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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Kill old gcc versions
by Baho Utot 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 10:45 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 00:51 +0200, Jan de Groot wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 18:46 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: > >> > >> > >>> I have encountered many packages in extra that don't compile with > >>> gcc-4.4.0. The easy way to fix them is to compile them with gcc-3.4 > >>> > >> The easy way to fix them is by reporting bugs. Bugfixing most of these > >> packages is very easy and takes us only a few minutes to fix, so why > >> bother supporting an old outdated compiler that hasn't been supported > >> upstream for a long while? > >> > >> > > Do you really want a list of all the packages in extra that are broke? > > > > There are lots of them > > > > Filing a bug report means they will get fixed. Not telling us about > them, means they will wait until an update or rebuild is needed. > > Allan > > I can do that....if you can stand all the bug reports :) My script just finished and it found another 400+ that didn't build, that will take some time to go through to find the ones that didn't build because of gcc-4.4.0 errors :)

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Re: [arch-general] unionfs
by Baho Utot 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 10:46 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > I have setup a new computer with a clean install with > > kernel26-2.6.29.4-1 does this kernel support unionfs? > > This is the second system I have had trouble with. > > > > Devtools always complains like this > > > > building union chroot > > ERROR: No unionfs available. Abandon ship! > > FAILURE: vsftpd-2.1.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz > > > > I am using devtools 0.6.4-1 the latest I think > > > > When I use devtools with kernel26 2.6.27.10-1 on an older system > > devtools works > > > > Anyone got a clue what is wrong? > > > > The same as previously... recent kernels do no support unionfs so you > need a git version of makechrootpkg with fixes it to use unionfs. > > Allan > > > Can you tell Aaron I found an error with his latest git version of devtools the makechrootpkg devtools-360fcd2f0ecaba3c8bb0e56e7fc6014dacfb3ec7 line 227 on the version I just fetched near the bottom of the script (makechrootpkg) is pkgfile=${chrootdir}/union/pkgdest/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-* ${PKGEXT} should be pkgfile=${chrootdir}/rw/pkgdest/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-* ${PKGEXT} It fails to copy the completed/built package from the chroot to the directory where you have the PKGBUILD file I found it because it farted up my bash script that builds all the packages in the abs/local dir. You drop the package(s) from core/extra to local and let it fly, it will tell you what happened and who did it....completed failed etc. After the build... all with successes the log said....I still had zero *.pkg.tar.gz files :(

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[arch-general] unionfs
by Baho Utot 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

I have setup a new computer with a clean install with kernel26-2.6.29.4-1 does this kernel support unionfs? This is the second system I have had trouble with. Devtools always complains like this building union chroot ERROR: No unionfs available. Abandon ship! FAILURE: vsftpd-2.1.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz I am using devtools 0.6.4-1 the latest I think When I use devtools with kernel26 2.6.27.10-1 on an older system devtools works Anyone got a clue what is wrong?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Assigning bugs proposal
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 14 Jun '09

14 Jun '09

Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys. > quite a lot of bug assigning happened lately, could you please add: > [packagename] ... > at the beginning of each bug topic, > this way it's much easier to sort things on bugtracker. > > thanks > greetings > tpowa > Hi Yes I can do it. ;) I did the change in some task but not in others. Another thing is that I think is important in changing the "status" field if task is assigned, it's much simpler to manage and allocate the missing. Many task are currently assigned to people but this field is in "unconfirmed". There any objection if I change the "status" to all the task currently assigned, but this field does not reflect the state? Unconfirmed -> Assigned (if task have people assigned) Good Luck! -- 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] kernel 2.6.24 compiling failure
by Papp László 14 Jun '09

14 Jun '09

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[arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root
by Magnus Therning 13 Jun '09

13 Jun '09

Is there a good HOWTO on making syslog-ng create files with owner:group other than root:root? I'd like to make it possible for some users to read the logs in /var/log. Any good suggestion for an already existing group to use? I was thinking of either log or wheel, any thoughts? /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] Package groups
by Grigorios Bouzakis 13 Jun '09

13 Jun '09

Is it OK for a package in [community] to be part of a package group? AFAIK package groups dont exist in [community] or if they do they are not the same as the ones in extra. eg. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15053 http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/community/gnome/empathy/PKGBUILD?view… empathy gets to be part of gnome-extra -- Greg

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Jun '09

13 Jun '09

Hi guys, kernel26-2.6.30-2 please signoff, both arches. And tell me your opinion about madwifi and openswan-klisp Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Arch Linux bugfixes: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15067 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14879 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14485 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14958 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14958 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14923 -> #closing won't implement aufs doesn't work seperated! Arch Linux changes: - removed snd-pcspkr module #14958 - changed to lzma kernel compression - removed dsdt patch, it doesn't work anymore, probably we can remove it forever. Please shout out loud, if you really need this! - remove rt2500 when moving to core repository Intel kms forum link: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=528543 Remove binary modules from extra? Guys opinions on this? madwifi -> AUR # supported by ath5k and ath9k normally openswan-klisp -> AUR # broken since ages Enjoy have fun and give me feedback, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2
by Dieter Plaetinck 13 Jun '09

13 Jun '09

On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:41:33 +0200 Tobias Powalowski <t.powa(a)gmx.de> wrote: > Am Samstag 13 Juni 2009 schrieben Sie: > > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:19:24 +0200 > > > > > > What's the Arch policy on the new default mount options for ext3? > > data=ordered (old, safe, slow behaviour) > > or > > data=writeback (new default, faster but riskier) > > > > I read on http://lwn.net/Articles/328363/ that you can customize the > > default setting. > > Personally I'ld stick to ordered for at least until the new > > data=guarded arrives but maybe that's just me. > > > > Dieter > It is not set per default, the defaults you set in fstab are used. > greetings > tpowa > And if in fstab you set your options to be "defaults" ? then surely the kernel has predefined defaults per filesystem (which can be configured at kernel configuration time), including a "data mode" for ext filesystems, or am i missing something? Dieter

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[arch-general] resolution stuck at 640x480
by prad 13 Jun '09

13 Jun '09

this is on an older machine 450MHz with 128M ram and 3D rage card - working off an lcd monitor for whom i've had to set horizsync 30-35 vertrefresh 50-100 (or it tries to overshoot the monitor's capabilities and the screen locks up with an outofrange error for the horizsync. everything installed fine, but even with the following in xorg.conf: driver set to ati defaultdepth to 16 modes "1024x768" "800x600" it comes up as 640x480 also, i need to exec xterm& before going into lxde or the cursor doesn't show up. i've already pacmaned xf86-video-r128 (rage driver) xf86-video-ati (ati driver) it works fine in 640x480 (though a bit rough), but it would be nice to get at least 800x600. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's

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Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2
by Adrian C. 13 Jun '09

13 Jun '09

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Remove binary modules from extra? > Guys opinions on this? > madwifi -> AUR # supported by ath5k and ath9k normally Hi, ath5k seems to be solid. In all my testing it proved to be stable, even with injection. However last time I checked they still didn't support Master mode. According to linuxwireless they still don't (http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k#features) Madwifi supports this for ages of course. The Turbo and Super modes are also present even in the cheapest of cards, probably not commonly used, but present. I also want to mention the BBS topic on kernel panics on Acer machines (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=73877) It seems to be a bug in the wmi driver which affects acer-wmi when stack protection is enabled. Patch is available somewhere on the LKML and is waiting to go upstream. It would be good to warn users to blacklist acer_wmi when this kernel goes out of testing. Cheers. -- Adrian C. (anrxc) | anrxc..sysphere.org | GPG ID: D20A0618 GPG FP: 02A5 628A D8EE 2A93 996E 929F D5CB 31B7 D20A 0618

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[arch-general] Trouble building gmime
by Baho Utot 13 Jun '09

13 Jun '09

Any One seen this error ? bin/install -c .libs/uudecode /build/pkg/bin/uudecode make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/build/src/gmime-2.2.21/src' make[2]: Leaving directory `/build/src/gmime-2.2.21/src' make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/src/gmime-2.2.21/src' Making install in mono make[1]: Entering directory `/build/src/gmime-2.2.21/mono' make[2]: Entering directory `/build/src/gmime-2.2.21/mono' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. /usr/bin/gacutil /i gmime-sharp.dll /f /package gmime-sharp /gacdir /build/pkg/lib Failure adding assembly gmime-sharp.dll to the cache: Strong name cannot be verified for delay-signed assembly make[2]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1

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Re: [arch-general] namcap.log in clean chroot
by Baho Utot 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 11:07 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 10:27 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > > >> Baho Utot wrote: > >> > >>> I have install namcap to my clean chroot and it gives me this error: > >>> > >>> Error: Problem reading *.pkg.tar.gz > >>> usage: /usr/bin/namcap [-r rulelist | --rules=rulelist] [-i | --info] > >>> package .. > >>> -r list : returns list of available rules > >>> -i : prints information responses from rules > >>> > >>> Is there anything extra I need to do to get namcap working in clean > >>> chroot? > >>> > >>> > >> It is running but not finding any packages in the directory it is > >> looking at... > >> > >> Allan > >> > > > > Why not? I am using the arch devtools scripts and it is called from > > there. I am not calling it I think the makechrootpkg is calling it but > > I don't know for sure as I have not looked at the script > > > > The namcap.log file is in /home/Chroot/rw/pkgdest sub directory. > > > > I am using sudo makechroot -c -r /home/Chroot -u -- --noconfirm to run > > the clean chroot build. > > > > Should it not find the package? > > > > Well, you seem to be using the unreleased devtools from git so it could > be broken. I do not like having namcap (and hence python) in a "clean" > chroot so have never tested. > > Allan > > > > Yes I am using a git version, unionfs didn't work on my clean install and some one here gave me a url to the git version to work with aufs2 Does the unionfs work on a new install? I had trouble building in a clean chroot on my new install, it kept failing because unionfs was nissing.

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[arch-general] Openbox - great lightweight desktop, similar to icewm, but better in several regards
by David C. Rankin 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Listmates, After reading the newsletter article about old boxes with minimal hardware collecting dust in a closet, I thought about the openbox desktop I had just given a run-through and thought I would pass it along. You have several lightweight desktops to choose from, icewm, fluxbox, etc.., but also add openbox to the list. As a minimal desktop, it is pretty cool. Damn fast, easily configurable, and well implemented. (it even ran Virtualbox with a XP guest for me) It is similar to icewm in operation, but if you want a panel, you will need to choose and install one. However it does allow for minimized apps and has a good app-switcher (alt+tab) and middle-mouse switches between desktops. The only thing I didn't find was an Alt+F2 run command equivalent (I'm sure it's there, I just haven't found it) If you do take a look at openbox (not KDE/openbox or Gnome/openbox, just openbox), then go ahead an install 'obmenu' and 'obconf' that help with menu configuration and theme settings, etc. To help with background selection, you can download wallmenu-0.3.py. I modified the one at my site to provide a sorted list of wallpapers in /usr/share/wallpapers that works well with the default openSuSE setup. Just edit the script and change the directory location if you want it to look in other locations. http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/openbox/wallmenu-0.3.py (you will need to edit the path to the wallpaper directory of your choosing in the script) Additionally, to make it available in the menu, you can add the script as a pipe-menu, or just download the menu.xml from my site and copy it to ~/.config/openbox/ and it is already there under the "System" menu. http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/openbox/menu.xml The only other file you need to play with to make openbox really functional is the ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh. You can set any additional programs or scrips you would like to start at login. On suse I needed to start wifi with knetworkmanager if it wasn't started, but with Arch, I just set my background image with feh: # Set background image feh --bg-scale /home/david/linux/wallpapers/1440/spacestation- panels-2-1440.jpg One other thing I did was to modify the Onyx theme to darken the inactive window titlebar and the active titlebar text. If you want to give it a try, just copy the "Onyx-dcr" directory to themes directory and it will be available in obconf for selection. All in all, I was as impressed with openbox as I was with icewm. Both are great lightweight window managers that will get the job done and, if you are on older hardware, they will definitely blow the doors off KDE/Gnome from a performance perspective. Pretty cool. -- 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] namcap.log in clean chroot
by Baho Utot 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 10:27 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > I have install namcap to my clean chroot and it gives me this error: > > > > Error: Problem reading *.pkg.tar.gz > > usage: /usr/bin/namcap [-r rulelist | --rules=rulelist] [-i | --info] > > package .. > > -r list : returns list of available rules > > -i : prints information responses from rules > > > > Is there anything extra I need to do to get namcap working in clean > > chroot? > > > > It is running but not finding any packages in the directory it is > looking at... > > Allan Why not? I am using the arch devtools scripts and it is called from there. I am not calling it I think the makechrootpkg is calling it but I don't know for sure as I have not looked at the script The namcap.log file is in /home/Chroot/rw/pkgdest sub directory. I am using sudo makechroot -c -r /home/Chroot -u -- --noconfirm to run the clean chroot build. Should it not find the package?

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[arch-general] Mutt - mailbox timestamp problem
by Alessandro Doro 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Hi, today it seems that mutt has a problem with my mailboxes. After exiting the mtime is not touched; only atime and ctime are updated. Is anyone experiencing this? $ stat mymail.mb File: `mymail.mb' Size: 20271475 Blocks: 39648 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 803h/2051d Inode: 686968 Links: 1 Access: (0600/-rw-------) Uid: ( 1000/ user) Gid: ( 100/ users) Access: 2009-06-12 15:24:28.000000000 +0200 Modify: 2009-06-12 15:10:21.000000000 +0200 Change: 2009-06-12 15:24:28.000000000 +0200 Nothing suspicious in recent package updates. [2009-06-10 02:17] synchronizing package lists [2009-06-10 02:18] starting full system upgrade [2009-06-10 02:20] upgraded alsa-utils (1.0.20-1 -> 1.0.20-2) [2009-06-10 02:20] upgraded conky (1.7.1-1 -> 1.7.1-2) [2009-06-10 02:20] upgraded kdemod3-ksplash-engine-flexible (0.3-6 -> 0.3-7) [2009-06-10 02:20] upgraded pmount (0.9.19-2 -> 0.9.19-3) [2009-06-12 13:19] synchronizing package lists [2009-06-12 13:20] starting full system upgrade [2009-06-12 13:21] removed lzma-utils (4.32.7-1) [2009-06-12 13:21] installed xz-utils (4.999.8beta-3) [2009-06-12 13:21] upgraded chmlib (0.39-1 -> 0.40-1) [2009-06-12 13:21] upgraded cln (1.2.2-1 -> 1.2.2-2) [2009-06-12 13:21] upgraded conky (1.7.1-2 -> 1.7.1.1-1) [2009-06-12 13:21] upgraded glade (3.6.3-1 -> 3.6.4-1) [2009-06-12 13:21] upgraded libarchive (2.7.0-1 -> 2.7.0-2) [2009-06-12 13:21] upgraded unzip (5.52-4 -> 6.0-2) [2009-06-12 13:22] upgraded yelp (2.26.0-1 -> 2.26.0-2)

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[arch-general] 1080p playback
by Paulo Santos 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Greetings everyone, I've been having some issues playing 1080p movies, performance wise. I have a 8800GTS, the 640MB one, and a Core 2 Duo 6600 running at 2,4GHz. By default, with the regular mplayer, it uses 50% of the CPU (100% of one core?) and after a while the movie starts lagging, desynchronizing video/sound. If I seek forward or back the sync gets fixed so I'm guessing it's not the movie's fault. I tried installing mplayer-vdpau-nogui from AUR. The installation ended with some problems, but it was compiled. I found it under /var/aur/something and tried running ./mplayer -vo help but vdpau wasn't listed there. Wikipedia [1] says vdpau supports 8800GTS 640, but several other places says it doesn't. This card has VP1, so, from what I read, at least a part of the processing can be put on it, wonder if vdpau will ever support it. If vdpau really doesn't support it, is there a way for me to watch 1080p movies on my machine? Maybe some kind of patch to mplayer that makes it use both cores or something... Thanks in advance, Best regards, Paulo Santos [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU

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[arch-general] gmine build problem
by Baho Utot 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

I am try ing to build gmine and get this error make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/build/src/gmime-2.2.21/src' make[2]: Leaving directory `/build/src/gmime-2.2.21/src' make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/src/gmime-2.2.21/src' Making install in mono make[1]: Entering directory `/build/src/gmime-2.2.21/mono' make[2]: Entering directory `/build/src/gmime-2.2.21/mono' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. /usr/bin/gacutil /i gmime-sharp.dll /f /package gmime-sharp /gacdir /build/pkg/lib Failure adding assembly gmime-sharp.dll to the cache: Strong name cannot be verified for delay-signed assembly make[2]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/build/src/gmime-2.2.21/mono' make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/src/gmime-2.2.21/mono' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 ==> ERROR: Build Failed. Aborting... ==> Removing installed dependencies... checking dependencies... Any one know what this is about? Got a fix?

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[arch-general] namcap.log in clean chroot
by Baho Utot 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

I have install namcap to my clean chroot and it gives me this error: Error: Problem reading *.pkg.tar.gz usage: /usr/bin/namcap [-r rulelist | --rules=rulelist] [-i | --info] package .. -r list : returns list of available rules -i : prints information responses from rules Is there anything extra I need to do to get namcap working in clean chroot?

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[arch-general] Installing packages with different glibc
by Baho Utot 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Does it create complications if I install packages built with a newer glibc-2.10.1-2 on a system with an older glibc-2.9-7? According to LFS they say if you chnage glibc you should rebuilt all the installed packages with the newer glibc. Does this hold true for Arch?

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[arch-general] building vorbis-tools
by Baho Utot 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

vorbis-tools gives me the following error -> bsdtar -x -f vorbis-tools-1.2.0.tar.gz ==> Entering fakeroot environment... ==> Starting build()... aclocal.m4:14: error: this file was generated for autoconf 2.61. You have another version of autoconf. If you want to use that, you should regenerate the build system entirely. aclocal.m4:14: the top level autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63 ==> ERROR: Build Failed. Aborting... autoconf is in the PKGBUILD file build() { cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver autoconf ./configure --prefix=/usr --without-speex make || return 1 make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install } what could cause this error?

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[arch-general] Stolen Logo
by Loui Chang 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 11:33:28AM -0400, Eduardo Romero wrote: > Hi, > > The first time I inform here that the Arch Linux newsletter is out, > the June edition is a special one, it contains the article, about the > stolen logo. So please, guys, go ahead and digg that article, so we > get more coverage, I added the digg button cause I thought that would > be the best way to get more media coverage for this issue. So I ask > everyone to link to this newsletter on your respective blogs, not the > newsletter as a whole, but the stolen logo article most importantly. > > http://www.archlinux.org/static/newsletters/newsletter-2009-june.html#stole… > > Also submit to other news sites. Thanks. I thought that this was interesting. According to their web site (http://www.aceitutoring.com.au/page4.php) the ACN (Australian Company Number) for Ace International Tutoring Pty Ltd is 119220996 The state in which Ace does business does not register trademarks themselves. http://www.business.vic.gov.au/BUSVIC/STANDARD/PC_50028.html So, I did a search for the ACN using ATMOSS at IP Australia from here: http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/trademarks/search_index.shtml The last Trade Mark to be lodged was 1302662 on 04-JUN-09 The last Trade Mark to be indexed was 1301846 on 29-MAY-09 1. Enter as Guest 2. Select Search->Advanced on the sidebar 3. Type in the ACN (119220996) near the bottom It seems that Ace International Tutoring Pty Ltd holds no registered trademarks. At least not since May 29th. Searching Qantas Airlines (ACN 009661901) reveals 152 records. This is just a bit of quick research Cheers!

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[arch-general] High fragmentation rate with ext4?
by Cá Vàng 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Hello everyone! As linux 2.6.30 is out, I decided to migrate my data partition to ext4. Hoping for better performance and less fragmentation. But, after format it with "mkfs.ext4 - largefile /dev/..." and copy all the file back to the partition, I got whooping number of 30% non-contiguous files! Then I reformat it with reserved block set to 10% (-m 10), still got the same fragment rate :-( Okay, so I try it again, this time with ext3, then I do a "mount -a" to remount all the partitions, copy some files (size between 2 MBs~40 MBs) back in, guess what? This is the result of fsck: 81 inodes used (0.07%) 69 non-contiguous files (85.2%) Then I remember that "mount -a" mount the partition as ext4 (since I haven't changed my fstab yet), okay, so I format it again, and mount it with "mount -t ext3 ....", copy some files in and this is the result: 81 inodes used (0.07%) 9 non-contiguous files (11.1%) Still not as good as it was before, but much better than the 85.2 rate above. So is this a bug? Does anyone have this problem? My e2fsprogs version is 1.41.5-2

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Re: [arch-general] KDE4.3 Beta - Rocks, still a bit rough, but very usable as a primary desktop
by David C. Rankin 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

On Wednesday 10 June 2009 11:21:01 you wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > If you have been in the same > > holding-pattern lately in your thinking about kde4 as well -- I bet you > > will be pleasantly surprised as well ;-) > > Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to give it a shot one of these days. > > Clearly I'm not going to be able to remain on KDE3 for much longer, as > no one's going to be doing new development on any of the apps. > > DR Yep DR, that's the boat I find myself in. From what I can tell now, KDE4 will be a good follow on to KDE3. 30 days ago, I would have ... and I did ... tell you it wasn't anything other than some pipe dream from the gaming crowd with cute names like plasmoids and widgets scattered through it that took more time to keep running that it allowed to get work done. But as more apps were built against the kde4 runtime base that broke kde3 functionality and as more and more apps moved exclusively too the kde4 base, it was inevitable I would have to go kicking and screaming to kde4 or some other desktop altogether. The screw-up, that will go down in history as the worst transition strategy ever, was the roll-out or force-out of kde4 long before it was ready for public use. (June 2008 to roll-out 4.04 in 'alpha' state as the default choice for a desktop by suse? What where they smoking?) First few releases of 4.1 were just as bad. No one in the 'general "linux-user"' category should have ever been faced with having that as a desktop when the kde3 alternative was near flawless. No wonder so much of the community has the mindset that kde4 is "broken", "not ready", "unstable", etc... Hell, it was. If it had just remained under development until where it is now, and then been rolled out as an "alternative" KDE version in the major distros, then I guarantee you the community response to KDE4 would have been fantastic and with a fanatical desire to see the next release. As it was done, there is still a large percentage of the user base that won't touch it with a 10 foot pole until KDE3 is no longer available. That's the true cost of an early push of an unready desktop on the community. You have half the crowd completely lose confidence in a beloved desktop and the direction the developers have taken. As I said earlier in the thread. It is now ready and is now usable as a primary desktop with no more than the run-of-the-mill bugs that need to be squashed. To have pushed it out the door a year ago as a default choice for a desktop was sheer stupidity. It was as smart as if GM and Chrysler suddenly decided to put out nothing but 3-wheeled cars as the policy that would save their financial futures and lift them out of bankruptcy. But now, with 4.3beta, KDE4 is usable, and even enjoyable, by the general linux user, so it is time to roll up the sleeves, dive in, and each send in their dozen or so clean up bugs to kde.org and then we can look forward to a great kde4.3 release. (which is something we should have been able to look forward to as a 4.1 release, but for the premature release;-) -- 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] emacs toolbar icons disappeared
by prad 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

problem on kdemod - blank icons with little x's in them. the usual icons just disappeared suddenly. reinstalling emacs didn't bring them back. this issue was brought up on the archlinux forums: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69825 but no resolution seemed to be reached. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's

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[arch-general] libgweather
by Baho Utot 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

I am trying to build libgweather and I have this error PKGBUILD: line 24: gtkdocize: command not found What is gtkdocize and where do I find it?

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[arch-general] install packages using links?
by clemens fischer 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

Hi, Whenever I install autotools-aware programs from source, they don't go into /usr/local as is customary, but into their own directory called /opt/<package>/<version>, and then files in /opt/<package>/<version>/{{s,}bin,man} etc. get symlinked into their counterparts in /usr/local. I am using spill[1] for this. Thus, for gpp-2.24, which is a preprocessor like cpp(1) sporting modifiable syntax, the result is: /usr/local/bin/gpp -> /opt/gpp/2.24/bin/gpp* /usr/local/man/man1/gpp.1 -> /opt/gpp/2.24/man/man1/gpp.1 The advantage is easy to see: you can always see what package some file belongs to, and removing a package is as simple as removing matching links and the installation directory. All files belonging to a package are in one place. spill(8) automates package installation and management, but this can be done manually as well. Would going this route for arch-linux packages be seen as an improvement? [1] http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/spill/ clemens PS: I originally sent this to arch-dev-public@, but obviously I can subscribe to that list while not qualified to post.

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[arch-general] Weird OpenOffice Disappearing Menu and Toolbar Text?
by David C. Rankin 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

Listmates, I have run into a strange issue with openoffice in Arch. I am using kdemod3 on my Toshiba x86_64 laptop. All Arch packages have been synced and are up to date. The graphics are provided by the radeonhd driver on an ATI M690 (x1200) chipset. In openoffice writer, when you hover over the "style" "font" or "size" combo boxes in the main toolbar, the text in the combo box disappears. The combo box display literally goes blank. If you activate the combo box to see the list of styles, fonts, etc.., the text is then visible. However, when you move your mouse up and down the list, the text under your cursor disappears as well. I have also noticed the same behavior with the pull-down menu text although to a lesser extent. Usually with the menus, only the last 1 or 2 menu entries disappears when a mouseover happens. I have tried with and without compiz - no difference. Has anyone else seen this behavior. It's a very frustrating issue to try and work with blanks in your toolbar. I am also cc'ing this to the radeonhd list in case it is related to the driver. I have the same setup (same laptop) with suse 11.0 with the same openoffice version, but all is fine there. I am trying to determine whether this is an Arch package issue, an openoffice issue, or a radeonhd issue. Since oo works fine on suse 11.0 with the fglrx driver, I think we can eliminate it being an oo issue. That leave the potential of it being an Arch package issue or a radeonhd issue. I don't know how to test to determine which it is. Can anybody think of a test that could be run to narrow it down? I will switch to the radeon driver and test, but beyond that, I can't think of anything else to try. Any thoughts? --- 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] ruby 1.9.1 enters [testing] - breaks gvim
by Emmanuel Benisty 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Allan McRae<allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have built ruby-1.9.1 for [testing]. As far as I can tell, the only > thing that is broken is gvim. A dev who uses that will want to look into > fixing it... I hear there is a patch floating around for ruby-1.9 support > but not sure if it is now included upstream. You can always use IgnorePkg > until it is fixed. > > (Lets see if gvim users complain more than the ruby users have...) FTR, it breaks vim too here. vim: error while loading shared libraries: libruby.so.1.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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[arch-general] Light-weight SMTP "server"
by Magnus Therning 08 Jun '09

08 Jun '09

Any good suggestions for a light-weight SMTP server? All email goes off-box to my ISP for remote delivery, I don't require any local delivery. Things like exim/sendmail/postfix feels like overkill. It would even be enough if all that's available is something like an /usr/lib/sendmail executable. Is there something suitable and light-weight? /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] ArchWiki TOC translated to pt_BR
by Lucas Salies Brum 08 Jun '09

08 Jun '09

I translate this page, but I'm beginner, I would like to review. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Table_of_Contents_(Portugu%C3%AAs_do_Br… Thank you.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.5.25, cryptsetup 1.0.6-3
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 07 Jun '09

07 Jun '09

Thomas Bächler wrote: > Going into testing in a few minutes: > > mkinitcpio changes: > - Finally fix a bug where required HID modules were missing > - Add a new COMPRESSION option that accepts gzip, lzma and bzip2 > parameters (gzip is the default, the others are only supported on > 2.6.30 and later) > - Add a new poll_device function that waits for a block device to > appear. This is used in the init function and the resume hook, with > rootdelay as a maximum timeout (default to 10 seconds) > - Remove the unmaintained and untested modload hook > - Remove the runtime filesystems hook > - Rework the code that checks whether a root device has been found, > don't reboot when exiting the emergency shell, but try to continue. > - Due to the new poll_device behaviour, the usb and fw runtime hooks > are no longer required, remove them > - Parse arguments to init properly, using the "$@" parameter from the > commandline the kernel generated - also needs the new fix in the > latest kinit from testing (this allows us to use init=/bin/sh again) > - Adjust for the latest filesystem/module-init-tools changes > - Fix an autodetection bug that would sometimes omit some filesystems > Many thanks. The tests was done on VirtualBox (both i686 and x86_64 architectures), because in my real machine use a custom kernel without initramfs. * Images generations are OK. * Boot OK normal and fallback images (default config). * Also boot fine with the "init=/bin/bash" argument and "init=/sbin/init" > cryptsetup changes: > - Use poll_device when waiting for the encrypted device and the > (optional) key container device (default to rootdelay), added > conflicts=(mkinitcpio<0.5.25) > - Add a warning if the deprecated root= syntax is used on the commandline > Not tested it. -- 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] File conflicts upgrading licenses
by Zé Ninguém 07 Jun '09

07 Jun '09

Hi there. I am having some file conflicts when upgrading the licenses package, and I don't understand why? Here is the error: resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (1): licenses-2.5-1 Total Download Size: 0.00 MB Total Installed Size: 0.46 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] checking package integrity... (1/1) checking for file conflicts [####################################################################################################] 100% error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) licenses: /usr/share/licenses/common/FDL exists in filesystem licenses: /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL exists in filesystem licenses: /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL2/license.txt exists in filesystem licenses: /usr/share/licenses/common/LGPL exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. But the files it is complaining about belong to "licenses" already. /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL2/license.txt is owned by licenses 2.4-1 So my question is, why are this errors hapening? Regards.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xz-utils and libarchive-2.7.0-2
by Grigorios Bouzakis 07 Jun '09

07 Jun '09

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Allan McRae<allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Roman Kyrylych wrote: >> >> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 16:41, Dan McGee<dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Am Sonntag 31 Mai 2009 14:14:48 schrieb Pierre Schmitz: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> If everything is OK we can move both to core and remove lzma-utils from >>>>> extra. >>>>> >>>> >>>> tpowa just asked me but I am not sure about it: Should cz-utils be part >>>> of the >>>> base group? It'll be installed anyway because libarchive depends on it. >>>> O the >>>> other hand we might want to have a base group which does not depend on >>>> anything which is not a group member. >>>> >>> >>> Yes, it should. When I originally asked about adding lzma support, we >>> brought up the fact that it would have to be in the base group. >>> >> >> Hm, I don't really see a reason for this, can you explain the reason for >> me? >> Here's my logic: >> a group should not be required to have all dependencies in a group, >> reason: when installing a group pacman installs all packages as >> 'explicitly installed' >> which makes it harder to find no-more-needed dependency in future. >> Please correct me if I'm wrong about this, since I could forgot something >> about >> pacman while being inactive for so long time. >> > > I agree. It would also make the list of "base" and "base-devel" packages to > select from in the installer much smaller. > This reminds me of my comment http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12890#comment43722 with pacman. I dont know if this would make things more complex (from a packager point of view for the most part ) but it will certainly make the list smaller. Please, if any developers feel like moving towards this, take part in the discussion, or even start moving towards this. I dont know if have discussed any of these in the private list, etc. -- Greg

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[arch-general] PKBUILD update after bug fix
by Baho Utot 06 Jun '09

06 Jun '09

How long does it take for the updated PKGBUILD to hit abs after a bug report is closed For example if the PKGBUILD is missing a dependency? Thanks

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] subversion rebuild needed for i686
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 04 Jun '09

04 Jun '09

Douglas Soares de Andrade wrote: > Em Domingo 31 Maio 2009, às 09:37:27, Firmicus escreveu: > >>> Succeeded now. >>> (Thanks in good part to Gerardo who made me realize that the javac >>> binary was unable to find libjli.so, even though it was where it should >>> be. Symlinking to /usr/lib solved the problem. So this was some LIBPATH >>> problem in my supposedly pristine chroot.) >>> >> Dammit!!! My new package happens to have the same GD problem Douglas >> originally had: see FS#14738 >> >> Folks, I am no longer sure to understand the subtleties of "building in >> a clean chroot" ... >> >> Now that I know that this package belongs to Douglas, I'll happily let >> him deal with it ;D >> >> On the other hand, I'd be grateful to be a bit more enlightened about >> all this. Has anyone experienced any similar issues whilst building >> packages in a chroot? >> > > Me too, till then i will build packages in my working enviroment, i really did > not understood why the package buillt in the chroot had problems, any ideas ? > > Thanks > > > The FIX is currently in the bugtracker, patch agains the svn trunk. The explication is in the comments. (My fault) http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14738#comment44808 -- 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] PKGBUILD: depends and ranges of versions?
by Magnus Therning 04 Jun '09

04 Jun '09

I couldn't find anything definitive on this. Say I have a package A that depends on package B, but A can only be built against version 2.x of B (i.e. not against 1.x and not 3.x). Is it allowed to do something like depends=('B>=2' 'B<3') /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] gstreamer naming
by Lukáš Jirkovský 04 Jun '09

04 Jun '09

Hello, I've a question - why are gstreamer packages named gstreamer0.10 and not gstreamer? I can see it also in Debian, but I don't see any sense in appending version to the package name. Lukas "stativ"

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[arch-general] Help understanding which interface OpenOffice is using?
by David C. Rankin 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Listmates, I have installed openoffice-core on my x86 box and I am trying to understand what user interface it is using and how to change it if I can. I suspect the very block like interface and large menu and menubar fonts are the result of the GTK interface oo on arch uses by default. (I could have this backwards). The default UI looks really awkward to me. It brings back bad memories of the days when the UI was limited to what you see on xpdf. The wiki(http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openoffice) suggests an environment variable setting of OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde soffice, but warns that "KDE look will be removed in Openoffice3". What's the status of that? When will the QT interface go away? What is the best way to get a better looking interface on KDE3. I have tried using 'OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde soffice', but so far I get an error when attempting this over XDMCP. Is there something that will work in this situation as well? Thanks for any help or suggestions you can give. -- 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] Funny locale settings, Gnome versus command line
by Magnus Therning 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

I just noticed something rather irritating, in my Gnome clock applet the week starts on Tuesday. It would be much better if it started on Monday. While trying (and failing) to find out why this was I ran `cal` on the command line, in `cal` the week starts on Sunday. Again I'd like it to start on Monday. I also noticed that Gnome's tool to set time and date (System -> Administration -> Time and Date) correctly shows the week as starting on Monday. In my rc.conf I set the locale to en_GB.UTF-8, and my terminal seems to agree with me: % locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL= How do I get the Gnome clock to start the week on Monday? How do I get `cal` to start the week on Monday? /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] My D-Bus/Hal/PolicyKit Fix - Useful for Admin Users
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Listmates, Since I continually fight d-bus and hal on hotplugging issues, I thought I would pass along the fix that worked for me. Since this is a full access fix, I decided it shouldn't be posted to the wiki. Let me know if you think differently or feel free to post it yourself. Here is what worked for me for hotplugging usb drives, etc... Granting Full Access to a Single User: To grant access to a single user (say yourself maybe), modify the following 2 files as follows. For example purposes, I am granting myself username "david" complete access to all d-bus/hal devices: /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf: <policy user="david"> <allow own="org.freedesktop.Hal"/> </policy> /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf: <config version="0.1"> <match user="david"> <return result="yes"/> </match> </config> Works fine here. Let me know if you see any real gotchas about this approach. 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] speakers don't turn off when headphones inserted
by Scott Weisman 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Hello, I just obtained a Fujitsu P7120 notebook (a very nice model, by the way). Overall, I am getting this working with Arch just fine (although I would definitely appreciate pointers from anyone else who has installed Arch, especially as I have been using a desktop until now and haven't had the need to configure notebook-type features). One problem I am having that I don't know how to fix is that when I plug in headphones, the speakers don't turn off. Alsamixer shows that the headphones and speakers have separate controls, something I have never seen in a notebook before. While cool, I would really love to have this automatically toggle as expected. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks, Scott

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Re: [arch-general] aiksaurus - build error - clean chroot
by Baho Utot 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 08:41 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > aiksaurus has 3 errors when building with gcc-4.4.0 > > > > I have attached a patch to fix. > > > > I am building packages in extra how should I report these problems. > > > > With a bug report or here? > > > > Better to use a bug report as attachements do not make it to this list... > > Allan > > > > Ok bug report filed

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[arch-general] aiksaurus - build error - clean chroot
by Baho Utot 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

aiksaurus has 3 errors when building with gcc-4.4.0 I have attached a patch to fix. I am building packages in extra how should I report these problems. With a bug report or here?

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[arch-general] Building in clean chroot
by Baho Utot 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

I keep getting these errors when building packages from extra Is there a way to "turn off" this or do I have to manually do this every time it rears its ugly head? Proceed with installation? [Y/n] checking package integrity... checking for file conflicts... error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) error: could not prepare transaction /usr/share/info/dir exists in both 'libksba' and 'libassuan' libksba: /usr/share/info/dir exists in filesystem libassuan: /usr/share/info/dir exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Thanks

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vim plugins updated
by Henning Garus 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I just went though all the vim-* packages and updated them to the > latest versions, as well as changed their install location to match > the new vim layout. Please let me know if there are any problems with > the new packages. > > These should move to [extra] whenever vim leaves [testing]. > There are some other packages which use the old vim layout. In extra: cmake (/usr/share/vim/{syntax/cmake-syntax.vim,indent/cmake-indent.vim) mercurial (usr/share/vim/syntax/HGAnnotate.vim) clisp puts some files into /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/ which is still in my runtimepath with vim from testing. There are more packages in community, which will have to be changed when vim goes to extra: clewn icomplete pacman-contrib txt2tags vim-*

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Re: [arch-general] SRCDEST="/path/to/folder"
by Baho Utot 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 23:37 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Allan McRae wrote: > > Baho Utot wrote: > >> I am Building in a clean chroot according to the wiki > >> > >> The Chroot sub-directory is /home/Chroot/root > >> > >> I have set SRCDEST="/sources" in the makepkg in /home/Chroot/root/etc > >> and then > >> mkdir /home/Chroot/root/sources chmod 777 /home/Chroot/root/sources > >> > >> Is this correct to get makepkg to store the sources in that > >> sub-directory? > >> > >> It presently doesn't work for me or I did something wrong. > >> > >> Can anyone help? > >> > > > > As far as makepkg goes, it should store the sources in /sources. But > > my guess is makechrootpkg is moving the source files from there to the > > directory you launched it from. Have not actually looked at this though. > > Or an even better explanation (which also could be wrong), it puts them > in the rw portion of the union filesystem and that gets cleared. > > I think the message to take from this is that this setup will probably > not work... > > Allan > > Ok I'll have to fix my build script to do it

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Re: [arch-general] [signoff] lvm2-2.02.47-1
by Eric Bélanger 31 May '09

31 May '09

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > lvm2-2.02.47-1 is in testing. Minor upstream updates (from 2.02.45). > Please test/signoff. > > Eric > > bump. Anyone? I believe only another dev use this so signoff from users would be good.

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[arch-general] agg 2.5-2 i686 build error
by Baho Utot 31 May '09

31 May '09

Building in a clean chroot per wiki gcc version 4.4.0 20090505 (prerelease) (GCC) ==> Making package: agg 2.5-2 i686 (Sun May 31 12:35:08 UTC 2009) libtool: compile: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../include -I../../../include -I -march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -c agg_platform_support.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libaggplatformX11_la-agg_platform_support.o /bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -I../../../include -I -march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -version-info 2:4:0 -L -o libaggplatformX11.la -rpath /usr/lib libaggplatformX11_la-agg_platform_support.lo -lX11 libtool: link: require no space between `-L' and `-o' make[3]: *** [libaggplatformX11.la] Error 1

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[arch-general] SRCDEST="/path/to/folder"
by Baho Utot 31 May '09

31 May '09

I am Building in a clean chroot according to the wiki The Chroot sub-directory is /home/Chroot/root I have set SRCDEST="/sources" in the makepkg in /home/Chroot/root/etc and then mkdir /home/Chroot/root/sources chmod 777 /home/Chroot/root/sources Is this correct to get makepkg to store the sources in that sub-directory? It presently doesn't work for me or I did something wrong. Can anyone help?

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[arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 30 May '09

30 May '09

Hi, Many package manage user/groups in many differents ways. (no much problem here) Many do things like: @ when installed 1) check if not user foo exists then create it 2) check if not group foo exists then create it @when removed 1) remove the user foo (without check) 2) remove the group foo (without check) Because by default the option USERGROUPS_ENAB is set to yes, when user "foo" is removed also the group "foo" is removed, so the groupdel command will fail, then pacman show the message: "error: scriptlet failed to execute correctly". The solution is trivial, check with getent before remove, just like some packages do it before create the user. My question here, is there interest in resolving this? Currently I have the choice of those who fail (both extra and comunity). Do you send a report to everyone who fail to flyspray with the patch (low priority)? Also I can unify the user creation step, some .install check with "grep" and others with "getent". I prefer the proper getent method. The only package in [core] that have this issue is dbus-core [#1] and is actually reported. [#1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14810 -- 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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] .so bump - icu 4.2
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 30 May '09

30 May '09

Andreas Radke wrote: > I'm just loading new icu up to testing. This will requiere rebuilds > (from our packages webside): > > * brltty > * go-openoffice > * libflashsupport > * libwebkit > * openoffice-base > * openoffice-base-beta > * openoffice-base-devel > * tin > > > I'll do the rebuilds one by one. This will take some time especially > for the OOo packages... > > Please report if more packages will need a rebuild. > > -Andy > > Yes, [extra] is OK and this is from [community] dwdiff-1.5.2-1 libfbclient-2.1.2.18118-1 open-vm-tools-2009.04.23-5 openttd-0.7.0-1 parrot-1.0.0-3 sword-1.5.11-3 xiphos-3.0.1-2 yaz-3.0.45-1 -- 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] pidgin memory leak?
by Gregory T Helton 30 May '09

30 May '09

Noticed this when my music started skipping and glanced at my conky to see 3.82gb memory usage (out of 4). I had to kill the process with `killall -9 pidgin`. I've also noticed pidgin locking up more often with 100% cpu usage on one core lately. ps before I killed it: kano 26176 0.5 86.1 5454392 3490168 ? Rl May27 8:42 pidgin Is anyone else having problems with pidgin? My gf's laptop with ubuntu doesn't seem to have any problems, so I wonder if it maybe an arch issue.

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Re: [arch-general] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14873
by Baho Utot 30 May '09

30 May '09

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 09:53 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 09:25 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > > >> Baho Utot wrote: > >> > >>> This bug was closed with "It is not a bug " and BTW you solution is > >>> wrong. > >>> > >>> Flac fails with "command not found line 20" when built under clean > >>> chroot > >>> > >>> > >>> This is line 20: > >>> > >>> patch -p1 < ../flac-1.2.1-gcc-4.3-includes.patch || return 1 > >>> > >>> Please fix > >>> > >>> > > > > Do you have patch in your chroot? > > > > Yes the chroot was installed with base base-devel sudo as per wiki > > And the chroot fuction/built the entire abs/core so it should be > > working. > > > > I am building extra alphbeticaly and it stops on flac after fixing flac > > to > > > > patch -p1 -i ${startdir}/flac-1.2.1-gcc-4.3-includes.patch || return 1 > > > > it works. > > > > That is why I entered a bug report. > > > > > >>> As a side note which is correct ${startdir}/patch.file or > >>> ${srcdir}/patch.file > >>> > >>> I have be disciplined for both > >>> > >>> > >> As a general rule, you never should use $startdir in a PKGBUILD. > >> > >> > > > > I have seen $startdir in a lot of PKGBUILDs in core and extra, what is > > wrong using it? > > > > $startdir is no longer guaranteed to have any relationship to $srcdir. > $srcdir is where the source files from the "source" array get copied so > you should use that. The packages in the main repos are graually > getting change to reflect that. > > BTW, what is up with your emails coming in to the mailing list several > hours earlier than what you replied to. It is getting annoying... > > Allan Don't know. The clock displayed in gnome is right to UTC and local. I may have started with my using evolution rather that thunderbird. I have used evolution to post all my emails for the month of June. I use to have ntp running but after I did a clean install with gnome as my desktop I havn't set it up. I'll look into it and install ntp Thanks for letting me know.

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[arch-general] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14873
by Baho Utot 30 May '09

30 May '09

This bug was closed with "It is not a bug " and BTW you solution is wrong. Flac fails with "command not found line 20" when built under clean chroot This is line 20: patch -p1 < ../flac-1.2.1-gcc-4.3-includes.patch || return 1 Please fix As a side note which is correct ${startdir}/patch.file or ${srcdir}/patch.file I have be disciplined for both

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Re: [arch-general] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14873
by Baho Utot 29 May '09

29 May '09

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 09:25 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > This bug was closed with "It is not a bug " and BTW you solution is > > wrong. > > > > Flac fails with "command not found line 20" when built under clean > > chroot > > > > > > This is line 20: > > > > patch -p1 < ../flac-1.2.1-gcc-4.3-includes.patch || return 1 > > > > Please fix > > > Do you have patch in your chroot? Yes the chroot was installed with base base-devel sudo as per wiki And the chroot fuction/built the entire abs/core so it should be working. I am building extra alphbeticaly and it stops on flac after fixing flac to patch -p1 -i ${startdir}/flac-1.2.1-gcc-4.3-includes.patch || return 1 it works. That is why I entered a bug report. > > > As a side note which is correct ${startdir}/patch.file or > > ${srcdir}/patch.file > > > > I have be disciplined for both > > > > As a general rule, you never should use $startdir in a PKGBUILD. > I have seen $startdir in a lot of PKGBUILDs in core and extra, what is wrong using it?

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[arch-general] openjdk6 - 1.5 update
by Andreas Radke 29 May '09

29 May '09

the new version is in testing for x86_64, i686 will follow soon. please test it. look for the new features and especially if all fonts and characters are ok for you. I still expect some problems with Asian fonts. You can to some character tests here: http://www.pccl.demon.co.uk/java/unicode.html -Andy We are proud to announce the release of IcedTea6 1.5. The IcedTea6 project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK6 (http://openjdk.java.net) using Free Software build tools. What's New? ----------------- - Static trace support through systemtap. When given the configure option --enable-systemtap IcedTea will build hotspot with the dtrace static markers enabled and install an hotspot tapset that can be used to dynamically trace execution of java applications at runtime. See the tapset/hotspot.stp file for documentation of the various trace points and arguments available. - Allow building of other virtual machines besides the default VM. Additional virtual machines on architectures where hotspot is available are cacao and zero (or shark), and cacao, where zero (or shark) is available. It's not possible to build cacao as the default VM, and zero as additional VM. - Update to latest HotSpot minor build (hs14b10-->hs14b15) from the new HotSpot Express repository. - Updated to OpenJDK b16 build. - VisualVM updated to 1.1.1. - Updated to support CACAO 0.99.4. - Several web browser plugin and javaws support fixes: - Fixed security handling to prevent access denials when there is a site specific exception in the policy file - Allow extentions (chrome) to run Java code with full permissions - Added non-trusted SSL support to WebStart (javaws) - Added proxy support - Other improvements that were breaking specific sites (tag parser fix, nested jar support, etc.) - Added JVM Console (used by http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/) - Removed gcjwebplugin support. - LCMS security fixes. - Many build improvements. - Many gervill, java2d, nio2, pulse java, zero/shark, jtreg fixes. - Experimental out-of-the-box cross-compilation support (not yet finished) - Other bug fixes.

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[arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 29 May '09

29 May '09

Listmates, I installed koffice and attempted to open an openoffice (.odt) document and kword crashed immediately. Next I opened kword again to read through the help file and any notes, and the help doesn't seem to work either: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/koffice.jpg The backtrace for the kword crash is: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/kword.kcrash Is there a work-around that will let me get the help file working? It looks to be a kde3 desktop/kde4 runtime issue. Any help 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] KDE stoped working
by Nicolas Bigaouette 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hi all, I'm using KDE 4.2.3 on all my (up-to-date) machines. My workstation crashed an hour ago so I had to reboot. But then KDE would not launch anymore. I'm clueless of what could have gone wrong... I login normaly via KDM, launched as runlevel 5 (inittab). KDM works: I can enter my login information. Then KDE starts loading. But then, as soon as the hardrive icon is fuly "unblured", it shutdown and bring me back to KDM. Same thing if I try via startx (startkde in .xinitrc). I then get this error in my terminal: > X.Org X Server 1.6.1 > Release Date: 2009-4-14 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 > Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.29-ARCH x86_64 > Current Operating System: Linux soundwave 2.6.29-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed > May 20 06:42:43 UTC 2009 x86_64 > Build Date: 15 April 2009 11:01:49AM > > Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org > to make sure that you have the latest version. > Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, > (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed May 27 14:34:14 2009 > (==) Using default built-in configuration (39 lines) > (EE) Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist, 0) > (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) > Setting master > xset: bad font path element (#23), possible causes are: > Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions > Directory missing fonts.dir > Incorrect font server address or syntax > startkde: Starting up... > kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher > kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kded4 > kded(7702): Communication problem with "kded" , it probably crashed. > Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did > not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" " > > kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kcminit_startup > kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/ksmserver > startkde: Shutting down... > klauncher: Exiting on signal 1 > startkde: Running shutdown scripts... > startkde: Done. > > waiting for X server to shut down Dropping master > DBus is running: > > ps aux | grep dbus > dbus 4157 0.0 0.0 8500 940 ? Ss 14:50 0:00 > /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system > nicolas 6206 0.0 0.0 23864 712 tty2 S 15:03 0:00 > dbus-launch --autolaunch 6f2374eec76b3f19172c118549c7da6d --binary-syntax > --close-stderr > nicolas 6207 0.0 0.0 8400 888 ? Ss 15:03 0:00 > /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session > and same thing with HAL: > ps aux | grep hal > hal 5907 0.0 0.1 28128 4964 ? Ss 15:02 0:00 > /usr/sbin/hald > root 5908 0.0 0.0 15680 1188 ? S 15:02 0:00 > hald-runner > root 5936 0.0 0.0 17792 1140 ? S 15:02 0:00 > hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event2 > /dev/input/event1 > hal 5974 0.0 0.0 15388 1012 ? S 15:02 0:00 > hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpi kernel interface /proc/acpi/event > root 5976 0.0 0.0 17796 1132 ? S 15:02 0:00 > hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 16 sec) > I even tried launching "startkde" via strace to see what was happening, but it seems fine: > [...] > stat("/usr/bin/xinit", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=15408, ...}) = 0 > rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT CHLD], [], 8) = 0 > lseek(255, -217, SEEK_CUR) = 4276 > clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, > child_tidptr=0x7fa98151d7c0) = 7650 > rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 > rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0 > rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 > rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0 > rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x435840, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fa98075f350}, > {0x4467e0, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fa98075f350}, 8) = 0 > wait4(-1, > > X.Org X Server 1.6.1 > Release Date: 2009-4-14 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 > [...] Anyone having an idea what could be wrong?? Thanx!!

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Re: [arch-general] [radeonhd] [PATCH] PM patches: logic fix, feature, cleaning, memory downclocking
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 29 May '09

29 May '09

On or about Friday 29 May 2009 at approximately 00:01:26 Rafał Miłecki composed: > 2009/5/29 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. <drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com>: > > Rafał, > > > > That's what I needed to know. I'm am not familiar with 'git' and > > the > > > > git checkout -t -b downclocking origin/master > > git am ~/archlinux/radeonhd/patches/*patch > > > > parts were the parts I knew nothing about. I'll pull the patches, apply > > and report back. Something really has to give here. The heat is > > unbearable. To get the actual temp data, I have a digital multimeter with > > a great surface temperature probe on it ( Craftsman Model No. 82400 ) and > > I took the temperature readings on the left palm rest and left fan > > discharge of my laptop with the radeonhd driver active. The results: > > > > Left Palm Rest Temp: 96 Deg. F > > > > Left Fan Discharge: 147 Deg. F > > > > The inside of this box is cooking.... That's with: > > > > Option "ForceLowPowerMode" > > Option "LowPowerModeEngineClock" "140000" > > > > I'll keep my fingers crossed and report back. > > Nice, tests with your multimeter would be absolutely great. You may > also try to reduce EngineClock later. For example change it from > 140000 to 120000. If it doesn't cause any corruptions you can still > try decreasing that. Don't worry about values you may use 139999, > 139998, 139997, end so on.AtomBIOS will round it to something > acceptable. > > -- > Rafał Miłecki Rafał, (also cc'ed to archlinux list for those interested) Here is a quick Summary of what I did: 23:54 alchemy:~/archlinux/apps/radeonhd> git checkout -t -b downclocking origin/master Branch downclocking set up to track remote branch master from origin. Switched to a new branch 'downclocking' 23:55 alchemy:~/archlinux/apps/radeonhd> git am patches/*patch Applying: PM: fix broken engine clock setting logic /home/david/archlinux/apps/radeonhd/.git/rebase-apply/patch:30: trailing whitespace. "calculated engine clock at %ldHz\n", warning: 1 line adds whitespace errors. Applying: PM: add RHDGetDefaultMemoryClock Applying: PM: get rid of EnableForced field Applying: PM: add memory downclocking. Commented out for now. /home/david/archlinux/apps/radeonhd/.git/rebase-apply/patch:28: trailing whitespace. "calculated memory clock at %ldHz\n", warning: 1 line adds whitespace errors. 23:56 alchemy:~/archlinux/apps/radeonhd> find . -name 'rhd_pm.c' ./src/rhd_pm.c 23:57 alchemy:~/archlinux/apps/radeonhd> vi src/rhd_pm.c #if 1 unsigned long defaultMemory = RHDGetDefaultMemoryClock(rhdPtr); if (defaultMemory) { Pm->ForcedMemoryClock = defaultMemory / 2; xf86DrvMsg(rhdPtr->scrnIndex, X_INFO, "ForceLowPowerMode: " "calculated memory clock at %ldHz\n", Pm->ForcedEngineClock); } <snip> Reboot & check /var/log/Xorg.0.log <snip> (II) RADEONHD: version 1.2.5, built from git branch downclocking, commit 0de8b484 + changes <snip> The current log file is at: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/radeonhd/downclock/Xorg.0.log.290… I haven't pulled any additional temperatures for comparison because there wouldn't be that much difference, it's still HOT. Looking through the log file, it is quite a coincidence that the downclocking chose 140000 as the memory clock downclock because that was exactly what I had been setting with the: Option "LowPowerModeEngineClock" "140000" At least we know that the patch applies OK and that it has the desired effect on the memory clock. Now if we can just figure out what else we need to power down to get the temps under control, we will be home free! Thank you for your patch. As I said before, I have the perfect box for testing, so let me know when you have the next one ready and I'll be happy to test it. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Network Shutdown Prior to umount on cifs mounts hangs shutdown
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 29 May '09

29 May '09

Listmates, I am experiencing a hang on shutdown with Arch every time I don't manually unmount any samba/cifs shares before shutting down. This is due to the shutdown sequence killing my network connection before unmounting the samba shares. This basicly leaves all samba shares mounted and [Busy] which frustrates the unmount filesystems call late in the shutdown sequence. Is there any way to move the network shutdown until after samba shares are unmounted in the shutdown sequence. Or conversely, move or add a samba/cifs shares unmount to the sequence at a time before the network shuts down? -- 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] /etc/rc.d/foo restart
by Daenyth Blank 29 May '09

29 May '09

2009/5/28 Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin(a)resel.fr>: > I'm just an user, but... if I ask the service to be restarted when it is > not started yet, I would expect the rc script to fail as early and > loudly as possible, no ? > > -- > Fred > Currently the rc scripts just do a "stop" followed by a "start" to restart. Should this be done differently? Personally I have no issue with this, and it's beneficial to me.

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[arch-general] [gnutls] Rebuild list (soname bump)
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 28 May '09

28 May '09

This is the list of current dependency (at least at dynamic shared library level) of gnutls-2.6.6 -> 2.8.0 [extra] aria2-1.3.0-1 gnutls-2.6.6-1 aria2-1.3.0-1 bitlbee-1.2.3-1 claws-mail-3.7.1-1 cups-1.3.10-3 epdfview-0.1.7-3 ghostscript-8.64-5 gnome-vfs-2.24.1-2 gtk-vnc-0.3.8-1 gtk2-2.16.1-1 gtklp-1.2.6-5 gutenprint-5.2.3-1 kvm-86-1 lftp-3.7.14-1 libcups-1.3.10-2 libepc-0.3.9-1 libgnomecups-0.2.3-4 libgnomeprint-2.18.6-1 libsoup-2.26.2-1 liferea-1.4.28-1 loudmouth-1.4.3-1 msmtp-1.4.17-1 qemu-0.10.5-1 samba-3.3.4-1 vinagre-2.26.2-1 vino-2.26.2-1 vlc-0.9.9a-3 weechat-0.2.6.1-1 wireshark-1.0.7-3 wput-0.6.1-2 xfce4-mailwatch-plugin-1.1.0-2 xfprint-4.6.1-1 xmlsec-1.2.11-2 [community] ario-1.2.2-1 cupsddk-1.2.3-4 e-modules-extra-svn-40500-1 e-svn-40500-1 ecore-svn-40503-1 edje-svn-40500-1 eet-svn-40500-1 efreet-svn-40500-1 ekg2-20090418-2 elitaire-svn-40502-1 emprint-svn-40500-1 entrance-svn-40500-1 epsilon-svn-40500-1 esmart-svn-40500-1 etk-svn-40500-1 evas-svn-40500-1 ewl-svn-40500-1 exhibit-svn-40500-1 filezilla-3.2.4.1-1 gg2-2.3.0-2 gimmie-0.2.8-6 gloox-0.9.9.6-1 gnome-cups-manager-0.33-6 gnustep-base-1.18.0-1 gnustep-gui-0.16.0-1 gobby-0.4.10-1 gtk-gnutella-0.96.6-1 gwenhywfar-3.8.0-1 hardinfo-0.5.1-1 iksemel-1.3-4 jabberd14-1.6.1.1-5 kazehakase-0.5.6-1 mailutils-2.0-5 net6-1.3.9-1 nzbget-0.6.0-1 obby-0.4.7-1 openlh-core-0.2-1 pokerth-0.7-1 python-certtool-0.1-5 python-gnutls-1.1.8-1 splix-2.0.0-1 xen-3.4.0-1 -- 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] imlib2
by Baho Utot 28 May '09

28 May '09

Building 1.4.2-2 i686 has a dependency for libungif pkgname=imlib2 pkgver=1.4.2 pkgrel=2 pkgdesc="Library that does image file loading and saving as well as rendering, manipulation, arbitrary polygon support" url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/enlightenment/" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('BSD') depends=('libtiff' 'libungif' 'bzip2' 'freetype2' 'libxext' 'libpng' 'libid3tag' 'libjpeg') There is not libungif in core/extra or AUR

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[arch-general] No color with asus M50VC webcam
by richard terry 28 May '09

28 May '09

Wondered if anyone had any clues as to why no colour. The cam pictures in skype/xawtv which I tried B&W and pretty dim. Regards Richard

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[arch-general] network-plasmoid-svn on extra? (WAS: KDE, Bluetooth and Wifi)
by Andrea Scarpino 27 May '09

27 May '09

On 27/05/2009, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > How about adding this to extra? It seems NM is very popular, and until > it is part of kdenetwork we should not force a high percentage of our > users to build it from AUR. we could, I was waiting a stable version. what others DEV think about this? -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[arch-general] KDE, Bluetooth and Wifi
by Manne Merak 27 May '09

27 May '09

So, I am new here, just installed ArchLinux on my work laptop. Had some issues with getting X and KDE4 up, but all fine now. KDE4 is different, I can see why some people dislike it - still needs that polished feeling that 3.5 had, but hey that will come with time. My biggest concern at the moment is Bluetooth mouse and Wifi. KBluetooth looses my mouse, randomly, and there is no KNetworkManager (well a finished one) at the moment. So my question, what does the ArchLinux KDE community use for Bluetooth and Wifi management. (I can fiddle round with bluez and wpa_supplicant config files, but would rather use some higher level config util) Manne ps. I come from the OpenSUSE world, so excuse my desire for management tools.

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[arch-general] libarchive - bsdtar producing weird archives?
by Michael Towers 27 May '09

27 May '09

The result of a makepkg run produced what looked like a totally garbled package, when viewed in mc's virtual file system. That led me to investigate a bit, so I tried packing up a few directories with bsdtar and sometimes got similarly garbled results. However, unpacking worked completely normally, as also did viewing the archives in xarchiver or squeeze. If I use tar instead of bsdtar to do the packing, they appear normally in mc. Does anyone know what's going on here? Is it mc that is getting something wrong, or bsdtar?

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[arch-general] lilo 22.8-3 - compile - latest gcc
by Baho Utot 27 May '09

27 May '09

==> Making package: lilo 22.8-3 i686 (Mon May 25 18:31:24 UTC 2009) ==> Checking Runtime Dependencies... ==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies... ==> Retrieving Sources... -> Using cached copy of lilo-22.8.src.tar.gz -> Using cached copy of gcc-44.patch -> Using cached copy of lilo.conf ==> WARNING: Integrity checks (md5) are missing or incomplete. ==> Extracting Sources... -> bsdtar -x -f lilo-22.8.src.tar.gz ==> Entering fakeroot environment... ==> Starting build()... patching file checkit ./checkit GCC version 2.91 or later is required gcc is not present AS86 version 0.16.10 or later is required as86 version 0.16.17 OKAY LD86 version 0.16.10 or later is required ld86 version 0.16.17 OKAY BCC version 0.16.10 or later is recommended bcc is not present You will not be able to make floppy2, diag2.img, or lilo.com make: *** [test.img] Error 1 ==> ERROR: Build Failed.

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 55, Issue 46
by Keith 26 May '09

26 May '09

On Tue, 26 May 2009 at 10 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, they're cross posts. Note the [arch-dev-public] in the subject line. Those are cross posts from the public dev list (which is read-only to non devs) Ah - got it. Thank you. Regards...K

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[arch-general] libnl 1.1-1 i686
by Baho Utot 26 May '09

26 May '09

Source package URL gone => Making package: libnl 1.1-1 i686 (Mon May 25 18:31:16 UTC 2009) ==> Checking Runtime Dependencies... ==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies... ==> Retrieving Sources... -> Downloading libnl-1.1.tar.gz... --2009-05-25 18:31:17-- http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl/files/libnl-1.1.tar.gz Resolving people.suug.ch... 85.118.1.10, 2001:770:15f::2 Connecting to people.suug.ch|85.118.1.10|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/files/libnl-1.1.tar.gz [following] --2009-05-25 18:31:17-- http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/files/libnl-1.1.tar.gz Resolving www.infradead.org... 85.118.1.10, 2001:770:15f::2 Connecting to www.infradead.org|85.118.1.10|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2009-05-25 18:31:17 ERROR 404: Not Found.

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Re: [arch-general] DeveloperWiki:Building in a Clean Chroot
by Baho Utot 26 May '09

26 May '09

On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 11:56 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > I am missing something here ? > > > > > > sudo makechrootpkg -r /home/Build/root -- -u > > building union chroot > > ERROR: No unionfs available. Abandon ship! > > > > > > I have aufs2-utils installed and I did a modprobe fuse and modprobe aufs > > > > You need to patch makechrootpkg with this: > http://code.phraktured.net/cgit.cgi/devtools/commit/?id=2269e5c9 > > Allan > > > Since unionfs has been dropped from kernel-2.6.29.4-1 Please can someone push devtools-2269e5c9 to the repo that devtools installs from. And update the DeveloperWiki:Building in a Clean Chroot to say you need kernel-2.6.xx and aufs2-utils. I lost 3 days trying to fix this. I needed to build a few packages for a server. Since I have done a Clean install from the latest install CD and sync'd/updated the system my build system broke and following the wiki no longer works. Thanks

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[arch-general] Problem w/Digest?
by Keith 26 May '09

26 May '09

Below are the 1st and last messages contained in the copy of Vol. 55 #44 I received, dated May 24, 5:56 PM EDT. Note the timestamp on message #1: May 23, 9:17 AM UTC. Yet the message quoted within message #10, timestamped May 24, 11:52 UTC, isn't in the digest (or anywhere else I can find). I've noted this numerous times recently and wrote it off to a lousy memory. But it's clearly more than that. Are these cross-posts being replied to? Is the digest dropping messages? Thanks...K Message: 1 Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 09:17:27 +0000 From: Baho Utot <baho-utot(a)columbus.rr.com> Subject: Re: [arch-general] DeveloperWiki:Building in a Clean Chroot To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> Message-ID: <1243070247.15748.7.camel(a)desktop.bildanet.com> Content-Type: text/plain On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 11:56 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > Baho Utot wrote: > >> > > I am missing something here ? >> > > >> > > <snip> Message: 10 Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 00:55:59 +0300 From: Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] testing repo clean-up To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org Message-ID: <20090524215559.GA3136@dark> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:52:15PM +0200, Thomas B?chler wrote: > > Tobias Powalowski schrieb: > >> >> moved in lilo,openvpn,openswan and capi4k-utils to extra >> > > > > I'd like to keep openvpn in core. I'd even maintain it, but I use the > > openvpn 2.1 release candidates and thus don't test or use the 2.0.X > > releases. > > > The first three were moved to core not extra. Its just capi4k-utils that was moved in a different repo than it was before. -- Greg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/attachments/20090525/b1695e…>

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[arch-general] run-parts source URL bad
by Baho Utot 25 May '09

25 May '09

==> Making package: run-parts 2.31-1 i686 (Mon May 25 18:31:59 UTC 2009) ==> Checking Runtime Dependencies... ==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies... ==> Retrieving Sources... -> Downloading debianutils_2.31.tar.gz... --2009-05-25 18:31:59-- http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debianutils/debianutils_2.31.tar.gz Resolving ftp.debian.org... 130.89.149.226 Connecting to ftp.debian.org|130.89.149.226|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2009-05-25 18:32:00 ERROR 404: Not Found. ==> ERROR: Failure while downloading debianutils_2.31.tar.gz Aborting...

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[arch-general] licenses 2.4-1 - MD5SUM error
by Baho Utot 25 May '09

25 May '09

==> Making package: licenses 2.4-1 i686 (Mon May 25 18:31:20 UTC 2009) ..... ==> Validating source files with md5sums... LICENSE-2.0.txt ... Passed cc-by-3.0.txt ... Passed cc-by-nc-3.0.txt ... Passed cc-by-nc-nd-3.0.txt ... Passed cc-by-nc-sa-3.0.txt ... Passed cc-by-nd-3.0.txt ... Passed cc-by-sa-3.0.txt ... Passed cc-readme.txt ... Passed cddl-1.0.txt ... Passed eclipse-1.0.txt ... Passed gpl-2.0.txt ... Passed gpl-3.0.txt ... Passed lgpl-2.1.txt ... FAILED lgpl.txt ... FAILED fdl.txt ... FAILED lppl.txt ... Passed MPL-1.1.txt ... Passed perlartistic.txt ... Passed 3_0.txt ... Passed LICENSE.txt ... Passed cpl-1.0.txt ... Passed python-2.txt ... Passed LICENSE.ralink-firmware.txt ... Passed ZopePublicLicense.txt ... Passed ==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!

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[arch-general] xorg crash with setxkbmap frequently use
by Sergey Manucharian 25 May '09

25 May '09

Hi folks, X server crashes randomly with the following error: [xkb] BOGUS LENGTH in write keyboard desc, expected 5576, got 5592 Graphic card is Intel G965, driver xf86-video-intel, tried both from [extra] and [testing]. I'm using the Caps_Lock key to change the keyboard layout via a script. I do not want to use "grp:caps_toggle" in xkb options since I need to do something else besides just layout switching. My bash script toggles between layouts running "setxkbmap -layout us" or "setxkbmap -layout ru" commands depending on the current one. Once in a while X server crashes on the toggling. Before I used the "stock" method "grp:caps_toggle", and it never crashed. Google finds several bug reports with the similar error string, but they are not related to layout switching. Thanks for ideas! Sergey.

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[arch-general] vi again
by Baho Utot 25 May '09

25 May '09

I am trying to build vi in core.....any one have a patch to make it compile without me preforming surgery on the PKGBUILD and bash scripts? Thanks

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[arch-general] namcap
by Baho Utot 25 May '09

25 May '09

I tried namcap a freshly built fakeroot from the latest abs sync Here is what it said namcap fakeroot-1.12.2-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz fakeroot E: Dependency detected and not included (bash) from files ['usr/bin/fakeroot'] fakeroot W: Dependency included but already satisfied (glibc) fakeroot W: Dependency included and not needed (filesystem) fakeroot W: Dependency included and not needed (grep) fakeroot W: Dependency included and not needed (sed) This is the dependency line from the PKGBUILD depends=('glibc' 'filesystem' 'grep' 'sed') What is namcap telling me ? Could fakeroot be built from a PKGBUILD without those dependencies? And is missing the bash dependency?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] testing repo clean-up
by Grigorios Bouzakis 24 May '09

24 May '09

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:52:15PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Tobias Powalowski schrieb: >> moved in lilo,openvpn,openswan and capi4k-utils to extra > > I'd like to keep openvpn in core. I'd even maintain it, but I use the > openvpn 2.1 release candidates and thus don't test or use the 2.0.X > releases. > The first three were moved to core not extra. Its just capi4k-utils that was moved in a different repo than it was before. -- Greg

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Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] Was: telepathy/empathy removed from [testing]
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 24 May '09

24 May '09

Allan McRae wrote: > Hi, > > Due to lack of developer time to package this fully, the > telepathy/empathy packages sat in [testing] for a long time and become > out dated. Now they have been removed, so these packages are free to > go into [community] if a TU wishes to do so. > > Allan > > > > Hello What about squid? i686 Testing squid 2.7.STABLE6-2 Orphan 2009-03-12 x86_64 Testing squid 2.7.STABLE6-2 Orphan 2009-03-13 i686 Extra squid 2.7.STABLE6-1 Orphan 2009-05-10 x86_64 Extra squid 2.7.STABLE6-1 Orphan 2009-04-26 As can see, the version in extra is more recent (at least in date) that te version in testing (+2 months old) The diff between 1 and 2 is the addition of libcap=>2.16 to depends array. Cheers, -- 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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] sqlite3 3.6.14.1-1
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 24 May '09

24 May '09

Andreas Radke wrote: > bump. anyone? No issues with Firefox? > > -Andy > > Works fine here. -- 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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [PATCH] Start sequences of daemons in background
by Florian Pritz 23 May '09

23 May '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Rayner wrote: > This patch allows you to background a whole sequence of daemons, > rather than an individual daemon. As a result, you can get a very fast > parallel boot. I suppose this could be considered an 'arch like' > parallel boot setup. This isn't my idea, I'm sure someone has made a > patch like this before however I couldnt find it and it never got > merged. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12476 (last comment has a good patch) Greetings Florian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJKGBIlAAoJEG0WVcFM4cE+OJgP/RMehbQ9dO/E5bQ22IRGoZ6L feSfcF8S3+xLUcZ06A5IrMrSIMlLltVA7yMiS1OGtg+H9+sRmPg3xZndCVWGV5Bz AcKXHO8OYxy/EzErF447f+wGZtnIV9mz6QDvov6TUFrYwj5IdzBSPvbiO6WV/uUv WyMmDuKbvN8jFEZhVjfWNbhfEtDc8pgWUF/RPMIRbqZeii8ZzweD/pBCFsM1Tx1n 50MhF8i0dF8kDRqrNuyAJeN5D++YoZq8CtsXASx+vj2+k+qr3YnqybOu69Dx+RHA axmUDX0D5COyCz0q/XHSRdupr7IjMgNbMwWGy9EaTbbWC5kcgA40PBUkBcZold7d jW52X4q6FVcaU4rkdi3Jx0YUvT5XRRTqM1k6GpUR9fhKOFwK0aVcOuGSLevZ1Ibc qamjCiohqXGx0Xa5YvHre2bB+AKloSj7OshQRi4HjAm7sUebPdvIDG2MWbi0lS5Z 55F8l6vLa1iMFmvlVKlFTEcb5HjnIhVqT+khWBfWjJdOoJMoYDDA7qBl2wLi3eTr J2ytpe4LVfQJhPpWfeVZVpzcW14wVFv2MDuH1UGMKliO0hGbXKl2PhX3fdqXqXYP p7o+A08hWvMQGnktJpr3b6Xe+vvxq2cfBhjrokPMZ9YcdcHpxV+cacGZYX3jyjtQ FaZT0Y1hPtsFUVVrdtVs =6WZX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [PATCH] Start sequences of daemons in background
by Damjan Georgievski 23 May '09

23 May '09

> This patch allows you to background a whole sequence of daemons, > rather than an individual daemon. As a result, you can get a very fast > parallel boot. I suppose this could be considered an 'arch like' > parallel boot setup. This isn't my idea, I'm sure someone has made a > patch like this before however I couldnt find it and it never got > merged. > > The major benefit is that boot doesnt get held up by slow starting > dependencies, like hal and network. I can't background network because > I have other services that depend on it such as nfs, ssh, iptables, > ntpdate and cups. Similarly, I cant background hal, as gdm depends on > it. ssh, iptables and cups can be started before your network is up... even more, iptables SHOULD be started before network is up, since it needs to protect you from the first moment > For example... > DAEMONS=(@net-auto,ntpdate,cups @acpi,hal,gdm syslog-ng cpufreq bluetooth crond) > Comma delimited groups are started in background and run in sequence. > > Bootchart testing > I saw a consistent improvement of at least 5s, from 31s to 26s. One > boot somehow acheived 23s, and that was with full auto wireless > enabled. I used a fixed modules list to avoid any inconsistency in > udev time, so udev was always 1.9-2.1 seconds. I also used a wired > connection for network as wireless connection time varied too much. > There is a more noticable improvement with wireless, as it takes > longer and can be backgrounded with the patch. > -- damjan

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Re: [arch-general] DeveloperWiki:Building in a Clean Chroot
by Baho Utot 23 May '09

23 May '09

On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 11:56 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > I am missing something here ? > > > > > > sudo makechrootpkg -r /home/Build/root -- -u > > building union chroot > > ERROR: No unionfs available. Abandon ship! > > > > > > I have aufs2-utils installed and I did a modprobe fuse and modprobe aufs > > > > You need to patch makechrootpkg with this: > http://code.phraktured.net/cgit.cgi/devtools/commit/?id=2269e5c9 > > Allan > > > $ sudo makechrootpkg -r /home/scrat/Build/root -- -u building union chroot ERROR: No aufs available. Abandon ship! $ cat /proc/filesystems nodev sysfs nodev rootfs nodev bdev nodev proc nodev binfmt_misc nodev debugfs nodev securityfs nodev sockfs nodev pipefs nodev anon_inodefs nodev tmpfs nodev inotifyfs nodev devpts nodev ramfs nodev mqueue jfs nodev fuse fuseblk nodev fusectl nodev usbfs ext2 The modprobe -q aufs did not happen, lsmod did not show it. modprobe aufs and retrying still fails with no aufs --> ERROR: No aufs available. Abandon ship! Using the latest kernel 2.6.29-4

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[arch-general] calender pgm
by Baho Utot 23 May '09

23 May '09

I am looking for a calander program like the one in evolution but is a standalone or web based Any Suggestions?

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[arch-general] DeveloperWiki:Building in a Clean Chroot
by Baho Utot 23 May '09

23 May '09

I am missing something here ? sudo makechrootpkg -r /home/Build/root -- -u building union chroot ERROR: No unionfs available. Abandon ship! I have aufs2-utils installed and I did a modprobe fuse and modprobe aufs

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[arch-general] DeveloperWiki:Building in a Clean Chroot
by Baho Utot 22 May '09

22 May '09

Which unionfs should I use? unionfs-utils or aufs2-util They are both marked as ophans

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[arch-general] Subversion server - authentication problem
by Paulo Santos 22 May '09

22 May '09

Greetings everyone, I've been trying to create a Subversion repository without success. I end up always with the same error: 403 Forbidden. I've followed the wiki [1] doing exactly the same as described there (except the path and username) and I don't understand. I set the permissions, checked the ssl paths over and over again, the same with .svn-policy-file and nothing... Trying the link in the browser, accept the certificate and pass the basic authentication and there it is, the 403 page. I don't get prompted again for authentication so it's the right one. Using svn -co, the same thing: svn: Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden) in response to OPTIONS request for 'https://localhost/svn/repo' Does anyone have any idea what can be wrong? Maybe some common mistake or something... Thanks in advance, Paulo Santos [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Subversion_Setup

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[arch-general] dictionary for evolution
by Baho Utot 22 May '09

22 May '09

What dictionary does evolution use for spell checking? It tells me I have only the Turkish available, but since I don't know Turkish I need to change this to something I know about. Thanks

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[arch-general] libdrm stuck at 2.4.9
by Damjan Georgievski 22 May '09

22 May '09

Does anyone know why the i686 version of libdrm is stuck at version 2.4.9 (the x86_64 is up-to-date at 2.4.11)? http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=libdrm I don't mind it much, since I've compiled my own package, but each time I try to -Syu pacman wants to downgrade to 2.4.9 and it's a bit annoying :) -- damjan

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] glibc-2.10 toolchain
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 22 May '09

22 May '09

Allan McRae wrote: > Hi, > > Now that gmp is fixed... it is about time to signoff for these packages. > > binutils 2.19.1-3 > gcc 4.4.0-2 > gcc-libs 4.4.0-2 > glibc 2.10.1-1 > gmp 4.3.1-2 > kernel-headers 2.6.29.3-1 Currently running on it (both 32 and 64) since these pkg are on my mirror ;) > > I will draft an announcement about the kernel minimum requirement > change from 2.6.16 -> .18. > Maybe a good idea is to add these two links to note: about porting to GCC 4.4.0 [#1] and glibc-2.10 changes [#2] especially for the part of "C++ compliance". [#1] http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/porting_to.html [#2] http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20948.html Good Luck! -- 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] hal has lost its mind again.
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 21 May '09

21 May '09

Listmates, On my laptop, automounting of usb drives and mmc/sd cards were working fine, now I get the "...mount.removable no <-- (action, result)" Full error dialog: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/hal-mount.removable.jpg The system configures the drives or cards just fine, it just will not create the directory under /media to allow access. It is really ironic because the drives/cards are fully accessible under "media:/". So, nothing in "/media", but OK in "media:/". I am concerned that changes made in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/20-ntfs-config-write-policy.fdi to allow NTFS mounts messed something else up. The file contains: <deviceinfo version="0.2"> <device> <match key="volume.fstype" string="ntfs"> <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="true"> <merge key="volume.fstype" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge> <merge key="volume.policy.mount_filesystem" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge> </match> </match> </device> </deviceinfo> which is straight from the wiki. The everything log contains the following: May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: tifm_core: MMC/SD card detected in socket 0:1 May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: mmc1: new SD card at address e624 May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: isa bounce pool size: 16 pages May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: mmcblk0: mmc1:e624 SD02G 1.89 GiB May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: mmcblk0: p1 May 17 02:55:20 alchemy hald: mounted /dev/mmcblk0p1 on behalf of uid 0 May 17 03:06:54 alchemy kernel: ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off interrupt mode. I don't know if the ACPI kernel message is evidence of the problem, but I included it just in case. I am slowly trying to make friends with hal/dbus, but I could use any help you can give in sorting this out. 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] Arch Linux on Go-OO download page?
by Ondřej Kučera 21 May '09

21 May '09

Hello, a couple of Linux distributions are mentioned at http://go-oo.org/download/ with a short info about how to install it. However, Arch Linux is not among them. I expect that if someone wrote them that Arch Linux has Go-OO in its repository as well, they'd be willing to add that message there. I'd write them myself but I suppose it would be better if it was done by someone "more official" (e. g. a developer). Opinions? Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera

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[arch-general] kde dark themes
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 21 May '09

21 May '09

kdeusers, If you haven't tried a dark theme for your kde desktop yet, you are missing out on some really cool looks. I toyed with dark themes over the years, but never really found one that worked. After being inspired to try again by senior Rosenstrauch posted one to the list, I took another look and came up with something I really like. It consists of color-themes for kde, emerald, and kate/kwrite. Other than that you just need to change the foreground color for konqueror and any of your web browsers, etc. I'll just post the links to the themes since you can't post it all here. Give it a shot, I bet you will like it. Small screenshots of the desktop theme and kicker background: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/screenshots/kde-dark-them… http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/screenshots/kickersteel.j… kde color-schemes (import under kde control center -> colors): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/color-themes/dcr-Blue.kcs… emerald theme for compiz (import in emerald theme manager): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/emerald/dcr%20Dark%20Blue-Gra… kate/kwrite/quanta color scheme (put in ~/.kde/share/config): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/kateschemarc A kicker background (kde control center -> Desktop -> Panel -> Appearance): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/kicker/kickersteelarch2.p… There are a few alternate themes and backgrounds in the above directories, so you can pick and choose if you like. And DR, since you started this whole thing, and I appreciate it, if you notice the "R" icon on my kicker panel that is set atop flames, I've put two sizes on the server (40x40 and 140x140) just in case you have a use for them ;-) See: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/icons/ -- 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] pan crashes with bug report
by Baho Utot 20 May '09

20 May '09

pan is crashing when I try to send a reply to any news group This is the bug report from bug-buddy System: Linux 2.6.29-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 9 12:47:43 UTC 2009 i686 X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation X Vendor Release: 10601000 Selinux: No Accessibility: Disabled GTK+ Theme: Clearlooks Icon Theme: gnome GTK+ Modules: canberra-gtk-module, gnomebreakpad Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0 CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0 ----------- .xsession-errors (76 sec old) --------------------- camel-imap-provider-Message: Unable to load summary: no such table: Trash Unmatched element: citerefentry Unmatched element: refentrytitle Unmatched element: citerefentry Unmatched element: refentrytitle ** (evolution:4230): DEBUG: mailto URL command: evolution %s ** (evolution:4230): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution camel-imap-provider-Message: Unable to load summary: no such table: Drafts camel-imap-provider-Message: Unable to load summary: no such table: Kumusta camel-imap-provider-Message: Unable to load summary: no such table: Trash -------------------------------------------------- MDRawHeader Any help with this?

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[arch-general] :: Starting acpid -- acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 20 May '09

20 May '09

Listmates, I am chasing down an issue with the radeonhd driver to force downclocking of the gpu. In my Xog.0.log I am receiving the message: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) I have installed acpid, but acpid will not start and gives the following error: [10:24 alchemy:/home/david] # /etc/rc.d/acpid start :: Starting acpid [BUSY] acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy [FAIL] What's the trick with acpid? -- 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] Can't compile digikam 0.10 on archlinux.
by Markus Golser 20 May '09

20 May '09

Hi I try to build digikam 0.10 on archlinux. I have kdegraphics 4.2.3-1 installed and still can't compile digikam sudo abs cp -r /var/abs/extra/digikam/ /tmp cd /tmp/digikam/ makepkg PKGBUILD -- The C compiler identification is GNU -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works -- Detecting C compiler ABI info -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done -- Looking for Q_WS_X11 -- Looking for Q_WS_X11 - found -- Looking for Q_WS_WIN -- Looking for Q_WS_WIN - not found. -- Looking for Q_WS_QWS -- Looking for Q_WS_QWS - not found. -- Looking for Q_WS_MAC -- Looking for Q_WS_MAC - not found. -- Found Qt-Version 4.5.1 (using /usr/bin/qmake) -- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib/libX11.so;/usr/lib/libXext.so;/usr/lib/libXft.so;/usr/lib/libXau.so;/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so;/usr/lib/libXpm.so -- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib/libX11.so;/usr/lib/libXext.so;/usr/lib/libXft.so;/usr/lib/libXau.so;/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so;/usr/lib/libXpm.so - found -- Looking for gethostbyname -- Looking for gethostbyname - found -- Looking for connect -- Looking for connect - found -- Looking for remove -- Looking for remove - found -- Looking for shmat -- Looking for shmat - found -- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE -- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE - found -- Found X11: /usr/lib/libX11.so -- Looking for include files CMAKE_HAVE_PTHREAD_H -- Looking for include files CMAKE_HAVE_PTHREAD_H - found -- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads -- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found -- Looking for pthread_create in pthread -- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found -- Found Threads: TRUE -- Found Automoc4: /usr/bin/automoc4 -- Found Perl: /usr/bin/perl -- Performing Test _OFFT_IS_64BIT -- Performing Test _OFFT_IS_64BIT - Failed -- Performing Test HAVE_FPIE_SUPPORT -- Performing Test HAVE_FPIE_SUPPORT - Success -- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_W_OVERLOADED_VIRTUAL -- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_W_OVERLOADED_VIRTUAL - Success -- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY -- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY - Success -- Phonon Version: 4.3.0 -- Found Phonon: /usr/lib/libphonon.so -- Found Phonon Includes: /usr/include/KDE;/usr/include -- Found KDE 4.2 include dir: /usr/include -- Found KDE 4.2 library dir: /usr/lib -- Found the KDE4 kconfig_compiler preprocessor: /usr/bin/kconfig_compiler -- Found automoc4: /usr/bin/automoc4 -- checking for module 'lcms' -- found lcms, version 1.18 -- Found lcms version 1.18, /usr/lib/liblcms.so -- Found JPEG: /usr/lib/libjpeg.so -- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib/libz.so -- Found PNG: /usr/lib/libpng.so -- Found TIFF: /usr/lib/libtiff.so -- Found Jasper: /usr/lib/libjasper.so -- Check Kdcraw library in local sub-folder... -- Check Kdcraw library using pkg-config... -- WARNING: you are using the obsolete 'PKGCONFIG' macro use FindPkgConfig -- PKGCONFIG() indicates that libkdcraw is not installed (install the package which contains libkdcraw.pc if you want to support this feature) -- Check Kexiv2 library in local sub-folder... -- Check Kexiv2 library using pkg-config... -- WARNING: you are using the obsolete 'PKGCONFIG' macro use FindPkgConfig -- PKGCONFIG() indicates that libkexiv2 is not installed (install the package which contains libkexiv2.pc if you want to support this feature) -- Check Kipi library in local sub-folder... -- Check Kipi library using pkg-config... -- WARNING: you are using the obsolete 'PKGCONFIG' macro use FindPkgConfig -- Found libkipi release < 0.2.0, too old -- Found gphoto2: -L/usr/lib -lgphoto2_port;-L/usr/lib -lgphoto2 -lgphoto2_port -lm -- checking for module 'libkdcraw>=0.4.0' -- package 'libkdcraw>=0.4.0' not found -- checking for module 'libkexiv2>=0.5.0' -- package 'libkexiv2>=0.5.0' not found -- Found KdepimLibs: /usr/lib/cmake/KdepimLibs-4.2.3/KdepimLibsConfig.cmake -- WARNING: you are using the obsolete 'PKGCONFIG' macro use FindPkgConfig -- Found LensFun: /usr/include -- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- digiKam 0.10.0 dependencies results <http://www.digikam.org> -- -- Qt4 SQL module found................ YES -- libjpeg library found............... YES -- libtiff library found............... YES -- libpng library found................ YES -- libjasper library found............. YES -- liblcms library found............... YES -- libkipi library found............... NO -- CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:175 (MESSAGE): digiKam needs libkipi library >= 0.2.0. You need to install libkipi first -- libkipi website is at http://www.digikam.org/sharedlibs -- -- libkexiv2 library found............. NO -- CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:185 (MESSAGE): digiKam needs libkexiv2 library >= 0.5.0. You need to install libkexiv2 first -- libkexiv2 website is at http://www.digikam.org/sharedlibs -- -- libkdcraw library found............. NO -- CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:195 (MESSAGE): digiKam needs libkdcraw library >= 0.4.0. You need to install libkdcraw first -- libkdcraw website is at http://www.digikam.org/sharedlibs -- -- libgphoto2 library found............ YES -- libkdepimlibs library found......... YES (optional) -- libmarblewidget library found....... NO (optional) -- -- digiKam will be compiled without geolocation using Marble widget support. -- -- liblensfun library found............ YES (optional) CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:269 (MESSAGE): digiKam will be compiled............ NO (Look README file for more details about dependencies) -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

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[arch-general] Firefox bug that may be Arch specific
by Emmanuel Benisty 20 May '09

20 May '09

Hi List, Just for information, there has been already two bug reports in Bugzilla that mention a bug in the display size of textboxes. Until now, only Archers seems to suffer from this bug and one of the mozilla developers has marked this issue as specific to Arch. Therefore, I thought it could be interesting to let Arch developers and users to be informed about this. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491114 Thanks+regards.

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[arch-general] Marking a package as a dependency
by Magnus Therning 20 May '09

20 May '09

I just recently bothered reading part of pacman's man page and found that I probably should have performed a `pacman -U --asdeps mypkg.tar.gz` as I installed dependencies for packages I build manually. However I didn't, so can I retro-actively change the reason-for-installation of an already installed package without re-installing it? (No, I couldn't decipher whether the man page already tells me how to do this :-) /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] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 20 May '09

20 May '09

Listmates, I'm building a local repo for boxes to update via the lan instead of redownloading. I have my repo on my local server as: arch/ x86/ x86_64/ I have moved all files for my two x86_64 boxes to the arch/x86_64 dir and I am filtering with a script to eliminate dups by moving the lesser numbered packages to arch/x86_64/oldpkgs. Testing the script before the actual move of packages, I ran across this anomaly in some filenames: (script output) [1] <snip> ttf-isabella-1.003-3.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs ttf-isabella-1.003-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz tunepimp-0.5.3-5.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs tunepimp-0.5.3-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz tzdata-2009f-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs tzdata-2009g-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz unrar-3.8.5-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs unrar-3.9.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz <snip> As shown above, there are multiple packages where the earlier version did *not* contain the x86_64 designation where the current package now does. Are these the same packages? If so why did earlier packages not have the x86_64 and when was the architecture added? Are all packages now going to have the architecture specified? Footnotes: [1] Filtering done by a simple look ahead and the output created as follows: PKGFILES=( $(ls -1 /home/backup/archlinux/x86_64) ) for ((i=0;i<${#PKGFILES[@]}-1;i++)); do if [[ ${PKGFILES[$i]%%-[[:digit:]]*} == ${PKGFILES[$i+1]%%-[[:digit:]]*} ]]; then echo -e "${PKGFILES[$i]} -> oldpkgs\n${PKGFILES[$i+1]}\n" fi -- 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] broken john package
by Sébastien Duquette 18 May '09

18 May '09

The package for john is broken, it is missing files that make it unusable. I filled a bug report (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14422) a month ago and other users complained about this issue. The current maintainer is andrea and the package was last updated on april 8th. Can someone please fix this ? Thanks, Sébastien

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[arch-general] netcfg SCAN patch
by Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi, a typing error on src/connections/wireless. [ ]s -- Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto Robinho robsonpeixoto(a)gmail.com Telefone: (19) 8821-0396 Computer Science Master's degree student, University of Campinas Archlinux-br Developer Team - http://archlinux-br.org Linux Counter #395633

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[arch-general] error dumped to terminal: kdeinit4: ... /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 on kdemod3?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 18 May '09

18 May '09

Listmates, Here is a curious one. I am getting KDE4 errors dumped back to the screen on my KDE3 (kdemod3) screen hours after kdiff3 was run from the terminal? Here is what is getting dumped back to my terminal through stderr on my x86_64 install: kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KBuildServiceFactory::createEntry: Invalid Service : "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" kbuildsycoca4(25149) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/opera.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/scribus.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KBuildServiceFactory::createEntry: Invalid Service : "/usr/share/applications/scribus.desktop" Anybody ever seen something like this before. It looks like it will be a kdemod issue related to the fact that kdiff3 was built against the kde4 runtime, but I thought I would ask hear to see if anyone else has seen something like this before? I have a bug open with kdemod: http://www.chakra-project.org/bugs/showreport.php?bugid=271 where additional details can be found. The times associated with running kdiff3 and then the above error messages have me confused. Specifically I ran kdiff3 and got the following output on stdout at 2:12 am: 02:12 alchemy:~/tmp/cursor/xcursorgen-1.0.2/mycursors> kdiff3 QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kded4 kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(16647) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/opt/kde/share/applications/kde/k3b.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). kbuildsycoca4(16647) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/opt/kde/share/applications/kde/filelight.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). <snip> Then hours later, I received the stderr messages: [05:15 archangel:~/tmp] # kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kconf_update kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4 (21983)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line <snip> [09:05 archangel:~/tmp] # kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line Now I'm not trying to run kdeinit4, that just what is coming back trough stderr and my prompt just happens to have a timestamp in it to help gage time. Is there anything I can do with kdiff3 to prevent the call to kdeinit4? -- 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 create initial xorg.conf for intel 915?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 18 May '09

18 May '09

Listmates: I have been throught http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_Graphics, and even added the section on howto calculate your VideoRam value, but I didn't find anything about generating an initial xorg.conf for the intel card. Currently I have no xorg.conf and things are working, but not as fast as they could. I would like to configure the card to use UXA accell, but I need an xorg.conf to tweak. Anybody know a quick way to create one? 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] Xpdf pl3 PKGBUILD
by Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto 18 May '09

18 May '09

PKGBUILD for xpdf pl3 [ ]s -- Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto Robinho robsonpeixoto(a)gmail.com Telefone: (19) 8821-0396 Computer Science Master's degree student, University of Campinas Archlinux-br Developer Team - http://archlinux-br.org Linux Counter #395633

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[arch-general] AARG! kinit: cannot open dev(8,7) kernel panic
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 17 May '09

17 May '09

Listmates, I am in a fist-fight with grub again most likely due to /dev/disk/by-uuid and I'm losing the battle. First, the situation. I'm moving and resizing partitions from an 80G drive to a 500G drive. No issues there. The partitions setup is: /dev/sda1 WinXP /dev/sda2 Extended /dev/sda5 /home /dev/sda6 / /dev/sda7 swap /dev/sda8 /boot After moving and resizing the partitions windows boot fine and Arch boots until it gets to kinit and then throws a kernel panic. I have updated the disk/by-uuid labels in /boot/grub/menu.lst and in /etc/fstab, but still the kinit error. As far as my grub install goes, the system boot to the grub menu and it is reading /boot/grub/menu.lst because I can boot XP from the grub menu, but not boot Arch. Gurus... What to check? Throw a brother a bone.... Where else is the disk by-uuid stuff hidden? -- 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] Bugs again
by Damjan Georgievski 17 May '09

17 May '09

Sorry to bring this again, but something has to change in the way bugs are handled in Arch. I've open this bug report http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13905 about the awesome package in community. The package maintainer just closes the bug, not solving it, claiming it's upstream, and not even investigating the problem. He suggests I ask upstream. Ok, I play a good citizen, I do ask upstream, we find the problem, a sollution is found - it turns out the PKGBUILD was wrong from the begining - but still I submit a patch to awesome so that building it is much easier. I request reopening the bug .. it's a small text-area, not very usable, so I just write "New information" .. since the bug was closed with "You may want to ask upstream why they install those files by default.". And then I get the answer: Reason for denial: You need to be more specific that "New information" in a reopen request... Now, it's not like I enjoy hanging out in the bug system opening bugs, investigating them, hoping to improve ArchLinux's packages.. and I don't see how I could've deserved this behaviour. The bug report shouldn't have been closed in the first place, since the problem was not even solved. -- damjan

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[arch-general] Setting up print to postscript in openoffice 3
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 16 May '09

16 May '09

Listmates, While I was on the subject, I thought I would pass this tip along. Let me know if this should go to forums instead of here. Printing to pdf is no problem in ooo3, just hit the button, but if you want to print to postscript, then things take a little more work. Printing to kprinter is nebulous in ooo3, so there has to be another way -- and there is. The simplest way I have found is to: (1) install cups & cups-pdf from extra; (2) start cups with /etc/rc.d/cups (Add to deamons line in /etc/rc.conf to start automatically at boot) (3) access the cups print manager: http://localhost:631 and select: Administration -> Find New Printers Select CUPS-PDF (Virtual PDF) Make: Generic Driver: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer Done! Now to print to postscript, just print as usual, choose "CUPS-PDF" as the printer and then select the checkbox for "print to file", hit print and enter the filename.ps and 'print' Handy for faxes, etc... Since cups pdf uses the ps2pdf utility as the background, you are simply stopping the process with "print to file" before the ps2pdf utility is called. -- 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] gparted dependency failure `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 16 May '09

16 May '09

Listmates, Attempting to run gparted from the local drive (after installing all listed optional dependencies of gparted) to resize a partition on a usb drive disclosed a dependency failure: [09:33 supersff:/home/david/linux/partition-copy] # gparted /usr/sbin/gpartedbin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found (required by /usr/sbin/gpartedbin) Hmm should this be reported as a bug or chocked up to stupidity on my part? -- 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] System Upgrade - networkmanager conflicts with libnetworkmanager
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 16 May '09

16 May '09

Listmates, I don't know how to handle this dependency error and I want to make sure I don't break my kdemod3 install by replacing libnetworkmanager with extra/networkmanager. I presume it would be a 1-for-1 drop-in replacement, but I thought I would ask first. Anybody know? :: Synchronizing package databases... kdemod-legacy is up to date core 33.5K 104.4K/s 00:00:00 [#############################################] 100% extra 384.2K 127.0K/s 00:00:03 [#############################################] 100% community 361.9K 132.0K/s 00:00:03 [#############################################] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace libnetworkmanager with extra/networkmanager? [Y/n] n resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: networkmanager conflicts with libnetworkmanager. Remove libnetworkmanager? [Y/n] n error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: networkmanager: conflicts with libnetworkmanager -- 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] problem while bridging network
by ludovic coues 16 May '09

16 May '09

hi listmate, I'm posting 'cause I have some problem when I bridge a connexion. I wanna set up a virtual machine with windws 7 to play eve online (no support for linux at this time, and I can't make it run on wine). So I've follow the wiki for setting up network with the virtual machine. But now, I'm starting my computer with eth0 and vbox0 bridged, but I can't use my wifi connexion on wlan0. If I delete the bridge with a «brctl delbr br0», I can connect to the wifi through wlan0, but my VM haven't any network. To be exact, I can connect me to my personnal network, but this have no internet connexion. Weird. If any one might help me with this, it would be nice. -ludovic

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[arch-general] Themes for Gnome
by S Andrews 16 May '09

16 May '09

Where can I find themes for gnome, I am looking for Graphite theme

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[arch-general] Did new kernel version removed vesa FB?
by Javier Vasquez 16 May '09

16 May '09

Hi, I few minutes ago I upgraded a arch box (x86_64), and to my surprise, something that was working before, loading the kernel with parameter "vga=0x37D" is no longer working (nothing happens). The new version is 2.6.29.3-1. The resolution for nvidia quadro fx 570m is "1920x1200", but the nvidiafb module has never worked, so I need to use the vesa FB... Well I tried a other vga modes, like 0x31B, 0x307, and then the screen goes blank and freezes... I don't know what happens, but it seems like the vesafb which used to be compiled built-in, is not longer working properly... Thanks, -- Javier

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[arch-general] Running setserial from rc.local
by Sergi Pons Freixes 15 May '09

15 May '09

With the new Xorg, I need to run the command: setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x0200 irq 5 autoconfig At every boot to get the stylus working in a Tablet PC. I have put the line in /etc/rc.local, as it contains "all the things which are not daemons that you want to run at boot". But it is not working. KDM (therefore, X) starts without using the stylus. If I switch to a terminal, run the command, and the return to X, the stylus is recognised. Any clue about what is I am doing wrong? I know that the command can not be executed from an X terminal (this is why I switch to a "normal" terminal), but running it from rc.local should work, right?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [aur-general] Get notified on website updates
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 15 May '09

15 May '09

Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 18:19:12 schrieb Abhishek Dasgupta: > >> Some other similar programs: >> * http://jue.li/crux/ck4up/ >> > > I did not know about this, but it looks really nice. Its a little more complex > and it does not display what has changed. > > On the other hand being able to define some regexp might be usefull. > > Hi, I personally use it, is very simple, this is my config file [#1] Can control with a regex, what part of page you watch :) a sample run (striped) $ ck4up -k sudokuki ....... diff: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180199&package_id=208… -k is for not touch the internal database if you run with -d (debug) can see all matches: $ ck4up -kd <snip> sudokuki-0.9.12.tar.bz2 sudokuki-0.9.12.tar.gz sudokuki-0.9.11.tar.bz2 sudokuki-0.9.11.tar.gz <snip> sudokuki ....... diff: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180199&package_id=208… <snip> run with -v to be verbose: $ ck4up -kv rewrite ........ ok netpipes ....... ok xjobs .......... ok <snip> sudokuki ....... diff: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180199&package_id=208… dbm ............ ok papyrus ........ ok lsyncd ......... ok <snip> another interest parameter is -p that show the config file with all macros expanded Enjoy! [#1] http://djgera.pastebin.com/f4202cba5 -- 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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Get notified on website updates
by Grigorios Bouzakis 15 May '09

15 May '09

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 06:13:09PM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hello, > > maybe you are familar with the following problem: > > You want to get notified when there is a new upstream release. The problem is > that not all projects offer rss feeds or an announce mailing list. And if they > do they are sometimes too verbose or don't cover the updates you like. > > So needed something to watch a certain website and tell me if anything > changed. There are a lot of webservices, firefox plugins etc..; but they are > all too complicated and just don't offer what I need. > > So I though it would be quite easy to write something myself using cron and > lynx. So I after a few minutes I had a simple Bash script whih just does the > job. > > It loops through an url list and prints the diff to the previous run. Running > this by cron I get an email including the diff everytime one of the observed > websites are updated. > > Maybe someone else has some use for it, too. And perhaps I'll even create a > git repo for it; though I don't think I should add much more "features". ;-) > > http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/packages/src/w3watch/ > Frugalware has been doing similar stuff for a long while but they have an up2date field in their build scripts. See for example: http://www.mail-archive.com/frugalware-git@frugalware.org/msg20141.html They recently converted that to a Flasttar function: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-stable.git;a=blob_… The source is somewhere in here: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-current.git;a=blob… -- Greg

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[arch-general] Virtualbox Window Transparent??
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 15 May '09

15 May '09

Listmates, Here is one for the experts. I installed virtual box on my Arch laptop, and upon starting my XP guest machine, I discover that the VB window is almost completely transparent?? This is really strange and I can't explain what is happening, so a picture (screenshot) is worth a 1000 words: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/vb-transparent2.j… [139k] As you can see, the Virtualbox window background is almost 100% transparent as well as some parts of the applications running in it. This can make it quite challenging to get things done. I am using the radeonhd driver. I tried it with compiz running and then again with kwin. It made no difference. Other than virtualbox being transparent, everything else was OK. Any ideas on this one?? cc: radeonhd list -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Radeonhd - Use EXA Accel instead of XAA Accel
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 15 May '09

15 May '09

Listmates, If you use the radeonhd driver, use EXA acceleration instead of XAA. I just found out about this today and it is a 100% improvement in speed, etc. over XAA acceleration. It isn't as fast as fglrx, but it is a world of improvement over the alternative. To make use of EXA acceleration, simply enable it in your xorg.conf in the device section. Example: Section "Device" BoardName "RS690M" Driver "radeonhd" Identifier "Device[0]" Option "GARTSize" "256" Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" Option "EnablePrivateBackZ" "no" Option "VideoOverlay" "on" Option "no_dri" "no" Option "UseFastTLS" "1" Option "no_accel" "no" Option "mtrr" "off" VendorName "ATI" EndSection -- 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] Autowifi not in AUR
by ludovic coues 15 May '09

15 May '09

Hi listmates, I've seen sometimes ago a link to autowifi. And I wonder why this one can't be found in AUR. I'm using autowifi since I found it, and it's great. No need to care about anything when wpa_supplicant have a right config. Just open a browser, and go on. It could be a great app in the the repo, but without any trace in the AUR, we can't vote for it, and I wonder how it can be add to the repo if it have no vote... 'cause wlan0 haven't to be more complicated than eth0. -ludovic

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Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox Window Transparent?? [solved - sort of]
by Smith Dhumbumroong 15 May '09

15 May '09

Hi, I also have the problem same you described on Openbox + Xcompmgr. I "solved" it by disable guest's 3D acceleration. Another solution is to disable the composite. I'm using radeon driver so I guess this problem might have more to do with VirtualBox or KDE's widget/theme engine than the driver it self (I might be wrong, though). Regards, Smith Dhumbumroong

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[arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 15 May '09

15 May '09

Listmates, When I need to run apps a root for configuration purposes like kate, or konqueror "File Management", I either put the command in the Alt+F2 run dialog or create a menu entry and then check [ ] run as different users and put 'root' in the different user text box. Even though I have configured sudo I am inevitably prompte for a password. With suse we "patched" this by using kwriteconfig as your regular user: kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group super-user-command --key super-user-command sudo This wasn't the "recommended" way, but it was the way most chose to get around a mess with kdesu. When I try and access the apps I want to run as root, not only do I get the initial password prompt, but I get a second prompt after the app is closed. That has left me scratching my head. The other option is just to create the menu entries as "sudo command" which doesn't complain wheen opening whatever I need. What says the braintrust? Is this an arch issue or is it a kdemod issue? 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] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 14 May '09

14 May '09

Listmates, I have the most atavistic sound known to mankind on my laptop running arch. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The card specs are: 0:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff08 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin ? routed to IRQ 16 Region 0: Memory at f8700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel The Intel modules loaded are: snd 65928 13 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer snd_hda_codec 68112 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hda_intel 29256 1 snd_page_alloc 9760 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm snd_pcm 80920 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec When I first start arch and start kde, everything is fine. However, if I log out and then back it, most times the sound is gone -- dead. The sound will not start again until I reboot. Anybody got any ideas on what to check or what to keep a watch out for? Also, any ideas on how to bring the sound back once it dies without having to reboot? Thanks for any help you can provide. I always hated chasing sound problems. -- 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] Option "XkbLayout" doesn't work?
by Sergey Manucharian 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hi folks, It looks like the setting of keyboards layouts in xorg.conf doesn't work anymore, or I'm missing something? ----------------------8<---------------------- Section "InputDevice" ..... Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "evdev" Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru,am" Option "XkbVariant" ",phonetic,phonetic" ..... EndSection ----------------------8<---------------------- The only way I can set up the kbd layout is the using "setxkbmap" with the same settings in my "~/.xinitrc". Is it a bug of a "feature" of the new X? Cheers, Sergey

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[arch-general] Gnome update failed
by Manolo 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hello everyone, the last month when I was trying to update with pacman -Syu, this error message showed up: usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 18: 21838 Violaci�n de segmento GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /usr/share/gconf/schemas/${pkgname}.schemas > /dev/null When I rebooted, I couldn't enter into Gnome again. The only thing I could see was a gray screen, but with the compiz effects activated (cube). I tried to downgrade and to force the installation of the package gnome, xorg-server and so on, but nothing happened. Now, I'm usin LXDE (a nice DE, by the way), but the update of gnome package keeps failing. Anyone with this trouble, any ideas about solving this issue? Thanks, Manolo.

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[arch-general] Arch artwork & compiz screenshot
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 13 May '09

13 May '09

Listmates: Needing to spruce up the cube caps on cube rotation in compiz (the old opensuse artwork just wouldn't do), I started messing around with some of the archlinux-artwork. I found one that I like and then added some finishing touches in gimp. A screenshot of the resulting cubecaps and desktop is here: [69k] http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/archglass-cyl.jpg The actual cubecap file is found here: [450k due to transparency] http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/archglass-compizcaps.p… Use it at will. If you have no interest, just hit [del]. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] kdm3 crash on logout - no apparrent errors
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 13 May '09

13 May '09

Listmates, After the kernel update, my kdm3 is crashing with each user logout. Basically, on logout you are dumped back to tty1 and must then login and issue kdm3 restart to restore the display manager. I am using the radeonhd driver. Before the latest update this didn't occur. What can I check to get information to help solve this puzzle? I've checked /var/log/messages.log and Xorg.0.log, but nothing is out of the ordinary. Any help would be greatly 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] Opera Segfaults on x86_64 after kernel update
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 13 May '09

13 May '09

Listmates, After the kernel update to kernel26 2.6.29.3-1, opera is segfaulting for some reason. Opera doesn't event splash anything on the screen, it just dies. Here is what I get from the cli: 23:28 alchemy:~> opera -debugxerror opera: X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0 I have no idea what a BadAtom is or if that is the problem. I haven't run across anything else in the past hour since the update. What should I 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 Ruby on Rails page on the wiki
by Sébastien Duquette 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hi, Just wanted to let you know that I created a Ruby on Rails page on the wiki. It's not really long but the basis is there to quickly set up a rails application. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RubyOnRails As always, please feel free to comment and edit the wiki. Sébastien Duquette

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Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention
by Aaron Schaefer 12 May '09

12 May '09

Since I can't reply to the dev mailing list thread: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Tobias Kieslich <tobias(a)justdreams.de> wrote: >> On Tue, 12 May 2009, Magnus Therning wrote: >> That means all plugins need to be rebuild and some users that set fixed >> pathes in .vimrc will have to adjust. > > Looks like we have a new rebuild list then: > > $ pacman -Sqs vim- ... This will mean that all plugin packages will have to be rebuilt for each minor Vim release? Is that how other distro's handle it? Seems a bit odd... -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer

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[arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention
by Tobias Kieslich 12 May '09

12 May '09

Hi, Finally, the new vi* packages are up. There will be a little migration pain. For optimal results, I recommend to "sudo rm /usr/bin/{view/rview}" before you run "sudo pacman -Syu" -T

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] grub2 image support
by Damjan Georgievski 12 May '09

12 May '09

Maybe the "General Discussion about Arch Linux" mail list is better place about this? (ps. I just now notice http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-general - the description has a typo "Discusson") On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 00:23, Ronald van Haren <pressh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > For those of you who are using grub2 and are interested in making your > boot selection menu a bit nicer, the newly uploaded grub2 supports > backgrounds and stuff. > > Config syntax in your grub.cfg is similar to: > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then > set gfxmode="1024x768x32" > insmod gfxterm > insmod vbe > terminal_output gfxterm > if terminal_output gfxterm; then true ; else > terminal gfxterm > fi > fi > insmod tga > background_image /boot/grub/archlinux.tga > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > though obviously a background image is not included. Other image types > should work as well if you load the correct modules (see the .mod > files in /boot/grub) > > Ronald > > ps. I had to add a bdf-unifont package to the repo in order to make it > work a bit easier. It is now a makedepend of grub2. > -- damjan

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] LZMA - in or out? ([signoff] libarchive 2.6.0)
by Grigorios Bouzakis 12 May '09

12 May '09

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:03:43AM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 02:06:31 schrieb Dan McGee: > > Yes, of course. I think we can take some time to let it bake, as there > > is not an immediate need, and when 5.0 comes out we can move it to > > core and then rebuild libarchive with support for both. > > Sure, no need to hurry. Slackware has achieved a decrease of size from 1,9GB > to 1,4GB of their main repo. Our ratio should be lower as we don't have source > packages in our repos. But it should be easy to test once the tools are ready. > (du -h;gunzip *.gz;xz *.tar;du -h) Just for the record, Slackware didnt move the sources to xz. Just the compiled packages. The descrease in size you are reffering to is more or less correct. My local rsynced tree is 1.6Gb with .xz while it was around 2.0Gb with .tgz. The gain should be 20-25% from what i can estimate. -- Greg

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[arch-general] Dovecot
by Baho Utot 12 May '09

12 May '09

Anyone got a simple configuration file ( dovecot.conf ) that has simple auth login? like clear text? thanks

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[arch-general] Gnome - Nautilus and Evolution, Fresh Install
by Baho Utot 11 May '09

11 May '09

I have just completed a new install using the latest Install/Live CD 2009.02 I followed the Beginners Guide (exactly :) including the update. I continued until I finished with install Xorg and Gnome. After setting up .xinitrc to run Gnome I issued a startx to start Xorg and Gnome. 1. When clicking the "Users home dir icon" to launch Nautilus and browsing to test it, I then clicked the "X" to stop the app from running ( upper right on the window ) Nautilus crashed and Gnome restarted, cleared the desktop (refreshed) and generated a bug report to be set to gnome.org (via bug buddy). 2. After installing Evolution ans running the app I made some errors when I initially set it up for my imap server. Clicking/running from the Edit->Preferences menu caused evolution to crash and generating a bug report. I can not use the Edit->Preferences menu at all, making the evolution installation worthless as I can not change any settings. How stable is Gnome on Arch Linux? I need to move from KDE3 to Gnome until KDE4 is finished and debugged. Comments/Fixes Anyone? Thanks

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[arch-general] requesting mysql man pages
by Felipe Tanus 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi all, It's me or the mysql package don't come with man pages? I guess that would be good to have manpages for stuff like mysqlcheck, mysqldump, mysqlshow... Is there a reason for it not be avaliable at the mysql package? thanks for your time! []'s -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fotanus(a)gmail.com Blog: http://fotanus.blogspot.com/ Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ ----- Aperture Science: We do what we must because we can For the good of all of us except for the ones who are dead

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[arch-general] xorg trouble
by Baho Utot 10 May '09

10 May '09

I have done a new install using the 2009-02 install cd Then sync and updated the system with pacman install alsa and the xorg I have installed hal and it is running When I start xorg I get no "X" on the screen. Thanks

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[arch-general] Strange wpa_supplicant error
by Edgar Kalkowski 10 May '09

10 May '09

Hello Arch! I’m connecting to my WPA2 encrypted wireless network via wpa_supplicant. The configuration in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf looks like this: network={ ssid="Hochst van Vaarenhochst" key_mgmt=WPA-PSK proto=WPA pairwise=TKIP group=TKIP psk="my_really_very_secret_passphrase" } I start wpa_supplicant in rc.local (and also start dhclient afterwards) and usually everything works just fine. I’m connected to my WLAN after startup and can surf the internet. However sometimes it occurs that wpa_supplicant does not reach the “Completed” stage but rather remains in the “4-Way-Handshake” stage forever. When observing wpa_supplicant e.g. via wpa_cli it writes “Associated to <bssid>” with the correct bssid of my access point on and on and on ... A log file that was generated by $ wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd > bug.txt can be found at http://xpeter.de/bug.txt. The described behaviour occurs randomly on startup or wakeup from suspend and usually even a reboot does not fix this problem (just time or many reboots does). I’ve also tried to restart my WLAN router but that did also not solve the problem. Can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong or what could cause this error? Or, if not, does someone know where I could post this error to people who know? Best regards! Edgar PS: wpa_supplicant is version 0.6.9 and I’m on stock 2.6.29-ARCH kernel with ndiswrapper driver for my “Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter” (as madwifi did not work half a year back when I tried). Anything else I could provide that might help?

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[arch-general] Transmission package out of date
by Brendan Fahy 10 May '09

10 May '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The package Transmission-gtk has been out of date for some time now. I sent an e-mail to the package maintainer a few months ago with an updated PKGBUILD and never received a response. To update the package all that is required is changing the version number and check sums. # Maintainer: Alexander Fehr <pizzapunk gmail com> # Contributor: Brendan Fahy <brendan(a)f4hy.com> pkgname=transmission-gtk pkgver=1.60 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client (GTK+ GUI)" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://www.transmissionbt.com/" license=('MIT') depends=('curl' 'libnotify' 'desktop-file-utils' 'hicolor-icon-theme') makedepends=('intltool') optdepends=('notification-daemon: Desktop notification support') replaces=('transmission') install=transmission-gtk.install source=(http://mirrors.m0k.org/transmission/files/transmission-$pkgver.tar.… md5sums=('8b30cf189240f0c50ccd11c618a6906a') build() { ~ cd "$srcdir/transmission-$pkgver" ~ ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-wx --disable-cli --disable-daemon || return 1 ~ make || return 1 ~ make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install || return 1 ~ # Remove web client ~ rm -rf "$pkgdir/usr/share/transmission" || return 1 ~ install -D -m644 COPYING "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/transmission-gtk/COPYING" || return 1 } - -- Brendan Fahy <brendan(a)f4hy.com> www.f4hy.com 714.310.7627 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoGNvQACgkQO7SvxW5E8xrD2ACeJSI/rIVyIIc2C6k9fp2AaxgX QAEAn05okb3D0aCzuGotE1lrqQXPeoHI =MLjp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] default ~/.config/compiz/compizconfig prevents compiz start with radeonhd
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 10 May '09

10 May '09

Listmates, I thought I would pass along a bug and a solution. I struggled trying to get compiz running on my arch x86_64 install on my laptop with the radeonhd driver for my x1200 card. After pulling my xorg.conf apart, swapping between the radeon and radeonhd driver and posting to the compiz list, I got the solution from a reply on the compiz list. The problem is with the archlinux default ~/.config/compiz/compizconfig/config supplied along with the compiz-fusion-kde package. The default is: [kde_session] profile = For some reason this prevents compiz from starting with either the radeon or radeonhd driver. SYMPTOMS: Upon Compiz start, the display behaves exactly like it is going to work. The display goes blank, sequentially erasing and redrawing each window, but then it never actually starts. The windows are just left there with no decor. You can sill provide input to them, but you cannot move or resize them. Issuing kwin --replace & causes the reverse to happen (windows destroyed, black screen, windows then redrawn with kde decor. SOLUTION(S): From the compiz list, the suggestion was made to go ahead and let compiz try to start. Since you still have input capability, issue ccsm from the command line and then configure compiz forcing a new config to be written, then reload compiz. I did the equivalent, but took a shortcut by simply rsyncing ~/.config/compiz from another working machine. Problem solved. REMAINING ISSUES WITH ARCH GLX: When issuing glxinfo from a konsole cli as $USER everything works fine. However, if you are su to root $UID then glxinfo fails: [23:07 alchemy:/home/david] # glxinfo No protocol specified Error: unable to open display :0.0 Dunno if this is a bug or feature, but I thought I would pass it along. I'll file a bug report on the default config issue, fixing it will save a lot of folks a lot of heartache and newbies from thinking Linux doesn't work. -- 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] vi/vim/gvim without ruby support
by Tobias Kieslich 09 May '09

09 May '09

Allan, the ruby in testing as of 3 days ago. That would be 1.8 I think. we can build gvim(the only one with ruby enabled) without ruby support for the time being. I don't think that many people actually script vim with ruby and there aren't all that many ruby-vim scripts out there. Now I can be wrong, but I think it's only fair to NOT let gvim stall the ruby packages. Once we have ruby 1.9* support in vim we enable it again. No big deal. As for the OP: vim is a symlink to vim-normal because upon installation of gvim it becomes a symlink to vim-full (more powerful, better script support, etc ... all the bells and whistles) where gvim will be a symlink to the same binary it just automatically invokes it with GUI support. That's just how vim works. -T On Sat, 09 May 2009, Allan McRae wrote: > Kessia 'even' Pinheiro wrote: >> Hi all, >> Tobias, i`m without a machine, so, i can`t check the vim version. Did you >> compile new vim with witch version of ruby? >> > > It will be with ruby-1.8 because 1.9 is not in the repos yet... I am > waiting for the vi(m)'s to move out of [testing] before I do the ruby > update. > > Allan > >

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[arch-general] bluez
by Juan Diego 09 May '09

09 May '09

hello everyone I was having some troubles using my bluetooth headsets with bluez 4.37, I got some extrange "unable to open seid 64" errors, so I updated the PKGBUILD to 4.39 version now it works perfectly the only changes to the PKGBUILD were the pkgver and md5sums variables I attach the src.tar.gz in case someone is having the same problem have a nice day

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel-2.6.29.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 09 May '09

09 May '09

Hi fixes: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14568 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14565 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11778 greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] (partially) Inactive
by bardo 07 May '09

07 May '09

2009/5/6 Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org>: >> I am an university student so I can use from 08AM to 07PM (GMT+1) the >> wireless connection at my university but it is over HTTP proxy: I will >> cannot use ssh/cvs/git/ftp/irc/jabber protocols. >> >> I hope to be totally active soon. > > You should complain about that. In my eyes, having internet access without > these basic services is no internet access at all, and whoever the admin is > (or the guy who tells the admin what to do) is a moron that still lives in > the past. > That's pretty normal in Italian universities. They tend to lock you out from everything, sometimes because they fear what you could do and sometimes because of nearly-fascist laws that would oblige them to log everything. Filtering out is easier, and it really helps with bureaucracy. That said, I once managed, as a student, to meet the whole IT team in my university, and in an official encounter I demanded to open at least some more ports... You see, there are exams where you *have* to use CVS/SVN for your projects, and the ports are filtered out from the inside. It's not an annoyance, it's just plain stupid: you often work with people who live very far from the city and you can't work together at the university. Well, they refused to open ports citing legislations, the need to filter p2p apps, the heaviness of level 7 filters... Heck, we didn't even have IMAP! I told them that, with https open, we could tunnel everything where we wanted. They know it and don't care, because it's a really small niche of students that can do it. I can assure you that I was very, very tempted to write an easy to use tunneling app and publish it for all the students to use. This is the situation in a country that is in the G8 ("economic power" my ass) for unknown reasons... old tech, misunderstandings and censorship. Sorry for the rant. Corrado

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[arch-general] Must i do the toolchain update or can i wait
by Attila 07 May '09

07 May '09

Hello together, my question is about that if the toolchain update comes do i have to do it to get no problems with the rest of my system or can i wait if i find patches or hints to solve possible problems with my own packages? For the case that i can wait i will block the upgrade of this packages: * gcc{,-libs}-4.4.0-1 * glibc-2.9-7 * bintuils-2.9-7 * kernel-headers-2.6.29.1-1 And i will stay from this point on with kernel26-2.6.29.2-1. My next question is that i want to know if this will be enough or should i block more packages? The base is that i still stay with kde3 which i have packaged in the arch way (one package at example kdenetwork) but with the sources from kdemod3. It is no question that this is my problem and has to be solved only by myself but perhaps anyone has some good hints or a url to informations about it. See you, Attila

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] file-5.01
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 06 May '09

06 May '09

Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > >> Upstream bug fix release. >> >> > > file 5.02 is out. > > And now 5.03 :) -- 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] kde control center "Use my KDE style in GTK applications" causes ooo buttons to disappear
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 06 May '09

06 May '09

Listmates, I have an interesting one for you, in openOffice, all of the icons on the toolbars and all of the text of the context menus disappear when I click on a document in writer. If I brush the mouse over the toolbar or menu, the icons/text reappears while the icon or text has focus, but then disappears again when the focus leaves. I have a number of illustrative screenshots here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-menus-missing.jpg http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-menus-missing1.jpg http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing.… http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing1… http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing2… Version Information: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-about.jpg The problem seems to have started after changing the kde control center setting for "Appearance & Themes" -> "GTK Styles and Fonts" -> "Use my KDE style in GTK applications". I just confirmed this on an X86_64 box that I had not made this setting on. I opened ooowriter and all buttons were there in a very flat and ugly style. I then changed the above setting which required a KDE restart. So I logged out and logged back in, reopened the same document and all of the buttons started disappearing. Has anyone else seen anything like this? More importantly, how do I fix it? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Alsa state and my front speakers
by Magnus Therning 06 May '09

06 May '09

I had no problems at all configuring the basic setup for Alsa, everything worked perfect. At the end I issued `alsactl store` and rebooted hoping that my settings would be restored on boot. They were, almost; all settings except the unmute of the front speakers. This forces me to go in and use `alsamixer` each time I boot, just to unmute the front speakers. I've had a look at the the file `/etc/asound.state` but can't make heads or tails of it. Any suggestions on how I can get my front speakers to be unmuted on boot? /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] jfsutils 1.1.14-1
by Tobias Powalowski 05 May '09

05 May '09

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

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[arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 05 May '09

05 May '09

Listmates, I'm fighting with PolicyKit to mount my USB drives and --- it's Winning! I've modified /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf to give all users and myself (david) explicit authority (as a member of wheel and as me) and I've *restarted* hal and still no-go? My conf file looks like this: <config version="0.1"> <define_admin_auth group="wheel"/> <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable"> <match group="users"> <return result="yes"/> </match> </match> <match user="david"> <return result="yes"/> </match> </config> No matter what I do I get: org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result) What gives?? -- 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] Corruption with new intel driver
by Nicolas Bigaouette 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hi all, I just fully upgraded on two of my machines. These packages related to xorg were updated: [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xf86-input-evdev (2.1.2-1 -> 2.2.1-1) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xf86-input-keyboard (1.3.2-1 -> 1.3.2-2) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xf86-input-mouse (1.3.0-1 -> 1.4.0-2) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xf86-video-intel (2.4.3-1 -> 2.6.3-3) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xf86-video-vesa (2.1.0-1 -> 2.2.0-1) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xorg-server-utils (7.4-3 -> 7.4-4) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xorg-server (1.5.3-5 -> 1.6.0-3) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xorg-utils (7.4-2 -> 7.4-3) Unfortunately, I am facing some screen corruptions, as seen on this screenshot: http://nbigaouette.inrs-emt.homelinux.net/linux/arch/xf86_video_intel_corru… The only way to make it disappear is to force a redraw. It is not sufficient to hide the window and make it appear again. If the corruption appears inside the text of a KDE editor, moving the cursor to the corrupted line should change its background color and thus force a redraw. Or if it appears in toolbars, I need to mouse over the toolbard to refresh it. This happens on both of my computers. One is an asus eeepc 1000: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) The other is a Dell Optiplex 755 desktop: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) Both are using kwin's compositing and no xorg.conf. These are what might look suspiscious from /var/log/Xorg.0.log: [...] (II) intel(0): Comparing regs from server start up to After PreInit (WW) intel(0): Register 0x61114 (PORT_HOTPLUG_STAT) changed from 0x00000000 to 0x00000b00 [...] (II) intel(0): I830CheckAvailableMemory: 4669436 kB available (WW) intel(0): DRI2 requires UXA [...] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:00:02.0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 10, (OK) drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 10 drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:00:02.0 (II) [drm] loaded kernel module for "i915" driver. [...] exaCopyDirty: Pending damage region empty! What could be the cause of that? Thanx!

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[arch-general] Why do I have 20-ups-nut-device.fdi in my / dir?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 05 May '09

05 May '09

Listmates, Picking around with mc, I saw a file that looked really out of place. In my / dir, I have 20-ups-nut-device.fdi. Shouldn't that be in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/. I plead the 5th, I don't know how it got there. This is on my x86_64 box. The date and time of the file are: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12367 2008-06-17 08:39 20-ups-nut-device.fdi [20:05 alchemy:/] # pacman -Qo 20-ups-nut-device.fdi error: No package owns 20-ups-nut-device.fdi Dunno? Can somebody take a quick check and see if they have this stray .fdi file in their / directory. It looks like a 'network ups tools' (nut) policy, but why it's in / escapes me. -- 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] freetype2 with enabled tt bytecode interpreter, license issues?
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hi, Because it is being a topic of great interest to the licenses of the packages, I question, because I'm not good at anything legal issues: This package with this option enabled, not is problematic in legal terms? http://freetype.sourceforge.net/patents.html Personally in my machine, I recompiled this package without the patch, I prefer the auto-hinting from freetype2, because fonts looks better (at least on CRT), I know that this can be configured with fontconf, but because some programs/libs based on xpdf libs (example poppler*, kpdf), look at headers at compile time instead of using fontconfig I recompile these packages too. Searching in the bug tracker i found this old ticket http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/2033 Citation from ftoption.h: /* Define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER if you want to compile */ /* a bytecode interpreter in the TrueType driver. Note that there are */ /* important patent issues related to the use of the interpreter. */ /* */ /* By undefining this, you will only compile the code necessary to load */ /* TrueType glyphs without hinting. */ /* */ /* Do not #undef this macro here, since the build system might */ /* define it for certain configurations only. */ Thanks for your time. -- 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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Re: [arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 05 May '09

05 May '09

On Monday 04 May 2009 13:36:03 you wrote: > [snip] > > I don't know if this has anything to do with your problem, but I've had > difficulty auto-mounting NTFS partitions as read/write. The reason seems > to be that auto-mount autodetects NTFS partitions as using the ntfs driver, > but in order to get full functionality, you need to use the ntfs-3g driver. > Mounting as root, explicitly using the ntfs-3g driver, works. > > HTH, > Dave Moore Yes, I think that is exactly what the problem is. I didn't want 'rw', all I wanted was read-only. So I just created a directory as a mount point and did 'mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb2 /mountpoint'. It worked just fine. I'll play around to find a way to get this (politely put 'dad-gum') hal/dbus/PolicyKit to do what a simple 'mount -t ntfs' had done for years.... -- 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] Laptop Install - 2 questions remain, WPA and Compiz with Radeon Driver
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 05 May '09

05 May '09

Listmates, The laptop install (Toshiba 205D) went great accept where I am stuck with video drivers for my ati card, and the last little nit of getting wifi to start automatically. First the easy one, the wireless: (1) My laptop has an Atheros card and is happily using the madwifi driver. The only problem is that I'm starting it manually and need to know where to put the pieces to have it start automatically. Basically, it takes 3 commands to get my wifi going: ESSID=${1:-skyline} IFACE=${2:-wlan0} iwconfig ${IFACE} essid "${ESSID}" wpa_supplicant -i${IFACE} -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d -B >> /var/log/wpa_start.log 2>&1 sleep 2 # This doesn't count as a command dhcpcd wlan0 My question is "Where do I put this stuff to make it happen when I start Arch?? (2) No Compiz with the radeon driver. I know there must be a trick or two that will make this work. Heck, I even got compiz working on the intel card, so I know the ATI card (X1200) will do it (it does it with the fglrx driver on openSuSE). However, I don't know what the tricks are to getting it working on the stock radeon driver. Any other ATI Arch users know any more about this?? Here is my current xorg.conf: # Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/URW" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/speedo" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts" FontPath "/opt/kde3/share/fonts" InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata" InputDevices "/dev/input/mice" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on" Option "IgnoreABI" "on" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "dri" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "kbd" Identifier "Keyboard[0]" Option "Protocol" "Standard" Option "XkbLayout" "us" Option "XkbModel" "microsoftpro" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "Buttons" "5" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Name" "Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical" Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2" Option "Vendor" "Sysp" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse[3]" Driver "synaptics" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" Option "Name" "Touchpad" Option "SHMConfig" "on" Option "Vendor" "Synaptics" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor[0]" VendorName "TOSHIBA" ModelName "TOSHIBA 17IN TRUEBRIGHT" UseModes "Modes[0]" DisplaySize 367 230 HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0 VertRefresh 43.0 - 60.0 Option "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool" Option "DPMS" Option "PreferredMode" "1440x900" EndSection Section "Modes" Identifier "Modes[0]" EndSection Section "Screen" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection Device "Device[0]" Identifier "Screen[0]" Monitor "Monitor[0]" EndSection Section "Device" BoardName "RV350 NP" # BusID "1:5:0" Driver "radeon" Identifier "Device[0]" # Option "GARTSize" "32" VendorName "ATI" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout[all]" InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents" Option "Clone" "off" Option "Xinerama" "off" Screen 0 "Screen[0]" 0 0 EndSection Section "DRI" Group "video" Mode 0660 EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "true" Option "DAMAGE" "true" EndSection -- 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] Function keys not working?
by David Rosenstrauch 05 May '09

05 May '09

Not sure what happened but looks like all of a sudden the function keys (i.e., F1 through F12) are no longer working on my keyboard today. REALLY annoying. Tried using xev and it's responding with weird key codes: F1 - keycode 244 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol) F3 - nothing F11 - keycode 210 (keysym 0x1008ff43, XF86Launch3) Anybody know WTF is up and how to fix? Is this something having to do with the recent upgrade to xf86-input-evdev? Tnx, DR

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[arch-general] kde3 Error: Could Not Determine Resource Status - Kmail??
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 04 May '09

04 May '09

Listmates, Every minute or two I have this large and annoying dialog appear on the screen complainting about something related to kmail. The difficult part about it is it does *not* tell you what it is complaining about. The only thing close to a description it gives is "Could not stat resource". Huh? I have a screenshot of it here: ( 50K ) http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/kontact-err.jpg The text of the error states: <quote> Error while getting folder information. Could Not Determine Resource Status An attempt to determine information about the status of the resource Mail, such as the resource name, type, size, etc., was unsuccessful. Technical reason: Could Not Stat Resource Details of the request: URL: (unknown) Date and time: Sunday 03 May 2009 04:30 pm Additional information: Mail Possible causes: The specified resource may not have existed or may not be accessible. A protocol error or incompatibility may have occurred. Although unlikely, a hardware error may have occurred. Possible solutions: Retry the request and ensure your authentication details are entered correctly. Contact your appropriate computer support system, whether the system administrator, or technical support group for further assistance. Anybody see this before and more importantly, How do I fix it? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] The ultimate Home Theater / media center computer
by Roberto Malinverni 04 May '09

04 May '09

> -----Messaggio originale----- > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 21:33:14 +0200 > From: RedShift <redshift(a)pandora.be> > Subject: [arch-general] The ultimate Home Theater / media center computer > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: <49FDF17A.8040406(a)pandora.be> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > * 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 I just stumbled upon this: http://hometheatrepcguide.com/mini-itx-motherboard-and-case-how-small-can-a- htpc-get/ 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] 3rd Arch install -- on my laptop -- a bit more of a challenge - ATI is the problem
by David C. Rankin 04 May '09

04 May '09

Listmates, My 3rd install of Arch is on my x86_64 laptop (Toshiba 205D). Unfortunately I have an ATI Radeon 1200 in it and ATI - SUCKS. (Not to mention they have just royally screwed Linux over by dropping all support for the R300-R500 series cards while the last driver ATI released [the 9.3 driver] is crippled as hell for many cards) I'm currently working to get the radeon driver up and going and when I'm done I'll look into compiling the last good fglrx driver (8-9 release) for Arch. I'm not that great of a programmer, so if there are any Arch programmers here that want to take a look, I could sure use the help. The package I will work with is the September '08 driver package you can obtain at the ati site under previous releases: ati-driver-installer-8-9-x86.x86_64.run You can extract the files with: ati-driver-installer-8-9-x86.x86_64.run --extract If anyone wants to take a look, 2 sets of eyes are always better than 1. -- 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] libraw1394 rebuilds
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 03 May '09

03 May '09

Jan de Groot wrote: > I'm pusing libraw1394 to testing. This release has a sobump and requires > rebuild of some packages. I've done most packages, but vlc and kdebase > are also on this list. Both packages are in testing at this moment, > without versioned dependencies, so I don't plan to rebuild these myself. > Please rebuild vlc and kdebase when libraw1394 is in testing. > > Hi Jan, The pkgs vlc-0.9.9a-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz and vlc-0.9.9a-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz don't needed libraw1394, is listead as depends in PKGBUILD but at least isn't needed at dynamic library level This is the list of packages that depends on soname "libraw1394.so.8" extra/dvgrab-3.3-1 extra/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins-0.10.14-1 extra/kdebase-4.2.2-1 extra/kino-1.3.3-1 extra/libavc1394-0.5.3-2 extra/libdc1394-2.0.3-1 extra/libiec61883-1.1.0-1 extra/ptlib-2.6.1-1 community/cinelerra-cv-20090421-1 -- 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] makepkg problem
by Juan Diego 03 May '09

03 May '09

hello I'm trying to create a source pkg for an aur package and I'm geting this error: $ makepkg --source ==> Making package: mpd-devel 0.15_beta1-1 i686 (Sun May 3 16:02:54 KST 2009) ==> Creating source package... -> Adding PKGBUILD... -> Adding install script... -> Adding mpd.init... -> Adding mpd.install... ln: creating symbolic link `/home/xxxxxx/mpd/srclinks.SKgroBqtf/mpd-devel/mpd.install': File existsy I have this files as my source files: PKGBUILD mpd.init mpd.install any ideas why is this? thanks

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[arch-general] thinkpad t61 and not able to adjust brightness
by Adam Stokes 01 May '09

01 May '09

So pressing the fn home/end for brightness alters : /proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD0/brightness doing an: echo '100' >/proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD0/brightness My .config for the kernel is set to: CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_VIDEO=y CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL=m CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m lsmod shows: thinkpad_acpi 70316 0 rfkill 11444 4 iwl3945,thinkpad_acpi led_class 4344 3 iwl3945,sdhci,thinkpad_acpi nvram 7868 1 thinkpad_acpi dmesg shows: thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.22 thinkpad_acpi: http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/ thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad BIOS 7LETA7WW (2.07 ), EC 7KHT24WW-1.08 thinkpad_acpi: Lenovo ThinkPad T61, model 6464Y1E thinkpad_acpi: ACPI backlight control delay disabled thinkpad_acpi: radio switch found; radios are enabled thinkpad_acpi: This ThinkPad has standard ACPI backlight brightness control, supported by the ACPI video driver thinkpad_acpi: Disabling thinkpad-acpi brightness events by default... thinkpad_acpi: Standard ACPI backlight interface available, not loading native one. kernel is 2.6.29-ARCH anyone know why the brightness still refuses to work? -- ( adam stokes ) || ( adam.stokes(a)gmail.com )

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[arch-general] Xorg/kdm login screen addition
by David C. Rankin 01 May '09

01 May '09

Listmates, I though I would run this idea by the list and see if there was any aversion to the idea of adding hostname information to the xorg/kdm login display. I wouldn't change a thing about the login look, it's awesome. What I would propose is adding to the existing login greeter the 'hostname' of the machine it is running on. What prompted this suggestion was the situation where I had an archlinux box connected vi xdmcp to my laptop on tty8. After a day or so of working on my local box, I switched back over to tty8 and the question immediately came to mind "Which Archlinux install is this?" because there was no way to immediately tell. (Don't get me wrong, I only have 2 Arch installs, so the answer wasn't critical) But the point to be made, and the basis for this suggestion, is that it would be nice to have the host information available. Just a small addition to the dialog, after or under the Archlinux logo, that says something like "on: host.domain.com". That way, you know at a glance who you are dealing with. Obviously, this is just a minimal enhancement, but the path to perfection is taken one step at a time. Anybody adverse to something like this? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Trouble Building Xorg-Server (Modified PKGBUILD)
by kludge 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

greets, all! ever since the release of xorg-server 1.5.3, i've been using a modified PKGBUILD to build xorg-server sans hal and dbus. (not gonna try justifying it again; that'd just lead to yet another flame war.) i've never had a problem until the 1.6.1-1 PKGBUILD, which adds the lines: libtoolize --force || return 1 aclocal || return 1 autoconf || return 1 automake --add-missing || return 1 these added lines produce: libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'. libtoolize: linking file `./ltmain.sh' libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.ac and libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree. libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. hw/dmx/doc/Makefile.am:24: BUILD_LINUXDOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL hw/dmx/doc/Makefile.am:27: BUILD_PDFDOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/Makefile.am:24: BUILD_LINUXDOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/Makefile.am:27: BUILD_PDFDOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL ==> ERROR: Build Failed. Aborting... my modified PKGBUILD is attached. please note that i *have* tried reverting my changes (the commented patches), to no avail. as i'm pretty clueless vis-a-vis makefiles and the autoconf system, could somehow point me in the direction of a fix? many thanks, kludge # $Id: PKGBUILD 21903 2008-12-17 20:32:54Z jgc $ # Maintainer: Alexander Baldeck <kth5(a)archlinux.org> # Contributor: Jan de Groot <jgc(a)archlinux.org> pkgname=xorg-server pkgver=1.6.1 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="X.Org X servers" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('custom') url="http://xorg.freedesktop.org" depends=('libgl' 'libxfont>=1.4.0' 'openssl>=0.9.8j' 'libpciaccess>=0.10.5' 'libxv>=1.0.4' 'pixman>=0.14.0' 'xcursor-themes' 'xkeyboard-config>=1.5' 'xorg-server-utils' 'xorg-fonts-misc' 'xbitmaps' 'diffutils') makedepends=('libx11>=1.2' 'mesa>=7.4' 'xf86driproto>=2.0.4' 'xtrans>=1.2.3' 'libxkbfile>=1.0.5' 'randrproto>=1.3.0' 'renderproto>=0.9.3' 'xcmiscproto>=1.1.2' 'bigreqsproto>=1.0.2' 'resourceproto>=1.0.2' 'videoproto>=2.2.2' 'compositeproto>=0.4' 'scrnsaverproto>=1.1.0' 'libxinerama>=1.0.3' 'xf86dgaproto>=2.0.3' 'recordproto>=1.13.2' 'libgl>=7.4' 'glproto>=1.4.9') #optdepends=( 'xf86-input-evdev: to provide input device hotplugging' # 'hal>=0.5.11: to provide input devices for hotplugging' ) options=('!libtool') provides=('x-server' ) # 'xorg-server') conflicts=('catalyst-utils<=9.2') groups=('xorg') install=xorg-server.install source=(${url}/releases/individual/xserver/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2 xorg-redhat-die-ugly-pattern-die-die-die.patch hal-wait.patch) md5sums=('ed0878bf32a24d4948c3b8a122a39eff' '1a336eb22e27cbf443ec5a2ecddfa93c' 'f16d2caef84e1a9c4075b6c5e145512d') build() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}" # Get rid of the ugly pattern patch -Np3 -i "${srcdir}/xorg-redhat-die-ugly-pattern-die-die-die.patch" || return 1 # Fix dbus config path - removed b/c no dbus config'd # sed -i -e 's/\$(sysconfdir)/\/etc/' config/Makefile.* || return 1 # Revert waiting for hal, assume hal won't show up when initial connect fails # commented out b/c no hal config'd # patch -R -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/hal-wait.patch" || return 1 libtoolize --force || return 1 aclocal || return 1 autoconf || return 1 automake --add-missing || return 1 # --enable-config-{dbus,hal} switched to --disable # to disable hotplugging and dependencies ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --enable-ipv6 \ --enable-dri \ --disable-dmx \ --enable-xvfb \ --enable-xnest \ --enable-composite \ --enable-xcsecurity \ --enable-xorg \ --enable-xephyr \ --enable-glx-tls \ --enable-kdrive \ --enable-install-setuid \ --disable-config-hal \ --disable-config-dbus \ --enable-record \ --disable-xfbdev \ --disable-xfake \ --disable-xsdl \ --disable-static \ --sysconfdir=/etc/X11 \ --localstatedir=/var \ --with-default-font-path=/usr/share/fonts/misc,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/TTF,/usr/share/fonts/Type1 \ --with-xkb-path=/usr/share/X11/xkb \ --with-xkb-output=/var/lib/xkb \ --with-dri-driver-path=/usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri || return 1 make || return 1 make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install || return 1 rm -rf "${pkgdir}/var/log" || return 1 install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/etc/X11" || return 1 install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/var/lib/xkb" || return 1 # Needed for non-mesa drivers, libgl will restore it mv "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so" \ "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.xorg" || return 1 install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}" install -m644 COPYING "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/" || return 1 }

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[arch-general] WPA2 - How to set with ACX card??
by David C. Rankin 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Listmates, My second Arch box is now complete (well almost:-) This time a desktop box with a zytel wireless lan adapter using the TI acx chipset and its firmware 2 is the acx111_2.3.1.31/tiacx111c16 firmware slice. The card is detected and works fine it think... I can open kwifimanager and it has my access point associated and I can watch the generic packets blip by and watch the strength meter do its thing, but I cannot authenticate :-( My system is WPA, and no matter how hard I looked, I couldn't find anything in Arch that would all me to configure the wireless as anything other than WEP. Bummer. Wep isn't allowed within 500 feet of anything I deal with. After spending a little time playing with aircrack, if you haven't already, you will definitely feel the same. Most wep secured wireless networkss can be cracked in less than 30 seconds. (why do you think I'm never without a wireless connection -- no matter where I go;-) So what tools are available to configure this acx111 card to use WPA-TKIP or WPA2? In that other Linux OS, the knetworkmanager utility did a great job with the Atheros bashed card in my laptop, XP has no problems with the card (this box is dual boot) so I know the hardware works fine. Any suggestions? -- 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] libraw1394 and libdc1394 update
by Rick W. Chen 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Hello, I am requesting package updates to libraw1394 and libdc1394 in extra. The new versions v2.0.2 and v2.1.0 respectively have support for the new experimental FireWire stack (not built by default in kernel26), Juju[1]. The old stable stack is still supported by the new packages, so they should still work with kernel26. Attached are the PKGBUILDs for each package, with trivial changes (version and md5sum). [2] shows there is no maintainer for libraw1394 so I'm posting them here. Thanks 1. http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration 2. http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/libraw1394/ -- Rick

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[arch-general] Issue with system time
by Dan Vratil 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Hi, in last few weeks I noticed a serious (for me) problem with my system. It simply does not update the date/time after boot up. In BIOS the time is correct, but when I boot Linux, the system time is set exactly to time when I turned it off last time. It's quite annoying to always have to set up the time manually. In rc.conf I have HARDWARECLOCK set to "localtime" and Time Zone to "Europe/Prague". I was trying to set automatic time sync in KDE System Settings, but it fails to connect to time server. I use KDE 4.2.70, so it might be bug there, but it does not bother me, the main problem is that my system refuses to update (load from BIOS?) time after boot up. Any ideas? Thank you very much Dan -- --------------------------------- Dan Vrátil progdan(a)progdansoft.com ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan(a)jabber.cz Tel. +420 732 326 870

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[arch-general] Policykit, uid like a service, and gid like a user
by Magnus Therning 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

I noticed after installing policykit that it created a new user and group (both called policykit). The thing that surprised me was the uid was 102 while the uid was 1001. Should a system service like that really have a uid below 1000 (like other service accounts) and a gid above 1000 (which is what users are given). Looks to me like it might be a bug, but thought I'd get some input on it before raising my first bug against an Arch package :-) /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] Setting xkb options (xkb_symbols) via hal?
by Magnus Therning 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Judging from my findings on the interwebs it is possible to pass options for the X11 keyboard via hal's policies. This seems very useful for system-wide keyboards settings. However, I'm having problems making them stick. I can do the setup via xkbcomp, and the relevant line is xkb_symbols { include "pc+gb+inet(evdev)+level3(ralt_alt)+level3(enter_switch)+compose(menu)" }; but how do I pass that onto the evdev keyboard via hal? /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] kernel-2.6.29.2-1
by Tobias Powalowski 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

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

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[arch-general] Are there sets for installing apache?
by David C. Rankin 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Listmates, I installed apache2 with pacman -S apache, but all I got was apache2 itself. Is there a set of packages that will install all of the modules as well? -- 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] Why both fonts.dir and fonts.scale?
by David C. Rankin 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Listmates, Picking through the font configuration, I have run across a curiosity, why do the font directories have both a fonts.dir file and a fonts.scale file. The page: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_Font_Configuration suggests that you run mkfontscale and mkfontdir on each of the directories. The related files fonts.scale and fonts.dir are the same: [20:52 supersff:/etc/fonts] # l /usr/local/share/fonts/ <snip> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43730 2009-04-28 20:52 fonts.dir -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43730 2009-04-28 20:52 fonts.scale [20:52 supersff:/etc/fonts] # diff /usr/local/share/fonts/fonts.dir /usr/local/share/fonts/fonts.scale Why do we need both? -- 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] Wohoo Compiz Install was a Breeze!
by David C. Rankin 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Listmates, I'm really impressed with Arch! After a little teething to get kde up and running, it was time to install compiz-fusion. Before the install, I copied my compiz config from my opensuse install and my emerald themes by copying ~/.config and ~/.emerald to my home directory in the Arch install. Then I proceeded with: pacman -Sy compiz-fusion-kde With a little trepidation, I then selected fusion-icon from the system menu and... Compiz-fusion started with all my setting and my emerald theme without a hicup. Fantastic!! Kudos and Great Job to whoever is building and maintaining the compiz fusion packages. Now I really have a cool archlinux desktop! A quick: ksnapshot # desktop saved as archlinux1.png # pms imagemagick imagemagick-doc # convert archlinux1.png -resize 800 archlinux1-800.png # convert archlinux1-800.png archlinux1-800.jpg # rsync archlinux1-800.jpg nirvana:/srv/www/download/screenshots/archlinux and you have your screenshot: http://nirvana.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/archlinux1-80… Thank you to all who have help me stumble through getting to this point. All in all, setup has been a breeze on Arch (the fumbling around getting kde going aside). Looks like a great distro, and so far everything I use has been available. I haven't gotten to the compilers yet, but I bet they are all there. I still have a bit of cleanup and loading of packages to do, but I bet in a few days when you look at www.3111skyline.com, it will be running on archlinux;-) -- 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

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[arch-general] Help with /etc/fonts.conf
by David C. Rankin 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

Listmates, I have several additional fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts that I want configured for the system. I found /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and /etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf, but I'm unsure about the placement of my <dir></dir> location in the local.conf file. Currently I have chosen: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig>  <include ignore_missing="yes">local.conf</include> <dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir> </fontconfig> My question is "does it matter whether the <dir> statement comes before or after the <include> and what do I need to do after I add the <dir> statement in 51-local.conf to make the system create a new font config? -- 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] The 284 files in /etc/ssl/certs? There must be a purpose...
by David C. Rankin 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

Listmates, One thing I noticed when generating dovecot certs was the significant number of files in /etc/ssl/certs. What is the reason for/background of Arch's gathering of so many cert files, and is there some specific way we should make use of them? Are they just there for convenience? Are they current? -- 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 license of opera
by Attila 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Hi, i recognized that there is new package in aur for opera with this informations: "This package is the official one from the [extra] repository. We have to move it because of a unclear license issue. After we have clarify this issue the package will be back in the repos or not. It should not be moved to community, because of the license." I'm a little bit surprised that a custom license is such a problem because this shows me 343 entries: find /var/abs -name PKGBUILD | \ xargs grep license | \ grep custom | grep extra | wc -l Will now all packages with custom licenses disappear from extra? See you, Attila

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[arch-general] seq-dummy missing in kernel
by Nils Gey 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Hi archpeople, I just wanted to note that the alsa module snd_seq_dummy is missing in our kernel and it would be nice to integrate this. Musicians who work with MIDI need this very often and we, from the linux-pro-audio-scene, even considered a long-time bug we searched for. greetings, Nils

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[arch-general] Starting gpg-agent on X login (gdm)
by Magnus Therning 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

After looking through my new shine Arch system I found that ssh-agent is run from /etc/gdm/Xsession, so I suppose that's where I need to make changes in order to get gpg-agent to run, right? Is there some documentation on the preferred way of doing this? Should I look into using seahorse instead of {ssh,gpg}-agent? /M

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[arch-general] How to set UXA as AccelMethod in xorg 1.6?
by Vitor Garcia 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Hello, I'm trying to set AccelMethod as UXA in xorg.conf by using: Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Option "AccelMethod" "UXA" Driver "intel" EndSection (I have intel legacy driver installed, by the way.) But EXA continues to be used: (II) Module vgahw: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.6.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0 (**) intel(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) intel(0): RGB weight 888 (==) intel(0): Default visual is TrueColor (**) intel(0): Option "AccelMethod" "UXA" (II) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 965G (--) intel(0): Chipset: "965G" (--) intel(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xC0000000 (--) intel(0): IO registers at addr 0xDFE00000 (II) intel(0): 2 display pipes available. ***************************************** (==) intel(0): Using EXA for acceleration ***************************************** Does anyone know what I may have made wrong? Thanks for the help, -- Vitor Garcia

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[arch-general] howto set [backspace] for previous page for man pages and less?
by David C. Rankin 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Listmates, I am trying to find the [backspace] key definition so I can change it to make the backspace key function as the key for [previous page] in both less and for man pages. Does any body know where Arch sets 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] howto: turn of button font underline on focus in kde3?
by David C. Rankin 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Listmates, I must be blind in one eye and can't see out of the other because I have picked through every kde control center setting, every domino setting, every polyester setting and every konqueror setting and I still can't find out how to turn off the button text underline in kde3 on arch. The button text underline appears everywhere from the kdm greeter throughout your entire session anytime there is a button that has the focus -- the font underlines itself. I want it gone... The needle is buried somewhere in the haystack, but for the life of me I can't find it. Can anybody throw and old man a bone and help him out? -- 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] gcc-4.4.0 toolchain rebuild with query about gcc-gcj and related packages
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Allan McRae wrote: > Hi all, > > The gcc-4.4.0 toolchain rebuild is now in [testing]. Here is a rough > ChangeLog: Awesome, Thanks I will build some things in a chroot, to see how it behaves. > > glibc: > One note here, (low priority): in the ".install" post_upgrade() there is a line "init u". If glibc is installed in a chroot and don't have sysvinit package, because isn't needed, when glibc is upgrading will show a warning about can't execute init, so you can replace this line with a "[ -x /sbin/init ] && /sbin/init u" ? And a question: why still support older kernels from 2.6.16?, considering that minimal kernel that udev support is 2.6.22, maybe can change the line --enable-kernel=2.6.16 with a superior version >= 2.6.22 >From glibc manual: "This option is currently only useful on GNU/Linux systems. The version parameter should have the form X.Y.Z and describes the smallest version of the Linux kernel the generated library is expected to support. The higher the version number is, the less compatibility code is added, and the faster the code gets." > binutils: > - add upstream patch to improve -Wl,--as-needed usage > Excelent! > Allan > Thanks in advance. -- 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] Done! Website move to 1st Archlinux Box
by David C. Rankin 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Guys, Thanks for all of your help. My first Arch install and server config is almost 100% complete (some server apps still remain, but that's just install time) Archlinux works like a champ. It is a great, lightweight, full featured distribution. In case any other Arch user is looking to do a full apache2 install with SSL, PHP & MySQL support, the LAMP wiki page will get you going. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LAMP. PHP and MySQL support comes from nothing more than making sure the module include statements in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf are active as detailed in the LAMP page. The only trick there is that for some reason the php object module isn't included in the default httpd.conf file so you need to add the following to the end of the LoadModule list: LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so Secure http (https) support takes a little more. The simple part of SSL setup, as with PHP and MySQL, is just making sure the shared object module is loaded in etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so Usually the more challenging part of secure http setup is generating the server keys and certificates that apache will use to offer ssl support. To make this easier, I have created a script to automate this process and install the server key, certificate and signing request under /etc/httpd/certs. You can grab a copy of the script at: http://archangel.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/apache2/apache-ssl-Arch (don't panic if it is temporarily not available as I am still moving servers around and will normally have it back up in 20 minutes or so) After download, if you want to generate your server keys automatically **edit** the script variables: COUNTRY=US STATE=Texas LOCAL=Nacogdoches ON="Rankin Law Firm, PLLC" OU=Attorneys EMAIL=help(a)3111skyline.com or you will end up with a server certificate that contains my defaults. Once you make the changes, just run the script as root like: apache-ssl-Arch <CN> where <CN> is just the 'Common Name' (usually your FQDN for your server). If you omit the CN, you will be prompted. If you just want to gen the keys, request and cetrificate manually, you can always just cut and paste the commands from the script. In addition to the script, I also put my httpd.conf and httpd-ssl.conf (both without comments) on the site if anybody wants to reference them for the changes required: http://archangel.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/apache2/httpd.conf http://archangel.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/apache2/httpd-ssl.conf Lastly, I spun up what I think is a cool Archlinux footer image based on one of the images in /usr/share/arch-artwork/. If you like it -- take it. http://archangel.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/apache2/ArchFooter-smal… That's it, thanks to all for helping me learn Arch! (I guess that should be 'learn enough to get running') We all know, the learning is never really done;-) -- 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] libsoup 2.26.0-1 dependencies in [testing]
by JM 26 Apr '09

26 Apr '09

Hello, I noticed that libsoup in [testing] depends on gconf, is that really necessary? Libsoup is a dependency for some desktop-agnostic applications such as Midori (through its dependency on libwebkit) or hardinfo (currently in AUR). Regards, JM

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [arch-commits] Commit in htdig/trunk (PKGBUILD)
by Abhishek Dasgupta 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

2009/4/25 Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de>: > Am Samstag, 25. April 2009 17:36:19 schrieb Dan McGee: >> Installing into srv is no different than installing into /home/, >> IMO. It might be worse as it presents a relatively big security risk >> for those that do run public facing services, and suddenly a new >> script has been made available for web site users to run. > > If we agree to this we should add such a rule to namcap. > Removing 'srv/' in Namcap/directoryname.py will make namcap issue a warning about a file in a non-standard directory. -- Abhishek

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [arch-commits] Commit in htdig/trunk (PKGBUILD)
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Samstag, 25. April 2009 17:36:19 schrieb Dan McGee: > >> Installing into srv is no different than installing into /home/, >> IMO. It might be worse as it presents a relatively big security risk >> for those that do run public facing services, and suddenly a new >> script has been made available for web site users to run. >> > > If we agree to this we should add such a rule to namcap. > > Then this packages from [extra] should be fixed ? (install files under /srv/) xsp 2.4-1 Daniel Isenmann deluge(*) 1.1.6-3 Hugo Doria mythweb 0.21-1 Juergen Hoetzel squirrelmail 1.4.17-3 Unknown Packager (install files under /home) mailman 2.1.11-2 Allan McRae hylafax 4.4.4-1 Arch Linux slimserver v6.5.4-2 Tom Killian (*) does not matter much, it only put a directory inside /srv And from [community] that install files on /srv apache13,bugzilla, cacti, cchost, dokuwiki, drupal, dspam, flyspray, gnump3d, jabwebhist, mediawiki, nginx, phpldapadmin, phpmyadmin, phppgadmin, pnews, punbb, roundcubemail, web-news (all from Sergej Pupykin) and cherokee (from Evangelos Foutras) (and /home) sqlitemanager 1.2.0-2 Andrea Scarpino Grüße! -- 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] libnotify as optdepend in thunar?
by hollunder＠gmx.at 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

Hi there, today when I tried to unmount a thumbdrive in thunar I got an error message about missing libnotify. It worked after I installed it. Did I do something wrong or is it just missing in the optdepends array? Regards, Philipp

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[arch-general] libnl- 1.1-1 -build error
by Baho Utot 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

This is the error when built with gcc-4.3 MAKE libnl.so.1.1 CC addr.c In file included from addr.c:28: ../include/netlink-local.h: In function '__str2type': ../include/netlink-local.h:218: error: 'ULONG_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function) ../include/netlink-local.h:218: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once ../include/netlink-local.h:218: error: for each function it appears in.) ../include/netlink-local.h: In function '__list_str2type': ../include/netlink-local.h:239: error: 'ULONG_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function) make[2]: *** [addr.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 ==> ERROR: Build Failed. Aborting... Here is a fix: gcc-4.3.patch follows --- include/netlink-local.h~ 2008-01-14 10:48:45.000000000 -0500 +++ include/netlink-local.h 2009-04-25 08:16:28.981393890 -0400 @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ #include <inttypes.h> #include <assert.h> +#include <limits.h> + #include <arpa/inet.h> #include <netdb.h> PKGBUILD changes: # $Id: PKGBUILD 930 2008-04-24 22:14:40Z jgc $ # Maintainer: Jan de Groot <jgc(a)archlinux.org> # Contributor: William Rea <sillywilly(a)gmail.com> pkgname=libnl pkgver=1.1 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Library for applications dealing with netlink sockets" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl" license=('GPL') depends=('glibc') source=(http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/${pkgname}/files/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz gcc-4.3.patch) build() { cd ${startdir}/src/libnl-${pkgver} patch -Np0 -i ../gcc-4.3.patch || return 1 ./configure --prefix=/usr || return 1 make || return 1 make DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg install || return 1 } md5sums=('ae970ccd9144e132b68664f98e7ceeb1' '6cb6edc341e6ffc3c50bd8fcd90e5c89')

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[arch-general] "pkgdyn" a set of scripts for analysis of ELF deps in pkgs.
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

Hi, This is a set of draft scripts that I use to find/extract some data of ELF files from packages. For example: * Find all packages that needed inexistent shared objects because a soname bump in libraries. * Generate a report for all packages per repo that in case of soname bump , needs to be rebuild. * Find ELF files that are outside the allowed paths (for example ELF in /usr/share) * Find RPATH in packages, with a simple "awk" can generate a report etc. * Other task with "temporary data generated", but there are no scripts at this time, are only "at command line runtime". Can be easily construct with awk, of your preferer lang. It use files in analysis so, if a ELF needed a "soname" that are symlink, this are reported (tho only case here are courier-maildrop, just ignore it) http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/ Sample data and generated DB by "dynup.bash" is uploaded, extract in "pkgdyn" directory. The dyunp.bash can make DB from empty DB, or update the DB, deleting old entries and inserting news. Is in "public domain": so use it, modify it, copy it, no problem. Sugestions, improvements, dudes, write me. PS1: Exception here: (this report as missing, but is a "optdepend in community") extra/gnome-speech-0.4.25-1:NEEDED libespeak.so.1 PS2: All missing deps I already reported and many of [community] have been fixed. Congrats TU! Cheers, -- 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] Handling optional dependencies with pacman?
by David C. Rankin 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

Listmates, Is there a better way to handle optional dependencies than just manually creating a list and checking it against the current installed packages to see if you need to install them before issuing the sync command and having some of the packages reinstalled? Basically, after installing packages (most recently openoffice and gimp), I just cut-and-paste the names into a for loop and check the names against the installed packages with the query option to eliminate the packages that are already installed. For openoffice and gimp, the optional dependencies were: Targets (9): libwpd-0.8.14-1 icu-4.0-2 hsqldb-java-1.8.0.10-1 openoffice-base-3.0.1-1 babl-0.0.22-1 gegl-0.0.22-1 gimp-2.6.6-1 gimp-refocus-0.9.0-2 gimp-ufraw-0.15-2 Total Download Size: 172.88 MB Total Installed Size: 422.08 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages from extra... <snip> Optional dependencies for openoffice-base java-runtime: adds java support libcups: adds printing support gconf: adds additional gnome support nss: adds support for signed files/macros pstoedit: translates PostScript and PDF graphics into other vector formats <snip> Optional dependencies for gimp gutenprint: for sophisticated printing only as gimp has built-in cups print support libwebkit: for the help browser poppler-glib: for pdf support hal: for Linux input event controller module alsa-lib: for MIDI event controller module <snip> Optional dependencies for gimp-ufraw gimp: to use the gimp import plugin for raw images cinepaint: to use the cinepaint import plugin for raw images So I then do: for i in gutenprint libwebkit poppler-glib alsa-lib cinepaint java-runtime libcups gconf nss pstoedit; do pacman -Q $i; done Which tells me: error: package "gutenprint" not found error: package "libwebkit" not found error: package "poppler-glib" not found alsa-lib 1.0.19-1 error: package "cinepaint" not found error: package "java-runtime" not found libcups 1.3.10-1 gconf 2.26.0-3 error: package "nss" not found error: package "pstoedit" not found So I then know I need to install: gutenprint libwebkit poppler-glib cinepaint java-runtime nss pstoedit. That brings up a couple of questions. First, for those packages I have reinstalled I notice "Total Download Size: 0.0 MB", so I know I'm not re-downloading, but is the package actually "reinstalling" where the config files with end up with x.pacnew packages?? Next, is there any wrapper for pacman that will catch the output in a temporary file and then grep for "Optional dependencies" and then do something like: while read line; do tmparray[$count]=(${line%%:*}) done < tmpfile And then do something useful with tmparray like compare it against the installed packages and maybe write it out in something like ~/tmp/pacman/optDeps$(date '+%Y%m%d')? Just checking to see if there is an easy way to avoid a few cut and pastes. -- 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] kdemod3-complete install - many duplicates in kde menu
by David C. Rankin 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Listmates, After installing kde3 with "pacman -S kdemod3-complete", I was rearranging and ordering the kde menu with 'kmenuedit' and ran across a number of duplicate entries created during the install. The following isn't a complete list, but probably catches 80-90% of the duplicate entries. The following were each duplicated one (or more) times by the installer in various places within the kde menu: KPalmDOC KPilot KNotes KArm KAlarm Kandy Xgnokii KNotes Dictionary KTnef Korn Kontact KDE Groupware Wizard I don't know who does kdemod3, but if it will help, I have gone through and removed most of the duplicates and sorted the kde menu into a few additional folders to get rid of the ton of files that were under 'utilities' and I have also moved all the packages in the catchall 'More Applications' and 'Lost & Found' folders to new homes in the menu. I have put a copy of the new ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu on the web site if anybody wants to grab pieces from it or compare it to the original. http://www.3111skyline.com/download/ArchLinux/fixes/menus/applications-kmen… HTHs, if not, just hit delete... No troll comments necessary or 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] Problem installing FreeNX from extra, can anyone else confirm?
by David C. Rankin 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Listmates, There was a minor problem installing FreeNX and its dependencies from extra that resulted in the warning: "cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp': No such file or directory" In context the error occurred here: Targets (5): nx-common-3.3.0-2 nxserver-3.3.0-5 gnu-netcat-0.7.1-2 expect-5.44.1.10-1 freenx-0.7.3-3 Total Download Size: 3.61 MB Total Installed Size: 9.30 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] <snip install stuff> Generating keys ... passwd: unlocking the user would result in a passwordless account. You should set a password with usermod -p to unlock this user account. cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp': No such file or directory I don't know if this is a significant issue or not, I guess I'll find out, but I thought I would put the out to the list to (1) see if anyone else could confirm this; and (2) ask anyone familiar with the FreeNX package if this is anything to worry about. 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] Mplayer in two separate packages
by Pierre BAUDEMONT 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Hi there, I've just compiled mplayer with the mplayer-svn package from the AUR on my x86_64 box, after having removed the "--enable-fribidi" option. Seems OK. Cheers. 2009/4/24 Hugo Doria <hugodoria(a)gmail.com> > Uow! This explains a lot. > > >From the configure script we have: > > > --./configure --help | grep fribidi > --enable-fribidi enable the FriBiDi libs [autodetect] > > Then i think that we can remove the --enable-fribidi option. Can a > x86_64 owner test it? > > -- Hugo > -- Baude

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[arch-general] Crud! Rebooted Can't Login - No Mouse or Keyboard with kdm??
by David C. Rankin 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Listmates, I broke it! Was up and running in kde3 just fine, so I thought I would make sure all was good and rebooted. The box booted beautifully and the Archlinux kdm screen nicely appeared and I thought I was ready to rock and roll, but when I grabbed the mouse - it didn't move?? Then I tried typing my pw, and no characters (or dots) appeared? The I tried ctrl+alt+backspace to kill X -- no joy. Then ctrl+alt+F1, still no joy. OK, ssh into box and kill kdm, back to normal login. Now I'm scratching my head on what to check to get my mouse and keyboard back? Any ideas? >From Xorg.0.log, this is obviously the problem: (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled. (WW) Disabling Keyboard0 (WW) Disabling Mouse0 Huh? They must have been there a minute ago what gives? I wonder how they got started last time? -- 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] system-config-printer without executable?
by hollunder＠gmx.at 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Hi there, I just tried the latest version of system-config-printer from [extra] and couldn't find an executable. It installs some stuff here: $ ls /usr/share/system-config-printer/ config.py cupshelpers.py debug.py ppds.py smburi.py Other users report to have a system-config-printer.py there but such a file doesn't exist on my system. Any idea what I could be doing wrong? Regards, Philipp

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[arch-general] ksplash SIGSEGV on KDE start, howo fix?
by David C. Rankin 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Listmates, Success, first email from the new arch box on kde3 with opera! The issue I have is that every time kde starts, ksplash crashes with a SIGSEGV (11) message. Is this an easy fix? 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

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[arch-general] Bit of a snag in starting kde3 - No devices detected - driver prob?
by David C. Rankin 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Listmates, Having a bit more difficulty getting kde going than I anticipated. I installed with "kdemod3-complete", installed xorg, and the nvidia driver for my 8800GT. nvidia module loads fine. First attempt resulted in the following errors: [01:20 archangel:/usr/share/fonts] # grep $EE$ /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (EE) No devices detected. My xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log are at: http://nirvana.3111skyline.com/download/linux/distributions/archlinux/xorg.… http://nirvana.3111skyline.com/download/linux/distributions/archlinux/Xorg.… I know I need to run mkfontdir, but that shouldn't keep the device from being detected would it?? Also, and somewhat strange, I was able to connect to the X server on the box (archangel) [catchy name - sure it isn't the first] from my laptop (alchemy) just fine using XDMCP (X :1 -query archangel) which had the normal gray X background and X-cursor that worked just fine, so I know Xorg is installed and working. Which leads me to believe it is either a problem with the nvidia 180.44 driver, a missing package, or a problem with the xorg.conf. I doubt it is a problem with the xorg.conf. I pulled it off the openSuSE 11.0 install on the same box and it works flawlessly there. All I had to do was comment out of the Modules section: # Load "type1" # Load "freetype" That leaves the potential driver problem or a missing package. What say the gurus? Also, how do I get kde started on top of X. With the openSuSE install a startkde3 script takes care of it, /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc sources the $DISPLAYMANAGER from /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager (kdm3 in my case) and then kde just appears. Any thought as to what piece of the puzzle I've messed up? -- 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] User Environment Setup in Arch Linux?
by David C. Rankin 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

Listmates, Coming from SuSE, I'm used to /etc/profile sourcing ~/.bashrc. I was scratching my head as to why my .bashrc wasn't being read when I would ssh into the Arch Linux box. Looking at the Arch /etc/profile it seems parts come from SuSE, but not the part about also sourcing ~/.bashrc. Any reason not to source ~/.bashrc from /etc/profile in Arch? Will I screw myself up somewhere else? -- 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 rules policy
by Damjan Georgievski 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

What is the policy for Udev rules in ArchLinux? There are 2 places where udev rules can be placed, /lib/udev/rules.d/ and /etc/udev/rules.d/. Now, I think the /lib/ directory should be only for the rules coming from upstream udev, and the /etc/ directory is for rules coming from ArchLinux packages. If this is the policy everyone agrees on - and as far as I remember, udev devs recommends it too - maybe namcap can check that too? ps. the KVM package now has rules in /lib/ , so I'll open a bug report if that's not supposed to be like that. -- damjan

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[arch-general] Access to 3g wireless network
by Maurício 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

Hi, Here in Brazil (as probably in everywhere else) a few cell phone companies are offering wireless internet access through a USB modem. They say data is exchanged through 3G communication standard. How does that work on Linux? What should I have in archy to be able to work with such hardware and network, or where can I find about it? Thanks, Maurício

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[arch-general] First Problem with pacman - Need to understand why
by David C. Rankin 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

Listmates, I ran into my first problem with pacman and, I know what caused the problem, but I need to understand why pacman thought it was a problem to begin with. Here is the situation: Trying to start X, and one complaint was no /usr/share/fonts/TTF directory. I had a /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory so I just softlinked the missing TTF to truetype to get rid to the error on startx. startx liked the solution. Then I went to install audio-convert which noted additional dependencies of (blah.. blah.. mplayer), so I we to install the optional dependencies: **pms below is just aliased to 'pacman -Sy' [14:15 archangel:/home/david] # pms lame id3lib vorbis-tools flac faac faad2 musepack-tools mplayer <snip> checking package integrity... (12/12) checking for file conflicts [#############################################] 100% error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) ttf-dejavu: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf exists in filesystem ttf-dejavu: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf exists in filesystem ttf-dejavu: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSans-ExtraLight.ttf exists in filesystem <snip - remaining dejavu variants> Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. And "Yes", DejaVu fonts did exist in /usr/share/fonts/TTF softlinked to /usr/share/fonts/truetype, but why does pacman care? If the same font already exists in a directory, that shouldn't cause the install to blow up -- should it? Well, since I cause the problem with the softlink, fixing it was pretty easy, but what I'm curious about is why it was a problem to begin with. I want to understand what the rules are for pacman so I don't cause any additional problems in the future with softlinks (which I use in moderation, but do use). So any body got quick explanation or quick link so I can figure out what not to do again?? Thanks -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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