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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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[arch-general] libgnomekbd 2.31.5-1
by ALAUX, Guillaume 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hi everyone, I am experiencing this bug<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618727> in libgnomekbd that makes gnome-settings-daemon crash gnome with a segfault here. It is fixed<http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libgnomekbd/2.31/libgnomekbd-2.31.5.…>in the latest libgnomekbd 2.31.5 <http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libgnomekbd/2.31/>. Unfortunately we only have version 2.30.2-1 in extra<http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=libgnomekbd> . I've had a look into testing repo but can't find any newer AL version (maybe one I'm forgetting?). Here is the PKGBUILD from extra with updated uri and sum. "signoff" i686. I have only been testing for like 10 minutes but gnome-settings-daemon doesn't make gnome crash anymore ; just this error message I will have to figure out: ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8347): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.SettingsDaemon ** (gnome-settings-daemon:8347): WARNING **: Could not acquire name Thanks, Guillaume

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[arch-general] gnome 'slab' menu from AUR - howto add items in the 'System' area?
by David C. Rankin 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Guys I have used the slab menu in Gnome on opensuse and yesterday I and installed it on Arch Linux from AUR which used the newest source package from: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-main-menu/0.9/gnome-main-menu-… The AUR packages were: (main-menu) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24048 (libslab dependency) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30243 Here is a screenshot of the slab menu on suse showing the System area and the apps I'm trying to place there: (56k) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/img/ss/gnome/slabMenuSystemArea.jpg The favorites, documents and places parts of the menu work fine in Arch, but I can't figure out how to add apps to the area to the right-hand-side under the "System" heading. In opensuse all I had to do was to: (1) first drag an app from favorites onto the system area and it would be added to the end of the system area list, then; (2) I could just order it where I wanted it in the system list by clicking it again and dragging it up into the list. Now in 0.9.15, when I drag anything to the system area, it will *not* let me drop it. The app icons just *shoots* back over to the favorites area. What I notice is with the AUR package is: you get no "rectangular bounding box" around the system area (or status area) when you drag anything from the favorites area over to the right side of the menu. This tells me something isn't working right, but I don't know what in Gnome would conceivably be responsible for drawing the bounding box to indicate the system area is ready to receive an icon being dropped in it. I have been through gconf-editor and confirmed: /desktop/gnome/applications/main-menu/lock-down/user_modifiable_system_area is checked to allow a user to add something to the system area.... I have also logged in a root just to test whether that makes any difference and it doesn't. I don't know what kind of help I can expect since it is an AUR package, but I thought I would post here and see if anybody knew what the trick was or knew gnome well enough to know what might be responsible for accepting drag-n-drop input? I have contacted the AUR maintainer and struck out. I have also contacted the earlier developers whose addresses I found in the change log, but haven't had a response. So... Anybody know offhand what the trick is? cc: gnome development list -- 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] Israel ftp mirror
by Netanel Shine 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

you can also download ArchLinux from Ftp protocol: ftp://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/archlinux/iso/ (not only through HTTP like the archlinux.org/download say) someone can update it please? -- Netanel Shine

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[arch-general] courier-mta older version
by cesar 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Hello, The db-4.8 package is used for store data but this make a trouble in the makealiases command. I have updated my PKGBUILD to link to gbdm to solve this situation. Anyway I prefer to have the official package. Thanks for understanding best regards --cesar

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[arch-general] mayday - new updates killed httpd - make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:443
by David C. Rankin 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

guys, I updated my test box and it checked out, then I updated my server and apache will not start. The error given is: [03:58 nirvana:/etc/httpd/conf] # apachectl start (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:443 (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:443 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs The updates tonight included: [2010-08-09 00:41] upgraded consolekit (0.4.1-2 -> 0.4.1-3) [2010-08-09 00:41] upgraded dhcpcd (5.2.5-1 -> 5.2.7-1) [2010-08-09 00:41] upgraded dnsutils (9.6.1-3 -> 9.7.1.P2-1) [2010-08-09 00:41] upgraded libnice (0.0.12-1 -> 0.0.13-1) [2010-08-09 00:41] upgraded farsight2 (0.0.20-1 -> 0.0.21-1) [2010-08-09 00:41] upgraded libva (0.31.0_p13-2 -> 1.0.4-1) [2010-08-09 00:41] upgraded ffmpeg (24460-1 -> 24460-2) [2010-08-09 00:41] installed iana-etc (2.30-1) [2010-08-09 00:41] upgraded filesystem (2010.02-4 -> 2010.07-1) [2010-08-09 00:41] upgraded hwdetect (2010.07-1 -> 2010.08-1) [2010-08-09 00:42] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.34.2-1 -> 2.6.34.2-2) [2010-08-09 00:42] upgraded kernel26-headers (2.6.34.2-1 -> 2.6.34.2-2) [2010-08-09 00:44] upgraded kernel26-lts (2.6.32.16-1 -> 2.6.32.17-2) [2010-08-09 00:44] upgraded kernel26-lts-headers (2.6.32.16-1 -> 2.6.32.17-2) [2010-08-09 00:44] upgraded networkmanager (0.8-1 -> 0.8.1-1) [2010-08-09 00:44] warning: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist installed as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew [2010-08-09 00:44] upgraded pacman-mirrorlist (20100621-1 -> 20100808-1) [2010-08-09 00:44] upgraded python-telepathy (0.15.17-1 -> 0.15.18-1) [2010-08-09 00:44] upgraded rpcbind (0.2.0-1 -> 0.2.0-2) [2010-08-09 00:44] upgraded sqlite3 (3.7.0-1 -> 3.7.0.1-1) [2010-08-09 00:44] upgraded telepathy-haze (0.3.6-1 -> 0.4.0-1) [2010-08-09 00:44] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.1-1 -> 3.1.2-1) [2010-08-09 00:44] upgraded util-linux-ng (2.18-2 -> 2.18-3) [2010-08-09 00:44] upgraded vdpau-video (0.6.9-2 -> 0.6.10-2) [2010-08-09 00:44] upgraded vlc (1.1.2-1 -> 1.1.2-2) I have switched to a backup server so I'm not dead, but to have apache just not start was a bit disconcerting to say the least. This has got to be an issue with the kernel26 (2.6.34.2-1 -> 2.6.34.2-2) upgrade. My primary and backup servers are both Arch 64bit boxes with identical software installs. The box with the problem is an Opteron(tm) Processor 180 running on Tyan Tomcat S2865, the backup is a Phenom(tm) 9850 on an MSI K9N2 SLI Platinum. The fact that the software is identical and the primary can't make/bind to sockets anymore --- tells me what? Anyway, I need help. Any thoughts on what do check? I'll drop back to LTS and see how that goes and report back. 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] Gallium by default for radeon?
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Hey everybody, I wondered whether we should switch the default radeon driver stack over to gallium3d. I've been running gallium3d for a few months now and with every stack rebuild from git it only gets faster and neater. I haven't encountered any stability issues yet (or at least not any the standard drivers did not have). I think the speed and OpenGL compatibility are well worth it for our users. Since I'm toying around quite a lot with games and Ogre3D I know that shader support and overall speed now make the radeon + gallium3d drivers a viable replacement for the rather unlikeable catalyst drivers, even for gaming. For those who want to try it, build your gallium stack using my AUR package (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38090) Upstream says that almost all current development efforts flow into gallium3d and radeon KMS. Perhaps we should take the hint? What do you think? -- Sven-Hendrik

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[arch-general] parallel printer set up with archlinux
by Jude DaShiell 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

I almost have everything working. The foomatic-rip driver Panasonic/Epson is reported as unavailable by lpstat -d /dev/lp0 -p <enter>. If that's in the foomatic-db package I downloaded, what should I use to locate it in all of those files? The printer won't be handling any postscript and is only intended to print out text files.

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[arch-general] AUR build of kdemod3-kipi-plugins fails on QString::QString( data->appName() ); ?
by David C. Rankin 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

Guys, Just messing around tweaking out kdemod3 with all the updates I can find, I was working to build kdemod3-kipi-plugins. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24800 This package build now failes with the error: cdarchiving.cpp: In constructor `KIPICDArchivingPlugin::CDArchiving::CDArchiving(KIPI::Interface*, QObject*, KAction*)': cdarchiving.cpp:77:52: error: cannot call constructor `QString::QString' directly cdarchiving.cpp:77:52: error: for a function-style cast, remove the redundant `::QString' make[4]: *** [cdarchiving.lo] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory The line in cdarchiving.cpp is: m_hostName = QString::QString( data->appName() ); Googling, there are other packages that have the m_hostName assignment in the same manner so I don't know what the issue is. Is there some build environment misconfig such that the build is calling the incorrect Qt for kde4? How would I check? 90+ percent of all the kdemod3 updates build just fine, so I don't think it is a generic problem. Any thoughts on what to check? I have also posted this message at AUR with the package as well. I've done what it said and removed the the redundant `::QString' and it seems to be building for now. I'm unsure how bad this change might hose me. (what - worst case a bad hostname in the cdarchiving module?) How bad could removing the (whatever you call it? class reference?) be? Thanks for any help or thoughts you might have. -- 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] mdadm-3.1.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

This is a bugfix/stability release over 3.1.2 Significant changes are: - mapfile now lives in a fixed location which default to /dev/.mdadm/map but can be changed at compile time. This location is choses and most distros provide it during early boot and preserve it through. As long a /dev exists and is writable, /dev/.mdadm will be created. Other files file communication with mdmon live here too. This fixes a bug reported by Debian and Gentoo users where udev would spin in early-boot. - IMSM and DDF metadata will not be recognised on partitions as they should only be used on whole-disks. - Various overflows causes by 2G drives have been addressed. - A subarray of an IMSM contain can now be killed with --kill-subarray. Also subarrays can be renamed with --update-subarray - -If (or --incremental --fail) can be used from udev to fail and remove from all arrays a device which has been unplugged from the system. i.e. hot-unplug-support. - "mdadm /dev/mdX --re-add missing" will look for any device that looks like it should be a member of /dev/mdX but isn't and will automatically --re-add it - Now compile with -Wextra to get extra warnings. - Lots of minor bug fixes, documentation improvements, etcc 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] Shouldn't pacman restart dovecot after update?
by David C. Rankin 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

Guys, Sending mail from my local server resulted in errors "could not copy sent mail to 'sent' on servername? Checking the mail logs, I found this: <snip> Aug 2 17:15:03 nirvana dovecot: imap-login: Fatal: Dovecot version mismatch: Master is v1.2.12, login is v1.2.13 (if you don't care, set version_ignore=yes) Aug 2 17:15:03 nirvana dovecot: imap-login: Fatal: Dovecot version mismatch: Master is v1.2.12, login is v1.2.13 (if you don't care, set version_ignore=yes) <snip> So I restarted dovecot -- problem solved. That brought up the question, why didn't pacman restart dovecot with some post-install something?? So should it have? If it didn't, does this need to be reported? Let me know. 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] Packages Translate.
by Netanel Shine 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

Why Archlinux dont allow translation of the packages part in the site like in the AUR? -- Netanel Shine

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.34.2-1
by Tobias Powalowski 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches. I already have .35 prepared, a fast signoff would be great. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Initial AIF localization support (patch)
by jesse jaara 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

For the past few days I have been working on adding support for localization in AIF. I think I have marked every string that contains text that can be translated, but it is possible that i have missed some. Also there is some work to be done in the makefile, as I couln't figure out how to make for loops in it. Also the code to the language selection screen sint working, yet. I will try to get that to work. I hope some one familiar whit the AIFs codebase would check this out and corret if something is wrong. If this isint turned down as waste of ?something? or something else, I will translate this into Finnish, also Im alredy translating the offical installation guide to finnish 1/3 redy I think. :D

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[arch-general] Firefox & Opera Plugins on the fritz?
by David C. Rankin 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

Guys, My weather page has stopped working in both Firefox and Opera. I think it is a plugin issue. Can anyone else view this weather loop from the National Weather Service? http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=SHV&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loo… If so what plugin does it take. If not -- what do you think is 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] No splash - just whitescreen on gnome startup (all kernels)
by David C. Rankin 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

Guys, Now that I can boot using 2.6.35-2, I am turning attention to another issue - whitescreen instead of splash on gnome start. After typing in my user:pw and hitting return, I see a total white screen with the busy cursor until the entire desktop is loaded - a long 20-30 seconds. Normally I would expect to see the gnome splash over the default background. Anybody else? What to check? What to try? -- 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] kernel26-2.6.35-2 -> No monitor power off?
by David C. Rankin 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

Guys, Testing kernel26-2.6.35-2 as part of bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20200, I notice that the dpms monitor power-off does not work in gnome with this kernel running. Is this a kernel problem or a result of just having the new kernel/kernel headers installed and not the rest of the testing packages? If it is a bug, what information should I post to help identify the issue? 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] ArchLinux - Israel
by Netanel Shine 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

>From now, there are other ArchLinux community around the globe -> ArchLinux - Israel There's a lot of work and development has just begun, so think about it when you write comments. Anyway, Goodluck - and thansk to all the people who helped (i.e-> wonder from .ro community) WebSite URL: http://archlinux.org.il Hebrew blog message: http://netanelshine.co.il btw, theres an IRC Channel in freenode ( #archlinux-il ) -- Netanel Shine

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[arch-general] kernel26 2.6.34.2-1 ALSO hardlocks my box on boot??
by David C. Rankin 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

Guys, I still have this problem where the changes to the kernel for kernel26 2.6.34 cause my box to hardlock on boot! It happens every time after the kernel has booted once after the initial build of the initramfs with mkinitcpio. It is frustrating has hell. I opened bug 20200 which was closed yesterday for some reason and this bug is NOT fixed. I am continuing to run on the LTS kernel which works fine, but whatever changes were made to the kernel between LTS and 2.6.34 introduced a bug that causes the boot process to hardlock my box at the message: Configuring console for UTF-8 mode I suspect the lockup actually occurs at the line or two before where it loads modules, but I haven't a clue how to determine exactly what is causing this? This is serious stuff, if it is causing my Toshiba laptop to hardlock on boot, it is going to catch others and ... having your box hardlock on boot is somewhat difficult to overlook. If it were not for the fact that I also loaded the LTS kernel and have an alternative to boot into, Arch Linux would not run on my laptop at all. What do we need to do to get this fixed?? I have sent Andreas a message to reopen the bug for the reason "The bug continues to hardlock my box on boot", but failing that -- what else do I need to do? -- 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] kernel 2.6.35-2
by Tobias Powalowski 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.35 series for both arches and give feedback if real issues arise. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] test
by Ionuț Bîru 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Ignore it -- Ionuț

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[arch-general] [OT] sight-saver colours
by F. Gr. 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Hi, in your opinion, what is the best combination of text and background colour so as not to tire our eyes? I think we spend many hours in front of a monitor. I've been using the following one: text -> #000000 background -> #F6F6FF (in the past also #F8F4FF, #EDE9E3, and others)

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[arch-general] Lynx package lacks documentation
by Mario Figueiredo 05 Aug '10

05 Aug '10

Is it intentional the decision to not include in lynx package the program documentation, despite it being available from upstream sources? Upstream seems to prefer if users set HELPFILE in lynx.cfg to a local path, as can be seen from this quote (lynx.cfg): "The default HELPFILE is: http://lynx.isc.org/release/lynx2-8-6/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html This should be changed to the localpath." However this isn't currently possible without further action from the user after installing the package. Also of note the fact that an upstream update will render the default URI in HELPFILE invalid and turn lynx help inoperative, until a package with the new version is made available or the user takes corrective measures (they either build from source themselves or download the old version help files to their system). Mario Figueiredo

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[arch-general] test - please ignore
by Mario Figueiredo 05 Aug '10

05 Aug '10

Test. Please ignore -- Mário Figueiredo, Quiettech, Quiet Technologies Development Services and Research Phone: +351 214451247 Mobile: +351 926682351 Email: mario.figueiredo(a)quiettech.org www.quiettech.org <http://www.quiettech.org>

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.34.2-2
by Thomas Bächler 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

This new build fixes the b43 trouble lots of users have been having. This package is NOT in testing (2.6.35 currently resides there), but at: http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/kernel26/ Please sign off (also, please someone with the b43 problem test if this is fixed).

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[arch-general] Arch Linux in Linux-Magazin 09/2010 (German Edition)
by Mathias Huber 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

Hi, for those who wanted to be alerted: My short writeup on Arch Linux for Linux-Magazin (German Edition) is freely available online: http://www.linux-magazin.de/Heft-Abo/Ausgaben/2010/09/Frische-Ware Best Regards, Mathias

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[arch-general] package name foo vs libfoo (eg. clutter vs libclutter)
by Andre "Osku" Schmidt 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

Hello, this may be a minor issue, but it's bugging me so much that i had to write it here. and please link me to any previous discussion if this was asked before, i was kinda lazy to really search and http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards didn't mention anything about it. is there any rule on how to name packages ? lets take clutter as an example. it's named "clutter" everywhere in upstream, git, tarball, docs etc. but, it only builds libraries, and names those libclutter* (and really is only usable as library) so why are these (or only this?) packages named foo and not libfoo ? cheers .andre ps. im here to fix, not flame :)

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[arch-general] Interesting tidbit from other distros latest releases - kde3 is still there and maintained.
by David C. Rankin 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

Guys, This is just a point of interest more than anything else. Many of you know I came to Arch from suse and one of the reasons was suse announced plan to eliminate kde3 in its 11.2 release in early 2009. Arch had chakra and it worked great so Arch was a great logical choice. It seems that some desktops can't be replaced or removed that easily. Going against a solid year of policy to the contrary, suse's 7/15/10 new release (11.3) included a kde3 repository that will be available and maintained at least until 11.3 EOL. (usually 18 months) The only discussion on the suse list was the fact that the cost of offering kde3 is basically zero and other than a few updated libs (poppler-qt3, libpng, libjpeg), etc.., kde3 is static requiring nothing more than a few hundred meg of storage at this point. More resources are spent building and offering LXDE, openbox, etc. than kde3 required so it made sense to continue the desktop as an offering. What's that got to do with Arch? If Novell has come to the conclusion that it makes business sense to continue kde3 for the time being, then it may at least be something the Arch devs want to talk about and at least try to figure out the "why?" part of Novell's continuation of kde3 in case there is anything that Arch wants to do to maintain its offerings comparable with distro X, Y or Z. I have no information there. Currently kdemod3 is still in really good shape for Arch, but with the loss of Jan, I don't know what that means for the continuation of its hosting on the charkra servers. That might at least be worth knowing. None of this needs any type of reply, but with kde4 still in a massive state of flux (i.e. you can't even get to your kabc categories at present), at least having Arch know what it's thoughts or wishes are in this area before be faced with any changes, may just help the distro be ready for what ever comes along. Food for thought for the powers that be -- all others, just hit 'del'. -- 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] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.17-1
by Andreas Radke 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

Am Mon, 2 Aug 2010 21:31:09 +0200 schrieb Andreas Radke <a.radke(a)arcor.de>: > Upstream update, please signoff. > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.17 > > -Andy > Bump. It's a security related update. -Andy

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[arch-general] Fwd: *** Dark Ones August Party ***
by Patrick Burroughs 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

Let me know if any of you are already getting this, and I'll take you off the forward. ~celti ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marg Grady <marg1066(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 08:55 Subject: *** Dark Ones August Party *** To: "J.L. Ali" <wolfglen(a)cox.net> THE DARK ONES PRESENT: AUGUST PARTY – “ARABIAN NIGHTS” Join the Dark Ones for our August Party extravaganza... Escape to where East meets West... Where fantasy comes alive... and where you can enjoy the poolside cool on another hot August night... Caravans cross the desert, majestic camels transport Sultans and Rogues alike, all converge on the oasis of Shadowhaven ... What draws them all here, this night of nights? Is it the promise of fine food and drink? Or the manipulations of evil Djinn from the depths of Hell? Only one way to find out... hop on your magic carpet, camel or caravan and come to the Dark Ones "Arabian Nights" Party. Also, The DarkCon Promotions Caravan will be there -- don't miss out on the special membership rates at the Bazaar in the DarkCon Pavilion! A limited number of VIP Memberships are now available for sale (deposits accepted) while they last... Site: "Oasis Shadowhaven" -- 8726 N 48th Ave, Glendale, AZ 85302 Date: Saturday, 08/28/10 Site opens: 7 pm Party Starts: 8 pm Anthem: Midnight Bar Closes: 2 am Site Closes: 3 am Costume Theme Ideas: Harem Dancer, Snake Charmer, Sultan/Sheik, Djinn/Devil from Hell, Medieval Garb. **NEW** -- Donations for the party can now be made ONLINE! Go to http://www.darkones.org/Resources/MARKETPLACE/tabid/96/Default.aspx -- CHOOSE “August Party – Arabian Nights Event” Each "registration" is a $12 donation to the event. Buy as many as you want :) (There is no cost to attend the party, but your donations make it all possible.) There will be NO Kids Keep, so children should be sent elsewhere or risk being sold into slavery. Please do nothing to attract the local watch, as no one wants to be caned. We will of course need help with Set Up / Break Down and money to pay for the planned debauchery... please contact Ozzy to offer donations of Time or Money at wolfglen(a)cox.net .... Thank you, and see you at the Party, with bells on! :)

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[arch-general] Image my installed Arch into a USB pendrive
by Martín Cigorraga 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

Hi, is possible to image my current Arch system into a USB pendrive and use it from there? Many thanks! Martín

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[arch-general] Unload module after printer startup
by Mario Daniel Carugno 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

Hi list I've a hp 1020 printer. In order to work, the module usblp must not be loaded. So, i remove that from DAEMONS section at /etc/rc.conf When i boot Arch, that works fine. The module is not loaded, and the printer works. But when i turn off, and then turn on the printer, the usblp module is loaded, and the printer doesn't print. How can i prevent this loading ? I guess it's a udev rule, but i don't know how to configure it. Please, anybody can give a hand on this ? Thanks !

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[arch-general] Unificate login credentials in Arch's website
by Martín Cigorraga 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

I don't know if this was addressed before, I'm sorry to say this and you'll probably hate me but it's something that get my attention: the authentication in Arch's website is, at least, very unefficient. At worst, it's directly against Arch's Way, I think (I'm not the best guy to say this, just giving my first steps in Arch). Why should someone need to register at least three times, one for the forums, one for the wiki and one for the AUR? Shoudn't be sufficient with just one-time login/registration? And what about editing own nick or password? You know, at any time you may want to uniform all your passwords to a master one or just change it from the default you get when registered. I would like to know if there's any specific reason to have three separate accounts for the same website sections. Regards, Martín

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[arch-general] No updates in a while - Is this the 'untiered mirror' thing?
by David C. Rankin 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

Guys, It is rare I go a week without some type of update. My last update was: [2010-07-25 04:49] upgraded wavegain (1.2.8-1 -> 1.2.8-2) Looking at archdev-public, there is a 7/24 "no more untiered mirrors" post from Roman about the need to shut down mirrors. Is this what is behind no more updates for me? If so, what do I need to change in my mirror list, pacman.conf, etc. to make sure I can get updates again? If it is just because Arch is perfect and there will no longer be a need for any updates -- I'm good with that too. Just let me know :p -- 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] howto fix log errors: avahi-daemon[1954]: Invalid query packet.
by David C. Rankin 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Guys, My logs have been filling up with avahi-daemon messages. The avahi errors always appear in groups of 3: Aug 2 16:05:03 nirvana avahi-daemon[1954]: Invalid query packet. Aug 2 16:05:03 nirvana avahi-daemon[1954]: Invalid query packet. Aug 2 16:05:03 nirvana avahi-daemon[1954]: Invalid query packet. Anybody know what we need to do to fix the query packet error? -- 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] Better NILFS2 Support
by Alex Matviychuk 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

I just spent some time setting up my new laptop with an SSD to use NILFS2 as its root filesystem and I'm very pleased with the performance. In an effort to get better support for NILFS2 in arch I've added a request to move nilfs-utils to the base group and submitted a patch to initscripts to bring up the nlfs_cleanerd daemon if root is formatted as NILFS2. If NILFS2 is used on other partitions the mount command brings up the daemon on it's own. These two bugs should make it easier to add NILFS2 support to the Arch Installation Framework. Related bugs here, patch comments welcome: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20260 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20261 Cheers, alexmat

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[arch-general] arch-dev-public misleading
by jesse jaara 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

The name and description of the arch-dev-public mailing list are extreamly misleading, for me personally the name and description tells that the list is open for everyone to discuss about development of Arch Linux and apps. This also makes me think that there must also be a closed mailing list for the developers and USA government only, where they can discuss about putting a spying app to every single arch box there is. :D

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[arch-general] makepkg patch - generate .SRCINFO file when running "--source"
by vlad 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Hello list, Here is a patch against makepkg from git which introduces a new function "write_srcinfo()". This generates a file .SRCINFO - like the .PKGINFO one - when "makepkg --source" is run and then it is added to the src.tar.gz archive. I think having such a file is an important step for getting split packages to the AUR. It is also useful for third party applications. Since this file is generated during making the source archive, there is no need for parsing/sourcing the PKGBUILD everytime meta infos are needed afterwards. This is also a way of standardizing the source archive. .SRCINFO looks like (generated for gcc from core): " # Generated by makepkg 3.4.0 # Tue Jul 27 12:56:38 UTC 2010 global pkgbase = gcc global pkgname = gcc global pkgname = gcc-libs global pkgname = gcc-fortran global pkgname = gcc-objc global pkgname = gcc-ada global pkgver = 4.5.0-6 global pkgdesc = The GNU Compiler Collection global url = http://gcc.gnu.org global packager = Vlad George <donvla(a)users.sourceforge.net> global builddate = 1280235398 global source = ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/4.5-20100610/gcc-core-4.5-20100610.tar.… global source = ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/4.5-20100610/gcc-g++-4.5-20100610.tar.b… global source = ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/4.5-20100610/gcc-fortran-4.5-20100610.t… global source = ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/4.5-20100610/gcc-objc-4.5-20100610.tar.… global source = ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/4.5-20100610/gcc-ada-4.5-20100610.tar.b… global source = ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/libstdc++/doxygen/libstdc++-man.20100312.tar.bz2 global source = gcc_pure64.patch global source = gcc-hash-style-both.patch global source = r160561.patch global license = GPL global license = LGPL global license = custom global arch = i686 global arch = x86_64 global makedepends = binutils>=2.20.1 global makedepends = libmpc>=0.8.2-2 global makedepends = cloog-ppl>=0.15.8 global makedepends = libelf global makedepends = gcc-ada gcc depends = binutils>=2.20.1 gcc depends = libmpc>=0.8.1-2 gcc depends = cloog-ppl>=0.15.8 gcc depends = libelf gcc groups = base-devel gcc install = gcc.install gcc-libs pkgdesc = Runtime libraries shipped by GCC for C and C++ languages gcc-libs groups = base gcc-libs depends = glibc>=2.11.1-2 gcc-libs install = gcc-libs.install gcc-fortran pkgdesc = Fortran front-end for GCC gcc-fortran depends = gcc=4.5.0-6 gcc-fortran install = gcc-fortran.install gcc-objc pkgdesc = Objective-C front-end for GCC gcc-objc depends = gcc=4.5.0-6 gcc-ada pkgdesc = Ada front-end for GCC (GNAT) gcc-ada depends = gcc=4.5.0-6 gcc-ada install = gcc-ada.install " As you see this file contains of different parts separated by a leading tag. "global" denotes the global PKGBUILD vars and the name of the split package denotes the local package variables. However, this is just a first formatting approach. This can be changed according to further needs. I think this is a clear and easily readable/parseable output. Note that "packager" defaults to the person who actually build the source archive. Perhaps this has to be changed to AUR user name, not to the makepkg.conf PACKAGER entry. Vlad --

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[arch-general] "community/jre" and "community/jdk" packages are out of date - PKGBUILD proposal
by Guillaume ALAUX 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

Hi everyone, "community/jre" and "community/jdk" packages are out of date. I have merged the two PKGBUILDs in one split PKGBUILD (enclosed to this email with the srcpkg) and updated the links and md5sums. It works fine on my i686 Arch. Will test it on x64 tonight when at home. Would someone want to test it further? Could it be useful to the official AL repo? If the merging into a single split package isn't worth it just say so and I could just update the current PKGBUILDs. I also have some suggestions for these packages: - rename them from {jre,jdk} to {java6-sun-jre,java6-sun-jdk} or so would enable us to use different versions of SUN's JVM (Java5, 6 and 7) - move files from /opt/java to /usr/share/java6/java6-sun-{jre,jdk} or so to comply with the AL Java packaging guidelines<http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Java_Package_Guidelines#Example_Directo…>. That would also enable /usr/share/java$i to host all JVMs files - use a custom script to build package instead of "buggy" construct.sh What do you think?

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[arch-general] New Xorg & nv / nouveau
by fons＠kokkinizita.net 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

Hello all, The system I reported on in my previous post does seem to work, but graphical performance is *very* slow. (xorg 1.8, nv, nvidia Quadro FX 770M) This problem is obvious for xterm (for the first time in years I had to revert to a native X font to get any speed) and also quite evident in Emacs. Just displaying 4 audio level bargraph meters (using XPutImage to repaint the part that has changed) raises the CPU usage for X from almost nothing to 85%. To compare, an 8 years old machine also running Arch, xorg 1.7 and nv has no problem at all doing 200 of the same meters, barely reaching 10% CPU usage. As do a number of other machines, all running Arch and using nv or nouveau. I've read I all could find, tried everything I could imagine, but so far there have not found any solution. There is something wrong, and it starts with xorg 1.8 refusing to use nouveau - even if this module is loaded X insists on using its own driver. Before I installed nv it used vesa, which failed to use the display at its native resolution. All of this with the standard install of xorg, and just two files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, one fairly general and the other preventing a Thinkpad's attitide sensors to be seen as a mouse. Ciao, -- FA There are three of them, and Alleline.

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Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 01/48] Bashification of initscripts
by Thomas Bächler 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

Am 17.07.2010 16:24, schrieb Victor Lowther: >> Sorry for taking so long. Apart from squashing the trivial >> bashifications, all patches I didn't comment on are ACKed. > > That is cool. I went ahead and reworked/squashed everthing I considered > a "trivial bashification" into 6 or 7 patches after taking into account > the feedback from the ML. The result is the bashification-redux branch > @ git://fnordovax.org/~victor/arch-initscripts -- it is now 16 patches > instead of 48, but the end result is exactly the same. I can post it to > the ML if you like. I looked over the new branch and found it much more readable. And although some of the patches are not 100% clean yet (at least one contains a trivial change that wasn't advertised in the commit), I like it. Just a remark about the cryptsetup/crypttab rework (that one is scary, and I didn't read it in details yet): The "last column" of crypttab can contain space, meaning that everything past the fourth column will be treated as one column (the options column). Did you take that into account? I don't think so. I know that crypttab is ugly and scary, and I was planning to replace it with something sane, I just never got around to actually doing it.

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[arch-general] pacman segfault problem
by b1 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

Hey alltogether Unfortunatelly I ran into some really strange pacman problem. While performing an normal system update, my computer froze (due to some incorrect overclocking settings). After correcting the settings and rebooting, I tried to run the Upgrade again, and got this (after manually removing the lock file): error: segmentation fault Internal pacman error: Segmentation fault. Please submit a full bug report with --debug if appropriate. Afterwards I ran the pacman with --debug switch. Since the ouptut is rather long, I have attached it to the end of the mail. Unfortunatelly, gdb wasn't very helpfull, just showing 0x00007ffff78d8c96 in strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.6 If any one has any idea of how to replace the broken pacman with a new pacman or of how to fix this issue, I would greatly appreciate to hear from you. Thanks in advance Benedikt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ debug: config: attempting to read file /etc/pacman.conf debug: config: new section 'options' debug: config: HoldPkg: pacman debug: config: HoldPkg: glibc debug: config: SyncFirst: pacman debug: config: architecture: x86_64 debug: config: new section 'core' debug: registering sync database 'core' debug: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 66: including /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist debug: config: attempting to read file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist debug: adding new server URL to database 'core': ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/x86_64 debug: adding new server URL to database 'core': ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archlinux/core/os/x86_64 debug: adding new server URL to database 'core': ftp://mirrors2.portafixe.com/archlinux/core/os/x86_64 debug: adding new server URL to database 'core': ftp://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/archlinux/core/os/x86_64 debug: adding new server URL to database 'core': ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/archlinux/core/os/x86_64 debug: setlibpaths() called debug: option 'cachedir' = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ debug: config: finished parsing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist debug: config: new section 'extra' debug: registering sync database 'extra' debug: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 70: including /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist debug: config: attempting to read file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist debug: adding new server URL to database 'extra': ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/x86_64 debug: adding new server URL to database 'extra': ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64 debug: adding new server URL to database 'extra': ftp://mirrors2.portafixe.com/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64 debug: adding new server URL to database 'extra': ftp://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64 debug: adding new server URL to database 'extra': ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64 debug: config: finished parsing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist debug: config: new section 'community' debug: registering sync database 'community' debug: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 78: including /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist debug: config: attempting to read file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist debug: adding new server URL to database 'community': ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.archlinux.org/community/os/x86_64 debug: adding new server URL to database 'community': ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archlinux/community/os/x86_64 debug: adding new server URL to database 'community': ftp://mirrors2.portafixe.com/archlinux/community/os/x86_64 debug: adding new server URL to database 'community': ftp://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/archlinux/community/os/x86_64 debug: adding new server URL to database 'community': ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/archlinux/community/os/x86_64 debug: config: finished parsing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist debug: config: finished parsing /etc/pacman.conf debug: registering local database :: Synchronizing package databases... debug: destfile found, using mtime only debug: using 'core.db.tar.gz' for download progress debug: HTTP_PROXY: (null) debug: http_proxy: (null) debug: FTP_PROXY: (null) debug: ftp_proxy: (null) debug: ust.mtime: 1280144323 local_time: 1280144323 compare: 0 debug: ust.size: 36270 local_size: 36270 compare: 0 debug: files are identical, skipping core.db.tar.gz core is up to date debug: destfile found, using mtime only debug: using 'extra.db.tar.gz' for download progress debug: HTTP_PROXY: (null) debug: http_proxy: (null) debug: FTP_PROXY: (null) debug: ftp_proxy: (null) debug: ust.mtime: 1280495099 local_time: 1280495099 compare: 0 debug: ust.size: 466248 local_size: 466248 compare: 0 debug: files are identical, skipping extra.db.tar.gz extra is up to date debug: destfile found, using mtime only debug: using 'community.db.tar.gz' for download progress debug: HTTP_PROXY: (null) debug: http_proxy: (null) debug: FTP_PROXY: (null) debug: ftp_proxy: (null) debug: ust.mtime: 1280495442 local_time: 1280495442 compare: 0 debug: ust.size: 398411 local_size: 398411 compare: 0 debug: files are identical, skipping community.db.tar.gz community is up to date debug: loading package cache for repository 'local' debug: database path for tree local set to /var/lib/pacman/local/ debug: loading package cache for repository 'core' debug: database path for tree core set to /var/lib/pacman/sync/core/ :: Starting full system upgrade... debug: checking for package upgrades debug: loading package cache for repository 'extra' debug: database path for tree extra set to /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra/ debug: loading package cache for repository 'community' debug: database path for tree community set to /var/lib/pacman/sync/community/ debug: new version of 'autoconf' found (2.65-2 => 2.66-2) debug: adding package autoconf-2.66-2 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'avidemux-cli' found (2.5.3-2 => 2.5.3-3) debug: adding package avidemux-cli-2.5.3-3 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'cabextract' found (1.2-2 => 1.3-1) debug: adding package cabextract-1.3-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'chromium' found (5.0.375.99-1 => 5.0.375.125-1) debug: adding package chromium-5.0.375.125-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'cpufrequtils' found (007-1 => 008-1) debug: adding package cpufrequtils-008-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'cryptsetup' found (1.1.2-1 => 1.1.3-1) debug: adding package cryptsetup-1.1.3-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'dhclient' found (4.1.1.p1-1 => 4.2.0-1) debug: adding package dhclient-4.2.0-1 to the transaction targets warning: evolution: local (2.31.2-1) is newer than extra (2.30.2-1) warning: evolution-data-server: local (2.31.2-1) is newer than extra (2.30.2.1-1) debug: new version of 'ffmpeg' found (23619-4 => 24460-1) debug: adding package ffmpeg-24460-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'firefox' found (3.6.6-1 => 3.6.8-1) debug: adding package firefox-3.6.8-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'freetype2' found (2.3.12-1 => 2.4.1-1) debug: adding package freetype2-2.4.1-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'git' found (1.7.1.1-1 => 1.7.2.1-1) debug: adding package git-1.7.2.1-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'glew' found (1.5.4-1 => 1.5.5-1) debug: adding package glew-1.5.5-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'gtk-aurora-engine' found (1.5.1-1 => 1.5.1-2) debug: adding package gtk-aurora-engine-1.5.1-2 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'gtk-candido-engine' found (0.9.1-3 => 0.9.1-4) debug: adding package gtk-candido-engine-0.9.1-4 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'gtk-engine-murrine' found (0.90.3-1 => 0.90.3-2) debug: adding package gtk-engine-murrine-0.90.3-2 to the transaction targets warning: gtkhtml: local (3.31.2-1) is newer than extra (3.30.2-1) debug: new version of 'hunspell' found (1.2.11-1 => 1.2.12-1) debug: adding package hunspell-1.2.12-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'imagemagick' found (6.6.2.0-22 => 6.6.2.10-1) debug: adding package imagemagick-6.6.2.10-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'inkscape' found (0.47-3 => 0.47-4) debug: adding package inkscape-0.47-4 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'ktoblzcheck' found (1.21-1 => 1.27-1) debug: adding package ktoblzcheck-1.27-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'lib32-freetype2' found (2.3.12-1 => 2.4.1-1) debug: adding package lib32-freetype2-2.4.1-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'lib32-glibc' found (2.12-4 => 2.12-5) debug: adding package lib32-glibc-2.12-5 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'lib32-libtool' found (2.2.8-1 => 2.2.10-2) debug: adding package lib32-libtool-2.2.10-2 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'lib32-pulseaudio' found (0.9.21-7 => 0.9.21-8) debug: adding package lib32-pulseaudio-0.9.21-8 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'libgcrypt' found (1.4.5-2 => 1.4.6-1) debug: adding package libgcrypt-1.4.6-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'libgdiplus' found (2.6.4-1 => 2.6.7-1) debug: adding package libgdiplus-2.6.7-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'libmcs' found (0.7.1-1 => 0.7.2-1) debug: adding package libmcs-0.7.2-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'libmowgli' found (0.7.0-1 => 0.7.1-1) debug: adding package libmowgli-0.7.1-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'libquicktime' found (1.1.5-4 => 1.1.5-5) debug: adding package libquicktime-1.1.5-5 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'libwebkit' found (1.2.2-1 => 1.2.3-1) debug: adding package libwebkit-1.2.3-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'lua' found (5.1.4-5 => 5.1.4-6) debug: adding package lua-5.1.4-6 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'module-init-tools' found (3.11.1-2 => 3.12-1) debug: adding package module-init-tools-3.12-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'mono' found (2.6.4-2 => 2.6.7-1) debug: adding package mono-2.6.7-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'mplayer' found (31630-1 => 31774-1) debug: adding package mplayer-31774-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'orc' found (0.4.4-1 => 0.4.6-1) debug: adding package orc-0.4.6-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'p7zip' found (9.13-1 => 9.13-2) debug: adding package p7zip-9.13-2 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'perl-tree-dag-node' found (1.06-1 => 1.06-2) debug: adding package perl-tree-dag-node-1.06-2 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'php' found (5.3.2-6 => 5.3.3-1) debug: adding package php-5.3.3-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'php-apache' found (5.3.2-6 => 5.3.3-1) debug: adding package php-apache-5.3.3-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'pkg-config' found (0.25-1 => 0.25-2) debug: adding package pkg-config-0.25-2 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'pulseaudio' found (0.9.21-7 => 0.9.21-8) debug: adding package pulseaudio-0.9.21-8 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'pycups' found (1.9.50-1 => 1.9.51-1) debug: adding package pycups-1.9.51-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'sqlite3' found (3.6.23.1-1 => 3.7.0-1) debug: adding package sqlite3-3.7.0-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'system-config-printer-common' found (1.2.2-1 => 1.2.3-1) debug: adding package system-config-printer-common-1.2.3-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'system-config-printer-gnome' found (1.2.2-1 => 1.2.3-1) debug: adding package system-config-printer-gnome-1.2.3-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'thunderbird' found (3.1-2 => 3.1.1-1) debug: adding package thunderbird-3.1.1-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'transcode' found (1.1.5-3 => 1.1.5-4) debug: adding package transcode-1.1.5-4 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'transmission-gtk' found (2.01-1 => 2.03-1) debug: adding package transmission-gtk-2.03-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'ttf-liberation' found (1.05.3.20100621-1 => 1.06.0.20100721-1) debug: adding package ttf-liberation-1.06.0.20100721-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'vlc' found (1.1.0-3 => 1.1.2-1) debug: adding package vlc-1.1.2-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'vte' found (0.24.2-1 => 0.24.3-1) debug: adding package vte-0.24.3-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'x264' found (20100607-1 => 20100722-1) debug: adding package x264-20100722-1 to the transaction targets debug: new version of 'xulrunner' found (1.9.2.6-1 => 1.9.2.8-1) debug: adding package xulrunner-1.9.2.8-1 to the transaction targets error: segmentation fault Internal pacman error: Segmentation fault. Please submit a full bug report with --debug if appropriate.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Forum Update in Progress
by Peter Lewis 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

On Friday 30 Jul 2010 at 02:01 Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Allan McRae wrote: > The update of our forum software to FluxBB 1.4 is currently in progress and > may take a few more hours. Now it's done, the fonts are all big! Is it just my eyes, or can they be made smaller again (the fonts, not my eyes)? Thanks :-) Pete.

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[arch-general] gnome-subtitles
by Rafael Beraldo 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

Hello, archers, I really like gnome-subtitles and the AUR package [1] is out-of-date. I went to the project homepage and found out that Arch Linux has currently been added gnome-subtitles to the official repositories [2]. The thing is: pacman -S gnome-subtitles won't install it. I use only [core], [extra] and [community] repositories. I don't know what's happening: is that an issue in my Linux box (that is: does anyone else have this problem?) or gnome-subtitles isn't really in the official repositories? If it is not, I am going to learn how to create a PKGBUILD and submit it to AUR. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10227 [2] http://gnome-subtitles.sourceforge.net/archlinux -- Rafael Beraldo http://cabaladada.org

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[arch-general] kimpanel ibus
by jesse jaara 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

I think that support for ibus should be added to the kdeplasma-addons-applets-kimpanel, at the moment kde users can't use ibus because of it, this would also require moving of ibus-qt from aur to community.

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[arch-general] Remove AUR package
by Eduardo Reveles 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

Hi, i would like to ask the removal of an AUR package, geany-modeline (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39298) The reason is because i'm using git for that package and i thought it would be better name it as geany-modeline-git. I already created this new package. Thanks Eduardo

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[arch-general] jack-audio-connection-kit-mp vs celt/celt-07
by Ng Oon-Ee 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hi all, AUR has the package celt which I've always had installed (installed it long time back to compile some audio app). http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27117 Repos have celt-0.7 which provides celt. Thing is, when I try to makepkg jack-audio-connection-kit-mp (which doesn't depend on celt at all) it fails when celt is installed, but works when celt-0.7 or no celt is installed. There's overlap between AUR packages and other stuff here, so I'm not sure whether this belongs on this ML, or even in a personal email to the maintainer. In which case, my question would be, which maintainer? Thanks.

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[arch-general] Xorg install problems - solved but some questions
by Fons Adriaensen 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hello all, Today I turned my 10th machine into an ArchLinux system. A Fujitsu W270, nice laptop, just whished it were mine. Things become routine, I just anticipated some hickups as this was the first install using the new 'halogen free' Xorg. That expectation turned out to be true, but ATM everything works nicely and I just remain with some things I don't understand. This machine has Nvidia graphics (Quadro FX 770M) and a screen resolution of 1680x1050. I started with a sytem working perfectly in RL 3, with nouveau doing an early KMS. Installed xorg, xdm and its Arch theme, windowmaker and some fonts. The first 'init 5' resulted in some fireworks on the screen, followed by static garbage and a machine that seemed to be locked up, the only escape being the power button. No panic, been there before. Before looking into this I decided to add 'nomodeset' to my kernel options, just to save my eyes which don't get younger. Just doing this changed things: on the next 'init 5' X started and since I had an ~/.xsession ready I could even log in. But the screen resolution didn't look OK, it was just 1280x720. Looking at the logs it turned out that X was using the vesa driver. It has the 1680x1050 mode natively, but refused to use it because some sync parameters were out of range. So it reverted to 1280x720. Adding a file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d defining Monitor, Device, Screen and the required mode didn't help. At that point I was sort of lost. In a desparate attempt I did a pacman -S xf86-video-nv, and rebooted. Result: everything OK - X starts with the correct screen resolution and everything works fine. So this leaves me with the following question: Why was X using vesa, and is using nv after I installed it ? What stops it using nouveau which is already loaded ? Or does 'nomodeset' stop X using nouveau (things look like it does, but that is unexpected). Another unrelated question: looking at the screeen of this laptop I suspect it requires a non-standard gamma value. How can this be set ? TIA, -- FA There are three of them, and Alleline.

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[arch-general] Problemas con HP1020
by Mario Daniel Carugno 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hola lista, tengo una impresora HP1020, y me esta dando algo de trabajo hacerla funcionar. En realidad, he seguido los pasos de un articulo del wiki, y logre hacerla funcionar. En dicho articulo, explica que el modulo usblp debe cargarse al configurar la impresora, pero despues, ese modulo no debe estar cargado para que la impresora funcione. Entonces proponen como solucion agregar la siguiente linea en /etc/rc.local rmmod usblp Esto funciona cuando booteo el sistema. El modulo se descarga y la impresora funciona. El problema es cuando apago y enciendo la impresora con Arch corriendo. Esta accion causa la recarga del modulo usblp, y la impresora deja de funcionar. Entonces, como puedo prevenir la carga de este modulo cuando enciendo la impresora ? Gracias

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Forum Update in Progress
by Matthew Monaco 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

On 07/29/2010 09:01 PM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Allan McRae wrote: > Allan McRae wrote: > > The update of our forum software to FluxBB 1.4 is currently in progress and may > take a few more hours. In the meantime, enjoy this video of [funny cats][1]. > > [1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rbedUbO5x4 > > URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/505/ > _______________________________________________ > arch-announce mailing list > arch-announce(a)archlinux.org > http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce > C'mon Allan. Is that technically even a video? Here's a pleasant video; the people on the left represent the US auto industry. http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=syC8RUoBN08

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[arch-general] how to listen to internet radio?
by Madhurya Kakati 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Is there any good native linux app for streaming online radio? I prefer shoutcast. Thanks

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[arch-general] Pacman fails to update?
by Martín Cigorraga 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hi guys, I'm having this rare issue: several days ago I installed some things from [Testing] and because I don't wanna screw-up my system I turned it off. Since then, every day I check for updates -roughly 10 days more or less- pacman keeps telling it's all up-to-date while I know there's nearly everyday an update while not within several hours, at least in my system with what I have installed. Also I was using packer (a community tool to deal with AUR) which keeps telling some installed packages (14) were newer than those found in theire repos (not from AUR but from extra and community rpositories). Today I downloaded latest mirrorlist, did a # pacman -Syy && pacman -Suu and gave system is up-to-date which is in fact very strange, I mean, come on, there wasn't any updates in all these days? I don't think so :p But the weirdest thing is afeter issue those orders I did a $ packer -Syu to update AUR packages and guess what? I remember I had something like 140 packages installed from AUR but this time packer wanted to check for 1272 packages lol The weirdest thing? I can't install ABS, as you hear it, pacman can't found it in extra (or community or wherever it resides). So the million question here is: is there *any* way to initialize whole pacman and it local repositories cache? I think of it as the last resort to may be fix this. Thanks!

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[arch-general] mandriva beat us to a new version
by Caleb Cushing 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

of perl http://jquelin.blogspot.com/2010/07/perls-state-in-mandriva-cooker.html how embarrassing. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.com

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[arch-general] Arch forum closed for maintenance?
by dhave 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

I guess I'm enough of an addict to Arch info that not having access to the Arch forum for a few minutes is like Humphrey Bogart having to go without a cigarette after a nice meal. Is the forum presently down for maintenance? I get a request for a logon and password, and when I supply these (perhaps unwisely, if the forum is being hacked), I still don't get logged on. I'm assuming it's legitimate downtime for maintenance, but I haven't seen an announcement. Does anybody know?

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Re: [arch-general] how to listen to internet radio?
by nblock＠archlinux.us 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

> Is there any good native linux app for streaming online radio? I > prefer shoutcast. > Thanks vlc it also comes with a precompiled list of icecast streams (navigation -> playlist -> Internet) greetings -- bbs: nblock aur: notizblock

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[arch-general] makepkg and md5/sha1/etc
by Magnus Therning 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

makepkg has support for using hashes besides md5, but is there a way to get 'makepkg -g' to generate any hashes besides md5? Based on what I found in makepkg.conf(5) I modified the variable INTEGRITY_CHECK, both in ~/.makepkg.conf and /etc/makepkg.conf. But neither had any effect, 'makepkg -g' still insisted on generating md5 hashes. In the end this isn't very important, I'm just curious. /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] donate for the improvement and development
by Dmitry Korzhevin 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Is there any site which listed the current Arch Linux project objectives, on which user can donate development or improvement of this tasks? - -- Best regards, Dmitry Korzhevin Tel: +38 (039) 295-0000 Office Phone: +38 (044) 383-14-12 E-mail: dkorzhevin(a)lsupport.net Jabber ID: dkorzhevin(a)lsupport.net Skype: dkorzhevin URL: http://lsupport.net Linux Support LLC -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMQj6GAAoJEGuRMpfwJUbRnksH/jJwCFrHZiu5wfBhAYKYtcN2 6JBe+6EIVfmKmJGzvUhD2MVTwcjajIGC3oXq8ekVrxV+sH/QheGxGX+QRleJvfxb 1aK0n0zyiYnz8OXEleGgNYqqwsy/ccFiPndH/4rv4YX3Ttm5EZODwq/dVJ9/O6qg Zp32Yn1UbNkHiwnendRTS1Ig5vcbWXuPFr/obST2jPViK1Yj4EMk6nfjN2sQouRd yJQEJLqOSvlu7pCWckewANGQ7pYQbB1OSGAdEMs5kC9+Ludt5zTlJs0bxj1cD7/g /7M0bc4lSU1gqykcLetCuWXbMkbXQC9bhBrhwbnA/q05s66NFgxpSDbhHSzk7pk= =tSai -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] where is vga_switcheroo?
by Matthew Monaco 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

matt@office ~$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i switch CONFIG_VGA_SWITCHEROO=y matt@office ~$ uname -a Linux office 2.6.34-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 5 22:12:11 CEST 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux matt@office ~$ ls /sys/kernel/debug/ bdi dri hid mce tracing usb x86 gpio sched_features I'm expecting there to be a vgaswitcheroo directory here so I can perform GPU switching.

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[arch-general] yaourt: aur-tovid-svn/./PKGBUILD: line 34: ./bootstrap: No such file or directory
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

I tried to install the svn version of tovid from the aur with yaourt... Something went wrong. I looked in the terminal buffer and found this line: /tmp/yaourt-tmp-jtwdyp/aur-tovid-svn/./PKGBUILD: line 34: ./bootstrap: No such file or directory Yet the process ended like this: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y checking package integrity... (1/1) installing tovid-svn [############################] 100% ==> Checking vote status for tovid-svn You have to create ~/.config/aurvote with inside: user=YOUR_AUR_USERNAME pass=YOUR_AUR_PASS To create a new account just go to: http://aur.archlinux.org/account.php JtWdyP -> /home/jtwdyp > which tovid which: no tovid in (/home/jtwdyp/bin1st:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin/perlbin/site:/usr/bin/perlbin/vendor:/usr/bin/perlbin/core:/home/jtwdyp/bin:/home/jtwdyp/bin2nd) JtWdyP -> /home/jtwdyp > which tovid-svn which: no tovid-svn in (/home/jtwdyp/bin1st:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin/perlbin/site:/usr/bin/perlbin/vendor:/usr/bin/perlbin/core:/home/jtwdyp/bin:/home/jtwdyp/bin2nd) JtWdyP -> /home/jtwdyp > yaourt -Ss tovid-svn aur/tovid-svn 2619-1 [3265-1 installed] (26) A suite of utilities designed to make VCD, SVCD, and DVD authoring a little less painful JtWdyP -> /home/jtwdyp > The complete terminal buffer text of the process is pasted below... I note that my first installation attempt failed because I hadn't installed subversion (which should have been a dependency???) And the command svn wasn't found... One odd thing. The last time I used yaourt once prior to this, once the package was compiled, it wanted my root password to finish the install. This time yaourt never asked for it??? What am I doing wrong??? -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>> JtWdyP -> /home/jtwdyp > yaourt -S tovid-svn ==> Downloading tovid-svn PKGBUILD from AUR... bsdtar: Removing leading '/' from member names x PKGBUILD First Submitted: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:08:16 +0000 tovid-svn 2619-1 : A suite of utilities designed to make VCD, SVCD, and DVD authoring a little less painful ( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! ) ==> Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort) ==> ------------------------------------ ==> n ==> tovid-svn dependencies: - mplayer (already installed) - mjpegtools (already installed) - ffmpeg (already installed) - python (already installed) - wxpython (already installed) - cairo (already installed) - pycairo (already installed) - imagemagick (already installed) - dvdauthor (already installed) - dvd+rw-tools (already installed) - vcdimager (already installed) - transcode (already installed) - sox (already installed) - normalize (already installed) - pil (already installed) - txt2tags (already installed) ==> Continue building tovid-svn ? [Y/n] ==> ----------------------------------- ==> ==> Building and installing package ==> Determining latest svn revision... -> Version found: 3265 ==> Making package: tovid-svn 3265-1 (Wed Jul 28 16:46:32 EDT 2010) ==> Checking Runtime Dependencies... ==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies... ==> Retrieving Sources... ==> Extracting Sources... ==> Entering fakeroot environment... ==> Starting build()... 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libraries... ==> Creating package... -> Generating .PKGINFO file... -> Compressing package... ==> Leaving fakeroot environment. ==> Finished making: tovid-svn 3265-1 (Wed Jul 28 16:46:39 EDT 2010) ==> Continue installing tovid-svn ? [Y/n] ==> [v]iew package contents [c]heck package with namcap ==> --------------------------------------------------- ==> v ==> Continue installing tovid-svn ? [Y/n] ==> [v]iew package contents [c]heck package with namcap ==> --------------------------------------------------- ==> y resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (1): tovid-svn-3265-1 Total Download Size: 0.00 MB Total Installed Size: 0.00 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y checking package integrity... (1/1) installing tovid-svn [############################] 100% ==> Checking vote status for tovid-svn You have to create ~/.config/aurvote with inside: user=YOUR_AUR_USERNAME pass=YOUR_AUR_PASS To create a new account just go to: http://aur.archlinux.org/account.php JtWdyP -> /home/jtwdyp > which tovid which: no tovid in (/home/jtwdyp/bin1st:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin/perlbin/site:/usr/bin/perlbin/vendor:/usr/bin/perlbin/core:/home/jtwdyp/bin:/home/jtwdyp/bin2nd) JtWdyP -> /home/jtwdyp > which tovid-svn which: no tovid-svn in (/home/jtwdyp/bin1st:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin/perlbin/site:/usr/bin/perlbin/vendor:/usr/bin/perlbin/core:/home/jtwdyp/bin:/home/jtwdyp/bin2nd) JtWdyP -> /home/jtwdyp > yaourt -Ss tovid-svn aur/tovid-svn 2619-1 [3265-1 installed] (26) A suite of utilities designed to make VCD, SVCD, and DVD authoring a little less painful JtWdyP -> /home/jtwdyp >

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[arch-general] How to change gdm greeter theme?
by David C. Rankin 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Guys, This used to be easy with gdmsetup, but in gdm 2.30 -- that's gone. I've been to the gnome sites, I've googled it, I've looked through the gdm package and I'm stumped. -- What's the trick? Do the themes for the older version of the greeter even work anymore? If so, how? -- 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] WARNING: KDE 4.5 RC3 in [testing]
by Andrea Scarpino 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

On Tuesday 27 July 2010 17:54:00 you wrote: > Any idea if this will be fixed by the time > of the final release or will Ruby not be an option in 4.5? (Or will be > required to use ruby 1.8 if we want ruby bindings?) Well, I do not think that this will be fixed in 4.5. (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243565) You should be able to install ruby 1.8 and create a kdebindings-ruby package. You can use the current kdebindings PKGBUILD to build *only* the ruby bindings. Thanks for the feedback. Best regards. -- andreascarpino.it Arch Linux Developer

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] WARNING: KDE 4.5 RC3 in [testing]
by Peter Lewis 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

On Tuesday 27 Jul 2010 at 09:29 Andrea Scarpino wrote: > I am about to move the first wave of KDE 4.5 RC3 packages > into [testing] without l10n packages. KDE SC 4.5.0 will released next week. Thanks Andrea - your work on providing these RC packages has been great. > * no kdebindings-ruby (does not build with ruby 1.9) Any idea if this will be fixed by the time of the final release or will Ruby not be an option in 4.5? (Or will be required to use ruby 1.8 if we want ruby bindings?) Cheers, Pete.

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[arch-general] Getting firefox to use the PDF I want?
by Magnus Therning 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

After installing Gimp it became the default application for PDFs, something I didn't really want. A quick change in Nautilus took care of Gnome. Still firefox insists on only offering a single choice for handling PDFs: gimp! Gnome behaves correctly, and XDG seems to be set up properly: % xdg-mime query default application/pdf /usr/share/applications/evince.desktop How do I get firefox to use the correct application? /M

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Re: [arch-general] amd x86_64 crash: fuse init .. end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0?
by Andrej Gelenberg 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

Hi, try to get backtraces with sysrq-keys (w or l) or with kernel crash dump. Regards, Andrej On 07/26/2010 11:53 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 07/26/2010 01:54 PM, Andrej Gelenberg wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 07/26/2010 03:59 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >>> Guys, >>> >>> Here is a possible bug regarding the fuse filesystem. The best I can >>> determine this occurred during an rsync request from the x86_64 box to a >>> laptop to retrieve files under /home/david. The box hardlocked. The >>> error messages just before the restart were: >>> >>> Jul 26 02:48:19 archangel kernel: fuse init (API version 7.13) >>> Jul 26 02:48:19 archangel kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, >>> sector 0 >>> Jul 26 02:48:19 archangel kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, >>> sector 0 >> >> I can't see, why it should be fuse bug. Have you mounted something >> with fuse? >> >> How run you the rsync? Maybe you try to sync /dev, and it cause the >> problems? >> >> Regards, >> Andrej >> > > That's what was strange to me as well. I just run rsync in the normal way: > > rsync -uav --ignore-existing otherbox:/the/dir/I/want ~/dir/here > > I'll keep an eye on it. It would have been something funky with the > power at that time. Even with a good ups, lightning is still king... >

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[arch-general] amd x86_64 crash: fuse init .. end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0?
by David C. Rankin 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

Guys, Here is a possible bug regarding the fuse filesystem. The best I can determine this occurred during an rsync request from the x86_64 box to a laptop to retrieve files under /home/david. The box hardlocked. The error messages just before the restart were: Jul 26 02:48:19 archangel kernel: fuse init (API version 7.13) Jul 26 02:48:19 archangel kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jul 26 02:48:19 archangel kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 What stands out to me is 'fd0'. Why in the world would there be an I/O error to the floppy associated with a rsync request that had nothing to do with the floppy? The floppy on that box probably hasn't been used in over a year since the last bios upgrade and there is no floppy in the drive. This occurred with the following packages installed: kernel26 2.6.34.1-1 fuse 2.8.4-2 Has anybody seen anything similar? What is a good way to troubleshoot other than repeatedly doing rsync transfers and hoping to catch something? -- 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] Chroot 32bit under 64bit; Problems with kernel package
by Jordan Windsor 25 Jul '10

25 Jul '10

I'm following the guide available at this URL: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch64_Install_bundled_32bit_system Currently I'm stuck on this step: [root@archpc ~]# pacman --root /opt/arch32 --cachedir /opt/arch32/var/cache/pacman/pkg --config /opt/arch32/pacman.conf -S base base-devel error: failed to prepare transaction (package architecture is not valid) :: package kernel26-i915-2.6.34.1-1-x86_64 does not have a valid architecture I'm wondering how I should go about getting this chroot working. I'll be using the chroot to compile wine, I was unable to get it working with gcc-multilib. Thanks.

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[arch-general] New to Arch with problems with AUR
by Mario Daniel Carugno 25 Jul '10

25 Jul '10

Hi list ! First i present myself. My name is Mario and i was reading this list for a few weeks. I'm coming from Debian, and i have to say that Arch was the first distro that replaced it in my computer. Arch rocks, it gives a really updated and stable kde desktop. Yes, it's a little hard to configure, but one can learn with it. And the AUR system was one of the main reasons for me to change. I was trying to install some programs from AUR, and it worked in some cases. But in many other cases, the programs do not compile. And i talk about programs with so much votes. For instance, i couldn't compile shaman. Actually i can't compile aqpm or libaqpm, wich is a dependency of shaman, and it isn't in the pacman repositories. So, in general, how must i face these problems ? Do i have to post errors in the AUR pages ? Is it always so common to have problems in building AUR packages ? By the way, i will stay with Arch. I like it's descentralized package philosophy. Thank you

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[arch-general] X11 forwarding: X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 10
by David C. Rankin 24 Jul '10

24 Jul '10

Guys, I'm trying to use x11 forwarding and from my arch laptop and I can't run X apps from my arch server. I know this has to do with the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 or something similar, but I can't remember what we did to fix this last time. What's the trick to get it going?? ICEauthority? pam entry? -- 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 1/4] Add skeleton for hooks support
by Victor Lowther 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

This begins work on adding some sort of hook infrastructure to pacman. There has been much discussion and little code that I have seen, so I figured I would go ahead an implement a very basic skeleton for transaction hooks support. --- lib/libalpm/Makefile.am | 1 + lib/libalpm/{sync.h => hooks.c} | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- lib/libalpm/{add.h => hooks.h} | 19 ++++++++----------- 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/libalpm/Makefile.am b/lib/libalpm/Makefile.am index 3473a73..b4fdadf 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/Makefile.am +++ b/lib/libalpm/Makefile.am @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ libalpm_la_SOURCES = \ sync.h sync.c \ trans.h trans.c \ util.h util.c \ + hooks.h hooks.c \ version.c libalpm_la_LDFLAGS = -no-undefined -version-info $(LIB_VERSION_INFO) diff --git a/lib/libalpm/sync.h b/lib/libalpm/hooks.c similarity index 65% copy from lib/libalpm/sync.h copy to lib/libalpm/hooks.c index 000a09c..9630c70 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/sync.h +++ b/lib/libalpm/hooks.c @@ -1,9 +1,10 @@ /* - * sync.h + * hooks.c * * Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Pacman Development Team <pacman-dev(a)archlinux.org> * Copyright (c) 2002-2006 by Judd Vinet <jvinet(a)zeroflux.org> * Copyright (c) 2005 by Aurelien Foret <orelien(a)chez.com> + * Copyright (c) 2005 by Christian Hamar <krics(a)linuxforum.hu> * Copyright (c) 2005, 2006 by Miklos Vajna <vmiklos(a)frugalware.org> * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify @@ -19,14 +20,29 @@ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ -#ifndef _ALPM_SYNC_H -#define _ALPM_SYNC_H -#include "alpm.h" - -int _alpm_sync_prepare(pmtrans_t *trans, pmdb_t *db_local, alpm_list_t *dbs_sync, alpm_list_t **data); -int _alpm_sync_commit(pmtrans_t *trans, pmdb_t *db_local, alpm_list_t **data); +#include "config.h" -#endif /* _ALPM_SYNC_H */ +#include <stdlib.h> +#include <stdio.h> +#include <string.h> +#include <unistd.h> +#include <sys/types.h> +#include <sys/stat.h> +#include <sys/statvfs.h> +#include <errno.h> -/* vim: set ts=2 sw=2 noet: */ +/* libalpm */ +#include "hooks.h" +#include "trans.h" +#include "alpm_list.h" +#include "package.h" +#include "util.h" +#include "log.h" +#include "handle.h" +#include "add.h" +#include "remove.h" +#include "sync.h" +#include "alpm.h" +#include "deps.h" +#include "cache.h" diff --git a/lib/libalpm/add.h b/lib/libalpm/hooks.h similarity index 73% copy from lib/libalpm/add.h copy to lib/libalpm/hooks.h index eb37dc7..d60b1f4 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/add.h +++ b/lib/libalpm/hooks.h @@ -1,8 +1,11 @@ /* - * add.h + * hooks.h * * Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Pacman Development Team <pacman-dev(a)archlinux.org> * Copyright (c) 2002-2006 by Judd Vinet <jvinet(a)zeroflux.org> + * Copyright (c) 2005 by Aurelien Foret <orelien(a)chez.com> + * Copyright (c) 2005 by Christian Hamar <krics(a)linuxforum.hu> + * Copyright (c) 2006 by Miklos Vajna <vmiklos(a)frugalware.org> * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by @@ -17,15 +20,9 @@ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ -#ifndef _ALPM_ADD_H -#define _ALPM_ADD_H +#ifndef _ALPM_HOOKS_H +#define _ALPM_HOOKS_H -#include "db.h" -#include "alpm_list.h" -#include "trans.h" +#include "alpm.h" -int _alpm_upgrade_packages(pmtrans_t *trans, pmdb_t *db); - -#endif /* _ALPM_ADD_H */ - -/* vim: set ts=2 sw=2 noet: */ +#endif /*ALPM_HOOKS_H */ -- 1.7.1.1

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[arch-general] A question about using tar... ( -p & --numeric-owner)
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

I'm a multi-linux-distro/multi-boot guy. I always have more than one configured linux distro on my grub menu. Whenever I'm considering radical changes to one of my working linux I like to back it up. Quite some time ago I learned to do this with tar. For example I've got both Arch Linux and Xubuntu on this desktop pc. I've decided to attempt using a network upgrade process to upgrade the Xubuntu from Karmic to the current Lucid release. So first I boot Arch, mount a storage drive on /mnt/other, & mount the Xubuntu partition on /mnt/xubuntu. Then cd to /mnt/xubuntu. (with a root shell of course) # tar -czf /mnt/other/xubuntu.tgz -p --numeric-owner . And of course if it's necessary I can restore the backup to an empty partition with: # tar -xzf /mnt/other/xubuntu.tgz -p --numeric-owner . But I only partially understand the -p and --numeric-owner options. I do know that -p is supposed to be default for root but I like to make sure... I think I understand that the reason somebody told me (quite some time ago) to use --numeric-owner is because (in this example) Arch may have different user id numbers than Xubuntu which could have bad results if it tried to apply permissions based on user names (especially if it involves a "system account")... What I don't know is if either of these options are necessary during the "tar -czf" operation, or if I only need to bother with them when/if I restore a file system with "tar -xzf" ??? I know it does work the way I expect it to when I use the options for both the "-czf" & the "-xzf" operations. And that I don't get any error messages from tar when I do it that way. But I don't know if using them for the "-czf" operation makes any difference or not. Would someone be so kind as to set me straight on this??? -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>>

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[arch-general] Clarfication request regarding mkinitcpio code
by Dave Reisner 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

There's a few things in mkinitcpio I'd like to cleanup, but I need to have one issue clarified before I proceed. The header of mkinitcpio itself states that various parts need to run under Busybox's ash, and thus various standards need to be adhered to. However, the file itself sports a /bin/bash shebang, and makes mild use of parameter expansion, e.g. APPNAME=${0##*/} on line 44. I understand that hooks themselves need to run in a more POSIX environment, but would it be safe to use more Bash syntax in the code that generates the initcpio image? I would be sticking to a feature set compatible with 3.2. thanks, dave reisner

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[arch-general] Hard lockups during boot
by Chris Bannister 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Hi, I used to use a zen kernel but that stopped working which is an unrelated story so I switched back to the Arch kernel, but im getting hardlocks during boot. It happened twice just now, first time was after ATA got init'd but before the SCSI came up. The second time it got to the waiting for udev .. during userspace init. Heres the attached working dmesg log [1] in case its of anyhelp. I didnt want to post this to the bug tracker because of the lack of logs I can provide so ill put it here and if anyone has any ideas please shoot them over. Thanks! [1] http://zariel.pastey.net/138823

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[arch-general] simple iptabels question
by aerospace1028＠hotmail.com 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Hello, I have a question on iptables. On the arch wiki, the tutorial on a simple stateful firewall includes the creation of the following rule. # iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn -m state --state NEW -j OPEN-TCP Which, to my understanding, meant only pass new TCP streams with the syn flag (the initialize connection or handshake part 1 of 3) to the user defined chain. When I checked the output of iptables, I noticed the following rule. # iptables -L INPUT --line-numbers -v 7 OPEN-TCP tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp flags:FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/SYN state NEW Why is iptables also using the FIN, RST and ACK/SYN flags? Did I not request SYN only like I thought the tutorial said? _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:…

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[arch-general] Archlinux Wiki Backup
by Francesco Turco 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Hello, As I said in the forums (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=94201) I started contributing to the wiki (minor edits for now), but I'm concerned about the absence of a proper way to obtain a snapshot of it for backup reasons. I looked at the arch-wiki-docs package, but it's only a collection of HTML pages, with no source code, no discussions, no revisions, and not working hyperlinks. This way, it would be hard to restore the wiki after a crash. Other wikis provide a backup: please see http://download.wikimedia.org/ and http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Gentoo_Linux_Wiki:Backup. To reduce bandwidth usage, we can use Bittorrent, just as with ISO releases. What do you think? Thanks.

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[arch-general] All kdemod3 menu apps in "Lost & Found" menu folder + control panel apps gone - how to get back?
by David C. Rankin 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

Guys, Help! Something (probably that fricking kde4) has caused almost every menu item to end up in the "Lost & Found" kde3 menu folder off the main menu. I don't know where that folder is so I can try an move the items back. Also, what ever happened also caused all kde3 control panel entries to disappear from the control panel. Now I don't have a control panel any more: 23:22 alchemy:/opt/kde/share/applications/kde> kcmshell --list The following modules are available: Huh? The only thing I have done menu wise is to edit the Gnome menu, but that shouldn't have trashed my kde3 menu and control panel. Can anyone offer any ideas where all the missing apps are. Where is this "Lost & Found" place all the menu items went? Here is a screenshot of what I see when I move over the "Lost & Found" menu item. (131k) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/bugs/kde3-lost+found-menu.jpg It is frustrating as hell to have everything setup just the way you like it and then have some unrelated process fsck it all up. I've been in gnome for the past week or so and this is the first time I've booted back to kde3. Go figure. Any ideas? I have had the disappearing menus and control panel issue before in kde3 on SuSE, but never in Arch - now Arch has been bitten by this bug. Hopefully we can find the cause. Surely alacarte is to blame... Is it? -- 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] $BROWSER variable and Google Earth
by F. Gr. 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

Hi, Google Earth can't recognise the $BROWSER environment variable. I've set the one in my '~/.zshrc' as follows: " export BROWSER="/usr/bin/icecat" " When I try to open an external link I get the following error: <http://www.imagebam.com/image/a79e8989327021>. That Italian message means: "cannot start up a web browser. Check to have set the $BROWSER environment variable to the web browser filename you want to start up." I don't know why. Cheers

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[arch-general] Archweb package update script
by Dan McGee 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Netanel Shine <netanelshine(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:36:42 -0500 >> From: Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [arch-general] RSS feed - missing feature|problem >> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Netanel Shine <netanelshine(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hey all, >> > >> > My name is Netanel Shine, and a few days ago i began the process of >> building >> > an israeli community of archlinux. I used a git clone to set up the main >> > site. (like some other great projects file that archlinux git have to >> offer >> > like the wiki and the forums) >> > Everything went smoothly and just works great, except for one problem - >> the >> > package rss feeds. >> > >> > The site address is: http://archlinux.org.il - under heavy development. >> > >> > The problem: As you all can see, the left rss box with the latest updates >> > dont work and the list is empty. - because the system comes with an >> > integrated "packages" part (you can see it here: >> > http://archlinux.org.il/packages - not gonna use it), so the rss list >> > updates from here (i guess) >> > >> > After discussions with some great people (in the irc) we concluded that >> the >> > rss box pull`s the data from the 'models.Package' object - that connected >> to >> > archlinux mainsite DB (Package.objects=PackageManager()), so if i dont >> have >> > any access for the database - thats not gonna work. >> > >> > All sorts of ideas were came up like bulding a script that will do the >> job >> > or, a an iframe that will copy the box from the mainsite (but the problem >> it >> > will not be in hebrew) and an idea to replace the table that has for >> update >> > in pkg_updates. (with logic that pulls from the feed) - but thats not >> easy >> > because the logic is a wrapped up in django MVC. >> > >> > So dear friends, i turn to you for help - and I`m sure I would find it. >> >> Check out the reporead command baked into manage.py- you can very >> easily populate the package DB yourself. >> >> I have a small script I can send you for this, but I don't have it >> handy at the moment. Let me know if that would be useful to you. >> >> -Dan > > First of all, I sorry for seeing this message just now. > Thanks Dan, I appreciate your comment, and i would like to have the script > you're talking about , please send him to: netanelshine at gmail dot com ;) Something like the following: $ cat projects/archweb/fetch_update_package_db.sh #!/bin/bash -e # run at nice 3. it can churn quite a bit of cpu after all. renice +3 -p $$ > /dev/null # setup paths DLURL="ftp://ftp.archlinux.org" SPATH="/path/to/archweb" SCRIPT="${SPATH}/scripts/reporead.py" TMPPATH="/tmp/updaterepos" ARCHES="i686 x86_64" REPOS="core extra testing community community-testing" startdir="$(pwd)" [ ! -d ${TMPPATH} ] && mkdir ${TMPPATH} for arch in ${ARCHES}; do [ ! -d ${TMPPATH}/${arch} ] && mkdir ${TMPPATH}/${arch} for repo in ${REPOS}; do #[ ! -d ${TMPPATH}/${repo} ] && mkdir ${TMPPATH}/${repo} #cd ${TMPPATH}/${repo} echo "Updating ${repo}-${arch}" cd $TMPPATH/${arch} wget -N ${DLURL}/${repo}/os/${arch}/${repo}.db.tar.gz #${SCRIPT} ${arch} ${TMPPATH}/${arch}/${repo}.db.tar.gz cd "$startdir" ./manage.py reporead ${arch} ${TMPPATH}/${arch}/${repo}.db.tar.gz echo "" done done

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 69, Issue 37
by Netanel Shine 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

> > Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:36:42 -0500 > From: Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] RSS feed - missing feature|problem > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Netanel Shine <netanelshine(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > My name is Netanel Shine, and a few days ago i began the process of > building > > an israeli community of archlinux. I used a git clone to set up the main > > site. (like some other great projects file that archlinux git have to > offer > > like the wiki and the forums) > > Everything went smoothly and just works great, except for one problem - > the > > package rss feeds. > > > > The site address is: http://archlinux.org.il - under heavy development. > > > > The problem: As you all can see, the left rss box with the latest updates > > dont work and the list is empty. - because the system comes with an > > integrated "packages" part (you can see it here: > > http://archlinux.org.il/packages - not gonna use it), so the rss list > > updates from here (i guess) > > > > After discussions with some great people (in the irc) we concluded that > the > > rss box pull`s the data from the 'models.Package' object - that connected > to > > archlinux mainsite DB (Package.objects=PackageManager()), so if i dont > have > > any access for the database - thats not gonna work. > > > > All sorts of ideas were came up like bulding a script that will do the > job > > or, a an iframe that will copy the box from the mainsite (but the problem > it > > will not be in hebrew) and an idea to replace the table that has for > update > > in pkg_updates. (with logic that pulls from the feed) - but thats not > easy > > because the logic is a wrapped up in django MVC. > > > > So dear friends, i turn to you for help - and I`m sure I would find it. > > Check out the reporead command baked into manage.py- you can very > easily populate the package DB yourself. > > I have a small script I can send you for this, but I don't have it > handy at the moment. Let me know if that would be useful to you. > > -Dan First of all, I sorry for seeing this message just now. Thanks Dan, I appreciate your comment, and i would like to have the script you're talking about , please send him to: netanelshine at gmail dot com ;) -- Netanel Shine

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[arch-general] IPTables DDoS
by Nilesh Govindarajan 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

Hi, Can someone tell me how to use IPTables to prevent DDoS attacks? I'm sure IPTables has the relevant modules (limit, recent I think) after reading some docs, but still in doubt about its implementation. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] perl-authen-sasl: local (2.1401-1) is newer than community (2.15-1)
by Damjan Georgievski 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

This is what happens to me now # pacman -Syu ... :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: perl-authen-sasl: local (2.1401-1) is newer than community (2.15-1) I guess this happens because I have installed something from testing at one point, and anyway, I know how to override this warningm but.. The question is, should pacman think that 2.1401 is newer than 2.15 ? -- damjan

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] gcc 4.5 bug - what to do?
by Nezmer 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:16:35PM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:00:06 +0200, Thomas Bächler > <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > Am 20.07.2010 22:52, schrieb Firmicus: > >> Yesterday I had bug report on a segfaulting binary for x86_64 that ships > >> with texlive-bin in testing: > >> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20199 > >> I have reported the bug upstream: > >> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3031498&group_id=145640&at… > >> > >> and as suspected it turned out to be a bug with gcc 4.5: > >> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45008 > >> > >> Now this means I have no means to include a working binary of dvisvgm > >> for x86_64 in texlive-bin until that bug is resolved, since I cannot > >> rely on gcc 4.4.x and no patch is available... > >> > >> What is the procedure you guys follow is such situations? > > > > Run in circles, scream and shout at people. Then after some time start > > crying. I have really no idea. > > A more practical approach would be to compile the package with gcc 4.4 > (there are mirrors containing old packages) and accept that this is an > ugly but temporary workaround. You should also open a bug report on our > bug tracker and link to the upstream one. Last but not least don't > forget to blame Allan. ;-) > A cleaner approach would be to build a gcc44 package, add "export CC=gcc44" in the PKGBUILD and the same for CXX and maybe CPP if used. This approach guarantees that someone using ABS to build packages will not get screwed and gives people supposedly reproducible results. I personally export a lot of variables in makepkg and set their values in "makepkg.conf". I even use a convenience variable "$GVER" which is set now to "45" in my system. It's also a good idea to add the dirname of the correct "libstdc++.so" to "$LIBS". Linking against different "libstdc++" versions is not fun. Using the correct "$GVER" can take care of all that. I'm not sure this will work with the way Arch packages gcc though.

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[arch-general] How up to date does pacman keep Enlightenment(e17)???
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

I mean given that e17 is installed via pacman: When I do a pacman -Syu, how close to the current upstream version do I get? I'm pretty sure that all the module packages are listed as "svn" I think that's a version control thing designed to keep things up to date. And I think I remember reading something about the Arch way tending to keep packages real close to upstream versions. But While E17 works great on my up to date amd64 Gateway laptop, the same E17 on my amd64 HP Pavilion with Nvidia GeForce 6150 LE, also up to date however, wount allow me to make any changes to the shelf... I can't change it's appearance (except to the extent of accepting a theme's default changes) I can't add or remove gadgets to/from the shelf. I can't change the size of the shelf. I can't change it's position from bottom center to any other setting. Any attempt to do any of the above leaves me with a "This is very bad..." pop-up that wants me to either select [restart (changes not saved)] or [exit (entire configuration messed up. Wind up deleting the entire ~/.e/* tree and redoing the keyboard shortcuts, desktops areas, backgrounds, theme, focus settings etc...] But I don't know if I should ask about this here or if it's actually close enough to the pure upstream version that I should inquire of the enlightenment users mailing list instead??? It's not a major issue for me, BTW. I work around it by positioning desktop gadgets I want on top of the shelf gadgets I don't want via the <ctrl>+<alt>+G immutable shortcut... Still if I've got a truly current e17 then maybe the E17 team should hear of the problem??? If not then perhaps whoever it is that updates the svn packages in community should be aware that on the same machine using the e17 provided with apt-get (both an up to date PCLOS2010 and an up to date Xubuntu Karmic installation) let me make these changes. Note: in all three cases the installer/package-manager provided Nvidia driver was installed. -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>>

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[arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??
by David C. Rankin 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Guys, I have a strange problem. ctrl+c is completely broken on my system. It won't cancel Jack Schit. It is the strangest thing I've seen. I apologize if there is some archain Arch notice on this I apologize, I've missed it. This is easy to test. Just to 'ping anywhere' and then try and kill it with ctrl+c. I have to open another terminal and either 'killall ping' or kill the pid to get the thing to stop. Same thing happens if I mistype a cli and need to cancel the execution (like if I mistype a ' instead of a " and the script continues on a new line) What's up with this? -- 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] unable to compile alpine via ABS
by Madhurya Kakati 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hi, I am not being able to compile alpine via ABS. A patch cannot be downloaded because the server is offline. Please check into the matter. Thanks

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[arch-general] nfs problem
by Lars Tennstedt 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hello, I tried to set up a nfs server and a nfs client in my network. I followed the instructions from the arch linux wiki. The server's ip address is 192.168.0.100 and the client's one is 192.168.0.101. I inserted the option --no-notify in /etc/conf.d/nfs-common.conf on the server. Here are the entries of the configuration files. --- On the server --- /etc/export: /home/user/share 192.168.0.101(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) /etc/hosts.allow: nfsd: 192.168.0.101/255.255.255.255 rpcbind: 192.168.0.101/255.255.255.255 mountd: 192.168.0.101/255.255.255.255 --- On the client --- /etc/hosts.allow: rpcbind: 192.168.0.100/255.255.255.255 If I try to mount the nfs share with the command "mount 192.168.0.100:/home/user/share /home/user/share", I will get the error message "mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting". The directories /home/user/share on both machines are owned by the user. Maybe someone has an idea? Thanks! Bye Lars

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[arch-general] Nouveau problem
by Lars Tennstedt 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hello again, the graphics card on my old pc is a Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti 200. Before the release of the version 1.8 of X.org I used the proprietary driver. Because this is not possible anymore, I tried the nouveau driver and everything I can get is a blank screen. The vesa driver works correctly with the same configuration files. Thanks for your time! Bye Lars

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[arch-general] Need Help working on radeon/kernel bug - Where can I get .35rc kernel
by David C. Rankin 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Guys, On the kernel/radeon, Andreas suggested: "try a .35rc kernel if it's fixed meanwhile. if not ask on the upstream radeon list and then probably file the issue to the Xorg tracker for radeon." My question: (1) where would I look to find the Arch .35rc kernel? I got the rest :p -- 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] nVidia MCP79
by Rafael Beraldo 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hi, I bought a Asus 1201N and installed Arch on it. Sound (a nVidia MCP79) works but I think sound is too low. I've set everything in alsamixer to 100% and even with a headphone it is still low. Although I can hear it well, I think this netbook can amplificate sound a lot more. Also, the built-in microphone doesn't work. alsamixer doesn't show the controls of it, just of the pararel mic. Thank you in advance. -- Rafael Beraldo http://cabaladada.org

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[arch-general] RSS feed - missing feature|problem
by Netanel Shine 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hey all, My name is Netanel Shine, and a few days ago i began the process of building an israeli community of archlinux. I used a git clone to set up the main site. (like some other great projects file that archlinux git have to offer like the wiki and the forums) Everything went smoothly and just works great, except for one problem - the package rss feeds. The site address is: http://archlinux.org.il - under heavy development. The problem: As you all can see, the left rss box with the latest updates dont work and the list is empty. - because the system comes with an integrated "packages" part (you can see it here: http://archlinux.org.il/packages - not gonna use it), so the rss list updates from here (i guess) After discussions with some great people (in the irc) we concluded that the rss box pull`s the data from the 'models.Package' object - that connected to archlinux mainsite DB (Package.objects=PackageManager()), so if i dont have any access for the database - thats not gonna work. All sorts of ideas were came up like bulding a script that will do the job or, a an iframe that will copy the box from the mainsite (but the problem it will not be in hebrew) and an idea to replace the table that has for update in pkg_updates. (with logic that pulls from the feed) - but thats not easy because the logic is a wrapped up in django MVC. So dear friends, i turn to you for help - and I`m sure I would find it. -- Netanel Shine Blog - http://netshine.wordpress.com

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[arch-general] Bad News .35rc kernel boots to KMS switch then hardlocks box
by David C. Rankin 18 Jul '10

18 Jul '10

Guys, Still plugging away at why the 2.6.34 kernels either lock on boot or if boot is successful, the graphics system whitescreens when compiz is started. To investigate (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20200) Andreas suggested I try the .35rc kernel. So once Thomas pointed me in the right direction to get the kernel from AUR, I built it (it built fine, all default values were used except the Ath9k modules were activated (I have an Atheros wireless card). Bad news, the kernel boots to what I guess is the KMS switch (that part where your screen flips from normal text mode to the higher resolution graphics mode) and then: (1) a 3-4 pixel horizontal white line flashes across the 'center' of the screen for approximately 1-2 seconds and; then (2) the screen goes completely black (dead unpowered black) and the box hardlocks. So the 2.6.35rc test was a bust. Do you think there is any use in recompiling and not enabling the Ath9k module will make any difference. Let me know. I guess the next step is to get with the radeon upstream folks and get them involved because the kernel/atiRS690M problem has gone from: good (2.6.32 kernel); to bad (2.6.33 kernel - compiz works but slow); to worse (2.6.34 only boots less than 20% of the time and compiz whitescreens every time); to completely unsuable (2.6.35rc kernel - won't boot at all) Let me know if you think recompiling w/o ath9k will make any difference and if any of you have contacts on the radeon upstream list, pass them along so I at least have an idea of who has any Arch knowledge on that list. Any other thoughts let me know, because it is apparent something has to be fixed before 2.6.35 moves forward. -- 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] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel
by Madhurya Kakati 17 Jul '10

17 Jul '10

Hi, While updating to a new kernel pacman replaces the older kernel with the new one. Is there someway to keep the older kernel in /boot and have new entries for new kernel in menu.lst while keeping old entries intact?

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[arch-general] [PATCH] gdisk patches
by Mark Pustjens 17 Jul '10

17 Jul '10

Hi List, Below a patch wich fixes two bugs in the gdisk package. They have been submitted uptream but not yet been accepted. The first bug fixed is that partition attributes are read/stored backwards. The second bug fixed is that when changing an undefined attribute no longer junk is displayed. I'm not sure if this is the right place, but i sent to this list mainly because there is no official gpt fdisk list afai could find. Now this patch has a place on the net. Cheers! Greetings/Groetjes Mark Pustjens -- diff --git a/extra/gdisk/PKGBUILD b/extra/gdisk/PKGBUILD index 0664a57..af9b44e 100644 --- a/extra/gdisk/PKGBUILD +++ b/extra/gdisk/PKGBUILD @@ -9,10 +9,12 @@ arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk" depends=('gcc-libs' 'util-linux-ng' 'popt') license=('GPL2') -source=(http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/gdisk-$pkgver.tgz) +source=(http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/gdisk-$pkgver.tgz + gdisk_attributes.patch) build() { cd $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver + patch -p1 -i "$srcdir/gdisk_attributes.patch" make install -D -m755 gdisk $pkgdir/sbin/gdisk install -D -m755 sgdisk $pkgdir/sbin/sgdisk @@ -23,4 +25,6 @@ build() { install -D -m644 README $pkgdir/usr/share/gdisk/README install -D -m644 NEWS pkgdir/usr/share/gdisk/NEWS } -md5sums=('48740d8de518f79ae9dae7ec58068d05') + +md5sums=('48740d8de518f79ae9dae7ec58068d05' + '106a4186587ab572f6397ba1702e8d47') diff --git a/extra/gdisk/gdisk_attributes.patch b/extra/gdisk/gdisk_attributes.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e03c957 --- /dev/null +++ b/extra/gdisk/gdisk_attributes.patch @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +diff --git a/attributes.cc b/attributes.cc +index 527dc87..a7b2afd 100644 +--- a/attributes.cc ++++ b/attributes.cc +@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Attributes::Attributes(void) { + // Most bits are undefined, so start by giving them an + // appropriate name + for (i = 1; i < NUM_ATR; i++) { ++ temp.str(""); // empty stream + temp << "Undefined bit #" << i; + atNames[i] = temp.str(); + } // for +@@ -75,12 +76,12 @@ void Attributes::ChangeAttributes(void) { + do { + response = GetNumber(0, 64, -1, (string) "Toggle which attribute field (0-63, 64 to exit): "); + if (response != 64) { +- bitValue = PowerOf2(uint32_t (NUM_ATR - response - 1)); // Find the integer value of the bit +- if ((bitValue & attributes) == bitValue) { // bit is set +- attributes -= bitValue; // so unset it ++ bitValue = 1 << response; ++ if (bitValue & attributes) { // bit is set ++ attributes &= ~bitValue; // so unset it + cout << "Have disabled the '" << atNames[response] << "' attribute.\n"; + } else { // bit is not set +- attributes += bitValue; // so set it ++ attributes |= bitValue; // so set it + cout << "Have enabled the '" << atNames[response] << "' attribute.\n"; + } // if/else + } // if

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[arch-general] Manager Duplicates in /var/cache/pacman/pkg
by David C. Rankin 17 Jul '10

17 Jul '10

Guys, I've updated my find duplicates script to work with the .xz packages. There are actually 2 scripts involved: 'fduparch.sh' is the wrapper script that just sets the directories and options for the actual duplicate finding script 'fduppkg'. In its current configuration fduparch.sh actually calls fduppkg twice. PASS 1: it calls fduppkg to scan /var/cache/pacman/pkg and move any duplicates found to '/home/backup/pkg-old'. Packages with the same name are then checked by DATE and any older packages are moved /home/backup/pkg-old. This leaves only the current packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg making it much easing to move your install from machine-to-machine without copying unneeded duplicates. Second, it frees up space on / by moving duplicates to the /home partition. PASS 2: it calls fduppkg a second time to scan '/home/backup/pkg-old' and move any duplicates found to '/home/backup/pkg-older'. That way you have the latest packages in the normal '/var/cache/pacman/pkg' and you have a duplicate-free set of the last packages before update in '/home/backup/pkg-old'. All older versions are kept in '/home/backup/pkg-older' The way I use the scripts is to create softlinks to the scripts in /usr/local/bin (making sure /usr/local/bin is in your PATH) as follows: ln -s /wherever/you/put/fduparch.sh /usr/local/bin/fduparch ln -s /wherever/you/put/fduppkg /usr/local/bin/fduppkg then I simply call fduparch after each update to clean the duplicates out of /var/cache/pacman/pkg. running fduppkg without arguments gives the general usage: 01:16 nirvana:/srv/http/dl/Archlinux/scripts> sh fduppkg Usage: fduppkg <search dir> [ -d dup_dir -l logfile -s -v ] Searches <search dir> for duplicate pkgs and moves duplicate files to [dup_dir] or <search dir>/duplicates by default. -d | --dupdir Used to specify directory to hold duplicate rpms -l | --logfile Specify the log file name (default ./duplicates.log) -s | --silent Don't output anything to stdout, just log results -v | --verbose Output information showing which files are kept and not moved However, to change the default duplicate directories, just edit the wrapper script 'fduparch' and set the directories you want there. I have used a wrapper script to keep fduppkg as flexible as possible so I can simply run it on any package directory to find and move duplicates. (the split setup was originally developed to handle suse's archane cache directory structure, but it handles Arch's simple setup as well) Grab the duplicate scripts at: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/fduparch.sh http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/fduppkg Finally, I have developed a script for determining which packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg are 'Installed' or not. The script is 'chkinstpkgs.sh' and is available here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/chkinstpkgs.sh Running the script without argument will check the status of all packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg and provide you with a concise list of installed/uninstalled packages in the following format: 01:24 alchemy:~/scr/arch> sh chkinstpkgs.sh Determining installed/orphaned packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg... Initializing the package-information arrays Checking installed packages Total Number of Packages : 2713 Total Number Installed : 2225 Total Number Orphaned : 488 Updating the installed package array with installed/orphaned info ( be patient, time required is: [~30 sec/1000 pkgs] ) ORPHANS (pkg in /var/cache/pacman/pkg but not installed): Total packages orphaned: 488 Package Arch Installed ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- a2ps-4.14-1 x86_64 no acct-6.5.1-1 x86_64 no acpi-1.4-2 x86_64 no <snip> INSTALLED PACKAGES: Total packages installed: 2225 Package Arch Installed ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- a52dec-0.7.4-4 x86_64 yes aalib-1.4rc5-6 x86_64 yes <snip> I find all 3 scripts useful in managing my Arch boxes and for moving installs to new arch boxes. The chkinstpkgs.sh script is great for checking what I have forgotten to install on a new box. 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] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel
by Legioner 17 Jul '10

17 Jul '10

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman In pacman.conf: IgnorePkg=name IgnoreGroup=name ________________ Reply Header ________________ Subject: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel Author: Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805(a)gmail.com> Date: 17th July 2010 06:27 Hi, While updating to a new kernel pacman replaces the older kernel with the new one. Is there someway to keep the older kernel in /boot and have new entries for new kernel in menu.lst while keeping old entries intact?

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[arch-general] Tracking down ATI/Compiz Bug in 2.6.34 kernels (looks like gpu init in 2.6.34)
by David C. Rankin 17 Jul '10

17 Jul '10

Guys, Still trying to get compiz to quit white-screening when running the 2.6.34 kernels. (I booted OK this time, still down want to see if it will boot again yet while I'm working this compiz issue). For those not following the earlier threads, compiz and the entire graphics system on my laptop works perfectly with the LTS kernel, but when I upgraded to the 2.6.34 kernels, compiz white-screens due to a bug somewhere in the kernel/KMS/xf86-video-ati interplay. As mentioned earlier, starting with the 2.6.32 kernels, everything was GREAT with this laptop and the graphic response had never been so good on the 'radeon' driver -- it was kicking ass! But with the 2.6.34 kernel, something is badly broken. Now 'compositing' works fine on the box. I can toggle compositing on/off in Gnome and it is fine (still disappointed that it re-sizes the gnome-terminal, etc.. back to it's original geometry on switching compositing on/off, but that is small potatoes compared to this compiz mess). There is nothing compiz specific in Xorg.0.log that is helpful (but see below for the massive differences between 2.6.34 and LTS Xorg.0.log files). .xsession-error catches a couple of errors when compiz tries to start: Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x111 specified for 0x5e0017b (Configure ). Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x111 specified for 0x5e004cd (Configure ). Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x111 specified for 0x5e0099b (Configure ). * Detected Session: gnome * Searching for installed applications... ** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GtkWindow) ** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GtkInvisible) ** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GtkObject) compiz (core) - Error: Plugin 'text' not loaded. compiz (shift) - Warn: No compatible text plugin loaded. Window manager warning: Received a _NET_WM_MOVERESIZE message for 0x4800021 (CompositeT); these messages lack timestamps and therefore suck. Window manager warning: Received a _NET_WM_MOVERESIZE message for 0x4800021 (CompositeT); these messages lack timestamps and therefore suck. Window manager warning: Received a _NET_WM_MOVERESIZE message for 0x4800021 (CompositeT); these messages lack timestamps and therefore suck. Window manager warning: Received a _NET_WM_MOVERESIZE message for 0x4800021 (CompositeT); these messages lack timestamps and therefore suck. Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x111 specified for 0x5800006 (Session Ch). but I can't really decipher them. The compiz (core) and compiz (shift) lines are normal, I get them when starting compiz under LTS also and compiz starts fine. Where there are MASSIVE differences is in the initialization of my video card in the Xorg.0.log files. The LTS Xorg.0.log is twice a large as the Xorg.0.log file from the 2.6.34 kernel startup. Much of it is just gibberish to me, but I'm sure the bug lies in the way the 2.6.34 kernel is trying to initialize my gpu. I have saved copies of each file for review: 2.6.34.1 kernel (35k): http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/bugs/compiz/34.1/gnome/Xorg.0.log LTS-kernel (62k) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/bugs/compiz/lts/gnome/Xorg.0.log I don't know if you want me to open a bug here or if Allan, Tobias or some of the other devs would like to try to narrow this down 'on-list' first so a more meaningful bug report can be filed, if needed. Let me know what you guys think. I hate to admit it, but I'm somewhat of a compiz junkie. There is nothing like managing multiple desktops than the simple elegance of compiz and a few smart key/mouse bindings. I've got to get this bug fixed :p -- 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] Anyone using lilo?
by Eric Bélanger 17 Jul '10

17 Jul '10

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Dale Blount <dale(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 15:29 -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Roman has flagged my lilo packages. Lilo developpement is now active >> and lilo 23.0 was released. Unfortunately, my only system using lilo >> is no longer working. Is there anyone else using lilo? Ideally, it >> would be a dev who would take over the package or, at least, a user >> willing to work with me in testing the new packgae before it hits the >> testing repo. > > I'm forced to use it on a single HP server where grub just flat out > refuses to work. I could be convinced to help with testing (as long as > it's just verifying that it's working and not several reboots). > > Dale > > If I understodd correctly, you can only reboot that server once. Is that correct? I'll wait to see if I can't get more testers. I'll forward this thread on arch-general ML.

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[arch-general] Tasks for newbie at online bug squashing (during Archcon)?
by Mathias Huber 16 Jul '10

16 Jul '10

Dear Archers, I've seen there will be an online bug squashing with Archers worldwide during Archcon on July 22 and 23 <http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=83844>. I've set some time apart to join the fun. However, I am an Arch newbie, though long standing Linux user. What will there be for me to do? Can you find me some trivial tasks? Most bugs I find in flyspray are beyond my capabilities -- X.org flaws or missing hardware support. I think I could update simple package builds, or correct a wrong path here and there. Apart from that, I am quite good at writing documentation. Should I comb the Arch wiki? Do I need to have a spare Arch system at hand to test things? Maybe someone could take this newbie by the hand? Cheers, Mathias

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[arch-general] bbs.archlinux.org is now switched to https only!
by Thomas Bächler 16 Jul '10

16 Jul '10

I just performed the switch to https only on bbs! I also adjusted some internal URLs, so all files will be properly fetched via https directly. http is redirected automatically. Note that the navbar links on Archweb and all other sites still point to http, but that is redirected automatically. There is a catch: 1) Apache configures SSL per-vhost. That means that even though we have a wildcard certificate, the browser must support SNI for name-based vhosts to work. All clients that are not SNI-capable will be redirected to www instead. 2) wget doesn't like wildcard certificates. That means you need to use --no-check-certificate with wget. 3) Our certificate is from CACert. AFAIK, this is not included in many browsers by default. If you use Arch Linux, at least everything that uses the OpenSSL certificate store and all Mozilla browsers are CACert-enabled - on other operating systems, our certificate might show up as untrusted. Let me know if any of the above (especially 1) cause any problems.

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[arch-general] PCMCIA Kernel 2.6
by Nilesh Govindarajan 16 Jul '10

16 Jul '10

How do I make kernel 2.6 boot from NFS using a PCMCIA network card? Without initrd would be preferred. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] legacy ATA -> AHCI switch after installation
by Roberto Malinverni 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

My mainbord is dying, so I plan to replace it during this weekend. Originally the installation of the OS (Arch of course) was performed with my sata HD in "legacy ATA mode" set in the BIOS. I'm thinking this time to use native AHCI mode for the hard disks - no real need, I'm just curious. Apart from the other issues related to a "motherboard transplant" I'm already familiar with, do you think that changing the hard drive mode will give me particular troubles? IIRC, the ahci kernel module is normally loaded alongside the others "ata/pata related", so maybe a simple rebuild of the ramdisk is all that I need. Roberto -- Il messaggio e' stato analizzato alla ricerca di virus o contenuti pericolosi da MailScanner, ed e' risultato non infetto.

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[arch-general] Shortlist of dark themes for firefox 3.6
by David C. Rankin 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

Guys, Here is a short list of firefox themes that work well with 3.6. If you haven't tried some of these, they're worth a look. Note: 'Oskar' is just there as an example of how wild and animated a firefox theme can get. The theme is very well done, but I couldn't use it -- it would drive you blind with all the flashing lights. I've left the list in a graphic format so the icons associated with the themes are recognizable. To get them all, a simple advanced search for "Themes", 100 per page, sort by name, modified in the last 6 months will do it. Enjoy. (160k) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/img/misc/moz-themes.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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[arch-general] kernel26-2.6.34.1 - won't boot - stuck at "Setting up UTF-8 mode" [Downgrade to kernel26-2.6.34-2 OK]
by David C. Rankin 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

Guys, I have managed to find a work-around to the latest kernel failing to boot on my Toshiba laptop. Before downgrading, I tried chrooting the system and rebuilding the initramfs, but no luck it stopped at the same place on boot -- Setting up UTF-8 mode. So I booted to the dual-install media, chrooted the system and downgraded to kernel26-2.6.34-2. This kernel boots fine. There is a problem with kernel26-2.6.34.1-1-x86_64. Since I can't boot it, I'm not sure what testing I can do, but if you can think of one, I'm happy to run it. This laptop is a Toshiba 205d. It hasn't ever had a problem with any other Arch or SuSE kernel, so I'm not sure what to tell you. I've posted the dmidecode information in case that will help. It is here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/bugs/toshiba205d-dmidecode.txt Let me know what you think. -- 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] cryptsetup 1.1.3-1
by Thomas Bächler 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

Am 11.07.2010 12:46, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > Upstream update, please sign off (tested already for x86_64). > Can anyone confirm that this is working?

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[arch-general] No Compiz with current Kernels - but compiz with Linux alchemy 2.6.32-lts OK - Huh?
by David C. Rankin 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

Guys, On my box I continue to have problems with the current kernels on, booting lts works fine with compiz - how is that so? IIRC - lts used to be cli only, now it boots into runlevel 5 just fine. Any thoughts on why compiz won't run on 2.6.34-2 or 2.6.34.1-1? I'll keep tinkering, but any help would be appreciated... -- 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] ABS Barfs
by ProfessorTomoe 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

I tried to pull down an abs update a few minutes ago and wound up getting everything but the "community," "any," and "local" directories completely removed from my /var/abs directory. I deleted and re-updated a few minutes later but still got nothing but the "community" and "any" repositories from the download. Any idea what's going on?

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[arch-general] [PATCH] mkinitcpio: mount real root device instead of symlink
by Dave Reisner 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

If a symlink such as /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxxx is provided on the kernel cmdline, resolve it and mount that device instead of the symlink. This prevents some ugliness in the output of commands such as mount or df. Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <d(a)falconindy.com> --- init_functions | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/init_functions b/init_functions index 1ae844b..37b9ebb 100644 --- a/init_functions +++ b/init_functions @@ -93,5 +93,8 @@ default_mount_handler() { else rwopt="ro" fi + if [ -L "${root}" ]; then + root=$(readlink -f "${root}") + fi mount ${fstype:+-t ${fstype}} -o ${rwopt}${rootflags:+,${rootflags}} "${root}" "$1" } -- 1.7.1.1

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[arch-general] [signoff] udev-160-1
by Tobias Powalowski 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

Hi guys, udev 160 ======== Bugfixes. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] boo package failure: /tmp/alpm_CTaAvu/.INSTALL: line 6: pre_remove: command not found
by David C. Rankin 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

Guys, Just thought I would pass this upgrade failure along: ( 2/13) upgrading boo [#####################################] 100% /tmp/alpm_CTaAvu/.INSTALL: line 6: pre_remove: command not found error: command failed to execute correctly Let me know if you want me to open a bug or if this is a spin-off of the current changes going on. Thanks. P.S. - what the hell is 'boo'? -- 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] chroot failed to run command `/bin/bash`: Exec format error ??
by David C. Rankin 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

Guys, Booting from the dual install media, attempting to chroot again and I got an error I've never seen before: "chroot failed to run command `/bin/bash`: Exec format error" I checked with mount and all partitions and dev proc and sys where all mounted where they should be, but the box wouldn't chroot to my mount point under /mnt/a. Anybody recognize the error or what the cause could be? 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] [PATCH 1/1] Make umounting filesystems much more paranoid.
by Victor Lowther 11 Jul '10

11 Jul '10

In addition to just umounting filesystems, we also try to tear down volume groups, crypt mappings, and loopback devices. We skip /, /proc, /sys, and /dev when umounting filesystems. We do all of the above in a loop, escalating how forcible we are in umounting filesystems up to the point where we give up and try to just remount filesystems read-only. We do not escalate how forcible we are until we stop making progress in umounting filesystems. This patch does not print anything when tearing down crypt devices, deactivating volume groups, or tearing down loopback devices. It does this because root on lvm and root on dm_crypt are fairly common cases, and figuring out which of these is the case and avoiding that volume group or dm_crypt mapping is tricky. We also no longer rely on /etc/crypttab at all for shutdown to tear down dm_crypt mappings. --- rc.shutdown | 112 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/rc.shutdown b/rc.shutdown index 2a561e4..d430dce 100755 --- a/rc.shutdown +++ b/rc.shutdown @@ -64,30 +64,98 @@ stat_busy "Deactivating Swap" /sbin/swapoff -a stat_done -stat_busy "Unmounting Filesystems" -/bin/umount -a -r -t noramfs,notmpfs,nosysfs,noproc,nodevtmpfs -O no_netdev -stat_done +# reverse an array +reverse() { + res=() + [[ $1 ]] || return 0 + local i=("$@") j=0 + for ((j=${#i[@]}-1; j>=0; j--)); do + res+=("${i[j]}") + done +} -# Kill non-root encrypted partition mappings -if [[ -f /etc/crypttab && $CS ]]; then - stat_busy "Deactivating encrypted volumes:" - do_lock() { - stat_append "${1}.." - if $CS remove "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1; then - stat_append "ok " - else - stat_append "failed " - fi - } - read_crypttab do_lock - stat_done -fi +# Get mounted filesystems +fs=() +ignore_re='^/(proc|sys|dev)?$' +while read dev mntpt rest; do + [[ $mntpt =~ $ignore_re ]] && continue + fs+=("$mntpt") +done < /proc/self/mounts +# reverse list of filesystems to let us umount them in reverse order +reverse "${fs[@]}" +fs=("${res[@]}") + +# get volume groups +vg=() +which lvm >/dev/null 2>&1 && \ + vg=($(lvm vgs --unbuffered --noheadings -o vg_name)) +# reverse list of volume groups to grab more of them at once. +reverse "${vg[@]}" +vg=("${res[@]}") + +# get crypto devices +crypt=() +[[ $CS ]] && { + for dev in /dev/mapper/*; do + "$CS" status "${dev##*/}" >/dev/null 2>&1 || continue + crypt+=(${dev##*/}) + done +} +# don't bother reversing crypt, it is in no defined order anyways. + +# get loopback devices in use +loops=() +which losetup >/dev/null 2>&1 && { + while read dev rest; do + loops+=("${dev%:}") + done < <(losetup -a) +} +reverse "${loops[@]}" +loops=("${res[@]}") + +do_umount() { + local ret=0 i j pass=$1 umountopts='' last + # do not umount anything that matches this regex + case $pass in + 2) umountopts='-f';; #next try forcing the umount + 3) umountopts='-r'; last=true;; #next try remounting readonly + esac + + # first, try umounting filesystems. + for i in "${!fs[@]}"; do + if status "Unmounting ${fs[i]} (pass $pass)" /bin/umount -d $umountopts \ + "${fs[i]}"; then + unset fs[$i] + else + ((ret++)) + fi + done + + # Second, deactivate any LVM groups that we can free up + for i in "${!vg[@]}"; do + /sbin/lvm vgchange --sysinit -an "${vg[i]}" >/dev/null 2>&1 && \ + unset vg[$i] + done + + # Third, tear down as many cryptsetup devices as we can. + for i in "${!crypt[@]}"; do + $CS remove "${crypt[i]}" >/dev/null 2>&1 && unset crypt[$i] + done + + # Last, tear down as many loop devices as we can + for i in "${!loops[@]}"; do + losetup -d "${loops[i]}" >/dev/null 2>&1 && unset loops[$i] + done + [[ $last = true ]] && return 0 + return $ret +} -if [[ $USELVM =~ yes|YES && -x /sbin/lvm && -d /sys/block ]]; then - stat_busy "Deactivating LVM2 groups" - /sbin/lvm vgchange --ignorelockingfailure -an >/dev/null 2>&1 - stat_done -fi +# Loop and try to umount filesystems +for ((pass=1,fses=${#fs[@]}; ;fses=${#fs[@]})); do + do_umount $pass && break; # if we umounted all the filesystems, break. + # only escalate if we did not make progress unmounting filesystems. + ((fses == ${#fs[@]})) && ((pass++)) +done stat_busy "Remounting Root Filesystem Read-only" /bin/mount -n -o remount,ro / -- 1.7.1.1

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] System update on all Arch Servers
by Emmanuel Benisty 11 Jul '10

11 Jul '10

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I -Syu'd and rebooted all our servers, let me know if there are any > problems. > > no idea if it's related or if I missed something but abs'ing yesterday was fine, today I get: [root@blackout ~]# abs ==> Starting ABS sync... Unexpected remote arg: rsync.archlinux.org::abs/i686/ rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1204) [sender=3.0.7]

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[arch-general] [PATCH 1/2] Add daemon-functions to the initscripts package.
by Victor Lowther 11 Jul '10

11 Jul '10

This file encapsulates most common rc.d daemon script idioms, and should allow most of then to be about 6 lines long (not including whitespace) Using it will require some modifications to the /etc/conf.d files, as the generic functions expect all daemon options to be in $OPTS Among other things, this will close feature request# 18654 It was written on top of my bashification patch series, but is mostly independent of it. --- daemon-functions | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ functions | 2 + 2 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/daemon-functions b/daemon-functions new file mode 100755 index 0000000..5f7660a --- /dev/null +++ b/daemon-functions @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +#!/bin/bash +# This file contains helper functions for initscripts in /etc/rc.d. +# I am keeping it seperate from the main /etc/rc.d/functions for now. +# Using this file makes most /etc/rc.d files as simple as +# #!/bin/bash +# DAEMON=/path/to/daemon +# case $1 in +# start|stop|restart|status) $1;; +# *) usage;; +# esac + +shopt -s extglob + +# first, source our usual files. +. /etc/rc.conf +. /etc/rc.d/functions + +# Next, declare some useful helper functions +have_daemon() { + local f + [[ $DAEMON && -x $DAEMON ]] || return 1 + [[ $DAEMONNAME ]] || DAEMONNAME="${0##*/}" + PIDS=($(pidof -o %PPID "$DAEMON")) + [[ $DAEMONCONF ]] || \ + for f in "$DAEMONNAME" "$DAEMONNAME.conf"; do + [[ -f /etc/conf.d/$f ]] || continue + DAEMONCONF="/etc/conf.d/$f" + break + done + return 0 +} + +start() { + have_daemon || exit 1 + [[ -f $DAEMONCONF ]] && . "$DAEMONCONF" + stat_busy "Starting $DAEMONNAME" + if [[ ! $PIDS ]] && "$DAEMON" $OPTS >/dev/null 2>&1; then + add_daemon "$DAEMONNAME" + stat_done + else + stat_fail + fi +} + +stop() { + have_daemon || exit 1 + stat_busy "Stopping $DAEMONNAME" + if [[ $PIDS ]] && kill "${PIDS[@]}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then + rm_daemon "$DAEMONNAME" + stat_done + else + stat_fail + fi +} + +restart() { + have_daemon || exit 1 + stat_busy "Restarting $DAEMONNAME" + "$0" stop + sleep 1 + "$0" start +} + +status() { + have_daemon || exit 1 + stat_busy "Checking status of $DAEMONNAME" + ck_status "$DAEMONNAME" +} + +usage() { + echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}" +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/functions b/functions index 5e9a3b5..83f8fb7 100644 --- a/functions +++ b/functions @@ -197,8 +197,10 @@ status_stopped() { ck_status() { if ! ck_daemon "$1"; then status_started + return 0 else status_stopped + return 1 fi } -- 1.7.1.1

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] hdparm-9.29-1
by Emmanuel Benisty 11 Jul '10

11 Jul '10

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa(a)gmx.de> wrote: > Am Sonntag 11 Juli 2010 schrieb Ionuț Bîru: >> On 07/06/2010 02:49 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: >> > On 07/06/2010 02:46 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: >> >> Am Montag 05 Juli 2010 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: >> >>> Hi guys, >> >>> bump to latest version, added wiper.sh script. >> >>> please signoff both arches >> >>> >> >>> greetings >> >>> tpowa >> >> >> >> bump >> > >> > signoff x86_64 >> >> i'm canceling this signoff. happens when you have the output redirected >> into /dev/null >> >> hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda >> >> /dev/sda: >> setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254) >> HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error >> HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Input/output error > I get this here too, but i don't know if this have to work for each drive. what do you mean "for each drive" ? AFAIC, I have only one on this machine (it's a laptop). cheers

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[arch-general] script to recursively convert filenames to uppercase
by F. Gr. 11 Jul '10

11 Jul '10

Does anybody know a Perl or Bash script to do what I've written in the subject? TIA

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[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] hdparm-9.29-1
by Emmanuel Benisty 11 Jul '10

11 Jul '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e(a)gmail.com> To: Public mailing list for Arch Linux development <arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:28:50 +0700 Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] hdparm-9.29-1 On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa(a)gmx.de> wrote: > Am Dienstag 06 Juli 2010 schrieb Ionuț Bîru: >> On 07/06/2010 02:46 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: >> > Am Montag 05 Juli 2010 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: >> >> Hi guys, >> >> bump to latest version, added wiper.sh script. >> >> please signoff both arches >> >> >> >> greetings >> >> tpowa >> > >> > bump >> >> signoff x86_64 > anyone i686? > > -- > Tobias Powalowski > Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) > http://www.archlinux.org > tpowa(a)archlinux.org > [root@blackout ~]# hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254) HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Input/output error it works fine with 9.28 cheers

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[arch-general] Updated kernel - 2nd issue - compiz whitescreens (radeon driver)
by David C. Rankin 11 Jul '10

11 Jul '10

Guys, One other issue I am having with the box after the kernel update is that compiz whitescreens now. (that usually means a driver wasn't recompiled, but this is with the stock xf86-video-ati package). Compiz starts just fine, I get the splash screen, but everything is white. I have had that a number of times when I have forgotten to recompile a driver after a kernel update, but not when using a stock driver. The package I have is: xf86-video-ati-6.13.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (I checked with lsmod and the radeon driver was loaded just fine) Currently I am not using an xorg.conf, so everything is from the default settings. Not long ago I posted about how impressed I was with the new kernel and ati driver, but something seems to be out of whack now. What can I try to get compiz running again? (I got this much info before being stuck by the UTF-8 issue, so we will have to fix that one before I can boot to work on this compiz issue) Thanks again for your help. -- 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] Updated kernel to 34.1 on x86-64 laptop, won't boot, stuck "Setting Console to UTF-8 Mode" ??
by David C. Rankin 11 Jul '10

11 Jul '10

Guys, I need help recovering from a failure to boot. I updated the kernel to kernel26-2.6.34.1-1 and booted once without issue. I then just configured kdemod3 a bit and went to reboot and now the boot process sticks at the message: "Setting Console to UTF-8 Mode" Huh? I tried the fallback kernel, and it sticks at the same point. Double Huh? I don't understand how it could boot once, then not boot anymore, especially since it sticks at the weird UTF-8 message. That just seems like a weird place to stop in the boot process. When it sticks, the box is hardlocked. I have to power-off to get out of there. ctrl+alt+del or ctrl+c, etc. has no effect. I can boot the new install medium just fine and I can chroot the system under a mount point, but I don't know how to go about fixing or even figuring out this problem. Can anyone offer any suggestions or help explaining what I should try to get the box going again? 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] wodim permissions
by Dan Martins 10 Jul '10

10 Jul '10

Hi, Today I found that I need to add the +s flag to /usr/bin/wodim to be able to burn CDs. In the past I did not think this was the case. I have hal running still and my user is a member of the optical group. I last updated this morning. I'm running testing on x86_64 in case that makes a difference. Is anyone else seeing the same problem after a recent update? I'm actually using brasero to burn but it seems like a permission issue due to the log file: BraseroGenisoimage got varg: /usr/bin/genisoimage -input-charset utf8 -r -graft-points -path-list /tmp/brasero_tmp_017RFV -exclude-list /tmp/brasero_tmp_N57RFV -V Music 2 -A Brasero-2.30.2 -sysid LINUX BraseroGenisoimage Launching command BraseroGenisoimage called brasero_job_get_fd_out BraseroGenisoimage called brasero_job_get_fd_in BraseroGenisoimage called brasero_job_get_fd_out BraseroWodim stderr: wodim: No write mode specified. BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroWodim stdout: TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM BraseroWodim stderr: wodim: Assuming -tao mode. BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroWodim stdout: HUP BraseroWodim stderr: wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults. BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroWodim stderr: wodim: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits. BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroWodim stderr: wodim: Resource temporarily unavailable. Cannot get mmap for 32509952 Bytes on /dev/zero. BraseroWodim called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroWodim stderr: HUP BraseroGenisoimage stderr: Using BBC_S000 for Led Zeppelin/BBC Sessions (Disc 2) (BBC Sessions (Disc 1)) BraseroWodim process finished with status 11 BraseroWodim called brasero_job_error BraseroWodim finished with an error BraseroWodim asked to stop because of an error error = 0 message = "no message" BraseroGenisoimage stopping BraseroGenisoimage got killed BraseroGenisoimage disconnecting BraseroGenisoimage from BraseroChecksumImage BraseroChecksumImage stopping BraseroChecksumImage disconnecting BraseroChecksumImage from BraseroWodim BraseroChecksumImage closing connection for BraseroChecksumImage BraseroWodim stopping BraseroWodim closing connection for BraseroWodim Session error : unknown (brasero_burn_record brasero-burn.c:2842) Regards, Dan

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[arch-general] i915 Module Problem
by Xiaochen Gao 10 Jul '10

10 Jul '10

Dear All, Sorry for the spam. I am new to this list and I'm fairly new to Arch Linux. I encountered a problem when I tried to install and use Arch Linux 2010.05. It seems to be: if modules auto-load is set to yes or I manually set i915 to load in rc.conf, my computer will stop and chang to blank black screen. If I disable i915 the system will start without error, but only with low defination display. My computer is new lenovo Thinkpad X201, with i5-540 processor and integrated Intel HD Graphics. Here I'm wondering whether it is a i915 error, or BIOS or any problem of my computer? And can I have an alternative method to start my Arch Linux system with normal defination display? Thank you very much. Xiaochen

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[arch-general] Rsync not handling spaces in directory names
by Jordan Windsor 10 Jul '10

10 Jul '10

I'm unable to get rsync to handle a particular directory which contains spaces within its name. Here's the command I run and the output: [jordan@archpc Program Files]$ rsync -rve 'ssh -p 2222' Steam archlap:/mnt/media/larissa-wine/drive_c/Program\ Files jordan@archlap's password: sending incremental file list created directory /mnt/media/larissa-wine/drive_c/Program Steam/ Steam/AppUpdateStats.blob Steam/CSERHelper.dll Steam/ClientRegistry.blob Steam/GameOverlayRenderer.dll Steam/GameOverlayRenderer.log Steam/GameOverlayUI.exe Steam/GameValidation.log Steam/Steam.dll Steam/Steam.exe Steam/SteamUI.dll Steam/SteamUI_1289.mst Steam/Steam_61.mst Steam/Support.url Steam/ThirdPartyLegalNotices.doc Steam/WriteMiniDump.exe Steam/dbghelp.dll Steam/mss32_s.dll Steam/steam.ico Steam/steam.log Steam/steam_1289_assert_2010_7_6T17_13_2C0.mdmp Steam/steam_1289_assert_2010_7_8T16_47_28C0.mdmp ^CKilled by signal 2. rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at rsync.c(543) [sender=3.0.7] I killed the program before it continued, It created a directory on the destinations with the name "Program" when it should have sync'd the Steam folder within the "Program Files" directory. Here's the output of ls -l in the destination directory parent: [jordan@archlap drive_c]$ ls -l total 1572 drwxr-xr-x 3 jordan users 4096 Jul 10 13:26 Program drwxrwxr-- 6 larissa users 4096 Jul 10 12:55 Program Files -rwxrwxr-x 1 larissa users 1588224 Jun 16 17:42 SteamInstall.msi drwxrwxr-x 4 larissa users 4096 Jun 16 17:27 users drwxrwxr-x 14 larissa users 4096 Jun 19 21:08 windows drwxrwxr-x 2 larissa users 4096 Jun 16 23:49 winetrickstmp [jordan@archlap drive_c]$ The jordan users is part of the "users" group and has the correct permission. Thanks!

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[arch-general] Blanks screen after boot
by Philipp 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

Hey, I have this problem since a while but it got a lot worse with the last two kernel versions. Now there's an about 50/50 chance to see the user login or simply not see it. I don't have any login manager set up, so after boot there's simply the user login and after that I issue startx. It all works just fine,even if I can't see a thing, and once I issued startx everything goes back to normal, the screen isn't blank anymore. The machine has an Intel chipset, and I guess it's related to that and/or KMS, but that's as far as my guess goes. Maybe one of you knows something about that kind of issue? -- Regards, Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan

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Re: [arch-general] gnome-terminal configuration
by aerospace1028＠hotmail.com 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

Thank you to all who have replied. When i had read the man page I missed the part about bash sourcing ~/.bash_profile first for log-in shells only, I took it to be universal. some other responses interspersed below. >Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:12:06 -0500 >From: C Anthony Risinger <anthony(a)extof.me> >Subject: Re: [arch-general] gnome-terminal configuration >To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> >Message-ID: ><AANLkTilj7lPsMZLZg7XFZnpYhgnqaPyk3MidkPPGqQau(a)mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >2010/7/8 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee(a)gmail.com>: >> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 13:00 -0300, Hilton Medeiros wrote: >>> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 10:47:03 -0400 >>> <aerospace1028(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> > <snip> >> You could also set things in .profile instead? I've read before that >> this is the 'proper' way to put env stuff etc. > Most of what I did was create a short ~/.bash_alias file and load it in a ~/.bash_profile, for the time being, moving the three lines of code to ~/.bashrc works. I plan to go through the man page again and review the preference order for .bashrc .profile and .bash_profile. >i could be wrong, as i've heavily customized these scripts, but i >believe by default the only thing .bashrc does (in arch) is source >.bash_aliases if it exists; so put aliases there. > The default appears to be that .bashrc: checks for an interactive session, sets the prompt and aliases the ls command. .bash_profile: references and loads settings in ~.bashrc Since bash_profile called bashrc, that was where I put my call to bash_alias. For the time being, shifting it over to .bashrc appears to work. >take a look at: > >/etc/profile* >/etc/bash* >~/.profile >~/.bash* by default I don't have a ~.profile. Not sure if that's right or not. I originally installed from the speakup modified install CD. Again, thank you to everyone who helped out. It appears my confusion was over the order for .bashrc, .profile and .bash_profile in a log-in vs. non log-in shell. I've got everything working now, but I'll still go back and re-read the appropriate section of the manual for my own interest. _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID2…

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[arch-general] indicator-appmenu in Arch?
by Magnus Therning 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

I did a quick search, but found nothing. Does anyone have a PKGBUILD for Application Menu[1] already? /M [1]: https://launchpad.net/indicator-appmenu -- 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] gnome-terminal configuration
by aerospace1028＠hotmail.com 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

greetings, I noticed the other day that some of the settings I configured in my ~/.bash_profile aren't implimented when using the gnome-termianl. For the most-part, it's not too big a deal; some of it just aliases system admin stuff that I do from the text consoles (tty1-6) anyhow. Just for curiousity, i poked around the wiki and the various settings areas on my computer (/etc, /usr/share and such) trying to find if the gnome-terminal had it's own set of configuration files. Does anybody know where i should look to find howto customize the start-up behavior for gnome-terminal? Also, is it normal for gnome-terminal to not read ~/.bash_profile, even if the default shell is bash? thank you:-) _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:…

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[arch-general] Why does pacman 3.4 reacts so slow to SIGINT?
by Lukas Grässlin 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

Hi there, since the update from pacman 3.3 to 3.4 it reacts really slow to a SIGINT (Ctrl+C) while syncing or installing a packet. With 3.3 it immediately stops. Not a hugh problem, but I would know why it is so. Regards, Lukas -- Lukas Grässlin Collax GmbH . Basler Str. 115a . 79115 Freiburg . Germany p: +49 (0) 89-990 157-23 Collax - Flexible IT. Geschäftsführer: Bernd Bönte, Boris Nalbach Amtsgericht München, HRB 173695 USt-ID: DE270819312

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[arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

Hi. I'm not that sure what's happening. But I just acquired an HP Pavilion desktop. (My Sister's Hubby just bought a new win 7 box and let me recycle his old xp box... I told him right away that I'd found the problem he was having with the old box, it was running windows...) Anyway it's got AMD 64 processor with a gig of ram, and integrated NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE (which could be the problem for all I know. But since I don't give a tallywack about 3d acceleration I doubt I'm supposed to need to know much about tweaking NVIDIA graphics. Anyway I promptly used gparted to squeeze the existing winxp installed to the 200 gig sata harddrive down to only 70 gig, & attached an ide seagate 250 gig drive I'd had left over from my former (defunct) desktop which had died about a year ago. Making room for multiple Linux distros. Because PCLinuxOS features a "mylivecd" script that's designed to make it easy for non-experts to make fully configured and installable live cd/dvd images of their running PCLinuxOS installation, PCLinuxOS got the first install. But Arch was supposed to be the 2nd. I installed the core system from an archlinux-2010.05-core-dual.iso But since I already have a 64 bit Arch on my laptop I thought I'd try the i686 image on the desktop... Then I set up my user partitions via udev rule (I've named all my partitions cause something like LABEL=Arch_desk-7, & LABEL=PCLOS_desk-3 are much more human readable than any UUID={string} will ever be). Anyway, I updated the new Arch system and kept working on customizations. I kept getting interrupted so it was a couple of days later that I was comfortable enough to reboot. It does reboot, but right after the bootup screen says something about waiting for UDev events the monitor goes blank. (I expect this to happen cause the arch on my laptop does the same thing except with the laptop, the screen returns to life a moment later with a new screen font that holds true until it enters runlevel: 3 where the font I defined in my rc.conf finally takes over... But on this new desktop which has a nice Sony flat screen monitor, when the screen goes blank, the Sony monitor flashes a pop-up notification about no signal, which is quickly followed by a notice that it's going to power save mode... And the new arch system never sends it any more output to wake it up. No mater what I do to the keyboard or mouse. And no matter how long I wait either. I tried just waiting... Went to bed, got up late the next day. Still no monitor output... But Arch itself is NOT hung up. It will respond to the three fingered salute with a reboot, and I even one time blindly logged in as root to the console and blindly typed: shutdown -h now Which resulted in a powerdown. But I still don't have any idea what's killing my monitor output. I can use my PCLinuxOS installation's root account to examine/edit *ANY* file. But I don't have a clue what to look for. Suggestions anyone??? -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>>

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[arch-general] [signoff] udev-159-1
by Tobias Powalowski 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

Hi guys, udev 159 ======== Bugfixes. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] mercurial in Extra out of date
by PT M. 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

It's been a week since mercurial 1.6 released, extra/mercurial 1.5.4-1 is still in the repository. -- Arch Linuxer, Pythoner, Geek --> Blog: http://apt-blog.net

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[arch-general] xf86-input-wacom outdated
by Jan Steffens 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

xf86-input-wacom (0.10.6) is one release behind upstream (0.10.7). The package is orphaned, which may be why the flagging went unnoticed.

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[arch-general] hid2hci tool missing
by b1 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Hello altogether I am trying to get the bluetooth adapter of my dell latitude latpop to work. In many tutorials I have read of the tool hid2hci. Unfortunatelly this doesn't seem to be on my system and I can't find it elsewhere. I have bluez and bluez-utils installed. Any ideas which package might contain hid2hci? Thanks Benedikt

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[arch-general] Update Error :: system-tools-backends: requires perl>=5.12.1
by David C. Rankin 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Guys, My attempt at upgrade failed this evening due to the following perl dependency: 23:50 archangel:~> pmsu :: Synchronizing package databases... kdemod-legacy is up to date core 35.5K 108.0K/s 00:00:00 [################################] 100% extra 454.0K 129.4K/s 00:00:04 [################################] 100% community-testing 3.2K 54.9K/s 00:00:00 [################################] 100% community 376.5K 127.8K/s 00:00:03 [################################] 100% archlinuxfr 11.8K 40.6K/s 00:00:00 [################################] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: network-ups-tools: ignoring package upgrade (2.4.1-2 => 2.4.3-1) resolving dependencies... warning: cannot resolve "perl>=5.12.1", a dependency of "system-tools-backends" :: the following package(s) cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies: system-tools-backends Do you want to skip the above package(s) for this upgrade? [y/N] error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: system-tools-backends: requires perl>=5.12.1 23:51 archangel:~> pms perl :: Synchronizing package databases... kdemod-legacy is up to date core is up to date extra is up to date community-testing is up to date community is up to date archlinuxfr is up to date warning: perl-5.10.1-5 is up to date -- skipping there is nothing to do This doesn't make since as there are no perl>=5.12.1 in any of the active repositories. If system-tools-backends us in 'community' then should its dependencies also be available? -- 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 2.6.34.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] autoconf-2.66-1
by Ng Oon-Ee 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 20:11 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 03/07/10 13:58, Allan McRae wrote: > > Upstream update. Mainly bug fixes for regressions introduced in the > > last couple of releases. > > > > Recalling the signoff thread... it appears this release has issues. > > Allan Just wanting to check, what's the 'correct' procedure in cases like this? Autoconf in [testing] is 2.66, 2.65 is the 'working' one (I've seen problems in using it in one package so far), do I add it to IgnorePkg? Is it supposed to be removed from [testing]? So far I'm manually downgrading after an -Syu which is almost certainly NOT the right procedure.... neither is reporting a bug since obviously Allan knows somethings up with this release.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.16-1
by Tobias Powalowski 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

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

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Python-3.x transition with python-2.7 update
by Damjan Georgievski 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

> Python-2.7 has been releases and will be the last 2.x official release of > python. So it is time to switch to python-3.x as our /usr/bin/python and > python-2.7 as our /usr/bin/python2. See > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Python_Todo_List for all > the details about how to achieve this. What's the rationale for making Python 3.1 the "main" /usr/bin/python? A great deal of python modules still don't support 3.x, there's no WSGI standard for 3.x either so you can't make web apps (and hope to deploy them). Even less C modules are 3.x compatible, and then even less applications. And 2.7 is here to stay for a long time. I think it would be wiser to stay with 2.7 as the main python for now. And maybe switch after Python 3.3 comes out. By that time the 3.x series should have enough improvements to motivate people to port to 3.x -- damjan

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[arch-general] [signoff] hdparm-9.29-1
by Tobias Powalowski 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

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

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [PATCH 1/2] checkpkg: Use temporary working directory
by Evangelos Foutras 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

On 05/07/10 04:18, Eric Bélanger wrote: > Signed-off-by: Eric Bélanger<snowmaniscool(a)gmail.com> > --- > checkpkg | 8 ++++++++ > 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/checkpkg b/checkpkg > index 47fb672..7765d80 100755 > --- a/checkpkg > +++ b/checkpkg > @@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ if [ "$arch" == 'any' ]; then > CARCH='any' > fi > > +TEMPDIR=$(mktemp /tmp/checkpkg-script.XXXX) > +rm $TEMPDIR > +mkdir -p $TEMPDIR mktemp can be called with the -d switch and it will create a directory instead of a file. I believe that's the preferable way to go about it. > + > +cd $TEMPDIR > + > for _pkgname in ${pkgname[@]}; do > pkgfile=${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-${CARCH}${PKGEXT} > oldstylepkgfile=${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}${PKGEXT} > @@ -90,3 +96,5 @@ for _pkgname in ${pkgname[@]}; do > echo "No filename differences for $_pkgname." > fi > done > + > +echo "Files saved to $TEMPDIR"

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[arch-general] ftp.gigabit.nu / ftp.archlinux.se shutting down
by Rickard Eriksson 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

Cut from the forum where my co-admin first put this up, however it got closed with reason "trolling"... This mirror will shut down in the upcoming days. Few funny facts: * We never got contacted by anyone before we got added in the official mirror list. We just posted this thread and all of the sudden it appeared. No verification of whom we were and what our intension were. * ArchLinux is fundamentally unscalable in the package manager aspect. * ArchLinux puts the trust in the hands of every mirror owner and their security. ftp.archlinux.se is the prime example of a machine vulnerable to all sorts of things. This affect YOUR security. This is why it's being put down. If the ArchLinux authors would start signing packages this would not be a risk to you. * We posted a suggestion of this in 2006. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5331 -- This is 4 years of insecurity. * We recommend all of you to switch to a distribution caring about user security and atleast signs their packages. Most RPM and APT based distros does this (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, CentOS, SuSE, OpenSuSE, etc etc etc). Have fun. :-) Yours, Mikael & Rickard

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[arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup
by Victor Lowther 03 Jul '10

03 Jul '10

I have spent some time over the last month or so rewriting the Arch initscripts in idiomatic bash -- since they rely on bash-specific features, trying to keep them fairly POSIX is rather a waste of time and a net performance loss -- using bash-style conditionals is about 30% faster when nothing needs to be touched on the filesystem and about 200% easier to read, and you can use bash regexps in place of most trivial uses of sed, grep, and awk when mangling parameters or variables -- the fewer short-lived processes we fork the better. You can browse changes I have made in the git repo @ http://git.fnordovax.org/arch-initscripts/log/?h=bashification and you can checkout my changes to play around with from git://fnordovax.org/~victor/arch-initscripts There is a gigantic whitespace fixup patch at the end, all it does is fix all the whitespace errors I introduced while hacking and reformat everything to a consistent indentation style (emacs shell-script mode, if you are interested). I have tested these changes on a VM and on my local laptop. I inlcuded a PKGBUILD that will build an initscripts-git package, but be sure to backup and restore your rc.*local, inittab, and rc.conf files because they will get nuked the first time you install it. Questions, comments, flames, etc. welcome. I can also spam the list with patches if y'all really want. -- Victor Lowther LPIC2 UCP RHCE

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[arch-general] Last Updates w/kernel 2.6.33.4-1 -> 2.6.34-2 broke radeon driver for RS690M cards
by David C. Rankin 03 Jul '10

03 Jul '10

Guys, Just updated my laptop's spare drive and something in the last set up updates, which included the kernel, really affected the radeon driver badly. It's almost like I am back running in framebuffer mode. I'm not quite sure where to start troubleshooting as I am not familiar at all with the changes kms introduced into the radeon driver soup, but I suspect that may be where the problem lies. I have no xorg.conf, so if there are config issues, it's with the default config. When I updated to the 2.6.33 kernel (2.6.33.4-1), I was ecstatic. The radeon driver was working the best I had ever seen it. Heat control was much better and frame rate had almost quadrupedaled and compiz worked great. IIRC, I even posted here giving kudos to the devs on how good it was working. With the update to 2.6.34-2, it is worse than ever before. Specifically, compiz will no longer run -- it just whitescreens. (usually a problem with the driver NOT being loaded). However, in this casee, all of the radeon modules are loaded: [01:10 alchemy:/home/david] # lsmod | grep rad radeon 790145 2 ttm 45713 1 radeon drm_kms_helper 23740 1 radeon drm 162265 4 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper i2c_algo_bit 5071 1 radeon i2c_core 18364 5 radeon,i2c_piix4,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit The biggest problem with the new packages is HEAT. We are now back to the point where the heat generated by the gpu and driver makes it uncomfortable to rest your palms on the palm-rest to type. I don't know where to start looking. The Xorg.0.log isn't that remarkable at all. The only things that stand out are: [ 36.790] (II) UnloadModule: "fbdev" [ 36.790] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) ** from earlier discussions, this is no big deal IIRC [ 37.526] is imortant (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled [ 37.526] (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration disabled ** this doesn't look good. I guess it means no DRI -- why is the question? I know DRI is important to compiz and I'm fairly sure dri was working with the last kernel/radeon driver combination. The difference between the setup with 2.6.33 and 2.6.34 is day and night. Also, the color in thunderbird has gone green -- literally. My normal dark gray message background is now green. I guess this is somehow related to the driver issue. The full Xorg.0.log and a screenshot of green tbird are here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/Archlinux/Xorg.0.log http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/Archlinux/green-tbird.jpg I'm not sure where to start with this problem, with the xf86-video-ati package or with the kernel? What say the gurus? -- 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 -- 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 -- 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] Licensing of Arch Wiki content
by Ananda Samaddar 03 Jul '10

03 Jul '10

I notice it's all under GFDL 1.2. I'm wanting to use a Gentoo doc for the Arch Security stuff but it's under a CC-SA attribution license which is incompatible with GFDL. Would it be possible to allow Wiki content under a CC licenses? I can't see it being too controversial a choice, as in CC licenses are now widely accepted. Even the venerable RMS uses CC licenses for his personal stuff as does a lot of the FSF/GNU stuff. Ananda

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[arch-general] Catalyst-test
by Madhurya Kakati 03 Jul '10

03 Jul '10

Hi, I haven't upgrade to Xorg 1.8 yet. The problem is that i am using catalyst-test driver i.e fglrx on my system. So i wanted to know if there will be any problems if i upgrade to Xorg 1.8. The reason i am asking this question is because of this "To get it work with xorg-server >= 1.8 (when it will arrive in [extra] repo) you need patched xorg-server, you may get it from [catalyst-test-xorg18] repo, more here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=740353#p740353"

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[arch-general] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.69-1
by Eric Bélanger 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

Hi, lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.69-1 are in testing. Changes: * Upstream update * Moved dmeventd man page from lvm2 to device-mapper package Please test and signoff. Users signoffs are welcomed. Eric ChangeLog: lvm2: Version 2.02.69 - 30th June 2010 ================================ Fix vgremove to allow removal of VG with missing PVs. (2.02.52) Add metadata/vgmetadatacopies to lvm.conf. Add --metadataignore to pvcreate and vgextend. Add vg_mda_copies, pv_mda_used_count and vg_mda_used_count to reports. Describe --vgmetadatacopies in lvm.conf and other man pages. Add --[vg]metadatacopies to select number of mdas to use in a VG. Make the metadata ignore bit control read/write metadata areas in a PV. Add pvchange --metadataignore to set or clear a metadata ignore bit. Refactor metadata code to prepare for --metadataignore / --vgmetadatacopies. Ensure region_size of mirrored log does not exceed its full size. Generate liblvm2app exported symbols from header file. Preload libc locale messages to prevent reading it in memory locked state. Fix handling of simultaneous mirror image and mirrored log image failure. device-mapper: Version 1.02.51 - 30th June 2010 ================================ Generate libdevmapper exported symbols from header file.

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[arch-general] help unravelling dmesg
by aerospace1028＠hotmail.com 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

I was wondering if someone might be able to explain this to me. I was reading the output from dmesg, and found the following entry. CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT is deprecated and will be removed soon. Please use nf_conntrack.acct=1 kernel parameter, acct=1 nf_conntrack module option or sysctl net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct=1 to enable it. I'm still learning my way around as far as system administration goes. I'm not familiar with nf_conntrack. I tried adding net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct=1 to the end of my /etc/sysctl.conf file, but the messagestill persisted after re-boot. Can anyone point me to an explination (A) what the message means? (B) if I need to worry about it? (C) how to activate nf_conntrack_acct if I so choose? I'm not doing anything fancy here, just running arch on a laptop. As I said, I'm still learning, but not apposed to expanding my limitte knowledge of linux. _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28…

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Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup
by aerospace1028＠hotmail.com 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

>Message: 9 >Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:48:37 +0200 >From: Philipp ?berbacher <hollunder(a)lavabit.com> >Subject: Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate >speedup >To: arch-general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> >Message-ID: <1277916464-sup-8123@eris> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > >Excerpts from Aaron Griffin's message of 2010-06-30 17:55:40 +0200: >> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I have no idea where the number came from, but both 80 and 132 are >> >> standard column widths used for normal and wide terminals. >> > >> > should be 78 columns I do believe that's the standard for kernel/git >> > it allows for email comments more easily apparently. >> >> No, physical terminals went to 80 columns. The 78 number was likely >> related to editor chrome, such as line numbering... I'm not sure of >> the details. >> >> I believe email typically has 78 width due to the fact that "> " is >> expected for replies. > >I also read about 72, and it's my current setting for vim when editing >mails, but I have no idea where that comes from... I'm not sure if this helps or not. When i learned the fortran 77 standard, it utilized columns 7-72, anything in column 1 signified a comment, col 2-5 were reserved for labels, col 6 marked a continuation line, and columns 73-80 had significance I can't recall. The strict layout had historical significance related to punch-cards, which I believe ran 80 columns wide. The f90 standard I believe expanded the usable codespace to 132 columns, but I'm not sure exactly how that number became astandard. I think the punch-card thing might be where the 80 column value comes from though. I'm just not sure which is the chicken and which the egg. _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28…

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[arch-general] perl-xml-parser vs. perlxml: dependency probs
by Lou Garou 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

Is anybody else getting dependency errors involving the attempted replacement of perlxml by perl-xml-parser? I've got libxml-perl and perl-sml-dom both requiring perlxml, thus stopping the replacement. Should I just sit tight and let the backroom boyz fix it?

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[arch-general] [signoff] cryptsetup 1.1.2-2
by Thomas Bächler 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

This version fixes the location of the pkgconfig file (shame on me to overlook that before). Please sign off.

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[arch-general] html5 and flash was x86_64 flash debacle
by Caleb Cushing 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

sorry in order to speed up gmail I cleared all my mailing list archives so I can't reply to that thread now. http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html youtube talks about what's missing from the <video> tag. I just thought maybe some people on here would be interested. I don't actually wish to continue the argument. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] Xorg 1.8, Nvidia 6200 Videoseven monitor
by Peter Cannon 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

Hi All I have a Videoseven 19" monitor L19FM and an Nvidia 6200 graphics card the monitor's capabilities are never recognised properly by any Linux distribution so usually I use the Nvidia-settings tool. I have upgraded to Xorg release 1.8 to do so I had to remove the Nvidia-173xx driver and installed xf86-video-nv. X bombs out with the xorg.conf file in place (/etc/X11) so I moved the xorg.conf file to xorg.conf.old and X will start but only in 800x600 This is my /var/log/xor.0.log http://www.pastebin.org/367717 I tried putting my original xorg.conf http://www.pastebin.org/367716 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ as 20-nvidia.conf obviously changing the devices sections to "nv" rather than "nvidia" I get an "Out of range" message on the monitor, black screen but I wouldn't say X has bombed as such. Usually this means the refresh is wrong however as the information in the file used to work under nvidia-173xx I cant see that its that. I have HAL and udev in the daemons array of rc.conf I also use GDM which again is in the list of daemons. Any help would be appreciated.

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[arch-general] Xorg 1.8, Nvidia 6200 Videoseven monitor
by Peter Cannon 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

Hi All I have a Videoseven 19" monitor L19FM and an Nvidia 6200 graphics card the monitor's capabilities are never recognised properly by any Linux distribution so usually I use the Nvidia-settings tool. I have upgraded to Xorg release 1.8 to do so I had to remove the Nvidia-173xx driver and installed xf86-video-nv. X bombs out with the xorg.conf file in place (/etc/X11) so I moved the xorg.conf file to xorg.conf.old and X will start but only in 800x600 This is my /var/log/xor.0.log http://www.pastebin.org/367717 I tried putting my original xorg.conf http://www.pastebin.org/367716 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ as 20-nvidia.conf obviously changing the devices sections to "nv" rather than "nvidia" I get an "Out of range" message on the monitor, black screen but I wouldn't say X has bombed as such. Usually this means the refresh is wrong however as the information in the file used to work under nvidia-173xx I cant see that its that. I have HAL and udev in the daemons array of rc.conf I also use GDM which again is in the list of daemons. Any help would be appreciated.

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[arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt
by Shridhar Daithankar 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

Hello, I have removed flash after the latest problem with x86_64 release and I want to get youtube working ASAP. To that end, I downloaded nightly sources of webkit(not wanting to download the entire svn checkout) and built the qt port. However the video element is still missing, as tested on http://html5test.com. Digging into webkit build system, I discovered that it has disabled video/audio element support for qt port because the installed qt does not support phonon. from http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/qt/repos/extra-i686/PKGBUILD, phonon support is explicitly disabled during qt build. I searched around but could not find a reason for the same. I really do not want to build(more importantly maintain) my own qt build. So why is phonon support disabled in Qt? -- Regards Shridhar

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[arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file
by Attila 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

Hello together, since the new pacman a makepkg run creates a symlink to the package file in the directory of the PKGBUILD. Example: # ls -l *.gz opera-snapshot-10.60-6378.2ah-i686.pkg.tar.gz -> /server/work/archlinux/repo/opera-snapshot-10.60-6378.2ah-i686.pkg.tar.gz My differences to makepkg.conf.pacnew be this: MAKEFLAGS="-j2" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" BUILDENV=(fakeroot !distcc !color !ccache) OPTIONS=(strip !docs libtool emptydirs zipman purge) PKGDEST=/server/work/archlinux/repo PACKAGER="Attila <SysAdmin@hunnen>" PKGEXT='.pkg.tar.gz' [/server/work is a cifs mount point] Have i overseen something in the makepkg.conf to control this or does no one have this problem ... or is this a new feature which have to be so? See you, Attila

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[arch-general] ffmpeg-23619-1-x86_64 corrupted?
by F. Gr. 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

Hi, I've been updating my ArchLinux system and have getting the following: " fgr@babili ~ % sudo reflector -l 6 -r -o /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist && sudo clyde -Syyu -a :: Synchronizing package databases... core 35,4K 80,9K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100% extra 452,9K 79,4K/s 00:00:06 [######################] 100% community 377,3K 81,8K/s 00:00:05 [######################] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Synchronizing AUR database... aur 33/ 33 [#########################################] 100% resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (1): ffmpeg-23619-1 Total Download Size: 0,00 MB Total Installed Size: 16,35 MB ==> Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y checking package integrity... :: File ffmpeg-23619-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted. Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] " Is there any problem with it?

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[arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL
by Nilesh Govindarajan 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

I have made a patch for /usr/share/hal/fdi/20-storage-methods.fdi to force async file transfer for vfat filesystems by commenting out flush and sync as valid options from the list. I checked the thing, now I'm getting the old high speed USB transfer. Do take a look at it, and comment. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] Totem leaves dvd mounted after quitting
by David C. Rankin 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

Guys, This may be normal, but I thought we had moved beyond having to manually unmount CD/DVDs after use -- so I have either messed something up or there is a lingering problem. The setup - new i686 install updated through today. I never watch DVDs on the computer, but my son wanted to watch one and his sister had my laptop watching another movie on it, so I set his box up to watch DVDs using totem in gnome. After gathering all the dvdread/nav/etc.. all played just fine on his nvidia 9600 card and the nvidia 256.35-1 module. The problem occurred after I stopped the dvd and then exited totem. When I tried to eject the DVD, it wouldn't -- the drive was still mounted (confirmed with mount). Unmounting the drive fixed the problem, but I was left wondering --> surely we shouldn't be still stuck with manually unmounting DVDs in Gnome?? This being the first DVD I've tried to play, I didn't know, so I thought I would put it out to the community for a quick answer and try to figure out if this was something that needs reporting. Bug? -- 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] Bash Tcp
by Nilesh Govindarajan 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

Hi, After writing my skypechecker bash daemon which restarts skype if it crashes while pidgin is running or closes skype if pidgin crashes, I want to play with bash more, but this time using TCP connections :D But it seems /dev/tcp is not enabled on bash ??? How do I enable that ? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] Kernel panic after installing avr tools
by John Black 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

Maybe someone could help me out. I would like to report a bug but I am not quite sure what happened. I made a parallel port micro controller programmer on Sunday. Since my desktop system does not have a parallel port anymore [noticed this after I was done :( ] I connected the programmer to my server which is/was running a couple month old version of ARCH i686. I proceeded to install these packages: avr-libc avrdude binutils-avr gcc-avr I *think* that (this was late at night) one of the dependencies was new linux-headers but no kernel. I answered all with yes and the installation started. As soon as it was done I could no longer execute commands and my system would only return "Illegal instruction". I restarted using the reset switch and was greeted by a kernel panic. All options on the grub boot menu will result in a kernel panic. I tried to follow this guide http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Panics but when I want to chroot I get "Illegal instruction". The file system is mountable and everything appears to be fine. I searched around a bit and it appears that this sort of thing happens when you use an i686 kernel with a i386 computer but this system used to run fine. I was about to reload this machine but maybe someone could help me figure out what happened exactly so that this can be prevented in the future? Here are the machine specs: OS: Arch i686 (2-3 months old) Mainboard: VIA EPIA-M (I think this has a 1GHz CPU) RAM: 1GB Storage: LVM 2x 250GB special configuration: grub2, /boot on LVM installed: apache2, php5, mysql, samba, sshd Any takers :) ? -- John Wo Unrecht zu Recht wird, wird Widerstand zur Pflicht. [Bertolt Brecht]

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[arch-general] perl help missing DateTime::Format::ISO8601
by Ionuț Bîru 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

Hi guys, i was working on updating mythtv and i have a problem finding the proper perl package. I'm not a perl guy myself and i found in aur perl-date-iso8601. The problem is that is not installed in the proper place. /usr/share/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/Date/ISO8601.pm and the check is done in DateTime/Format/ISO8601.pm check_pl_lib DateTime::Format::ISO8601 perl -e use DateTime::Format::ISO8601; Can't locate DateTime/Format/ISO8601.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 /usr/share/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1. the building is done with: perl Build.PL ./Build --installdirs=vendor ./Build test ./Build install destdir=$pkgdir is this not the package that i need or the building is wrong? -- Ionuț

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[arch-general] [signoff] udev-158-1
by Tobias Powalowski 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

Hi guys, udev 158 ======== Bugfixes. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] (no subject)
by Calvin McAnarney 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

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[arch-general] Deletion request
by Lukáš Jirkovský 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

Hello, please remove package pmt (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22689) which I maintain. There are several reasons for it: 1) I don't want to maintain it anymore 2)A little background is needed here. pmt used to be a part of [extra] but because of lack of interest it was moved to AUR where I adopted it. It contains several png handling tools (pngcrush, png2bmp, bmp2png, pngmeta) but only one is really maintained – it's pngcrush. As time gone by it was more and more difficult to keep all tools working with new libraries in Arch. Then I found out someone packaged pngcrush itself (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22877) and now it has much more votes than pmt ever had. png2bmp/bmp2png can be easily replaced with imagemagick convert. I'm not sure about pngmeta, but it didn't have a release since 2001 so I guess this one would be a big loss either. Thanks, Lukas

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[arch-general] devtmpfs
by Damjan Georgievski 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

Now that DEVTMPFS is enabled by default in the Arch configuration, what are its benefits? Can I make an initramfs without udev now? And if I do will I be able to use root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/xx-yy-zz-etc or any of the similar kernel command line options? -- damjan

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[arch-general] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.68-1
by Eric Bélanger 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

Hi, lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.68-1 is now in testing. Changes: * Upstream update * Fixed tr path in lvmdump Please test and signoff. Users' signoffs are welcomed. Eric Upstream ChangeLog: lvm2: Version 2.02.68 - 23rd June 2010 ================================ Fix clvmd initscript status to print only active clustered LVs. Add lv_path to reports to offer full /dev pathname. Fix typo in warning message about missing device with allocated data areas. Add device name and offset to raw_read_mda_header error messages. Honour log argument when down-converting stacked mirror. Sleep to workaround clvmd -S race: socket closed early and server drops cmd. Use early udev synchronisation and update of dev nodes for clustered mirrors. Remove incorrect inclusion of kdev_t.h from cmirrord/functions.h. Add man pages for lvmconf and non-existent lvmsadc and lvmsar tools. Exit successfully when using -o help (but not -o +help) with LVM reports. Do not use internal DLM lock definitions in generic LVM2 clvmd code. Add --force, --nofsck and --resizefs to lvresize/extend/reduce man pages. Fix lvm2cmd example in documentation. Allow use of lvm2app and lvm2cmd headers in C++ code. Remove unused #includes from clvmd files and introduce clvmd-common.h. Move common inclusions to clvmd-common.h. Use #include "" for libdevmapper.h and configure.h throughout tree. Fix LVM_PATH expansion when exec_prefix=NONE. (2.02.67) Fix segfault in clvmd -R if no response from daemon received. Version 2.02.67 - 4th June 2010 =============================== Handle failed restart of clvmd using -S switch properly. Fix clvmd initscript restart command to start clvmd if not yet running. Use built-in absolute paths in clvmd (clvmd restart and PV and LV queries). Require partial option in lvchange --refresh for partial LVs. Do not fail lvm_init() if init_logging() or _init_rand() generates an errno. Don't merge unchanged persistent cache file before dumping if tool scanned. Fix incorrect memory pool deallocation while using vg_read for files. Add --type parameter description to the lvcreate man page. Replace strncmp kernel version number checks with proper ones. Avoid selecting names under /dev/block if there is an alternative. Update clustered log kernel module name to log-userspace for 2.6.31 onwards. Add replicators' LVs to dtree for activation. Supress activation message if there is a missing replicator VG. Fix scripts/relpath.awk to work in mawk Extend lock_vol to check for missing replicator VGs first. Update _process_one_vg and process_each_lv_in_vg to populate cmd_vg. Add cmd_vg structure and associated functions for replicator. Extend _lv_each_dependency() to handle replicator dependencies. Add check_replicator_segment() to catch internal replicator errors. Initial support for replicator metadata. Extend process_each_lv_in_vg() to provide list of failed lvnames. Consistently return ECMD_FAILED if process_each_*lv() is interrupted. device-mapper: Version 1.02.50 - 23rd June 2010 ================================ Fix INTERNAL_ERROR typo in ioctl iface unknown task message. Fix udev rules to handle spurious events properly. Use C99 [] not [0] in dm_ulog_request struct to avoid abort when fortified. Allow use of devmapper header file in C++ mode (extern "C" and __typeof__). Add dmeventd man page. Version 1.02.49 - 4th June 2010 =============================== Support autoloading of dm-mod module for kernels from 2.6.35. Document 'clear' in dmsetup man page. Fix semctl parameter (union) to avoid misaligned parameter on some arches. Add dm_tree_node_set_presuspend_node() to presuspend child when deactivating. Initial support for replicator target.

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[arch-general] Xorg 1.8 & Nouveau dependencies
by Michishige Kaito 26 Jun '10

26 Jun '10

Hey, So, we all heard it doesn't need HAL anymore. But what does it need? It would seem like it depends on either "nvidia" or "nvidia-utils" because I got rid of those last night and now X won't start. Well... it _does_ start, but all I get is a bunch of nice coloured stripes across the screen in random angles and sizes. I'm not really sure how to handle this, since I can't seem to access my system now. I'm burning an arch ISO while I type, and gonna try that. Whilst... any tips?

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 68, Issue 76
by jelle＠vdwaa.nl 26 Jun '10

26 Jun '10

> Message: 10 > Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:40:04 -0400 > From: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] VLC and Wine have been out-of-date too > long. > To: ape(a)ape3000.com, General Discussion about Arch Linux > <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTimWf9EH0uWXuVtEsgW9QwOd1j7wlMFAgrjLTve3(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Lauri Niskanen <ape(a)ape3000.com> wrote: >> VLC 1.1.0 was released about a week ago and Wine 1.2-rc1 was released on >> 2010-05-21. Now there is Wine 1.2-rc5. >> > > let's please NOT take a policy of releasing 'release candidates' as > stable to our users, RC's belong on AUR. also a week? that's it? get > some patience, you want to complain... perl 5.12 is going on 6 months > fast (and yes I am continuing to complain about that). Considering that the wine RC's also have some major regression issue's, i fully agree with Caleb. If you really want wine rc, grab it from the arch-games repo [arch-games] Server = http://repo.exigen.org/arch/games/$ARCH/ Although it's still -rc4 there. And if you really don't like it if your not full bleeding, use testing or abs :)

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[arch-general] VLC and Wine have been out-of-date too long.
by Lauri Niskanen 26 Jun '10

26 Jun '10

Hello, usually Arch Linux have had very quick updates to packages when the upstream bumbed a version. However, I am slightly annoyed by the fact that VLC [1] and Wine [2] have been out-of-date for a long time. VLC 1.1.0 was released about a week ago and Wine 1.2-rc1 was released on 2010-05-21. Now there is Wine 1.2-rc5. I should also note that regardless of the Wine being a release candidate it is as stable release as 1.1.x-versions including the currently packaged 1.1.44. The officially "stable" version is 1.0.1, but 1.1.x and 1.2rc are considered very stable, yet they are officially both "development version". I agree with the one who packaged 1.1.x in Arch, it is stable enough for Arch and 1.0.1 is just too out date. Please update vlc to 1.1.0 and Wine to 1.2-rc5. [1] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/vlc/ [2] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/wine/ -- Ape <Lauri Niskanen>

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[arch-general] VLC and Wine have been out-of-date too long.
by Lauri Niskanen 26 Jun '10

26 Jun '10

Hello, usually Arch Linux have had very quick updates to packages when the upstream bumbed a version. However, I am slightly annoyed by the fact that VLC [1] and Wine [2] have been out-of-date for a long time. VLC 1.1.0 was released about a week ago and Wine 1.2-rc1 was released on 2010-05-21. Now there is Wine 1.2-rc5. I should also note that regardless of the Wine being a release candidate it is as stable release as 1.1.x-versions including the currently packaged 1.1.44. The officially "stable" version is 1.0.1, but 1.1.x and 1.2rc are considered very stable, yet they are officially both "development version". I agree with the one who packaged 1.1.x in Arch, it is stable enough for Arch and 1.0.1 is just too out date. Please update vlc to 1.1.0 and Wine to 1.2-rc5. [1] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/vlc/ [2] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/wine/ -- Ape <Lauri Niskanen>

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[arch-general] Archiso with custom kernel
by Andre "Osku" Schmidt 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

Hello, i was wondering if anyone has tips on how i could combine these two: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archiso http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Customization_with_kernel26_Pack… to create a custom kernel for an archiso image ? (replacing/removing the arch stock kernel) i have successfully created various images with archiso, even with custom packages. but this kernel stuff just gets over my knowledge, and i fail on booting with my custom one (if its even build correctly...) cheers .andre

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[arch-general] Arch Linux
by Josef Tupag 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

Has anyone tried Arch Linux on their thinkpad? I just want to know how fast it is. I don't like the long boot that is found in Ubuntu and many other distro. Josef Tupag best humidifiers <http://thebesthumidifiers.com>

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[arch-general] Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders
by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

[***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 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 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 RE: Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders Dear Sir/Madam, I have uploaded photos, videos, and audios of myself, scanned images of my ECG Graphs, laboratory blood test reports, X-Ray films and medical notes to Facebook (Facebook account: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)) and other preferred image 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 ether. 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 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 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 cloud 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. 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). I am actually on home leave today to write this letter. 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 indel (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. Yours sincerely, Mr. Teo En Ming Hanyu Pinyin Name: Zhang Enming Citizenship: Singapore Citizen Facebook: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Mobile Phone (Starhub Prepaid): +65-8369-2618 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: teo.en.ming(at)gmx.com

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[arch-general] Need software to do a few tasks.
by Madhurya Kakati 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

Hi, I need a few apps for media transcoding and video and audio editing. Thanks

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[arch-general] Weird problem with firefox
by Nilesh Govindarajan 24 Jun '10

24 Jun '10

When I try to use google groups on firefox, it keeps redirecting in a loop. groups.google.com homepage loads, then when I click on any group, it goes to google's ssl for login validation, then back to groups then again to ssl... keeps going on. What can be the problem ? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] b43: wireless issues
by Magnus Therning 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

I'm having problems getting my wireless connection to work properly. It's a broadcom card, using the b43 driver. It connects fine on login, but once I actually use the network I'm disconnected and all attempts to re-connect fail. I've found some reports of similar behaviour online, but none seem to offer any good solutions to it :-( So I'm trying my luck in here instead. One person mentioned that things started working much better if he limited the network to 802.11b (not g), but I haven't seen any obvious way of achieving this. Any hints on what I can do to test that myself? $ lspci -vnn |grep 14e4 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01) I did extract some stuff from dmesg that might be of importance, but I really couldn't tell: b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode15.fw b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0initvals15.fw b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0bsinitvals15.fw b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 00:50:23) b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x00000800, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000 b43-phy0 ERROR: This device does not support DMA on your system. Please use PIO instead. b43-phy0: Controller RESET (DMA error) ... b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 00:50:23) b43-phy0: Controller restarted Cheers, 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] Important notice on the Arch Security Team to the whole Arch Linux community.
by Ananda Samaddar 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

Dear Arch community, I thought I'd post a follow up on some of the things said in the last thread I created on this list. I'm using upper case for headings just to make things easier to read and not to shout! Please post or cc all follow ups to the Arch General list, and read this message carefully before replying. 1. DISCUSSION ABOUT SECURITY ON ARCH-GENERAL AND THE GOOGLE GROUP It's been mentioned that because my proposition for an arch-security list was rejected, I'm trying to circumvent that by posting stuff about setting up a security team to arch-general. That's not my intention. I am proposing a compromise. Internal communications on security issues will be kept to the Google Group. An irregular 'newsletter' will be posted to arch-general when major things are done to keep Arch users who are not on the Google Group informed. Also when security alerts do eventually start getting issued they *will* be posted to arch-general. I believe that all Arch users should benefit from the work that will be getting done. Doing it this way will keep email traffic on security issues on arch-general to a minimum. 2. THE RELEVANCE AND USEFULNESS OF AN ARCH SECURITY TEAM. There's been some murmurings that this undertaking is pointless. Happily this has mostly come from users and not developers. In fact it has the direct or indirect support of at least two Arch developers, Pierre Schmitz and Hugo Doria: http://www.osnews.com/story/22692/Arch_Linux_Team/page6/ This is just as much an experiment as anything else. It remains to be seen if setting up an Arch Security team is worthwhile. Evidence based on other distros seems to point to the fact that it is. If you are not convinced that's fine, but please provide constructive criticism and not mindless trolling like suggesting naming a security team after a Mexican food dish or the British English slang word for buttocks. If you don't want any part of this, other than the odd email on arch-general you won't be hindered or pestered in any way. 3. WE NEED YOUR HELP There is no Arch security team as of now. Hopefully there soon will be. If you want to help it would be helpful if you have the following skills or experience: -Ability to modify PKGBUILDs, rebuild and test packages. -Know how to patch and compile software -Are willing to subscribe to several security related mailing lists -Know basic usage of GPG in email -Are willing to hang out in the arch-security IRC channel -Are willing to file bugs in the Arch bug tracker You don't need to be security guru, just willing to help out, learn and with a desire to make our favourite Linux distro even better than it already is. If you want to help out please subscribe to the Google Group and submit a message with the subject "I want to join the team", without quotes. http://groups.google.com/group/arch-security If you don't have or don't want to create a Google account, please send me a personal email and I'll add you to the member list. 4. SCOPE OF THE SECURITY TEAM It is my intention that at this point, the security team will only deal with finding and fixing security related issues. This will entail providing interim pkgbuilds, reporting issues on the bug tracker and sending out alert notices via email. All communications to the 'outside world' (emails, wiki articles etc) from the team will state that (for now) the team's work is completely unofficial and unsupported by the Arch Developers. This is to avoid sullying the reputation of the Arch developers. 5. LONG TERM GOALS Most Arch stuff starts out as external projects than then merge with the main distro. If our work turns out to be useful, and I hope it will be, I would like us to become an official Arch Team. We could then having something like Debian does, with two mailing lists, one for security discussion and a read only list where announcements are posted. The details of this remain to be determined as this initiative is only just starting out. 6. FINAL WORDS I hope this message has made things a bit clearer for everyone. I won't start on the actual process/policy documents till after this weekend coming as I have some things to attend to before that. Of course feel free to suggest things on the Google Group, I'd like to make things as open and transparent over there as possible. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to post on the Google Group or email me personally. Thanks, Ananda Samaddar

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[arch-general] How to install perl plugins in pidgin ?
by Nilesh Govindarajan 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

How to install perl plugins in pidgin ? The default pidgin doesn't have perl support, so I compiled it with --enable-perl from ABS, but the perl plugin in ~/.purple/plugins with executable perm doesn't show up in the list. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] - makepkg now aborts automatically with any errors during packaging
by Evgeny Burmentyev 22 Jun '10

22 Jun '10

Hello. With such an addition, how do I make a given command not interrupt makepkg? Like command || ignore_errors

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[arch-general] Kudos to the Arch devs!
by David C. Rankin 22 Jun '10

22 Jun '10

Devs, As mentioned earlier, after my HD tanked, I did my first Gnome only install using the Arch 2010-05 install media. Except for my FU forgetting mkswap, the install is picture perfect. Further, since the radeon/dri/mesa modules are mature enough that they handle gpu downclocking during idle clock ticks, there is no further reason to hang onto the fglrx driver and limp suse 11.0 along on my laptops. Gnome 2.30 is near perfect, the packaging is, from what I can tell so far, perfect, and a simple 'rsync -au otherbox:/var/cache/pacman/pkg /var/cache/pacman' seals the deal. Great Job Devs. That brings my total Arch installs to 7, including my 2 primary servers. Arch has nailed what a distro should be and that's something worth jealously guarding against the pressures of change ;-) -- 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] vala pkgbuild
by Damien Churchill 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

Since vala 0.9.2 is now out I figured I'd update the PKGBUILD for it, just a simple version bump and sha256sum update. http://pastie.org/1014264

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Xorg 1.8 moves to extra
by Nilesh Govindarajan 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

On 06/21/2010 02:31 AM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Andreas Radke wrote: > Andreas Radke wrote: > > This release works with udev for input hotplugging and supports > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf as a replacement for the hal .fdi files. After > upgrading to this release, configuration for input devices in hal is ignored. > Documentation about this change can be found on: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#xorg.conf.d_.28Xorg_1.8.29 Nvidia-173xx > and -96xx drivers currently don't support the new Xorg release. We recommend > using the xf86-video-nouveau driver package for now. > > URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/ > _______________________________________________ > arch-announce mailing list > arch-announce(a)archlinux.org > http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] Gnome clock
by Ignacio Galmarino 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

After updating my system today and logging into gnome i get a dialog with the following error: The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet". and im offered the option to delete the clock applet. Any idea what goes wrong ? Ignacio

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[arch-general] New Arch Install - Swap Won't Activate - Help the clueless?
by David C. Rankin 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

Guys, I'm laughing at myself for being unable to get swap activated. Initially, when I breezed through the install, I forgot to set /dev/sdb6 to type 82 so the box came up with swap off (2G of ram so not much of an issue) But now, I want to activate it and I get an error activating swap that frankly, I have never seen before: [11:27 dcrgx2:~] # swapon -a swapon: /dev/sdb6: read swap header failed: Invalid argument Huh? Here are the current details of the install: [11:26 dcrgx2:~] # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 16 488386584 sdb 8 17 1 sdb1 8 21 144522 sdb5 8 22 1951866 sdb6 8 23 29294496 sdb7 8 24 456992991 sdb8 8 0 39062500 sda 8 1 40131 sda1 8 2 39005820 sda2 [11:26 dcrgx2:~] # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0005cd36 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 60801 488384001 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 * 1 18 144522 83 Linux /dev/sdb6 19 261 1951866 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb7 262 3908 29294496 83 Linux /dev/sdb8 3909 60801 456992991 83 Linux # # /etc/fstab: static file system information # # <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0 #/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 #/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 #/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0 UUID=30247a6b-c639-4180-9b44-3535ade87de2 /home ext4 defaults 0 1 UUID=73356263-d92f-4914-bb0d-07f5611b5709 / ext3 defaults 0 1 UUID=de71b9f1-a954-4d41-84c2-926de89d1edb /boot ext3 defaults 0 1 It looks to me like swap should activate. What am I missing? Thanks for any insight you can lend here. -- 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] xterm letters show up with strange bars
by PT M. 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

In fact this happeded weeks before, maybe after upgrading to xorg1.8, when typing in xterm, it left with each letter with an annoying vertical line. [see the image attached] I believe this has something to do with compiz-wm, if I switch to the other window and switch back, those lines gone, but still appear when new letters typed in. And if I switch to the default Metacity wm, nothing annoying any more. Any people encounter such problem? I switch to urxvt instead as the terminal this days. installed packages: [i686] *compiz-core 0.8.6-2 xorg-server 1.8.1-1 xterm 259-1* -- Arch Linuxer, Pythoner, Geek --> Blog: http://apt-blog.net

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[arch-general] REG_RIP undeclared
by Lukáš Jirkovský 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

Hello everyone, recently I've a problem building rawstudio-svn on x86_64. Unfortunately it seems that the problem doesn't lie in the rawstudio itself, because I'm not able to build any older revision which I was able to build before. The error is: application.c: In function ‘segfault_sigaction’: application.c:599:56: error: ‘REG_RIP’ undeclared (first use in this function) application.c:599:56: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in application.c:617:44: error: ‘REG_RAX’ undeclared (first use in this function) application.c:619:30: error: ‘REG_RBX’ undeclared (first use in this function) application.c:621:30: error: ‘REG_RCX’ undeclared (first use in this function) application.c:623:30: error: ‘REG_RDX’ undeclared (first use in this function) application.c:625:30: error: ‘REG_RSI’ undeclared (first use in this function) application.c:627:30: error: ‘REG_RDI’ undeclared (first use in this function) application.c:629:30: error: ‘REG_R8’ undeclared (first use in this function) application.c:631:30: error: ‘REG_R9’ undeclared (first use in this function) application.c:633:30: error: ‘REG_R10’ undeclared (first use in this function) application.c:635:30: error: ‘REG_R11’ undeclared (first use in this function) application.c:637:30: error: ‘REG_R12’ undeclared (first use in this function) application.c:639:30: error: ‘REG_R13’ undeclared (first use in this function) application.c:641:30: error: ‘REG_R14’ undeclared (first use in this function) application.c:643:30: error: ‘REG_R15’ undeclared (first use in this function) application.c:645:30: error: ‘REG_RSP’ undeclared (first use in this function) I did a grep on /usr/include and /usr/lib but nothing defines any of these. My guess is that the problem may be caused by a new gcc. I should note I already searched on google but without any success (most results were saying that instead of REG_EIP, REG_EAX and others the REG_RIP etc. should be used on 64bit systems). What do you think where is the source of the problem? Regards, Lukas

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[arch-general] Boost
by Daniel Bumke 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

Hi, Does anyone know what's going on with boost? It seems it was downgraded from 1.42.0 to 1.41.0 a while back, and hasn't been updated to the latest 1.43.0. I was going to build the latest on my machine, but if there's something wrong with it I might hold off or go with the older version. I know there was some talk about splitting it up; is that the reason? Daniel

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[arch-general] [alert] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: apr_thread_create: unable to create worker thread
by Nilesh Govindarajan 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

A newly configured apache installation keeps emitting this error. It was compiled from scratch with worker MPM. The settings for worker MPM is below: StartServers 5 MaxClients 250 MinSpareThreads 5 MaxSpareThreads 10 ThreadsPerChild 50 MaxRequestsPerChild 0 It is an OpenVZ VPS with kernel 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.028stab068.9 and RAM 512 MB. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.34-2
by Thomas Bächler 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

This release will be moved to core after signoff, together with linux-firmware, initscripts, udev and mkinitcpio. Changes compared to -1: Remove kernel26-firmware package, it is replaced by linux-firmware added new tcp options FS#19604 (tpowa) Enable devtmpfs Add makedepends to build kernel26-{manpages,docs} properly Fix makepkg -R Please sign off.

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Re: [arch-general] WARNING boost 1.43 enter testing
by Ionuț Bîru 20 Jun '10

20 Jun '10

On 06/18/2010 04:06 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > Hi DEVs/TUs, > > this new version has been split into boost-libs and boost. Now boost is > a makedepends and boost-libs a depends. > > If you rebuild a package that is not yours, please check to see if a new > upstream version is available, mostly to be compatible with boost >1.41. > encfs and schroot is two that comes in my head right now. > > Others, please test it and let me know via bugtracker if we have any > problems with the new boost. > > i know there was a problem with gcc 4.5 but every patch that i found, is > already applied in this version. > the rebuilding is over and i would prefer to let them in testing couples of days more. I would appreciate some feedback especially from encfs users -- Ionuț

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[arch-general] Where have my 135 MB of memory gone?
by Evangelos Foutras 20 Jun '10

20 Jun '10

Hi everyone, This isn't exactly a serious issue, but it's something that's been bugging me for some time now. Today, after spending a few hours searching the Internet for information and trying some boot options (i.e.: setting iommu to stuff like noagp and noaperture,) I've decided to ask on this mailing list, hoping that someone more knowledgeable might be able to help me figure this out. I have 4 GB of memory installed on my Arch x86_64 desktop computer. The integrated graphics chipset is using 128 MB of those 4096 MB, along with another 128 MB from the sideport memory that exists on the motherboard. That should leave me with 3968 MB of usable memory. However, /proc/meminfo [1] (and `free -m') reports 3833 MB, which is 135 MB less than the expected amount. In `dmesg' output, I also see the following line: Memory: 3857352k/4849664k available (3481k kernel code, 787336k absent, 204976k reserved, 1790k data, 480k init) which says that ~200 MB are reserved. This doesn't match the 135 MB I calculated above, but could possibly include it. So, what's going on here? Where and how is my missing memory being used? Thanks in advance for any replies/suggestions. :) ---- [1] http://codepad.org/SGJbaS05 (/proc/meminfo contents) [2] http://codepad.org/6vgofmKc (dmesg output)

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[arch-general] PulseAudio in [extra]
by Jan Steffens 20 Jun '10

20 Jun '10

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > In this situation, we should go with a case by case approach. If > adding pulseaudio support to a package doesn't force the use of a > pulseaudio setup, then we build with it and add a pulseaudio > optdepends (or depends as required). In cases like gnome-media, we > provide a pulse and non-pulse version of the package. Having both of > these versions in extra would enable us to use split PKGBUILD to build > them. So it will add no extra work for you. > > Of course, we have to wait what the other devs have to say. IIRC the > past pulseaudio discussions, the main stumbling block (I don't recall > other issues) was that no dev wanted to maintain it. As you are > interested in it and with the jr dev scheme, that issue seem to be > resolved. I *am* interested in getting pulseaudio into [extra], and created a more detailed plan of what to do: http://gist.github.com/444917 Any comments are welcome. I am willing to apply as a junior dev to get this done, should it be approved.

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[arch-general] Slim login manager is logging everything
by Ananda Samaddar 20 Jun '10

20 Jun '10

I'm using Slim as my login manager and it's logging absolutely everything. Things like gstreamer and alsa errors. This is making the log file huge, of the order of 8 gb when compressed. Can anyone think of a solution? I could always use the hack of putting the logfile in /tmp but I don't want to do that. /var is not on a separate partition and I'm not prepared to re-partition my system. Obviously with such large logfiles I'm getting performance issues. I'm an XFCE user so I'd like to avoid kdm and gdm. Are are there any other alternative X11 login apps other than xdm that don't depend on GNOME or KDE if I can't fix my issue with Slim? thanks, Ananda

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[arch-general] Counting Lines of Code
by Gaurish Sharma 19 Jun '10

19 Jun '10

Hi, I am trying to get a rough idea on total line of code in my php project. Currently, I use this command. $ ( find ./ -name '*.php' -print0 | xargs -0 cat ) | wc -l But it empty lines/comments, hence the figure is huge. Any other Alternative? Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com

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[arch-general] gnome only install - installing compiz pulls in kde4-runtime?? Why?
by David C. Rankin 19 Jun '10

19 Jun '10

Guys, First install with the 2010-5 dual net install on an i686 box. Kudos, install was painless. Only issue was I had my pkg/ dir on a usb stick and I couldn't get the installer to use it for install. I mounted it where it was supposed to be mounted according to the installer (don't remember exactly /src/core/pkg or the like). It couldn't find the core.blah package... This is the first install where I haven't install kde/kdm. For this install, I only installed gnome/gdm. I don't want kde4 within 10 feet of this box. I do want compiz installed. When I installed compiz, it pulled in kde4 runtime, the compiz-decorator-kde, kdelibs, etc.. Why? Can't I just have a gnome box with compiz? Can I uninstall the kde4 mess? -- 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] Mysqld won't start
by Nilesh Govindarajan 19 Jun '10

19 Jun '10

I compiled mysqld from ABS with some flag modification. But it doesn't start and I see this in the error log: 00619 12:44:23 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql /usr/sbin/mysqld: Table 'plugin' is read only 100619 12:44:23 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it. 100619 12:44:23 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't create/write to file '/var/lib/mysql/s1.mrova.com.pid' (Errcode: 13) 100619 12:44:23 [ERROR] Can't start server: can't create PID file: Permission denied 100619 12:44:23 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/lib/mysql/s1.mrova.com.pid ended It complains about this pid file or the socket. For now I have configured no socket in my.cnf, so I get the pid-file error. Also I tried chmod 777 -Rf on /var/lib/mysql and /var/run/mysqld, but still its the same. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] Upgrading from Arch 0.8 O.o
by Nilesh Govindarajan 19 Jun '10

19 Jun '10

I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] perl-5.12
by Caleb Cushing 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

So is there anything I can do to help to get this in stable? I haven't had any problems personally in over a month. I think the only bug still open for rebuilds is the dbd* one. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] How do I get my Canon MP630 working under Arch?
by Jordan Windsor 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

I would like to get my Canon MP630 (all in one) printer working under Arch, I only need the printing abilities though. I have installed the following packages and read the Arch wiki CUPS article along with many other websites: cnijfilter-common 3.00-3 hal-cups-utils cups-canon cups libcups I've tried adding the printer with the following URI's: cnijusb:/dev/usb/lp2 hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_4a9_172e_30AFBE_if1_printer_noserial I've been unable to get it to print a test page. Thanks!

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[arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?
by Ananda Samaddar 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

On to the first order of business. As the subject says, what should security team be called. Hopefully we can get a few suggestions and then reach a consensus. Arch Linux Security Task Force just sounds like too much of a mouthful to me. I was brooding over this and I thought some sort of acronym that's an actual word would sound better, so I came up with this: 'Arch Response Team for Security' or ARTS. It's a bit cheesy and cheats a bit to get the acronym but is instantly memorable. I'm aware arts was also a KDE technology but it has long since been deprecated. Ideas? Ananda

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[arch-general] intel video & suspend
by Sergey Manucharian 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

Hi folks, Regularly I put my ThinkPad R61 into suspend twice a day, and everything worked perfectly until 2.6.32 and 2.6.33 kernels. Now from time to time (≈ once a week) when I wake it up, the screen remains black in both X and text console. Nothing can bring it back, but everything else works just fine. No errors in logs either. The suspend is done with: # echo -n mem >/sys/power/state (just the stock /etc/acpi/handler.sh of acpid package) I have Intel GM965 card and run xorg-server-1.7.6-3. Driver: xf86-video-intel-2.10.0-1 I found that there are a couple of patches [1,2] for i915 and intel bios were made in Nov-Dec 2009 to fix such problems, and they were supposed to be in 2.6.33, but my problem persists. Does anybody have ideas/info? Thanks, Sergey [1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87828 [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/62734/

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[arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.
by Ananda Samaddar 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

I've created a Google Group here for discussion around creating an Arch Security Team: http://groups.google.com/group/arch-security Please join it if you're interested. The reason for this group is in response to my rejected suggestion for an arch-security mailing list. I'll CC any policy or process suggestions to arch-general, but when announcements happen and also discussion regarding specific vulnerabilities and mitigation they won't be CCed. If an Arch Security Team comes coalesces and the Devs are happy to integrate us officially then we can consider deleting the group and if possible transferring the archives to archlinux.org. Ananda

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[arch-general] mplayer 31428-1 broken without libvpx.so.0
by PT M. 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

after recent update, mplayer failed to load with such error: $ mplayer > mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libvpx.so.0: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > this so i think is supposed by libvpx, but: $ pacman -Ql libvpx|grep /usr/lib > libvpx /usr/lib/ > libvpx /usr/lib/libvpx.a > only a static lib is supplied. libvpx is about the VP8 Codec which is newly added to ffmpeg and mplayer, but this does this need some fix. -- Arch Linuxer, Pythoner, Geek --> Blog: http://apt-blog.net

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