw 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hi, I'm a normal user on a workstation, without root privilege. Usually, I have to test and revise the source code, while after lots of revisions, I get confused about what's new and what's old. I tried subversion, but a svn server with root privilege is required as daemon. So I wonder if there's a version control system which I can run as a normal user. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance. Jiawei Shao

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [aur-general] Licenses, GPL3 only
by Tavian Barnes 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

On 26 August 2010 06:23, Ray Rashif <schivmeister(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 26 August 2010 19:16, Roberto Alsina <ralsina(a)netmanagers.com.ar> wrote: >> On Thursday 26 August 2010 08:12:23 Ronald van Haren wrote: >>> My second point was that we don't know what the future will bring. >>> Will new applications being licensed under GPL2 or later, GPL3 or >>> later, GPL4, GPL4 or later... there are lots of options. There are >>> lots of possibilities and I'm wondering if it is at all feasible to >>> create a naming scheme which will fit all. >> >> Sure: >> >> GPL2 >> GPL2+ >> GPL3 >> GPL3+ >> etc. >> >> For convenience, you may want to make GPL the equivalent of GPL2+ > > Here's what is currently being done: > > ln -s GPL2 GPL > > So in fact, we don't even have the text of the "only" version. Neither > does the FSF. > > There is no proper "example", "template" or "draft" for a GPLn-only > license. For eg. the kernel has this in its COPYING: > > <quote> > NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel > services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use > of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". > Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software > Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux > kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it. > > Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel > is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not > v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated. > > Linus Torvalds > </quote> > > That is the only difference between that license text and the one in > /usr/share/common, i.e it is a special case, a GPL2 license with an > "exception clause". Otherwise, both have exactly 2 occurences of "any > later version". > > == GPL2 == > If we want to honour cases like that, we would have to encourage the > inclusion of the license. So, our kernel should mention: > > license=('custom:GPL2') > > And include /usr/share/licenses/kernel26/COPYING. All cases of > "custom" should naturally imply that there is a license text to check > out. > > All other "normal" GPL software should have: > > license=('GPL') > > Which needs no intervention. > > == GPL3 == > Now, because the texts of the GPL2 and GPL3 are different, we cannot, > for eg. symlink anything to GPL3. But in the above manner, software > like the kernel need to have: > > license=('custom:GPL3') > > And include /usr/share/licenses/foobar/COPYING. > > While the rest of the GPL3 software can just have: > > license=('GPL3') > > == TL;DR == > Basically, we just standardise the use of: > > license=('custom:GPLn') > > For software with GPL exception texts, and include the license. Only > the kernel (and mysql? [1]) package needs to be changed to conform to > this; nothing else needs to be done. Very "future proof", IMO. > > [1] http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/01/04/mysqls-license-is-now-gpl-2-only/ > > > -- > GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD > >From my understanding of copyright, it seems to me that we don't have to treat GPL2-only and GPL2+ works any differently. Both were distributed under the GPLv2, and can obviously be redistributed under the same license. Whether a package decides to add the "or any later version" extension isn't really our problem; we correctly identify the licence under which the software was _actually_ released. If someone wants to relicense it, they can go and get the actual source (which they'll need anyway) and it'll say that they are free to distribute it under later GPL versions. But of course, IANAL. -- Tavian Barnes

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[arch-general] Configuring dovecot 2 with sieve?
by Magnus Therning 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

I've run into a slight problem with the configuration of dovecot after the recent upgrade to version 2. I used v1.2 with the sieve plugin[1]. But I can't get it to work with v2.0. I've located the sieve plugin, now shipping with dovecot itself: % tree /usr/lib/dovecot/modules|head -n 15 /usr/lib/dovecot/modules ├── auth │ ├── libauthdb_ldap.a │ └── libauthdb_ldap.so ├── doveadm │ ├── lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin.a │ ├── lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin.so │ ├── lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.a │ └── lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so ├── lda │ ├── lib90_sieve_plugin.a │ ├── lib90_sieve_plugin.la │ └── lib90_sieve_plugin.so ├── lib01_acl_plugin.a ├── lib01_acl_plugin.so And I know how to configure the use of the sieve plugin in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/15-lda.conf: ... protocol lda { # Space separated list of plugins to load (default is global mail_plugins). #mail_plugins = $mail_plugins mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve } ... However, this doesn't work! Running /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver results in the following error message in /var/log/mail: Aug 26 13:45:47 bryma dovecot: lda: Fatal: Plugin sieve not found from directory /usr/lib/dovecot/modules It looks like dovecot doesn't look for plugins in sub-directories! So how do I configure dovecot so that it finds it? I've tried the following, none works: mail_plugins = $mail_plugins lda/sieve mail_plugins = $mail_plugins lda:sieve mail_plugins = $mail_plugins lda.sieve Any ideas? /M [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18554 -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] texlive-xxxxxxxxxxxx-doc packages vanished, yes ?
by goodmenzy＠gmail.com 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hi, all I found the texlive-xxxxx-doc packages vanished, 32/64 bit are all vanished. anyone are kind enough to tell me the reason?

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Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] TU Application / Looking for sponsor
by Laurent Carlier 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Le mercredi 25 août 2010 14:08:13, vous avez écrit : > Le mercredi 25 août 2010 13:30:35, Jakob Gruber a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to apply for the TU position, and as I don't have a sponsor yet > > it'd be great if somebody would be kind enough to take me on :) > > > > A little bit about myself: I'm 26 and I live close to Vienna, Austria. > > The past couple of years I've worked as a database developer / > > consultant, then as a C# programmer (with a couple of additional tasks > > like building and maintaining our SVN / Trac server). In my free time, > > I've also been playing around with C++ and Python. > > > > I've been using Arch for around 2 years. I haven't had much linux > > experience before that - if I remember correctly it was around 1-2 months > > of Ubuntu and Gentoo. I regularly lurk on the forums and maintain a few > > packages in AUR ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=schuay ). > > > > Generally, I'm mostly interested in maintaining games. However I'm more > > than willing to help out where it is needed. Out of my AUR packages, I'd > > consider taking > > > > firehol, > > me-tv > > and stone-soup > > > > to community. > > > > I have a decent pc (3ghz dual core, 6G ram) available to build for both > > i686 and x86_64. > > > > schuay > > Look at your packages, they are pretty well maintained except they should > be updated in regards to last pacman features (return 1 & missing > package() function) > > Searching a bit on the great internet, i've found some of your > contributions. > > I guess you got the ability to be a good TU. > > Let me be your Sponsor. > > Regards, > Laurent Carlier Also,.... Let the discussion period begin! and have fun!

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kde 4.5.0
by Marek Otahal 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

On Wednesday 18 of August 2010 11:37:55 Ronald van Haren wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:19:29 +0200, Jan de Groot <jan(a)jgc.homeip.net> > > > > wrote: > >> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 11:06 +0200, Ronald van Haren wrote: > >>> so far I've seen people reporting the following chipsets to be > >>> affected, but there may be others > >>> intel 910 > >>> intel 945 > >>> intel 965 > >>> ati 3450 > >> > >> Given the fact that AMD and Intel rule the IGP market, I would say yes. > > > > We would still need an announcement as for those who upgrade from > > previous versions this global configuration wont be effective. We should > > add to the announcement that people could disable composite by editing > > ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc (if they are no longer able to login) > > > > -- > > Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre > > you will be able to login, afaik this bug only shows up when changing > stuff in system settings. disabling and enabling compositing with the > global shortcut should be enough to get it working again. > > Ronald hello, for me, it kills desktop instantly, not only while fiddling with settings. Manually disabling compositing in kwinrc helps, "setting LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 in ~/.bash_profile" doesn't affect the bug. I'm using kde on i945. Thanks, marek -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] Configure / Set a Hostname
by Carlos Mennens 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

I have read on Google searches and on all over so many different ways to properly set a FQDN on Arch Linux and am more confused than I was before I started looking this up. I don't ever get prompted during the Arch installer to enter a 'hostname' but rather do so in /etc/rc.conf which appears to make no difference because it's superseded by /etc/hosts. Can someone tell me if I want my Arch machine called "bishop.mydomain.tld", how does one properly and officially achieve this task in Arch? Thanks!

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[arch-general] Abiword and wv
by Myra Nelson 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Greetings, Abiword was upgraded from 2.8.6.1 to 2.8.6.2. [2010-08-20 01:25] upgraded abiword (2.8.6-1 -> 2.8.6-2) [2010-08-20 01:25] upgraded abiword-plugins (2.8.6-1 -> 2.8.6-2) When I attempted to start Abiword with gmrun and it failed. Next I tried in a terminal and received the following error message. [myra@gandalf abiword unable to find libwv-1.2.so.3 My troubleshooting went like this: [myra@gandalf /usr/lib]:locate libwv /usr/lib/libwv-1.2.so.4 /usr/lib/libwv-1.2.so.4.0.3 /usr/lib/libwv.a /usr/lib/libwv.so [myra@gandalf pacman -Q wv Name : wv Version : 1.2.7-1 http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/wv/ Package Details: wv 1.2.7-1 Architecture: x86_64 Repository: Extra Description: MSWord library can load and parse Word 2000, 97, 95 and 6 file formats Upstream URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wvware License: GPL Groups: None Maintainers: Jan de Groot Package Size: 261.3 KB Installed Size: 3.2 MB Last Packager: Jan de Groot Build Date: 2010-06-08 10:02:57 UTC Last Updated: 2010-06-08 Package Contents * usr/lib/libwv-1.2.so.3 **************** * usr/lib/libwv-1.2.so.3.0.4 * usr/lib/libwv.a * usr/lib/libwv.so fix-soname.patch with PKGBUILD diff -ru wv-1.2.7.orig//configure wv-1.2.7//configure --- wv-1.2.7.orig//configure 2009-09-21 12:22:46.000000000 +0200 +++ wv-1.2.7//configure 2010-06-08 12:00:27.948857203 +0200 @@ -2082,8 +2082,8 @@ WV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 WV_MINOR_VERSION=2 WV_MICRO_VERSION=7 -WV_INTERFACE_AGE=3 -WV_BINARY_AGE=3 +WV_INTERFACE_AGE=4 +WV_BINARY_AGE=4 WV_VERSION=$WV_MAJOR_VERSION.$WV_MINOR_VERSION.$WV_MICRO_VERSION I rebuilt Abiword and everything works fine. Now for the question. Why was Abiword still trying to find the previous version of libwv and why does the package listing on the archlinux packages still show libwv-1.2.so.3? I only ask because that's the version the latest Abiword package from the repositories was looking for. Granted I built Abiword 2.8.2-1 from ABS because I was having problems getting it to work properly installing the package with pacman, and wv was installed on [2010-02-14 02:46] installed wv (1.2.7-1) which is prior to the age bump for the .so file and hasn't updated since (I've checked the pacman.log thoroughly). I'm assuming I built wv from abs at the time but can't find the package I built to check it. Makes one wonder how I wound up with libwv-1.2.so.4. AFAICT that doesn't explain the latest build of Abiword from the package repository trying to find libwv.so.3 since the PKGBUILD doesn't use version deps, or am I missing something. Ciao for now Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] Add keditbookmarks to kdebase
by joker-jar＠yandex.ru 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hello! Sorry for my english, i'm russian :) Look at that: http://websvn.kde.org/tags/KDE/4.4.5/kdebase/apps/ But there is no keditbookmarks app in kdebase: pkgbase=kdebase pkgname=('kdebase-dolphin' 'kdebase-kappfinder' 'kdebase-kdepasswd' 'kdebase-kdialog' 'kdebase-kfind' 'kdebase-kinfocenter' 'kdebase-konqueror' 'kdebase-konsole' 'kdebase-kwrite' 'kdebase-lib' 'kdebase-plasma') Keditbookmarks now is a part of konqueror (see the file list for kdebase-konqueror => usr/bin/konqueror). But keditbookmarks is required by some apps (krdc, krusader and others) to edit bookmarks. So, without konqueror you can't edit bookmarks in the krusader (nothing appears after clicking "manage bookmarks"). I think that need to split konqueror on two packages: konqueror and keditbookmarks, because install konqueror just for working bookmark editor in krusader isn't good. P.S. I think you understand me :)

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[arch-general] xorg (group) and xorg-fonts-100dpi and xorg-fonts-75dpi
by Andre "Osku" Schmidt 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hello, i now found out where my "ugly" fonts in firefox comes for some pages. one page had this defined in css font:11px verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; and busybox.net has: font-family:lucida,helvetica,arial; and both make firefox to use bitmap fonts from the packages xorg-fonts-75dpi xorg-fonts-100dpi removing those packages (and having like ttf-dejavu installed) i havent found any webpage that would get any bitmap fonts assigned anymore. so, anyone know how/what decides which fonts firefox gets ? (i have all i can set in firefox settings to dejavu) and on same note, what packages even need xorg-fonts-100dpi and xorg-fonts-75dpi ? cant we replace those with ttf-dejavu in the xorg package ? cheers .andre ps. no, the solution is _not_ to install ms-fonts :P

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[arch-general] Package changelog
by Magnus Therning 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

I just found out about the changelog= directive for PKGBUILDs. However I can't really find more detailed information about it, e.g. is there a specific format that I have to follow? Where can I find more info? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] [PATCH] devtools: give a writable home to nobody for use in makechrootpkg
by Gaetan Bisson 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi, This is to ensure $HOME is a writable directory during makechrootpkg runs. I suspect this is helpful to build various packages - in the example I have in mind (uim in [extra]), the home directory was determined by getpwuid(getuid())->pw_dir, so simply exporting a new HOME environment variable in the PKGBUILD wasn't enough. Best, --Gaetan diff -aur devtools-0.9.9/mkarchroot devtools-0.9.9.new/mkarchroot --- devtools-0.9.9/mkarchroot 2010-08-20 12:44:16.000000000 +0200 +++ devtools-0.9.9.new/mkarchroot 2010-08-23 11:11:45.036666760 +0200 @@ -194,5 +194,9 @@ if [ ! -e "${working_dir}/.arch-chroot" ]; then date +%s > "${working_dir}/.arch-chroot" fi + + # give nobody a writable home (for makechrootpkg) + chroot "${working_dir}" usermod -d /build nobody + # }}} fi

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] At last, clean multilib support
by Rogutės Sparnuotos 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Rémy Oudompheng (2010-08-23 13:16): > On 2010/8/23, Jan de Groot <jan(a)jgc.homeip.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 12:54 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > >> What kind of packages are expected to be found in a multilib > >> repository? > >> Should we keep with core/extra packages, leaving 32-bit versions of > >> community packages to AUR ? In more down-to-earth terms: are we going > >> to have glibc/gtk2/firefox/flashplugin in the same place ? > > > > Firefox probably not, but a 32bit flashplugin and its dependencies are > > one of the candidates. Another thing that comes to mind is Wine, as > > there's no native 64bit port of that available. > > > > At this moment community is crowded with broken 32bit crap which is just > > i686 packages copied to a different location (in /opt... ew), where > > hardcoded configuration files still point to the old i686 locations. An > > example of this is gtk2 trying to load 64bit plugins all the time. > > Did I miss something or the 32 bit flashplugin can only be used in a > 32-bit browser ? Wouldn't it be unconvenient to have the plugin in the > repo without some widely used browser ? <...> 64bit Opera can use 32bit Flash (but the 32bit flashplugin needs a bunch of lib32-* packages from community, which have packaging problems as mentioned by Jan). -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

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[arch-general] [PATCH] restrict NETWORK_PERSIST to runlevel 0 and 6
by Florian Pritz 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Signed-off-by: Florian Pritz <bluewind(a)xssn.at> --- network | 2 +- rc.shutdown | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/network b/network index 977e81e..d1ecdde 100755 --- a/network +++ b/network @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ case "$1" in # exit #fi - if [ "${NETWORK_PERSIST}" = "yes" -o "${NETWORK_PERSIST}" = "YES" ]; then + if [ "${NETWORK_PERSIST}" = "yes" -o "${NETWORK_PERSIST}" = "YES" ] && [[ $RUNLEVEL = 0 || $RUNLEVEL = 6 ]] ; then status "Skipping Network Shutdown" true exit 0 fi diff --git a/rc.shutdown b/rc.shutdown index 4eb29cc..bbd4444 100755 --- a/rc.shutdown +++ b/rc.shutdown @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ # /etc/rc.shutdown # +export RUNLEVEL PRELEVEL + . /etc/rc.conf . /etc/rc.d/functions -- 1.7.2.1

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] At last, clean multilib support
by Mauro Santos 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

On 08/23/2010 12:18 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > - skype (needs qt, which is huge, so maybe this will take a while) You mean to have skype readily available for the 64bit version? That would be nice (one less thing to fetch from AUR :p ). I guess the staticqt version could be used in the meantime, I've been using it for a good while and it has been working fine. I think the staticqt version can also help avoid some minor inconveniences that plague skype when there is a qt update, such as missing avatars. -- Mauro Santos

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[arch-general] makepkg devel_check svn issue
by Andrea Fagiani 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hello, A little background : when updating a svn package with makepkg, svn info gets called (in the devel_check function) and then the "Last Changed Rev" extracted from its output and $pkgver updated accordingly. However, while compiling stjerm-svn [1] (which I maintain in the AUR, btw) I end up with a package that has pkgver=256 , but the actual revision checked out by svn is 262. I suspect it may be due to the fact that rev 257 created a new branch (you can find the repository here) [2]. This could be easily fixed by considering the "Revision" value (instead of "Last Changed Rev") in the svn info output. Question is, is this the desired behavior or did I just stumble into a bug (and should, therefore, report it) ? Andrea [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27759 [2] https://code.google.com/p/stjerm-terminal/source/checkout

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

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] usb-storage and processor C-states
by JM 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Hello, I have two boxes: Pentium M / i915 / ICH7 and Via C7 / CN 700 / VT8237R. Both processors support C-states 0 through 3. Both southbridges support USB 2.0 (ehci). Yet when I plug in an usb flash drive into the Via C7 box the processor can no longer go into the C3 sleep state (C2 becomes the lowest possible) while the Pentium M box does not display this behavior and still happily idles in the C3 state. I'd like to poke upstream about it but I need to know more. What is to blame? Could this be a Southbridge/CPU/BIOS limitation, or is it driver's fault? How do I debug this further? Any help would be appreciated. Regards, JM

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[arch-general] Gnome/Gtk-2.0 BLING! (list of surprisingly cool themes)
by David C. Rankin 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Listmates, I stumbled across some absolutely killer gtk-2.0 & metacity themes that caught my eye. If you use gnome, Xfce, etc.., give them a try and I guarantee you, you will be blown away. They are available at gnome-look or Xfce-look.org sites or by googling the theme name. Most also come with an emerald theme as well as part of the package. Here is the short list: ** Abstract-DarkGlow Aero-ion3.1 Black Plastic V.2 ** Blue-Joy Correcamins DarkVision DiMurrineGTK Dust (Dust Burnt, and the rest of the Dust ... themes) Elegant Aurora (and the other Elegant....) Glow Fire (Lava, Flower, Cinder ...) Harvest Industrial-Glacier (GONYX, Lighthouse, Charcoal, Zeta, ...) Moomex Nova-Blue (Gold, etc...) Overglossed Oxygen-Molecule River Shifte_Black ShinyBlack Silence ** SlicknesS-black SphereCrystal Tenebrific-BlueMods Vision Xfce-cadmium (many of the Xfce themes also have matching gtk themes) Zniavre ** (top 3 for me - the rest are a close 4th) And the screenshot giving an example of Blue-Joy and SlicknesS-black: (86k) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/ss/gnome/gnome-bling.jpg -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] At last, clean multilib support
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

On 22.08.2010 11:25, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 22.08.2010 10:39, schrieb Thomas Bächler: >> Jan Steffens and me spent the this weekend putting together a multilib >> toolchain and a clean lib32-glibc package. I wanted to do this for at >> least two years, and we finally managed to do it on FrOSCon now. This is >> the plan of attack on this: >> >> * Maintain the PKGBUILDs in svn-community/${pkgname}/trunk/ >> * Create a separate repo 'multilib', >> (svn-community/${pkgname}/repos/multilib-x86_64) >> * Remove ALL multilib packages from community. Do NOT mix pure 64 bit >> with multilib. All multilib must go into the new multilib repository. >> * Rebuild all multilib packages with the multilib compiler to solve the >> numerous problems encountered by the hackish "copy our 32 bit packages >> into another path" approach. >> * Find TUs and Devs willing to work on multilib (please add your name to >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multilib_Project) >> >> Any comments are welcome. We will upload the multilib packages and >> PKGBUILDs into a small test repository in a minute for review. > A temporary repository is up: http://pkgbuild.com/~heftig/multilib/ > This looks like it could break Arch Linux as a whole. I'm in!

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[arch-general] ALSA volume control
by Nilesh Govindarajan 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

My sound card has two sockets each for mic & output. One set in the front & another in the rear. I connect headphone to the front one and the rear one is connected to a power amplifier. I can see headphone control in alsamixer, kmix, but I can't adjust its volume separately, only mute/unmute it. What tweaks are needed to get this feature? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps

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[arch-general] /etc/profile PATH variable wrong
by Jude DaShiell 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

In order for that to be correct it needs to also have :/usr/local/bin inside of the quote marks. The /usr/local/bin directory on Linux systems like slackware and debian is where stuff gets put that anyone can execute that's on the system. I put a simple shell script I wrote there then tried to use it and it wouldn't work until I keyed in the /usr/local/bin/myd command. That small script makes the date and time more readable for me. Since that file was copied from suse, people in that other distribution probably also ought to be notified.

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[arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format
by Mathias Huber 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Dear Archers, is it true that rankmirrors can't handle mirrorlist urls like ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch? While pacman works fine with this format, rankmirrors produces unreachable URLs. Or am I misunderstanding something here? Rock on, Mathias

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[arch-general] "Configuring System Clock" event FAIL at start-up
by Martín Cigorraga 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

This a strange one: I left my system running for about 8 hours today (had a brainstorm session for upcoming Software Freedom Day) and when I came back I noticed some weird behaviour with the mouse pointer, so I decided reboot. Now I have a red FAIL notice when "Configuring System Clock". I already check BIOS and there seems to no problem there, ¿what can be happen? (already tried serching the forum but haven't found any related issue) Greetings. -Martín

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] make-3.82-1
by Florian Pritz 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

On 15.08.2010 00:20, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am Sonntag 15 August 2010 schrieb Allan McRae: >> On 15/08/10 04:37, Tobias Powalowski wrote: >> > Am Donnerstag 12 August 2010 schrieb Allan McRae: >> >> Upstream release announcement: >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.announce/browse_thread/thread/d6a3f56 >> >> 91a b08a0a# >> > >> > kernel breaks with this make version. >> > Don't think we should move it. >> >> Any chance of slightly more details than "breaks"? >> >> Allan > Stops while trying to copy firmware, cannot create $pkgdir/lib/firmware/./ I haven't tested that much, but on my box the MAKEFLAGS are sort of ignored. Though it's a bit complicated: in the PKGBUILD: MAKEFLAGS="-j12" make bzImage modules -> 1 thread make -j12 bzImage modules -> 12 threads on the shell: both -> 12 threads Downgrading to 3.81-5 fixes the 1 thread problem. Maybe this has to do something with the env? -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}(a)server-speed.net

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[arch-general] K3b
by Baho Utot 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

I am having some issues with K3b Under KDE4 ( yes I hate it) When I start K3b it detects a blank dvd in the dvd writer but when selecting the burn image tool from the menu it does not reconize the blank dvd. I looked into the frums and the wiki but didn't find anything that was helpful

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[arch-general] 2.6.35-ARCH panic in VirtualBox 3.2.8-1
by Martín Cigorraga 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Tonight I did a clean install of Arch in a VirtualBox VM and after updating the system I can't boot anymore because there's a kernel panic, see attached screenshot for the output error log [0] Ok, I was a dumb because I didn't make any snapshot before upgrading -was working well with ISO shipped kernel- nor made a backup of kernel files in /boot before blindly upgrade, but I think this a good time for ask you seriously consider implementing an automatic backup for kernel before upgrading to a new one (I know this had been treated no so much time ago in the list and that there's an active wiki about this topic). By the way, thanks a lot for fixing K3b so fast. Best, -Martín [0] <goog_933442720> http://www.fileden.com/files/2010/5/7/2852027/My%20Documents/Screenshots/ar…

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.2-1
by Tobias Powalowski 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

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] Referencing $srcdir in PKGBUILD?
by Magnus Therning 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Lately my PKGBUILDs result in a warning when building: ==> WARNING: Package contains reference to $srcdir It's a bit confusing, since PKGBUILD(5) has the following to say about $srcdir: srcdir This points to the directory where makepkg extracts or copies all source files. What should I do to get rid of the warning? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] [signoff] hdparm-9.30-1
by Tobias Powalowski 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Hi guys, 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] Another suggested patch for the init scripts
by Magnus Therning 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

The following change takes into consideration that the size of the entropy pool is given in bits in 2.6 kernels. I'm shamelessly assuming that no one in the Arch community would be running a 2.4 kernel :-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] Colorized Output Listing
by Carlos Mennens 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

It's very frustrating in Arch that my directories[blue], text files[white], tarballs[red], symbolic links[blue], and scripts[green] are all the same color. How can I colorize this in bash so my Arch Linux system is much easier to sort through? I checked the Wiki and only found something about colorizing my PS1 which is not what I really care about. Thanks for any help...

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] archbuild: building in a chroot for the lazy
by Ng Oon-Ee 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 13:09 +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: <snip> > > My long term goal is to create easy to use tools which will use the > exact same build environment for everyone. The first attempt is now in > testing with devtool-0.9.9. > <snip> > Greetings, > > Pierre > Fringe benefit, users like me will be able to correctly test the AUR packages we maintain for dependency issues (namcap only works MOST of the time) =)

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[arch-general] KDE4 USB and sync
by Manne Merak 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Anyone know where to set the "sync" option for USB storage devices in KDE4. In 3.5 you could rightclick on the drive and there was a checkbox. Manne

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[arch-general] Latest K3b update is broke
by Martín Cigorraga 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

After a # yaourt -Syu which showed: Objetivos (2): k3b-2.0.1-1 [8,14 MB] qimageblitz-0.0.6-1 [0,06 MB] I downloaded and installed both packages. Now I got this error when launching K3b: k3b: error while loading shared libraries: libkcmutils.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Please tell the package maintainer to check it. -Martín

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[arch-general] New kernel and Realtek 8171 wireless card
by Rafael Beraldo 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

I uploaded my Arch box this morning, and my wireless card doesn't work anymore. I had to install this AUR package [1] to get it working with prior kernel versions. When I ran lsmod | grep r8192, I realised that the module isn't being loaded. But it makes no difference to run modprobe r8192e_pci --- ifconfig -a won't show any wireless extentions. Does anybody have this issue? I browsed the forum and the bug tracker and found nothing about it. Unfortunatelly I ran pacman -Scc yesterday, so I can't downgrade! I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear but I'm such a hurry I can't even think clearly. Thank you all. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34281 -- Rafael Beraldo http://cabaladada.org

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[arch-general] .Xdefaults vs Xdefaults-<hostname> vs .Xresources
by Andre "Osku" Schmidt 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hello, just heard a problem on #archlinux that gdm was not loading ~/.Xdefaults. after quick search i found these: gdm does not read .Xdefaults http://bugs.gentoo.org/52832 $HOME/.Xdefaults no longer being read https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xinit/+bug/320886 man x mentions only .Xdefaults-<hostname> #xorg said: ".Xdefaults & .Xdefaults-<hostname> have been depreacted for a long time, .Xresources is the current form, but rarely used as most people moved on to toolkits like Qt & Gtk that don't use .Xresources" man x also sais: "The default is $HOME/.Xdefaults-<hostname>. Unlike $HOME/.Xresources, it is consulted each time an X application starts." if no one has a better note for http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdefaults ill just add that manpage quote :P cheers .andre

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kde 4.5.0
by Damjan Georgievski 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

> so far I've seen people reporting the following chipsets to be > affected, but there may be others > intel 910 > intel 945 > intel 965 > ati 3450 ATI HD3200 (IGP part of the 780G chipset) with the free radeon driver and 2.6.35.2 doesn't quite work with the KDE compositing. With opengl compositing when moving windows they disappear, and X freezes often too (only the mouse and ctrl-alt-Fx works). -- damjan

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[arch-general] gnome-keyring and ssh without login manager
by Ray Rashif 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

On a newly-set-up "promiscuous USB" system, I've chosen to skip a DE, and ultimately also forewent a login manager. Normally, I'd be happy with an askpass client, but I've noticed that I cannot do without nm-applet on this installation, and consequently have ended up with gnome-keyring installed alongside as well. So I thought, hey, I could make use of that thing, like I make use of kwallet with ksshaskpass on a KDE system. Unfortunately, after some headache-inducing trial-and-errors, it occurs to me as if this is fat hope. The technical background is as follows: 1) Openbox WM only + pcmanfm for desktop management 2) X is autostarted on bootup via su/inittab 3) nm-applet autoconnects to my desired WiFi without any kind of prompting (though it did ask for a password to set up a new key the first time) 4) gnome-keyring does not appear to be running post-startup (so we can assume nm-applet calls it on demand only) I do know that at least one similar issue with regards to having a login manager, "realtime", is worked around by having the following in /etc/pam.d/su: session required pam_limits.so So I tried something akin to that with the gnome_keyring.so stuff, to no avail. Any chance? You tell me. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD

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[arch-general] commitpkg script than handle better splitted package
by Laurent Carlier 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

http://pkgbuild.com/~lcarlier/communitypkg Currently all commands that send something to the repos are commented. - two seperate paths : monolithic or splitted package - script take care when arch, pkgver, pkgrel are redefined in package() functions - archrelease is only called for archs who need update I guess ther can be some mistaes done but i'm not really a bash expert, but of course comments are really welcome. Regards

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mailman 2.1.13-2 in testing
by Andreas Radke 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

following http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20481 I removed the dependency on apache. -Andy

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[arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini
by Andrea Crotti 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

I have a nice del mini 10" with archlinux and XFCE4 It works great after I updated the kernel the audio and the camera started to work, which is nice. BUT - I think the 3d still doesn't work, I followed the guide (using intel-dri drivers) and video now runs smoothly, but glgears is still very slow. Since I've read somewhere that is not a good measure, how do I know for sure if 3d is activated or not? - the wireless is quite painful I use wicd-client/server and it keeps disconnecting, and half of the times it even gives me a password wrong error. Restarting wicd server or the network doesn't help, only restarting apparently does. Very weird - the screensaver I never asked xfce4 that I want a screensaver, and apparently there should be an entry in the configuration menu, but for some reasons I don't, even if I have all the possible extensions and util of xfce4 already installed Thanks a lot, Andrea

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[arch-general] Asking for swap device
by Andrea Crotti 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

I use ususpw and pm-suspend to suspend my dell mini 1010. Now the swap partition is on lvm, and every time I reboot it will ask for it, even if it knows perfectly where it is (it's printed 2 lines above). And also it works perfectly after, but I would like to get rid of this thing asking me every time... Anyone using a swap partition for the swap?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kde 4.5.0
by Martín Cigorraga 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

It's good to see finally 4.5 will hit extra :) >1) Sometimes, when I change settings in 'systemsettings' (forgot which >ones, have to investigate again), kwin and/or plasma-desktop freeze and >I cannot do anything but move the mouse or switch to VT. >2) dolphin segfaults. A lot. All the time. It's annoying. >3) I don't understand why, but starting xbindkeys with KDE's autostart >is broken: When I want to use qdbus or dolphin from xbindkeys, nothing >happens. When I kill and launch it again later, everything seems to work. However if the problems reported by Thomas persist I would wait to 4.5.1 before upgrading - looking for smooth transition. On the composite issue I have a workaround thats works pretty good. I'm one of those people experiencing artifacts problems with Catalyst 10.7-3 on an ATI Readeon 5750HD. For some time it was a habit to just push twice alt+shift+f12 after login but now that's gone. After searching for a fix to this issue I found a commandline hack to automatically disable and enable composite in the KDE forums: $ qdbus org.kde.kwin /KWin org.kde.KWin.toggleCompositing & qdbus org.kde.kwin /KWin org.kde.KWin.toggleCompositing So the trick was to put that in a script in ~/bin and tell KDE to run it on every start-up (a cleaner way to implement this will be welcomed). Another optimization I'm using since a week or so without *any* problems (with composite and KWin working at their best) is launching plasma-desktop with the --graphicssytem raster argument. This solved the exasperating low speed when performing ceratin tasks with plasmoids on the desktop (like rotating folder view plasmoids and so on). It works very nice with Yakuake too. /usr/share/autostart/plasma-desktop.desktop should look like this (only showing relevant part): [Desktop Entry] Exec=plasma-desktop --graphicssystem raster Credits goes to a video on YT and the folks at Chakra forum.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Large packages in repositories
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

On 17.08.2010 16:28, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 17.08.2010 16:12, schrieb Dan McGee: >> tl;dr: I think we need some standards with these huge packages, and >> people need to be a lot more cognizant as to how big they are. We have >> lost more than one mirror due to complaints over needed space and >> stuff like this doesn't help. > If a mirror cannot cope with a few GB, then it should be dropped anyway. > Our repos will get bigger, one way or the other. I share this opinion. The Arch repos are hardly large and even if we added 50 GB to them they would still wouldn't be that large. I know comparisons with other distributions are probably not a good idea on this list but it does help to get a general understanding of where we stand and what "large" really means. Debian - 428GB (http://www.debian.org/mirror/size) Fedora - 653GB (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/DIRECTORY_SIZES.txt) Ubuntu - 421GB (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors) openSUSE - 500GB+ (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mirror_infrastructure) Thankfully, we don't keep around old releases of packages or isos. Our mirrors will never have to cope with the amount of data that other distributions make them cope with. I think since they are already mirroring 2TB+ worth of data from other distros, they can easily squeeze in 50GB of Arch, or more. I'd really like to resolve this problem in the course of this discussion since it has been brought up every time big packages are pending (mostly games). Personally, I think we don't need a policy or anything on this. Something very odd would have to happen for our repos to grow too much for our mirrors to handle. This is Arch, let's keep it simple and unbureaucratic. I'm not saying "let's throw all that big shit into there" but if there are potential packages that would improve the user experience, their size should not be the determining factor to their inclusion. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[arch-general] Update to 2.6.34.3-1 & LTS 2.6.32.18-1 killed dmraid box??
by David C. Rankin 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Guys, This one caught me by surprise. I have my test server that I update before updating my regular server. It is based on a MSI K9N2 board (MS-7374) with a Phenom 9850 proc & 8G of ram. The box has 2 dmraid arrays: [22:00 ecstasy:/mnt/arch] # dmraid -r /dev/sdd: nvidia, "nvidia_baaccaja", mirror, ok, 1465149166 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sdc: nvidia, "nvidia_fdaacfde", mirror, ok, 976773166 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sdb: nvidia, "nvidia_baaccaja", mirror, ok, 1465149166 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sda: nvidia, "nvidia_fdaacfde", mirror, ok, 976773166 sectors, data@ 0 [22:00 ecstasy:/mnt/arch] # dmraid -s *** Active Set name : nvidia_baaccaja size : 1465149056 stride : 128 type : mirror status : ok subsets: 0 devs : 2 spares : 0 *** Active Set name : nvidia_fdaacfde size : 976773120 stride : 128 type : mirror status : ok subsets: 0 devs : 2 spares : 0 The kernel updates applied tonight were: [2010-08-16 20:13] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.34.2-2 -> 2.6.34.3-1) [2010-08-16 20:13] upgraded kernel26-headers (2.6.34.2-2 -> 2.6.34.3-1) [2010-08-16 20:14] upgraded kernel26-lts (2.6.32.17-2 -> 2.6.32.18-1) Both completed successfully. The pacman.log info is here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/bugs/pm-updt-8-16.txt After boot to the normal 2.6.34 kernel, the box kept automatically rebooting itself - WTF? So I booted to the LTS kernel, which booted this time and rebuilt the initramfs file with: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k 2.6.34-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/kernel26.img It completed successfully. Rebooting resulted in an error that the the partitions were corrupt. So I attempted to boot back into the LTS kernel. It failed as well?? So I rebooted into suse 11.0 which is on the other array. The box booted into suse without any problems. I then mouted the Arch array and the partitions are fine. (that's where the raid info above came from). I don't know what is going on here. Kernel updates on this box have always been uneventful. Tonight all hell broke loose. What could have caused Arch to report the partitions were bad? More important, what do I do to get Arch back? I believe I have the correct modules in mkinitcpio.conf (they are the same ones I have had in the conf file since I first loaded Arch with the 200902 install media in March '09). Here is the lspci info (running suse): The raid controller is the standard nvraid soft raid controller: 00:09.0 RAID bus controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0ad8 (rev a2) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7374 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 4347 I/O ports at b080 [size=8] I/O ports at b000 [size=4] I/O ports at ac00 [size=8] I/O ports at a880 [size=4] I/O ports at a800 [size=16] Memory at f9e76000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [8c] SATA HBA <?> Capabilities: [b0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable+ Capabilities: [ec] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+ Kernel driver in use: ahci Kernel modules: ahci What say the gurus? (Tobias what could have changed here?) Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'll keep dorking with it, but I'm at a loss here... Additional Info: The partitions on the box are: [22:02 ecstasy:/mnt/arch] # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 488386584 sda 8 1 1 sda1 8 5 72229 sda5 8 6 2104483 sda6 8 7 20972826 sda7 8 8 465234336 sda8 8 16 732574584 sdb 8 17 1 sdb1 8 21 19534977 sdb5 8 22 120456 sdb6 8 23 39062016 sdb7 8 24 1951866 sdb8 8 25 15358108 sdb9 8 26 30716248 sdb10 8 27 7510356 sdb11 8 28 618317721 sdb12 8 32 488386584 sdc 8 33 1 sdc1 8 37 72229 sdc5 8 38 2104483 sdc6 8 39 20972826 sdc7 8 40 465234336 sdc8 8 48 732574584 sdd 8 49 1 sdd1 8 53 19534977 sdd5 8 54 120456 sdd6 8 55 39062016 sdd7 8 56 1951866 sdd8 8 57 15358108 sdd9 8 58 30716248 sdd10 8 59 7510356 sdd11 8 60 618317721 sdd12 253 0 732574583 dm-0 253 1 488386583 dm-1 253 2 732572001 dm-2 253 3 19534977 dm-3 253 4 120456 dm-4 253 5 39062016 dm-5 253 6 1951866 dm-6 253 7 15358108 dm-7 253 8 30716248 dm-8 253 9 7510356 dm-9 253 10 618317721 dm-10 253 11 488384001 dm-11 253 12 72229 dm-12 253 13 2104483 dm-13 253 14 20972826 dm-14 253 15 465234336 dm-15 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] pacman seems to leak ftp connections
by Alexander Duscheleit 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi, since I upgraded to pacman 3.4.0 I notice a strange behavior in the way pacman integrates with my local mirror server. First, pacman opens a new ftp connection for every download, which spams the logs a lot. Second, pacman doesn't seem to close those connections either at all, or at least not in a timely fashion. This results in pacman not being able to download more than a hand full of packages before my ftp won't let it connect anymore. The server-log says: Aug 18 00:42:38 titan proftpd[4666]: titan.huntemann.uni-oldenburg.de - MaxInstances (30) reached, new connection denied over and over while pacman switches to the next mirror for every download. The pacman frontend clyde exhibits the same behavior, so I suspect the culprit is somewhere in libalpm. Pacman prior to 3.4.0 did not show this behavior and all downloads worked fine. Greetings, Alex --

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[arch-general] Dovecot 2.0.0 in testing
by Andreas Radke 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Dovecot 2.0.0 has been released and it's in our testing repo (it has been build against core/extra only). The configuration files are completely split up now! Everybody please read the post.install msg carefully! Test the new pkg and give suggestions if anything needs to be improved. I should move soon to extra. I got it running locally here. PS: I had to disable IPv6 listen option to make it start properly. -Andy

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[arch-general] Empathy on Arch?
by Magnus Therning 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

I've tried empathy a few times since my switch to Arch, but I never manage to get it even close to working. Latest was today. It even imported account info from my working pidgin, but still, no connection to any of the accounts. Is it me or is it the empathy packages in Arch that are the problem? :-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] one suggestion for aur edbrowse package
by Jude DaShiell 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

In its present configuration it's a good package. However someone who unpacks the edbrowse package for the first time ought to be told while running as a user account to prepare to use edbrowse for the first time first run the setup.ebrc package. Once that's done, necessary set up edbrowse needs to have gets done.

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[arch-general] suggestions for astrolog package on aur
by Jude DaShiell 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

For ecraven specifically, the astrolog package needs its astrolog.dat file packaged with it since the astrolog.dat file controls the operation of astrolog itself. I was able to fix that deficit after having downloaded and installed the aur package as a result of prior use of the software. That file belongs in /usr/share/astrolog and the DEFAULT path in astrolog.h needs to point to /usr/share/astrolog as well before compilation. The file ephemall.zip also ought to be extracted into /usr/share/astrolog because that file on the same site as the astrolog software is the ephemeris files for astrolog. The accuracy of calculations improve with use of ephemeris files and Lilith can then also be calculated. Other than that, this is a good package and builds well.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins
by Rogutės Sparnuotos 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Allan McRae (2010-08-18 01:46): > Hi, > > I have pushed the new python (3.1) and python2 (2.7) packages to the > new [staging] repo so rebuilds can start there. Remember the > staging repo should never be used outside a build chroot... If you > do, everything python related will break on your system. > > TUs will not be able to start uploading rebuilds yet as they do not > have a staging equivalent, but we will sort something out for them > once we get all the db-scripts/devtools changes tested for the main > one first. The package pool is going to save us a heap of issues > when this gets moved so it is worth the wait. > > > The key things to remember with the rebuild are: > > - build in clean chroots. Most packages will detect "python2" or > "python-2.7" once they see no "python" and use that. Some will need > simple patching. > > - change your dependencies to python2 > > - check files for #!'s with "/usr/bin/python" or "/usr/bin/env > python". If you have those you will need to do a sed to change them > to python2. Me wonders what is planned for e.g. pyqt, which is available for both, python2 and python3? Thanks, -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

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[arch-general] PulseAudio in [extra]
by Tom Gundersen 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hi Jan, I saw your plan, <http://gist.github.com/444917>, regarding moving pulseaudio to the extra repository, and I was curious if it is still going forward? I'm using PA with KDE myself, and would be happy to help with anything in order to move the packages to extra. I noticed two things about your plan: 1) the package pavumeter is listed as out-of-date/obsolete here: <http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/AboutPulseAudio#RelatedSoftware>. So maybe it is not worth moving it to [extra]? 2) In order to make KDE work with PA, "kdemultimedia" and "phonon" have to be recompiled with PA support turned on. In case PA is disabled or not installed, the programs degrade nicely to the old (ALSA) behavior. So no need to maintain separate packages. On a side-note, there is currently a bug that causes Phonon+Gstreamer+PA to misbehave (particularily in Amarok), this is fixed upstream and everything should work well once gst-good 0.10.24 has been packaged. Cheers, Tom

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[arch-general] did kdemod-legacy repo go away?
by David C. Rankin 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Guys, I must have missed a note advising that the kdemod-legacy repo was removed from the pacman repos. Every time I update I get the following error: error: failed retrieving file 'kdemod-legacy.db.tar.gz' from chakra-project.org : Not Found error: failed to update kdemod-legacy (Not Found) So is it true? Is it gone for good? If so, it would be a sad epitaph on the desktops head-stone. ("Killed at its prime") Currently,(at least before 2 days ago) kdemod-legacy installed perfectly with the only updates required being libjpeg, libpng and poppler-qt3 - all available at AUR and with it taking less than 1.7G of static space on a drive, seems like it would make Arch a much more robust distro to continue the offering and list is as an asset rather than having an empty check mark in the "KDE3 available" column. What's the scoop? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] FF Browser Tip for Archers who like a darker desktop (DR, you listening?)
by David C. Rankin 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Guys, Here is a quick browser tip for firefox. About a year ago I stumbled across 'NightShift - Eyecare' that did a fantastic job at basically inverting the way firefox rendered pages darkening the display and providing immediate relief to tired eyes: NightShift - Eyecare (good title) http://userstyles.org/styles/18192 It's not for all pages, but when you need to read a page or two of text and you don't want to stare into a bright display, it is worth its weight in gold. Last night, I had to rebuild my firefox install (moving ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-sav and starting new). Looking for nightshift again (not remembering what it was called and searing 'night' on userstyles.org, I stumbled across 'Midnight Surfing' and gave it a try. Wow, it worked better in some circumstances. That was cool, so I thought I would pass it along to the list: Midnight Surfing http://userstyles.org/styles/23516 It can be a great tool to stick in your toolbox for the right circumstance and since stylish integrates nicely with FF providing the little status bar on/off dialog for the styles, you can flip it on/off with no effort at all. Install stylish before going to userstyles.org and you can then just load the styles into firefox. Get stylish at the mozilla addons site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/latest/2108/addon-2108-l… Enjoy! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins
by Thomas Dziedzic 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have pushed the new python (3.1) and python2 (2.7) packages to the new [staging] repo so rebuilds can start there. Remember the staging repo should never be used outside a build chroot... If you do, everything python related will break on your system. > > TUs will not be able to start uploading rebuilds yet as they do not have a staging equivalent, but we will sort something out for them once we get all the db-scripts/devtools changes tested for the main one first. The package pool is going to save us a heap of issues when this gets moved so it is worth the wait. > > > The key things to remember with the rebuild are: > > - build in clean chroots. Most packages will detect "python2" or "python-2.7" once they see no "python" and use that. Some will need simple patching. > > - change your dependencies to python2 > > - check files for #!'s with "/usr/bin/python" or "/usr/bin/env python". If you have those you will need to do a sed to change them to python2. > > > If you come across a package that you can not easily fix, add it to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Python_Todo_List#Packages… and I will take a look at it. > > Have fun, > Allan > > > This would probably be also a good time to remind the maintainers that there are still packages left for the community cleanup.. only a few are still remaining. I would like to finally see the community cleanup marked as "complete" :) emerald-themes - ronald gnochm - dgriffiths grub-gfx - orphan kydpdict - jswierczynski libnewt - dgriffiths libnsbmp - dgriffiths libnsgif - dgriffiths libtrash - jswierczynski magickthumbnail - orphan man-pages-cs - jlichtblau man-pages-pt_br - jlichtblau mandvd - jlichtblau mdf2iso - dgriffiths miniracer - dgriffiths mt-daapd - orphan noyau - orphan nrg2iso - dgriffiths pork - jlichtblau premake - dgriffiths pstreams - dgriffiths pygoocanvas - orphan python-certtool - orphan python-geotypes - orphan python-gnupginterface - aschaefer python-pysqlite-legacy - ronald qt-recordmydesktop - dgriffiths qucs - spupykin sfarkxtc - jlichtblau shfs-utils - jlichtblau texlive-bibtexextra-doc - shusmann texlive-core-doc - shusmann texlive-fontsextra-doc - shusmann texlive-formatsextra-doc - shusmann texlive-games-doc - shusmann texlive-genericextra-doc - shusmann texlive-htmlxml-doc - shusmann texlive-humanities-doc - shusmann texlive-langcjk-doc - shusmann texlive-langcyrillic-doc - shusmann texlive-langextra-doc - shusmann texlive-langgreek-doc - shusmann texlive-latex3-doc - shusmann texlive-latexextra-doc - shusmann texlive-music-doc - shusmann texlive-pictures-doc - shusmann texlive-plainextra-doc - shusmann texlive-pstricks-doc - shusmann texlive-pstricks-doc - shusmann texlive-publishers-doc - shusmann texlive-science-doc - shusmann

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Large packages in repositories
by Thomas Dziedzic 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > > A package went in so big today that it made reporead blow up on my > local database due to the installed size being > 2GB: > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/sage-mathematics/ > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/sage-mathematics/ > > File > "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/postgresql_psycopg2/base.py", > line 44, in execute > return self.cursor.execute(query, args) > django.db.utils.DatabaseError: integer out of range > > I'm wondering if we need to be more careful when it comes to these big > packages entering our repositories. This one is especially suspect as > of its 71096 files (and 71094 in the other architecture), a ton of > them are things like *.py, *.pyc, *.html, or *.png files. This is ripe > for splitting into a -data package (or not including some of this > junk, if it is that, at all). > > mysql> select count(*), substring_index(path, '.', -1) from > package_files where pkg_id = 49860 and path like '%.%' group by > substring_index(path, '.', -1) order by count(*) desc limit 25; > +----------+--------------------------------+ > | count(*) | substring_index(path, '.', -1) | > +----------+--------------------------------+ > | 29787 | png | > | 9410 | py | > | 6602 | pyc | > | 1804 | h | > | 1722 | html | > | 1659 | txt | > | 1168 | pyo | > | 988 | doctree | > | 988 | rst | > | 886 | hpp | > > > tl;dr: I think we need some standards with these huge packages, and > people need to be a lot more cognizant as to how big they are. We have > lost more than one mirror due to complaints over needed space and > stuff like this doesn't help. > > If any TU's would like to forward this along and solicit their > thoughts I'd appreciate it. > > -Dan > There was a 4 day long thread about this in aur-general http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2010-August/009854.html

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Re: [arch-general] FF Browser Tip for Archers who like a darker desktop (DR, you listening?)
by Sergey Manucharian 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Excerpts from Filip Filipov's message of Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:08 +0300: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Filip Filipov <pilif.pilif(a)googlemail.com> > Date: Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 18:39 > Subject: Re: [arch-general] FF Browser Tip for Archers who like a > darker desktop (DR, you listening?) > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > > > > > Indeed nice stuff, but... > > Stylish is supposed to work with Chrome, and I tried it with > > Chromium 5.0.375.99 - an error message "unable to open a > > transaction to the database" keeps popping up... > > > > Cheers, > > Sergey > > > > just tried it with http://userstyles.org/styles/18192 on Chromium > 5.0.375.125 . wenn installing I deleted the first 3 lines: > @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); > @-moz-document url-prefix(http://), > url-prefix(https://),url-prefix(about:blank) > { > body,html {min-height: 100%!important; } > Hi Filip, Thanks! This works! > hi, this was my mail as answer to yours but it seems no-one is aware > of my mail. May be am blocked??? I'm not sure, but your email has been addressed only to me, not to arch-general(a)archlinux.org ... Cheers, Sergey

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.2-1
by Martín Cigorraga 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

I want to give my 2 cents of feedback to this issue posted in [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.2-1 : (I had the impression that it might be heating up my laptop more than normal, but then I was doing backups last night, and I'm feeling a part of my laptop that I'm not sure if it's normally warm anyway. Is there a way to measure this? The estimated battery life from GNOME looks pretty normal, if that's an indication of heating by way of power-usage.) -Isaac I do think you have a valid point on the heat issue. The fans on my laptop are notably louder with 2.6.35. Not by a bunch, but from quiet to a low "ssshhhhsshhhsshhh" that you cannot mistake. But given it runs great, it is a big step forward from my 2.6.34 woes... David C. Rankin I'm having fan noise issue since latest kernel update. While system does run smooth, there's a notable increment of noise from the fan that seems to be running a little faster. On the other hand the videocard cooler seems to run as silent as ever. Kernel: 2.6.34.3-1 from [core] Catalyst: 10.7-3 from [catalyst] My system: Linux archbox 2.6.34-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 11 00:23:15 CEST 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux ATI Radeon 5750HD Regards, -Marín >

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[arch-general] telepathy-butterfly broken
by Auguste Pop 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

after a recent update, i found out that telepathy-butterfly is broken. /usr/lib/telepathy/telepathy-butterfly, running manually from a console, complains about requiring papyon >= 0.5.0, while to he package state it requires papyon >= 0.4.9. but there is NO papyon 0.5.0 out there according to the following web page: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/papyon/releases is this a bug or just a little version issue that we have some workarounds?

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.19-1
by Tobias Powalowski 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

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] Open Letter (Plea for Medical Help/Assistance) to World Leaders
by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

My Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982 Scanned documents in the (currently 40) photo albums of my Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982#!/profile.php?id=100… ============================================================================================================================================== To: The Linux Community I am a big fan of Linux. In fact, I am running Fedora 11 x86_64 64-bit Linux on my home multimedia desktop tower system. In order to run multiple other Linux distributions at the same time without rebooting my home personal computer, I am using the open source Xen Type 1 hypervisor/virtualization solution. You may check out my work and in-depth technical details on VGA Pass-through for add-on PCI-Express x16 graphics card to Xen-based Windows XP Home Edition 32-bit guest operating system/HVM domU running inside my Fedora 11 64-bit host operating system at the xen-devel (Xen developers) mailing list at the following internet links from July to November 2009. July 2009: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-07/index.html August 2009: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-08/index.html September 2009: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-09/index.html October 2009: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-10/index.html November 2009: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-11/index.html You may also watch High-Definition (HD) videos of Intel VT-d VGA Pass-through for PCI-Express x16 graphics card to Windows XP Home Edition HVM domU guest operating system at my Youtube account. Please visit the following Youtube link to watch my videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/enmingteo My works on the open source Xen virtualization Intel VT-d VGA pass-through, Building a Rocks HPC Cluster with Xen Hardware Virtual Machines (HVM), How to Setup a Virtual Supercomputer Center or HPC Cluster using Xen Virtual Machines, and Using Xen Virtualization Environment for Development and Testing of Supercomputer and High Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster MPICH2 Applications were also listed on the official Xen.org website. http://www.xen.org/support/tutorial.html Besides running Fedora 11 64-bit Linux as my host operating system (my heavily customized Xen Paravirt-Operations Domain 0 or Parent Partition in Windows Server 2008 speak with various pv-ops Dom0-patched self-compiled kernels), I am also running other Linux distributions like Fedora 12 i386 32-bit Linux, FreeBSD amd64 UNIX, openSolaris 64-bit UNIX, openSUSE 11.2 Linux, NPACI Rocks HPC Cluster, Slackware64 13.0 64-bit Linux, and Ubuntu 9.10 Linux, either as para-virtualized (PV), or fully virtualized guest operating systems/domU. Non-*NIX operating systems like Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 have to be run as Hardware Virtual Machines (HVM) under a Xen pv-ops Dom0 Linux operating system. You may want to refer to my picture/screenshot tutorials of installing various Linux distributions, UNIX variants like FreeBSD, and UNIX operating system openSolaris as virtual machines/guest operating systems under a Linux host operating system at my wordpress.com website. Please click on the following internet link: http://enmingteo.wordpress.com/ This is my secondary IT blog. My primary IT blog is http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com/ Since Google Inc. announced the release of the open source 32-bit Chromium OS (which is actually a stripped down Ubuntu 9.10-based Linux operating system) for netbooks last year, I have made an un-official port of chromiumos to the x86_64 64-bit architecture, which I called ChromiumOS64 myself. In the later stages of development, I have added Jeremy Fitzhardinge's Xen paravirt-ops Dom0 capability to my un-official ChromiumOS64 project (ChromiumOS64-Xen). My ChromiumOS64 and ChromiumOS64-Xen projects are listed at the official Xen.org website. Please visit http://www.xen.org/community/projects.html I am also enthusiastic about customizing and compiling my own Linux kernels. To add basic security to my home personal Linux multimedia computer, I have installed the open source Snort Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) and the open source OSSEC Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS). A basic iptables script is also in force. I am also running SETI@Home (BOINC client) on my Linux PC to contribute to the search for extraterrestrials. And not forgetting that I have compiled Linux from Scratch (LFS) 6.5 from scratch following the LFS 6.5 Handbook and installed the PacMan Package Manager, essentially making it an ArchLinux Linux distribution. I hope that the above information that I have provided may be useful to you. ============================================================================================================================================== --UPDATED 11 August 2010 4:56 A.M. Singapore Time --UPDATED 22 July 2010 11:09 A.M. Singapore time [***URGENT***] 15 June 2010 Tuesday 5:50 P.M. Singapore Time To (long list of recipients): Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters without Broders) International Comittee of the Red Cross International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies World Health Organization United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs President of the United States of America Barrack Obama First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama United States House of Representatives Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosy U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner United States Senate President of the U.S. Senate Joseph R. Biden, Jr. President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate Daniel K. Inouye U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland David Cameron President of the Fifth French Republic Nicolas Sarkozy Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Australia The Honorable Kevin Rudd MP Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Ma Ying-jeou President of the European Union Jose Manuel Barroso Members of the European Parliament The Oprah Winfrey Show The Rachel Ray Show The Ellen DeGeneres Show Larry King Live TV Show Charlie Rose TV Show International Court of Justice International Court of Human Rights European Court of Human Rights European Court of Justice Public Broadcasting Service American Broadcasting Company (ABC) National Broadcasting Company CBS Broadcasting Inc. Fox News The CW Television Network Ion Television Bloomberg Television America One Omni Broadcasting Network CNN BBC News Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Amnesty International The Carter Center Every Human Has Rights The Wall Street Journal USA Today The New York Times Los Angeles Times The Washington Post Daily News New York Post San Jose Mercury News Contra Costa Times The Oakland Tribune Chicago Tribune Houston Chronicle The Arizona Republic The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia Daily News Newsday The Denver Post Star Tribune St. Petersburg Times Chicago Sun-Times The Plain Dealer Oregonian !The Oregonian The Seattle Times The Dallas Morning News Detroit Free Press The San Diego Union-Tribune San Francisco Chronicle The Star-Ledger The Boston Globe The Kansas City Star The Sacramento Bee St. Louis Post-Dispatch The Sun The Orange County Register The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Indianapolis Star St. Paul Pioneer Press Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Orlando Sentinel Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Arkansas Democrat-Gazette The Courier-Journal South Florida Sun-Sentinel Las Vegas Review-Journal The Cincinnati Enquirer Miami Herald Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The Columbus Dispatch The Charlotte Observer Fort Worth Star-Telegram The Buffalo News The Virginian-Pilot The Tampa Tribune The Record The Times-Picayune Omaha World-Herald The Oklahoman The Detroit News The Commercial Appeal San Antonio Express-News Austin American-Statesman The Hartford Courant The News & Observer The Tennessean Boston Herald Investor's Business Daily Richmond Times-Dispatch Democrat and Chronicle The Palm Beach Post Fresno Bee The Blade The Florida Times-Union Asbury Park Press The Press-Enterprise The Birmingham News The Des Moines Register The Salt Lake Tribune Arizona Daily Star Daily Herald The Morning Call Akron Beacon Journal Dayton Daily News Lexington Herald-Leader Tulsa World Knoxville News Sentinel Grand Rapids Press The Providence Journal Press-Register Albuquerque Journal The News Journal Wisconsin State Journal The Post-Standard Los Angeles Daily News Sarasota Herald-Tribune The Post and Courier The News Tribune The Journal News The Times of Northwest Indiana The Gazette La Opinión The State Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era The Daily Telegraph Financial Times The Sunday Telegraph The Sunday Times The Guardian The Observer The Independent The Times Independent on Sunday The Herald The Press and Journal The Daily Telegraph The Courier Sunday Herald Scotland on Sunday The Sunday Times The Scotsman The Times The Independent The Guardian The Western Mail Y Cymro New York Times columnist William Lewis Safire Former President of Singapore Devan Nair Former Solicitor-General of Singapore Francis Seow, Harvard Law School Visiting Fellow Secretary of Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin Singapore Citizen/Singaporean Seelan Palay TIME.com Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Alfred Kissinger Dear Sir/Madam, RE: Open Letter (Plea for Medical Help/Assistance) to World Leaders I have uploaded photos, videos, and audios of myself, scanned images of my ECG Graphs, laboratory blood test reports, X-Ray films and medical documents to Facebook (Facebook account: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)) and other preferred multimedia sharing sites. Hopefully, my online accounts, including Facebook, will not be compromised by my antagonists. I hope that the content (text, video, and audio) in my data sharing sites will remain fully intact without unauthorized alteration, modification, and deletion by my adversaries. And hopefully nobody will close my Facebook account without my authorization and consent either. I am exceedingly concerned that I might have heart/coronary artery disease and that it might be in the late stages. My physical symptoms are: 1) Aching in the upper left of my chest since beginning January 2009 90% of the time, sometimes it may migrate to the right side 2) Shortness of breath from time to time 3) Palpitations in the last few days (I can feel my heart beat very hard and irregularly) 4) Muscle aches in the hands and legs, sometimes my hands(palms) will cramp 5) Involuntary movement of fingers/thumbs occasionally 6) Facial spasms occasionally 7) Sometimes I will feel my body "vibrating" anywhere from head to toe 8) When I tried to feel the pulses on my wrists, the pulses will "disappear" after a while. This is contrary to what doctors, nurses, and others have been telling me. That my pulses are consistent. 9) Sometimes when I am just about to fall asleep, I will get a sudden jerk or have a feeling that I am falling or my heart is going to pop out 10) giddiness/dizziness/light-headedness from time to time 11) Sometimes I will feel weak after just waking up, especially in the hands 12) discomfort at the back of my head from time to time I have visited many doctors at Accidents and Emergency (A&E) departments of many general hospitals here but they all try to brush me off and tell me I am fine. My request for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for the brain and (more specifically the) heart is usually declined. It seems that the doctors are stalling for time, dragging and delaying until maybe it is too late to do anything for me. I have been unemployed since 1st October 2009 and have depleted all my personal savings. In May 2009, which is just last year only, I have done a MIBI heart perfusion study (radioisotope IV + gamma camera) and the cardiologist/heart specialist told me I have NO heart/coronary artery disease (even though I have high cholesterol and it could be managed). LVEF was 64% and MIBI was negative for ischemic at Stage 2 Bruce (as at 21st May 2009). How could it then have progressed, from NO heart/artery disease to the above-mentioned physical symptoms, in such a very short period of time?! This is all very very very strange. Could it be some other problem instead? Heart/coronary artery disease takes many many years to develop. As you can observe, I am nowhere as obese as Moses Lim, a Singaporean Mediacorp TV actor. References, photos, and videos of Moses Lim: (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Lim (2) http://moseslim.com/content/ (3) http://www.xndo.net/moseslim.html (4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sHKOiegnS8 Yet he is already 60 years old. I also had a grandmother who was very very obese and she was able to live until 60+ years old. There are many many people who are far fatter and have far greater builds than me. They do not have any physical complaints like mine. Why do I have weird/strange physical symptoms like giddiness/dizziness, chest aches, muscle aches in the limbs, shortness of breath, hyperventilations, and palpitations all of a sudden at 32 years old? Foul play?!?!?! Could it be that my neighbours have been frightening/terrifying/threatening me everyday 24x7 non-stop for the past 3-4 years with all sorts of terrible/horrible things that can happen to me? Maybe my heart couldn't take the stress under such an intensive, constant and prolonged psychological abuse? I have also heard them talk about me to various people while I am at home. I think they do that purposely. But I have had totally no say at all from start to finish because I am not allowed any chance for direct involvement. I am being excluded and not given any chance to know anything. They also seem to have gathered/amassed a lot of private information about me. I seriously wonder how they do that. They appear to be extremely resourceful and motivated. There appears to be some intrigue and shroud of secrecy around me. These people know all of my online monikers and email addresses. They have been submitting online forms using my identity and have even attempted to submit password reset instructions for me without my knowledge and consent. I actually overheard my neighbours claiming to have passwords/complete access to all my email accounts and other online accounts. They may also create phony email accounts and send messages impersonating as me without my knowledge. Thank you very much for your kind attention and concern. PS. (1) My neighbours have claimed that they will never stop or waver in their psychological warfare on me unless I commit suicide. Or they will wait patiently until I have a heart attack or stroke. How callous they are! I want to live and live to a ripe old age. And I wish for a long and healthy life too. (2) I have a severe panic attack on 27 May 2010 Thursday and several panic attacks after that. Due to the panic attacks and the severe anxiety caused by my neighbours, I have been warded in Changi General Hospital (Ward 14) for 2 weeks (from 1st June 2010 to 15th June 2010) (EDIT: It's actually four weeks (from 1st Jun 2010 to 2nd July 2010)). I am actually on home leave today to write this letter (15 June 2010). I will be going back to the ward at night, hopefully before 8 P.M. (3) Most of the nurses in Ward 14 CGH have been very nice and friendly to me. Hopefully they are not putting on a false front. But the doctors there are as obstinate as mules. They stubbornly and stoutly refuse to give me any advanced heart imaging tests, e.g. MRI (preferred), CT-scan (not preferred), echo cardiogram, and ankle brachial index (ABI) tests. (4) I have a medical appointment at the National Heart Center Singapore on 17 June 2010, which is next Thursday. I hope that the heart specialist there will allow me to do the advanced imaging tests (brain/heart) that I want and tell me the absolute truth about my medical condition. (5) My neighbours have strangely and repeatedly commanded me hundreds of times to apply to work in a casino else I would not get medical treatment. Strange? Baffling? A casino environment is not suitable for me and I do not want to work in a casino. I want to work as an Information Technology (IT) engineer. This is my preferred profession. (6) After discharging from CGH on 2nd July 2010, I still have not managed to get any advanced medical imaging tests (MRI) for my heart/brain. The doctors at CGH have consistently refused to do the tests for me. (7) I went for an ABI test at National Heart Center Singapore on the day of discharge from CGH (2nd July 2010). The results appear to be okay. Please refer to my facebook account for the details of the test results. (Rt: 1.05 Lt: 1.04) (8) I am given a full echo cardiogram appointment at the National Heart Center Singapore on 2nd Sept 2010. But I am still not given any MRI tests for my heart/brain. Strange. (EDIT: I have brought forward my echocardiogram appointment to 11 August 2010 Wednesday 2:00 P.M. Singapore Time) (9) I am writing point number 9 onwards until point 29 on 11 Aug 2010 Wednesday Singapore Time. Please take note. (10) During my one month hospital stay at Changi General Hospital (Ward 14) from 1st June 2010 to 2nd July 2010, my neighbours did not come to harass me. The physical symptoms which I have described above (except my chronic chest pain) gradually subsided. Except for the very first day in the hospital ward when I have a number of panic attacks while talking to Dr. Sim Ching Ching in a consulting room and the following morning while talking to Dr. Lui, I did not have any more panic attacks and my anxiety levels decreased during the rest of my hospital stay. (11) After my discharge from CGH on 2nd July 2010, the disturbances from my neighbours have substantially decreased in frequency. I do not know why but all of a sudden, from 31st July 2010 Saturday Singapore Time onwards, my neighbours have re-started or resumed their operations in harassing, frightening, terrifying, threatening, and conducting psychological warfare on me in much increased intensity. They keep talking to me every few minutes every day 24x7 day and night. It's not a face-to-face talk that you might imagine. I didn't converse with them much. They just keep talking to me unilaterally. In Housing & Development Board (HDB) apartment flats in Singapore, you could hear your neighbours in the units to your immediate left, to your immediate right, and also in the units immediately above and below you, if they are to talk sufficiently loud. If you stay on the 2nd story, you could even hear people talking in the void deck (ground floor) and as well as from the carpark. It's a psychological warfare by my neighbours to instill fear and increase my anxiety. (12) My neighbours have proudly claimed that they have strong and powerful backing from their masters. They told me that they cannot stop harassing me at all because they are under orders/instructions from their masters. (13) I have thought of relocating my domicile but my neighbours claimed that even if I moved to another location in Singapore far far away from them, another set of people would be tasked to harass me and take over from them. (14) Shortly after graduating from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) degree in December 2006, I joined the Defense Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) in the Infocomm Infrastructure Division in February 2007 as an Information Technology (IT) engineer, administrating Linux, UNIX, and Windows Servers in its data center. DSTA is an agency under the Singapore Ministry of Defense. (15) Sometime before I left DSTA in August 2007, my neighbours and their friends *first* started to harass, stalk, and conduct psychological warfare on me by instilling fear and increasing my anxiety at home and almost everywhere I go. (16) Within a short period of time, I managed to secure a job as an IT engineer in National Computer Systems (NCS) Ltd, a subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications, in September 2007. The job, as far as I could remember, was to maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers, Windows Servers, and also perform daily tape backup operations in the data center. A strange phenomenon occurred during my stint in NCS Ltd. Colleagues and staffs in other departments started to whisper and gossip about me. When I approached them, none of them appeared to be willing to tell me anything. I had conjectured that some chain emails could be circulating about me in the organization. It seemed that some rumour mongering activities were going on around me in the organization. Without hesitation, my neighbours and their friends came into my mind. They had probably approached some people in NCS Ltd, who were probably very happy to entertain them and start the chain emailing around in the organization. My neighbours and their friends were soon operating in the surrounding area and began to harass me. I could not remember the exact date I started to develop panic attacks. They were of a much milder intensity than those which occurred between 27th May 2010 and 2nd June 2010. I was warded in Singapore General Hospital from 31st Jan 2008 to 5th March 2008. Just before the one-year contract expired, I left NCS Ltd. (17) Between leaving NCS Ltd and joining Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd, I was warded in Singapore General Hospital (SGH) a number of times for panic attacks. (18) After recovering from the panic attacks, I joined Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd in February 2009 as an IT/IS engineer. Asiasoft Online is an online game playing company in Singapore. The company offers online games such as Maple Story, Audition, Cabal, GetAmped, Sudden Attack, Yulgang, Monster Forest, Raycity, and Warriors of the 3 Kingdoms. I am in charge of all the Linux game servers in the company. My biggest and proudest achievement cum project was to setup and configure a fully working IP Security (IPsec) Virtual Private Networking (VPN) tunnel for the company. IPsec VPN is much harder and more complicated to setup than OpenVPN (which is based on SSL or Secure Socket Layer). My next task was to setup and configure a secondary/backup mail exchanger for the company using qmail MTA (Mail Transfer Agent). qmail is much harder and more tedious to configure than postfix MTA. (Yahoo! Singapore is using qmail MTA.) By far, sendmail MTA is the hardest and the most complicated in the Linux world to setup and configure. I was also in charge of the two Domain Name Service (DNS) servers (primary and secondary) in the company and maintaining and updating all the IPv4 forward and reverse zone records. Being in charge of the DNS servers allowed me to learn a bit about Sender Policy Framework (SPF), DomainKeys and DKIM. If my memory does not fail me, the DNS servers were installed by me using Fedora Linux and BIND 9 daemon/service. It is quite simple actually. The final assignment for me in the company was to install and configure all the Yulgang game servers. Majority of the Yulgang game servers are using openSUSE 10.2 32-bit Linux. Only a few Yulgang servers are using Windows servers. (William Phoon Choon Keong, who was my former IT department manager in Asiasoft Online before Melvin Lee came in to replace him towards the end of July 2009, installed and managed the Yulgang Windows game servers.) GetAmped is using Solaris UNIX. During the relocation of the company office from Singapore Post @ Paya Lebar to Tampines Central, I had a chance to play around with CISCO switches and routers and learn some CISCO IOS commands (mostly forgotten by now). But networking is not my forte. I am mostly an IT infrastructure engineer. I have yet to take the CCNA. By the way, the same rumour mongering that happened in NCS Ltd also surfaced in Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd. (19) My father suffered from a mild stroke on 13 September 2009 in which his left side of the body was affected and he was warded for 19 days. He was discharged from Changi General Hospital Singapore on 1st October 2009. On the same day, I resigned from Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd. (20) After resigning from Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd on 1st October 2009, my neighbours and their friends suddenly and unexpectedly increased their force and intensity tremendously in harassing, frightening, terrifying, threatening, and conducting psychological warfare/abuse on me, culminating in a severe panic attack on 27 May 2010 Thursday and several other panic attacks after that, leading to my hospitalization on 1st June 2010 in Changi General Hospital for a period of 32 days, and discharging on 2nd July 2010, which I have already described above. The 27 May 2010 panic attack was an extremely terrible experience for me. I thought I was having a heart attack and going to die. I was having a hyperventilation and my heart rate goes up to almost 150 beats per minute. Both my palms were totally cramped up. My heart was also aching. It took about an hour before the panic attack subsides. (21) As at 11 August 2010 4:03 A.M. Singapore Time, I am still having chest pain in the upper left side of my chest from time to time. Although the doctors at CGH stubbornly pinned everything on panic attacks and anxiety symptoms and ruled out the possibility of a heart/coronary artery disease, I am taking no chances at all. It is after all my life. I really suspect that I might have an underlying heart/coronary artery disease condition which could have been masked by my panic attacks and anxiety symptoms. I have a suspicion that my main blood arteries or veins in the chest could have been narrowed. Otherwise what could have given rise to a chronic chest pain since Jan 2009? I want a MRI test for my chest and a functional MRI (fMRI) test for my brain as well. I want to live and I want to live to a ripe old age. I want to have a long and healthy life. (22) Sometime in October 2009, my neighbours were saying that I have appeared on Singapore's national Mediacorp TV in the corridor of our apartment block. I could not independently verify whether I have appeared on the national TV during this period or some earlier period. But the strangest thing was that people started to avoid me. My relatives (maternal side) were initially reluctant to talk to me over the phone. They did not even visit my house during Chinese New Year 2010. My secondary school friends, polytechnic friends, army friends, NUS friends, NCS friends, Asiasoft Online friends, and ClubSNAP photography friends were suddenly refusing or were afraid to answer my phone calls! I have about 300 people on my Windows Live MSN list and more than 250 people have deleted me from their MSN list. Total strangers in the streets and public places started giving me weird looks, or whispering about me, or taking a few steps back away from me. Even patients, nurses and other staffs in government general hospitals were doing the same thing. What is actually going on? If I really did appear on the national TV, what was actually being reported about me? I want to know the answer. Maybe the Reporters without Borders could help. (23) One day in Shenton Way, I overheard a stranger in a food court saying that my neighbours and their friends were discussing about me on Singapore's Mediacorp radio stations. I could not independently verify whether I have actually been brought up on radio stations in Singapore. There are so many radio stations in Singapore! So which one should I tune in to? And what are the timings? (24) My relatives (maternal and paternal sides) did eventually visit us recently. My relatives (maternal side) visited my house 1-2 weeks ago after receiving a phone call from my mother in hospital. She was admitted on 9th July 2010 together with the assistance (or rather the presence) of CGH Medical Social Worker Miss Cerene Wong. My relatives (paternal side) visited our house a few days back though I don't even recognize them. Please note that I am writing this on 11 August 2010 Wednesday Singapore Time. (25) I am extremely baffled by my neighbours' knowledge of my conversations with doctors and nurses in Changi General Hospital Singapore and Singapore General Hospital. I am also baffled by their knowledge of my medical appointments and when I change my medical appointments. Who gave them all these information? (26) My neighbours told me that their masters' intention and motivation is to systematically destroy me. (27) Please don't fix me. Please. Please don't make my life miserable for eternity. Please. Please Please Please. Please leave me alone in peace. Please. Please don't make me keep on having panic attacks. I will definitely suffer from heart attacks very early on in life due to the protracted psychological abuse putting the extra strain on my heart. Please. Please Please Please. (28) I am hoping to get a job in the IT sector within the next 1-2 or 3 months. I am currently waiting for my mother to be discharged from the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) hospital. Dr. Malu (think I got the name wrong) there has already told me she would be discharged within a few days or a few weeks. Please don't do the same thing to me (harassing, frightening, terrifying, threatening, and psychological warfare/abuse) for my next job again. Please. I am anticipating that you will do it with an extremely high probability. (29) Please don't persecute me. Please. Please. Please. Yours sincerely, Mr. Teo En Ming Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Name: Zhang Enming Citizenship: Singapore Citizen/Singaporean Facebook: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Mobile Phone (Starhub Prepaid): +65-8369-2618 MSN/Windows Live Messenger: teoenming(a)hotmail.com For online photos of me when I was a kid, please scroll down to the bottom of my signature. MY ONLINE PHOTO(1): http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/6264/enmingteodscf2510.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(2): http://i41.tinypic.com/adnfx5.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(3): http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7534/enmingteodscf2511.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(4): http://i40.tinypic.com/dc7hmq.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(5): http://i.imgur.com/SIICh.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(6): http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2233/enmingteodscf2512.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(7): http://i40.tinypic.com/2u8l62r.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(8): http://i.imgur.com/CLifZ.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(9): http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/fa956dddab.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(10): http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/f93b37b773.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(11): http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/ce0cd663ef.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(12): http://img5.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5415/54156759ac8ecbba1e2368c63d203a… MY ONLINE PHOTO(13): http://img9.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5415/5415679e958679286a919425aca4c2… MY ONLINE PHOTO(14): http://img4.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5415/54156847596a5a067d2a7267362ebf… MY ONLINE PHOTO(15): http://xs.to/image-68D0_4BEB7F90.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(16): http://xs.to/image-A7E3_4BEB7FE7.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(17): http://xs.to/image-E303_4BEB802E.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(18): http://i39.tinypic.com/bet4yf.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(19): http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/5139/teoenmingzhangenming.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(20): http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/a0e0744c82.jpg MY ONLINE PHOTO(21): http://img6.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5415/5415686db861b07e07c010d8b610b1… MY ONLINE PHOTO(22): http://xs.to/image-4016_4BEB806B.jpg Dip(Mechatronics) BEng(Hons)(Mechanical Engineering) Alma Maters: (1) Singapore Polytechnic Graduated 1998 (2) National University of Singapore Graduated 2006 My Primary Blog: http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com My Secondary Blog: http://enmingteo.wordpress.com My Youtube videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/enmingteo Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore ZIP: 470103 Place of Birth: Singapore NRIC/National Identity Card No: S78*6*2*H Date of Birth: 5th March 1978 Race: Chinese Dialect Group: Hokkien Height: 1.78 meters Online photos of myself when I was a kid: (1) http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/9020/nursery01.jpg (2) http://i40.tinypic.com/k4jhhf.jpg (3) http://imgur.com/Ywca3.jpg (4) http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/2db37a4403.jpg (5) http://img8.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/5416/54166180c1dec144cde2b6275ad5da… (6) http://xs.to/image-C02E_4BEBBF47.jpg Email: space.time.universe(at)gmail.com Alternate email #1: teoenming(at)hotmail.com Alternate email #2: teo.en.ming(at)gmx.com

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[arch-general] Updated tree years old archlinux
by Johannes Held 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Hi, during the last days I updated my old notebook. It wasn't updated since 2007. So you can imagine that the latest switch from tar.gz to tar.xz was a little problem. But a manual installation of the necessary packages and some rude untaring directly in / gave me the ability to update the whole system with pacman again. :-) That's awesome. However, some configs are borked, X refuses to start and booting won't work anymore due to some problems with the right rootfstype. That doesn't matter, because I don't need that notebook any more - it was simply amazing to see it getting updated. :-) -- Gruß, Johannes

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[arch-general] kernel 35.2-1 OK
by David C. Rankin 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Tobias, All, Just dropping a note to say that kernel26-2.6.35.2-1-x86_64 works fine on my box-from-hell that had the hardlock on boot problems with 2.6.34. Compiz works, Virtualbox works, so it looks good. (I'm on my test drive and my mail is on the drive I just took out, so sorry I couldn't simply reply to the [signoff] thread...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] lcms - needs upgrade because of security
by Kurt J. Bosch 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Hi, package lcms in extra is out of date for a long time now. Please upgrade at least to 1.19 to solve security issues: Multiple errors in LittleCMS allow for attacks including the remote execution of arbitrary code. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200904-19.xml -- kujub

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[arch-general] what about syntax error from bash_completion.d/git before entering X?
by PT M. 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Before entering X, I saw such error message since last git update: /etc/bash_completion.d/git: line 123: syntax error near unexpected token `<' /etc/bash_completion.d/git: line 123: ` done < <(git config -z --get-regexp '^(svn-remote\..*\.url|bash\.showupstream)$' 2>/dev/null | tr '\0\n' '\n ')' (also in ~/.xsession-errors i suppose.) $ pacman -Qo /etc/bash_completion.d/git /etc/bash_completion.d/git is owned by git 1.7.2.1-1 I don't use git much but a little not comfortable seeing this. Should I just remove this file ? -- Arch Linuxer, Pythoner, Geek --> Blog: http://apt-blog.net

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[arch-general] [signoff] udev-161-1
by Tobias Powalowski 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Hi guys, udev 161 ======== Bugfixes. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] my intro
by Jude DaShiell 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

I install chris brannon's talking arch linux a little earlier this weekend. It was not the first Linux I've installed either. I use the talking version since I can't see anything at all. For as small a Linux as this is it's impressive. We need a foomatic-rip package though because my parallel printer probably won't work well otherwise and that makes it difficult for those helping me shop to read my grocery lists. I have already built and got astrolog running on archlinux and for free accurate horoscopes that's a good choice. I could probably package it for this Linux if there's enough interest. Another problem probably of interest to a larger audience is no command line spreadsheet programs are yet available. I can probably put some things together for that too. I'll definitely do that for myself and again if there's enough interest I can probably build something and make it available. I do use orca and gnome a little, but the graphical user environment isn't my normal living space while at home. I'm required to use Windows at work so I figure while I'm at home I get to choose my operating systems and my operating system interfaces. I don't want the two environments getting confused with each other.

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[arch-general] Kopete Google Talk Invisible Hack
by Nilesh Govindarajan 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

Hi, Most of us, Google Talk users know that invisible mode doesn't work with third party clients. Hence I decided to find out a hack for it and found it. I have tested it many times and it really works. I've written the article at my site: http://www.itech7.com/Internet/Kopete-Google-Talk-Invisible Try using that, and let me know if you liked it. *Please do not consider this a spam* -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps

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[arch-general] Help with backtrace from kcmshell crash - changing icons.
by David C. Rankin 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

Guys, I have a problem with kdemod3. It is really still in quite fantastic shape. When I try to switch icons to the 'iceglass' icons theme (or Azenis theme, etc..) kcmshell crashes starting with ? "strlen() from /lib/libc.so.6" ?? Hopefully it isn't something like the std c libraries now being incompatible with kcmshell?? I'm guessing that there is something in the icon file like an extra space or a long filename that is causing Appearance -> Icons (change theme). The crash occurs the moment I click on the theme to get a preview, so it might be something related to the preview and not the icon set itself. I have used this save icon theme with kde3 many times on SuSE, so I guess some file has been patched to get around whatever is causing this to choke. My immediate problem is I suck at reading backtraces. Can you help a brother out and give it a once-over and see if a specific file or problem stands out? If I can figure out what package started the crash, I can go look for an update or patch in AUR or with google generally. But I can't tell what package to start looking for. Thanks. The backtrace is: 18:38 alchemy:~/dt/icons/coolicons> cat ~/arch/bugs/icons-iceglass.kcrash [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [KCrash handler] #5 0x00007f62ee19c642 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6 #6 0x00007f62ef030cb0 in gz_open () from /usr/lib/libz.so.1 #7 0x00007f62f1d74e37 in KSVGIconEngine::load(int, int, QString const&) () from /opt/kde/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #8 0x00007f62eb1e6616 in IconThemesConfig::themeSelected(QListViewItem*) () from /opt/kde/lib/kde3/kcm_icons.so #9 0x00007f62eb1ead00 in IconThemesConfig::qt_invoke(int, QUObject*) () from /opt/kde/lib/kde3/kcm_icons.so #10 0x00007f62f05753cf in QObject::activate_signal(QConnectionList*, QUObject*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #11 0x00007f62f088ec00 in QListView::selectionChanged(QListViewItem*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #12 0x00007f62f064d1d2 in QListView::setCurrentItem(QListViewItem*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #13 0x00007f62f06537ac in QListView::contentsMousePressEventEx(QMouseEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #14 0x00007f62f25e707f in KListView::contentsMousePressEvent(QMouseEvent*) () from /opt/kde/lib/libkdeui.so.4 #15 0x00007f62f067d61f in QScrollView::viewportMousePressEvent(QMouseEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #16 0x00007f62f067c4d0 in QScrollView::eventFilter(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #17 0x00007f62f064c91e in QListView::eventFilter(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #18 0x00007f62f057545c in QObject::activate_filters(QEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #19 0x00007f62f05754b7 in QObject::event(QEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #20 0x00007f62f05a9be3 in QWidget::event(QEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #21 0x00007f62f0517c75 in QApplication::internalNotify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #22 0x00007f62f0518feb in QApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #23 0x00007f62f1d0aee2 in KApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /opt/kde/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #24 0x00007f62f04b7858 in QETWidget::translateMouseEvent(_XEvent const*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #25 0x00007f62f04b6356 in QApplication::x11ProcessEvent(_XEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #26 0x00007f62f04c9022 in QEventLoop::processEvents(unsigned int) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #27 0x00007f62f052e609 in QEventLoop::enterLoop() () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #28 0x00007f62f06e5480 in QDialog::exec() () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #29 0x00007f62ebbe284a in kdemain () from /opt/kde/lib/libkdeinit_kcmshell.so #30 0x00000000004076e8 in ?? () #31 0x0000000000407e85 in ?? () #32 0x0000000000408562 in ?? () #33 0x0000000000408ea4 in ?? () #34 0x00007f62ee13fc4d in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 #35 0x0000000000404549 in ?? () #36 0x00007fff18e7cb18 in ?? () #37 0x000000000000001c in ?? () #38 0x0000000000000005 in ?? () #39 0x00007fff18e7da23 in ?? () #40 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Request to orphan package
by ptchinster 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

Hello, I am the maintainer of eclipse-android (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14544) One of the dependancies is eclipse-classic (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32314) (v3.5 as opposed to 3.6 in the main repos) which is NOT maintained by me. There are several issues with this PKGBUILD including being out of date, not having a working build(), and not offering a correct provides array. The first of which was brought to the current maintainers attention back on May 13th, and he hasn't touched it since. I am willing to adopt this package as soon as orphaned. Thanks, ptchinster -- "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." --Carl Sagan "Keep on rockin' in the free world." -- Neil Young

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[arch-general] Help me recover KDE-Plasma context menu
by Nilesh Govindarajan 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

I changed the plasma desktop behavior to show application launcher menu on right click. Now I'm unable to set wallpaper etc. How to revert to default setting if not by rm -r ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma* -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps

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[arch-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] /dev/shm permissions and building in chroot
by Thomas Dziedzic 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been tracking down a python3 bug and it turns out to be caused by > our chroot building. Essentially the permissions of /dev/shm are different > in the chroot than on the system: > > allan@mugen /home/arch/chroot/stable-i686/copy/dev > > ls -ld shm > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 Jul 12 15:16 shm > > allan@mugen /dev > > ls -ld shm > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 40 Aug 14 10:23 shm > > So when configure scripts try to test for POSIX semaphores by writing in > that directory, they fail. > > Looking at the relevant line in mkarchroot: > mount -o bind /dev "${working_dir}/dev" > > Doing that manually show the same issue. Should we add > > chmod 1777 "${working_dir}/dev/shm" > > after the mount? It fixes my issue but feels hackish. Any other > suggestions? > > Allan > > > > oops I don't have time to try it now, but we could try mounting it without a bind as described here: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/kernfs.html Cheers! Sorry for sending it to arch-general, but I don't have "write" access to arch-dev-public :P

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[arch-general] Mailman update
by Dan Vratil 13 Aug '10

13 Aug '10

Hi, please, could someone update the mailman package? It's outdated quite a long (at least since February 2009) and there is a new version 2.1.13 from December 2009. Thank you! Dan -- --------------------------------- Dan Vrátil vratil(a)progdansoft.com ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan(a)jabber.cz Tel. +420 732 326 870 Tento email neobsahuje žádné viry, protože odesílatel nepoužívá Windows. / This email does not contain any viruses because the sender does not use Windows.

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[arch-general] bash - pathname expansion controls 'set -f' or 'set -o noglob' on broken?
by David C. Rankin 13 Aug '10

13 Aug '10

Guys, I'm either misunderstanding how to control expansion of wildcards on the command line when passing the parameter containing the wildcard as a cli option to a script or the bash controls to allow that are broken. I want to set up a little script alias to search /var/abs for packages and I want the ability to pass either 'name' or 'name*' or '*name*' as input, but if there is anything matching in the current directory, expansion happens before the cli is passed to the script. Reading, I should be able to turn globbing off with either 'set -f' or 'set -o noglob' and then I should be able to pass the parameter contained a wildcard to the script without any pathname expansion. That appears broken -- or my logic is broken. From man bash 'set -f' or 'set -o noglob on' should prevent expansion: set [+abefhkmnptuvxBCEHPT] [+o option] [arg ...] <snip> -f Disable pathname expansion. <snip> -o option-name The option-name can be one of the following: <snip> noglob Same as -f. EXAMPLE: touch pacman-foo then use the following as your test script (tst.sh): #!/bin/bash myvar="$1" printf "Search: %s\n" $myvar exit 0 Now since i have a file called pacman-foo in my directory trying to pass 'pacman*' should result in expansion before the cli is read resulting in: 00:42 nirvana:~/scr/arch/tmp> ./tst.sh pacman* Search: pacman-foo single-quoting doesn't even protect the cli?? : 00:42 nirvana:~/scr/arch/tmp> ./tst.sh 'pacman*' Search: pacman-foo Now try 'set -f' to disable pathname expanstion: 01:00 nirvana:~/scr/arch/tmp> set -f 01:02 nirvana:~/scr/arch/tmp> ./tst.sh pacman* Search: pacman-foo 01:02 nirvana:~/scr/arch/tmp> ./tst.sh 'pacman*' Search: pacman-foo Huh? Now try 'set -o noglob' 01:02 nirvana:~/scr/arch/tmp> set -o noglob 01:03 nirvana:~/scr/arch/tmp> ./tst.sh pacman* Search: pacman-foo 01:04 nirvana:~/scr/arch/tmp> ./tst.sh 'pacman*' Search: pacman-foo Huh? Again.. What gives is it bash or is it something I'm reading wrong? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.1-1
by Thomas Bächler 13 Aug '10

13 Aug '10

Upstream update, please test and sign off. We should probably be able to move this to core by the end of the week unless major problems occur. Please also sign off on 2.6.34.3 (see http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-August/017557.h…) I'd like to move that to core today already, as it fixes a number of problems with .34.2.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] sudo-1.7.4.p2-1
by Florian Pritz 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

On 11.08.2010 04:58, Allan McRae wrote: > Upstrema update. Upstream moved the location of the timestamp files, so > everyone will receive the sudo lecture on first usage. > > Signoff both, > Allan User signoff both Some defaults changed too. (1 timestamp per tty or behavior of -s, maybe more I didn't look) -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}(a)server-speed.net

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[arch-general] mirror.cs.vt.edu outdated
by Harry Strongburg 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Hello, this mirror has an old lasysync of 1279951267. Googling this number returns a few results for other mirrors at this time. What does it mean? Lastly, what mirror is the "most trusted"? I trust vt.edu, their uptime has been wonderful until it stopped updating packages. I don't want to use the archlinux.org server, as it's limited (and you guys probably don't like the extra load). Thanks.

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[arch-general] Fw: [arch-dev-public] [staging] repository: Let's give it a try!
by Mario Figueiredo 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Forward Rationale: To give end users (and potential devs) an opportunity to discuss this too. On 11-08-2010 16:29, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hi devs, > > my last attempt for this didn't get much feedback so I try to keep it > short this time...for more details see the old thread at: > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-May/016770.html > > This time I am just asking to give it a try. It's implementation is > trivial and if we feel it wont work out we could easily remove it later. > If there are no real objections I'd like to implement this soon; let's > say next week. Even if you don't see the benefit right now I would be > pleased to at least give it a try. > > The idea can be summed up like this: > > testing: > * don't break packages intentionally > * don't push incomplete rebuilds > This would definitely get me interested in Testing. Right now my Linux knowledge is limited and thus Testing is a no-go zone. If however I could have a guarantee that Testing offers the same package sanity insurance of the other mirrors, I could start participating. > staging: > * a global staging repository for collaboration > its more similar to your ~/staging dir than a regular repository > * mostly meant for incomplete rebuilds > * will be excluded from mirroring (for now) > > I am open for any questions or suggestions. Thanks for reading, > > Pierre > It needs to be said that this is also reflection of what one should expect to encounter in the development process in the wild. Apart from the potential for collaboration, the idea that the Arch repos could mimic this development cycle is very appealing to me. __________________________ | | V V Development <-> Staging <-> Testing -> Release Packaging maintenance is taken away from the end user, giving them "safe" (it's still a beta, hence the quotes) access to Testing. Meanwhile developers would separate packaging from Testing, considerably giving them a lot more control over what users can access from Testing.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [staging] repository: Let's give it a try!
by Evangelos Foutras 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > Let me underline again that [staging] would be no regular repo that > would be used by anyone directly. It mainly meant for collecting > rebuilds. However, it would have to be used by anyone wanting to rebuild a package against a new library that has been pushed to [staging]. Therefore, it would need to be mirrored and added to /etc/pacman.conf in our [testing] chroots. (By `our [testing] chroots' I mean the chroots that developers and TUs have been using until now for building packages for [testing].)

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[arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
by David C. Rankin 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Guys, I developed a script to help me read the output of pacman -Ss in 2 nicely formatted columns. The output of 'pacman -Ss srchterm' drives me nuts trying to read down the package names and descriptions with all the tab indented and wrapped text -- so I fixed it. Download the script here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/srch2list.sh The script takes this: extra/ttf-khmer 5.0-2 TTFont collection for Khmer (Cambodia) extra/ttf-linux-libertine 4.4.1-3 Serif (Libertine) and Sans Serif (Biolinum) OpenType fonts with large Unicode coverage extra/ttf-mph-2b-damase 001.000.4.dfsg.2-2 Super-Unicode TTFont covering full Plane 1, and the following scripts: Armenian, Buginese, Cherokee, Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic, Deseret, Georgian, Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri but no Mkhedruli, Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek, Hanunoo, Hebrew, Latin, Limbu, Linear B, Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Osmanya, Shavian, Syloti Nagri, Tai Le, Thaana, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, Vietnamese extra/ttf-ms-fonts 2.0-3 Core TTF Fonts from Microsoft and turn it into this: ttf-khmer TTFont collection for Khmer (Cambodia) ttf-linux-libertine Serif (Libertine) and Sans Serif (Biolinum) OpenType fonts with large Unicode coverage ttf-mph-2b-damase Super-Unicode TTFont covering full Plane 1, and the following scripts: Armenian, Buginese, Cherokee, Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic, Deseret, Georgian, Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri but no Mkhedruli, Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek, Hanunoo, Hebrew, Latin, Limbu, Linear B, Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Osmanya, Shavian, Syloti Nagri, Tai Le, Thaana, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, Vietnamese ttf-ms-fonts Core TTF Fonts from Microsoft or with the '-d' option for semi-doublespace: ttf-khmer TTFont collection for Khmer (Cambodia) ttf-linux-libertine Serif (Libertine) and Sans Serif (Biolinum) OpenType fonts with large Unicode coverage ttf-mph-2b-damase Super-Unicode TTFont covering full Plane 1, and the following scripts: Armenian, Buginese, Cherokee, Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic, Deseret, Georgian, Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri but no Mkhedruli, Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek, Hanunoo, Hebrew, Latin, Limbu, Linear B, Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Osmanya, Shavian, Syloti Nagri, Tai Le, Thaana, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, Vietnamese ttf-ms-fonts Core TTF Fonts from Microsoft The script needs 1 input. That is a filename 'srchfile' that contains the output from 'pacman -Ss srchterm > srchfile' There are 2 options, '-h or --help' gives a brief description and '-d' which causes the output to be essentially double-spaced. (each package description remains single spaced if it requires multiple lines, but a blank line is included between package descriptions) On the todo list is having the script take the input from stdin and eliminate the srchfile. NOTE: the '-d' option goes AFTER the filename. (I'll make the cli input position independent in the next version) The script does some pretty cool stuff and has some of my favorite funtions for the bash addicts out there. It reads 'srchfile' and formats the output in two columns 'pkgname' and 'description'. The pkgname column width is adjusted to the longest filename and the description column (in multiple lines, if necessary) spans the remainder of the xterm width leaving a one-char margin on the right. To make reading easier the description is parsed before being output so that descriptions that span multiple lines only break on spaces and not words while staying withing the column width. The column widths are dynamic based on the terminal window size. (via obtaining the terminal width and height from stty output). (for some reason, $COLUMNS and $LINES are not available in my scripts?? environment? exports?) The script was fun to write as it incorporated a good many of the finer points of bash. It is also well commented so if you are learning bash, or want to learn, this script can be a useful tool for some of the cooler things that can be done with arrays and strings using index manipulation and substring parsing/parameter substitution. The ultimate goal was to make the pacman search output readable, and I think this makes reading the search results *much* easier, at least for me. I guess what I should do for the next version is just incorporate the pacman -Ss call into the script itself and simply read the output of the search directly into the input array instead of reading the input file into an array. Simple enough, but I'll have to put that out as the next revision. Give this a whirl and see what you think. Let me know what works and what doesn't and also how I do things better/cleaner than I have currently done them. Who knows, maybe we will look at 'zenity --list' and provide a gui output next time :p Enjoy. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] Fwd: Junior Developer Mentor Scheme
by ALAUX, Guillaume 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tobias Powalowski <t.powa(a)gmx.de> Date: 2 August 2010 21:46 Subject: [arch-dev-public] Fwd: Junior Developer Mentor Scheme To: Public mailing list for Arch Linux development < arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org> ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- Betreff: Junior Developer Mentor Scheme Datum: Montag 02 August 2010, 14:44:06 Von: Tajidin Abd <tajidinabd(a)archlinux.us> An: tpowa(a)archlinux.org Hello there Tobias I had seen in past News something about bringing more contributors to Archlinux. I did email Allan in regards to this but so far no reply back. I was wondering is this still open for users to contribute the Project. Perhaps i need to post something in the devs mailing list to get more opinion about this. I mean I am a contributor to Fedora Project. I would hope since Arch is a smaller project it can bit more transparent in regards to this. Also it will take the load off other contributors. Any suggestions would be appreciated Tajidin ---------------------------------------------------- --------- -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org Hi there, Have I missed some news about the "Junior Mentor Scheme"? I guess this is over but I haven't heard of it since it was launched. Do we have new junior devs/TUs? If "yes" then kudos. Guillaume

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[arch-general] upgreade 4.4.5 -> 4.5.0 problems
by Caleb Cushing 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

hmmm not sure what do here (previously owned by kdebase-runtime) should I just force this? error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) kdebase-workspace: /usr/lib/kde4/kstyle_oxygen_config.so exists in filesystem kdebase-workspace: /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/styles/oxygen.so exists in filesystem kdebase-workspace: /usr/share/apps/kstyle/themes/oxygen.themerc exists in filesystem kdebase-workspace: /usr/share/apps/kstyle/themes/qtcde.themerc exists in filesystem kdebase-workspace: /usr/share/apps/kstyle/themes/qtcleanlooks.themerc exists in filesystem kdebase-workspace: /usr/share/apps/kstyle/themes/qtgtk.themerc exists in filesystem kdebase-workspace: /usr/share/apps/kstyle/themes/qtmotif.themerc exists in filesystem kdebase-workspace: /usr/share/apps/kstyle/themes/qtplastique.themerc exists in filesystem kdebase-workspace: /usr/share/apps/kstyle/themes/qtwindows.themerc exists in filesystem kdebase-workspace: /usr/share/doc/kde/html/en/kcontrol/paths/common exists in filesystem kdebase-workspace: /usr/share/doc/kde/html/en/kcontrol/paths/index.cache.bz2 exists in filesystem kdebase-workspace: /usr/share/doc/kde/html/en/kcontrol/paths/index.docbook exists in filesystem kdebase-workspace: /usr/share/doc/kde/html/en/kcontrol/paths/paths.png exists in filesystem seems these were previously owned by kdegames-kpat should there be a replaces somewhere? kdegames-kpatience: /usr/bin/kpat exists in filesystem kdegames-kpatience: /usr/share/applications/kde4/kpat.desktop exists in filesystem kdegames-kpatience: /usr/share/apps/kconf_update/kpat_update_cardwidth.upd exists in filesystem kdegames-kpatience: /usr/share/apps/kpat/kpatui.rc exists in filesystem kdegames-kpatience: /usr/share/doc/kde/html/en/kpat/clubs.png exists in filesystem kdegames-kpatience: /usr/share/doc/kde/html/en/kpat/common exists in filesystem kdegames-kpatience: /usr/share/doc/kde/html/en/kpat/diamonds.png exists in filesystem kdegames-kpatience: /usr/share/doc/kde/html/en/kpat/hearts.png exists in filesystem kdegames-kpatience: /usr/share/doc/kde/html/en/kpat/index.cache.bz2 exists in filesystem kdegames-kpatience: /usr/share/doc/kde/html/en/kpat/index.docbook exists in filesystem kdegames-kpatience: /usr/share/doc/kde/html/en/kpat/man-kpat.6.docbook exists in filesystem kdegames-kpatience: /usr/share/doc/kde/html/en/kpat/playfield.png exists in filesystem kdegames-kpatience: /usr/share/doc/kde/html/en/kpat/spades.png exists in filesystem kdegames-kpatience: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/kpat.png exists in filesystem kdegames-kpatience: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/kpat.png exists in filesystem kdegames-kpatience: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/kpat.png exists in filesystem kdegames-kpatience: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/kpat.png exists in filesystem kdegames-kpatience: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/kpat.png exists in filesystem kdegames-kpatience: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/kpat.png exists in filesystem -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.com

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Re: [arch-general] parallel printer status with archlinux
by Jude DaShiell 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

That did it. All that was needed was to include cups in the daemons line and the cupsd daemon now starts up automatically.

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[arch-general] parallel printer set up status
by Jude DaShiell 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

I found out for the missing driver to install ghostscript and now the driver isn't missing anymore. I plan to put cupsd in the daemons line of rc.conf probably at its end and that should prevent errors from popping up and the inability for cupsd to come up automatically on boot up.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.34.3-1
by Thomas Bächler 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Upstream update. This package is NOT in testing (2.6.35 currently resides there), but at: http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/kernel26/ Please sign off.

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[arch-general] [python-scipy] in community-testing WAS scipy issue
by Angel Velásquez 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hi, I've uploaded a new release of python-scipy with this change applied (read above Fabrizio's e-mail). I did some tests, but I don't know certainly if this change will break other stuff... I would like to have some feedback from SciPy users. Thanks ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Fabrizio Castellano <castella(a)phys.ethz.ch> Date: Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:01 PM Subject: scipy issue To: angvp(a)archlinux.com.ve Hello Angel I'm Fabrizio, a happy user of the python-scipy package on x86_64 platform, anyway today I noticed a problem. In scipy-0.8.0/scipy/special/cephes/mconf.h, line 111 there is: #define UNK 1 this should set the arithmetic used by scipy.special to "unknown". In fact in the file scipy-0.8.0/scipy/special/cephes/airy.c there is: #ifdef UNK #define MAXAIRY 25.77 #endif #ifdef DEC #define MAXAIRY 25.77 #endif #ifdef IBMPC #define MAXAIRY 103.892 #endif #ifdef MIEEE #define MAXAIRY 103.892 #endif this limits evaluation of Airy functions to 25.77 for UNK arithmetic, while leaving 103.892 for the IBMPC arithmetic (the one used in x86 processors I think). I think they do this because they don't want to introduce architecture-specific code, but this is quite a limitation in the use of the airy function in scipy, and probably other things in scipy suffer from this UNK too. I manually recompiled scipy changing the #define UNK into #define IBMPC and it works. I think the #define UNK should be changed to a #define IBMPC by default in the arch repository. This would make the arch package match better with the x86 architectures. What do you think? Best Fabrizio Castellano -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] FluxBB update round two
by Florian Pritz 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

On 10.08.2010 07:05, Dan McGee wrote: > Order deny,allow > Deny from all > Allow from 99.140.196.156 > ErrorDocument 403 "<html><head><title>Down for > maintenance</title></head><body><div align='center'><h1>The Arch Linux > main site is down for maintenance.<br />Please try again > later.</h1><img > src='http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/funny-pictures-cat-wonders-if-he-is-broken.jpg' > /></div></body></html>" > > -Dan I suggest using the correct error code (503) which prevents bots from indexing the error page: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/error/.*$ RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^127\.0\.0\.1$ Header always set Retry-After "3600" RewriteRule .* - [R=503] ErrorDocument 503 "<same as above>" This only allows the access to /error/ (if not needed just remove the line) or from the IP (multiple IPs -> multiple lines or matching regexps) -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}(a)server-speed.net

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