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[arch-general] leafnode not allowing connection (connection refused)
by Geoffrey Lane 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

I'm just playing around a bit with leafnode. It installed ok, and no dependancy crud. But I cannot connect to it The FQDN is set to my dynamic dns server my leafnode config file has been setup with user/pass, server, port my hosts.allow/deny are actually removed for now, and there is no firewall running I can run the leafnode program/daemon and it shows it is running // 200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.11.7 running at [dns] (my fqdn: [dns]) // I should be able to use slrn or even telnet to connect but it says connection refused. I looked in the logs for refusal or error msg and all I found was in News.log -- and there didn't seem to be problems. Here's the output, it seems to say the connection to x-privat was successfull: // Nov 26 23:06:11 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: news.x-privat.org: connected to 194.177.98.144:119, reply: 200 Nov 26 23:06:12 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: news.x-privat.org: 0 articles posted. Nov 26 23:06:13 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: news.x-privat.org: getting all newsgroups (debug: active: nil, forceactive: true) Nov 26 23:06:19 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: <215 list of newsgroup names follow Nov 26 23:06:28 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: news.x-privat.org: reading server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.x-privat.org Nov 26 23:06:28 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: wrote active file with 22485 lines Nov 26 23:06:28 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: child has process ID 6070 Nov 28 16:23:26 Desktop leafnode[30420]: connect from (local file) (no IP) to [dns] (no IP) (my fqdn: [dns]) // Oh and initial fetch does work: // [root@Desktop log]# sudo fetchnews -vvv -n alt.os.linux.ubuntu -x 2000 leafnode 1.11.7: verbosity level is 3, debugmode is 0 Don't automatically unsubscribe unread newsgroups. try_lock(timeout=5), fqdn="[fqdn]" news.x-privat.org: connecting to port nntp... news.x-privat.org: connected to 194.177.98.144:119, reply: 200 news.x-privat.org: connected. news.x-privat.org: using STAT <message-ID> command. news.x-privat.org: authenticated as [user] news.x-privat.org: 0 articles posted. news.x-privat.org: getting new newsgroups news.x-privat.org: got 0 new newsgroups. news.x-privat.org: reading server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.x-privat.org news.x-privat.org: conversation completed, disconnected. wrote active file with 22485 lines Started process to update overview data in the background. Network activity has finished. // Anybody have any ideas why the connection is refused? I'm not sure which avenue to follow now since it won't even allow localhost. I saw no howto for arch so not sure if there are any additional steps needed. I've more or less followed the howto for ubuntu here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=676837 I'd appreciate any help at all thankies Geo -- "'Bill Gates can't guarantee Windows, so how in the HELL can you guarantee our safety!' --John Crichton (Farscape)"

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[arch-general] Can`t post on bbs
by Dimytch 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Hi all I can`t register on archlinux bbs - site say "your email was banned". (yandex.ru) What did I do??? I`ve never been registered on this site, and I use my email about 4 years, so nobody did`nt used my email for something wrong. Also it says the same for address on mail.ru. Ppl, do you hate russian? //Dimytch

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[arch-general] [signoff] ar9170-fw-1.0-2-any
by Giovanni Scafora 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Hi guys, please signoff. ar9170-fw-1.0-2-any After signoff, I will be moving it from testing to core. Note: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16837 I have got already a signoff by Martin Dratva (raqua). -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

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[arch-general] Please update boost from [extra] - PKGBUILD attached
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Boost in [extra] has been out-of-date since 1830 (and marked as such) and even though I mailed the maintainer two weeks ago no update happened. Here is my updated PKGBUILD for 1.41.0 which is actually a bit neater than before since no silly patches are required anymore. I'm currently running this package and see no trouble. Please use this to update boost in [extra] :). -- Sven-Hendrik # $Id: PKGBUILD 47703 2009-07-25 14:37:19Z giovanni $ # Maintainer: kevin <kevin(a)archlinux.org> # TU: Kritoke <kritoke(a)gamebox.net> # Contributor: Luca Roccia <little_rock(a)users.sourceforge.net> # Contributor: Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh(a)lutzhaase.com> pkgname=boost pkgver=1.41.0 _boostver=${pkgver//./_} pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries." arch=(i686 x86_64) url="http://www.boost.org/" depends=('python>=2.5' 'bzip2' 'zlib') source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/${pkgname}/${pkgname}_… license=('custom') options=(!ccache) md5sums=('8bb65e133907db727a2a825c5400d0a6') build() { cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver} #export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fno-strict-aliasing" #export CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -fno-strict-aliasing" # build bjam cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver}/tools/jam/src ./build.sh cc || return 1 _bindir="bin.linuxx86" [ "${CARCH}" = "x86_64" ] && _bindir="bin.linuxx86_64" install -m755 -d ${pkgdir}/usr/bin install -m755 ${_bindir}/bjam ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/bjam || return 1 # build bcp cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver}/tools/bcp ../jam/src/${_bindir}/bjam || return 1 install -m755 ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver}/dist/bin/bcp \ ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/bcp || return 1 # build libs cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver} # default "minimal" install: "release link=shared,static # runtime-link=shared threading=multi" # --layout=tagged will add the "-mt" suffix for multithreaded libraries # and installs includes in /usr/include/boost. # --layout=system no longer adds the -mt suffix for multi-threaded libs. ./tools/jam/src/${_bindir}/bjam \ release debug-symbols=off threading=single,multi \ runtime-link=shared link=shared,static \ cflags=-fno-strict-aliasing \ --prefix=${pkgdir}/usr \ -sPYTHON_ROOT=/usr \ -sPYTHON_VERSION=2.6 \ -sTOOLS=gcc \ --layout=tagged \ install || return 1 # --with-wave install || return 1 # -d2 <- debug cflags=-fno-strict-aliasing \ # build pyste cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver}/libs/python/pyste/install python setup.py install --root=${pkgdir} || return 1 # license install -m755 -d ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname} install -m644 ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver}/LICENSE_1_0.txt \ ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/ || return 1 }

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[arch-general] [signoff] mdadm-3.1.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi Changelog: http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm;a=blob;f=ANNOUNCE-3.1.1;h=9e480dc0e31582… Please update and recreate your initcpio after upgrading. Moved udev rule for md devices to mdadm package. In case of moving, both need to be moved simultaniously. Still an issue in initscripts: One thing i observed, when using a custom /etc/mdadm.conf file our rc.sysinit will run mdadm --assemble --scan, which will always give exit code 2, due to devices busy. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] usable browser?
by Robert Howard 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

I don't understand why people want to use software that has no features. If something has more than one feature, people bitch about bloat. FF is not that bad nor is Seamonkey or any of the webkit stuff. On Nov 26, 2009 9:52 PM, "Thomas Bewick" <tombewick(a)gmail.com> wrote: Tobias Kieslich wrote: > > dillo, simplistic, bone simple, limitations on the functionality > Bottom... Seamonkey is quite fast. Although I am not using it now I have in the past and I know it is used extensively in Puppylinux because it is full featured and light weight, even including a mail client. Since it is developed by Mozilla it is very similar to FF in functionality but does not have all the extras that slow FF down. I agree that FF has gotten very bloated in the last few years, I think to compete with and explorer and make windows users happy. But as a result the browser is not what it used to be. I currently use chrome both on windows and in Arch and it runs the fastest of any others for me.

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[arch-general] Upgrading libwebkit finds conflict between udev and initscripts
by Samuel Baldwin 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

I have no idea why this happens, and I'm too afraid to let udev clobber initscripts to let this go through. Should I just let it go? What's up with this? arrakis^~# pacman -Sy libwebkit :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: udev conflicts with initscripts. Remove initscripts? [Y/n] n error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: udev: conflicts with initscripts -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

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Re: [arch-general] How to set keyboard configurations without touching xorg.con neither hal rules...
by Javier Vasquez 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

On 10/27/09, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Usually I set the following: > > Option "XkbLayout" "latam,us" > Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch, grp:alt_shift_toggle" > Just a follow up to close this, :-) This can be done through: setxkbmap -layout "latam,us" -option "lv3:ralt_switch" -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle" which in turn can be included under .xinitrc or .xsession... -- Javier.

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[arch-general] Gnome - howto configure sound? Sound is silent, beep is loud (as heck)?
by David C. Rankin 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Guys, This is my first real work with gnome. Initially when I first installed arch, it seems like I had sound (I think that was before gstreamer), now I have no sound for desktop apps, but the system beep is so loud it will scare the heck out of you when you backspace too far, etc... I need to reverse both. Sound works in everything but gnome. I know it was working in gnome, but now something isn't working or is conflicted. I know for a fact virtualbox had good sound in gnome, now I get an error from XP saying that it is defaulting to 'null' sound. See screenshot: (40k) http://www.3111skyline.com/download/dt/gnome/vboxSoundError.jpg The big problem is I don't know how to configure the sound in gnome. I found this "Configuration Editor", but other than finding a few sound settings, I'm not sure what to do with it. I suspect, on a gut feeling I need to rip gstreamer out and go bact to asls or something else. But what? Here are some additional symptoms. The thing I first notice is my volume control is X'ed out and if I click on it, I get the error: "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found." In the Configuration Editor, the sound settings I found look like this. / apps desktop gnome <snip> sound /desktop/gnome/sound/default_mixer_device <empty> /desktop/gnome/sound/default_mixer_tracks [] /desktop/gnome/sound/enable_esd unchecked /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds checked /desktop/gnome/sound/input_feedback_sounds unchecked /desktop/gnome/sound/theme_name freedesktop <snip> schemas (all by <schema>) <snip> system gstreamer 0.10 audio global /system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/global/profile_list profiles cdlossy ogg, cdlossless flac, aac m4a, mp2 mp2, mp3 mp3, voicelossless wav, voicelossy spx default audiosink autoaudiosink audiosink_description default audiosrc alsasrc audiosrc_description default (chat music and video all default) Well that doesn't mean a whole lot of shinola to me at all. If some of our great list companions has any expertise with sound in gnome, I really would appreciate a bit of help or at least a point in the right direction on whether I trash gstreamer and work to configure alsa of a good webpage where this is discussed would be fine. As always, if you need anything else, please do not hesitate to ask. I'm more than happy to do the work on my end to learn how to fix this. 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] New install configuring php - only get text - feeling stupid -- help!
by David C. Rankin 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Guys, I can't believe this. On my new arch install on my laptop, I'm finally getting around to configuring the web server and I am having trouble with php. When I try and access a php page, all I get is the text of the script echoed to the browser. I have heard about this happening before and I think I have even fixed it before, but I can't for the life of me remember how? I've been through the wiki at: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LAMP I have the following loaded: php 5.3.1-2 php-apache 5.3.1-2 php-curl 5.3.1-2 php-docs 5.3.0-1 php-enchant 5.3.1-2 php-gd 5.3.1-2 php-gmp 5.3.1-2 php-intl 5.3.1-2 php-ldap 5.3.1-2 php-mcrypt 5.3.1-2 php-odbc 5.3.1-2 php-pear 5.3.1-2 php-pgsql 5.3.1-2 php-pspell 5.3.1-2 php-snmp 5.3.1-2 php-sqlite 5.3.1-2 php-tidy 5.3.1-2 php-xsl 5.3.1-2 My php config in httpd.conf is: LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm Include conf/extra/php5_module.conf I've configured php and php works from the command line just fine and will dump phpinfo() to a terminal, but from my browser pointed at: http://localhost/dcr/phpinfo.php all I get is: "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" (no quotes) which is nothing more than the content of my test script. I have also configured php.ini with the proper: open_basedir =.:/srv/http:/usr/share/pear:/home:/tmp:/var/lib/egroupware <snip> include_path = ".:/srv/http/secure:/srv/http/htdocs:/srv/http/dl:/usr/share/pear:/srv/http" to accomadate the php include and defined the directory to /dcr. In fact I can browse /dcr just fine, but clicking on the phpinfo() script just returns the text of the script like all my other pages. What's the trick? (yes, I've stopped and restarted httpd...) -- 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] zd1211-firmware-1.4-3-any switched to arch=any
by Giovanni Scafora 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hi guys, I'm looking for user signoffs on the upgrade not killing the device. zd1211-firmware-1.4-3-any After signoffs, I will be moving it from testing to core. Thanks. -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

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[arch-general] Post Install for RAID Configuration?
by Carlos Williams 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

I have a stand alone server running Arch 2009.08 x64 and it was configured via the 'Netinst' CD however during the time of the installation, the server had only one physical disk. I installed the system as follows: * /dev/sda1 = swap * /dev/sda2 = boot * /dev/sda3 = / * /dev/sda4 = /var Now I have since obtained identical drives on this system which show up as /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc. Both of the new drives are identical. I have the system running perfectly however I would like to create /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc in a mirror. I can use 'cfdisk' utility to create RAID partitions on the newly installed drives using the 'fd' code. Can I simply just use 'mdadm' utility to create a mirror after I create the partitions with out messing up my configured / working Arch Linux server? Code: mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 The Wiki has a write up (which I have never been able to get working) on RAID / LVM but this appears to be configured during the installation of Arch which I have already done. Not to mention I have followed the Wiki guide dozens of times to no avail. I even gave up on trying to install the swap and root partitions on the RAID and just do /home and it still fails. Anyone know if I will run into any issues?

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[arch-general] Need Text-to-Speech
by Keith 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, at 22:16:58 -0500, Daenyth Blank wrote: > This article may help: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_for_the_blind and my well have saved sound's sanity, if not tried life. I knew such a play existed but finding it was beyond my abilities. Thank you SO much, Daenyth. I'll (*briefly*) post progress (which will be slow, through the codeine fog ATM; doc with likely be giving me something MUCH stronger in 8 hours, so I'd best move fast...). Peace to you, Daenyth.

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[arch-general] svn:keywords is not set on newer packages
by Evangelos Foutras 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hello, The $Id$ keyword came up while talking with Angel and I realized that the svn:keywords property doesn't get set on PKGBUILD for new packages, and thus $Id$ doesn't get updated on commit. I believe we should fix this, as this information is useful when determining when a PKGBUILD was last modified and by whom. May I suggest we do the following: 1) Edit the "Adding a package" section [1] of the packaging instructions in the DeveloperWiki to include this step. (Adding `svn propset svn:keywords "Id" new-package/trunk/PKGBUILD' below the $EDITOR line perhaps?) 2) Add this property to all packages (this has been done once before by Aaron, if I remember correctly). What's your view on this? ---- [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:HOWTO_Be_A_Packager#Addin…

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[arch-general] Need Text-to-Speech
by Keith 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hello. Please excuse my spelling; it's why I'm writing. In the past 3-4 weeks (or less), I've developed a very intense case of "alexia" (I'd never heard of it befor, either). If anyone might be interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexia_%28disorder%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexia_%28acquired_dyslexia%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia#History My hearing and speech are completely unaffected. My reading and writing are about 99% dysfunctional. I face the bigging fight of me life, and am not able to comprehend more than 1-2% of any of the links above - or much more than that of the ArchLinx home page, for that matter. I'm in VERY bad need of a simple but effective text-to-speech program. If it can read/render a web-page, and plan text, that'll a darned go start. I'll be (very) slow to reply to posts; my assistant to 100% non-technical, but I well do my best; 10-15 minutes reading = a 5 hour migraine. This post today 5 hours to written, until I afraid for assistance. Ok - AMD x86_64. TIA in the extreme.

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[arch-general] Akonadi control process not registered at D-Bus, committing suicide! -- WTF?
by David C. Rankin 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Guys, I'm trying to figure out what akonadi is doing on my new install, (moreover how to pronouce it's name), and what I am faced with is some strange errors. Specifically, the "Akonadi Server Self-Test Report" that appears when Akonadi crashes is located at: (9k) http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/akonodi-error-on-start.t… I found the following recently closed bug, and either it is something else that is happening, or there may be a regression: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16341?string=ed I also found the following, but I'm still having problems: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=85088 Admittedly, I know very little about akonadi, and whether I have packages missing, a config error, or if akonadi is having problems. So, if anybody can help or offer a link or two to some useful information, I would appreciate it. 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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32 experiences
by Damjan Georgievski 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

> I've built kernel 2.6.32rc8git1. My ati/radeon drm modules now > requires its own firmware that will be part of new kernel26-firmware > pkg. > > And we need to fix mkinitcpio to include that firmware for kms early > mode that now fails due to missing firmware. It did not help to add > FILES="/lib/firmware/radeon/R300_cp.bin" :( - maybe we need a new hook > for that. did you enable the firmware hook? I wonder how all of this will work on my HD3200 -- damjan

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[arch-general] We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium...
by Hamo 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

Dear Archlinux users, Chrome is likely to be a daily-use web browser and with the Chrome OS releasing,it will become more and more reliable.Archlinux is a rolling-release distribution and it aims at being bleeding edge.So we should have a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium and it is really useful... -- Nick Name:Hamo Website:http://hamobai.com/

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[arch-general] [PATCH] send hostname to DHCP server / router
by Suraj Kurapati 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

Hello, For the longest time, the default ArchLinux networking setup had one deficiency: it would not send the machine hostname to the DHCP server / router when acquiring a DHCP lease. As a result, I was never able to ping/ssh my ArchLinux system by its hostname from other machines in my home network --- instead, I was always forced to type out my ArchLinux system's IP address in full. I looked high and low across the 'net before I finally found the answer in the dhcpcd.conf man page: the solution is to add the following line to your /etc/dhcpcd.conf file: hostname One thing that confused me is this line in the default ArchLinux /etc/dhcpd.conf file: # dhcpcd-run-hooks uses these options. option domain_name_servers, domain_name, domain_search, host_name The "option host_name" part *seems* like it would send your machine's hostname to the DHCP server, but it really doesn't. Maybe that's a bug? I request the developers in charge of the default ArchLinux networking setup to make the above change, so that ArchLinux systems send their hostnames to the DHCP server (and therefore can be pinged/ssh'ed/accessed by their hostname) out of the box! Thanks for your consideration.

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[arch-general] Borken kernel-2.6.31.6-1.tar.gz ?
by David Dupin 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hi, It seems that kernel-2.6.31.6-1.tar.gz is broken and can't be updated on i686 arch. On my x86_64 it works fine. If i unzip the download package i get message "invalid compressed data--format violated" Someone can confirm it ? PS : i try more than one repo but all fails.

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[arch-general] The ultimate Home Theater / media center computer
by RedShift 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hi list Somehow I got it into my head that I want a home theater PC. I'm growing tired of having to watch television and movies on my computer's 17" LCD screen. At the shop I used to work at, once in a while we'd build a media center computer, but the concept never really took off here (Belgium). There are many reasons for that, such as: * Television is major suckage here (thanks to That Big Company and Government-Not-Governing). The entire country is split into very small regions where broadcast frequencies differ, there's no unified TV guide system, not all regions can receive all channels. Digital television is even worse: That Big Company forces you to buy one of their proprietary decoders. The only way to receive digital television without restrictions is DVB-T with a very limited number of channels (basically nothing). * At that time, the hardware sucked (noisy, too big, not stylish enough to put it along your other hi-fi components, not powerful enough, limited digital outputs, etc...). The software wasn't much better (too complicated, took a long time to start, etc...). Anyway, my goal is to build the *ULTIMATE* HTPC. As such, strong demands must be met: The hardware: * It should be stylish, a timeless look which fits with your other hi-fi components. * It must be entirely silent. Zero moving components. No exceptions. * Unrestricted fully digital outputs. * Must be able to play at least 720p MKV's using x264 encoded video. * Easy remote control. No remote controls with more buttons than there are stars in the sky and certainly no "dual function" buttons (those functions in a different color which you need to flick a switch or are context dependent). * Able to receive DVB-C. The software: * There is no room for "Digital Rights Management" fascism. All content must play flawless and in the highest quality possible. In some cases this will mean circumventing protections. That'll probably make the device illegal in some countries, but I don't care. * Easy user interface (also see hardware remote control point). * Can connect to NAS or other storage devices such as USB sticks. In total: * Must be a complete replacement for your DVD player and other media devices. The goal here is keeping the number of remote controls down. Ideally you should only have two: one for controlling your HTPC and one for your hi-fi set. * It is geared towards modern television, that means stuff like HDTV and no legacy connector stuff (like composite). With those goals set, I started looking for hardware. Here's what I've come up with: * Case: Silverstone LC19 http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_spec.php?pno=lc19&area=usa + Fanless PSU. + Casefans can be removed + Comes with PCI-e and PCI risercards + Integrated cardreader and slimline optical slot + Available in black and silver + Accommodates standard ATX I/O shield + Room for a 3.5" storage device (SSD?) + Vents right above the CPU + Slim - Fits only small motherboard sizes - Only 120 watt PSU - No infrared receiver, no remote control * Motherboard: Asus P5N7A-VM http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=8YiUFvK51IergAqY&templete=2 + Powerful on-board graphics (nVidia 9300) + Supports 16 GB of RAM + eSATA port + Optical audio output + HDMI, DVI and VGA video output + Gigabit ethernet + Solid caps - nVidia on-board graphics (requiring proprietary driver) - On-board graphics use system memory - Crappy realtek audio codec * DVB-C receiver: ? I have zero experience with DVB-C receivers for computers. I've come across the "DVBWorldDTV Cable" (http://www.worlddvb.com/product/htm/pcic.htm) which seems to provide what I'm looking for. Anyone know how good this hardware actually is and how well it's supported by linux? I have an old hauppauge PVR-350 card which works well, unfortunately hauppauge doesn't seem to have DVB-C products. * Remote control: ? I want to have something simple here. Maybe a small USB infrared receiver and a simple remote control with buttons up, down, left, right, enter? Anyone know if such hardware exists? * Processor: Intel Celeron? No idea how much processing power would be required for a decent HTPC. Preferably as low powered as possible, as the CPU will have to be passively cooled. * Processor cooling: ? I was thinking of a big block with small fins which you see a lot in 1U rackservers. Copper would be the logical choice but from what I've read, aluminum allows for better heat transfer to the environment. So a copper base with alu fins would be ideal. * Storage: ? For storing the operating system I was thinking of those IDE compact flash cards. Downside is that they are very slow. An SSD can be considered but I want to leave the option open to use the 3.5" bay for a hard drive for people that don't have the luxury of a NAS or don't want to leave a NAS running all times. Moving along. The most annoying aspect: software. Obviously we want all our software to be open source. A shortlist of open source media center software: * MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org/) * XBMC (http://xbmc.org/) * Elisa (http://elisa.fluendo.com/) The point I really want to focus on is ease of use. Take this as a benchmark: you only have to explain your parents once how it works. Any suggestions, comments, thoughts, etc... are appreciated. Thanks, Best regards, Glenn

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[arch-general] stability of pbzip2 ?
by Ian-Xue Li 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi, I'm quote fond of pbzip2's ability to multitask the compression, which comes really handy when backuping large archives of server files. But just heard from my friend: pbzip2 has stability issues, sometimes leads to corruption of archive, and hence unable to recover them. I wonder if this is true (in the sense that anyone once had a problem with pbzip2), because myself had never run into one of them. If so, it really a shame to abandon such a good tool though... -- Ian-Xue Li <da.mi.spirit(a)gmail.com>

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[arch-general] MUA
by Arvid Picciani 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Mutt grows old and still doesn't do threads the way i want. i've tried sup, but find it too early in development. Especcially it is unusable slow. Can somone recommend another MUA? thanks -- Arvid Asgaard Technologies

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[arch-general] Test - Sorry but good reason for it. Please ignore
by Geoff 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Sorry to post a test message, but I am an infrequent poster whose e-mails have not been getting through. I wrote to the list admins about it a while ago but got no response, so I have unsubscribed / resubscribed.

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[arch-general] pam settings INSECURE
by Caleb Cushing 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

so here's the problem I've discovered http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com/2009/11/bypassing-disabled-accounts-with-… < links to arch bug included posting here because I believe both kde's and arch's developers responses are less than satisfactory. This is a security bug an easy to fix without making users lives more difficult. so I'm starting with /etc/pam.d/login auth required pam_shells.so #add this: why let someone login who has an invalid shells. /etc/pam.d/kdm # I'm pretty sure it should be 99% the same as login since it allows logins. #%PAM-1.0 auth requisite pam_nologin.so auth required pam_unix.so nullok auth required pam_shells.so # as my blog says setting an invalid shell is a common way of disabling accounts. auth required pam_tally.so onerr=succeed file=/var/log/faillog # use this to lockout accounts for 10 minutes after 3 failed attempts #auth required pam_tally.so deny=2 unlock_time=600 onerr=succeed file=/ account required pam_access.so account required pam_time.so account required pam_unix.so password required pam_unix.so #password required pam_cracklib.so difok=2 minlen=8 dcredit=2 ocredit=2 ret #password required pam_unix.so md5 shadow use_authtok session required pam_unix.so session required pam_env.so session required pam_limits.so also I believe pam_tally2 replaces pam_tally may wish to consider migrating (non urgent next release?) -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 61, Issue 39
by jelle van der waa 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Re: We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium... (Juan Diego) There are enough arch user maintained repo's, you could ask them to package it beside that how much work is AUR ;) 2009/11/18 <arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org> > Send arch-general mailing list submissions to > arch-general(a)archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > arch-general-owner(a)archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of arch-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: MUA (Alexandr Bashmakov) > 2. Re: pam settings INSECURE (bender02) > 3. Re: pam settings INSECURE (Xavier) > 4. Re: pam settings INSECURE (bender02) > 5. Re: pam settings INSECURE (Jan de Groot) > 6. We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium... (Hamo) > 7. Re: pam settings INSECURE (Xavier) > 8. Re: We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium... (Daenyth Blank) > 9. Re: We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium... (Juan Diego) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:26:04 +0700 > From: Alexandr Bashmakov <alex.teorver(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] MUA > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: > <7d16d2700911180226q14e0d1bbtf1ad3095687a38a5(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > http://notmuchmail.org/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:58:46 +0100 > From: bender02 <bender02(a)archlinux.us> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] pam settings INSECURE > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: > <6eefa5460911180358n14f3937esc3a3dea388c09ef3(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 2009/11/18 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee(a)gmail.com>: > > The *disadvantage* is that the devs/maintainers have to patch up-stream. > > This should be kept to a minimum, primarily to reduce their workload, > > and also because it is ASSUMED that if you use Arch, you're capable of > > doing the Right Thing (tm) according to your situation, or at least > > finding out how to. > > If you would take the time to look at the packages that are involved > in this (namely shadow and kdebase-workspace), you'd see that both > /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/kde are manually suplied alongside the > PKGBUILDs. So in this case, it's not "patching" but straight > "replacing" the "upstream". > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:07:39 +0100 > From: Xavier <shiningxc(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] pam settings INSECURE > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: > <91752840911180507l43f7899ncea46da9f73e2e1e(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > so here's the problem I've discovered > > > http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com/2009/11/bypassing-disabled-accounts-with-… > > < links to arch bug included posting here because I believe both kde's > > and arch's developers responses are less than satisfactory. This is a > > security bug an easy to fix without making users lives more difficult. > > > > so I'm starting with /etc/pam.d/login > > > > auth ? ? ? ?required ? ?pam_shells.so #add this: why let someone login > > who has an invalid shells. > > > > > > /etc/pam.d/kdm # I'm pretty sure it should be 99% the same as login > > since it allows logins. > > > > #%PAM-1.0 > > auth ? ? ? ?requisite ? pam_nologin.so > > auth ? ? ? ?required ? ?pam_unix.so nullok > > auth ? ? ? ?required ? ?pam_shells.so # as my blog says setting an > > invalid shell is a common way of disabling accounts. > > auth ? ? ? ?required ? ?pam_tally.so onerr=succeed file=/var/log/faillog > > # use this to lockout accounts for 10 minutes after 3 failed attempts > > #auth ? ? ? required ? ?pam_tally.so deny=2 unlock_time=600 onerr=succeed > file=/ > > account ? ? required ? ?pam_access.so > > account ? ? required ? ?pam_time.so > > account ? ? required ? ?pam_unix.so > > password ? ?required ? ?pam_unix.so > > #password ? required ? ?pam_cracklib.so difok=2 minlen=8 dcredit=2 > ocredit=2 ret > > #password ? required ? ?pam_unix.so md5 shadow use_authtok > > session ? ? required ? ?pam_unix.so > > session ? ? required ? ?pam_env.so > > session ? ? required ? ?pam_limits.so > > > > also I believe pam_tally2 replaces pam_tally may wish to consider > > migrating (non urgent next release?) > > > > So basically you just need to add "auth required > pam_shells.so" to all pam files related to login, correct ? > Or what were the other problematic settings of pam.d/kde ? > > The comments about this being an upstream problem are invalid, as > these pam files are all shipped by arch : > http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/kdebase-workspace/trunk/ > http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/shadow/trunk/login > > Note that this problem probably exists with all login managers. For > example gdm does not have pam_shells.so either. > http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/gdm/trunk/ > > And I am curious to know what the pam settings of other distro are > (debian,fedora,gentoo,..). > > Finally, maybe it makes sense to try keeping all the different pam > login files as consistent as possible. But I don't know enough about > pam to tell. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:17:24 +0100 > From: bender02 <bender02(a)archlinux.us> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] pam settings INSECURE > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: > <6eefa5460911180517m50a1edcbt518c04950f7203bb(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Xavier <shiningxc(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > And I am curious to know what the pam settings of other distro are > > (debian,fedora,gentoo,..). > > > > Finally, maybe it makes sense to try keeping all the different pam > > login files as consistent as possible. But I don't know enough about > > pam to tell. > > Some other distros (opensuse, ubuntu, fedora at least) use > 'common-auth' (and probably some other 'common-*' files) in > /etc/pam.d/, which are then included in the particular pam files. > Hence all pam files are consistent. On the other hand, if you need > more fine-grained control, you need to edit and consolidate more files > than with the current arch setup. [I like arch's system better, but > who cares about that :)] > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:24:24 +0100 > From: Jan de Groot <jan(a)jgc.homeip.net> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] pam settings INSECURE > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: <1258550664.4737.4.camel@jan> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:17 +0100, bender02 wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Xavier <shiningxc(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > And I am curious to know what the pam settings of other distro are > > > (debian,fedora,gentoo,..). > > > > > > Finally, maybe it makes sense to try keeping all the different pam > > > login files as consistent as possible. But I don't know enough about > > > pam to tell. > > > > Some other distros (opensuse, ubuntu, fedora at least) use > > 'common-auth' (and probably some other 'common-*' files) in > > /etc/pam.d/, which are then included in the particular pam files. > > Hence all pam files are consistent. On the other hand, if you need > > more fine-grained control, you need to edit and consolidate more files > > than with the current arch setup. [I like arch's system better, but > > who cares about that :)] > > The reason for shipping custom pam files is because we don't have > common-* files in arch. The gdm file is a straight copy from the login > file, with some added modules for gnome-keyring to get that daemon > started on login. With common-auth, we could just @include common-auth > from the pam file, which is much easier. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:48:26 +0800 > From: Hamo <hamo.by(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [arch-general] We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium... > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Message-ID: > <55b9903b0911180548r19eda9b9x1687aab9085c11eb(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear Archlinux users, > Chrome is likely to be a daily-use web browser and with the Chrome OS > releasing,it will become more and more reliable.Archlinux is a > rolling-release distribution and it aims at being bleeding edge.So we > should have a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium and it is really > useful... > > -- > Nick Name:Hamo > Website:http://hamobai.com/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:52:42 +0100 > From: Xavier <shiningxc(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] pam settings INSECURE > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: > <91752840911180552u6626b43at10e6e2c7667a2426(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jan de Groot <jan(a)jgc.homeip.net> wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:17 +0100, bender02 wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Xavier <shiningxc(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> > And I am curious to know what the pam settings of other distro are > >> > (debian,fedora,gentoo,..). > >> > > >> > Finally, maybe it makes sense to try keeping all the different pam > >> > login files as consistent as possible. But I don't know enough about > >> > pam to tell. > >> > >> Some other distros (opensuse, ubuntu, fedora at least) use > >> 'common-auth' (and probably some other 'common-*' files) in > >> /etc/pam.d/, which are then included in the particular pam files. > >> Hence all pam files are consistent. On the other hand, if you need > >> more fine-grained control, you need to edit and consolidate more files > >> than with the current arch setup. [I like arch's system better, but > >> who cares about that :)] > > > > The reason for shipping custom pam files is because we don't have > > common-* files in arch. The gdm file is a straight copy from the login > > file, with some added modules for gnome-keyring to get that daemon > > started on login. With common-auth, we could just @include common-auth > > from the pam file, which is much easier. > > > > > > That sounds good. > I filed http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17188 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:54:40 -0500 > From: Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch(a)gmail.com <daenyth%2Barch(a)gmail.com>> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] We need a maintained-by-TU > chrome/chromium... > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: > <ea09a6380911180554w59527b1bg81fd22d94fa75d55(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 08:48, Hamo <hamo.by(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Archlinux users, > > Chrome is likely to be a daily-use web browser and with the Chrome OS > > releasing,it will become more and more reliable.Archlinux is a > > rolling-release distribution and it aims at being bleeding edge.So we > > should have a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium and it is really > > useful... > > > If you're interested, I recommend finding a sponsor so that you can > apply... > > There are lots of software projects that would be good to have, but it > only makes sense to keep them in the repos if someone is interested in > maintaining them. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:05:06 +0900 > From: Juan Diego <juantascon(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] We need a maintained-by-TU > chrome/chromium... > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: > <b3095c50911180605h211fe211oee2a7b3902ab482a(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I would be happy to maintain that package, but unfortunately Im not a TU > > dont you think archlinux should have something similar to ppa from > ubuntu so that it will be easier to maintain and promote personal > repositories, aur is a good option but if I would have to choose > between using a packages from aur or using a package from a personal > repository from somebody I wouldnt think it twice, I would choose the > personal repo one. > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch(a)gmail.com<daenyth%2Barch(a)gmail.com>> > wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 08:48, Hamo <hamo.by(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Archlinux users, > >> Chrome is likely to be a daily-use web browser and with the Chrome OS > >> releasing,it will become more and more reliable.Archlinux is a > >> rolling-release distribution and it aims at being bleeding edge.So we > >> should have a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium and it is really > >> useful... > >> > > If you're interested, I recommend finding a sponsor so that you can > apply... > > > > There are lots of software projects that would be good to have, but it > > only makes sense to keep them in the repos if someone is interested in > > maintaining them. > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > arch-general mailing list > arch-general(a)archlinux.org > http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-general > > > End of arch-general Digest, Vol 61, Issue 39 > ******************************************** > -- Jelle

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[arch-general] archlinuxfr bad virtualbox_bin-3.0.10-1 package
by David C. Rankin 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Guys, The archlinuxfr server has a bad virtualbox package on it. There is a lot of things virtualbox is, but one thing it isn't is an 8 meg package: :: Retrieving packages from archlinuxfr... error: failed retrieving file 'virtualbox_bin-3.0.10-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.bz2' from repo.archlinux.fr : Not Found 22:57 alchemy:~/img/arch> pms virtualbox_bin :: Synchronizing package databases... testing 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 resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (1): virtualbox_bin-3.0.10-1 Total Download Size: 8.09 MB Total Installed Size: 88.87 MB Probably just a bad rsync... -- 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] First install of gnome on Arch, pretty cool... (new artwork this time :-)
by David C. Rankin 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Guys, Looking at the new desktop, I just had to take a screenshot and share. I never install gnome, but since I had enlightenment installed and a bunch of bits and pieces of gnome installed --> Why not? Working with it for a short period of time, I was quite pleased with it. Compiz works great with it, dark themes work as well. The base install is really crisp like kde3 was. (but like any desktop, you load it down with enough bells and whistles it slows down a bit) Long story short, I created a new cube cap for Arch (since it was pointed out my first set was of the old logo) and when done, I just had to send the screenshot in, so: (82k) http://www.3111skyline.com/download/ss/arch/archGnomeCompiz.jpg The Artwork for the caps: (108k) http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/archCaps.png If you like the artwork, use it at will... -- 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] only detect 1 cpu
by viodreamlistas＠gmail.com 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hi all! I have got a quad core procesor but my archlinux only detect 1 cpu. --- $ uname -a Linux Nemesis 2.6.31-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 23 10:03:24 CEST 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux --- $ cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz cpu cores : 1 .... --- I dont know how to do to detect the 4 cpus. Any sugestions? Thanks in advance! PD: Sorry for mi english. -- V!ODREAM

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Re: [arch-general] old firewire stack?
by Roberto Malinverni 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

> I believe the kernel can only have 1 compiled at a time, so > you'll have to compile a custom kernel with the new stack... You _can_ compile both of them, but you need to blacklist the modules you don't want to use. > Last time we visited this topic, the new stack was incomplete > and unstable, and it also said so in the kernel configuration > menu. As I don't have any firewire devices, I never really > cared. Should we dump the old stack and switch to the new one > in the upgrade to 2.6.32? The Fedora Team switched to the new stack around fedora 8/9, causing a lot of troubles to the users: third party repos began then to offer the "old" modules as an addon. As for myself, the new stack couldn't even see my firewire external HD while the old stack worked fine - don't know with other kind of hardware. 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] netcfg v2.5 in [testing] - auto wireless configuration has changed
by James Rayner 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

netcfg v2.5rc1 This is easily the biggest release since 2.0. Many new features and some significant changes under the hood. There are also a few features which have had changed options and this needs to be noted. The most notable is that net-auto has been removed in favour of the net auto wireless setup. # Move to new auto-wireless The new automatic connection has proper roaming support and will prove more reliable than the old setup - particularly with more complicated wireless configurations. To migrate to the new automatic wireless setup: 1. pacman -S core/wpa_actiond 2. Set WIRELESS_INTERFACE="" to your wireless interface in /etc/rc.conf. For example WIRELESS_INTERFACE="wlan0" 3. Add net-auto-wireless to your DAEMONS=() array. # New features: - net-auto-wireless/wpa_actiond - Real wireless roaming/auto connection. Based on same principle as autowifi. Requires optional dependency: wpa_actiond - net-auto-wired - automatic ethernet configuration. Requires optional dependency: ifplugd - Interface configurations - set options for all profiles using an interface - Radio Kill switch awareness - requires enabling, see wiki. - Output hooks - Significant internal cleanup & improvement # Internal changes: - Uses wpa_supplicant for all wireless configuration by default, including wep/none security. This adds improves support for most and should improve reliability. - Uses iproute by default for all static configuration. net_tools which contains ifconfig is effectively obsolete and hasnt seen a release for over 8 years. The 'ethernet-iproute' and 'ethernet' connection types have been merged together to simply 'ethernet'. All options are still supported and existing configurations will continue to work for both types. A symlink has been made to ensure that profiles using 'ethernet-iproute' will continue to function. # Changes in configuration options - net-auto and AUTO_NETWORKS is now deprecated in favour of net-auto-wireless/net-auto-wired. - wireless: If you were previously specifying the wpa_supplicant driver in WPA_OPTS, you now need to specify it in WPA_DRIVER. - wireless: iwconfig based configuration for wep/none can be used by changing to wep-old or none-old. This should not be necessary and is left in place only for the possibility of very old drivers that do not support wpa_supplicant. - ethernet-iproute: Now that 'ethernet' is iproute based, those using 'ethernet-iproute' can change the name back. There is a symlink in place however, so existing configurations of either name will continue to function regardless. - wireless-dbus: This idea didn't really go anywhere and is now unsupported. The wpa_supplicant dbus interface is a huge pain and it doesn't fit well into the netcfg codebase. It is no longer included, however netcfg will automatically use 'wireless' for any 'wireless-dbus' configurations as the supported options are effectively the same. # Download: netcfg 2.5rc1 is in [testing]. The source is on the Arch Linux ftp and latest PKGBUILD in svn. ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/netcfg/netcfg-2.5.0rc1.tar.gz # Documentation: The wiki has been updated to reflect this release. For 2.5, the documentation can be found at: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles_development When it is released this will be moved to the Network Profiles page. There's also some updated documentation of the supported options for 'wireless' and 'ethernet' here: http://www.rayner.id.au/netcfg/ Keep in mind that wireless supports all the options of 'ethernet'. If options are not documented, then it's a bug and they should be (or it's deprecated, but should be mentioned anyway for completeness). # Contributors: I had a few big contributors to this release: Jim Pryor: Many internal changes and improvements Thomas Bächler: wpa_actiond based auto roaming/connection Thanks guys! That's all for now, please file any bug reports on the bug tracker. James

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[arch-general] CUPS won't detect my usb printer
by Jim Burton 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

Hi, I'm new to arch and unable to set up my (USB) Canon printer. I've read quite a large number of threads on the forum about this and suppose my solution is in there somewhere but cups doesn't recognise my printer for some reason. Here's what I've tried: I've installed cups, ghostscript, gsfonts and gutenprint and blacklisted usblp. My printer is picked up by lsusb: Bus 005 Device 003: ID 04a9:1094 Canon, Inc. PIXMA iP3000x Printer and I think it has the right permissions: [jim@daisy ~]$ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/005/003 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 189, 514 2009-11-15 13:44 /dev/bus/usb/005/003 In the web interface when I go to add a printer there are none found. I have set cups logging to debug but there's nothing there that means anything to me. Here is some of the output when I try to find the printer in the web interface: D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 15 1.1 CUPS-Get-Printers 1 D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] CUPS-Get-Printers D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] CUPS-Get-Printers client-error-not-found: No destinations added. D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] Returning IPP client-error-not-found for CUPS-Get-Printers (no URI) from localhost D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 15 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 15 1.1 CUPS-Get-Devices 1 D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] CUPS-Get-Devices D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] cupsdIsAuthorized: username="" D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] Returning HTTP Unauthorized for CUPS-Get-Devices (no URI) from localhost D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] cupsdSendHeader: 15 WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="CUPS", trc="y" D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] [CGI] cgi_null_passwd(prompt="Password for daemon on localhost? ") called! D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] [CGI] lang="en_US.UTF8", locale="/en_US"... D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] [CGI] lang="en_US.UTF8", locale="/en_US"... D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 15 WAITING Closing on EOF D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] cupsdCloseClient: 15 D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Not busy D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] PID 2650 (/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi) exited with no errors. D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:39 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 12 WAITING Closing on EOF D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:39 +0000] cupsdCloseClient: 12 What should I try next? Thanks, Jim

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[arch-general] old firewire stack?
by Dieter Plaetinck 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

Hi, according to http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/troubleshooting-and-common-problems/tro… we are using an old firewire stack. I'm having big problems with DV-video (firewire) stuff ( see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=655692 ) and I was wondering if the new stack would fix it, but how can I run it? [root@dieter-p4sci-arch ~]# lsmod | egrep 'firewire|1394' dv1394 18492 0 video1394 15836 0 ohci1394 30220 2 dv1394,video1394 raw1394 25756 0 ieee1394 85668 4 dv1394,video1394,ohci1394,raw1394 [root@dieter-p4sci-arch ~]# modprobe firewire-ohci FATAL: Module firewire_ohci not found. [root@dieter-p4sci-arch ~]# pacman -Ss juju [root@dieter-p4sci-arch ~]# pacman -Ss firewire extra/dvgrab 3.5-1 Saves audio and video data from an IEEE (FireWire) digital source extra/libraw1394 2.0.4-1 Provides an API to the Linux IEEE1394 (FireWire) driver [root@dieter-p4sci-arch ~]# pacman -Qs libraw local/libraw1394 2.0.4-1 Provides an API to the Linux IEEE1394 (FireWire) driver thanks Dieter

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[arch-general] AUR: gcc-java-4.3.3.tar.bz2.part ==> ERROR: Build Failed.
by David C. Rankin 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Guys, Looks like there is a misconfigured locale in the gcc-java-4.3.3 AUR files. Attempting to build the gcc-gcj AUR package, it died with the following: 2009-11-13 00:51:08 (135 KB/s) - “gcc-java-4.3.3.tar.bz2.part” saved [18053140] -> Found gcj-4.3-tools.jar-path.diff in build dir -> Found gcc_pure64.patch in build dir -> Found libjava-disable-static.dpatch in build dir -> Found libjava-sjlj.dpatch in build dir -> Found gcc-hash-style-both.patch in build dir ==> Validating source files with md5sums... gcc-core-4.3.3.tar.bz2 ... Passed gcc-g++-4.3.3.tar.bz2 ... Passed gcc-java-4.3.3.tar.bz2 ... Passed gcj-4.3-tools.jar-path.diff ... Passed gcc_pure64.patch ... Passed libjava-disable-static.dpatch ... Passed libjava-sjlj.dpatch ... Passed gcc-hash-style-both.patch ... Passed ==> Extracting Sources... -> Extracting gcc-core-4.3.3.tar.bz2 with bsdtar -> Extracting gcc-g++-4.3.3.tar.bz2 with bsdtar -> Extracting gcc-java-4.3.3.tar.bz2 with bsdtar ==> Entering fakeroot environment... ==> Starting build()... You need the de_DE locale to build gcc. ==> ERROR: Build Failed. Aborting... What to check? -- 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] New NVIDIA legacy drivers compatible with our latest xorg-server
by Thomas Bächler 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

NVIDIA released new prereleases of their 173.xx.xx and 96.xx.xx drivers ([1], [2]). Driver packages and kernel modules for the 2.6.31-ARCH kernel are being uploaded now, they should start to appear on mirrors soon. Please test them and report. [1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2122688 [2] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2122691

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[arch-general] Frustrated with Crappy looking Firefox and OpenOffice GTK & QT themes?
by David C. Rankin 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

After mucking around trying to get firefox and openoffice to look right, I thought I would pass on a few tips. For those of you that know already, just hit delete. The dull boxy appearance of both GTK and some Qt apps left me scratching my head for the right tools to fix the look. The normal qtconfig and gtk2_prefs just didn't do it for all applications (like basket and other kde3 now sort of kde4 apps) Trial and error and google helped. The main tools are: GTK Preferences (ff has both GTK and Qt) /usr/bin/gtk2_prefs (themes and more) /usr/bin/gtk-chtheme (change theme ** Don't over look this one) Qt Preferences /usr/bin/qtconfig (themes and more) ** also the gnome-control-center collects most of the tools for you in one place. I don't use gnome, but I installed the control center for convenience. The packages involved are (with the addtional nice themes): GTK TOOLS & ENGINES gnome-control-center 2.28.1-1 gtk2_prefs 0.4.1-1 gtk 1.2.10-9 gtk2 2.18.3-2 gtk-kde4 0.9b-3 gtk-chtheme 0.3.1-4 gtk1-engines 0.12-2 gtk-engines 2.18.4-1 gtk-qt-engine 1.1-1 gtk-aurora-engine 1.5.1-1 gtk-engine-murrine 0.90.3-1 gtk-rezlooks-engine 0.6-8 gtk-smooth-engine 0.6.0.1-3 QT TOOLS & PACKAGES qt3 3.3.8-13 qt 4.5.3-3 qtcurve-gtk2 0.69.2-1 qtcurve-kde3 0.69.1-1 qtcurve-kde4 0.69.2-1 THEMES gnome-icon-theme 2.28.0-1 gnome-themes 2.28.1-1 gnome-themes-extras 2.22.0-1 murrine-themes-collection 20090906-1 qtcurve-gtk2 0.69.2-1 Install what you want, then just run gtk2_prefs and/or gtk-chtheme (if you installed the additional themes), then finish up with qtconfig. You have to shut down and restart you application for the changes to take effect, but when you are done, you will have some really good looking GTK and QT themes and decorations. (you can even select Oxygen as your GTK and Qt theme) The theme packages above have both light and dark themes. You can find some additional/better themes at art.gnome.org Here is an example of firefox and openoffice with the touch-ups applied (60k): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/fixes/gtk-qt-example.jpg -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] (groff+)ghostscript/us letter/paper size problems
by Mike Bishop 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:49:13AM -0500, Louis Guillaume wrote: > Mike Bishop wrote: <snip> > > > >The problem is that recent versions of ghostscript will (often) > >assume a4 paper size, regardless of /etc/paper. This applies > >after ghostscript 8.64-5 but I am not sure which version (8.70 has > >the problem). > > I don't know much about how this is "supposed" to work with > /etc/paper or /etc/papersize. I always thought those were > ghostscript or grops things. > > If you need to explicitly define a paper size for groff to use (that > isn't the default) I think you need: `-dpaper=letter' in addition to > `-P-pletter'. The latter is for grops. > > Louis > Actually, I screwed up. The file on Arch at /usr/share/groff/1.20.1/font/devps/DESC has "papersize a4" while a more usual entry is "papersize /etc/papersize a4" ... so my settings in /etc/papersize were ignored. I looked for a complicated answer and found it! Rgds, -- Mike Bishop Willow, Alaska

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Re: [arch-general] аrch x86_64 and i686 performance comparison
by Robert Howard 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

I find the 64 bit version to be on par with the 32 bit version. I do think 64 bit is faster when using it for GIS with large datasets. I have been using 64 bit for years without remorse. Now, no 64 bit Windows OS has ever been worth using. On Nov 11, 2009 11:19 PM, "Sergey Manucharian" <sergeym(a)rmico.com> wrote: Excerpts from Smith Dhumbumroong's message of Thursday 12-Nov-09 10:49am: > Better to install both Arch 32-bit and 64-bit on the same machine > (dual boot) and run the tests... I've already did it. > from my personal experience certain operations, such as video/music > encoding, is a _lot_ faster... Well, in my ThinkPad R61 (Core2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz) I got 1.1 times difference (in favour of 64-bit) with couple of videofiles encoded. (By the way, it means that VM performs almost 1.5 worse then the real HW). Thanks, Sergey

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Re: [arch-general] No sound after hal update
by Christopher Daley 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Also, make sure your user is a member of the group 'audio'? If you're still having problems then run ls -l /dev/snd and show us the output On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Jozsef <jozefk(a)gmx.com> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, A Rojas wrote: > > > I just updated to hal 0.5.13-3 and after rebooting the soundcard is not > > accessible to non-root users anymore, so there is no sound. Any idea how > to > > solve this? > > Thanks > > > -- > Best, > Jozsef Kurucity | Web & Graphic Designer > +971 50 6783113 | jozefk(a)gmx.com >

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[arch-general] аrch x86_64 and i686 performance comparison
by Sergey Manucharian 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Hi folks, The similar question most probably has been discussed many times, but I really cannot find a clear answer. There are some obvious thinks like 64-bit addressing, but how about math calculations performance? I've set up two identical virtual machines in vbox - one with Arch x86_64 and another with Arch i686. I ran mencoder in both over the same video and got the following figures: x86_64: 43 sec i686: 34 sec which make x86_64 not so impressive ;) Some time ago I read an article at AMD web site, they suggested using their math libs for writing programs instead of standard ones. In such a case a program with complex math involved can performs much better (personally I haven't tried). I'm just curious about other people's opinions on this subject. Cheers, Sergey

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[arch-general] Updated PKGBUILD for libftdi
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

* Updated to latest 0.16 version * convert $startdir vars in PKGBUILD -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D Index: libftdi/trunk/PKGBUILD =================================================================== --- libftdi/trunk/PKGBUILD (revision 58698) +++ libftdi/trunk/PKGBUILD (working copy) @@ -2,21 +2,21 @@ # Maintainer: Tobias Powalowski <tpowa(a)archlinux.org> pkgname=libftdi -pkgver=0.15 -pkgrel=3 +pkgver=0.16 +pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A library to talk to FTDI chips" arch=("i686" "x86_64") url="http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/download.php" license=("GPL2") depends=("libusb") +options=('!libtool') source=("http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/download/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar…") -options=('!libtool') +md5sums=('524af6f39aefa1a4e8fac12c6be0ed06') build() { cd $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver sed -i '/no-install/d' examples/Makefile.in || return 1 ./configure --prefix=/usr make || return 1 - make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install + make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install } -md5sums=('d585c9758cb7085a4448c7c4ece07d8e')

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[arch-general] Segmentation fault in X after last upgrade
by Magnus Therning 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

I just upgraded this morning and after a reboot X refuses to start. My /var/log/Xorg.0.log contains a message about a segmentation fault and a short backtrace. I'm on AMD64, with an nVidia card (I'm using the Xorg driver, nv). Anyone else seeing something the same behaviour? Any suggestions on how I can get my system back to normal again? /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] kde4 tip - quicklaunch in your panel -- convenience at your fingertips!
by David C. Rankin 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Archers, For those that haven't used the quicklaunch widget, you need to take a look. The benefit of quicklaunch is that you can put 20-30 apps at your immediate fingertips in the space of 5-6 icons on the plasma panel (one-click access to all your favorite apps) Example: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/dt/kde4/quicklaunch/quicklaunch.jpg In order to add it to your plasma (kicker) panel, rt-click the panel and choose 'Panel Options' -> 'Add Widgets', scroll down and choose 'Quicklaunch'. It will appear at the far right end of your panel instead of where your mouse was due to a design flaw in the panel. To move it where you want it, go throught the same process, rt-click the panel choose 'Panel Options' -> 'Panel Settings' then you can move things around. (be careful not to click outide of the panel or you will have to navigate back to 'Panel Options' once again. As a matter of preference, I put the quicklaunch right next to the start menu with the pager on its right: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/dt/kde4/quicklaunch/quicklaunch- location.jpg of course you can put it anywhere, but when I think "launch application" I'm already programmed to go to the bottom left corner of the screen. I put systray, device notifier, clock and cashew at the other end of the panel. Just a personal preference: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/dt/kde4/quicklaunch/right-end-of-panel.… You can get rid of any other application icons you have on the panel, because they will now all go in quicklaunch. Also delete the show desktop icon -- you don't need it. If you set your pager settings correctly, then clicking on the current desktop in pager will "show desktop". (rt-click pager, pager options). To setup quicklaunch, right click it and choose Quicklaunch Settings. Set the visible icons to a sufficient number (I use 24). It won't expand until you put the icons in it. To add your applications to it, just right-click on the quicklauch above the icon where you would like the new icon to reside. (the new addition will push the current icon down (or to the right if it is in the bottom row) when you add it. After you choose add icon, you are presented with a small file open dialog (click on the floppy disk button). Navigate to /usr/share/applications or /usr/share/applications/kde4 to find the desktop file to add. (kde3 apps are in /opt/kde3/share/applications) Just repeat the process until you have the icons you want. It's not quite as good as putting a subtree from your menu in an icon on the panel (like kde3), but it is a good substitute until Will Stephenson's fix filters down from kde4 upstream. Try this quicklaunch approach, and I think you will find the convenience of the desktop improves quite a bit. Good luck ;-) -- 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 compile in debugging symbols with makepks so I can use gdb?
by David C. Rankin 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Guys, Still chasing the keepassx problem. There are no debugging symbols in the package so I used ABS to build from source, but of course there is no debugging there either. What's the trick to compile so I can get a meaningful gdb backtrace? -- 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] Permission problems - http is 0775, (root:http), I am in http -- still can't write??
by David C. Rankin 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Guys, I have run into a permission problem I can't understand. I need write access to the webserver on my laptop (that's where the developement happens). I have always just made myself a member of the webserver group and give the group write access to the document root (some applications require it). Today, setting up the webserver, I did the same thing only to be met with a permission denied message when I attempted a copy -- Huh? Here are the details: 16:59 alchemy:/srv/http> l total 8 drwxrwxr-x 2 root http 4096 2009-10-31 22:53 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-10-31 22:53 .. 16:59 alchemy:/srv/http> grep http /etc/group http::33:david 16:59 alchemy:/srv/http> touch testfile touch: cannot touch `testfile': Permission denied This is in konsole in kde4. I can't understand why the touch failed (I could just be confused at the moment as well). I am a member of the http group (added with gpasswd -a david http, not just edited like usual), the http group has write permission to the http directory. But, when I try to write to the http directory --> I get the error. Can anyone see the error in my logic? (diplomatically, of course) What's the trick? -- 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] keepassx crashing?? (Ver 0.4.1-1 )
by David C. Rankin 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Just a note; keepassx, which has worked reliably for years, began crashing today. I don't know whether it is keepassx, or qt (suspicion is qt). The errors are: 18:31 alchemy:~> keepassx Found Metastream: KPX_CUSTOM_ICONS_4 Found Metastream: KPX_GROUP_TREE_STATE Segmentation fault It is happening on suse as well. (both with qt-4.5.3) I even downgraded to keepassx 0.3.3-2.1 and it still occurss, so that pretty much rules out keepassx as the problem. There is some chatter on the ubuntu lists as well. If any of you super-brains use it, you might want to check and see what is going on. I suck at tracking down these type of issues, (strace is Greek) but I'll keep trying. -- 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] Arch Linux makes the kde list!
by David C. Rankin 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Guys, Next time you have a kde4 bug to file, you will have a new Distribution listed to file it under. Archlinux is now there! See: https://bugs.kde.org/wizard.cgi -- 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] Entranced - Anybody Using It? I get it started, can enter name, but that's it.
by David C. Rankin 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Guys I was trying to setup entranced on Arch. I followed the enlightenment.org wiki, but the arch setup for Xsession, etc. left me a little unsure on exactly where some of the entrance_edit path info should point. The Arch default for entrance_config.cfg is: Entrance Daemon Settings attempts = 5 xserver = "/usr/bin/X -quiet -br -nolisten tcp vt7" Entrance Client Settings xsession = "/etc/X11/Xsession" auth = 1 engine = 0 reboot = 1 halt = 1 theme = "default.edj" background = "" pointer = "/usr/share/entrance/images/pointer.png" greeting-before = "Welcome to" greeting-after = "" date-format = "%A %B %e, %Y" time-format = "%l:%M:%S %p" autologin-mode = 0 autologin-user = "" presel-mode = 1 presel-prevuser = "" user-remember = 1 user-remember-count = 5 user-count = 0 session-count = 2 default-session = "default" default-session-title = "Default" default-session-icon = "default.png" The 'xsession' line can't be right because Arch doesn't have "/etc/X11/Xsession". So I'm thinking that is the problem. The box is booting to runlevel 3 and all xdm/kdm startup in /etc/inittab are commented out. (the wiki said to disable all xdm and kdm) I have the daemons in rc.conf set to: .. alsa entranced famd) and entrance starts and display the default winter theme. All my desktops were listed (e16, e17, icewm, kde, lxde, openbox). The username entry works and I can type my name in there, but the password line is grayed out and will accept no input. The little 'lock' icon and the '>' (right-arrow) below the password line are grayed out as well. When things wouldn't work, I just used ctrl+alt+f1 and /etc/rc.d/entranced stop to kill it and then just used kdm. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] pacman & sudo
by Xavier 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Alessandro Doro <ordo.ad(a)gmail.com> wrote: > And not only for security reasons; If you have time have a look at > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14926 > in that case the permission problems affected the system directories. > > And times ago there where permission (umask) issues with users calling > pacman with sudo. > There is no problem calling pacman with sudo, I do that all the time. I think what you are referring to was a problem with non-standard umask, which has been fixed in pacman : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12263 If you used pacman as root with non-standard umask, you would have had exactly the same problem.

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[arch-general] No sound after hal update
by A Rojas 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

I just updated to hal 0.5.13-3 and after rebooting the soundcard is not accessible to non-root users anymore, so there is no sound. Any idea how to solve this? Thanks

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[arch-general] sound problems
by Preston C. 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

I am using a M-Audio Fast Track Ultra. When I run 'alsamixer' it first list that my Logitech webcam is default. I change it to "Fast Track Ultra" which is number 1 in the list, and, then it says: "This sound device does not have any playback controls." Any help in figuring this out is much appreciated. Preston

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[arch-general] Updated PKGBUILD for bochs
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

* Updated PKGBUILD for bochs 2.4.1 * Removed unnecessary patch * convert $startdir vars in PKBUILD * use DESTDIR instead of prefix at make install -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D Index: bochs/trunk/PKGBUILD =================================================================== --- bochs/trunk/PKGBUILD (revision 58595) +++ bochs/trunk/PKGBUILD (working copy) @@ -3,24 +3,22 @@ # Maintainer: Kevin Piche <kevin(a)archlinux.org> pkgname=bochs -pkgver=2.3.7 +pkgver=2.4.1 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A portable x86 PC emulation software package" -arch=(i686 x86_64) +arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('LGPL') url="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/" -source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz -bochs-2.3.7-typo-fixes.patch) -md5sums=('a2e5f922505bf16cabd36bb9d571a2c4' '7d6df4f5f7ee1d4623e7bcf385c9c6e0') depends=('gcc-libs' 'libxpm') +source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz) +md5sums=('c9aaf4b99c868da7c9362bd8cd29a578') build() { - cd ${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver} - patch -Np1 -i ../bochs-2.3.7-typo-fixes.patch || return 1 + cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver} ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-vbe --without-wx --enable-cpu-level=6 \ --enable-4meg-pages --enable-global-pages --enable-pae --enable-fpu \ --enable-mmx --enable-3dnow --enable-sse --enable-sep make || return 1 - make prefix=${startdir}/pkg/usr install - install -D -m 644 .bochsrc ${startdir}/pkg/etc/bochsrc-sample.txt + make install DESTDIR=${pkgdir} + install -D -m 644 .bochsrc ${pkgdir}/etc/bochsrc-sample.txt } Index: bochs/trunk/bochs-2.3.7-typo-fixes.patch =================================================================== --- bochs/trunk/bochs-2.3.7-typo-fixes.patch (revision 58595) +++ bochs/trunk/bochs-2.3.7-typo-fixes.patch (working copy) @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -diff -NaurwB bochs-2.3.7.orig/cpu/ia_opcodes.h bochs-2.3.7/cpu/ia_opcodes.h ---- bochs-2.3.7.orig/cpu/ia_opcodes.h 2008-05-30 22:35:08.000000000 +0200 -+++ bochs-2.3.7/cpu/ia_opcodes.h 2008-06-04 14:56:46.000000000 +0200 -@@ -891,7 +891,7 @@ - bx_define_opcode(BX_IA_PF2ID_PqQq, BX_CPU_C::PF2ID_PqQq) - bx_define_opcode(BX_IA_PF2IW_PqQq, BX_CPU_C::PF2IW_PqQq) - bx_define_opcode(BX_IA_PFACC_PqQq, BX_CPU_C::PFACC_PqQq) --bx_define_opcode(BX_IA_PFADD_PqQq, BX_CPU_C::BX_PFADD_PqQq) -+bx_define_opcode(BX_IA_PFADD_PqQq, BX_CPU_C::PFADD_PqQq) - bx_define_opcode(BX_IA_PFCMPEQ_PqQq, BX_CPU_C::PFCMPEQ_PqQq) - bx_define_opcode(BX_IA_PFCMPGE_PqQq, BX_CPU_C::PFCMPGE_PqQq) - bx_define_opcode(BX_IA_PFCMPGT_PqQq, BX_CPU_C::PFCMPGT_PqQq) -diff -NaurwB bochs-2.3.7.orig/iodev/iodebug.h bochs-2.3.7/iodev/iodebug.h ---- bochs-2.3.7.orig/iodev/iodebug.h 2008-05-01 22:46:58.000000000 +0200 -+++ bochs-2.3.7/iodev/iodebug.h 2008-06-04 14:45:50.000000000 +0200 -@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ - virtual void init(void); - virtual void reset (unsigned type) {} - static void mem_write(BX_CPU_C *cpu, bx_phy_address addr, unsigned len, void *data); -- static void mem_read(BX_CPU_C *cpu, bx_phy_addressu addr, unsigned len, void *data); -+ static void mem_read(BX_CPU_C *cpu, bx_phy_address addr, unsigned len, void *data); - - private: - static Bit32u read_handler(void *this_ptr, Bit32u address, unsigned io_len);

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[arch-general] new xorg & go-openoffice are fighting -> fatal user interface language cannot be determined
by David C. Rankin 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

Guys, I thought I would try go-openoffice to see if there was a difference that I could tell from the way I use it. In short, installed go-oo and the dependencies. go-oo WILL start for root, but WILL NOT start for normal users. The error dialog received at the same time the splash appears says Fatal Error: "The application cannot be started. The user interface language cannot be determined." Launching it from the command line results in the following error: 15:26 alchemy:~> soffice [Java framework] Error in function createSettingsDocument (elements.cxx). javaldx failed! OK, that doesn't jive with the dialog reported error, but I'm sure they are related. I have googled it and the only thing I ran across was the suggestion to check /etc/locale.gen to determine if the correct language was uncommented. I believe it is: 15:32 alchemy:~> noc /etc/locale.gen en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 en_US ISO-8859-1 The strange part is the fact it starts for root, but not a regular user (that normally sounds like a permissions problem). Java runtime permissions?? Where? Let me know what to check and whether you want me to file it as a bug and I'll be happy to. -- 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] (groff+)ghostscript/us letter/paper size problems
by Mike Bishop 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

I have just spent a happy hour PULLING MY HAIR OUT over misformatted troff documents on my printers ... which printed perfectly several months ago. The problem is that recent versions of ghostscript will (often) assume a4 paper size, regardless of /etc/paper. This applies after ghostscript 8.64-5 but I am not sure which version (8.70 has the problem). If you use ISO standard paper sizes you are probably okay. The solution is described here-- http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2009-September/008565.html and consists of passing an explicit "-P-pletter" when formatting your groff source; "groff -pletter ..." doesn't make it on my system. Neither did modifying "gs_init.ps" (?) Other postscript generating programs may do this explicitly (evince does). surf/zathura users may wish to take note. Hoping this saves you hair, Rgds, -- Mike (baldy) Bishop Willow, Alaska

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[arch-general] [wlan-ng26-utils] should be removed from repos.
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

Hello There is an open issue: FS#12979 - [wlan-ng26-utils] doesn't build from ABS [#1] An acording to upstream: http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-announce/2009-August/00010… "With prism2_usb in the mainline kernel for a couple of releases now, the mainline kernel now supports all prism2 devices. The linux-wlan-ng project is completely obseleted, and there will be no further development. The linux-wlan-ng source code (tarballs and svn/git) will remain available for the forseeable future, but the mailing lists are being shut down as soon as this message goes out, and future attempts to send mail to them will bounce. The server housing the mailing list archives is set to be retired in the medium term, but we will try to ensure they remain online after that. So long, and thanks for all the fish!" [#1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12979 -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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[arch-general] kde4 kleopatra dependency missing when installed
by David C. Rankin 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

Guys, Just a note. When you install kde4, the kleopatra certificate is installed without the needed dependency 'dirmngr'. When you first run kleopatra, you will get the error. Do you want me to open a ticket, or is this email enough? 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] Trouble with RaLink RT2561/RT61
by Bram Schoenmakers 08 Nov '09

08 Nov '09

Hello, >From time to time, my network shows some poor performance. My 64 bit Arch Linux box is connected with a wireless connections with a RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI, the system is up-to-date. The symptoms are: * Looking up a website takes very long, or it will never load at all. Only in Chromium snapshot, Firefox loads the same page instantly at the same time. However, some videos on Youtube load for 25% and refuse to continue to fetch more (in both browsers). * Kopete is unable to keep a connection with either MSN or my Jabber accounts. They simply time out. * SSH connections drop dead (or are interrupted for minutes). No high traffic involved at all. The problem does not always occur, at some days I have a good connection, but sometimes the symptoms above occur. I suspected it had something to do with IPv6, but disabling it did not have any effect. I don't think it's interference either, the connection to the router is quite healthy: normal response time, 0% packet loss (also with servers outside my network), download rates are often at their max. I also have a laptop with 32 bit Arch Linux installed, using the Atheros wireless drivers. It also runs Chromium and doesn't show any problems whatsoever, on the same network. When I run tcpdump on both machines, I see many lines like 12:09:37.134509 00:30:3f:50:19:e5 (oui Unknown) > 00:18:f8:45:10:c3 (oui Unknown), ethertype Unknown (0x05ec), length 1530 where 00:30:3f:50:19:e5 is the wireless router (unsure about the other MAC, I'm on a shared network). My laptop shows seems to capture much more of these messages than my PC does, not sure whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. Could it be a driver issue? I'm tending to think that is the case, actually. Any other hints are very appreciated. Kind regards, -- Bram Schoenmakers What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. (Punch, 1855)

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[arch-general] Cannot set xattr
by André Ramaciotti da Silva 08 Nov '09

08 Nov '09

Hi all, I'm thinking of different ways to organize my files and xattrs seem a nice, standardized way to do so (don't ask me exactly what I'm trying to do, for I only have a slight idea). The problem is: I can't use them at all. I'm using the default kernel, which, according to /proc/config.gz has: CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR=y and I'm using ext4, evidently. I've tried doing the following: $ echo 'asd' > test $ attr -s user.author -V andre test attr_set: Operation not supported Could not set "user.author" for test but, as you can see, it doesn't work. Running it as root doesn't work, too. I've also made a small C program, but it also fails to set the xattr, returning ENOTSUP (operation not supported), so it isn't a problem with 'attr'. I do have 'attr' from [core] installed so I don't know what else can be the problem. Thanks in advance, Andre

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[arch-general] kde3 sources available anymore & missing garbage collector
by David C. Rankin 08 Nov '09

08 Nov '09

Guys, I don't know if the kde3 sources still live on a server some where, but I would be interested in finding them. I still have all the PKGBUILD files for the kde3 install, but I need a few sources. kpdf for starters, and there are a couple more. Also, I successfully built quanta from AUR -- works fine, but I was unable to build pdftk due to missing dependencies: gcc-gcj package not found, searching for group... error: 'gcc-gcj': not found in sync db ==> ERROR: Pacman failed to install missing dependencies. I think that is some type of garbage collector. Anybody know where I can find it? I have a couple of scripts that use pdftk so it is somewhat of a pressing matter. Other than the sound I'm still working on (haven't had time to mess with it), the install is done. (Arch+e16+e17+openbox+kde4+full LAMP+GNU development pkgs+full Office setup). This was my sixth arch install since April. In the same time period I have done "one" suse install (for my youngest daughter). Arch is such a damn good distro it is a grand testament to some very smart thinking about how best to put together and -- more importantly --> maintain a Linux distribution. The folks on the suse list just can't explain why, with the abundant resources of Novell in their pocket, little 'ole Arch is always 1-2 major versions of just about everything ahead of them. (gotta love it!) I -- can tell you why. Arch nailed it with the rolling release approach. That is the right way to do a distro. Even if on occasion packages need to say in testing for 30-90 days to accomodate a major kernel change/whatever, it still beats the hell out of trying to maintain 3 separate versions of a an opensource distribution, built for 3 different kernels, and the complete set of some 4000 packages per distro version that need to be maintained. The resources required to try and do that are staggering. (I needle them that going to a rolling release would tripple their net revenues overnight just due to cost savings alone ;-) I'll try and cobble together my install notes after I'm done and update the wiki in any of the areas I faced challenges. (I'm a bit tight on time at present) Thanks you all for all the help needed in the areas where I got hund up. Cheers! -- 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] programmable API for flyspray?
by Chris Brannon 08 Nov '09

08 Nov '09

Is there any way to access bugs.archlinux.org programmatically? I'd love to be able to manipulate it from the shell. TIA, -- Chris

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[arch-general] [signoff] mdadm-3.0.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

Hi downgrade in testing repository due to potential dataloss problems: http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=125748985908870&w=2 Changelog: http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm;a=blob_plain;f=ANNOUNCE-3.0;hb=7f0066ba7… Please update and recreate your initcpio after upgrading. One thing i observed, when using a custom /etc/mdadm.conf file our rc.sysinit will run mdadm --assemble --scan, which will always give exit code 2, due to devices busy. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.
by RedShift 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

This thread will probably erupt in a massive flamewar, yet I decided to post my story anyway. I am talking about the desktop experience in general, not the technical details behind it. Keep that in mind. I've been working these past few months with KDE 4.3 and it feels very sluggish and incomplete. I can't enable the desktop effects because that makes things even slower. I'm doing this on a fairly decent setup, an AMD Sempron 2 Ghz with an nVidia FX5500. My laptop suffers from this sluggishness as well. On top of that, lots of things annoy me in KDE 4.3, see the end of this post for my top annoyances. Yesterday I had to reboot to my Windows XP installation on this computer and I was shocked when I arrived in XP's userland. Everything was ridiculously fast. When returning to my linux desktop everything felt even more sluggish. That's when I decided to go back to KDE 3.5. I restored my old KDE 3.5 profile, installed the necessary packages and logged back in. WOOOOOF, everything is fast again. Opening new windows is instantaneous, hell even bringing up context menus is faster. If Linux is that much better, why does the current Linux desktop (KDE 4.3) still suck compared to an operating system that's 8 years old? Last week I also had the chance to check out Windows 7, and I was stumped. I was genuinly impressed by Windows 7's GUI. It feels fast, works fluently, it has nice effects which just work and work FAST. When browsing around it felt like a very solid desktop environment. I am jealous. I really am. The thought of using Windows 7 in favor of KDE 4.3 has occured to me much more than I like. And it's little things like dragging the windows to the top of the screen makes them maximized, dragging them to the left makes the take exactly 50% of the screen. How many times have you been manually resizing windows to fit next to each other? I have, too many times. These are things that really improve your productivity. So when should we have started working at a better desktop environment for Linux? When Mac OS X came out. When was that again? 2001. Yes, it really was that long ago. It already had awesome desktop effects that just work on (compared to these days) VERY modest hardware. And it worked fast as well. It was and still is a solid desktop environment. From that point on the Linux community should have recognized the threat Mac OS X was for the desktop environment. Unfortunately nobody did and we went on creating a big mess, fighting over implementations and technical details instead of attempting to create a solid desktop environment. Yet we did have a second chance in 2007. Microsoft obviously screwed up with Windows Vista, we had the chance to win back alot of terrain here until the release of Windows 7. So what did we come up with? KDE 4. Yes, a big dissapointment. We still don't have something that's comparable. So basically, where are we at? KDE 3.5 is Windows XP KDE 4.3 is Windows Vista ??? is Windows 7 When are we getting to the Windows 7 stage? Microsoft didn't do a big advertising campaign for the launch of Windows 7, nevertheless they delivered a big slap in the face to the Linux desktop environments. The numbers speak for themselves, Windows 7 has already sold more copies in its first week than Windows Vista did in its first month. And with good riddance, Windows 7 really is better than Windows Vista. Microsoft recognized the problems with Windows Vista and dealt with them. And dealt with them swiftly if you ask me, doing it in less then 3 years. Conclusion We are losing ground. We are losing it fast. Our competitors recognize what the user wants and delivered. If we are comparing enterprise desktops, there's no going around Red Hat. The current Red Hat desktop (5.4) ships with KDE 3.5, while its succesor RHEL 6 will be, if looking what Fedora brings now, shipped with KDE 4.2 or 4.3. That means KDE 4.2/4.3 will be the main desktop for enterprises for at least the next 3 years. A disgrace if you ask me. Users will be comparing desktop environments and they will find Windows 7 or Mac OS X to be better. After the damage RHEL 6 will have done to the reputation of the Linux desktop, it will take again as many years to rectify the damage done. Granted if we will have a solid desktop environment comparable to Windows 7 by the time RHEL 7 gets released. Which I can't help but doubt. My top KDE 4.3 annoyances: * Slooooowwww. Logging in takes a multifold of times it did under KDE 3.5, repainting windows takes up a lot of time * The battery status applet is buggy, it only shows the actual percentage after you've hovered it with the mouse, even when you've set it to always display. The scale it uses is also difficult to interpret. These bugs have been reported a long time ago and are still not fixed. * The run dialog is useless. The reason is the history function. It can't display a full history when you start typing, you have to type alot more. Having a pull down menu and using the arrow keys to select the entry you want is alot faster. Even Microsoft knows they shouldn't touch that dialog, it still works like a charm in windows 7. * Double clicking the system icon in the titlebar doesn't always work to close an application (the system icon is the left-most icon in the titlebar). This bug has also been reported a long time ago and still not fixed. * I get a full 10 minutes of extra runtime on my laptop when I switched back to 3.5 * Power management is buggy in KDE 4.3 and sometimes powerdevil just loses its settings * Some settings KDE 3.5 used to have aren't there anymore in KDE 4.3. * Where's my "home" icon!!!??? :-(

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[arch-general] looking for MUA alternative to KMail
by Philipp Gesang 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

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[arch-general] gcc -m64
by Ciprian Dorin, Craciun 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

Hello all! I have ArchLinux i686 version, but I'm trying to compile an x86_64 kernel... And you've guessed... Not supported by the ArchLinux stock gcc / binutils... I've done the "raining" dance, by trying to compile my own gcc / binutils, but it didn't "rain" (I mean it didn't work)... Any pointers? Thanks, Ciprian. P.S.: Is there any good reason for which there isn't even a separate package of gcc that is able to do this? (I've read the bug from one year ago, but no good reason was specified...) P.P.S.: I'm missing Debian...

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[arch-general] Installing Arch on Hannsnote
by Dario 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

Ciao! I want to share my (not so positive) experience about installing Arch Linux on a Hannsnote netbook, which I have been unexpectedly given as a gift recently:) I used the USB image, "burned" on a usb stick (usb-urned:)). The install went fine except when it tried to install GRUB. The installer hanged (don't know if it really hanged or if it just wanted to use all the CPU for some time), but I went about it by manually installing GRUB, so this is not really a problem. The Intel 945GME is recognized, but all I get from X is a blank screen, if using the intel driver or leaving the duty to a config-less X, or doing some other tricks from the wiki and the forum. No errors whatsoeverm though, just a black dead screen. The vesa driver worked fine, but stuck at 800x600. Finally, I couldn't work out a way to use the wireless card, a Ralink 2860 or something. I mean, not even the interface was shown, even if modules were - at least to me - correctly loaded. Having tried Puppy Linux before with success, I knew that things should have worked. Now, I installed Kubuntu Netbook edition and everything works out of the box. Unfortunately it won't last long on my laptop, its interface is scarying:) I'd really like to archify my netbook. It came with XP preinstalled, but I cannot use it without a Linux operating system, for practical and also psychological reasons (no, not ideological:) ). If someone had a similar experience to share, I'd be happy:) Thanks in advance!!! Dario Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com

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[arch-general] Problem with hard disk - not arch related
by Dario 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

Ciao! This is unrelated to arch, but I wanted to tell this to the list because maybe someone has a clue. I have recently bought and installed a new sata hard disk. It has a couple of partitions, one with XFS which I use as storage. It generally works fine, but sometimes something happens and it cease to work. I don't know if it's the disc's fault, because at the next restart the problems are gone. It seems that the controller sometimes gets lost. Dmesg says this: ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 ata4.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 ata4.00: cmd 35/00:20:e7:a0:f1/00:01:04:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 147456 out res 51/84:11:e7:a0:f1/84:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata4.00: error: { ICRC ABRT } ata4: soft resetting link ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata4: EH complete ... (repeat some time) .... ata4.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x27) ata4.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x4) ata4.00: HPA support seems broken, skipping HPA handling ata4.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) ata4: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata4: soft resetting link ata4: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata4: reset failed, giving up ata4: EH complete ... sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Result: hostbyte=0x04 driverbyte=0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 82953831 ... I/O error in filesystem ("sdc2") meta-data dev sdc2 block 0x104d6d83 ("xlog_iodone") error 5 buf count 6656 xfs_force_shutdown(sdc2,0x2) called from line 1043 of file fs/xfs/xfs_log.c. Return address = 0xf9c8d923 Filesystem "sdc2": Log I/O Error Detected. Shutting down filesystem: sdc2 Please umount the filesystem, and rectify the problem(s) ... Buffer I/O error on device sdc2, logical block 603726 lost page write due to I/O error on sdc2 So, what should I look for? Together with the disk, I installed an Nvidia 9800 GT, which could also be the culprit, because maybe I haven't a proper power unit etc. - or not? Thanks in advance to everybody! Ciao a tutti Dario Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com

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[arch-general] Mayday - Installed Fresh Archlinux on Laptop - Resolution stuck 1152x864, need 1440x900??
by David C. Rankin 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

Listmates, New drive for my laptop so I dedicated it to Arch. Net install with 2009.08 went fine (although there really should be a warning when you leave install WITHOUT configuring the bootloader). [the /arch/setup menu autoadvances when you leave Configure System and if you click Done and downarrow anticipating moving to the next item, you can easily miss configuring the bootloader (I did ;-)] The problem I have is that my laptop is stuck in 1152x864 resolution. For the text install that is fantastic, but when you start kde -- not so good. (should be 1440x900) The card is an RS690M (radeon 1200) and the radeon driver was loaded by default. The modules configured are: 22:46 alchemy:~> lsmod | grep rad radeon 716352 1 ttm 43776 1 radeon drm 191392 2 radeon,ttm i2c_algo_bit 6980 1 radeon i2c_core 25664 4 radeon,i2c_piix4,drm,i2c_algo_bit THE WEIRD PART... I have Arch on the drive I just took out and it goes to 1440x900 just fine. I am not using an xorg.conf, so I am pretty much at X's mercy. I use /etc/rc.d/kdm start from runlevel 3 to start kdm. It goes to 1152x864 instead of 1440x900. I don't understand how to control the new KMS stuff. I have check the kde4 settings for Display Size and Orientations, but the maximum allowed is 1152x864: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/bugs/kde4/kde4-syssettings-display.jpg http://www.3111skyline.com/download/bugs/kde4/kde4-syssettings-1164.png What is the trick? Also, when I try to start xdm from inittab with the default x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon I get the disabling for 5 seconds, respawning too fast error. So, what's the trick here? I bet there related... I have put the Xorg.0.log on the server as well: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/bugs/kde4/Xorg.0.log It looks like the dang thing is using the vesa driver?? I'll add radeon to modules, but It's loaded already so I don't think that's going to help. Anybody know what's happening here? This is the first install where I haven't installed KDE3, so i don't know if that is a part of the issue either. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you need to see anything else, just 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] kde4 only install - how do I get quanta?? how do I cnf the kde3 runtime environment?
by David C. Rankin 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

Guys, This is the first time I have done a install that doesn't include kde3 and I'm running into a few problems: (1) I can't find quanta -- where is it hiding? (2) how does one configure the default font size, etc.. for the kde3-runtime-base without the kde3 control center? kcmshell for the kde3 runtime base list no modules?? -- 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] [PATCH] makechrootpkg: Use the host's SRCDEST and PKGDEST if they are defined
by Rogutės Sparnuotos 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

Daenyth Blank (2009-11-05 13:07): > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 13:03, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I was thinking more along the lines of: > > > > Original: eval $(grep '^SRCDEST=' /etc/makepkg.conf) > > > > SRCDEST=$(grep '^SRCDEST=' /etc/makepkg.conf | cut -d= -f2) > > PKGDEST=$(grep '^PKGDEST=' /etc/makepkg.conf | cut -d= -f2) > > > > I believe that should work... Make sure to throw in a -d -w check > after, to make sure it's right... I think a malicious line (".. && rm > -rf /") would simply get stored as a string.. as long as we quote > everything properly and unset it if it's not right, I'm pretty sure > it's not dangerous. It could however, fail in cases where it's split > over multiple lines. I don't think that's a reason not to do it > though, I can't imagine a reason for such a thing. This wouldn't work for SRCDEST="/path/to/dir" SRCDEST='/path/to/dir' But sed should be able to do it: SRCDEST=$(sed -nr "/^SRCDEST=/{s/[^=]+=(['\"]?)(.+)\1/\2/p}" /etc/makepkg.conf) -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

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[arch-general] S3-level ACPI suspend
by b4283 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Hi, I've had some nice experiences with Windows(XP)'s suspend functionality, and it seems to work on all machines I've worked with. and the other day I just had a successful resume on my machine with "s2ram -f -m -p", but it takes like a minute for it to fully recover to a terminal (tty/1). (ps: my computer is a desktop with AMD RS780 chipset, which isn't supported by KMS yet) Unlike Windows ones, which only take like 3-5 seconds to wake up, linux takes much longer, I don't know if this is common... My question is: What's the average resume time of yours, and is it possible to be any faster ?

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[arch-general] Fresh install of 2009.08 -> hal, dbus, PK - no mount of usb for normal user (again...)
by David C. Rankin 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Guys, I did a fresh install of 2009.08 on a new drive for my laptop. For the past 8 months, I have never gotten the freedesktop.org -- removable policy to work. (well, maybe for a week or so before the kernel change in July). I wanted to make sure I got it right this time so I haven't monkeyed with the policies yet. In kde4, all of my removable devices are properly recognized (usb sticks, 2.5" laptop drives connected via usb, etc.). Despite being recognized properly, (1) the user cannot access the drives - until root has accessed them (like opening konqueror su) (2) none of the drives are mounted for the user under /media - until root has accessed them What makes no sense to me is that after root has accessed the drives, the user can use them (I guess the actual "mount" occurs when root access the drives, even though kde4 shows them as connected for the user through the notifier popup in the task bar) I finally just wrote a script to mount removables under /mnt that can be called by the users (basically uses sudo to mount and case on partition name and size to mount the drives on the proper mount points) Something has got to give. I've wiki'ed myself into a coma and still -- no joy. If one of the arch mount-removable gurus would just slip me the secret, I would be much abliged :-) It has to be simple, but simplicity has escaped me for quite some time now. However, I am determined to get it right with the new install. I know the wiki well, but where is the other document that I can use along with the wiki to make sure I have a good working system? Thanks for any help you can give. Sincerely yours, "stumped by hal, dbus and PK. Rankin" -- 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] APM gets re-enabled after awake from suspend
by Karol Babioch 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Hi, my hard drive suffers from the "clicking" problem, therefore I deactivated the APM (Advanced Power Management) totally. I'm doing this using hdparm in the /etc/rc.local, making sure that it gets executed every time I boot up my machine. However I noticed that the APM gets re-enabled after I wake my machine up from Suspend-to-RAM, which makes the hard drive clicking again. I'm now wondering whether this is "normal"? I guess so, as the hard drive gets disabled during the suspend, and after a wake-up it gets re-enabled, so any changed made with hdparm don't get stored. Is this intention right? Secondly I want to know what would be the right file (place) to fix this. I'll have to execute the hdparm command again, but don't quite know where to put it, or at least where it should be put ;). -- Best regards, Karol Babioch <karol(a)babioch.de>

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[arch-general] preferred laptops.
by Eric Jacobs 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Hello fello archers.. I've recently been going through a bit of a rough patch with my laptop usage.. I had a 15" macbook pro (dual booted with arch linux), which I recently sold because I thought it was ugly, the mouse didn't work very well, and frankly I was trying to de-appletize myself :).. I just received my refurbished dell studio 14z and got arch up and running on it, but I can't decide if I like it or not.. I haven't gotten used to the mouse yet. The resolution is less than desirable. (13 something x 7 something). And there isn't a latch on the lid.. but I do like the size, aesthetics, weight, and the keyboard feels nice.. So I'm asking you, if you have a laptop, what kind is it? Does arch run pretty well on it (synaptics, sleep/wake, etc.)? What window manager do you think works best with the touchpad (I'm using gnome now)? Any input would be appreciated. ------------------------------ -Eric Jacobs

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[arch-general] file system capabilities
by Shridhar Daithankar 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Hi, I was reading thr. /. commentary on the latest linux kernel bug, got drifted into file system capabilities. and got this, (from http://lwn.net/Articles/313838/) [root@presario shridhar]# ls -la /bin/ping -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 33360 2008-10-04 17:48 /bin/ping [root@presario shridhar]# chmod u-s /bin/ping [root@presario shridhar]# setcap cap_net_raw=ep /bin/ping [root@presario shridhar]# ls -al /bin/ping -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 33360 2008-10-04 17:48 /bin/ping [root@presario shridhar]# exit shridhar@presario ~$ ping 192.168.1.5 PING 192.168.1.5 (192.168.1.5) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.5: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.219 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.5: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.354 ms ^C --- 192.168.1.5 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.219/0.286/0.354/0.069 ms so can this be done by default? thus reducing setuid usage? it should improve security right? -- Shridhar

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[arch-general] Swfdec Gnash
by Lars Tennstedt 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Hi there, the current problem with the new Xorg and the NVIDIA legacy driver and the progress of the nouveau driver let me think about removing the another last proprietary package on my systems. Please tell me of your experience with Swfdec and Gnash for example with YouTube and other flash content. Thanks for your time! Bye Lars

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup
by Damjan Georgievski 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

>> Anyone else has some opinion about how to handle this? > > I'd like to affirm the opinions of Roman and Xavier and take some action on > this. > > Anyone object to my putting storage-fixup in [extra] at least? If no > objections by W 9/21, I plan to go ahead with that step. If it works out, we > can talk about follow-up steps like: > > 1) moving it to [core] > 2) integrating it into default rc.d scripts > > It's a pretty serious issue for laptop users with affected drives. And the > drives are pretty popular ones, methinks. Also note that, when raising awerness about this issue, the fixup ussually needs to be run on resume from disk (and I think resume from ram) too. Not only on boot. -- damjan

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[arch-general] Radeon (xf86-video-ati) verdict
by David C. Rankin 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

After working with the ati driver instead of the radeonhd driver, I must say I am very impressed with the KMS implementation. It works much, much better than in the past (performance is still way short of fglrx, and it is still much HOTTER than fglrx , but screen artifacts are virtually eliminated, desktop effects are good, and compiz works very well with the driver. Helluva job Arch team! -- 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] Preferred Laptops
by Sherry Howell 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

> Hello fello archers.. > > I've recently been going through a bit of a rough patch with my laptop > usage.. I had a 15" macbook pro (dual booted with arch linux), which I > recently sold because I thought it was ugly, the mouse didn't work very > well, and frankly I was trying to de-appletize myself :).. > > I just received my refurbished dell studio 14z and got arch up and running > on it, but I can't decide if I like it or not.. I haven't gotten used to > the mouse yet. The resolution is less than desirable. (13 something x 7 > something). And there isn't a latch on the lid.. but I do like the size, > aesthetics, weight, and the keyboard feels nice.. > > So I'm asking you, if you have a laptop, what kind is it? Does arch run > pretty well on it (synaptics, sleep/wake, etc.)? What window manager do you > think works best with the touchpad (I'm using gnome now)? > > Any input would be appreciated. > > ------------------------------ > -Eric Jacobs I've dumped OSX and am happily running arch on my macbook 4.1. I'm not suggesting you go spend the money on one, but if you did, you'd be very happy with it. Once I figured out how to get past the EFI boot system, the only thing I've had issues with at all is getting lirc to work correctly, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. Tried everything! But, wireless works excellent - broadcom and all. The synaptics simply needed a little tweaking using the instructions gleaned from the ubuntu forum. Sleep and wake worked out of the box. Every window manager I've tried worked great with the touchpad. I used kde 4 for a while, but have settled finally on xfce because it reminds me more of my first linux machine (fvwm on an old pb 486). Plus it's a lot of fun hearing "Oh, how cool, you've got a macbook -- what the heck is that?!?" --Sherry Howell

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Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Magazine
by Daniel J Griffiths 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

Loui Chang wrote: > Hey guys. I'm just curious. What's going on with the magazine? > Is there any intent to revive it? > > I know that I'd look forward to news/forum summaries at least if there > isn't time for all the other stuff. > > Cheers. > > I received the above email from Loui on the 31st and have been putting a good deal of thought into the current magazine/newsletter situation. As many of you know, Kensai recently moved and got married and I recently moved and have been trying to find a job. Shortly before receiving this email, Kensai and I had discussed the issue, but we didn't come to any real decisions. Hence, I'm sending my thoughts to the community and letting you in on the discussion. One of the possibilities that was brought up was separating the newsletter and magazine, much as it was when I first started AUM. I do not believe this is a good course of action due to one of the main reasons for the merger: the licensing rights to the Arch name and logo. While the magazine did well on its own, I simply can't afford to maintain the domain and server for it without help from the community, but I can't accept financial contributions for said project as long as it is using Arch branding. On the other hand, leaving it the way it is is proving difficult. I don't know Kensai's current situation, but I'm seeing less and less of him online which makes submission of any completed magazine/newsletter issues difficult as he is the only one with upload rights to the server currently on staff. My situation has settled down enough that I am now able to dedicate the time necessary to continue production of the magazine/newsletter as I used to. In fact, I have a good bit of content ready for the next release, whenever that becomes possible. I would like to see the magazine/newsletter make a comeback to where we were when we left off and then some. I want to see more community contributions, writers, I'd like to get the Schwag report back (Dusty, that's you if you're still up to it), etc. This is a big project that has greatly benefited our community and I hate to see it in it's current state. Please let me know what you all think so that we can expedite the release of another issue! @Kensai: Let me know what your current situation is (I know how being a newlywed is, been there a few times now...), and either way, best of luck (hopefully your luck is better than my first attempt was).

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[arch-general] google wave
by Jonathan Brown 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

Hi all, I know this is off-topic, but does anyone have a google wave invite that they just don't know who to give to? :) If so, I'm a bit desparate to try it out! Would be much appreciated and I would return the favor to others! jbssfl(a)gmail.com --Jon

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vacation Nov 7th - 14th
by Evangelos Foutras 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

(I couldn't reply to arch-dev-public, so I'm forwarding my message to arch-general.) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] Vacation Nov 7th - 14th Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:33:26 +0200 From: Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis(a)gmail.com> To: Public mailing list for Arch Linux development <arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org> References: <d64a48980911020949v35fc468cq8dd10afa9efe7f06(a)mail.gmail.com> <4AEF1DEA.5080902(a)archlinux.org> Thomas Bächler wrote: > Aaron Griffin schrieb: >> But, if you need anything, I'm fairly certain you guys can handle it. >> All of you doing admin type work seem competent enough to deal with >> anything that comes up, so I will not have anything to worry about. > > Anything except the current hard drive failure, but I guess you > settled the funds issue already today. Have a nice week. Does this mean that RAID 1 is used and one of the two drives failed? :) Also, is there a page describing the current Arch server(s) setup? I remember reading something about Xen being used and I'd be interested in knowing more. I understand this information is only useful to the admins, but I'm curious.

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[arch-general] Encrypting remote system
by Karol Babioch 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi, I'm wondering whether there is a possibility to encrypt a remote system using Arch Linux? I have installed Arch on a remote server, and don't like the idea that anyone with physical access to my system has access to my data. So is there something I can do about it? Using dm-crypt (with luks) doesn't work at all, as I can't input the passphrase when I reboot my system, the technician would really hate me if I ask them to attach a remote console each time I reboot my system. So is there anything I can do? -- Best regards, Karol Babioch <karol(a)babioch.de>

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[arch-general] libtorrent-rasterbar
by Damien Churchill 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

I've attached an updated PKGBUILD (just a simple version and md5sum update) for the libtorrent-rasterbar package. The upcoming Deluge 1.2 release depends on libtorrent-rasterbar >= 0.14.5 so I thought I'd assist a little there. Damien

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[arch-general] editors graphic, video new (to archlinux) encoder decoder theora
by andrew james 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

news at 2009 09 http://theora.org/news/ the library encoder decoder theora version 1.1 was rewritten. It is "largely an improvement to the Theora encoder <http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/09/theora-1-1-released/>" this library is old in the repository arch also, ffmpeg2theora, "A simple converter to create Ogg Theora files", is a binary that (I know slightly) depends to the library is old in the repository arch. ffmpeg2theora-0.25 'use new libtheora 1.1' http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/index.html I am inexperienced with package management, for example the maintainers may know a conflicts or insecurity that is the reason to serve the old. However, this news is relevant. I will continue to act as a reporter to improve the quality of our community. andrew

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[arch-general] Nouveau doesn't get loaded without config file?
by Magnus Therning 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

I had some problems with my Xorg nv driver this morning, and people suggested I switch to the nouveau driver instead. When trying it X didn't seem to notice that it's available. Do I really need to have an X configuration file in order to use it? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] [signoff] mdadm-3.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi bump to latest version, please signoff. Due to lack of hardware also users can signoff. Please update and recreate your initcpio after upgrading. One thing i observed, when using a custom /etc/mdadm.conf file our rc.sysinit will run mdadm --assemble --scan, which will always give exit code 2, due to devices busy. Thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] dmraid-1.0.0.rc16-1
by Tobias Powalowski 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi bump to latest version, please signoff. Due to lack of hardware also users can signoff. Please update and recreate your initcpio after upgrading. Thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] samba 3.4.x
by Tobias Powalowski 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi guys and users, bumped to new samba 3.4.x series, i only use it very rudimentary. It's a major version upgrade, please give me a signoff on it. Thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [transcode] Updated PKGBUILD
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

* Update PKGBUILD for transcode to 1.1.5 * Removed already satisfied deps: libdv, libtheora, libxml2, xvidcore * Removed unused dep: libmpeg2 * Update versioned deps. -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D Index: transcode/trunk/PKGBUILD =================================================================== --- transcode/trunk/PKGBUILD (revision 57755) +++ transcode/trunk/PKGBUILD (working copy) @@ -1,22 +1,24 @@ # $Id$ # Contributor: Sarah Hay <sarahhay(a)mb.sympatico.ca> -# Maintainer: roberto <roberto(a)archlinux.org> +# Contributor: roberto <roberto(a)archlinux.org> pkgname=transcode _sripver=0.3-4 -pkgver=1.1.4 +pkgver=1.1.5 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A video/DVD ripper and encoder for the terminal/console." arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://tcforge.berlios.de/" license=('GPL') -depends=('imagemagick>=6.5.1.9' 'lzo2' 'libdv' 'libdvdread>=4.1.3' 'ffmpeg>=0.5' 'mjpegtools' 'xvidcore' 'libmpeg2' 'libtheora' 'libxaw' 'x264>=20090416' 'libxml2' 'libxv' 'a52dec' 'alsa-lib') +depends=('imagemagick>=6.5.6.10' 'lzo2' 'libdvdread>=4.1.3' 'ffmpeg>=0.5' 'mjpegtools' 'libxaw' 'libxv' 'a52dec' 'alsa-lib') makedepends=('nasm' 'pkgconfig') options=(!libtool !makeflags) source=(http://download2.berlios.de/tcforge/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2 \ http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/subtitleripper/subtitleripper-…) -md5sums=('6ba277fde95c26d217a88bbe5e6dd994' 'c0bd49a88f667c68c4430ad25bbed510') -sha1sums=('3d08f67c047b1b498a4a5183ad164c0641fcbc00' 'd93ff3578dd5f722c8f4ef16bc0903eec5781a0d') +md5sums=('41ac6b1c0fe30f3aab286e771fc31b9e' + 'c0bd49a88f667c68c4430ad25bbed510') +sha1sums=('48c36e06ca0cd1cdc1a9c6a241e231f896eefd26' + 'd93ff3578dd5f722c8f4ef16bc0903eec5781a0d') build() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"

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[arch-general] WARNING: openntpd upgrade breaks openssh on next restart
by Vesa Kaihlavirta 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hey, I made a screwup on the openntpd package which nastily reveals a weakness in openssh and filesystems. I moved away from using /var/empty/ as a privsep directory, and removed the directory from the package. But since it's empty, it got removed from the system as well in the upgrade. So if you're using openntpd and openssh, BE EXTRA CAREFUL with your next upgrade. openssh does not start if /var/empty/ is not there. Quick fix: after doing pacman -Suy, do mkdir /var/empty as root. Longer fix: openssh, or perhaps the filesystems package should create /var/empty/ and put a hidden file in it so idiots like me won't cause accidents in the future. --vk

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[arch-general] [signoff] device-mapper & lvm2 2.02.54
by Eric Bélanger 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Hi, device-mapper & lvm2 2.02.54 are now in testing. Changes: * Upstream update * Enabled the device-mapper event daemon * Moved the udev rule from /etc to /lib Please test and signoff. Signoffs from users would be appreciated. Eric

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[arch-general] Teeworlds package is broken?
by Mathieu Pasquet 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Hi, The teeworlds package from community seems broken since the last update (0.5.2). Here is what I get with the new package on ctf5 - for those who play teeworlds - (tee skins are personals): http://pix.mathieui.net/?action=search&method=tag&tag=teeworlds . That's really weird, and the original version from teeworlds website works fine, so I wonder what's going on.

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[arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...
by Preston C. 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Hi, I have two hard disks installed in my computer. One for Windows and the other for Arch Linux. I have tried to install Arch several times but get a message write after I click "Arch Linux" from the boot menu- it has something to do with "Error 17". I have come to see that my Grub configuration file is not configured properly. The problem is I do not know how to configure it properly- so that I can use Windows and Arch. The way I would like to go about choosing which OS I would like to use is by selecting it from the Grub boot menu. Although, if I have to choose a disk to boot from in the BIOS, than that is not a problem either. I have read on the Arch Wiki and the Grub Wiki, yet, do not know exactly how to properly configure the Grub configuration file to handle both OS's. Thanks for any help. Preston

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[arch-general] mutt and gnupg
by Thomas Göbel 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

Hi listmates, i have a problem with mutt and gnupg. I have set the gpg-options described here: http://WIKI.mutt.org/?MuttGuide/UseGPG I use mutt with getmail/procmail and msmtp to receive/send mail. I have two mail-accounts (gmx.de and my university account). If i send me a signed mail from GMX to GMX mutt tells me "Good signature" and the status line tells "signature successfully verified". Sending mail from university-account to university-account everything works fine, too. The problem exists if i send from GMX to university. Now mutt tells me "BAD signature from" and "PGP signature could not be verified". Sending mail from university to GMX and mutt and gpg work well. The key is always the same and the key is made for both e-mail adresses. If i open both mails in the sent folder mutt tells me for both mails that the signature is successfully verified. Thanks, Tom Attached the PGP outputs: Bad signature ###################################################################### From: Tom <account1(a)gmx.net> To: student <stud(a)ohm-hochschule.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) [-- PGP output follows (current time: Fri Oct 30 11:32:13 2009) --] gpg: Signature made Fri Oct 30 11:20:19 2009 CET using DSA key ID C9B89DCD gpg: BAD signature from "Tom <account1(a)gmx.net>" [-- End of PGP output --] Good signature ###################################################################### From: student <student(a)ohm-hochschule.de> To: student(a)ohm-hochschule.de User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) [-- PGP output follows (current time: Fri Oct 30 11:36:23 2009) --] gpg: Signature made Fri Oct 30 11:22:25 2009 CET using DSA key ID C9B89DCD gpg: Good signature from "Tom <account1(a)gmx.net>" gpg: aka ""student" <student(a)ohm-hochschule.de>" [-- End of PGP output --]

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[arch-general] Encrypted ram disk?
by Karol Babioch 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

Hi, after setting up a full system encryption, which works just fine basically, I know want to create a ram disk. I though that /tmp could be outsourced to a ram disk, to speed things up. However I'm wondering whether it really makes sense to encrypt this. If there is someone able to read my ram, there is nothing I can do about it, so encryption wouldn't work, would it? Furthermore the content of the RAM gets encrypted when suspending, as my swap partition is encrypted. Moreover I think that it would slow down the ram disk, and that the benefit wouldn't be that great at all. So what do you think, is there any rational reason to encrypt a ram disk, or is it fair enough, when I just create an unencrypted one for /tmp? Is there anything I can read about this topic? -- Best regards, Karol Babioch <karol(a)babioch.de>

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[arch-general] ssh broken?
by Tobias Kieslich 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Hi, I frequently ssh into localhost to sync files with unison. THat seems to be broken after the lates pacman -Syu which removed /var/empty. Is there sombody else who sees the same behavior? -T

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[arch-general] netcfg
by fons＠kokkinizita.net 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Hello all, I'm a new user of ArchLinux, so far installed on two machines (more wil follow). Coming from first Suse and then Fedora it was a big change, but I learned a lot in the process and have the nice feeling to be back in control of my machines (they also lost some weight). The one remaining problem is with netcfg 2.2.1. On my laptop I have the drivers e1000 and ipw2200 loaded in rc.conf, providing the devices eth0 and eth1 in fixed order. For the first I use: CONNECTION="ethernet-iproute" DESCRIPTION="Local ethernet - zita1 router" INTERFACE="eth0" IP="static" ADDR="192.168.2.241" GATEWAY="192.168.2.240" and this works nicely. The only strange thing is that it fails when the interface is not connected. I've never seen this on the systems I used before, and since you can disconnect the network cable and put it back without any ill effect on the interface configuration I'd really expect it to be configured as well if the physical connection is not present. For the wireless connection all the examples use dhcp but I need a fixed address. Combining the examples I arrived at: CONNECTION="wireless" DESCRIPTION="Wireless connection at Basilicanova" INTERFACE="eth1" SECURITY="wep" ESSID="lovettanet" KEY="........" IP="static" ADDR=192.168.1.241 GATEWAY="192.168.1.1" which fails with: lovetta up SIOCADDRT: No such process Adding gateway failed. After some experimentation I found that the following works: CONNECTION="wireless" DESCRIPTION="Wireless connection at Basilicanova" INTERFACE="eth1" SECURITY="wep" ESSID="lovettanet" KEY="........" IP="static" POST_UP="ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.241; route add default gw 192.168.1.1" But it doesn't feel right. Am I missing something obvious ? Many thanks, -- FA

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[arch-general] Why qemu/kqemu conflict to kvm ?
by goodmenzy＠gmail.com 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

OK, ok, I want install qemu+kqemu and KVM in my machine. Why does they conflict? Sometime, I want my virtual machine run faster, so KVM is a great choice. But sometime, I need simulate other CPU: ppc arm ... , so qemu is the best choice. Why does them conflict? Can the community do some works to let them co-exist in the SAME archlinux installation?

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[arch-general] 2 partitions with same UUID
by kurrata 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

I had problems with launching win xp it was crashing often since it didn't like my sata hard(sdb) drive or that it wasn't on boot disk most likely and since my root started to run out of space I decided to make some changes. move sda1(root) to sda2 while increasing sda2 size and install windows on sda1. sda is ata hard drive I increased sda2(it was used to test other linux distro) size up to 10gb from ~5.5GB with gparted Then did "dd if="/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sda2" from live usb install. Now when I do "sudo blkid" it shows that both sda1 and sda2 have same UIID. Any ideas how could I fix this?

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[arch-general] Where to report bugs in community packages?
by David Rosenstrauch 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Where should we report bugs for packages in community? Using the main Arch bug tracking system? If so, there's no selection under the "Category" pulldown for "Packages: Community" - just core, extra, and testing. If not, then where? Email the maintainer? Tnx, DR

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[arch-general] defunct packages spooking around
by Firmicus 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Hi folks, Sorry for the halloweenish subject heading ;) I recently got this bug report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16690 It turned out it was not a bug with the perl package at all, but a problem which occurs when the presumably very old and no longer existing package "termcap-compat" is installed on a system. It was originally installed as a dependency for some other, unidentified package. And it turned out to my surprise that even I still had that package installed! That prompts me to ask the following: Are there other such obsolete packages that typically should no longer be installed on a "clean" Arch Linux system? I am not in favour of automating their removal, of course, but it would be useful to collect a list of such things that we could put in the wiki and/or our monthly newsletter. Another example that comes to mind is the obsolete file /etc/udev/udev.rules that I also still had until recently, and which I have removed after Thomas' suggestion. Please submit your suggestions for the forthcoming "Arch Ghostbusting Day" (aka "The Great Halloween Cleanup")! :) François

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Re: [arch-general] S3-level ACPI suspend
by b4283 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Still no luck with Pm-utils. It takes about a minute before the keyboard lights and mouse leds to go on, and Caps-Lock key works, so it isn't hanging. I could use the SysRq method to reboot my system, so I guess maybe everything is actually working -- except video. Using Ctrl-Alt-[1-7] to switch between ttys doesn't work, because my monitor doesn't even receive any signal.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoff xfsprogs 3.0.5-1 both arches
by Uli Armbruster 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Hi Because last time a user signoff for xfsprogs was required, I'm doing this now again. I rebootet, right now there's a xfs_fsr running and everything seems to be just fine. If there are more things I should test or run to be sure everything is ok, please just tell me. So signoff i686 Greetz Army * Paul Mattal <paul(a)mattal.com> [26.10.2009 19:03]: > Upstream update to xfsprogs 3.0.5. > > Please signoff both arches. I have tested basic functionality, just > need another sanity signoff. Because this is a limited-use package, > if nobody signs off within a week (by end of day 11/2) I will push > this to core. > > Changes are document here in git: > > http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xfs/cmds/xfsprogs.git;a=summary > > - P

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[arch-general] problem with Exaile - missing dependency somewhere maybe?
by Nebojša Stričević 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

I had problem with Exaile when I try to play radio station. Exaile needs gstreamer's http support, and gstreamer needs libsoup-gnome for that. I didn't had libsoup-gnome installed, only libsoup, and trying to play radio in Exaile caused system to hang. Is that a missing dependency somewhere maybe? Greets, -- Nebojša Stričević

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[arch-general] Splitting up the 'boinc' package
by Karol Babioch 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Hi, I'm new to this mailing list (and to mailing lists itself), so please forgive me any mistakes I'm doing ;). I hope that I use the right list, at least it seems to be the most adequate one ... However I'm participating in some BOINC projects. Although there is a 'boinc' package in the community repository (which was updated just yesterday). First of all I want to ask you why you have updated this package to a unstable version? According to this (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php) page the latest stable version is 6.6.38, but the version in the repository is 6.10.13, which is a development version. Shouldn't there be just stable versions in the repository? Furthermore I think that the package itself should be splitted. I have a root server, which has not X server installed, but want to use boinc there, too. Therefore I think there should be at least two packages 'boinc-client' as well as 'boinc-manager'. The optimum would be even some more packages, something like 'boinc-dev' (all stuff in order to setup an own boinc project). Maybe you can take some inspiration from the debian structure of the boinc packages: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=boinc&searchon=names&suite=stabl… I know that it is possible to create this packages for my own (using abs), but I think it should be available for greater audience. What do you think about this? Would it be ok, to create these packages and submit them to the aur? As there is already a boinc package in the main repository, I don't quite know whether such redundancy is accepted at all? Best regards Karol 'johnpatcher' Babioch -- Karol Babioch <karol(a)babioch.de>

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[arch-general] Rock-n-roll Compiz 8.4 is in the repositories.
by David C. Rankin 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Listmates, Just updated and noticed compiz 8.4 is in the repositories. Can't wait to give it a run-through. Arch has got to be the best distro going at getting new packages built and online. Thanks for the effort! -- 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] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.
by hollunder＠gmx.at 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:49:01 -0500 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:01 AM, <hollunder(a)gmx.at> wrote: > > Am I happy to hear that. > > I say this because I'm under the impression that people see only two > > kinds of linux uses: > > 1) The traditional server > > 2) The Desktop > > > > You can, at this time, still do both, but everything in between is > > getting more and more difficult. > > > > The problem is that the Desktop Environments, GNOME and KDE, in > > their quest for "integrated desktop experience" push more and more > > stuff that's really only useful to those DEs deeper and deeper into > > the system. > > If you as a user need or want it or not, you get it. > > > > > > I'd like to provide an example. > > I'm using an oldish PC and like to pick the apps I use myself, > > therefor the DE's so-called 'integration' is just unnecessary and > > rather hindering in the background. I also like configuration. Those > > are the main reasons I don't use DEs. > > > > Recently I tried to figure out what console-kit is actually good > > for. Here's an excerpt of the manual that I especially like: > > Defining the Problem > > To be written. > > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/ConsoleKit/doc/ConsoleKit.html#id312255 > > > > I figured out that it's only useful for something called 'fast user > > switching', something I definitely don't need. > > When trying to remove it I figured that HAL requires it. > > HAL also requires something called policy-kit, yet another thing I > > don't know what it does. > > I recompiled HAL without either, and the system still works as > > before. > > > > Somewhere during the research I figured that HAL is supposed to be > > replaced by something called device-kit. HAL isn't really needed > > says the author in an email, pretty much all the work is done by > > udev etc.. So I figured, hey, why not just remove HAL, this way the > > kits won't come back with the next update, and all I use HAL for is > > mounting usb drives, something that can be done with udev rules as > > well. > > > > Well, trying to do this I found five apps requiring it, the most > > surprising: xorg-server > > > > Conclusion: > > Yeah, great, install xorg for a minimal graphical desktop, what you > > get is console-kit, for a minor feature in a monster DE. > > When will "Desktop" people start to see that they are being > > intrusive? They live in their own small bubble called GNOME or KDE > > and can't ever imagine anyone not wanting to use this. > > Sorry for this "slightly" off topic rant, but it annoys me on a > > regular basis when I see applications depend on gnome or kde, > > mostly for some stupid reason called 'integration' which really > > isn't of much use in the specific DE they integrate with and a > > hindrance to everyone who's not running exactly that DE. > > > > So please, next time you call something integration, think beyond > > the bubble. In our little Linux world with limited developer time > > we need real integration, real solutions and still > > freedom of choice. > > Just a personal reply to say that I loved this email. I've been so > enraged with this recently. I actually get _angry_ about the xorg hal > integration (I have never used hal) - as it means that BY DEFAULT > starting xorg fails because it has no keyboard or mouse; you can, > thankfully, shut off the hal integration with a Option > "AutoAddDevices" "False" in the ServerFlags section of xorg.conf. But > still, what the fuck? For all the history of xorg, it has correctly > done the basics of detection a ordinary mouse and keyboard. But not > any longer. For what reason? I HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA! > > Thanks for the email. It makes me feel like I'm not alone in my > absolute hatred for the direction these things are going. Thanks for your reply Arvid and Aaron. I'm sure there are a lot more people who feel this way, your replies make me a bit more confident that this situation can be changed. Maybe something can be done on Arch to work against this development? The closer to the core a package is the more careful we have to be with dependencies, I think. It's easy to replace a text editor, impossible to replace xorg, etc.. The other thing I can think of is talking to upstream. Maybe they're not that aware of this issue and think along the lines of: "Everyone has HAL installed anyway, it's no problem if we use it to do xyz." Philipp

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[arch-general] polkit v.s policykit
by Mathieu Clabaut 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Hello all, It appears I've got two similar packages on my computer: - polkit, which is needed by the following packages : :: consolekit: requiert polkit>=0.94 :: devicekit-disks: requiert polkit>=0.94 :: devicekit-power: requiert polkit>=0.94 :: gconf: requiert polkit>=0.94 :: polkit-gnome: requiert polkit>=0.94 :: system-tools-backends: requiert polkit>=0.94 -policykit, which is needed by the following packages : :: hal: requiert policykit>=0.9-6 :: polkit-qt: requiert policykit :: pulseaudio: requiert policykit As noted on the forum ( http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=644090#p644090) they do not reference the same policy rules. My guess is that policykit is due to be removed and replaced by polkit. But in the meanwhile the system-wide privileges are very difficult to manage ! Can someone tell me more about those packages ? What shall I do to have a functional privilege management ? Thanks for any tip, -Mathieu

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[arch-general] Hardinfo doesn´t show USB Infos after Kernel Update
by Jürgen Hagemann 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Hello. after a kernel Update, hardinfo from community repo doesn´t show any USB Device Informations. If I boot my alternate LTS-Kernel all infos are shown. -- Jürgen

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[arch-general] Xorg strange keyboard behaviour
by Philipp Gesang 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Good morning, since a few days I'm experiencing an unwanted behaviour in X: after some time, apparently when cycling keyboard layouts, the key just don't work as expected anymore. For example pressing RALT will give return, the left arrow will be remapped to change group etc. Terminating and restarting X will remove the problem; everything works fine on terminals. The error is not reproducible but seems to be related to/caused by layout switching. And I'm switching very often. I'm using Openbox 3.4.7.2, Kxkb, Xorg 1.6.3.901-1. On my second box where I use wmii with keybound scripts for layout switching the error didn't show up yet. I'm appending xorg.conf, xkb configuration, and selected output of xev _after_ the error occured. Feel free to request any logs. Thanks for Your help! Philipp setxkbmap -print http://pastie.org/private/uxqg99n6uhap9dknis1gig xorg.conf http://pastie.org/private/qchqolhh0dltdtidnrxb6q xevents http://pastie.org/private/1a6edox5b1r8fdvkbbxoq

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[arch-general] Xorg strange keyboard behaviour
by Philipp Gesang 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Good morning, since a few days I'm experiencing an unwanted behaviour in X: after some time, apparently when cycling keyboard layouts, the key just don't work as expected anymore. For example pressing RALT will give return, the left arrow will be remapped to change group etc. Terminating and restarting X will remove the problem; everything works fine on terminals. The error is not reproducible but seems to be related to/caused by layout switching. And I'm switching very often. I'm using Openbox 3.4.7.2, Kxkb, Xorg 1.6.3.901-1. On my second box where I use wmii with keybound scripts for layout switching the error didn't show up yet. I'm appending xorg.conf, xkb configuration, and selected output of xev _after_ the error occured. Feel free to request any logs. Thanks for Your help! Philipp setxkbmap -print http://pastie.org/private/uxqg99n6uhap9dknis1gig xorg.conf http://pastie.org/private/qchqolhh0dltdtidnrxb6q xevents http://pastie.org/private/1a6edox5b1r8fdvkbbxoq

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[arch-general] Xorg strange keyboard behaviour
by Philipp Gesang 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Good morning, since a few days I'm experiencing an unwanted behaviour in X: after some time, apparently when cycling keyboard layouts, the key just don't work as expected anymore. For example pressing RALT will give return, the left arrow will be remapped to change group etc. Terminating and restarting X will remove the problem; everything works fine on terminals. The error is not reproducible but seems to be related to/caused by layout switching. And I'm switching very often. I'm using Openbox 3.4.7.2, Kxkb, Xorg 1.6.3.901-1. On my second box where I use wmii with keybound scripts for layout switching the error didn't show up yet. I'm appending xorg.conf, xkb configuration, and selected output of xev _after_ the error occured. Feel free to request any logs. Thanks for Your help! Philipp

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[arch-general] octave and scilab startup error
by Uli Armbruster 24 Oct '09

24 Oct '09

Hi First of all, I have [testing] enabled and I'm on 32bit. I wanted to take a look at these two alternatives of matlab. Both of them don't work here, both are complaining about a missing library error while loading shared libraries: libgfortran.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory After installing gcc-fortran it worked, so it seems like we need a rebuild here with corrected dependencies for [testing] (octave) and [community-testing] (scilab) Greetz Army

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Strange behaviour of pacman
by Pierre Chapuis 24 Oct '09

24 Oct '09

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:48:58 +1000, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Jan de Groot wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 15:18 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > > >> Are you saying that the .pyo files are no longer architecture > >> independent? I was under the assumption they were. > >> > > > > Actually, they're even python-version specific. Updating python could > > break the precompiled .pyo files. > > > > And this whole issue was a fairly major source of headaches during the > python-2.6 transition... which is why I started making the python > packaging policy to deal with them, although that obviously was never > finished with (in fact, I had never seen the comment with --optimize=1 > in it). > > Now my main concern about all of this is that .pyc and .pyo files used > to contain full paths to where they were created. That meant they need > to be created on the users system and not during the packaging stage. > I have not confirmed if this is still the case. > > So the best way to deal with them seems to be: > 1) touch them during packaging > 2) generate them during post_install() I have found a way to automate that which is, I believe, not PKGBUILD-dependant. Here's what I do in the PKGBUILD: [...] install="pyo_remover.install" [...] build() { [...] # Take care of .pyo files cd $pkgdir echo "post_install() {" > $startdir/$install for _i in $(find . -name '*.pyo'); do echo "rm -f "$(echo "$_i" | cut -c2-) >> $startdir/$install echo > "$_i" done echo -e '}\npost_upgrade() {\npost_install $1\n}\n' >> $startdir/$install } pyo_remover.install can be anything, even an empty file. For packages that need a .install file this has to be adapted. Does this look like a good way to solve the problem? I know the way I do it for now is kind of ugly, but I think it could be much cleaner if the same kind of thing was done directly by makepkg. -- catwell

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[arch-general] How to add a POP-UP menu item
by ibear 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

I use dolphin, and when I right click on a folder, I can execute a command "Open Terminal Here" through the popup menu. My question is Can I do so when I right click the blank area of dolphin folder view?

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[arch-general] firefox extension (add on) 'Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant' is insecure
by andrew james 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

I have wondered why that extension was in my browser, I think the problem began because I copied a profile from the system microsoft windows xp that I use occasionally. If it is an extension to your browser, whatever system, you are advised to disable it. there is some links to reports new. I assume there is truth, http://www.i4u.com/article27674.html http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=5CF0A4A7-1A64-67EA-E45F5A54F2136086 I found the report recently, is it fixed yet? I though best to forward the report immediately. andrew

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[arch-general] kwrite: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 ??
by David C. Rankin 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Guys, New strange error while I troubleshoot the dead X intel card issue. As mentioned, I have managed to get twm and openbox running in vncserver on the box with the intel card. kde4 apps will run, but look terrible due to the difference in color-depth, etc., so I was trying to get kde3/kate or kwrite running. I have always been able to run the kde3 apps from both twm and openbox before, but now I get the following error: /opt/kde/bin/kwrite: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 same error with kate, and just about any other kde3 app. Any way to fix this? I like vim, but I admit, I am a bit quicker with multiple kate/kwrite windows at my disposal. I don't think this would be related to the X problem, but... could it be? -- 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] pkgbuild of tightvnc doesn't produce and installable package?
by David C. Rankin 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Guys, I'm obviously doing something wrong. I set up abs, then copied the tightvnc package to my build dir, then I built it with makepkg -s (built clean - no errors), then I went to install it and it bombed. 03:24 dcrgx2:~/arch/abs/tightvnc> sudo pacman -U tightvnc-1.3.10_unixsrc.tar.bz2 loading package data... error: missing package metadata in tightvnc-1.3.10_unixsrc.tar.bz2 error: 'tightvnc-1.3.10_unixsrc.tar.bz2': invalid or corrupted package What metadata am I missing? What did I do wrong? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.27.38-1
by Andreas Radke 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

next minor upstream update. please signoff. see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.38 -Andy

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[arch-general] CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set
by Sascha Siegel 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Hi, can someone tell my whats the reason for building the arch-kernel with "# CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set"? Thank you! Greetings, hardcore ______________________ You live in a fabricated world. Regulated by complex laws. Controlled by national governments. Governments restrained by international authorities, Watched by enforcers that are controlled. Controlled by controllers that ironically enough Are also controlled. CTRL.ALT.DELETE

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[arch-general] enlightenment e-svn (e17) segfaults with standard setup, OK with minimalist (battery module)
by David C. Rankin 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Devs, I don't know if I should bug this since it is a svn package, but enlightenment (the e-svn package) segfaults and cannot recover if you choose the standard setup. It goes through the initial setup screens OK, but as soon as it tries to start, it segfaults and cannot be recovered. I deleted the ~/.e directory and re-ran setup a few times changing setup options and finally got it to load fine choosing the minimalist setup. I then went through the modules to see if I could find the one causing the problem. Sure enough, as soon as I attempted to load the battery module - WHAM segfault-unrecoverable. I know nothing about enlightenment as I had never event loaded it before a few days ago when troubleshooting the intel X crash issue, and then just e16. Tonight was my first time to load e17, so I don't know how much help I'll be troubleshooting the problem. But, before I did anything, I wanted to ask whether I should bug it, or just send this email since it was listed as a svn package (e-svn). Let me know... -- 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] SMPlayer and Qt
by Lars Tennstedt 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Hi there, SMPlayer version 0.6.8 (SVN r3213) form the repository is compiled with Qt 4.5.2. At the moment the version of Qt is 4.5.3. Is it time to rebuild SMPlayer? Bye, Lars

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[arch-general] GDM + Xfce
by Lars Tennstedt 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Hello, sorry that I have to annoy you again but you were always very helpful. I have a second Arch Linux install with GDM as login manager and Xfce as desktop environment. This installation is up-to-date. Since the version 2.28 of GDM or better GNOME was released, I noticed some little problems. I read the site about the GNOME 2.28 changes on wiki.archlinux.org and I now know how to configure the new GDM. But sometimes the login process from GDM to Xfce hangs forever and if I can login, it will take a much longer time now. These problems did not exist in the past. Can you help? Greetings Lars

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[arch-general] mplayer needs a rebuild
by Caleb Cushing 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

I've tried to play video's with smplayer but they wouldn't play after the gtk upgrade so I rebuilt mplayer and installed with the pkgbuild in abs and now it works -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] Why does kde4 over vnc look bad if host is Arch, looks fine if suse?
by David C. Rankin 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Guys, This has puzzled me for a while now. If I need to do something on a remote host that is something more than what I want to do over ssh (something that requires 4-5 windows or apps or configuring the actual remote desktop) I use vncserver/vncviewer. If I need a kde4 app and the remote host is opensuse, then there is no problem at all running the app. If the remote host is arch, then I am kind of screwed because there is some setting causing kde4 (which I understand uses native 24bit color) to look terrible. The vncserver setting on both suse and arch are identical. The start script I use for vncserver is: 20:24 dcrgx2:~> cat bin/vncs #!/bin/bash GEOMETRY=${1:-1280x800} DEPTH=${2:-24} SCREEN=${3:-1} vncserver -geometry $GEOMETRY -depth $DEPTH :$SCREEN & echo -e "\n vncserver returned $?\n" exit 0 The xstartup scripts are the same as well: Archlinux: 20:29 dcrgx2:~> cat .vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & #twm & startkde & #e16start & #enlightenment_start & suse: 20:19 dcrgx:~> cat .vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey #xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & #twm & startkde & #openbox & However, the resulting vncsession with Arch looks all garbled (pixilated) while the suse session looks great: Arch: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/arch-kde4overvnc.… suse: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/suse-kde4overvnc.… There must be some setting that controls this behavior. I would like to figure out what it is, because even if I use enlightenment or openbox on arch as my desktop over vnc, if I have to call a kde4 app, everything looks terrible. Where should I start looking to find the difference? -- 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] udev and high load.......
by David Houston 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Hi all, Over the last day or so, udev has been sending my system load though the roof?!? Nothing has changed on the system. I have included a screencap of htop for your viewing pleasure. Anybody got any idea why udev is freaking out? It is now loagging my system. Oh yeah, problem presists after a reboot. :( ------- SCREENCAP ------ 1 [|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||100.0%] Tasks: 240 total, 8 running 2 [|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 63.2%] Load average: 3.54 1.67 0.64 Mem [||||||||||||||||||||||| 496/2024MB] Uptime: 00:14:35 Swp [ 0/258MB] PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command 629 root 16 -4 34288 33084 424 R 79.0 1.6 2:17.77 /sbin/udevd --daemon 5975 dave 20 0 394M 150M 33428 S 5.0 7.4 0:25.51 /usr/bin/firefox 1773 root 19 -1 810M 34324 10696 S 5.0 1.7 0:12.00 /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp 1336 hal 20 0 6524 4404 3464 R 5.0 0.2 0:08.01 /usr/sbin/hald 1333 dbus 20 0 2360 944 716 R 4.0 0.0 0:07.41 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system 1807 dave 20 0 25456 5460 4552 R 1.0 0.3 0:02.20 Thunar --sm-client-id 2fbdcc117-ace0-4cb5-ba5c-12c5be6a1816 --daemon 1812 dave 20 0 15128 2844 2140 S 1.0 0.1 0:02.44 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id 2c8d537b7-1939-40f3-9fbe-2263f4160bf4 13561 dave 20 0 2752 1528 944 R 1.0 0.1 0:00.16 htop 1659 root 18 -2 2076 904 432 R 0.0 0.0 0:01.82 /sbin/udevd --daemon 1811 dave 20 0 62480 20852 18448 S 0.0 1.0 0:01.66 xfdesktop --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 2bf627c6b-32d8-4f35-9abc-272c1365f117 1806 dave 20 0 25888 16276 13912 S 0.0 0.8 0:01.87 xfwm4 --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 21fd626f9-d774-4cd5-98a4-2f6a1b3027ff 1 root 20 0 1684 564 500 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.68 ini 1263 root 20 0 4664 484 268 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 supervising syslog-ng 1264 root 20 0 4844 1784 1392 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.03 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng 1303 root 20 0 1872 312 220 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /sbin/dhcpcd -q eth0 1315 root 20 0 6152 976 620 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/sshd 1339 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.52 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1341 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1342 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1343 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1344 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1345 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1346 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1348 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon ---------- END SCREENCAP ------- Dave ------------- root(a)crankyadmin.net cranky(a)archlinux.us

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[arch-general] screen
by Juan Diego 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Hello everyone the screen applications had stopped working on my computer, I am experimenting this only during X sessions, I have the theory that it might be because of the recent tty changes, but Im not sure exactly which were the changes so I cant really tell the only way I can make it run is giving it a name to the screen session, something like this: screen -S term anyone got similar behaviour? any ideas of how to fix this? Good bye

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[arch-general] Drupal Packages
by David Campbell 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Greetings all, I am wondering if anyone would be interested in working with me to create a repository containing the most commonly used Drupal modules, themes, and installation profiles. I feel like a major lacking of Drupal is that it does not have a good way for managing its packages. Drush is a start, but being able to set up and maintain sites with something like pacman would be so much more powerful and useful. I also know there are some major hosting companies such as slicehost which support Arch servers/VPS which might be pleased to have good package manangement for a major CMS. The packages might also help to enforce good file structure practices etc.. Let me know what you think or if you know anyone who might be interested in working on the project (also, if I should be posting this somewhere else). -David Campbell

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[arch-general] OpenOffice Calc - Setting Cell Background Color does Not Display on Screen - prints OK
by David C. Rankin 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Guys, I'm having a problem with openoffice calc. When I highlight a few cells or few rows and then change the background color, no color is shown on the monitor for the cells. Moving the input box up/down across the rows or cells that the background color was set on, the color indication in the toolbar correctly changes showing where the color has been set, but still no background color is displayed in the cells on-screen. Oddly, when I print the spreadsheet, the background color is correctly printed?? Can some one confirm this on your install or let me know "works for me" so I can have some additional info before filing a bug report. 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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] List of packages that could be rebuilt if you have nothing better to do...
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Allan McRae wrote: > Hi, > > I have created a list of packages the could use a rebuild but for > which there is no hurry. These include packages without the arch in > their filename, packages containing a .FILELIST file, packages with > man pages in /usr/man or uncompress man and info pages. See > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Unimportant_Rebuild_List > > Do people think this is useful and should I move it to the DeveloperWiki? > > Allan > Good job. And for "Packages that can be converted to arch=any" sometime ago I sended a list of tentative packages [#1]. Its old and some of listed packages [#2] are now "any" [#1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-July/005960.html [#2] http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/misc/any.txt -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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[arch-general] can't unlock a luks encrypted partition. (urgent).
by Hussam Al-Tayeb 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Hi, I'm having a problem with disk encryption using luks. I have my /home disk (on a separate disk 'sdb') encrypted using luks. I have this in /etc/cryptsetup home /dev/sdb1 ASK and this in /etc/fstab /dev/mapper/home /home ext4 defaults,user_xattr 0 1 Suddenly today, it won't accept the passphrase on boot. I'm sure that I'm entering it correctly. It took me 32 tries the first time and many more the second reboot after kernel 2.6.31.3 update. The annoying thing is that archlinux only takes three tries then fails and I have to reboot to try again. Any idea please? I'm 100% sure I'm entering the passphrase correctly. I don't have another operating system installed or anything and I go back to work in a few days so looking for a new distribution or operating system is not a favorable option. I really need help please :/ [root@LARS hussam]# cryptsetup status /dev/mapper/home /dev/mapper//dev/mapper/home is active: cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 keysize: 128 bits device: /dev/sdb1 offset: 1032 sectors size: 156295290 sectors mode: read/write

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[arch-general] makepkg git download agent
by Ciprian Dorin, Craciun 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Hello all! Just a small question: is there somewhare a download agent for makepkg that uses Git? Thanks, Ciprian.

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[arch-general] [signoff] openvpn 2.1_rc20-1
by Thomas Bächler 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Upstream update, please sign off (due to the low usage of this package among developers, I also ask users to sign off).

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[arch-general] kernel 2.6.31-4, conky and hwmon issue
by Partha Chowdhury 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Hallo all. here is my problem: last week when kernel was upgraded to 2.6.31, it broke conky and hwmon on some of the machines. So i opened FS#16584 and it was resolved in an update of conky . However it broke conky and hwmon on another set of machines as reported in this thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=82231 But as latest reported by Beini in FS#16650, the updated hwmon patch should work on both set of machines. Which is evident as me and another member with similar configuration have reported success in the ongoing thread. But the other side has yet to report anything. So i think that is blocking the update of conky. So in this situation, i am asking for your information and feedback about this issue, if you happen to be one of the affected users.

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[arch-general] [signoff] iw 0.9.17-1
by Thomas Bächler 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

Upstream update, please sign off (due to the low usage of this package among developers, I also ask users to sign off).

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[arch-general] How to get libasound_module_pcm_jack.so
by hollunder＠gmx.at 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

Any idea where to find libasound_module_pcm_jack.so or how to compile alsa to get it? It's probably of no use to the majority of arch users but it's a module that has to be enabled by hand in asoundrc anyway, so I think it wouldn't hurt to make it available for those that find it useful. Philipp

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[arch-general] Can't Install GRUB on a GPT Formatted Disk
by Aaron Schaefer 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

I'm trying to get GRUB installed on a pure GPT disk (I didn't know it was best to make a hybrid MBR/GPT), and it looks like a patch was added back in March 2008 for this (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9864) but it continues to fail. My layout is as follows on the drive: /dev/sda1 /boot /dev/sda2 LVM system_vg /dev/sdb1 LVM data_vg # lvs LV VG Attr LSize home_lv data_vg -wi-ao 500.00GB root_lv system_vg -wi-ao 64.00GB swap_lv system_vg -wc-ao 2.00GB var_lv system_vg -wi-ao 12.00GB # grub grub> device (hd0) /dev/sda grub> root (hd0,0) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xee grub> setup (hd0) Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition grub> quit Any thoughts? -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer

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[arch-general] Linux containers HOWTO for Arch Linux
by Dwight Schauer 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

For anyone that might be interested in Linux Containers on Arch Linux, I've created an LXC HOWTO that is somewhat Arch Linux specific. http://lxc.teegra.net/ -- Dwight

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[arch-general] Superkaramba Theme - Grabs Arch Icon in KDE - cool enough to pass on
by David C. Rankin 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

Guys, I don't usually pass on widgets and stuff, but this superkaramba theme surprised me when I opened it and the Arch kde icon was looking back at me. Somebody has taken the time to personalize the theme by grabbing a disto specific icon and adding a finihsing touch. Here is a small snippet of the Phenom-GT-Monitor superkaramba theme available at kde-look.org: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/Phenom-GT- Monitor.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] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"
by David C. Rankin 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

Guys, After picking around in the logs, one recurring error seems to be: FATAL: Module fbcon not found. What provides the "fbcon" module? I presume it some framebuffer connect module. I have loaded xf86-video-fbdev package, but still no luck. Still stumped with intel :-( -- 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] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update
by David C. Rankin 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Listmates, After the latest kernel update, I cannot start X for the Arch box I have that has an onboard intel graphics card. (Dell 280GX sff) The errors are: 02:31 nirvana:/srv/www/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff> grep "(EE)" Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (EE) Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) Obviously it is complaining about the intel i810 and framebuffer modules. Why? This box has always worked fine with the 915 module. It looks like all the normal intel modules are loaded: 02:34 supersff:~> lsmod | grep "intel\|915" i915 231880 0 drm 156160 1 i915 i2c_algo_bit 5888 1 i915 video 20116 1 i915 snd_intel8x0 30616 0 snd_ac97_codec 106112 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm 74464 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd 58820 9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_intel8x0,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer snd_page_alloc 8900 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm intel_agp 28348 1 i2c_core 21808 4 i915,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801 agpgart 32660 2 drm,intel_agp Any ideas? I'm not even sure where to begin on this one. This box doesn't have an xorg.conf and the defaults have always worked just fine. What could have changed? Full Xorg.0.log and pacman.log are here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/Xorg.0.log http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/pacman.log.bz2 Any help would be appreciated. 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] Latest Kernel Update Breaks kdm with Radeonhd (abterm of greeter) -- Requires Removal of xorg.conf
by David C. Rankin 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Guys, I almost had a heartattack tonight when I updated my laptop and X died. I though "oh no, here we go again -- the intel story all over again..." After update I did a clean restart and the first thing I noticed was the screen resolution changed (twice) during the boot process: (1) First few lines ~ 640x480 regular text (2) Arch console splash displayed, looked like 1024x768 ::process a [result] ::process b [result] ::process c [result] (3) The something switched again and right justified the results: ::process d [result] ::process e [result] ::process f [result] Then when Runlevel 5 was reached and X started it hung and looked like it was frying my screen (started out blackscreened and then became progressively brighter until ctrl+alt+F1 to drop to console). I killed kdm (initially using kdm3) with /etc/rc.d/kdm3 stop and confirmed all was dead with ps ax | grep kdm. Thinking it could have been a problem with kdm3 versus kdm, I tried to start kdm with /etc/rc.d/kdm start -- same result. X hung, same frying screen look ctrl+alt+F1 to drop to console. Crap! Ok, then I decided to try starting X without an xorg.conf to see if the defaults would work. /etc/rc.d/kdm start -- same result. X hung, same frying screen look ctrl+alt+F1 to drop to console. Alright, I killed everything off and tried the kde3 greeter with /etc/rc.d/kdm3 start -- Ha! It worked (I'm typing now) Whatever is going on with the modules moving into the kernel, etc. there are some very nasty unexpected consequences for users. I am glad I was able to get the kde3 greeter to start X, but I suspect that if I only had kde4 installed, I would be dead-in-the-water. (I launch kde4 from the kde3 greeter) An example of the errors.log messages I saw were: Oct 16 16:37:15 alchemy kernel: ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO- APIC Oct 16 16:37:15 alchemy kernel: ata1: softreset failed (device not ready) Oct 16 16:37:17 alchemy kernel: Intel AES-NI instructions are not detected. Oct 16 21:14:39 alchemy kernel: ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO- APIC Oct 16 21:14:39 alchemy kernel: ata1: softreset failed (device not ready) Oct 16 21:14:39 alchemy kernel: fb: conflicting fb hw usage radeondrmfb vs VESA VGA - removing generic driver Oct 16 21:14:55 alchemy kernel: [drm:radeon_cp_setparam_kms] *ERROR* invalid ioctl with kms radeon_cp_setparam_kms Oct 16 21:14:55 alchemy kernel: [drm:radeon_cp_init_kms] *ERROR* invalid ioctl with kms radeon_cp_init_kms Oct 16 21:16:31 alchemy kernel: [drm:radeon_cp_setparam_kms] *ERROR* invalid ioctl with kms radeon_cp_setparam_kms Oct 16 21:16:31 alchemy kernel: [drm:radeon_cp_init_kms] *ERROR* invalid ioctl with kms radeon_cp_init_kms Oct 16 21:16:51 alchemy kernel: [drm:radeon_cp_setparam_kms] *ERROR* invalid ioctl with kms radeon_cp_setparam_kms Oct 16 21:16:51 alchemy kernel: [drm:radeon_cp_init_kms] *ERROR* invalid ioctl with kms radeon_cp_init_kms Oct 16 21:16:56 alchemy kdm_greet[1905]: Cannot load /usr/share/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory Oct 16 21:16:56 alchemy kdm: :0[1903]: Abnormal termination of greeter for display :0, code 1, signal 0 Oct 16 21:17:34 alchemy kdm_greet[1949]: Cannot load /usr/share/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory Oct 16 21:17:34 alchemy kdm: :0[1947]: Abnormal termination of greeter for display :0, code 1, signal 0 So far performance is fine with the new setup. To be honest, I don't even know what driver is being used at the moment (I haven't had time to check. I thought I would get this post out in case some other radeonhd user is freaking out after update). I have captured the following information and I'm making it available to the devs if anyone is interested in what happened here. This laptop is an old Toshiba P205d (Radeon RS690M graphics card). The information I saved is: (hostname is alchemy) dmesg.alchemy.txt dmidecode.alchemy.txt errors.log everything.log kdm.log kernel.log lspci.alchemy.txt messages.log pacman.log Xorg.0.log Xorg.0.log.old Xorg.1.log Xorg.1.log.old xorg.conf All of the files are contained in a bzipped tar archive at (~126k): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/alchemy/alchemy.X.crash.tar.b… Each of the files can be accessed individually at: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/alchemy/ Let me know if I can provide more information. -- 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] Question about the mailman package
by Sebastian Köhler 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just tried to install the mailman package but I'm wondering if there is a good reason why this package installs all its content into /home/ ? Wouldn't /opt/ be a better place for a program like mailman? According to [1] the /home/ directory is off limits for packages. [1]<http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards#Directories> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJK2a8DAAoJELgoSeO+fWZhrEwP/1oKxRIj38Nc7vYXRZU8QOEh 4FSIUlIlFq+lP2/1Xumf6AJEzd+Xb+c2H1AsdRkeLu2nnz0JEhw051Eydz+7v1Q2 oPePB974xFta0Q8Uoyj71tSyvg1lUZ/Zx4NjrXQNVvkxK9ChZfvj90pxB61q47Pr qkdD7Xh3y8wyjXuAAB06SINElhtrP6n823y47Z26JrpgEBN2wYBw0Lwv1B+NveLp PgmRdvcPrL7c7Ln3Vmg8cZmXVnDb6PqTW07SOv9TmS9SXdnrDyeF6YRMZhLiXpm6 EwdoCUAQ2zkphL9IAEHwNHTc4DXWO+rqYUQwb+3vC4oSbs0hqexe1azM1o0X4EyD 81rdj/8VIT3+zTE0cq1DOgSd94wO7usklRtA9Zg+Yj2Q8KnffP0s8g2UUQi58xBZ y+aZog+ZTJ0fwobPAsgZ7DnCP9+oaCmouN4avqNUC8/Amc6d2Q9i7lIAaxXU5mRk pK3cI8evszEhDlg1JcM+O0DNWkfNAgDnaxiraIZRP9c66mPFsIuftcnQ/ztFOJo+ uhw4owlJ3UchRFU57sFtljp/GcpZBFxiuBhoK60w+XkV3SmKC7M8lckC1snEqpp9 giWl/3t6Ek+OF3gZmwfLw2GYJHFesrrufGRqFMgYqVN0I8Nyb/W77SK8VsUYAo2m SvICyhn44Hs08w8dHo+r =u5ku -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] Intel AG 4965
by Alan Hoffmeister 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Hello guyz! First of all, let me introduce. My name is Alan Hoffmeister, I'm from Brazil and I'm a new user to Archlinux. I sucefully installed Arch and XFCE4 on my notebook (by the way, awesome performance compared to Win7), my wired network is connecting Ok, I'm using networkmanager to manage my connections... The nm-applet can see all SSIDs around my notebook, it ask me some password, but when it try to get an IP it fails... I had this problem whit wicd too.. Always failing to get an IP.. Here is my rc.conf: ############################# Start ####################################### # # /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux # # ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # LOCALIZATION # ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # # LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command # HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime" # USEDIRECTISA: use direct I/O requests instead of /dev/rtc for hwclock # TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo # KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps # CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US) # CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans # USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages # LOCALE="pt_BR.utf8" HARDWARECLOCK="" USEDIRECTISA="no" TIMEZONE="America/Sao_Paulo" KEYMAP="us-acentos" CONSOLEFONT="lat0-16" CONSOLEMAP= USECOLOR="yes" # ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # HARDWARE # ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # # MOD_AUTOLOAD: Allow autoloading of modules at boot and when needed # MOD_BLACKLIST: Prevent udev from loading these modules # MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Prefix with a ! to blacklist. # # NOTE: Use of 'MOD_BLACKLIST' is deprecated. Please use ! in the MODULES array. # MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes" #MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated MODULES=(iwl4965) # Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM USELVM="no" # ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # NETWORKING # ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # # HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts # HOSTNAME="archie" # Use 'ifconfig -a' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces. # # Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order) # Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES # - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it # - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it # # DHCP: Set your interface to "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp") # Wireless: See network profiles below # #Static IP example #eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255" eth0="dhcp" wlan0="dhcp" INTERFACES=(!eth0) WLAN_INTERFACES=(!wlan0) # Routes to start at boot-up (in this order) # Declare each route then list in ROUTES # - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it # gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1" ROUTES=(!gateway) # Enable these network profiles at boot-up. These are only useful # if you happen to need multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users) # - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required) # - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it # # Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d # # This now requires the netcfg package # #NETWORKS=(main) # ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # DAEMONS # ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # # Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order) # - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it # - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background # DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network netfs crond @alsa hal fam networkmanager) ############################# End ####################################### And this is my iwconfig wlan0: iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=14 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Some clue? Att, Alan

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[arch-general] Something so ugly only a BASH scripter could love it.
by David C. Rankin 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Listmates, Here is an off-the-wall one for the BASH guys. Many times I need to get file or directory information from the command line with wildcards in the filename or path. I have always hated having to quote the filename or path to prevent shell expansion before it gets to my script. I was pecking around on a script for rsync that would take the same type of file and path information with wildcards and hit upon a really cool way to handle the input without having to quote the names with wildcards to prevent expansion. (.. at least I thought it was cool) Any way, I thought somebody else could get some use out of it. I've replaced the rsync calls with echo statments so your can test it if you have any use for it. Any script that deals with multiple files or filespecs is a candidate for its use. Take a look. The process is a 2-loop process with an Array of cli inputs as the outer loop and the inner loop tests whether the array element holds a directory or a filespec with globbing. If it is a filespec with wildcards, then the wildcards are processed with the inner loop using ls for the individual files. Works for one file or a thousand specified in as many chunks as you want to put on the command line: #!/bin/bash --norc OLDIFS=$IFS IFS=$'\n' ## Fill an Array with all CLI input declare -a CLIARRAY CLIARRAY=( "$@" ) ## Step through CLIARRAY with ls to expand wildcards and process ## files specified on the command line sequentially. Rely on ## rsync to throw error if bad filename ## Simple echo is used for this example for ((a=0;a<${#CLIARRAY[@]};a++)); do ## if the argument is a directory rsync in 1 shot, else rsync each file if [[ -d ${CLIARRAY[${a}]} ]]; then echo "directory: ${CLIARRAY[${a}]}" else for b in $(ls ${CLIARRAY[${a}]}); do echo "file: $b" done fi done IFS=$OLDIFS exit 0 If you are interested in using it with rsync as I had it originally, just replace the first echo with: rsync -ruv ${CLIARRAY[${a}]} ${SSUSER}@${DESTHOST}:${DESTPATH} and the second echo with: rsync -ruv $b ${SSUSER}@${DESTHOST}:${DESTPATH} This allowed me to collect a lot of dispersed information for troubleshooting the X issues that have been plaguing me with a minimum of typing. I had used it like: 2nv /var/log/mes* /var/log/Xorg.* /var/log/kdm.log (the script name was 2nv (short for rsync to nirvana) but it allow chunks to be thown into it and it would nicely rsync the wanted files to their destination. Script in good health :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] Who has the original for backgrounds in /usr/share/archlinux/wallpaper
by David C. Rankin 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Listmates Does anybody know who has the originals of the wallpapers in /usr/share/archlinux/wallpaper? I as because I would like to get the backgrounds but have the arch logo moved to the lower left corner instead of the center or the right where they are covered by the kde4 weather app and CPU meter. I don't mind putting the arch logos back on just the plain backgrounds, but with the textures and patterns involved, there aren't something you can just move the logo on. If anybody has them, I would appreciate a copy. 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] Kernel Updates & radeonhd -- what does that mean for me compiling the radeonhd from git?
by David C. Rankin 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Guys, I don't know exactly how the kernel changes would effect me compiling and installing the radeonhd module from the radeonhd git repository (if at all). My question is "If I compile and install the radeonhd driver, will the new kernel setup use my module or will it use so precompiled module that is built into the kernel?" In the past, for testing all I had to do was build drm and build the radeonhd driver, install both and restart X. How does the new setup effect that? Do I have to rebuild the initfs with mkinitcpio -p kernel26 every time I build a new module like with the intel driver? 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

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[arch-general] vi problems
by richard terry 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi List, I upgraded a couple of days ago not having done so for a number of weeks and now vi dosn't work properly in a konsole - the key allocations seem all wrong (eg up/down arrows, insert, delete > all print A', B' etc. Clueless as to where to start. Any help appreciated. Richard

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[arch-general] Is it possible to move Mumble to community repository?
by Lauri Niskanen 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Hello, Mumble [1] is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software. It has a stable version package on AUR [2]. Would it be possible to have Mumble in [community]? Mumble is very popular application and it doesn't have any license issues [3]. It has 216 votes on AUR. Pkgstats reports 8.91 % usage [4]. Having Mumble in official repository would help users installing it and keeping it up-to-date. [1] http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Main_Page [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10221 [3] It's licensed as BSD and GPL. [4] http://www.archlinux.de/?page=PackageStatistics -- Ape <Lauri Niskanen>

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[arch-general] [PATCH] automatically mount debugfs
by Markus Trippelsdorf 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Here is a patch for rc.sysinit to automatically mount the kernel's debugfs, if available. (I switched from Gentoo to Arch two days ago and first sent this message to arch-dev-public which turned out to be read-only. Maybe a hint on the mailman page would be nice, to spare future newbies the same experience?) --- rc.sysinit_old 2009-10-14 20:08:56.776237753 +0200 +++ rc.sysinit 2009-10-14 20:40:28.227216838 +0200 @@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ /bin/mount -n -t proc none /proc /bin/mount -n -t sysfs none /sys +# mount debugfs, if available +if [ -d /sys/kernel/debug ]; then + if grep -qs debugfs /proc/filesystems; then + mount -n -t debugfs -o nodev,noexec,nosuid debugfs /sys/kernel/debug + fi +fi + # Copy static device nodes to /dev /bin/cp -a /lib/udev/devices/* /dev/ @@ -288,7 +295,7 @@ /bin/mount -o remount,rw / # Write /proc, /sys and /dev to /etc/mtab if [ -e /proc/mounts ]; then - /bin/grep -e "/proc " -e "/sys " -e "/dev " /proc/mounts >> /etc/mtab + /bin/grep -e "/proc " -e "/sys " -e "/dev " -e "debugfs" /proc/mounts >> /etc/mtab fi # now mount all the local filesystems /bin/mount -a -t $NETFS -O no_netdev -- Markus

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[arch-general] pacman error: config file ../mirrorlist, line 193: directive 'Server' not recognized
by David C. Rankin 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Listmates, I did a fresh install of 2009.08 on a new box and I am getting a weird pacman error where pacman doesn't recognize the first "Server" statement in mirrorlist. (2009.08 installed perfectly) All 3 of my other arch boxes work fine with the mirrorlist file and do not give the error. I have even copied the mirrorlist from one of my other boxes to the new box and the error still occurs. Even though I get the error, pacman works just fine. The error is: error: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 193: directive 'Server' not recognized Line 193 is just the first sever in mirrorlist: 192 # United States 193 Server = http://mirrors.gigenet.com/archlinux/$repo/os/i686 194 Server = http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/i686 Any ideas? The pacman.log.bz2 and messages.log.bz2 for the install are here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/dcrgx2/ -- 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] Commits mailing list in Gmane
by A Rojas 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Hi, Is the arch-commits mailing list subscribed in gmane? I can only find arch- announce, devel and general. If it's not, would it be possible to subscribe it? I find it much more convenient to be able to read the lists in Knode.

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[arch-general] packages deleted from db but still on repos
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

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[arch-general] Arch Linux installation only with pacman
by Ciprian Dorin, Craciun 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

Hello all! I remember looking at the installation script about one year ago, and all it had done (to install the base packages), was to use pacman. Now if I try to use the same procedure now (or what I remember from it), I get a lot of errors from the install hooks (script-lets). I've tried to install them once without by disabling scriptlets, and then once more by using them, but the errors are still there. So my question is: how can I install Arch Linux now, by having only a static built pacman? (I want to use this for an automated installation procedure for virtual machines.) (I think I've tried the procedure on the Wiki page with the same outcome.) Thanks, Ciprian Craciun. P.S.: Maybe it's Ok to have those scriptlet errors?

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[arch-general] Xorg 7.5 hits testing
by Andreas Radke 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

I've built the new Xorg 7.5 based on xorg-server 1.7.1rc1 and Mesa 7.6. Some very old drivers have been dropped because they are no more developed and won't build anymore. I hope I have updated all essential parts. Some Xorg fonts related packages still need a bump. Mesa 7.6 is built right now plain upstream. This means Gallium 3d stack for Nouveau and Intel. For Intel we might go back to old way DRI when we can't solve some existing issues. Radeon is built the old DRI way. Let's pray the update goes smooth. So far only Jan has played with Intel drivers. We will probably need some time until all important regressions and bugs have been solved. Good luck. -Andy

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[arch-general] Warning: dbmail is broken
by Sergej Pupykin 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Hi, dbmail package built with old gmime and broken with last update. It does not compile with current gmime, so do not wait update soon. Please keep old gmime. I do not want to put old gmime to community. Also any links and patches appreciated)

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[arch-general] wrong size.
by kurrata 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

I noticed that my conky hard drive free space reading dropped from 50+GB free on /home to under 10GB. I did "du /home/martins/ --max-depth=1 -h" and it showed that "48G /home/martins/.VirtualBox" is eating up all the space. After that I did "du /home/martins/.VirtualBox/ -h" Output was this: 48G /home/martins/.VirtualBox/Machines/win_xp/Logs 48G /home/martins/.VirtualBox/Machines/win_xp 48G /home/martins/.VirtualBox/Machines 48G /home/martins/.VirtualBox/ This output is showing something very wrong and I checked all my files with thunar. all files were small with hidden files shown. My virtual disk files(.vdi) are stored on /mnt/extra(other hard drive). I used virtualbox earlier today so it did something most likely Any ideas what could be wrong?

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[arch-general] Updated PKGBUILD for conky to show hwmon information after kernel upgrade
by Partha Chowdhury 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

I am pasting/attaching updated PKGBUILD for conky with reference to this bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16584 PKGBUILD: # $Id: PKGBUILD 50303 2009-08-25 11:05:41Z giovanni $ # Maintainer: Giovanni Scafora <giovanni(a)archlinux.org> # Contributor: James Rayner <james(a)archlinux.org> # Contributor: Partha Chowdhury <kira.laucas(a)gmail.com> pkgname=conky pkgver=1.7.2 pkgrel=2 pkgdesc="An advanced, highly configurable system monitor for X based on torsmo" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://conky.sourceforge.net/" license=('custom') replaces=('torsmo') depends=('alsa-lib' 'libxml2' 'curl' 'wireless_tools' 'libxft' 'glib2' 'libxdamage' 'imlib2') makedepends=('pkgconfig') source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/${pkgname}/${pkgname}/${pk… http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Enorsetto/%2Bjunk/conky/download/head%3A/fix_…) build() { cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver} #Apply patch to make conky look in right place in /sys/class/hwmon/ patch -Np1 < ../../fix_hwmon_for_2.6.31.patch || return 1 ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --enable-wlan \ --enable-rss \ --enable-ibm \ --enable-imlib2 \ --disable-lua make || return 1 make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install install -D -m644 COPYING ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE } md5sums=('cf6f5d45d42ad68c618c00271813b80d' 'efb3e188cd3879fc7b5af51b59d553ec')

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[arch-general] PKGBUILD
by Baho Utot 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

I am constructing a PKGBUILD for a package and I know some of the variables have been depreciated Has $startdir been removed if so what is it new equiv. Thanks

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[arch-general] dd and bash_completion
by Thomas Göbel 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hi all, i noticed that bash_completion and dd do not work together. Tiping dd if=/h<TAB> will not complete to if=/home. Without bash_completion everything works fine. Maybo someone knows how to fix this? Tom -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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[arch-general] Should samba be considered out-of-date?
by Ng Oon-Ee 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Currently samba has just been upped to 3.3.8. However the current 'stable' for samba according to their website is 3.4.2. As I'm sure the maintainer already knows about this, I'm wondering which of the changes in samba 3.4 (listed http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.4.0.html initially) is holding up adoption of the package. Is it (as I suppose) the changeover to tdbsam breaking current configs? My interest in this is that samba 3.4 has samba4 sources available which could potentially be used for a merged-build. Unfortunately the build process for samba (as seen in the samba 3.3 PKGBUILD) is really scary for me, so I'm hesitant to try it out, also I would have no way of knowing if any eventual samba 3.4 package would be able to replace samba 3.3 functionality. Basically this is something between a 'flag out-of-date' and a feature request.

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Re: [arch-general] confirm LTS kernel / usb printer permission issues
by Evangelos Foutras 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

Evangelos Foutras wrote: > Evangelos Foutras wrote: >> Andreas Radke wrote: >>> btw: do you have problems using an usb printer and "lp" group >>> permission like I posted to the mailing lists? I could only workaround >>> it. >>> >>> -Andy >> >> It happens here too. However, the printer device ends up in the >> vboxusers group, regardless of whether the printer is on during boot >> or started afterwards. >> >> /etc/udev/rules.d/10-vboxdrv.rules contains: >> >> KERNEL=="vboxdrv", NAME="vboxdrv", OWNER="root", GROUP="vboxusers", >> MODE="0660" >> SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", GROUP="vboxusers", MODE="0664" >> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", GROUP="vboxusers", >> MODE="0664" >> >> I'm not familiar with the way udev rules are evaluated, but it >> appears that the rule that's supposed to set the printer's group to >> "lp" isn't being applied, for some reason. > > I can further confirm that, after moving the 10-vboxdrv.rules file out > of the rules.d directory and starting the printer, it ends up in the > root group. If I then run `udevadm trigger' like you did, the printer > switches to the lp group. > > This is weird. :) One more thing I just noticed is that the output of `udevadm monitor' when starting the printer after boot on each kernel differs greatly. Output of main kernel: KERNEL[1255295569.533848] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3 (usb) UDEV [1255295569.537766] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3 (usb) KERNEL[1255295569.538878] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0 (usb) UDEV [1255295569.538904] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/usb_device/usbdev2.2 (usb_device) KERNEL[1255295569.538925] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/usb_device/usbdev2.2 (usb_device) UDEV [1255295569.580559] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0 (usb) Output of lts kernel: KERNEL[1255295761.541586] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3 (usb) KERNEL[1255295761.544490] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0 (usb) KERNEL[1255295761.544514] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.2_ep01 (usb_endpoint) KERNEL[1255295761.544533] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.2_ep82 (usb_endpoint) KERNEL[1255295761.544551] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/usb_device/usbdev2.2 (usb_device) KERNEL[1255295761.544568] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.2_ep00 (usb_endpoint) UDEV [1255295761.546607] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3 (usb) UDEV [1255295761.546639] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.2_ep00 (usb_endpoint) UDEV [1255295761.546819] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/usb_device/usbdev2.2 (usb_device) UDEV [1255295761.585708] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0 (usb) UDEV [1255295761.586338] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.2_ep01 (usb_endpoint) UDEV [1255295761.586368] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.2_ep82 (usb_endpoint) Not sure if the above is important, but it struck me as a bit strange. :> PS: Moving the discussion to the arch-general mailing list, in case anyone wants to chime in. :)

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[arch-general] confirm LTS kernel / usb printer permission issues
by Andreas Radke 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

I have a permission issue when using the kernel26-lts with my usb printer. The device doesn't always get "lp" group. Especially when I switch it off and on again. Then new cups 1.4.x can't find the printer. With kernel 2.6.30 and 2.6.31 the group is always set well. I already asked a few udev upstream devs without a solution so far. See http://www.spinics.net/lists/hotplug/msg02798.html It would be nice if some of you could try confirming my problem and maybe you can help me to find the reason why it fails on my server. Thanks. -Andy

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[arch-general] Defunct processes left behind for screen and firefox
by Ciprian Dorin, Craciun 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

Hello all! I'm having the following issue: after opening and closing some shells within the same screen session, I'm left with a bunch of defunct bash processes, that screen doesn't seem to wait for... Is there any issue with screen? Or is there any issue in general, as Firefox plugin FireGPG seems to do the same with gpg. (Which it didn't on Debian.) Thanks, Ciprian.

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[arch-general] perl 5.10.1-3 broken ?
by wahjava.ml＠gmail.com 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

Hi everyone, I've noticed that the recent perl update (5.10.1-3) has not installed any PODs which are required by 'perldoc' for displaying documentation. Are PODs moved to some different package ? #v+ % pacman -Ql perl |fgrep .pod % pacman -Q perl perl 5.10.1-3 #v- Thanks in advance Ashish SHUKLA -- California, n.: From Latin "calor", meaning "heat" (as in English "calorie" or Spanish "caliente"); and "fornia'" for "sexual intercourse" or "fornication." Hence: Tierra de California, "the land of hot sex." -- Ed Moran

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[arch-general] nut package - no docs or cgi interface??
by David C. Rankin 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

Listmates, Any reason that the nut package (network ups tools) isn't being packaged with the documentation (release notes, upgrade notes, etc.) or the web interface (cgi/html) files? Just curious? -- 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] xfsprogs-3.0.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

Am Samstag 12 September 2009 schrieb Dan McGee: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa(a)gmx.de> wrote: > > Am Montag 07 September 2009 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > >> Hi > >> bump to latest version, please signoff both arches. > >> > >> greetings > >> tpowa > > > > bump anyone? > > I think we need XFS users in order to signoff; might want to ask the > general public for signoffs. > > -Dan > anyone uses xfs? thanks Please signoff. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Overly large fonts in X11 after rebooting
by Samuel Baldwin 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

For some reason when I turned my laptop on today and started X, all my fonts were larger than normal. The only one that seems to have the stayed has been my console font, but even that feels a bit "off" (however, I'm not too worried about that, it could be that I'm sitting slightly closer than normal; the rest are most certainly measurably larger, though). The only difference between now and previously is that I don't have my external monitor plugged in, but my resolution didn't change, and I've used this computer without the external before without problems. It's just simply bigger; I turned down the GTK font, which seems to have worked for some apps (like firefox and pidgin), but the fonts are unbearably large for some websites: http://logik.li/images/screenshots/arrakis/large_fonts_in_some_places.png A few months ago I had a similar problem with certain sites having large fonts, and never really managed to solve it, one day after reinstalling it just went away and never came back until now. This was probably related. This is what similar sites used to look like: http://logik.li/images/screenshots/arrakis/let_me_show_you.png (and when they used to be bad: http://logik.li/images/screenshots/arrakis/126-negative_what_log-p.png ) So, anyone have any ideas about what I should do? -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

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[arch-general] /dev/tty* borked ...
by Firmicus 10 Oct '09

10 Oct '09

Hi folks, My system is uptodate with the current testing repo. During bootup today I noticed the error message: /etc/rc.sysinit: line 364: /dev/tty[0-9]*: no such file or directory To my surprise, only /dev/tty was present, but none of tty0..9. Instead there was a device literally named '/dev/tty[0-9]*' !! I deleted the latter, and attempted to create the missing ones with mknod. But I think I took the wrong major number, and now my system has started to behave a bit crazy... Any idea what I should do to restore it to sanity? Thanks, F

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[arch-general] New PKGBUILD for libtorrent-rasterbar
by Jeff Horelick 10 Oct '09

10 Oct '09

Hey all, libtorrent-rasterbar is pretty out of date (2 months and 2 package versions), so here's a PKGBUILD for the new version. I bumped the pkgver (obviously), added python to the dependency list since we *ARE* building the python bindings... and I set the package to use the system libgeoip/geoip rather than the one bundled in the libtorrent tarball (which is a new configure option in libtorrent-rasterbar 0.14.6). It also checks out fine with namcap (no warnings or errors) and it compiled perfectly on the i686 box I tested it on. Part of the reason i'd like to see this updated is that Deluge 1.2.0_rc1 is out and myself and probably a few other Arch users would like to use it, but it requires libtorrent-rasterbar >=0.14.5 . The PKGBUILD is attached, but in case it gets filtered out, here's a pastebin link for it: http://dpaste.com/104444/plain/ Thanks in advance for building/uploading, JD

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[arch-general] No sound after last upgrade
by Thiago Varela 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi, After yesterday's update I can't get any sound off my box anymore :-( I tried mpd, xine, mplayer and youtube in firefox, and all of them are completely silent. Looked in alsamixer and the master volume is in the appropriate level, also the respective modules seem to be loaded and ok. Here goes the relevant part of my pacman.log [2009-10-08 12:15] synchronizing package lists [2009-10-08 12:18] starting full system upgrade [2009-10-08 13:58] upgraded module-init-tools (3.10-1 -> 3.10-2) [2009-10-08 13:58] installed libnice (0.0.9-1) [2009-10-08 13:58] installed gstreamer0.10-python (0.10.16-1) [2009-10-08 13:58] installed farsight2 (0.0.16-1) [2009-10-08 13:58] upgraded pidgin (2.6.2-2.1 -> 2.6.2-3) [2009-10-08 13:59] upgraded qt (4.5.3-2 -> 4.5.3-3) [2009-10-08 13:59] Building VirtualBox modules... [2009-10-08 14:03] [2009-10-08 14:03] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2009-10-08 14:03] IMPORTANT NOTES: [2009-10-08 14:03] [2009-10-08 14:03] - Run "vbox_build_module" as root every time your kernel is upgraded, to [2009-10-08 14:03] compile the module for the new kernel version. [2009-10-08 14:03] - Add your user to the vboxusers group: [2009-10-08 14:03] gpasswd -a USERNAME vboxusers [2009-10-08 14:03] - Add "vboxdrv" to the MODULES array in your "/etc/rc.conf" [2009-10-08 14:03] - Add "vboxnetflt" to MODULES if you want Host Interface networking. [2009-10-08 14:03] - Add "vboxnetadp" to MODULES if you want Host-Only networking. [2009-10-08 14:03] - If USB does not work for you out-of-the-box, add the following line [2009-10-08 14:03] to "/etc/fstab": [2009-10-08 14:03] none /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,busgid=108,busmode=0775,devgid=108,devmode=0664 0 0 [2009-10-08 14:03] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2009-10-08 14:03] upgraded virtualbox_bin (3.0.6-2 -> 3.0.8-1) [2009-10-08 14:03] upgraded ipsec-tools (0.7.2-3 -> 0.7.3-1) [2009-10-08 14:03] upgraded ncmpcpp (0.4-1 -> 0.4.1-3) [2009-10-08 14:03] upgraded sdparm (1.03-2 -> 1.04-1) [2009-10-08 14:03] installed libmpdclient (2.0-1) [2009-10-08 14:03] upgraded mpc (0.17-1 -> 0.18-1) [2009-10-08 14:03] upgraded xf86-video-ati (6.12.2-2 -> 6.12.4-1) Anyone got any pointers? -- Thiago Varela

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[arch-general] Whats wrong with this error message
by David Houston 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

dave@devbox [2054] --> pacman -U nvidia-utils-beta-190.36-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz loading package data... checking dependencies... error: replacing packages with -U is not supported yet error: you can replace packages manually using -Rd and -U error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: nvidia-utils-beta: conflicts with nvidia-utils zsh: exit 1 sudo pacman -U nvidia-utils-beta-190.36-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz Dave ------------- root(a)crankyadmin.net cranky(a)archlinux.us

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[arch-general] Web_application_package_guidelines wiki page
by Sergej Pupykin 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi, I have start Web_application_package_guidelines. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Web_application_package_guidelines I suggest to discuss and improve our web packaging standard. PS. to avoid discussion about webapps useless. There are (at least) - phpmyadmin - phpldapadmin - phppgadmin which have no need in multiple instances on different virtual hosts and useful even on localhost.

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[arch-general] Which security setting in Arch prevents forwarding X apps when su root?
by David C. Rankin 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Listmates, Which setting in Arch prevents forwarding apps when you ssh -X in an Arch box, su and then try to start a kde app, etc.? X forwarding works just fine as a user, but when trying it su'ed to root, I get the following error: [23:29 archangel:/etc] # kwrite X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. kwrite: cannot connect to X server localhost:10.0 kdm config? X config? Any pointers/links 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] VPS hosting with Arch
by Roman Kyrylych 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hi all! I am looking for hosting that support Arch. Most probably this will be a VPS hosting (because of price), so official Arch Linux support is required. So far the list include: http://www.slicehost.com/ http://vpslink.com/ (a subsidiary of http://www.spry.com/) http://www.vpsville.com/arch-vps (also .co.uk and .co.ca) http://www.linode.com/ http://lylix.net/ https://www.sevenl.net/ (they have donated a server for Arch, and provide a dedicated hosting with Arch too) If there is someone who has experience with these providers - I would be very thankful for information. Also if someone knows about other providers that could join the list - let me know. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-general] Master mode and Intel 4965AGN
by Adam Lloyd 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hi, list, I am trying to use my wireless card to share a wired connection. I have an Intel 4965AGN card, and I am fairly confident that this should be possible; however, I've been unsuccessful after a few hours of trying and Googling. The issue seems to be that the card won't enter master mode. Trying to set it up manually with `iwconfig wlan0 mode master` results in "SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument." (As an interesting side note, I can easily put it into ad-hoc, managed, or even monitor mode this way.) Using hostapd (with the nl80211 driver) fails with the message "Failed to set interface wlan0 to master mode." According to `iw phy0 info`, the supported interface modes are IBSS, managed, and monitor. I booted up an Ubuntu 9.04 live CD and compared the output of `iw phy phy0 info` there, and indeed, AP and AP(VLAN) (I believe) were also present in the list. I've tried on Arch with both the current 2.6.30 kernel and the 2.6.31 kernel in [testing], and neither has worked. The version of iwlwifi-4965-ucode I have installed is 228.61.2.24-1. Anyone have any idea what might be wrong and how to fix it? I'll happily provide any further information that might be relevant. -Adam Lloyd

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[arch-general] X server reset when I press enter (!!!)
by Dario 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hi! I'm experimenting a really bad behaviour from the X server, since yesterday night's update, which involved mainly KDE. When I press ENTER, in whichever applications or DM, the X server randomly reset just as I pressed ctrl-alt-backspace! For example, I had to start this email three times, and I have to resist to press the damn key. As I said, this happens in any applications (inkscape, NetBeans, Lyx, xterm, kmail, kwrite, anything), in KDE and FluxBox. I'm running NVIDIA proprietary drivers in a twinview configuration. I'm going to do some testing to isolate better the causes, but in the meantime, does someone of you has a suggestions? Thanks in advance and sorry for the bad formatting of this email: I can't press Enter...:( Ciao! Carotinho Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com

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[arch-general] Pkg dependency tool
by Ciprian Dorin, Craciun 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hello all! Is there any tool that would tell me all the direct or indirect dependencies of a package or set of pagkages? (Something like http://alioth.debian.org/~fjp/debtree/ but only with textual output.) Thanks, Ciprian.

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Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.2-1
by Uli Armbruster 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Ok, I got it now. Putting radeon into MODULES in mkinitcpio.conf wasn't enough, I had to put intel_agp in there as well. Now it works this way. But there's still something to discuss: When my mkinitcpio.conf looks like this MODULES="intel_agp radeon" BINARIES="" HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata filesystems" udev uevents takes about 3700ms at boottime. But as soon as I add FILES="/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf" with a options radeon modeset=1 in the modprobe.conf, it takes only about 800ms. I guess if we get enough input from many testers, it might be ok to activate kms for radeon by default. Those guys, who have problems, might consider trying it again with this stuff I found out, maybe that solves your problems too. army

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[arch-general] outdated packages
by Juan Diego 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Good day everyone I have a suggestion. if you take a look at the packages in aur, most of them are always up to date, the reason that I can find is the "flag out-of-date" feature, this is very interesting because in aur you also have the possibility to propose a new PKGBUILD ( in the comments) that would set the package as up to date and usually the maintainer just have to check that everything is ok with the PKGBUILD and do copy-paste. is it possible to have something similar for core, extra and community repos? I know you can submit a bug, but at least in my case I got lazy to do that because is not a simple process, but in aur I do it frequently because you just have to press a simple button. Have a nice day

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[arch-general] Package "required by" doesn't look in AUR?
by Phillip Smith 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Example: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/fetchmail/ The etrn-poke package in the AUR requires fetchmail, however the page above doesn't list that. Is the AUR not searched for packages that depend on this package or is it a bug?

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Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.2-1
by Uli Armbruster 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Andi wrote: >Radeon state: With new xf86-video-ati 6.12.4 driver simply add "radeon" to the modules array in mkinitcpio.conf and recreate the initrd. That's all for kms. I tried this and it didn't work for me. When I did my first reboot with 2.6.31.2-1, it worked with this mkinitcpio.conf MODULES="" BINARIES="" HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata filesystems" (everything else is commented out) On tty it looked like I had put radeonfb into the modules line of rc.conf. Is this the common behaviour? (I haven't see kms in real so far, so I don't exactly know what it behaves like) Then I tried it with MODULES="radeon" in mkinitcpio.conf, which made my reboot process stop at "waiting for udev uevents to be processed". I'd love to do more tests for you with other options, e.g. something in modprobe.conf etc to make kms work great by default on arch! My hardware lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 21) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 21) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] 02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller 02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller 02:04.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller 02:04.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller 02:04.4 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCI6411/6421/6611/6621/7411/7421/7611/7621 Secure Digital Controller 02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01) 02:06.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05) 03:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134/SAA7135HL Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01) army

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[arch-general] Plasma segmentation faults
by Lars Tennstedt 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hello, Plasma crashes several times a day on my Arch Linux installation (32 bit) with a segmentation fault and recovers immediately. The problem has been occured since the release of version 4.3.0. I did not remember such a problem using version 4.2.x. My system is up-to-date, installed software is taken only from the official repositories core, extra and community, the desktop effects are enabled and the graphics card driver is the nvidia closed source one. There is no bug report about this on bugs.archlinux.org. Does anybody have similar problems? Bye, Lars Tennstedt

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[arch-general] Status of bluetooth in Arch, specially bluez package
by Ricardo Hernandez 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hi, i write to know the status of bluetooth packages in Arch, i mean bluez mostly. In extra repository -- Ricardo Hernández ( richerVE ) richerve(a)archlinux.com.ve

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[arch-general] package sources on ftp.archlinux.org
by Sergej Pupykin 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hi, I often have issues with $ makepkg --allsource when I build source package which uses ftp.archlinux.org Today they are: qt texlive-bibtexextra texlive-bibtexextra-doc texlive-core texlive-core-doc texlive-fontsextra-doc texlive-formatsextra-doc texlive-games-doc texlive-genericextra-doc texlive-htmlxml-doc texlive-humanities-doc texlive-langcjk-doc texlive-langcyrillic-doc texlive-langextra-doc texlive-langgreek-doc texlive-latex3-doc texlive-latexextra-doc texlive-music-doc texlive-pictures-doc texlive-plainextra-doc texlive-pstricks-doc texlive-publishers-doc texlive-science-doc Should I create bug or sources are removed from ftp for some reason?

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[arch-general] let's discuss /srv again
by Sergej Pupykin 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hi, I want to discuss using /srv directory in packages (For reference: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16410) Of course I can easy sed and rebuild all my web packages, but I want to know reason why we disable /srv in packages? (Did I skip something?) **cut** >> /srv and /home are different cases >> /home often network or --bind mounted. >> for example I use 4 chrooted environment to build packages with single /home (mounted with --bind key) >> Most of distros I know (for example suse, alt, debian) use /srv (or /var/www) in packages. (I can not remember distro which disable it) **cut** I do not want to split packages into /etc, /usr/share and /var folders with kludge symlinking. Would it be good if I replace /srv/http with /var/www/<package> or something like this?

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Re: [arch-general] let's discuss /srv again
by Phillip Smith 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

According to the FHS, /srv is for "site-specific" data served by the host: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSY… IMHO, this means webapps. The FHS makes specific mention that a distribution must take care not to touch user files in this directory, which infers that it is acceptable (expected?) that distributions will put files here. I also strongly agree that user modifyable files (eg, configuration files) must not be put anywhere in /usr and splitting the configuration into /etc like non-webapps is just a security nightmare. We also want to avoid untrusted processes like apache/lighttpd having read/write access into /usr where ever possible. Referring to the FHS again: "*/usr** is shareable, read-only data. That means that /usr should be shareable between various FHS-compliant hosts and must not be written to. Any information that is host-specific or varies with time is stored elsewhere.*" Keywords: "read-only", "must not be written to" and "host-specific"

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Re: [arch-general] php not working - Was: Web_application_package_guidelines wiki page
by David Houston 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Jobs a good one then :) On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Jozsef <jozefk(a)gmx.com> wrote: > LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so > Include conf/extra/php5_module.conf > > After adding these two lines in httpd.conf everything works fine again. > > -- > Best, > Jozsef Kurucity | Web & Graphic Designer > +971 50 6783113 | jozefk(a)gmx.com > -- Dave ------------- root(a)crankyadmin.net cranky(a)archlinux.us

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[arch-general] checking runlevels in rc.shutdown
by Damjan Georgievski 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Is there a specific reason why rc.shutdown only shutsdown daemons if the previous runlevel was 3 or 5? It's the line that is: if [ "$PREVLEVEL" = "3" -o "$PREVLEVEL" = "5" ]; then I use both runlevel 4 and 5 (to use different login managers) and when shuting from 4 it will sometimes not shutdown clean. Can we actually do without this check for runlevels? It is additionally not compatible with Upstart, I understand Upstart is not supported in Arch in any way, but still more flexible rc.xxx scripts in Arch would be a good thing afterall. -- damjan

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[arch-general] pulseaudio troubles
by Juan Diego 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

Good day everyone Im having some troubles compiling the lastest version of pulseaudio from the sources Im getting the same error when I use the PKGBUILD from the version 0.9.15 (from the community repo) any ideas of how to fix this? by the way, according to this: http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/WhatIsWrongWithSystemMode is not a good idea to have an init script for pulseaudio this is the output of make: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src' make all-am make[3]: Entering directory `/home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src' CCLD mcalign-test /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_xmalloc' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_sample_spec_valid' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_timeval_store' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_proplist_from_string' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_timeval_add' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_timeval_diff' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_timeval_load' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_msleep' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_bytes_snprint' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_xmemdup' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_proplist_contains' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_proplist_free' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_get_host_name' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_sample_format_is_be' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_get_user_name' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_proplist_sets' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_get_fqdn' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_xstrdup' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_utf8_to_locale' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_timeval_cmp' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_xstrndup' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_xfree' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_path_get_filename' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_get_binary_name' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_proplist_set' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_xmalloc0' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_utf8_valid' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_proplist_get' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_locale_to_utf8' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_channel_map_valid' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_rtclock_now' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_utf8_filter' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_proplist_iterate' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_get_home_dir' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_xrealloc' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_proplist_gets' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_ascii_filter' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_sample_format_is_le' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_proplist_update' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_timeval_sub' /home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src/.libs/libpulsecommon-0.9.19.so: undefined reference to `pa_gettimeofday' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [mcalign-test] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/<removed>/p/src/pulseaudio-0.9.19' make: *** [all] Error 2

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[arch-general] archweb isn't updating its record.
by Loui Chang 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

I've updated mhwaveedit to version 1.4.16. The package is in SVN and ftp but archweb doesn't want to update its info. http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/mhwaveedit/ Anyone have an idea what the cause might be? Thanks.

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[arch-general] updated PKGBUILD for openswan
by Ray Kohler 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

The openswan package in core is rather old. I've updated the PKGBUILD for the latest version, 2.6.23. This includes rather a lot of build changes - some are cleanup that could have happened before, some are new for upstream changes. I built this to investigate whether I could use it instead of strongSwan. I could not get it to work for my purposes, but rather than let that work go to waste, I figured I'd submit the PKGBUILD here.

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[arch-general] having a problem from upgraded vim again (version 266)
by b4283 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

I'm having these errors even when i start vim with no parameters, are anyone seeing the same? $ LC_ALL=POSIX LANG=POSIX vim E486: Pattern not found: <\s*$[ap]\|img$\s*$ E486: Pattern not found: <\s*a\s[^>]*>[^<]*$ search hit BOTTOM, continuing at TOPError detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/unhtml.vim line 34: E486: Pattern not found: <!--"extensions.bc" "extensions.bc" [noeol] 391L, 6361C"extensions.bc.t2t" "extensions.bc.t2t" 391L, 6329C written Press ENTER or type command to continue

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.1-1
by Thomas Bächler 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

Kernel is in testing for both architectures, please sign off (at least one for x86_64, two for i686). I think tpowa had the kernel all ready to move to core, except he was waiting for the .1 release, which is there now. The only thing bugging me is http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16149, opinions?

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[arch-general] Musepack-tools SV8 PKGBUILDs
by JM 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

Hello, The Musepack project has just released the two libraries [1] required for building musepack-tools SV8, which is the current stable version. The version in the repos is SV7. I have started preparing PKGBUILDs but apparently my cmake-fu is not as strong as I thought. While I was able to prepare PKGBUILDS and patches (borrowing bits from Gentoo) for both libraries, I failed at musepack-tools. It's been over two hours and I am tired and hungry. Please find the relevant files attached and not mock me too much. Regards, JM [1] http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=src

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[arch-general] rsync for mirroring
by Piyush P Kurur 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

Hi, I am part of a group of people who run a mirror for some GNU/Linux distros. I have a question regarding how rsync works. The question is prompted by the frequent overloading of rsync mirrors. If I am not mistaken the overall idea behind rsync is the following (I am assuming that dest wants to update form src) (1) dest computes a signature of the current snapshot of its file system sends to src. (2) src goes over the its current snapshot and calculates a delta (changes) from the signature that dest sends. (3) src then sends the delta to dest and dest updates. Although this seems fine for a single source single destination system, doesint it lead to overloading of src when there are multiple dest, like in the case of mirroring, src has to compute the delta which is a time consuming process. Alternatively if the src can do the delta computation once and for all then it will improve the efficiency a lot. One can imagine that a destination mirror can keep track of a snapshot time when it last synced and send the src just this. src keeps track of all the deltas, somewhat like rdiff-backup and then sends the dest all the deltas that will get it uptodate. Regards ppk

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[arch-general] vim upgrade problem
by Samuel Baldwin 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

For some reason, vim will only load one external colour file, the rest it does nothing for. So, I tried to upgrade, but when I try to, I get this: arrakis^samtal# pacman -S vim resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (1): vim-7.2.245-1 Total Download Size: 0.00 MB Total Installed Size: 30.39 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] checking package integrity... (1/1) checking for file conflicts [##################################################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) vim: /usr/bin/xxd exists in filesystem vim: /usr/share/licenses/vim/license.txt exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. (I have just synced my package repositories.) Here's the output of vim --version: arrakis^samtal# vim --version VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Dec 8 2008 05:09:35) Included patches: 1-65 Compiled by ArchLinux Big version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): +arabic +autocmd -balloon_eval -browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent +clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info +comments +cryptv +cscope +cursorshape +dialog_con +diff +digraphs -dnd -ebcdic +emacs_tags +eval +ex_extra +extra_search +farsi +file_in_path +find_in_path +float +folding -footer +fork() +gettext -hangul_input +iconv +insert_expand +jumplist +keymap +langmap +libcall +linebreak +lispindent +listcmds +localmap +menu +mksession +modify_fname +mouse -mouseshape +mouse_dec +mouse_gpm -mouse_jsbterm +mouse_netterm -mouse_sysmouse +mouse_xterm +multi_byte +multi_lang -mzscheme -netbeans_intg -osfiletype +path_extra +perl +postscript +printer -profile +python +quickfix +reltime +rightleft +ruby +scrollbind +signs +smartindent -sniff +statusline -sun_workshop +syntax +tag_binary +tag_old_static -tag_any_white -tcl +terminfo +termresponse +textobjects +title -toolbar +user_commands +vertsplit +virtualedit +visual +visualextra +viminfo +vreplace +wildignore +wildmenu +windows +writebackup +X11 +xfontset -xim +xsmp_interact +xterm_clipboard -xterm_save system vimrc file: "/etc/vimrc" user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc" user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc" fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim" Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/CORE -I/usr/include/python2.6 -pthread -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux Linking: gcc -L. -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic -Wl,-E -L/usr/local/lib -o vim -lXt -lncurses -lacl -lgpm -Wl,-E -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/CORE -lperl -lutil -lc -L/usr/lib/python2.6/config -lpython2.6 -lutil -Xlinker -export-dynamic -Wl,-R -Wl,/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -lruby -lm -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

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Re: [arch-general] thunderbird-i18n split again ...
by Stefan Husmann 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Andrea Scarpino schrieb: > On 02/10/2009, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >> See: >> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-commits/2009-October/062928.html >> >> Giovanni, I hate to have to point fingers here, but before making such a >> change to somebody else's package, it should be discussed here. Now we >> have split the big package into many small ones - that's okay. But you >> neither provided a reasonable upgrade path, without any conflicts to the >> old package and so on. Such problems have to be considered before >> pushing such a package to extra, not after. > It's completely MY fault. Sorry, I will fix packages tomorrow morning > (0.30am here). > Sorry again. > Hello, i think there still is an issue with the split packages of thunderbird-spell-... There is for each languale a package with <countrycode>_<COUNTRYCODE> and <countrycode>_<countrycode> showing up on https://dev.archlinux.org/packages/. So if someone does a pacman -S thunderbird-spell-de_DE, she will still get a not working release 2.0.0.23-2. Regards Stefan

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[arch-general] TeXLive problems
by Piyush P Kurur 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

I am having problems with the texlive package. I tried to install the package texlive-most and here is the error that pacman throws /usr/share/texmf-dist/bibtex/bib/amsrefs/amsj.bib exists in both 'texlive-core' and 'texlive-bibtexextra' /usr/share/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/amsrefs/amsra.bst exists in both 'texlive-core' and 'texlive-bibtexextra' [many similar lines] Looks like ams packages have got into bot texlive-core and texlive-latexextra. File a bug report ? Regards ppk

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[arch-general] ERROR - Installing texlive: map file `ams-bsr-interpolated.map' has not been found
by David C. Rankin 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

List, The new texlive packages seem to have an error in them. The following errors occurred during the upgrade: 12:32 archangel:~> pms -u :: Synchronizing package databases... kdemod-legacy is up to date testing 23.2K 94.2K/s 00:00:00 [#####################################################] 100% core is up to date extra 423.1K 128.2K/s 00:00:03 [#####################################################] 100% community 370.8K 130.1K/s 00:00:03 [#####################################################] 100% archlinuxfr is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (3): dhcpcd-5.1.1-1 texlive-bin-2009.4-1 texlive-core-2009.15537-1 Total Download Size: 72.35 MB Total Installed Size: 224.49 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages from testing... dhcpcd-5.1.1-1-x86_64 60.0K 128.6K/s 00:00:00 [#####################################################] 100% :: Retrieving packages from extra... texlive-bin-2009.4-... 16.0M 132.3K/s 00:02:04 [#####################################################] 100% texlive-core-2009.1... 56.3M 95.8K/s 00:10:02 [#####################################################] 100% checking package integrity... (3/3) checking for file conflicts [#####################################################] 100% (1/3) upgrading dhcpcd [#####################################################] 100% (2/3) upgrading texlive-bin [#####################################################] 100% (3/3) upgrading texlive-core [#####################################################] 100% >>> texlive: updating the filename database... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf-config/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf-dist/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf-var/ls-R... mktexlsr: Done. >>> texlive: updating the fontmap files with updmap... !!! ERROR! The map file `ams-bsr-interpolated.map' has not been found at all. Either put this file into the right place or remove the reference from the configuration file. An automatic way to disable unavailable map files is to call updmap --syncwithtrees For manual editing, call updmap --edit done. Error: `luatex -ini -jobname=dvilualatex -progname=dvilualatex dvilualatex.ini' failed Error: `luatex -ini -jobname=lualatex -progname=lualatex lualatex.ini' failed Error: `luatex -ini -jobname=luatex -progname=luatex luatex.ini' failed Error: `luatex -ini -jobname=dviluatex -progname=dviluatex dviluatex.ini' failed ############################################################################### fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully. Visit the log files in directory /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c for details. ############################################################################### This is a summary of all `failed' messages: `luatex -ini -jobname=dvilualatex -progname=dvilualatex dvilualatex.ini' failed `luatex -ini -jobname=lualatex -progname=lualatex lualatex.ini' failed `luatex -ini -jobname=luatex -progname=luatex luatex.ini' failed `luatex -ini -jobname=dviluatex -progname=dviluatex dviluatex.ini' failed recreating all formats... done. (logs are under /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/<engine>/<formatname>.log) You have new mail in /var/mail/david -- 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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