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[arch-general] ArchLinux Chilean Community
by Jaime Oyarzun Knittel 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Hi! We started some time ago our own national community, we are sharing experiences and knowledge in http://www.archlinux.cl/ . This Saturday we are participating in FLISoL (Latin American Festival of Installation of Software Libre) in many chilean cities, giving free Arch CD's, installing Arch and giving help and advice with configurations. We already have a mirror and are making some posters and stickers for this event. It would be great if we get recognized as an official International Community, and announce it in our speeches. We opened a bug a while ago but it has been ignored (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13198) Thank you! -- Jaime Oyarzun Knittel ArchLinux Chile http://www.archlinux.cl/

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[arch-general] Best way to clone install (package selection to another box?)
by David C. Rankin 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Listmates: If I want to clone my package selection to another box, is there a better way to do it other than just parsing the files in /var/cache/pacman/pkg to generate a list to feed to pacman after install on the second box? Something like: for i in $(find /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ -type f); do TMP=${i##*/} FILE=${TMP%%-[[:digit:]]*} echo $FILE >> ~/linux/INSTALLED done Then after install on the new box: pacman --sync --refresh pacman --sync $( < ~/linux/INSTALLED) --or-- while read file; do pacman --sync $file done < ~/linux/INSTALLED I've picked around a bit and can't find a pacman option that is somewhat the equivalent to rsync's '--files-from' that would allow me to read the list to pass to pacman directly from a file. I don't know if pacman can do something like this or how many files it can handle at once if the list of files is piped or redirected to it. I don't think the second while loop would work either from a dependency perspective, and, the repeated calls to pacman would make it slow as hell. What's the current thinking on the best way to do 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] vi went Orange on me?? Never seen it before -- what is it?
by David C. Rankin 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Listmates: I'm kind of chuckling at this one. I did a simple substitution in vi on 2009.02 to comment out a few samba shares I wasn't going to use from a smb.conf I copied over. I simply used ':35,72s/^/# /' and then -- Orange appeared over all the comments and leading whitespace in the file. See (38k): http://nirvana.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/vi-orange.jpg What is the magic that makes this happen and ... more important ... how do I turn it off? I don't even know what setting to start looking for on this one? Anybody else run across this? In case the environment is important to the answer, I on my laptop running openSuSE 11.0 using konsole on kde 3.5.10 and using ssh to open a terminal to my new archlinux box. Dunno? Maybe that makes a difference? Any thoughts on this one are welcomed. 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] Anyone building pdftk for Archlinux?
by David C. Rankin 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Listmates, Looking for my favorite swiss army knife for pdf files (pdftk) I was unable to locate it with pacman -Ss pdftk and no luck. But whoop! I found keepassx and basket, that's half the battle. I know have my cheat-sheets and I can unlock the doors ;-) If you use KDE and haven't tried basket notepads, you are missing one killer app. Same goes for keepassx. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel-2.6.29.1-4
by Tobias Powalowski 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Hi fixes: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14263 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12992 greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] General Linux Server Information Available
by David C. Rankin 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Listmates, Just a general point of interest. Over the past 4-5 months, as time permits, I have made an effort to put up a site to capture some of the Linux notes, tips, etc.. that I have squirreled away over the years and make that information available to anyone that it might help. The site is 3111skyline.com and the top-level menu entries of interest are "openSuSE Howtos" and "Linux Tips & Tricks". Regardless of the main tab title "openSuSE Howtos", there is a bunch of stuff that applies to Linux in general, like the "openSuSE Server Setup" page, etc.., they are general enough to apply to any distro. Like tonight, I was using that page to setup and secure mysql, etc.. on Arch. The link to the "raw" information that has not been formatted into web pages is the "Linux Download Dirs..." link under the "Linux Tips & Tricks" menu. That is just a link to the directories for the website that has +Indexes enabled so you can just pick around and browse. There is a fairly cool collection of wallpapers, etc. in the directories that are not listed in the menus. Additionally, the complete 3-Column layout for the website itself has been packaged and made available for anyone who has thought about setting up a site themselves and wants a "go-by" to use to see how things work or to tear apart and take the useful/interesting parts from. All of the information is available under GPL3 (except for family photos, etc. that should be secured), so if any of the information would be useful to add to the Arch wiki, feel free to grab it and just copy and paste it to the wiki. I will try to add useful information to the Arch wiki, as time permits. Right now the site is hosted/mirrored on two openSuSE boxes sitting in my house. (I just change the external routing between the two depending on which one I am working on at the time) I am working to get my Arch install up and running on one of the boxes, so as soon as I pick through the apache configs and get apache and ssl configured on the Arch box, the site will be hosted there. That's it. No questions in this post. Just hopefully some help for anyone that can use some of the information I have squirreled away;-) -- 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] How is process loading configured at boot? rc.sysinit & rc.local?
by David C. Rankin 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Listmates, How is process loading handled at boot in Arch Linux? I found: [19:32 archangel:/etc] # ls -1 rc* rc.conf rc.local rc.local.shutdown rc.multi rc.shutdown rc.single rc.sysinit rc.d: <snip> But before I started hacking things I thought I would ask where I should put things generally (rc.local?) and then where to put the services that might need to be started earlier than rc.local (rc.sysinit?) I thought I would ask before I make a royal fool out of myself. (I like to minimize those times) Also, I have no problems setting the stuff up by hand, but I also wanted to check if there was any type of automated service manager like chkconfig, just in case. 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] Repository download speed? Any way to improve?
by David C. Rankin 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Listmates, After my initial install, loading packages from core, extra and community I was limited to an average of 58K downstream bandwidth. for kdemod-legacy (and normally) I see the full 136K that my pitiful 1M down provides. Currently I have the repositories defined in pacman.conf in the default manner: [core] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [extra] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [community] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Do I need to specify individual mirrors that would work better for my location in TX? If so, where can I get a list that will let me see the closest ones? Thanks. P.S. I apologize for the rapid-fire questions, I'm just trying to make friends with Arch. The questions will taper off soon. -- 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] Move junit from Extra to Unsupported
by Vitaliy Berdinskikh 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hi archers! Motivation to move: * Package has no a contributor. * Any packages don't depend on it. * Package is outdated. -- Sincerely yours, Vitaliy Berdinskikh (Виталий Бердинских)

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[arch-general] What about codecs?
by David C. Rankin 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

List, In openSuSE for A/V codecs you need to add two extra repositories (packman & videolan [vlc]), is there an equivalent (mod or set) for Arch or do we just build from vlc? -- 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] Proposed netcfg expansion
by Andrei Thorp 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hello there, I was recently digging around in the netcfg code to figure out why my WEP passphrase wasn't working. As I expected, it is because iwconfig at the moment doesn't support WEP passphrase. Anyway, so I'd like to know the reason this has not been implemented in general. Is it because the netcfg devs want it in iwconfig and the iwconfig guys don't want to write this? Is it because no one has cared enough to do it? Should I go talk about this elsewhere? Anyway, I personally think that netcfg could use this feature, and that it'd be dead simple to implement. I figured I'd do it while I'm on break, but I wanted to confirm that this is indeed a feature that wasn't being avoided for some reason. If it is a feature that is being avoided, can I at least write a small patch to tell the user what's the haps? (At the moment, netcfg tries to use the improper passphrase by passing a command to iwconfig and then iwconfig throws out a cryptic "unknown command" error.) Cheers! -Andrei "Garoth" Thorp

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[arch-general] vi - Howto make past from clipboard work??
by David C. Rankin 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Listmates, One thing I have to fix is vi's behavior of wanting to go into visual mode ever time I try to select something and vi's refusal to paste the clipboard in insert mode using the middle mouse button. I know this must be a basic configuration setting somewhere? I've looked for /etc/vimrc and ~/.vimrc but all I found was ~/.viminfo and that didn't help. So... hoping not to have to reinvent the wheel, where is this setting hiding?? -- 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 link for kde3 install from ww.kdemod.ath.cx
by David C. Rankin 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Listmates, Following the help provided here, I have run into a broken link in the kdemod install. Specifically, from step two at: http://www.kdemod.ath.cx/download-kdemod3-step2.html If you select: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim / Norway / 1000Mbit) You get: http://www.kdemod.ath.cx/download-kdemod-step3-mirror-ntnu.html ^^^^^^ Instead of: http://www.kdemod.ath.cx/download-kdemod3-step3-mirror-ntnu.html ^^^^^^^ The '3' in kdemod3 is missing. Do I also need to post this in forum or is posting here enough? -- 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 install kde 3.510?
by David C. Rankin 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Listmates, Last question for the night, "How do I install KDE3?" I have picked around through the forums, found http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE, which sent me to http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=54118&p=1 and I added the repo, but it appears to be a downgrade repo and pacman -S kde3 fails with a dependency for akode: error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: kde3-kdemultimedia: requires akode Can anyone else point me to a good reference that will help me install kde 3.5.10 as a 'fresh' install of KDE? Don't get me wrong, I'm not a kde4 basher and I look forward to it maturing. I have used kde4 on openSuSE 11.0 and 11.1 (returning to 3.5). However, until the kate and quanta issues are resolved, I need kde 3.5 to avoid a loss of functionality in the interim. After those items are resolved, I'll happily move back to kde4 and continue playing the "where did my widget go?" game;-) An Aside: Note, as most know, ATI completely dropped support for all RV300 - RV500 chipsets as of the botched 9.3 driver release. See: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/catalyst_… for the 9.4 driver released 4/17 (all support for earlier cards has been dropped) Unfortunately, the botched 9.3 driver and previous drivers are all that will be available for the earlier cards ;-( AMD claims that it will still support the following legacy cards (whatever those weasel words mean): The following products have been moved to the legacy software support structure (including Mobile and All-in-Wonder Variants): ATI Radeon 9500 Series ATI Radeon 9550 Series ATI Radeon 9600 Series ATI Radeon 9700 Series ATI Radeon 9800 Series ATI Radeon X300 Series ATI Radeon X550 Series ATI Radeon X600 Series ATI Radeon X700 Series ATI Radeon X800 Series ATI Radeon X850 Series ATI Radeon X1050 Series ATI Radeon X1300 Series ATI Radeon X1550 Series ATI Radeon X1600 Series ATI Radeon X1650 Series ATI Radeon X1800 Series ATI Radeon X1900 Series ATI Radeon Xpress Series ATI Radeon X1200 Series ATI Radeon X1250 Series ATI Radeon X2100 Series Anything older has been relegated to history. Fortunately for those running Xorg 7.3 or earlier, the 8-9 driver still works flawlessly for older cards, unfortunately for kde4 migration, it is incompatible with xorg 7.4. So, how do I get kde 3.5.10 installed on arch? -- 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] Interesting install of 2009.02 with multiple dmraid devices present
by David C. Rankin 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Listmates, First post and... first install of Arch Linux went pretty well. The only fun occurred with grub and getting the dmraid devices correctly numbered. Thankfully somebody had blazed this trial before and the wiki had good information to point me in the right direction: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_with_Fake-RAID What wasn't covered by the wiki was the situation involving multiple dmraid devices (multiple sets of dmraid arrays). With this install, openSuSE 11.0 occupied the first dmraid device (nvidia_fdaacfde) and the Arch Linux install was to the second device (nvidia_fffadgic). Needless to say, this led to a bit of head scratching. The partition scheme I was working with was: [02:34 archangel:/home/david] # ls -1 /dev/mapper control nvidia_fdaacfde nvidia_fdaacfde5 openSuSE /boot nvidia_fdaacfde6 openSuSE swap nvidia_fdaacfde7 openSuSE / nvidia_fdaacfde8 openSuSE /home nvidia_fffadgic nvidia_fffadgic5 archLinux / nvidia_fffadgic6 archLinux /boot nvidia_fffadgic7 archLinux /home nvidia_fffadgic8 archLinux swap <distro comments added above> For the install, the grub bootload install on nvidia_fdaacfde was used and chainloader was used to boot the Arch Linux install. Works fine. I have updated the wiki page to accommodate the multiple dmraid device scenario and fixed a few typos along the way. (although I may have added more) I stayed as true to the existing format as I could, but whoever 'owns' the page may want to take a look and see if it looks OK. Now all I have to do is figure out how to finish adding apps to the install and we will be off and running ;-) -- 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] Resigning
by Daniel J Griffiths 20 Apr '09

20 Apr '09

Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Tom K <tomk(a)runbox.com> wrote: > >> Hi all. >> >> The practical effect of this message is precisely nothing, as I have been >> inactive for quite a while now. For the last few months, real life has been >> increasingly demanding, but I was hoping I would find a way to accommodate >> Arch activities alongside the usual chaos and mayhem. >> >> It's now clear that this is not going to happen any time soon, so I've >> orphaned my remaining packages, and I'm now returning the key to the Arch >> executive washroom. >> >> I hope to return at some point, but I can't say when that will be. Being an >> Arch dev has been a revelation to me, and it has been wonderful working with >> you all. I will continue to be a keen Arch user, and will do my best to >> contribute in some capacity, as time permits. >> >> I would like to retain my subscription to this list, read-only of course, >> and I will discuss my status as forum mod and irc op with the respective >> teams. >> >> I have no doubt that Arch will continue to thrive, guided by an >> extraordinarily committed dev team, and supported by an enthusiastic user >> community. I wish you all the very best of luck. >> > > Hang on a sec, let me dry my tears. :( > > Seriously, though, it's sad to see you go. But such is that way of > open source. People come and go. You will be missed, and we'll welcome > you back if you ever get the time again. > > And I fully understand the real-life obligations. I've been slacking > myself for about a month now, due to real life. Don't worry, it's > something we all know. > > >> Go n-eírí an bóthar leat >> > > Erm? Welsh? Gaelic? > > It's Gaelic and translates "May you have a successful journey" although it is usually (improperly) translated to "May the road rise up to meet you"

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[arch-general] Fresh Install: Signal 11 error when attempting to start X
by DrCR 19 Apr '09

19 Apr '09

Just recently did a fresh ftp install of Arch. Getting a Signal 11 error when attempting to start Arch. I tried to follow the wikis well in setting things up. Any insight? Xorg.0.log below. Thanks, DrCR __________________________ 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 host 2.6.29-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 8 12:39:28 CEST 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: Sun Apr 19 03:15:42 2009 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" Parse error on line 12 of section Files in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf Ignoring obsolete keyword "RgbPath". (==) ServerLayout "X.org Configured" (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0" (**) | |-->Device "Card0" (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0" (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0" (==) Automatically adding devices (==) Automatically enabling devices (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to: /usr/share/fonts/TTF, /usr/share/fonts/misc, /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/misc, /usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/TTF, built-ins (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" (**) Extension "Composite" is enabled (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled. (WW) Disabling Mouse0 (WW) Disabling Keyboard0 (II) Loader magic: 0x15c0 (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4 X.Org Video Driver: 5.0 X.Org XInput driver : 4.0 X.Org Server Extension : 2.0 (II) Loader running on linux (--) using VT number 7 (--) PCI:*(0@1:0:0) nVidia Corporation GeForce 8800 GT rev 162, Mem @ 0xe6000000/16777216, 0xd0000000/268435456, 0xe4000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x0000c000/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072 (--) PCI: (0@5:2:0) Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder rev 5, Mem @ 0xea000000/16777216 (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) (II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel (II) System resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B] (II) "extmod" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) "dbe" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) "glx" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) "record" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) "dri" will be loaded by default. (II) "dri2" will be loaded by default. (II) LoadModule: "glx" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x4efd76] 1: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x39) [0x49be99] 2: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x7f173c8f7150] 3: /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 [0x7f173eda6761] 4: /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 [0x7f173edad96b] 5: /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 [0x7f173eda93b6] 6: /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 [0x7f173edad22b] 7: /lib/libdl.so.2 [0x7f173d2b9f5b] 8: /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 [0x7f173eda93b6] 9: /lib/libdl.so.2 [0x7f173d2ba30c] 10: /lib/libdl.so.2(dlopen+0x31) [0x7f173d2b9ec1] 11: /usr/bin/X(DLLoadModule+0x1c) [0x4718fc] 12: /usr/bin/X(LoaderOpen+0x18c) [0x46f51c] 13: /usr/bin/X [0x470c37] 14: /usr/bin/X(LoadModule+0x24) [0x471694] 15: /usr/bin/X(xf86LoadModules+0xa9) [0x46c469] 16: /usr/bin/X(InitOutput+0x4e0) [0x46e1d0] 17: /usr/bin/X(main+0x20e) [0x4336ee] 18: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x7f173c8e3546] 19: /usr/bin/X [0x432d29] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mplayer in two separate packages
by Pierre Chapuis 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

(from arc-dev-public) On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:42:17 -0300, Hugo Doria <hugodoria(a)gmail.com> wrote : > There is an old feature request for mplayer [1]: create it using two > separate packages, one with only the CLI version and one for the GUI. > > There are some reasons for this: > > 1) By default the GUI is not enabled on mplayer > 2) The package will not depend on gtk2 > 3) The user will be able to choose which GUI he wants to use. Now > gmplayer is installed, even when the user wants to use another GUI, or > do not use a GUI at all. > > Obviously there are some points that need to be discussed: > > 1) We do not usually split packages. Maybe this case is not a real > division of packages because, by default, the GUI is not compiled. > Don't know. > 2) What do we do with the GUI version? Keep it on [extra] or move to > community/AUR? > > I would like to hear your opinions. > > [1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10220 > [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18516 I am the current maintainer of the package you linked. That package can't be used as is to build a repository package, because I have tried to rely as much as possible on its autodetection features for everything so that the resulting build fits to the machine it's built on. Slumslayer's packages (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=Slumslayer&SeB=m) would probably be a better base. To me, compiling from source is the best way to install mplayer since not everybody wants it to depend on the same things. It is also one of the rare programs for which I find optimization useful: I want my video player to be as fast as possible when playing HD video on my low-power laptop ;). These are the reasons why I will always install mplayer from the AUR (or ABS). Yet, a no-gui mplayer package in community would be good for those who don't want to bother with the AUR. I think you should also think about making a separate package for mencoder like Slumslayer did , because most people don't need it and it ads useless dependencies to the mplayer package (for example x264). I hope the new split packages can help with that. -- catwell

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[arch-general] Arch Linux Turkish Community @ 8th Free Software and Linux Festival
by Alper KANAT 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

Hey There Guys, We'd love to tell you about the latest news. We were at our stand all day long on the very first day of 8th Free Software and Linux Festival. What we've done? * We've burnt 20 i686 and 10 x86_64 CD images and created paper CD cases and gave everyone for free. (unfortunetly we were only capable of doing 40 of them and 30 cases since especially the cases were so expensive as they were the best quality available) * Made some installations for people who needs help * Printed nearly 30 Turkish installation manual and gave them with the CD's.. * Created a "Arch Linux on Tap" concept and made it available over the network! :) They is very cool though since anyone can put the plug in and install Arch with our very new and fresh Arch mirror (that have i686 and x86_64 packages for core, testing, community, extra). We'll continue to do introduce Arch Linux to visitors of the festival and help them to discover the beauty! We also have some pictures for you! :) Comments are welcome! http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunix/sets/72157616848517025/ -- Alper KANAT <alperkanat(a)raptiye.org>

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[arch-general] unable to associate wlan0 during network start
by Adam Stokes 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

/etc/rc.d/network start fails with Could not associate wlan0 - try increasing WIRELESS_TIMEOUT and check network is WEP or has no security. However, running dhcpcd wlan0 when system is up works. I dont use wep but have wireless mac filters setup on the router and I've increased the WIRELESS_TIMEOUT in /etc/conf.d/wireless. Has anyone run into this recently? specs: 2.6.29-ARCH, x86_64 using iwl3495 driver, intel pro/wireless 3945abg Thanks -- ( adam stokes ) || ( adam.stokes(a)gmail.com )

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[arch-general] synaptics edge scrolling
by Sergey Manucharian 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

Hi, With the current xorg-server 1.6.1-1 the vertical scrolling using the edge of touchpad is almost unusable since it's too fast now. It's not possible to adjust it with both gsynaptics and 'Option "HorizScrollDelta"' in the xorg.conf... Thanks for ideas. My computer is ThinkPad R61. Cheers, Sergey

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[arch-general] i686 extra repo - busted?
by pyther 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

I'm guessing something is wrong with the extra repo on i686! Did Allan break it? I tried three different mirrors including ftp.archlinux.org R2D2:~ $ sudo pacman -Sl extra extra 3ddesktop 0.2.9-3 extra a2ps 4.14-1 extra a52dec 0.7.4-4 extra aalib 1.4rc5-6 extra abcde 2.3.99.7-1 extra abiword 2.6.8-1 extra abiword-plugins 2.6.8-1 extra abook 0.6.0pre2-1 extra abs 2.3.2-2 extra abuse 0.7.1-1 extra acct 6.3.2-2 extra acidrip 0.14-6 extra acpi 1.4-2 extra acpid 1.0.8-1 extra afterstep 2.2.8-2 extra agg 2.5-2 extra aif 2009.04.08-1 extra aiksaurus 1.2.1-1 extra akode 2.0.2-1 extra akonadi 1.1.1-1 extra alacarte 0.11.10-1 extra allegro 4.2.2-1 extra alltray 0.70-1 extra alpine 2.00-3 extra alsa-lib 1.0.19-1 extra alsa-oss 1.0.17-1 extra alsa-utils 1.0.19-1 extra alsaplayer 0.99.80-2 extra amarok-base 1.4.10-3 This is the whole listing! ~pyther

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[arch-general] Understanding permissions
by Maurício 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Hi, I'm using lighttpd as http server, and it complains about permissions when I ask for a file on my public_html directory. Using strace on lighty I get: stat("/home/mauricio/public_html", 0x7fffceb2dcb0) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) However, using ls: ls -ld public_html public_html/index.html drwxr-xr-x 3 mauricio users 4096 2009-04-13 19:41 public_html -rw-r--r-- 1 mauricio users 4075 2009-04-13 19:41 public_html/index.html Since 'r' is there in all users field, should not every user, including 'http' used by lighty, be able to read? Thanks for your help, Maurício

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[arch-general] network WTF
by David Rosenstrauch 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Got a bit of network weirdness going on here. 2 different Arch laptops, an old one and a new one, with completely different hardware (and also i686 vs. x86_64), but both are completely up to date with the latest repos. On the old (i686) one, "iwlist scan" works fine from the command line, as a non-root user. On the new one, no dice - I need to be root to get back results. What makes this even more annoying is that apparently some of the wireless tools I'm using suffer from this restriction as well. So on the old laptop, kwifimanager and knemo show accurate info about the current connection (bit rate, link quality, etc.) while on the new laptop these come up empty. Anyone have any idea what's causing this and/or how to work around it? Surely I don't need to run kwifimanager and knemo as root to do it. I'm guessing there's some obscure setting that's different between the 2 machines that's controlling this, but I have no clue what it could be. TIA, DR

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[arch-general] Small laptops running archy?
by Maurício 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Hi, Do you had any experience using darcs on these small Eee-like notebooks? Is there someone I should avoid? Do you think those which come with Linux instaled are always sure to run any Linux distro? Thanks, Maurício

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[arch-general] Surviving without X
by Maurício 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Hi, Do you think it's possible to live without X, replacing framebuffer for it, using packages available for arch? I imagine something like DirectFB or similar, using it when text is not enough. I think I could do with a browser and a pdf viewer, but I wasn't able to find a direction to follow to get that. Has any of you tried it already? Thanks, Maurício

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[arch-general] [Flyspray] List of task wating for closure
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

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[arch-general] knetworkmanager
by David Rosenstrauch 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Anyone been able to build knetworkmanager since the upgrade of networkmanager to v0.7? It doesn't seem to build for me anymore: ... In file included from knetworkmanager-devicestore.h:34, from knetworkmanager.h:35, from main.cpp:25, from libkdeinit_knetworkmanager_la.all_cpp.cpp:2: knetworkmanager-devicestore_dbus.h:29:41: error: NetworkManager/dbus-helpers.h: No such file or directory ... TIA, DR

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[arch-general] Problems rebuilding kernel with alsa 1.0.19
by David Rosenstrauch 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

My sound module's (snd-hda-intel) been broken in ALSA for a while now. Was working around the problem by keeping myself on kernel 2.6.27, but finally gave that up this week (for various reasons) and now I'm without sound again. Tried using OSS instead, but that didn't work either (no headphone support for my codec), so I'm now trying to rebuild the kernel with ALSA 1.0.19 support, since that version of ALSA is supposed to fix the problem. (The current kernel apparently uses version 1.0.18a.) Not having much luck though. I followed instructions on the ALSA wiki build page on how to copy the ALSA source onto the kernel source before building, but the build is failing when it hits the sound modules: ... CC [M] sound/core/sound_oss.o CC [M] sound/core/info_oss.o CC [M] sound/core/vmaster.o CC [M] sound/core/jack.o sound/core/jack.c:31: error: ‘SW_VIDEOOUT_INSERT’ undeclared here (not in a function) make[2]: *** [sound/core/jack.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [sound/core] Error 2 make: *** [sound] Error 2 ==> ERROR: Build Failed. Aborting... Anyone have any idea what the problem might be and/or how to work around the problem? TIA, DR

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[arch-general] latest xorg- significant slowdown
by Jonathan Brown 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Hi all Upon updating to the latest xorg/nvidia (Xfce), and rebooting, X seems to take about 4 times as long to start, and programs seem to take about 2-3 times as long to start up. Anyone else having similar issues? Not really sure how to run any metrics on this, but X is now significantly slower, including noticeable delays in switching between apps/windows.. I can even tell that weechat in urxvt is slower. -Jon

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[arch-general] xf86-video-intel very slow
by Jaime Oyarzun Knittel 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Hi! I have been experiencing slowdowns with the (new) xf86-video-intel driver (everything else updated). I had to move to xf86-video-intel-legacy driver because with this one I can play 1080p movies and enable desktop effects in KDE and play flash games and videos... which I couldn't with the newest driver. So xf86-video-intel is still buggy, I own a Thinkpad x61 with an Intel x3100 video card. How can I help in seeing what is the problem (logfiles, recompile with debug options, etc.)? Thank you very much! -- Jaime Oyarzun Knittel http://www.archlinux.cl/

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ttf-ms-fonts (WAS: Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] New feature: files verification)
by Loui Chang 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 04:39:23PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > > Am Montag, 30. März 2009 12:17:07 schrieb Thomas Bächler: > >> I say we drop it, as it does not meet Arch's packaging standards. > > > > Yes, if we cannot package it the way we want, lets drop it. > > Can we confirm that things look "nice" without these fonts? I remember > fonts being terribly ugly way back when without this package. Actually I would recommend that ttf-ms-fonts be made a depends, or at least an optdepends of wine. The text in some windows programs is unreadable without it.

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[arch-general] Wifi not working after kernel upgrade to 2.6.29
by Ondřej Kučera 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Hi, I've just upgraded kernel to 2.6.29.1-3 and since then I can't connect to my wireless network. netcfg times out and says "Wireless association failed". The driver is iwl3945, here is the profile's content: CONNECTION="wireless" INTERFACE=wlan0 SCAN="no" SECURITY="wpa" ESSID="foo" KEY="foobar" IP="dhcp" TIMEOUT=20 QUIRKS=(preessid wpaessid) If I correctly understand how it all works, wpa_supplicant is run and then "wpa_cli status" is saying "wpa_state=SCANNING" for the whole 20 seconds until netcfg gives up. Does anybody have similar problems or knows a solution? Perhaps also relevant lines from /var/log/everything.log: Apr 10 00:00:33 hermione kernel: iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 Apr 10 00:00:33 hermione kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0:radio Apr 10 00:00:33 hermione kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0:assoc Apr 10 00:00:33 hermione kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0:RX Apr 10 00:00:33 hermione kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0:TX Apr 10 00:00:33 hermione kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready Apr 10 00:00:55 hermione kernel: iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera

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[arch-general] Nautilus upgrade runs CPU at 100%
by Will Siddall 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

Hey everyone, I already sent a message about this earlier but no one replied. So, I'm giving this another try. My last message, I didn't know what exactly was going on, but I knew it happened since the last Gnome upgrade to 2.26. After searching around, it starts at the gnome-session call when it tries to load Nautilus. So, I downgraded nautilus back 2.24.2 and everything goes back to normal. Now that I've narrowed it down to Nautilus, can someone tell me what's going on so I know what to look forward to at the next nautilus upgrade, or what I should check so I can get nautilus back to 2.26. Thanks, Will

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[arch-general] mysql won't start after upgrade
by Scott Weisman 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

I just upgraded MySQL on my Arch box to the latest version (5.1.33-1), and all of a sudden, MySQL won't start. I get the following in my mysql.err file (in /var/lib/mysql): 090412 07:53:21 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql /usr/sbin/mysqld: Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist 090412 7:53:21 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it. InnoDB: Error: log file /var/lib/mysql/ib_logfile0 is of different size 0 5242880 bytes InnoDB: than specified in the .cnf file 0 16777216 bytes! 090412 7:53:21 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error. 090412 7:53:21 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed. 090412 7:53:21 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: unknown variable 'innodb_log_arch_dir=/var/lib/mysql' 090412 7:53:21 [ERROR] Aborting 090412 7:53:21 [Warning] Forcing shutdown of 2 plugins 090412 7:53:21 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete 090412 07:53:21 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/lib/mysql/humidor.pid ended I run mysql_upgrade, as instructed, but it also doesn't work. It expects a working daemon of MySQL, which as the above log output attests, isn't available. Can someone help?! Until this upgrade, MySQL has run flawlessly for years. Thanks, Scott

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[arch-general] namcap wiki page
by Abhishek Dasgupta 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

I made a wiki page on namcap: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Namcap Could someone go through the page and point out any errors or omissions, especially in the "Making a namcap module" section? It'd be nice if this page and the Arch Packaging Standards were listed on the main page of the wiki. That would help a lot of users in finding out about namcap which doesn't seem to be used as much as it should be. -- Abhishek

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[arch-general] no sound on thinkpad t61
by Adam Stokes 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

[root@shinzo ~]# head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 Codec: Analog Devices AD1984 kernel-doc/ALSA-configuration.txt AD1984 basic default configuration thinkpad Lenovo Thinkpad T61/X61 dell Dell T3400 [root@shinzo ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad [root@shinzo ~]# lsmod |grep '^snd' snd_seq_oss 35584 0 snd_seq_midi_event 9344 1 snd_seq_oss snd_hda_intel 531252 4 snd_seq 58336 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 9364 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_hwdep 10632 1 snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss 45440 0 snd_pcm 82952 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 24720 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11792 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm snd_mixer_oss 18944 1 snd_pcm_oss snd 65224 15 snd_seq_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss [root@shinzo ~]# ls -l /dev/snd total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 8 2009-04-10 17:14 controlC0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 7 2009-04-10 17:14 hwC0D0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 6 2009-04-10 17:14 pcmC0D0c crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 5 2009-04-10 19:01 pcmC0D0p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 4 2009-04-10 17:14 pcmC0D1p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 3 2009-04-10 17:14 seq crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 2 2009-04-10 17:14 timer everything is unmuted in alsamixer. what else am i missing? thanks -- ( adam stokes ) || ( adam.stokes(a)gmail.com )

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[arch-general] Bug reports for out of date packages?
by Ondřej Kučera 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

Hi, Arch's packages usually (almost always) get updated pretty fast and the system "don't create a bug report, just flag the package out of date to get dev's/TU's attention" works fine. But sometimes there exist packages both in community and in extra (I'm not sure about core but maybe even there) that don't get updated even after a significant time from the upstream's release (e. g. swt, amarok, jre or jdk from the nearest past). Shouldn't there be a time limit (two weeks? a month?) after which it would be OK to create a bug report? That way there could be a discussion about why that package hasn't/couldn't be updated and everyone would know where to look for the reasons without having to go through mailing list archives, bbs and so on. Just a thought though. Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera

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[arch-general] Problem with Realtek Ethernet and 2.6.29 Kernel
by Lukas Grässlin 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

Hi there, after the update to 2.6.29 the Network Controller of my secondary computer won't work. The problem is that I just have no connection, I can't ping anything. The network interface is listed normaly and has an IP, but it won't work. It's an "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL81111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 01)" I reinstalled 2.6.28 and it works. More information: on my Main pc I have the same Network controler _BUT_ rev 02 and it works with 2.6.29. Regards, Lukas (sorry if the mail reveices twice but I think my mailer did something wrong ;) )

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[arch-general] old shfs and new kernel
by Brock.Zheng 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

I found the package shfs in community is very old. it is for kernel 2.6.22. Anyone can give me the reason of it existence? Dose the uptodate kernel include this module? goodmen

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[arch-general] pacman dependency error
by Abhishek Dasgupta 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

While doing pacman -Suy today: resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: intel-dri: requires libdrm>=2.4.5-3 :: libgl: requires libdrm>=2.4.5-3 :: mesa: requires libdrm>=2.4.5-3 Now, I'd used the [testing] repo to update xorg to 1.6 and then disabled it. However pacman -Qi shows libdrm to be at 2.4.6-1 so I don't see why pacman refuses to upgrade. -- Abhishek

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[arch-general] What about unused direct libraries in ELF files?
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

Hi Like my previus message about RPATH in ELF files, I am interested in know opinions of arch-dev-team about ELF files that have direct unused libraries. (I will open a ticket if considered this important in Arch Linux, and gradually helping to fix it for each package that are necessary, like for rpath [#1], also a check for namcap can be implemented like for rpath [#2]) This problem, is in most cases about this issue is the way that libtool or pkg-config is used in the build systems. For example, "pacman" package the pacman binary really only depends on libc.so.6 and libalpm.so.3 all other libs (libdownload.so libarchive.so.2 libacl.so.1 libattr.so.1 libbz2.so.1.0 libz.so.1) are depends of libalpm.so.3 only. Other example are "convert" from imagemagick: It has many unused direct libraries: $ ldd -u -r /usr/bin/convert Unused direct dependencies: /usr/lib/liblcms.so.1 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 /usr/lib/libjasper.so.1 /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 /usr/lib/libgs.so.8 /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 /usr/lib/libwmflite-0.2.so.7 /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libIlmImf.so.6 /usr/lib/libImath.so.6 /usr/lib/libHalf.so.6 /usr/lib/libIex.so.6 /usr/lib/libIlmThread.so.6 /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2 /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 /usr/lib/libz.so.1 /usr/lib/libgomp.so.1 /lib/libpthread.so.0 /usr/lib/libltdl.so.7 /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 This not only affect executables, also libraries. So very complicated dependency "graphs" are here. Derived from this, another issue appears: undefined symbols, because in shared libs this behavior are permited (ldd -u -r /usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.so.3.0.0, but this is a documented [a program that uses it also needs a -lgdbm] ) For example now the KDE packages (from Pierre) [#3] when solved all RPATH also solved this issue, with linking flags "--as-needed" and "--no-undefined" Good Luck! [#1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13890 - Packaging creation and rpath issues [#2] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14049 - [namcap] should check about insecure RPATH in ELF files [#3] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13965 - [kde] Compile KDE with CMAKE_SKIP_RPATH -- 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] Keyboard repeat in KDE
by Keith 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

Leonid wrote: >> Hi, I know I sent this before, but this is a new version of KDE and the problem is becoming really bad. Every once in a while, keyboard repeat will suddenly be unset. I can fix it in systemsettings, only to have it get unset again randomly. Sometimes it will only take a few minutes, sometimes hours. It is very very annoying. Is there anything I can do to fix it? I am running 4.2.2 (not kdemod, vanilla). << +1. It appeared to hit me immediately after either the upgrade to KDE 4.2.2 (or, more likely, I think, the upgrade to xorg-server 1.5.3-5 at 1 AM 4/6). I appear to be having the same problem, and after the same upgrade - to KDE 4.2.2 (not KDEMOD) and xorg-server in extra. Also, my mouse "third-button-wheel" will stop scrolling in a web page, for no reason. It happens so often I'm avoiding using the function - and this effect also seems to be tied to the same time frame. Note also that, in the course of modifying parts of /etc/X11/xorg.conf to get to a usable desktop after this upgrade, I had to (a) remove all my "InputDevice" Sections for a keyboard and two mice (which implicitly sets several possible-gremlin options), and then (b) make a NUMBER of mods, trying to get xorg running stably with a "clean" an Xorg.log.0 as possible. I'm currently trying to figure out how to turn the clues it throws me into a usable conf, but with documentation so blatantly at odds with reality, in at least a couple of interesting places, that's hard. Try 'Option "Accel"' in the Screen Section ('man Xorg', or 'man xorg.conf'). The Xorg (or xorg.conf) man page documents it beautifully; hopefully some day it'll actually OPERATE as documented. This weekend I intend to exercise every known method of automagically generating an xorg.conf for an AMD64-based Arch Linux system, and see if I can either find what I'm missing (in one of them), or manage to get some combination of the suggestions (of all of them) to work. I realise both documentation and KNOWLEDGE are in short supply with the imminent release of xorg-server 1.6, and that it's not supposedly going to be an "easy" or "simple" "migration." I see this as mental prep work... Blue Skies...g

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[arch-general] xf86-video-intel-legacy vs xf86-video-intel
by Damjan Georgievski 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

Is it possible to make these packages not conflict each other? So that one could have both installed and alternate when needed? -- damjan

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[arch-general] xinput in ArchLinux
by Damjan Georgievski 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

There's a PKGBUILD in AUR of xinput, but I think it needs to be with the other Xorg packages in extra, probably even in the "xorg" group. xinput is a utillity that can dynamically change different properties of the X input devices like the ones that otherwise need to be configured in the xorg.conf file or the HAL fdi file. For example, enabling wheel emulation of a trackpoint. You can also use it to enable or disable input devices. -- damjan

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[arch-general] Keyboard repeat in KDE
by Leonid Grinberg 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

Hi, I know I sent this before, but this is a new version of KDE and the problem is becoming really bad. Every once in a while, keyboard repeat will suddenly be unset. I can fix it in systemsettings, only to have it get unset again randomly. Sometimes it will only take a few minutes, sometimes hours. It is very very annoying. Is there anything I can do to fix it? I am running 4.2.2 (not kdemod, vanilla). -- Thanks in advance, Leonid

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel-2.6.29.1-3
by Tobias Powalowski 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

Hi Major Upstream Changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Archlinux Changes: - added aufs2 to kernel package - removed unionfs support Signoffs: - Please test also with binary modules. - Please report functionality of aufs2. Known issues: - ipw2200 seems to have some issues Other devs / users should report how much impact this have? Pierre reported network scanning is not working correct, anyone else with issues? Thanks for your help. Hope to get kernel .29 series to core in next 2 days. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] libmtp update
by Federico Manganelli 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

Here's is a working PKGBUILD for libmtp 0.3.7, that is standing still for a while...It should address bug fs#10583 HTH thanks mangus

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[arch-general] eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device
by Csomay Mihaly 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

Hi, I have a script which works fine on Ubuntu but fails on Arch: -------------------------------------------------------- #! /bin/bash -eu # # Burn a DVD from the working directory # # Usage: burn <volume name> # # Creates an .iso file from the working directory in /tmp, # writes the image to /dev/dvdrw, then checks the integrity # of the disc. # # Prerequisites: # An empty DVD in /dev/dvdrw # The size of the working directory fits on a DVD VOLNAME="$1" TMPDIR=`mktemp -d` || exit 1 ISOFILE="$TMPDIR/$VOLNAME.iso" GENLOG="$TMPDIR/genisoimage.log" GROWLOG="$TMPDIR/growisofs.log" BURNER="/dev/dvdrw" echo "Image and logs in $TMPDIR" echo -n "Creating image... " genisoimage -udf -allow-limited-size -input-charset iso8859-2 -iso-level 4 -J -joliet-long -log-file "$GENLOG" -r -V "$VOLNAME" -v -o "$ISOFILE" . &> /dev/null echo "Done." echo -n "Burning image... " growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=16 -Z "$BURNER"="$ISOFILE" &> "$GROWLOG" echo "Done." echo -n "Reloading media... " eject "$BURNER" eject -t "$BURNER" echo "Done." echo -n "Verifying image... " EXTENTS=`egrep -e "^[0-9]+ extents written " "$GENLOG" | egrep -o -e "^[0-9]+"` MD5ISO=`md5sum "$ISOFILE" | egrep -o -i -e "^[0-9a-f]{32}"` MD5DVD=`dd if="$BURNER" bs=2048 count="$EXTENTS" 2> /dev/null | md5sum | egrep -o -i -e "^[0-9a-f]{32}"` if [ "$MD5ISO" == "$MD5DVD" ]; then echo "OK." echo -n "Cleaning up... " rm -r "$TMPDIR" echo "Done." else echo "ERROR!" fi echo "ISO MD5: $MD5ISO" echo "DVD MD5: $MD5DVD" eject "$BURNER" -------------------------------------------------------- When it reaches eject "$BURNER", it gives the error in the subject. If after that I type in "eject /dev/dvdrw" in that terminal, it ejects fine. After install I couldn't even eject by pressing the button on the drive, but the patch in here fixed that: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9537 I have xfce4. Where should I look to fix this? Thanks. csm

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[arch-general] After upgrade to KDE 4.2.2 AltGr missing in Konsole and gtk apps
by waldek 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Hi, could somebody have a look at this topic: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69393 in short, after the upgrade to KDE 4.2.2 AltGr key does not work in Konsole, Yakuake and gtk applications. It works in all other native KDE applications. maybe some KDE users with Gernam keyboard here who could check if they have the same problem before I open a bug report at kde.org. Cheers Waldek

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel-2.6.29.1-3
by Christopher Rogers 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Aufs2 works fine. Other problem: But I think there is a upload bug with rtl8187 driver. With kernel 2.6.28.8 i can get to my full upload speed at the low end. With kernel 2.6.29 it starts at full upload speed then goes down from there. It bugs me cause i upload livecds and it fells like the new 2.6.29 is kill the connection with upload. kernel 2.6.28.8 upload speed: 500Kbyte/sec goes down to 256Kbyte/sec kernel 2.6.29 upload speed: 256Kbyte/sec goes down to like 90Kbyte/sec or less. Other then this bug it can go in to core. Since i don't think its going to get solved just yet.

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[arch-general] Updated PKGBUILD for gmpc
by slubman 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

As stated in the thread on outdated PKGBUILD, this is an email with an updated PKGBUILD for gmpc which is 2 releases behind the current one available on the project site. -- slubman site: http://www.slubman.info/

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Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel-2.6.29.1-2
by Christopher Rogers 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

>Does that mean aufs2 itself works but in combination with unionfs it is not >working? Aufs2 works fine if your not using unionfs. I think this cause the fs/stack.c file was major edit with unionfs patch. Just a guess has to why unionfs screws up aufs2.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] rebuild status of mysql and libcap?
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Thomas Bächler wrote: > Pierre Schmitz schrieb: >> Am Montag 06 April 2009 20:02:59 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: >>> Hi >>> are those rebuilds ready to move? >>> Testing is quite full of packages at the moment. >>> >>> Thanks >>> greetings >>> tpowa > > I think the virtualbox binaries use the old libcap. As it is not in > our repos, it is not a real problem, but we might consider adding the > libcap.so.1 to the package as well. > At least Virtualbox-2.1.4 (binary version) don't use libcap directly, it uses setcap() from glibc. Like syslog-ng, that when compiled it looks if the sys/capabilities.h is present. There are a _old_ bug in old VirtualBox version that depends on libcap1. -- 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] [signoff] kernel-2.6.29.1-2
by Christopher Rogers 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Aufs freezes my archiso-live build in virtualbox. I believe this bug is cause aufs2 only worked for me without unionfs. Sadly thats the only way i ever got aufs2 to work at all with kernel 2.6.29 that i build.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel-2.6.29.1-2
by Tobias Powalowski 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Hi Major Upstream Changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Archlinux Changes: - added aufs2 to kernel package Signoffs: - Please test also with binary modules. - Please report functionality of unionfs and aufs2. Known issues: - ipw2200 seems to have some issues Other devs / users should report how much impact this have? Thanks for your help. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] PKGBUILD: mkdir or install?
by Ali H. Caliskan 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Hello fellow Arch Linux devels and users, I'm wondering if it's inappropriate to use "mkdir -p" in PKGBUILD instead of "install". I've seen quite many official PKGBUILDs that use mkdir instead of install, whose very structure I've adopted and applied in my various PKBUILDs. Does it matter if it's mkdir or install, and why? Kind regards, Ali

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[arch-general] System tools SMBConfig not running properly
by Will Siddall 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Hey, I just ran a system update this morning which updated all of the new GNOME updates and some arch updates. The issue now is that after I restart, I find that the SystemBackendTools.pl script (especially for '-m SMBConfig') is running at full capacity. It also keeps opening a new loading window almost every second so that I can't see my running windows in the task panel anymore. Anyone know about this, or what could be causing it? Thanks, Will

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[arch-general] problem with poweroff machine
by arunix 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Hello All :-) i am posting again boz i m getting error due to i am (newbie) at linux.the problem is here i have a simple user john when i gave command for poweroff it shows like that [john@arch ~]$ poweroff poweroff: . Same Error Came when i access "cd, Dvd, usb" you must be super user how can i resolve this Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/problem-with-poweroff-machine-tp22839974p22839974.html Sent from the arch general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[arch-general] Makefile to build all packages
by Baho Utot 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

I am working on a makefile to build all the packages in a abs repos Here is what I have # # Maker.sh # rm Makefile echo 'CHROOT=/home/Build.Chroot' >> Makefile echo 'REPO=CORE' >> Makefile echo 'REPOS=/home/${REPO}' >> Makefile echo 'PKG=i686.pkg.tar.gz' >> Makefile echo -e "all:\t ALL" >> Makefile for i in $(find . -type d) ; do upper=$(echo ${i} | tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]") ALL=${ALL}" "${upper} echo "${upper}:" >> Makefile echo -e "\tsudo mkarchroot -u "'$(CHROOT)/root' >> Makefile echo -e "\tcd ${i}; sudo makechrootpkg -r "'$(CHROOT);mv *.pkg.* $(REPOS)' >> Makefile echo -e "\trepo-add "'$(REPOS)/$(REPO).db.tar.gz $(REPOS)/'"${i}"'*' >> Makefile echo -e "\ttouch "'$@' >> Makefile done echo -e "ALL:\t ${ALL}" >> Makefile It produces a Makefile with entries like this ./ABS: sudo mkarchroot -u $(CHROOT)/root cd ./abs; sudo makechrootpkg -r $(CHROOT);mv *.pkg.* $(REPOS) repo-add $(REPOS)/$(REPO).db.tar.gz $(REPOS)/./abs* touch $@ I want it to be like this (the ./ removed ) ABS: sudo mkarchroot -u $(CHROOT)/root cd abs; sudo makechrootpkg -r $(CHROOT);mv *.pkg.* $(REPOS) repo-add $(REPOS)/$(REPO).db.tar.gz $(REPOS)/abs* touch $@ find returns the directory entry with ./ in front of the directory name Anyone know how to make find return abs instead of ./abs Thanks

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[arch-general] Planeta Arch - leprosys
by William Díaz 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Hola, este es el feed para planeta: http://www.leprosys.info/search/label/Planeta%20Arch Gracias por hacerme la propuesta de participar. William Díaz o/

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Aspell dictionaries updates in [testing]
by Angel Velásquez 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Eduardo Romero <k3nsai(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday 05 April 2009 04:50:28 pm Eric Bélanger wrote: >> >> Thanks for the test. You could try to get the aspell-es in extra to >> work in kde. If it also doesn't work, then it's probably a >> configuration issue. >> >> BTW, I might try to test them myself. Before, I'll need to get text >> from these languages from the Internet. > Yeah, I might test this, but I have no time at the moment, so if you > want to test some spanish text, use this one. > > "Atencion, esto es una prueba... necesitamos la atencion de todos." > > It should catch "atencion", as it needs an accent in the 'o'. > I said to the #archlinux-es guys to test this package for some days, since we speak mostly in spanish ;), so we will be testing this package and we will you some feedback. Regards -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909

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[arch-general] bz 12953 cant start mysqld
by Adam Stokes 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

There is a fix there and ticket has been open for 4 months. I feel its a pretty big issue since its an initialization script, could someone (the maintainer) please have a look at this bug? http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12953 Thanks -- ( adam stokes ) || ( adam.stokes(a)gmail.com )

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[arch-general] libconfig error
by Mike Sampson 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

Hi, just did a pacman -Syu and one of the packages gives an error on install but still seems to install. Is this error harmless and ok to ignore? System is x86_64. [mercury|/home/mike] # pacman -S libconfig > warning: libconfig-1.3.2-2 is up to date -- reinstalling > resolving dependencies... > looking for inter-conflicts... > > Targets (1): libconfig-1.3.2-2 > > Total Download Size: 0.00 MB > Total Installed Size: 0.39 MB > > Proceed with installation? [Y/n] > checking package integrity... > (1/1) checking for file conflicts > [###########################################################] 100% > (1/1) upgrading libconfig > [###########################################################] 100% > error: scriptlet failed to execute correctly > [mercury|/home/mike] # pacman -Ql libconfig > libconfig /usr/ > libconfig /usr/include/ > libconfig /usr/include/libconfig.h > libconfig /usr/include/libconfig.h++ > libconfig /usr/lib/ > libconfig /usr/lib/libconfig++.a > libconfig /usr/lib/libconfig++.so > libconfig /usr/lib/libconfig++.so.8 > libconfig /usr/lib/libconfig++.so.8.0.0 > libconfig /usr/lib/libconfig.a > libconfig /usr/lib/libconfig.so > libconfig /usr/lib/libconfig.so.8 > libconfig /usr/lib/libconfig.so.8.0.0 > libconfig /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ > libconfig /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libconfig++.pc > libconfig /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libconfig.pc >

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[arch-general] hplip and qt4
by Jeffrey Parke 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

Why is our hplip software still using qt3? If you download hplip straight from the hp site, you get the qt4 version, do you not? just wondering The Ringmaster

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[arch-general] archlinux on twitter
by Abhishek Dasgupta 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

Does anyone know who owns the twitter archlinux account at: http://twitter.com/archlinux Just asking, since it would be useful to post library transitions and big updates (like today's GNOME transition) to twitter so that it's easier for users to stay informed. -- Abhishek

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 53, Issue 43
by Keith 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

pyther wrote: > I was wondering if we could make arch-announce a read only list. Making the core, extra, and community repositories WRITE-ONLY would be a logical extension of this idea...{DDDD} g -- The Osmonds! You are all Osmonds!! Throwing up on a freeway at dawn!!!

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Re: [arch-general] [Fwd: [arch-announce] Dropping i686 support]
by kludge 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Loui Chang wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 02:35:34PM -0500, kludge wrote: >> leslie: fuck you and your macho-nerd, myth-of-progress bullshit. >> >> all the rest: i'm really upset with this decision. the basic >> assumption that anyone who matters is spending money on new hardware is >> fucked-up. > > I LOLed. alright, alright, ya' got me. the best jokes contain a kernel of truth, and this one hit real close to home. i maintain the basic premise of leslie's comment (serious or not) is widely held and fundamentally bad for the world. *and* i woke up with a hang-over, so please forgive me for being a bit too credulous. sheesh, kludge

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[arch-general] Make arch-announce read only?
by pyther 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

I was wondering if we could make arch-announce a read only list. Sort of like the dev mailing list. Anyone who tries to respond to an announcement could get an email saying something along the lines of "If you have a comment about an announcement, please post it on the arch-general list. Thank you." I do not filter the arch-announce mailings for obvious reason and I do not think I am alone. It is very annoying to see replies in my inbox. ~pyther

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[arch-general] Fatal Error
by arunix 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hello :-) i am again posting here i have problem with wmiirc boz when i start X it works bt when i come back with the command ctrl+alt+backkey(backspace) it shows me error The error are :-( (EE)failed to load module"type1"(module doesnot exist,0) (EE)failed to load module"record"(module doesnot exist,0) wmii:not missing fontset for '-*-------font-------" : KSC5601.1987-0, GB2312.1980.0 xlib:extension "Generic event extension" missing on display "0:0" wmii:note :extension "Generic event extension" missing on display "0:0" xIO :fatal IO error 11(Resource temperorily unaviable) on X server ":0.0" after 1166 (1166 unknown processed) with 0 event remaning xinit: for X server lost waiting for X server to shutdown wmii:fatal : cannot read file /directory 'event broken' :Broken Pipe xIO :fatal IO error 11(Resource temperorily unaviable) on X server ":0.0" wmii: fatal: cant mount connection refused /home/arunix/.wmii/wmiirc : line 38 : echo: write error Broken Pipe here is wmiirc file dont understand whts wrong with it? #!/bin/sh -f # Configure wmii # Configuration Variables MODKEY=Mod4 UP=k DOWN=j LEFT=h RIGHT=l # Colors tuples: "<text> <background> <border>" WMII_NORMCOLORS='#888888 #222222 #333333' WMII_FOCUSCOLORS='#ffffff #285577 #4c7899' WMII_BACKGROUND='#333333' WMII_FONT='-*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' set -- $(echo $WMII_NORMCOLORS $WMII_FOCUSCOLORS) WMII_MENU="dmenu -b -fn '$WMII_FONT' -nf '$1' -nb '$2' -sf '$4' -sb '$5'" WMII_9MENU="wmii9menu -font '$WMII_FONT' -nf '$1' -nb '$2' -sf '$4' -sb '$5' -br '$6'" WMII_TERM="xterm" # Column Rules wmiir write /colrules <<! /.*/ -> 58+42 ! # Tagging Rules wmiir write /tagrules <<! /XMMS.*/ -> ~ /MPlayer.*/ -> ~ /.*/ -> sel /.*/ -> 1 ! # Status Bar Info status() { echo -n $(uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g') '|' $(date) } # Event processing # Processed later by `wmiiloop' and evaled. # Duplicate the eval line and replace 'eval' with 'echo' for details. eventstuff() { cat <<'!' # Events Event Start case "$1" in wmiirc) exit; esac Event Key fn=$(echo "$@" | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z_0-9]/_/g') Key_$fn "$@" Event CreateTag echo "$WMII_NORMCOLORS" "$@" | wmiir create "/lbar/$@" Event DestroyTag wmiir remove "/lbar/$@" Event FocusTag wmiir xwrite "/lbar/$@" "$WMII_FOCUSCOLORS" "$@" Event UnfocusTag wmiir xwrite "/lbar/$@" "$WMII_NORMCOLORS" "$@" Event UrgentTag shift wmiir xwrite "/lbar/$@" "*$@" Event NotUrgentTag shift wmiir xwrite "/lbar/$@" "$@" Event LeftBarClick shift wmiir xwrite /ctl view "$@" # Actions Action quit wmiir xwrite /ctl quit Action exec wmiir xwrite /ctl exec "$@" Action rehash proglist $PATH >$progsfile Action status set +xv if wmiir remove /rbar/status 2>/dev/null; then sleep 2 fi echo "$WMII_NORMCOLORS" | wmiir create /rbar/status while status | wmiir write /rbar/status; do sleep 1 done Event ClientMouseDown client=$1; button=$2 case "$button" in 3) do=$(eval $WMII_9MENU -initial "${menulast:-SomeRandomName}" Nop Delete Fullscreen) case "$do" in Delete) wmiir xwrite /client/$client/ctl kill;; Fullscreen) wmiir xwrite /client/$client/ctl Fullscreen on;; esac menulast=${do:-"$menulast"} esac # Key Bindings Key $MODKEY-Control-t case $(wmiir read /keys | wc -l | tr -d ' \t\n') in 0|1) echo -n $Keys | tr ' ' '\012' | wmiir write /keys wmiir xwrite /ctl grabmod $MODKEY;; *) wmiir xwrite /keys $MODKEY-Control-t wmiir xwrite /ctl grabmod Mod3;; esac Key $MODKEY-space wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl select toggle Key $MODKEY-d wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl colmode sel default Key $MODKEY-s wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl colmode sel stack Key $MODKEY-m wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl colmode sel max Key $MODKEY-a Action $(actionlist | eval $WMII_MENU) & Key $MODKEY-p sh -c "$(eval $WMII_MENU <$progsfile)" & Key $MODKEY-t wmiir xwrite /ctl "view $(tagsmenu)" & Key $MODKEY-Return eval $WMII_TERM & Key $MODKEY-Shift-space wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel toggle Key $MODKEY-f wmiir xwrite /client/sel/ctl Fullscreen toggle Key $MODKEY-Shift-c wmiir xwrite /client/sel/ctl kill Key $MODKEY-Shift-t wmiir xwrite "/client/$(wmiir read /client/sel/ctl)/tags" "$(tagsmenu)" & Key $MODKEY-$LEFT wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl select left Key $MODKEY-$RIGHT wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl select right Key $MODKEY-$DOWN wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl select down Key $MODKEY-$UP wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl select up Key $MODKEY-Shift-$LEFT wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel left Key $MODKEY-Shift-$RIGHT wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel right Key $MODKEY-Shift-$DOWN wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel down Key $MODKEY-Shift-$UP wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel up ! for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do cat <<! Key $MODKEY-$i wmiir xwrite /ctl view "$i" Key $MODKEY-Shift-$i wmiir xwrite /client/sel/tags "$i" ! done } # WM Configuration wmiir write /ctl << EOF font $WMII_FONT focuscolors $WMII_FOCUSCOLORS normcolors $WMII_NORMCOLORS grabmod $MODKEY border 1 EOF export WMII_MENU WMII_9MENU WMII_FONT WMII_TERM export WMII_FOCUSCOLORS WMII_SELCOLORS WMII_NORMCOLORS # Feed events to `wmiiloop' for processing eval "$(eventstuff | sed 's/^[ ]//' | { . wmiiloop; })" echo "$Keys" | tr ' ' '\n' | wmiir write /keys # Functions Action() { action=$1; shift if [ -n "$action" ]; then Action_$action "$@" \ || conf_which $action "$@" fi } proglist() { paths=$(echo "$@" | sed 'y/:/ /') ls -lL $paths 2>/dev/null \ | awk '$1 ~ /^[^d].*x/ && NF > 2 { print $NF }' \ | sort | uniq } # Misc progsfile="$WMII_NS_DIR/.proglist" Action status & proglist $PATH >$progsfile & xsetroot -solid "$WMII_BACKGROUND" & # Setup Tag Bar seltag="$(wmiir read /tag/sel/ctl 2>/dev/null)" wmiir ls /lbar | while read bar; do wmiir remove "/lbar/$bar" done wmiir ls /tag | sed -e 's|/||; /^sel$/d' | while read tag; do if [ "X$tag" = "X$seltag" ]; then echo "$WMII_FOCUSCOLORS" "$tag" | wmiir create "/lbar/$tag" else echo "$WMII_NORMCOLORS" "$tag" | wmiir create "/lbar/$tag" fi done # More functions tagsmenu() { wmiir ls /tag | sed 's|/||; /^sel$/d' | eval $WMII_MENU } actionlist() { { proglist $WMII_CONFPATH echo -n $Actions | tr ' ' '\012' } | sort | uniq } conf_which() { which=$(which which) prog=$(PATH="$WMII_CONFPATH" $which $1); shift [ -n "$prog" ] && $prog "$@" } # Stop any running instances of wmiirc echo Start wmiirc | wmiir write /event || exit 1 wmiir read /event | while read event; do set -- $event event=$1; shift Event_$event $@ done 2>/dev/null -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Fatal-Error-tp22805236p22805236.html Sent from the arch general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[arch-general] [Fwd: [arch-announce] Dropping i686 support]
by David Rosenstrauch 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hmmm ... My only concern about this is that it's often difficult or impossible to run an x86_64 distro inside a VM. So one very definite negative of this change is that it'd restrict many/most people's ability to run Arch inside of a VM - something I've done many times, and have found very convenient, and which would be a shame to lose. Just my $0.02. DR -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [arch-announce] Dropping i686 support Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:03:08 -0000 From: Recent News Updates <announce(a)archlinux.org> Reply-To: Arch Linux Announcements <arch-announce(a)archlinux.org> To: arch-announce(a)archlinux.org Recently the developers have been discussing the possibility of adding some additional optimizations to our i686 port to improve multimedia support. This would involve reducing the compatibility with older systems. As some of you may have heard ([1], Google translation [2]), this discussion has resulted in the decision to focus exclusively on the x86_64 port. The overall opinion of the developers is that the x86_64 port is now complete enough to justify this decision and that this is in keeping with Arch's philosophy of supporting current generation hardware. The x86_64 architecture has been available since 2002 (compared to i686 which is from 1995), and we believe most of our i686 users have x86_64 compatible hardware. An official time-line for the deprecation of the i686 port has not been established, but an official announcement needs to be made, as the decision has already been leaked to the ArchLinux-BR community. However, it is likely that major updates (GNOME, KDE, Xor g, etc) will not be built for i686 in the immediate future. Users will still be able to build packages for i686 packages using ABS. As most of the architecture specific patches are for x86_64, this should be relatively pain free. [1] <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/archlinux-br/browse_thread/thread/d1b6075adf…">http://groups.google.com/group/archlinux-br/browse_thread/thread/d1b6075adf…</a> [2] <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2…">http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2…</a> URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/440/ _______________________________________________ arch-announce mailing list arch-announce(a)archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce

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[arch-general] Orphan core
by Baho Utot 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Can someone please orphan core and extra so I can adopt it?

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[arch-general] Sick of xf86-video-intel? Use the framebuffer device!
by Pierre Schmitz 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi all, I am a proud user of an Intel 855GM chipset. Some time ago when the i810 xorg dirver was replaced by the xf86-viedo-intel performance were decreased from version to version and in the end it was unusable due to too many bugs an problems. * support for tv-out was dropped (ok, not that important for me) * xv does not work. You either get a green or blue square or your whole X crashes. * all kinds of false rendering * extremly slow 2D performance. Even with UXA I can watch the single elements redrwaing if I switch tabs in konqueror for example * too slow to watch videos on youtube or even a DVD * overall instability * suspend/resume is just a matter of luck When I was just seeing garbage on my screen (=unusable) with the new 2.6.29 kernel I started looking for alternatives: * xorg vesa driver: faster than intel and stable; bu still performance was not that great (of course, there is no hw acceleration) * vesafb+fbdev: similar performance; fast switching to vc and back is nice :-) Finally I got intelfb working. Togehter with the xorg fbdev driver this seems to solve all my problems. It is really fast and stable. Suspend/Resume works fine and as a bonus I get fast vc switching (who needs kms for this? ;) Well, there is no support for xv, but I can watch DVDs with x11 output driver without issues. Using mplayer with fbdev output it is even possible to watch 720p videos. The problem is: you have to compile your own kernel. The stock kernel provides the intelfb module but you cannot use it because vesafb is compiled in. I did not find a way to work around this. As soon as you start the kernel with a vga=XXX parameter vesafb gets loaded and other fb drivers cannot work. So, here is a patch and a precompiled kernel for those who want to try it: http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/packages/src/intelfb.patch http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/packages/i686/kernel26-intelfb-2.6.29-4- i686.pkg.tar.gz It is also possible to build intelfb as a module; just add intel_agp and intelfb to your modules list in mkinitcpio.conf. I hope this is helpful for some of you, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre(a)jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de

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[arch-general] Adding LDFLAGS to /etc/makepkg.conf
by Alexandre Bique 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi, I am trying these FLAGS: CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ftree-vectorize -ftree-parallelize-loops=4" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" And i need to link to libgomp so i tried to add LDFLAGS="-lgomp" But it doesn't work. What should i do doctor ? Thanks. -- Alexandre Bique

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[arch-general] HAL mount options
by Edgar Kalkowski 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi! Until now I used /etc/fstab to mount my usb memory stick but I would like to switch that task to hal now to be able to use the cool removable devices widget of plasma. The problem is that I defined some options in /etc/fstab and cannot get hal to use the same options. The fstab line look like this: LABEL=USB-Stick /mnt/USB-Stick vfat uid=root,gid=users,showexec,user,noauto,umask=002,utf8,shortname=mixed 0 0 From what I googled on the web I deduced that I should create a file named /etc/hal/fdi/policy/20-USB-Stick.fdi and fill it with the following content: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <deviceinfo version="0.2"> <device> <match key="volume.uuid" string="4908-87A8"> <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.showexec" type="bool">true</merge> </match> </device> </deviceinfo> The volume uuid (4908-87A8) was obtained via "$ /lib/udev/vol_id /dev/sdc1" where sdc1 is the partition on my usb stick I want to mount. I restarted hal and tried it after creating this fdi file but it does not work. The executable bit is still set for both directories and folders. As this didn't work I did not yet try to implement the other options. Does anyone have an idea? Is there some documentation about these fdi files on the web that I did not find? Thanks in advance for your help! Edgar

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[arch-general] i686 build machines for rent
by Corrado Primier 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Since the decision of discontinuing the i686 binary repo, many people who can't or don't want to switch will need to recompile their packages themselves. Then there's also the problem of devs and TUs who don't have access to an x86_64 machine. Striving to find a solution I came up with an idea: selling processing power! That's right, guys. Do you own one of those slow i686-only dinosaurs? Do you need the power of an x86_64 machine to get your packages built quickly in i686 chroots? I'm here for you! I have a couple of machines I can dedicate to this task. I decided for a "political" price of 20€/year; all revenues will be donated to the OxPD (One x86_64 Per Developer) Project. Before setting everything up I'd like to hear from the community if this is something they're interested in, and I'm obviously also asking all Arch contributors who have a decent machine (x86_64, that is...) to dedicate it to this important project that will allow all of our devs to continue their work for our favorite distro. Corrado Primier (Arch Linux Trusted User)

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[arch-general] ArchLinux install CD for the blind, version 2!
by Chris Brannon 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

I am proud to announce the second release of a modified ArchLinux install CD that includes spoken output for blind users. It is mostly equivalent to the official "ftp CD", but the system should start speaking as soon as you boot with it. Speech is provided via the sound card, using the eSpeak software synthesizer and the Speakup screenreader. This CD is only available for the i686 platform; x86-64 is not supported. There are two versions: an Isolinux version and a Grub version. One may obtain ".iso" images via HTTP. Grub: Download URL: http://cmb.tysdomain.com/talkingarch-2009.02-ftp-i686.iso MD5 sum: 932d49d5093e50d8c5fb14527afd17fa Isolinux: Download URL: http://cmb.tysdomain.com/talkingarch-2009.02-ftp-i686-isolinux.iso MD5 sum: 28fa806a745e26424596259a71fc9d64 Thanks to Tyler Littlefield for hosting these files. The following list of steps is a brief guide to installing ArchLinux using this CD. If anyone has trouble with it, send me a private email. The instructions assume that your root partition will be mounted on /mnt. 0. When booting, Grub provides a very long timeout. Press enter once the drive stops spinning. 1. Use the installer on the CD, as per the beginner's guide. 2. Install the alsa-utils and espeak packages: pacman --root=/mnt -S alsa-utils espeak 3. Install the speakup and espeakup packages. These are not yet available in the community repository. There are two ways to install them, depending on how much you trust me. Alternative 1: Use the binary packages from my website. I promise that the speakup package will always match the kernel version available from the official ArchLinux repositories. Append the following two lines to /etc/pacman.conf and /mnt/etc/pacman.conf: [blind] Server = http://members.cox.net/cmbrannon/blind/i686 Install the packages from my custom repository: pacman --root=/mnt -Sy speakup espeakup Alternative 2: Build the packages from source, using the PKGBUILDs available from the Arch User Repository. For convenience, the URLs are: http://aur.archlinux.org/download/speakup/speakup.tar.gz http://aur.archlinux.org/download/espeakup/espeakup.tar.gz If I were going to choose this option, I would probably chroot into the newly installed ArchLinux system in order to build the packages. 4. Customize /mnt/etc/rc.conf: Add speakup and speakup_soft to the MODULES array. Add alsa and espeakup to the DAEMONS array. 5. You also need to save the state of the sound card, so that it will be retrieved on reboot. Execute the command "alsactl store" and copy the file /etc/asound.state to /mnt/etc/asound.state. Alternatively, alsactl -f /mnt/etc/asound.state store 6. When you boot the system from the hard disk, it should start speaking. The ArchLinux developers build their CD images using a set of shell scripts and configuration files named archiso. I added a configuration to archiso that allows me to build accessible CDs. If someone wants to produce customized images containing Speakup, he can do the following. Grab sources using git: git clone http://members.cox.net/cmbrannon/archiso.git git checkout --track -b talkinginst origin/talkinginst All of my work is done on the "talkinginst" branch. The master branch mirrors the master branch from git://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git Now you have a copy in archiso/. Install the scripts contained in archiso/archiso. In order to create the image, pacman needs to be able to find the speakup and espeakup packages. Add my custom [blind] package repository to /etc/pacman.conf on the host system, as described in the instructions for installing from CD. Change to the archiso/configs/talkinginst directory, and type "make ftp-iso". Alternatively, "make BOOTLOADER=syslinux ftp-iso"" yields an image having Isolinux as its bootloader. There are several more targets for "make". For instance, ftp-usb produces an image suitable for a flash drive. Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with ArchLinux. I don't even have Trusted User status in the community. This CD image is not an official release. It is not endorsed by anyone other than myself. It is provided solely for the convenience of its creator and other blind users. It comes with absolutely no warranty. With kind regards, -- Chris

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[arch-general] Computer blocking due to kernel <-> userspace incompatibility?
by RedShift 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hello list Is it possible a computer gets stuck (not responding to keyboard, the only way to bring it back alive is a hard reset) because of a incompatibility between the kernel and userspace? The cursor is still flickering though, that is what leads me to believe it's software crash, not a hardware crash. This is the software in question: glibc 2.9-4 kernel-headers 2.6.27.6-2 kernel26 2.6.25.10-1 Thanks, Best regards, Glenn Matthys

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[arch-general] fortune-mod packages
by Jan Spakula 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

I've noticed that all fortune-mod packages (except fortune-mod itself) have been removed from extra (by Eric). Do you plan on uploading them to AUR, or should I just grab PKGBUILDs from svn and upload them myself if I'm interested on maintaining some of them? Thanks, Jan

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[arch-general] openjdk web plugin under proxy.
by Javier Vasquez 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hi, It happens that under the company I work for proxy (a non transparent one), the openjdk plugin doesn't seem to work. I tries to run the applet, but nothing. I read several bug reports about that (non arch), so I guess eventually it'll get fixed. However I'd like to know if there's a work around not implying tunneling neither routing. If there's anyone aware of such work around, please let me know. Thanks, -- Javier

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[arch-general] VirtualBox
by Manne Merak 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hi all, I am new to ArchLinux, a longtime OpenSUSE and Slax user looking for a change. Before I commit I usually want to try with a LiveCD or VirtualBox. Cant find a LiveCD and VirtualBox booting the ISO gives a Kernel Panic. Anyone that can help me? Manne

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[arch-general] (no subject)
by Agus Setiawan 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

-- Regards, Agus Setiawan http://mysetiawan.net

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[arch-general] (no subject)
by xq 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

-- Yogi Berra - "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."

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[arch-general] [signoff] mdadm-2.6.9-1
by Tobias Powalowski 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hi http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10651 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9122 both states raid is broken for more complex setups. According to my earlier mail about assembling raid arrays i wrote a new hook and install file. It uses mdassemble.static from mdadm tarball which is smaller than mdadm.static and does the assembling job and loading of the needed raid module. How does it work: - If a an array is defined on users system /etc/mdadm.conf, the file will be added to initramfs and used for the assembling things. - If no array was defined it falls back to commandline assembling and a madm.conf file will be created on the fly during bootup. Old command line syntax wasn't changed, uuid support is added (eg. md=0,0900878d:f95f6057:c39a36e9:55efa61b) Last Fix: -fixed booting from partitionable raid, by loading md_mod before assembling. Passed Tests: - Tested normal raid 1 setup with and without mdadm.conf modified. - Tested raid1 partitionable raid with extended and without extended partition. - Tested uuid assembling from commandline I think this is ready to move to core, please signoff. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] /etc/fstab :no ext. hdd
by Preston C. 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

I hope that this is not to much of a noob question, but since I started using Arch I haven't been able to access my external hard drive through KDE. I posted on the forums about the problem but it seems that the other people who had the problem, had the problem in a different way. My problem is I can access my cdrom drive through the desktop but cannot access my external hdd. When I try to I get an error message concerning HAL Permission Policy. So I read back through The Beginners Guide and two things came to mind- user 'groups' and /etc/fstab. In /etc/fstab these are the devices that show: /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /media/cdrom1 auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 No external hdd? Also, why are there two cdrom devices when I only have 1 cd drive and 1 dvd drive? I was wondering if the external hdd doesn't exist in /etc/fstab because I did not add it as a 'group' (which I think I did) or for some other reason? Supposedly I could use HAL, in some way- although I would rather have the external hdd in /etc/fstab. How do I get the external hdd to exist in /etc/fstab , which I think it should? Thanks, Preston

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[arch-general] aufs2 patch to work for archlinux kernel
by Christopher Rogers 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

I fixed aufs2 to work in archlinux kernel. I had to remove some patches to aufs2-standalone.patch you guys made so it would work. This will mean we have to drop unionfs for this to work. http://arch-live.isawsome.net/devel/aufs2-standalone.patch patch for aufs2 to work with kernel 2.6.29 http://arch-live.isawsome.net/devel/aufs2-linux-2.6.29.patch Unionfs need do_splice_to and do_splice_from to be vfsub_splice_to and vfsub_splice_from. Problem was that those functions are in fs/aufs/vfsub.c file. Anyways I fixed the error since we are not using unionfs anymore if aufs2 is added in. I hope this helps.

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[arch-general] Gnome package list
by Baho Utot 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

I don't have gnome currently installed on any of my desktops I would like to list the packages that would be installed _if_ I did a pacman -S gnome Is there ant way to list packages in the gnome group prior to installation ? Presently pacman -Qg gnome returns nothing Thanks

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[arch-general] pacman bug? (can't replace dir with file)
by Damjan Georgievski 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

Is this a known pacman bug (or a feature)? I tried to upgrade python-fuse and it errored out. /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/fuse_python-0.2-py2.6.egg-info is a directory in the old package, but a file in the new package. # pacman -S python-fuse resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (1): python-fuse-20090321-1 Total Download Size: 0,00 MB Total Installed Size: 0,15 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) python-fuse: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/fuse_python-0.2-py2.6.egg-info exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. -- damjan

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[arch-general] File notification question
by richard terry 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

Is it possible to set up a process( which notifies me via some sort of icon on taskbar try like email alert does) which monitors a particular directory on my computer and if a new file is added to that directory, triggers the alert? If so, if anyone can point me in the direction it would be appreciated. Thanks in advance Richard

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[arch-general] why QT-4.5.0-4 is compiled with exceptions?
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

Hi I see that QT is now compiled with exceptions enabled. There is a reason for it? Searching in the forum, looking for why this change, I encountered only one old topic(2005) [#1]. (A discussion about it between phrakture and vicious) the C++ exception handling has been improved since those days? Thanks, [#1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=8998 -- 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] id3tag pkgconfig: unrecognized option '-zf'
by hollunder＠gmx.at 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

Hi there, I'm investigating an error when attempting to build sonic visualiser 1.5 and we narrowed it down to the -zf option in the pkgconfig. Is this a bug in libid3tag or in my arch? This is the error at compiletime: g++ -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -o sonic-visualiser tmp_obj/main.o tmp_obj/OSCHandler.o tmp_obj/MainWindow.o tmp_obj/PreferencesDialog.o tmp_obj/moc_MainWindow.o tmp_obj/moc_PreferencesDialog.o tmp_obj/qrc_sonic-visualiser.o -L../view -L../layer -L../data -L../widgets -L../transform -L../plugin -L../base -L../system -L../framework -L../audioio -L../rdf -L/usr/lib -lsvframework -lsvaudioio -lsvview -lsvlayer -lsvrdf -lsvtransform -lsvwidgets -lsvdata -lsvplugin -lsvbase -lsvsystem -lbz2 -L/home/hollunder/builds/vamp-plugin-sdk/pkg/usr/lib -lvamp-hostsdk -loggz -lfishsound -lvorbisenc -lspeex -lvorbis -logg -lmad -zf -lid3tag -lrubberband -lfftw3 -lfftw3f -lsndfile -lsamplerate -llrdf -lrdf -lrasqal -lraptor -lportaudio -ljack -llo -Wl,-Bdynamic -lQtXml -L/usr/lib -pthread -pthread -lQtGui -L/usr/X11R6/lib -pthread -lpng -lfreetype -lgobject-2.0 -lSM -lICE -pthread -pthread -lXrender -lfontconfig -lXext -lX11 -lQtNetwork -lssl -lcrypto -pthread -pthread -lQtCore -lz -lm -pthread -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0 -lpthread -ldl g++: unrecognized option '-zf' This is the pkgconfig file including the -zf prefix=/usr exec_prefix=/usr/bin libdir=/usr/lib includedir=/usr/include Name: ID3TAG Description: libid3tag - ID3 tag manipulation library Version: 0.15.0b Libs: -L${libdir} -lid3tag -zf Cflags: I wrote to the mad user list as well, so far without answer. Thanks in advance for your help Philipp

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[arch-general] Seamonkey + Openjdk
by Javier Vasquez 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Hi all, I have seamonkey installed, and its browser works great with the sun java plugin (the oji). I recently tried to migrate to openjdk, and I even installed xulrunner (I read somewhere it was a dependency although one could install openjdk without it). Seamonkey doesn't seem to recognize the IcedTeaPlugin.so plugin (about:plugins), whether xulrunner is installed or not. I've tried using different link names, and that doesn't work... Any hints (bellow I add the packets present, and the links)? Thanks, local/openjdk6 1.5-0.1 local/xulrunner 1.9.0.7-1 local/seamonkey 1.1.15-1 % ls -l /usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.15/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 2009-03-23 19:33 /usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.15/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so -> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so % ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 61 2009-03-06 14:34 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so % ls -l /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 249K 2009-03-06 14:34 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so -- Javier

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[arch-general] [wiki] Using File Capabilities Instead Of Setuid
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

Hi people, I created a interesting article wiki page for the new libcap 2 (from Hugo Doria) package that are in [testing] now. It cover all [core] packages that have setuid-root (all works fine), and the xorg-server(*) from [extra]. I invite all those who want to work with other packages that use setuid in [extra] and [community] (*) Preliminary ideas/tips for Xorg that not are currently in the wiki page: For example if you have a nvidia card, and if the kernel module isn't loaded when X start, The Xorg will load it, and create the necessary devs files (/dev/nvidia0 and /dev/nvidiactl). So there are two ways to do this load the kernel module before startx, and create device files manualy, or assing two more capabilities to Xorg (not a good idea) The minimun capabilities required: setcap cap_chown,cap_dac_override,cap_sys_rawio,cap_sys_admin+ep /usr/bin/Xorg If grant to load kernel modules and create devices nodes (_bad idea_): setcap cap_chown,cap_dac_override,cap_mknod,cap_sys_module,cap_sys_rawio,cap_sys_admin+ep /usr/bin/Xorg * cap_sys_admin: Seems that running xorg under VirtualBox isn't needed. * cap_chown is required for chown the "devs tty" on X start/stop * cap_sys_rawio is for accesing to /dev/mem (this will be became obsolete for KMS [Kernel Mode Setting]) * cap_dac_override is for writing the logs. Take Care -- 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] devtools
by Baho Utot 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

I am testing using the devtools scripts I created the chroot according to the developer wiki:Building_in_a-Clean_Chroot modified the pacman.conf as follows: [CORE] Server = file:///home/CORE [EXTRA] Server = file:///home/EXTRA these point inside the chroot I built bcm43xx-fwcutter as a test and which succeeded I placed the package into /home/CORE in the chroot and ran repo -add CORE.db.tar.gz *.pkg.* to create the repo db file then trying to build the broadcomm firmware which requires bcm43xx-fwcutter I get sudo makechrootpkg -c -r /home/Build.Chroot/ building union chroot moving build files to chroot Setting PKGDEST in makepkg.conf Setting SRCDEST in makepkg.conf allowing 'nobody' sudo rights in the chroot mounting sysfs : /sys mounting procfs : /proc binding device nodes : /dev binding pacman cache : /var/cache/pacman copying mtab : /etc/mtab copying resolv.conf : /etc/resolv.conf starting chroot (/chrootbuild) ==> Making package: b43-firmware 4.150.10.5-1 any (Sat Mar 21 12:54:45 UTC 2009) ==> Checking Runtime Dependencies... ==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies... ==> Installing missing dependencies... b43-fwcutter package not found, searching for group... error: 'b43-fwcutter': not found in sync db ==> ERROR: Pacman failed to install missing dependencies. cleaning up mounts Moving completed package file to /home/SVN/repos/Projects/Desktop/extra/broadcom.firmware mv: cannot stat `/home/Build.Chroot/union/pkgdest/b43-firmware-4.150.10.5-1-*.pkg.tar.gz': No such file or directory Build failed, check $CHROOT_DIR/rw/build cleaning up unioned mounts shouldn't pacman have found b43-fwcutter packages in the chroot? Or am I missing something?

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[arch-general] bittorrent cli client
by Baho Utot 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

Can anyone recommend a bittorrent command line client?

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[arch-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] deluge 1.1.5-2
by Grigorios Bouzakis 22 Mar '09

22 Mar '09

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Hugo Doria <hugodoria(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Fixing FS#12071. Added a daemon, a .install and a user and group > > -- Hugo > Why are you sending signoffs for packages in extra? Theres no need to. The same applies to libedit as well.. -- Greg -- Greg

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[arch-general] acl-2.2.47-1
by Baho Utot 22 Mar '09

22 Mar '09

Getting the following error building acl-2.2.47 in chroot using devtools == doc === /bin/gzip --best -c < CHANGES > CHANGES.gz === po === /usr/bin/msgfmt -o de.mo de.po /usr/bin/msgfmt: error while loading shared libraries: libcroco-0.6.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [de.mo] Error 127 make: *** [default] Error 2 should libcroco be a dependency?

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[arch-general] gnome some shortcuts gone ...
by Sentinel 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

Hello, after a recent update (unfortunately I could not update the system for a while because of sickness) gnome-shortcuts do not work anymore. If I go to System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts most of the shortcuts are entirely missing. Like the shortcuts for changing desktops(they are not there, but magically work), alt+F2 does not work anymore (for quick launching applications, the same as in KDE). The shortcut for a console that I previously set is not there either and many more shortcuts are just simply not in the list. Any suggestions? Thanks for any answer. Tom

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[arch-general] Bash script for searching patterns in packages filelist
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

Hi, Uses the files $repo.files.tar-gz that the community/pkgtools downloads Output both files for each repo, one sorted by package and other sorted by packager http://djgera.pastebin.com/f23dd3601 Can be very improved, sure! Sample usage: $ ./badfhs.sh usr/man/.+ [core] Done: /tmp/core.usrman.txt and /tmp/core.usrman.sort.txt [extra] Done: /tmp/extra.usrman.txt and /tmp/extra.usrman.sort.txt [community] Done: /tmp/community.usrman.txt and /tmp/community.usrman.sort.txt [testing] Done: /tmp/testing.usrman.txt and /tmp/testing.usrman.sort.txt The output: [djgera@gerardo ~]$ cat /tmp/extra.usrman.txt | head -4 3ddesktop 0.2.9-2 Simo Leone a2ps 4.13c-1 Arch Linux abcde 2.3.99.7-1 Giovanni Scafora acct 6.3.2-1 Damir Perisa arj 3.10.22-4 Travis Willard [djgera@gerardo ~]$ cat /tmp/extra.usrman.sort.txt | head -4 fbset 2.1-2 Aaron Griffin fetchmail 6.3.8-4 Aaron Griffin imlib 1.9.15-4 Aaron Griffin lsdvd 0.16-3 Aaron Griffin ccache 2.4-4 Alexander Baldeck Take care. -- 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] gran paradiso crashes permanently
by Markus Krell 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

Hi arch users out there, since a few weeks, my firefox crashes permanently. I disabled all three Add Ons, i had installed, but still no difference. Really annoying, so is there any possibility to find out why firefox crashes, often a few minutes after starting? Launched from shell, firefox detaches directly, so i dont know where to look first. Version is up to date: 3.0.7-1 Thx for any answers. Markus

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[arch-general] Ruby gem packaging guidelines
by Daenyth Blank 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

I've made a draft of some packaging guidelines for ruby gems; anyone care to comment or expand them? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ruby_Gem_Package_Guidelines

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[arch-general] texlive-core errors
by Henri Häkkinen 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

Hello. I have some problems with installing LaTeX. Here is the output of `pacman -S texlive-core`: :: Retrieving packages from extra... t1lib-5.1.2-2-i686 838.9K 87.9K/s 00:00:10 [#####################] 100% gd-2.0.35-1 175.9K 52.8K/s 00:00:03 [#####################] 100% libsigsegv-2.4-1 9.9K 69.7K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100% texlive-bin-2008-3-i686 14.4M 97.5K/s 00:02:32 [#####################] 100% texlive-core-2008.1... 54.1M 86.5K/s 00:10:40 [#####################] 100% checking package integrity... (5/5) checking for file conflicts [#####################] 100% (1/5) installing t1lib [#####################] 100% (2/5) installing gd [#####################] 100% (3/5) installing libsigsegv [#####################] 100% (4/5) installing texlive-bin [#####################] 100% Optional dependencies for texlive-bin psutils t1utils perl (5/5) installing texlive-core [#####################] 100% updating the filename database... done creating the fontmap files with updmap... done Error: `pdftex -ini -jobname=etex -progname=etex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini' failed Error: `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdfetex -progname=pdfetex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed Error: `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed Error: `xetex -ini -jobname=xetex -progname=xetex -etex xetex.ini' failed ############################################################################### fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully. Visit the log files in directory /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c for details. ############################################################################### This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings: `pdftex -ini -jobname=etex -progname=etex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdfetex -progname=pdfetex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed `xetex -ini -jobname=xetex -progname=xetex -etex xetex.ini' failed creating all formats... done. (logs are under /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/<engine>/<formatname>.log) ------------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASE read the TeXLive documentation at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TeXLive ------------------------------------------------------------------ Optional dependencies for texlive-core perl ruby ghostscript psutils -- Henri Häkkinen

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Bug Day - Saturday 21st March
by Allan McRae 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

Allan McRae wrote: > On Saturday the 21st of March we will be holding a bug day to combat > the ever increasing number of reports in our bug tracker. We will > clear outdated reports, fix/implement those that already have patches > provided or are trivial to fix/implement and discuss the pros and cons > of implementing some feature requests. A rough TODO list that you can > add to is on the wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bug_Day_TODO) > > Please join us in #archlinux-bugs on irc.freenode.net during the 21st > of March. We live in many different timezones, so hopefully a dev will > be present at all times during the day. Just a reminder about the bug day today/tommorrow (depending on time zone). We are down to 650 bugs already (from ~680 a week ago). Allan

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[arch-general] what about ELF rpath in Arch Linux?
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

Hi, (first: sorry my very bad english) I see that many executables and libraries in Arch Linux don't take care about rpath in package creation step. Then when executed, the ld-linux will find libraries first in the rpath , and if fails will go to search in the cache ld.so.cache, instead of directly search here) So for example if you execute the... setfacl/getfacl/chacl (in package from core/acl, and this is the only package in [core] that have this issue with binaries) will find in libs in varius incorrects paths for example: $ readelf -d /usr/bin/getfacl | grep RPATH 0x0000000f (RPATH) Library rpath: [/home/thomas/arch/repos/core/base/acl/pkg/usr/lib] $ LD_DEBUG=libs setfacl 10323: find library=libacl.so.1 [0]; searching 10323: search (*** stripped here same paths below... ***) (RPATH from file setfacl) 10323: trying file=/home/thomas/arch/repos/core/base/acl/pkg/usr/lib/tls/i686/sse2/libacl.so.1 10323: trying file=/home/thomas/arch/repos/core/base/acl/pkg/usr/lib/tls/i686/libacl.so.1 10323: trying file=/home/thomas/arch/repos/core/base/acl/pkg/usr/lib/tls/sse2/libacl.so.1 10323: trying file=/home/thomas/arch/repos/core/base/acl/pkg/usr/lib/tls/libacl.so.1 10323: trying file=/home/thomas/arch/repos/core/base/acl/pkg/usr/lib/i686/sse2/libacl.so.1 10323: trying file=/home/thomas/arch/repos/core/base/acl/pkg/usr/lib/i686/libacl.so.1 10323: trying file=/home/thomas/arch/repos/core/base/acl/pkg/usr/lib/sse2/libacl.so.1 10323: trying file=/home/thomas/arch/repos/core/base/acl/pkg/usr/lib/libacl.so.1 10323: search cache=/etc/ld.so.cache 10323: trying file=/lib/libacl.so.1 10323: The issue here is for example if a user "thomas" in my system, create a libacl.so.1 in any of these paths, the setfacl will use them insteads of the correct libacl.so.1, and if the libacl.so.1 from thomas contain a malicious code, the user that execute it are in problem :(, root for example. OK managing rpath at build time vary from package to package, some that uses autotools/libtool, the configure script, have a --disable-rpath for controling this behavior, and other don't have. Others require rpath at build time to linking executables from the same source, and other always hardcore it (gcc -Wl,--rpath...), etc, etc. In libtool, can change a M4 macro to don't use rpath for example. There is a simple tool, to remove rpath from ELF files called chrpath [#1] (seems that cmake build system can use an aproach based on chrpath to delete rpath from ELF) For example: # /bin/ls -l /usr/bin/setfacl -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25052 2008-02-26 13:23 /usr/bin/setfacl # chrpath -d /usr/bin/setfacl # /bin/ls -l /usr/bin/setfacl -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25052 2009-03-20 01:06 /usr/bin/setfacl # LD_DEBUG=libs setfacl 11033: find library=libacl.so.1 [0]; searching 11033: search cache=/etc/ld.so.cache 11033: trying file=/lib/libacl.so.1 And now is correct and secure. The minor problem here, _and don't make much sense_ is that will do some aditionals system calls open() and stat64() for each inexistent libs on loading. Many others have /usr/lib (and many many others paths) as rpath, then when execute will look for the first library that need to load at /usr/lib/tls/i686/sse2:/usr/lib/tls/i686:/usr/lib/tls/sse2:/usr/lib/tls:/usr/lib/i686/sse2:/usr/lib/i686:/usr/lib/sse2 (and these are removed from search path for next libs), and then for all libs will look first in /usr/lib if fails do a /etc/ld.so.cache search The rpath is important when managing many versions of the same libs with same soname, for example for debuging/testing purposes. For example i see googling that in some distros (like Debian[s]) and in some BSDs the rpath is removed from all ELF files, except that in that is necessary required. Then my question: what is the position of arch-dev-team about rpath? (remember: don't take this as a mail as feature request, is just one question) Thanks in advance, I hope not to have bothered with this. Good Luck! / ¡Buena suerte! [#1] chrpath: The original home don't work http://directory.fsf.org/project/chrpath/ i use a debian mirror in my pkgbuild http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24818 -- 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] Routing Problems with Wifi Link 5100
by Thomas Bohn 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Hello, I use an Intel Wifi Link 5100 in my eeePC 1000H, since it appears to me the better card compared to the rt2860 which came with ther computer. But even this card is not w/o problems. After a while (can't really tell how long this while is) I have problem to access websites or get the RSS feeds or even update my pacman databases. But other sites worked without problems, e.g. I could browse through the Firefox addons but I couldn't install them and I couldn't access www.heise.de but www.apple.com worked a little bit. I could resolve the hosts w/o problems and I could ping www.heise.de w/o an error. After a reboot everything went back to normal, turning off the wifi card or reconnecting wasn't enough though. Linux proton 2.6.28-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 17 06:42:43 UTC 2009 i686 Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux The only thing I could find in the logs is this (every 30 minutes): --- dhcpcd[4841]: wlan0: renewing lease of 192.168.1.101 dhcpcd[4841]: wlan0: acknowledged 192.168.1.101 from 192.168.1.1 dhcpcd[4841]: wlan0: leased 192.168.1.101 for 3600 seconds --- I hope someone can help me. Thomas

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[arch-general] smbd cannot be killed
by Sergey Manucharian 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Hi folks, I've posted a message about a samba issue I'm experiencing on the samba community forum. The issue itself is not relevant to this list, but the bottom line is that I cannot restart samba - several instances of smbd continue running and even "kill -9 smbd" doesn't help... I have to restart the server in such cases, which is not good idea for the domain controller. The below is what samba people talk: > If kill -9 does not help, you have a kernel problem. There > have been kernels with broken inotify that leads to runaway > smbd processes chewing CPU. You might want to try > notify:inotify = false > or upgrade your kernel. May it be true? Did anybody experience such things? Thanks, Sergey

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[arch-general] Away - Inactive
by Andrea Scarpino 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Hi ML, I'll be in Milan from 21th March to 27th March, and I'll be without my laptop for this time :( Also I think I'll not have a connection to check my mailbox. Anyone can edit my PGBUILDs to do an upgrade or fix some bugs. Good work to all. Cheers -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Scim and arphic fonts update in [testing]
by Eric Bélanger 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Firmicus <Firmicus(a)gmx.net> wrote: > Eric Bélanger a écrit : >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've just updated several scim-related packages. They are in the >>> [testing] repo. The updated packages are: >>> >>> anthy >>> libchewing >>> libhangul >>> scim >>> scim-anthy >>> scim-chewing >>> scim-tables >>> uim >>> scim-uim (no update, just rebuild against uim 1.5.5) >>> >>> As I don't use these packages (I believe no dev use them either), I >>> could only do minimal testing. It would be nice if users of these >>> packages test them and report if they work properly or if there are >>> problems with them. >>> >>> I've also updated (in [testing] repo) the Arphic fonts: >>> ttf-arphic-ukai and ttf-arphic-uming >>> >>> There are two points about these fonts: >>> >>> 1. According to upstream: >>> "This release contains Firefly's Bitmap fonts. The Bitmap fonts are available >>> for 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 pixel and currently cover Big5 and GB2312. >>> HKSCS is currently not supported as there are many more characters missing. >>> So, for Big5 and GB2312 characters the bitmap glyphs should improve the >>> rendering, but for all other characters, the rendering is the same like >>> without bitmap glyphs." >>> >>> I might be nice to get comments about someone using these fonts to see >>> if the ttf-fireflysung package is indeed no longer needed >>> (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8951) >>> >>> 2. The updated ttf-arphic-* packages in testing provide the fonts as >>> a TrueType Collection, i.e. the fonts come in 4 flavors (CN, HK, TW >>> and TW MBE), with different glyph shapes according to the preferred >>> shapes in each region (more info here: >>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/CJKUnifonts/Download) As a >>> result TeX users will encounter trouble using this font. The >>> following programs/libraries are known to not fully support TTC files >>> and can usually only use the first fontface of the TTC: >>> - jdk and openjdk6 >>> - imlib2 and applications which use imlib2. >>> >>> Again, I and probably none of the devs don't use these fonts so >>> feedback from users would be nice. >>> >>> Eric >>> >>> >> >> Did anyone had time to test them yet? >> >> Eric >> >> > I just tested scim to input Chinese with pinyin method and it works > fine. I don't use the other scim-related pkgs. I have tested the Arphic > fonts rather superficially, but at first sight they are just ok (tested > in gedit and with xetex). > > NB: These TTC fonts won't be a problem for XeTeX users (xetex is part of > texlive-core), and other TeX users actually use the Postscript versions > of the same fonts that come with texlive-lang-cjk. > > F > I received other testers' reports by personnal email or the bug tracker (there was a couple of very minor bugs that were fixed last week: a scim problem with java clients and gnome-panel is now an optdepends for uim) and everything seems to be working fine. I've just moved the packages in extra. If there are problems, submit a bug report. Thanks to all the testers.

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Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] Arch's Vim Failings & Solution Suggestions
by Daenyth Blank 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:54, Andrei Thorp <garoth(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, fellow Archers. > > Recently, I had a question about Vim, so I went to the #vim channel in > IRC. I was doing something > that should be working, but it wasn't. Surprisingly, the question came > up, "Are you on Arch?" > > Turns out that several of the peolpe I most respect in the #vim IRC > channel are very unhappy with the quality of Arch's Vim package. One > even (jokingly?) asked if they could officially not support Arch in > the channel, which I found somewhat alarming. I suggested that we > should instead help improve the Arch package. > > I hate to pick on people, but according to the generally kind folks on > IRC, the Vim package for Arch has quite a few issues, and the > maintainer hasn't addressed some outstanding bugs in quite a long > while. > > As some of you may know, James Vega (jamessan) is an outstanding Vim > user and the Debian package maintainer for Vim. I asked him to send me > what he saw as the problems with the Arch package, and he was kind > enough to send along some suggestions. They are attached in this > forward. > > Thank you, > > -Andrei Thorp > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: James Vega <jamessan(a)debian.org> > Date: Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:29 AM > Subject: Arch's Vim failings > To: garoth(a)gmail.com > > > Andrei, > > Thanks for being receptive to trying to address the issues in Arch's Vim > packaging. Below are the major points that stand out. > > 1) gvim package: Shipping an /etc/gvimrc which, due to the order that > Vim loads rc files, overrides any settings in the user's ~/.vimrc. > Considering that some users make the conscious decision to keep all > their settings in their ~/.vimrc instead of using both ~/.vimrc and > ~/.gvimrc, this is at the very least annoying. More in depth > discussion is contained in the nearly year old, unfixed bug[0] about > this issue. > > 2) vi package: The package is built such that the resulting vi binary > reads its config from the completely non-standard ~/.virc. > Presumably this is to allow different configurations for the > different feature-sets avaiable in vi vs. vim packages. Fortunately, > Vim has methods to deal with this already such as being able to check > what name was used to invoke Vim[1] and explicitly checking for > feature support[2]. > > 3) vi, vim, and gvim packages: Explicitly building Vim with $VIMRUNTIME > == $VIM by specifying "--with-global-runtime=/usr/share/vim" to > configure. This doesn't need to be specified to configure as it will > be set to the correct directory on its own. If they insist on > specifying it, the directory should be /usr/share/vim/vimXY (where XY > is Vim's version number -- 72 for current Vim). > > This manifests various problems, the most noticeable being that the > 'runtimepath' option in Vim has /usr/share/vim listed twice, thus > causing runtime files to be sourced twice and causing duplicate > information when using common scripting methods for discovering files > in the runtimepath[3]. > > -- > James > GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan(a)debian.org> > > [0] - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10303 > [1] - if v:progname == 'vi' > [2] - if has('cscope') > [3] - globpath(&rtp, 'colors/*') > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAknB5lcACgkQDb3UpmEybUCg6ACgjRFE4YnrbEGMq8uY51CZqRis > xZsAnjbOC4BsAv/hYG9hcfmbogJLdLtX > =HJf3 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > I don't have a whole lot to add to this, except that it seems like a good idea to confer with the vim developers to raise the quality of the package. I would file a bug report on the Arch tracker. (Also sending to arch-general, so this gets more exposure)

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[arch-general] community/gtk-engine-murrine 0.90.2-1 borked
by Damjan Georgievski 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

it seems that the community/gtk-engine-murrine package has been updated to the gtk2 version in testing/ so that now all GTK apps are with the standard ugly Win95 look, and complain that: (gtk-chtheme:5522): Gtk-WARNING **: GModule (/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libmurrine.so) initialization check failed: Gtk+ version too old (micro mismatch) don't do this please :) -- damjan

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[arch-general] Include sbcl sources with a fixed system path
by Daniel White 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Presently the pathname translation for "SYS" is '/tmp/sbcl/trunk/src/sbcl-1.0.24/'. This kind of makes it hard for 'M-.' to work well in slime. This patch for the PKGBUILD generates a modified core with the translation for "SYS" changed to the '/usr/share/sbcl-source/'. Basically it means that we can put the 'src' and 'contrib' directories form the sbcl sources in '/usr/share/sbcl-source/' and the various source lookup functions in sbcl and slime will work. This was inspired from Debian's changes to support the common-lisp-controller which also happens to update the pathname translations. The big question is whether or not it is worth splitting the source into a new package (sbcl-source). With the source included it comes to around 13Mb. Either way the modified core won't cause a problem since the path is already wrong. -- Daniel White

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[arch-general] On rolling release system and its benefits.
by Ali H. Caliskan 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hi, I've been using Arch since few months and I enjoy using it everyday that goes by. However, during that time, while helping Arch users on the forum, I've encountered some issues concerning upgrades and broken packages. I personally think Arch is stable and well maintained compared to other big distros, but that's a rolling release stability, that lasts only few days or weeks. What I would like Arch developers is to extend the rolling release into a snapshot release of an entire list of officially maintained packages, comprising both core and extra branches. At least it would be a great way of using Arch for 5 to 6 moths and then upgrade to a next snapshot release. I'm not talking about stable releases, just a snapshot of a rolling state. Snapshot releases does also benefit the natural need of closing bugs. Not to mention, it does make it easy to maintain orphaned packages as well. Regards, Ali

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[arch-general] On rolling release system and its benefits.
by Ali H. Caliskan 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hi, I've been using Arch since few months and I enjoy using it everyday that goes by. However, during that time, while helping Arch users on the forum, I've encountered some issues concerning upgrades and broken packages. I personally think Arch is stable and well maintained compared to other big distros, but that's a rolling release stability, that lasts only few days or weeks. What I would like Arch developers is to extend the rolling release into a snapshot release of an entire list of officially maintained packages, comprising both core and extra branches. At least it would be a great way of using Arch for 5 to 6 moths and then upgrade to a next snapshot release. I'm not talking about stable releases, just a snapshot of a rolling state. Snapshot releases does also benefit the natural need of closing bugs. Not to mention, it does make it easy to maintain orphaned packages as well. Regards, Ali

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Fixing licenses / sources
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

> The list : > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Snowman/License_Rebuild_TODO > > Eric Hi Eric, I made a list of 90 extra-packages from your list, that also have bad mandir Please see here: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13765#comment41164 Both isdn4k-utils and xinetd from core have bad mandir. Take care. Yahoo! Cocina Recetas prácticas y comida saludable http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.8-1
by Tobias Powalowski 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - bump to latest version fixed: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13717 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] weird messages
by David Rosenstrauch 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

My server's been getting a load of weird messages in my dmesg and log files recently: Mar 16 06:38:27 darsys9 kernel: ata4: EH complete And sometimes also: Mar 16 06:38:27 darsys9 kernel: ata4: EH pending after 5 tries, giving up Anyone know what this is about and/or if there's some recent upgrade that might be causing it? I googled up some info about it (including a thread about it on the Arch forum), but all the info I could find is older and says that (at the time) the cause was a particular kernel version, and that upgrading the kernel would make it go away. But as I'm up-to-date with the current kernel, that's obviously not the issue now. Any info appreciated! TIA, DR

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[arch-general] keyboard shortcuts in nautilus
by Abhishek Dasgupta 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hi, I can change the keyboard shortcuts of Nautilus (2.24), but Nautilus forgets these keyboard shortcuts after logging out. This happens even if I've "Editable menu shortcut keys" turned on in Appearance. Any ideas on how to improve Nautilus' memory? :) I didn't find much help through Google. -- Abhishek

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[arch-general] cpu usage very high after update...
by Preston C. 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

My cpu monitor is almost reading 100%, right after I updated today. It was a very large update because I hadn't updated in about a month. Here is what "$top" gives me: top - 16:22:55 up 9 min, 2 users, load average: 1.36, 1.32, 0.68 Tasks: 99 total, 3 running, 96 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 34.8%us, 18.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 46.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2073268k total, 698532k used, 1374736k free, 14572k buffers Swap: 2281220k total, 0k used, 2281220k free, 384848k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2973 preston 20 0 80996 19m 14m R 99 1.0 7:17.37 kded4 2931 root 20 0 331m 53m 4288 S 3 2.6 0:28.89 X 2999 preston 20 0 272m 38m 22m S 3 1.9 0:17.47 plasma 3076 preston 20 0 224m 95m 21m S 1 4.7 0:50.88 firefox 1 root 20 0 1688 576 512 S 0 0.0 0:00.71 init 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 ksoftirqd/0 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 6 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1 8 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1 9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0 10 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 events/1 11 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 12 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kstop/0 13 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kstop/1 14 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 kblockd/0 15 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/1 16 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 17 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify 18 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 kseriod 19 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 pdflush 21 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0 22 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 23 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1 32 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 ata/0 33 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/1 34 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux 38 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0 39 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1 Thanks for any help, Preston

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[arch-general] Xorg - Latest in repos
by Baho Utot 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

I have just installed arch onto a new SATA drive and isused a pacman -Syu to fetch the latest updates. I then continued on with alsa-utils then onto xorg Used pacman -S xorg to install xorg I then ran Xorg -configure which produced xorg.conf.new Started X -config /root/xorg.conf.new X started with the "X" in the screen at which it froze the machine requiring a hard reset (microsoft reset) Tried running X without a config file and it locked as well. Everytime I install X I have this problem, with the newer versions. What am I missing when I install? The Xorg wiki page I believe is out of date for the newer xorg versions. Can someone list the steps needed to install successfully? Thank you

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Out-of-date orphans in repo
by Damjan Georgievski 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

> Lately, I've been updating out-of-date orphans. So far I did the ones > that were easy to update/test so this is a status report on the > remaining ones. The purpose here is, ideally, to find maintainers for > them or at least testers (devs or users). > > BTW, make sure that you are listed as maintainer for both arches of > the packages you maintain even if you can't build the package for that > architecture. Several packages have only one of their arch adopted. > This clutters the list of orphaned and it spams the dev ML with > out-of-date notifications. > > Here the commented list: ... > userui: > I can't really test the rest. Is there anyone able/willing to test > updated packages for them? In fact, I didn't really checked them out. > evms and exim seems important so I'm not confortable to push them even > in testing without any good testing. For the rest, if noone comes > forward, I could test them as good as I can and push them to testing > then as for testers on the arch-general ML much like I did for the > scim stuff. Moving some of them to AUR is always a possibility. I use userui (since I use a TuxOnIce patched kernel) .. and I'm updateing this package myself too. Recently /usr/sbin/tuxoniceui_fbsplash can't be compiled on Arch since the Arch freetype package doesn't include the static (.a) library. So I can test an updated package. -- damjan

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] libcap rebuilds
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hugo Doria wrote: > Packages that have libcap>=2.16 on makedepends: > > dnsmasq-2.45-2 > proftpd-1.3.1-2 (i updated to 1.3.2-1) > squid-2.7.STABLE6-2 > > > Hola Hugo :) Here are one change, proftpd with libcap-2.16 uses libcap as depend, (this don't happends with old libcap) See the diference: # readelf -a /usr/sbin/proftpd | grep cap 29: 00000000 67 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND capset(a)GLIBC_2.1 (3) 151: 00000000 67 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND capget(a)GLIBC_2.1 (3) # readelf -a /usr/sbin/proftpd | grep cap 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libcap.so.2] 46: 00000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND cap_set_proc 99: 00000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND cap_free 142: 00000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND cap_init 178: 00000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND cap_set_flag 183: 00000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND cap_to_text 184: 00000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND cap_get_proc It uses more advanced functions ;) syslog-ng, dnsmasq and squid are OK ;) -- 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] Keyboad in KDE locks up
by Leonid Grinberg 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hello, Every once in a while -- not too frequently to be unusable, but certainly enough to be annoying -- the keyboard in KDE will simply lock up. Mouse will still work fine, and keyboard inputs that don't go through KDE -- switching to virtual terminals, resetting X via <ctrl>-<alt>-backspace still work (and, indeed, resetting X and logging back in is the only thing that fixes it). I can't see any real pattern as to when this happens -- programs that I basically always have running, though, are Pidgin, Firefox and keytouchd, as well as, obviously, plasma, etc. I am running the vanilla KDE 4.2 packages. Thanks in advance. This is really starting to become annoying. -- Leonid Grinberg

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] coreutils 7.1-2
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Andreas Radke wrote: > Somebody else? Any known issues? > > -Andy > > Yes, in ls -v "sort by version" problem with hidden files For example: (with coreutils-7.1) $ touch .0 .9 .a .z .A .Z 0 9 a z A Z $ /bin/ls -va . .A .Z .a .z 0 9 A Z a z .0 .9 .. (with coreutils-6.12) $ touch .0 .9 .a .z .A .Z 0 9 a z A Z $ /bin/ls -va . .. .0 .9 .A .Z .a .z 0 9 A Z a z You can see here the original bug report here http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/… And a patch here http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/16902 -- 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] DST and suspend
by Sergey Manucharian 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Hi folks, I wonder if anybody else is experiencing such a problem. Here in USA the Daylight Saving time started from the last Sunday, and my box has switched the clock properly. But then I found that every time when I suspend my ThinkPad R61 and bring it back to life the clock is switched back to old winter time! I run ntpdate to fix it, and everything is fine until the laptop is suspended again. Today I've updated tzdata and kernel - the same behaviour still persists... Am I missing something? Thanks for ideas. Sergey

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Linuxtag 2009
by Dieter Plaetinck 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 21:12:34 +0100 Andreas Radke <a.radke(a)arcor.de> wrote: > Am Mon, 9 Mar 2009 21:02:12 +0100 > schrieb Tobias Powalowski <t.powa(a)gmx.de>: > > > Hi guys, > > just saw this > > http://www.linuxtag.org:80/2009/ > > 24. till 27. June in Berlin. > > > > anyone interested in having a booth there? > > greetings > > tpowa > > I'll be there. With or without a booth. > > -Andy Are the talks in english or german? Dieter

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] syslog-ng-3.0.1-1
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am Mittwoch 11 März 2009 schrieb Allan McRae: > >> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: >> >>> Pierre Schmitz wrote: >>> >>>> Does anybody know what this message in dmesg is about? Was syslog-ng >>>> compiled for i686? >>>> >>>> warning: `syslog-ng' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use) >>>> >>> Very out-of-date libcap, not only syslog-ng, also proftpd, vsftpd, >>> pulseaudio, ntpd, virtualbox, etc, etc... >>> >>> http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/libcap/ (for linux 2.4) >>> >>> Need to have libcap2 package for kernel 2.6 in Arch Linux >>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/ >>> >> I was confused about this as libcap is in [extra] so how can it make >> problems with a package in [core]? >> >> So going from this comment in the bug report about libcap >> (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11917#comment41046) I get... >> >> >>> readelf -s /usr/sbin/syslog-ng | grep cap >>> >> 33: 00000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND capset(a)GLIBC_2.1 (4) >> 177: 00000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND capget(a)GLIBC_2.1 (4) >> 473: 08228bd8 4 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 26 OPENSSL_ia32cap_P >> >> Looks like libcap is a soft dep there. How? >> >> Then rebuild in clean chroot: >> >>> readelf -s syslog-ng | grep cap >>> >> 467: 08221b18 4 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 26 OPENSSL_ia32cap_P >> >> And then the dmesg warning goes away... So, the lesson to learn is to >> _always build in a clean chroot_! >> >> Allan >> > hrm i normally build in chroots, seems somehow this one slipped into it. > Shall i add it as makedepend? > > Yes, is a makedepends, capget, capset are glibc symbols. But these symbols are defined in sys/capability.h (that are part of libcap) don't confuse with linux/capability.h So you can make syslog-ng with capabilities, and don't have libcap installed. ;) See libc.so ;) # readelf -s /lib/libc.so.6 | grep cap 1745: 000d10e0 67 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 11 capset@@GLIBC_2.1 1923: 000d1090 67 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 11 capget@@GLIBC_2.1 3801: 000d1090 67 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 11 __GI_capget 4043: 000d10e0 67 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 11 __GI_capset 5388: 000d10e0 67 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 11 capset 6337: 000d1090 67 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 11 capget Allan: I hope you have cleared up the confusion. -- 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] syslog-ng-3.0.1-1
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Allan McRae wrote: > Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: >> Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> >>> Does anybody know what this message in dmesg is about? Was syslog-ng >>> compiled for i686? >>> >>> warning: `syslog-ng' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use) >>> >>> >> Very out-of-date libcap, not only syslog-ng, also proftpd, vsftpd, >> pulseaudio, ntpd, virtualbox, etc, etc... >> >> http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/libcap/ (for linux 2.4) >> >> Need to have libcap2 package for kernel 2.6 in Arch Linux >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/ >> > > I was confused about this as libcap is in [extra] so how can it make > problems with a package in [core]? > > So going from this comment in the bug report about libcap > (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11917#comment41046) I get... > >> readelf -s /usr/sbin/syslog-ng | grep cap > 33: 00000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND capset(a)GLIBC_2.1 (4) > 177: 00000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND capget(a)GLIBC_2.1 (4) > 473: 08228bd8 4 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 26 OPENSSL_ia32cap_P > > Looks like libcap is a soft dep there. How? > > Then rebuild in clean chroot: >> readelf -s syslog-ng | grep cap > 467: 08221b18 4 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 26 OPENSSL_ia32cap_P > > And then the dmesg warning goes away... So, the lesson to learn is to > _always build in a clean chroot_! > > Allan > Agree about clean chroot. But maybe this is useful, and more secure syslog-ng setup, because it drop some capabilities that don't use it ;) You can see the syslog-ng process running without capabilities enabled (from /proc/PID/status): CapPrm: fffffffffffffeff CapEff: fffffffffffffeff Capabilities for `27939': =ep cap_setpcap-ep ## getpcaps program from latest libcap Shows that have all capabilities, of course, i can't drop it. But running the syslog-ng, with capabilities enabled (accidentally enabled now) you can see, many capabilities are droped :) CapPrm: 0000000000202c06 CapEff: 0000000000200002 Capabilities for `23652': = cap_dac_override,cap_sys_admin+ep cap_dac_read_search,cap_net_bind_service,cap_net_broadcast,cap_net_raw+p More secure syslog-ng ;) OK, this isn't default behavior in Arch Linux, but... -- 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] udev-139 and file permissions of /dev/net/tun
by Attila 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Hi, i use a script to prepare a bridged network for a kvm session and therefore i have this line in /etc/udev/rules.d/01-attila.rules: KERNEL=="tun", NAME="net/%k", MODE="0660", GROUP="network" After upgrading udev my file permissions of the new persistent /dev/net/tun looks so after booting up: crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 200 8. Mär 00:43 /dev/net/tun I play with this lines in /etc/udev/permissions.d/00-my.permissions: a) tun:root:network:0660 b) net/tun:root:network:0660 I reboot even after changing the line but there is no change. If i do a "modprobe tun" there be the right permissions: crw-rw---- 1 root network 10, 200 8. Mär 00:43 /dev/net/tun So my questions is how and/or where can i control the file permissions of the persistent devices from the new udev? This is definitly not bad, i want more to know what i have overseen.-) See you, Attila

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] syslog-ng-3.0.1-1
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Does anybody know what this message in dmesg is about? Was syslog-ng compiled > for i686? > > warning: `syslog-ng' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use) > > Very out-of-date libcap, not only syslog-ng, also proftpd, vsftpd, pulseaudio, ntpd, virtualbox, etc, etc... http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/libcap/ (for linux 2.4) Need to have libcap2 package for kernel 2.6 in Arch Linux http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/ -- 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] initscripts 2009.03-1
by Damjan Georgievski 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

> Thomas Bächler (2): > Fix bug #13205: better random-seed entropy - For the random-seed file > location to be more "FHS compliant" is better to put in > /var/lib/misc/random-seed (Variable state information, that persists after > reboot) than the /var/run/random-seed (Run-time variable data, that not > necessarily persists after reboot) for example with /var/run mounted as > TMPFS. - The random-seed file permision should be "0600" not "0644" - The > size of random-seed acording to random(4) manpage should be the size > specified in "/proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize" in other case 512 bytes. > Use the device nodes from /lib/udev/devices/* instead of hardcoding > them in initscripts. This requires a new udev package (at least 139-1) I tested this on a minimal ArchLinux I installed in a virtual machine. /var/lib/misc/ was not present on that install so rc.shutdown complained, and the random-seed file of course wasn't created. -- damjan

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.7-2
by Tobias Powalowski 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - changes for better customizing the default kernel included http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12384 --> firmware needed to be split off the package. It is now called kernel26-firmware - config features added: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13128 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12584 bug fixes: - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12826 please signoff for both arches. I haven't had issues with nvidia driver here, but please report issues if binary modules break, thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] OpenOffice.org on Acer Aspire One
by henrih81＠gmail.com 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hello. I'm trying to use OpenOffice.org on my Acer Aspire One. For some peculiar reason, all the characters in the menu and title bar etc. and everything I type to the document are displayed as "squares" instead of regular characters. Sourcing /etc/profile.d/openoffice.sh does nothing. Installing a JRE didn't do anything either. Other applications such as Firefox work fine. Any ideas?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] device-mapper-1.02.31-1 & lvm2-2.02.45-1
by Atanas Zhelev 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

2009/3/9 Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org>: > Eric Bélanger schrieb: >> >> device-mapper-1.02.31-1 and lvm2-2.02.45-1 are now in testing for both >> arches. It's a minor upstream update. Please signoff. As few devs use >> this (I think I'm the only one using lvm on i686), signoff from users >> would be appreciated. > > Signoff x86_64. > > Hi, i have lvm setup on i686, the system still boots fine and i'm able to access my data. -- BRS Atanas Zhelev

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[arch-general] cryptsetup and udev
by Henri Häkkinen 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Hello, I am trying to setup udev to automatically open a LUKS partition of my external USB drive once it is plugged in. I have written the following udev rules script: ACTION="add", ENV{DEVTYPE}="partition", ENV{ID_SERIAL}="<serial number of the drive>", RUN+="/usr/sbin/cryptsetup --key-file /etc/keyfile luksOpen /dev/%k usbhd" ACTION="remove", ENV{DEVTYPE}="partition", ENV{ID_SERIAL}="<serial number of the drive>", RUN+="/usr/sbin/cryptsetup luksClose usbhd" Udev seems to recognize my drive but instead of creating /dev/mapper/usbhd I get some nonsense like /dev/mapper/temporary-cryptsetup-7501 or similar. I don't know what this is but it seems not to work when I try to mount it. Any ideas? -- Henri Häkkinen

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] fakeroot 1.12.2-1
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Andreas Radke wrote: > This is a minor update to 1.12.2 - the major change I've done is the > switch to --with-ipc=tcp communication way that should solve some > issues that have come up with recent kde builds. please test if you can > still build all your other stuff with it. > > > Attention: Please also take care off all packages that install files > with setuid bit set. Take a look at > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13444 ! > > I could not track down where the issue is and the upstream Debian > developer can't reproduce it while Tpowa and some other could. Only > x86_64 is affected and sometimes files with setuid set don't get that > permission when the pkg gets installed. > > -Andy > > > upstream changelog: > > fakeroot (1.12.2) unstable; urgency=low > > * Replace and (hopefully) fix broken alpha stat version hack in > fts_read. > > -- Clint Adams <schizo(a)debian.org> Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:17:31 -0500 > > Hi Andreas, No, fakeroot-tcp is broken when use make -j2 (i reported this to author), please see my feature request about this, and comments about test that i made with this. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13375 -- 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] [signoff] device-mapper-1.02.31-1 & lvm2-2.02.45-1
by Eric Bélanger 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

Hi, device-mapper-1.02.31-1 and lvm2-2.02.45-1 are now in testing for both arches. It's a minor upstream update. Please signoff. As few devs use this (I think I'm the only one using lvm on i686), signoff from users would be appreciated. Eric

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Out-of-date orphans in repo
by Grigorios Bouzakis 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Jan de Groot <jan(a)jgc.homeip.net> wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 11:29 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> >> We should really drop this hwd stuff. Apparently some howtos still >> recommend using "hwd -xa" to generate xorg.conf, but this command >> will >> generate a bloated configuration file that is probably not even >> compatible to the latest xorg-server versions. > > I would like to get rid of both lshwd and hwd packages. I don't consider > them useful anymore, as there's better autodetection methods available > in archlinux. > > Removing hwd will fix bug 13448, 13447 and 13630. > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9589 & http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12886 as ddcxinfo-arch is only used for hwd. Also see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=507530#p507530 -- Greg

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Out-of-date orphans in repo
by Grigorios Bouzakis 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Eric Bélanger schrieb: >> >> lshwd: >> Package in the repo is at the latest stable (few years old). There's a >> newer rc release but : do we still need this? It's still popular >> (25.39 %) though so I could always update it to the rc release. > > We should really drop this hwd stuff. Apparently some howtos still recommend > using "hwd -xa" to generate xorg.conf, but this command will generate a > bloated configuration file that is probably not even compatible to the > latest xorg-server versions. > > lshwd hasnt been used by hwd since version 5.0 ChangeLog says: 21-Nov-2007, version 5.0 - lshwd replaced with pciutils and usbutils 27-Nov-2007, version 5.1.2 - fixed mkxcfg, no lshwd dependency -- Greg

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[arch-general] Scim and arphic fonts update in [testing]
by Eric Bélanger 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Hi all, I've just updated several scim-related packages. They are in the [testing] repo. The updated packages are: anthy libchewing libhangul scim scim-anthy scim-chewing scim-tables uim scim-uim (no update, just rebuild against uim 1.5.5) As I don't use these packages (I believe no dev use them either), I could only do minimal testing. It would be nice if users of these packages test them and report if they work properly or if there are problems with them. I've also updated (in [testing] repo) the Arphic fonts: ttf-arphic-ukai and ttf-arphic-uming There are two points about these fonts: 1. According to upstream: "This release contains Firefly's Bitmap fonts. The Bitmap fonts are available for 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 pixel and currently cover Big5 and GB2312. HKSCS is currently not supported as there are many more characters missing. So, for Big5 and GB2312 characters the bitmap glyphs should improve the rendering, but for all other characters, the rendering is the same like without bitmap glyphs." I might be nice to get comments about someone using these fonts to see if the ttf-fireflysung package is indeed no longer needed (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8951) 2. The updated ttf-arphic-* packages in testing provide the fonts as a TrueType Collection, i.e. the fonts come in 4 flavors (CN, HK, TW and TW MBE), with different glyph shapes according to the preferred shapes in each region (more info here: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/CJKUnifonts/Download) As a result TeX users will encounter trouble using this font. The following programs/libraries are known to not fully support TTC files and can usually only use the first fontface of the TTC: - jdk and openjdk6 - imlib2 and applications which use imlib2. Again, I and probably none of the devs don't use these fonts so feedback from users would be nice. Eric

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[arch-general] Can't Connect to localhost/127.0.0.1 until I'm connected to a network
by Thomas Bohn 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hello, When I boot my computer the connection to the wifi network takes a while, until then I can't connect to localhost. So I can't use mpd for example, I musst either turn off my wifi card or wait until I'm connected. This is quite annoying, is there a way to solve that problem or at least get a better diagnosis for solving it on my own? Thomas

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[arch-general] xorg-server 1.6.0 in testing
by Jan de Groot 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

The upcoming version of xorg-server will have a lot of workarounds and patches removed. Doing so, the package becomes easier to understand, as even its maintainer has no idea what is happening anymore. When upgrading to xorg-server-1.6, you will see these file conflicts on most systems: error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting files) xorg-server: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so exists in filesystem xorg-server: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so exists in filesystem It's safe and advised to overwrite these files. The symlinks were previously created from post_install by the xorg-server and nvidia-utils packages. It is advised to install xorg-server first by using "pacman -Sf xorg-server", after which you can upgrade the rest of your system. This release of xorg-server requires a rebuild of all video and input drivers. Older drivers will fail to load with an ABI mismatch. Drivers in our repositories will receive an update to match the xorg-server ABI. Nvidia has updated their latest drivers with support for this version of xorg-server. AMD does not support xorg-server-1.6 yet in their Catalyst drivers. AMD users are advised to switch to the xf86-video-ati or xf86-video-radeonhd drivers instead, or keep any X.Org related updates on hold via IgnorePkg in pacman.conf. This can be done by putting xorg-server in IgnorePkg in pacman.conf. All other updates should have conflicts set, so it will be clear which additional packages should be added to the IgnorePkg list on your system. Note that there will be no support for older versions of xorg-server when this version moves to extra.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Newsletter for March, 2009
by Aaron Griffin 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:54 PM, BinkyTheClown <binky(a)archlinux.us> wrote: > 2009/3/5 Recent News Updates <announce(a)archlinux.org> > >> The Arch Linux Newsletter team is proud to announce the <a href=" >> http://www.archlinux.org/static/newsletters/newsletter-2009-mar.html">Newsletter >> for February 2009</a>. To discuss this newsletter, <a href=" >> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=510237">click here</a>. To read >> past issues of the Arch Linux Newsletter, <a href=" >> http://www.archlinux.org/static/newsletters/">here they are</a>. >> >> URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/437/ >> _______________________________________________ >> arch-announce mailing list >> arch-announce(a)archlinux.org >> http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce >> > Am I the only one that is receiving ugly html tags in the newsletter? Moving to the arch-general list. No, you are not. The front-page news contains HTML tags, but rss2email doesn't seem to strip them out. I'm open to ideas as to how to fix this.

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[arch-general] Nouveau sources not on the ftp
by Chris Bannister 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi, im trying to rebuild nouveau for zen kernel but the source isnt on the FTP [1], does anyone have it? Or shall i just build from git. Thanks, Chris [1] ftp://archlinux.org/other/nouveau-drm/mesa-drm-20090303.tar.bz2

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[arch-general] weird thing with X and nvidia driver
by Eric Wong 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi, I run Arch linux with KDE 4.2 on a machine with a Geforce 6200 LE card. But recently I have been experiencing some weird things. At the begining I was running KDE 4.2.0 with a nvidia-180.22 driver and the X process consumes lots of memory graduately, even to 200+ MB some times. Then I updated to KDE4.2.1 and the problem disappeared. But today, after I update the video driver to nvidia-180.29 it is here again. I have no idea which component cause it. KDE, nvidia dirver or xorg? Another weird thing is with the nvidia driver. Before updating to 188.29, glxgear had about 1060 FPS. After update and I restarted the KDE. Then glxgear told me the nvidia api dismatch, that is, the kernel module is still 180.22 but other parts of the driver is 180.29, and it has 1300+ FPS, then I remove the old module and modprobe the new one so it runs 180.29 now, but it is 1060FPS again. There's no improvement over 180.22! What's the problem?

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[arch-general] smtp daemon
by Baho Utot 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

I need a small smtp daemon for use as an MTA to move mail from a desktop to a mail server I could use sendmail or something like it but I am looking for something smaller. Any suggestions?

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[arch-general] Problems with Acer Aspire One and Arch installer
by Henri Häkkinen 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Hello I'm having some troubles with installing Arch on my Acer Aspire One (this is the version with Linpus Linux). I have downloaded the installer FTP-USB image from the web site and copied the image to my 256 MB USB stick as usual with dd. However, when I try to boot my AA1 machine from it, it halts to the place where it gives "GRUB loading, please wait..." and nothing shows up. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Henri Häkkinen

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Re: [arch-general] Keyboad in KDE locks up
by Jan de Groot 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 07:21 +0100, Dan Vratil wrote: > Hi, > this happens to me sometimes too. I found out, that I just have to > switch > to console, restart HAL daemon and it works again, so I'd say it could > be > problem in Xserver, but I'm really not sure about it. > > Dan Could be a problem with the evdev driver that freaks out on your keyboard. Restarting hal generates a load of new hotplug events for Xorg, so your keyboard gets removed from Xorg and hotplugged again, after which it is reinitialized. Is the keyboard you use PS2 or USB?

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[arch-general] xf86-video-nouveau/nouveau-drm in testing
by Andreas Radke 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

I've added xf86-video-nouveau + nouveau-drm to testing. Together with Xorg 7.5 this is a nice replacement for the binary crap when you don't need 3D stuff. 2D works well accelerated. 3D will follow later with gallium 3d. For more read: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ I run a DualHead setup on my desktop. This is my full xorg.conf for example: # the right one Section "Monitor" Identifier "NEC" Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024_60.00" EndSection # the left one Section "Monitor" Identifier "FUS" Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024_60.00" Option "LeftOf" "NEC" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "nvidia card" BoardName "nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)] rev 161" Driver "nouveau" Option "Monitor-DVI-I-0" "NEC" Option "Monitor-DVI-I-1" "FUS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 2560 1024 EndSubSection Device "nvidia card" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" Screen "screen1" # will be replaced by gallium 3D Option "AIGLX" "false" EndSection Have fun getting rid off nvidia binary blobs. -Andy

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mailman hiccup
by RedShift 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Geoffroy Carrier wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 09:10, RedShift <redshift(a)pandora.be> wrote: >> I've been working on my own mailing list manager, it's completely written in >> PHP and uses SQL as a backend, but at this point a bit specific to our >> setup. Because our company is all about open source I intend on releasing it >> as such. It's in need of an overhaul anyway, I'll get hacking at it again >> ASAP. > > I'd love to be an early adopter :) > > Plus I'd be happy to contribute... > > Ok so here's what I've got so far: When I was designing my anti-SPAM filter, I noticed you're just running a series of code after each other. To keep everything nice and tidy I split up the various routines into small pieces of code designed to do one thing and then pass on to the next filter. My project has the codename "redsky". Yes, it's cliché but I couldn't think of anything else. By itself, redsky is pretty useless. It's only capable of running a series of filters after each other. The real power is in the filters itself. The 3 filters that come shipped with redsky are designed to interface with another piece of software called proxsmtpd (but can be used in other ways as well, they just use STDIN and STDOUT), but there's no reasons you could write your own input/output filters and make redsky a mini-SMTP server. Here are the packages that are of interest: * phpemailtoolbox (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22237) This is a small set of email related functions and classes. It is required by redsky. * redsky (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22261) This is the main redsky code. It contains three filters: * redsky_read: this reads the email in question from STDIN. It is designed for interfacing with proxsmtpd, but can be used in a generic manner as well. * redsky_discard: when the discard flag is set on an email, this filter will log this event. * redsky_out: this outputs the email to STDOUT, again designed to interface with proxsmtpd but is suitable for general purpose as well. In the mailinglist * redsky-filters (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24393) This is a set of complementary filters for redsky, it has for example SMTP blacklist checking, whitelisting, autoreplies, etc... They are mainly designed to use in a postfix content scanner context. Only the redsky_sqlconn filter is required for mailinglist manager. * mlm-filters (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24399) This is the most interesting set of filters. Mlm stands for Mailing List Manager. There's a queueing part and a sending part. For the queueing part: * mlm_getinfo: Fetch information for a certain list using SQL * mlm_loopdetect: Check if a message is looping or not * mlm_bouncehandler: If the message received was sent to a bounce address, store it in an SQL table * mlm_getsubscribers: Get the subscribers from SQL for the current list * mlm_access: Determine if a sender has access to the list. It currently supports 4 methods: use an ACL, only allow subscribers, require a passphrase or no limitations * mlm_subjecttag: Tag the subject if the mailinglist is configured for that * mlm_addfooter: Add a footer to the emails if the mailinglist is configured for that * mlm_queuer: Write a spoolfile and put all the recipients into an SQL table For the sending part: * mlm_singleinstance: Only allow a single instance of redsky to be run * mlm_queuebuilder: Build a queue of messages to be sent and their respective recipients * mlm_queuerunner: Process the earlier built queue using sendmail to send messages redsky is written to support multiple configurations. In the MLM case, you would have two configuration files (examples are shipped with mlm-filters), one for the queuer and one for the sender. The queuer would be called by the MTA while to sender could be executing with a cronjob. Use -c to supply an alternate config, for example: redsky -c /etc/redsky.queuerunner.config.php You will notice that the redsky-filters and mlm-filters come shipped with example configuration files. You will find them in /usr/share/php/redsky/. Some filters depend on each other, so it is important in which order they are executed. For example, the mlm_access cannot determine if the sender is a subscriber when mlm_getsubscribers hasn't run first, because it uses the information from mlm_getsubscribers for this. Now maybe the hardest part, integration with an email server. I'll only handle postfix. Our entire infrastructure is based on MySQL, however all redsky code is written to use PDO, so it should be compatible with any databaseserver that PDO supports. You can get our database schema from http://projects.webmind.be/redsky/mail.sql In postfix terms, you would add entries to your alias table to send certain addresses to the "mlm". The examples below are made to work with the database schema above, but all queries can be modified in the configuration files. virtual_alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/lists.cf lists.cf: user = USER password = PASSWORD hosts = HOST dbname = MAILDB query = SELECT 'mlm' AS goto FROM lists LEFT JOIN domains ON domains.domain_id = lists.domain_id WHERE (lists.list_post_address = '%u' OR lists.list_bounce_address = '%u') AND domains.domain_name = '%d' AND domains.domain_type = 'virtual' AND domains.domain_enable_email = 'yes' The above will send all mail sent to a mailing list address to 'mlm'. Now postfix knows it needs to send any list emails to mlm. Now we need to tell postfix that all email sent to the local 'mlm' address to be piped to our mlm program. For this we create a transport table, that has 'mlm(a)localhost.localdomain' transported to the 'mlm' destination. Now we have to define what the mlm destination is. Open up master.cf and add: mlm unix - n n - - pipe user=nobody flags=O argv=/usr/bin/redsky -c /etc/redsky.queuer.config.php Note the O flag, this will add an X-Original-To header, which is required to identify wich original address the message was sent to. To allow the messages to be distributed, just call /usr/bin/redsky -c /etc/redsky.runner.config.php Ok, all this information was probably hard to swallow. I will try to answer any questions you have regarding the implementation. If you want to ask me a direct question you can find me on IRC, freenode with the nick RedShift. I am in #archlinux. It's also easier if you start by testing it out directly from the shell instead of immediatly integrating it into your MTA. Best regards, Glenn

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[arch-general] netcfg testing and git packages
by James Rayner 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hi The release beta cycle wasn't working well for netcfg. Small changes, bugs and many FR's got held up far too long while other work happened. To try and help get netcfg development going smoothly again I've uploaded some netcfg git PKGBUILDs to the AUR to use instead of -beta releases. This way I can make those small changes, push it to git, and it can be tested immediately, while larger things can be safely done in another branch locally. When it's ready, rc's will be released. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23953 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23954 There's some fairly substantial changes in this release. - Moving from net-tools to iproute - iproute is the way forward. net-tools is long unmaintained, nor as capable. - Moving from wireless_tools to pure wpa_supplicant - More reliable, less quirks required. Hopefully more stable. - As part of this, wireless moves into netcfg-wireless (dependency issues) Both of these require config changes. Once they're both stabilised I can release 2.2.x to give people time to migrate, and eventually 2.5 which will use them by default. There are example configs included. More details on the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles_development The wpa_supplicant move needs a significant amount of testing. I havn't tested WEP (testing hardware is gone), and net-auto may not work presently. WPA and custom WPA configs work in my testing. If there's any criticisms or comments about the way this is going, the code, netcfg, etc, please let me know. I'd like to make 2.2 a good release and I think these changes are important. I'm hoping they'll make netcfg simpler and more reliable. Cheers, James

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[arch-general] icedtea6
by Juan Diego 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hello everyone Am I the only one who cannot execute any java applet from firefox since last openjdk update (openjdk6 1.4.1-1)? Thanks for your help Bye

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Re: [arch-general] Scim and arphic fonts update in [testing]
by Smith Dhumbumroong 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Thank you for taking your time and updating the scim packages, Eric. :) Any news on when it will hit 64bit? I'm currently using scim on my x86_64 Arch and would like to test the new packages out.

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[arch-general] Problems with netcfg
by Cristopher Thomas 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

I decided to start using netcfg to manage my wireless connection instead of NetworkManager, but I can't seem to get it to connect reliably. There seems to be no pattern to when it will or won't connect, and I'm not having any connectivity problems in windows. Range isn't an issue either. I'm practically sitting right next to the router most of the time! If anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong, I would greatly appreciate it. I'm using version 2.1.2 from the Core repository. Here's the error I get from netcfg: [~]$ sudo netcfg home :: home up [BUSY] wlan0: timed out - DHCP IP lease attempt failed [FAIL] Here's the profile I'm using: CONNECTION="wireless" DESCRIPTION="A simple WEP encrypted wireless connection" INTERFACE=wlan0 SCAN="yes" SECURITY="wap" ESSID="The Thomas' Net" KEY="xxxxxxxxxx" IP="dhcp" Output from lsmod: [~]$ lsmod Module Size Used by i915 67208 2 drm 108768 3 i915 fuse 59584 2 joydev 14208 0 pcmcia 39192 0 sdhci_pci 10624 0 sdhci 19588 1 sdhci_pci uvcvideo 62344 0 compat_ioctl32 11520 1 uvcvideo mmc_core 54624 1 sdhci psmouse 57116 0 videodev 37888 2 uvcvideo,compat_ioctl32 v4l1_compat 17284 2 uvcvideo,videodev snd_pcsp 13052 1 yenta_socket 28812 1 rsrc_nonstatic 13312 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core 39204 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic sg 31840 0 i2c_i801 12444 0 i2c_core 26144 1 i2c_i801 serio_raw 8196 0 iTCO_wdt 15184 0 iTCO_vendor_support 5636 1 iTCO_wdt video 22420 0 output 5248 1 video intel_agp 33136 1 acer_wmi 18664 0 wmi 8896 1 acer_wmi evdev 13984 6 thermal 20896 0 fan 7304 0 button 9504 0 battery 14600 0 ac 7176 0 usblp 16000 0 snd_seq_oss 35584 0 snd_seq_midi_event 9344 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 58336 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 9364 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_hda_intel 531252 2 snd_hwdep 10632 1 snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss 45440 0 snd_pcm 82952 3 snd_pcsp,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 24720 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11792 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm snd_mixer_oss 18944 1 snd_pcm_oss snd 65096 16 snd_pcsp,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss soundcore 9632 1 snd tg3 133124 0 libphy 22656 1 tg3 arc4 4096 2 ecb 5248 2 ath9k 257968 0 mac80211 193840 1 ath9k cfg80211 45488 1 mac80211 rfkill 13776 4 acer_wmi,ath9k led_class 6280 2 acer_wmi,ath9k cpufreq_powersave 3840 0 cpufreq_ondemand 10512 0 acpi_cpufreq 10896 0 freq_table 6272 2 cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq processor 46648 4 thermal,acpi_cpufreq rtc_cmos 14040 0 rtc_core 21060 1 rtc_cmos rtc_lib 4992 1 rtc_core ext3 141328 2 jbd 57000 1 ext3 mbcache 10244 1 ext3 sr_mod 18884 0 cdrom 39080 1 sr_mod sd_mod 29096 5 uhci_hcd 27552 0 ehci_hcd 41356 0 usbcore 160432 5 uvcvideo,usblp,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd ahci 36876 4 libata 176224 1 ahci scsi_mod 119256 4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata iwconfig (when connected, obviously): [~]$ iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. wmaster0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"The Thomas' Net" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:13:46:10:9B:74 Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B Power Management:off Link Quality=100/100 Signal level:-71 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 eth0 no wireless extensions. And, I'm seeing this from dmesg: [~]$ dmesg | grep wlan0 wlan0: direct probe to AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 try 1 wlan0 direct probe responded wlan0: authenticate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: RX AssocResp from ffff8800ba5ba04a (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=5) wlan0: invalid aid value 5; bits 15:14 not set wlan0: associated wlan0: deauthenticating by local choice (reason=3) wlan0: direct probe to AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 try 1 wlan0 direct probe responded wlan0: authenticate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: RX AssocResp from ffff8800ba65c04a (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=5) wlan0: invalid aid value 5; bits 15:14 not set wlan0: associated wlan0: direct probe to AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 try 1 wlan0 direct probe responded wlan0: authenticate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: RX AssocResp from ffff8800ba76c04a (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=5) wlan0: invalid aid value 5; bits 15:14 not set wlan0: associated wlan0: direct probe to AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 try 1 wlan0 direct probe responded wlan0: authenticate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: RX AssocResp from ffff8800b9d6404a (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=5) wlan0: invalid aid value 5; bits 15:14 not set wlan0: associated wlan0: authenticate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: RX AssocResp from ffff8800b9c3604a (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=5) wlan0: invalid aid value 5; bits 15:14 not set wlan0: associated -- ****BGCB***** GCC/O$ d--(+) s+:- a- C++ L++>+++ W++ K- w O? M V? PS- PE++ t 5 X R(+) tv+ b++ DI++ D G e+ h--- r+++ z+++ ****EGCB*****

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[arch-general] Can't Disconnect With netcfg
by Thomas Bohn 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

Hi, I was finaly able to get netcfg working with most of the wifi networks you can ran into, mixed WPA/WPA2 networks are still an issue though. But I can't disconnect. "netcfg -d [network]" will fail and reconnecting fails too because netcfg think it is still connected to that network. This is esspecially an issue, if the AP is gone for a while. Reconnecting is impossible after the AP is back. Any ideas? Thomas

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[arch-general] Problemas con x and intel 82815 chipset
by rapaz rico 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

Hello, my name is leandro and i'm having a problema with xorg server. I have a Compaq Deskpro EN and an intel 82815 chipset into it. I've been using the vesa driver but i can't set the resolution grater than 800x600 because x doesn't run and sais i haven't got enough memory. This chipset have 512K of not prefetchable and i'm sharing 64M to it. I can set the resolution to 1024x768 in win (the SO i get the computer with) so i don't think the memory is the problem. So, i'm traying to use the intel driver but i can't make it run. My xorg.conf is this Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Xorg Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer" # Serial Mouse not detected # USB Mouse not detected EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true" Option "AutoAddDevices" "False" EndSection Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/PEX" # Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF... FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic" # FontPath "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi" # FontPath "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi" # True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig! FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/CID" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType" EndSection Section "Module" Load "ddc" # ddc probing of monitor Load "dbe" #Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "record" # Load "synaptics" Disable "dri" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "es" Option "XkbVariant" "" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Serial Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "Microsoft" Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "PS/2 Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "USB Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Buttons" "5" EndSection # Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" Option "DPMS" "true" # HorizSync 28.0 - 78.0 # Warning: This may fry very old Monitors HorizSync 28.0 - 96.0 # Warning: This may fry old Monitors VertRefresh 50.0 - 54.0 # Very conservative. May flicker. # VertRefresh 50.0 - 62.0 # Extreme conservative. Will flicker. TFT default. # Default modes distilled from # "VESA and Industry Standards and Guide for Computer Display Monitor # Timing", version 1.0, revision 0.8, adopted September 17, 1998. # $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/etc/vesamodes,v 1.4 1999/11/18 16:52:17 tsi Exp $ # 640x350 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz ModeLine "640x350" 31.5 640 672 736 832 350 382 385 445 +hsync -vsync # 640x400 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz ModeLine "640x400" 31.5 640 672 736 832 400 401 404 445 -hsync +vsync # 720x400 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz ModeLine "720x400" 35.5 720 756 828 936 400 401 404 446 -hsync +vsync # 640x480 @ 60Hz (Industry standard) hsync: 31.5kHz ModeLine "640x480" 25.2 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync # 640x480 @ 72Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz ModeLine "640x480" 31.5 640 664 704 832 480 489 491 520 -hsync -vsync # 640x480 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.5kHz ModeLine "640x480" 31.5 640 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync # 640x480 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 43.3kHz ModeLine "640x480" 36.0 640 696 752 832 480 481 484 509 -hsync -vsync # 800x600 @ 56Hz (VESA) hsync: 35.2kHz ModeLine "800x600" 36.0 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync # 800x600 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz ModeLine "800x600" 40.0 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync # 800x600 @ 72Hz (VESA) hsync: 48.1kHz ModeLine "800x600" 50.0 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync # 800x600 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 46.9kHz ModeLine "800x600" 49.5 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync # 800x600 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 53.7kHz ModeLine "800x600" 56.3 800 832 896 1048 600 601 604 631 +hsync +vsync # 1024x768i @ 43Hz (industry standard) hsync: 35.5kHz ModeLine "1024x768" 44.9 1024 1032 1208 1264 768 768 776 817 +hsync +vsync Interlace # 1024x768 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 48.4kHz ModeLine "1024x768" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync # 1024x768 @ 70Hz (VESA) hsync: 56.5kHz ModeLine "1024x768" 75.0 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync # 1024x768 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 60.0kHz ModeLine "1024x768" 78.8 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync # 1024x768 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 68.7kHz ModeLine "1024x768" 94.5 1024 1072 1168 1376 768 769 772 808 +hsync +vsync # 1152x864 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 67.5kHz ModeLine "1152x864" 108.0 1152 1216 1344 1600 864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync # 1280x960 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 60.0kHz ModeLine "1280x960" 108.0 1280 1376 1488 1800 960 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync # 1280x960 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 85.9kHz ModeLine "1280x960" 148.5 1280 1344 1504 1728 960 961 964 1011 +hsync +vsync # 1280x1024 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 64.0kHz ModeLine "1280x1024" 108.0 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync # 1280x1024 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 80.0kHz ModeLine "1280x1024" 135.0 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync # 1280x1024 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 91.1kHz ModeLine "1280x1024" 157.5 1280 1344 1504 1728 1024 1025 1028 1072 +hsync +vsync # 1600x1200 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 75.0kHz ModeLine "1600x1200" 162.0 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync # 1600x1200 @ 65Hz (VESA) hsync: 81.3kHz ModeLine "1600x1200" 175.5 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync # 1600x1200 @ 70Hz (VESA) hsync: 87.5kHz ModeLine "1600x1200" 189.0 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync # 1600x1200 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 93.8kHz ModeLine "1600x1200" 202.5 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync # 1600x1200 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 106.3kHz ModeLine "1600x1200" 229.5 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync # 1792x1344 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 83.6kHz ModeLine "1792x1344" 204.8 1792 1920 2120 2448 1344 1345 1348 1394 -hsync +vsync # 1792x1344 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 106.3kHz ModeLine "1792x1344" 261.0 1792 1888 2104 2456 1344 1345 1348 1417 -hsync +vsync # 1856x1392 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 86.3kHz ModeLine "1856x1392" 218.3 1856 1952 2176 2528 1392 1393 1396 1439 -hsync +vsync # 1856x1392 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 112.5kHz ModeLine "1856x1392" 288.0 1856 1984 2208 2560 1392 1393 1396 1500 -hsync +vsync # 1920x1440 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 90.0kHz ModeLine "1920x1440" 234.0 1920 2048 2256 2600 1440 1441 1444 1500 -hsync +vsync # 1920x1440 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 112.5kHz ModeLine "1920x1440" 297.0 1920 2064 2288 2640 1440 1441 1444 1500 -hsync +vsync # Additional modelines ModeLine "1800x1440" 230 1800 1896 2088 2392 1440 1441 1444 1490 +HSync +VSync ModeLine "1800x1440" 250 1800 1896 2088 2392 1440 1441 1444 1490 +HSync +VSync # Extended modelines with GTF timings # 640x480 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 50.90 kHz; pclk: 43.16 MHz ModeLine "640x480" 43.16 640 680 744 848 480 481 484 509 -HSync +Vsync # 768x576 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 35.82 kHz; pclk: 34.96 MHz ModeLine "768x576" 34.96 768 792 872 976 576 577 580 597 -HSync +Vsync # 768x576 @ 72.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 43.27 kHz; pclk: 42.93 MHz ModeLine "768x576" 42.93 768 800 880 992 576 577 580 601 -HSync +Vsync # 768x576 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 45.15 kHz; pclk: 45.51 MHz ModeLine "768x576" 45.51 768 808 888 1008 576 577 580 602 -HSync +Vsync # 768x576 @ 85.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 51.42 kHz; pclk: 51.84 MHz ModeLine "768x576" 51.84 768 808 888 1008 576 577 580 605 -HSync +Vsync # 768x576 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 61.10 kHz; pclk: 62.57 MHz ModeLine "768x576" 62.57 768 816 896 1024 576 577 580 611 -HSync +Vsync # 800x600 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 63.60 kHz; pclk: 68.18 MHz ModeLine "800x600" 68.18 800 848 936 1072 600 601 604 636 -HSync +Vsync # 1024x768 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 81.40 kHz; pclk: 113.31 MHz ModeLine "1024x768" 113.31 1024 1096 1208 1392 768 769 772 814 -HSync +Vsync # 1152x864 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 53.70 kHz; pclk: 81.62 MHz ModeLine "1152x864" 81.62 1152 1216 1336 1520 864 865 868 895 -HSync +Vsync # 1152x864 @ 85.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 77.10 kHz; pclk: 119.65 MHz ModeLine "1152x864" 119.65 1152 1224 1352 1552 864 865 868 907 -HSync +Vsync # 1152x864 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 91.50 kHz; pclk: 143.47 MHz ModeLine "1152x864" 143.47 1152 1232 1360 1568 864 865 868 915 -HSync +Vsync # 1280x960 @ 72.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 72.07 kHz; pclk: 124.54 MHz ModeLine "1280x960" 124.54 1280 1368 1504 1728 960 961 964 1001 -HSync +Vsync # 1280x960 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 75.15 kHz; pclk: 129.86 MHz ModeLine "1280x960" 129.86 1280 1368 1504 1728 960 961 964 1002 -HSync +Vsync # 1280x960 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 101.70 kHz; pclk: 178.99 MHz ModeLine "1280x960" 178.99 1280 1376 1520 1760 960 961 964 1017 -HSync +Vsync # 1280x1024 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 108.50 kHz; pclk: 190.96 MHz ModeLine "1280x1024" 190.96 1280 1376 1520 1760 1024 1025 1028 1085 -HSync +Vsync # 1400x1050 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 65.22 kHz; pclk: 122.61 MHz ModeLine "1400x1050" 122.61 1400 1488 1640 1880 1050 1051 1054 1087 -HSync +Vsync # 1400x1050 @ 72.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 78.77 kHz; pclk: 149.34 MHz ModeLine "1400x1050" 149.34 1400 1496 1648 1896 1050 1051 1054 1094 -HSync +Vsync # 1400x1050 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 82.20 kHz; pclk: 155.85 MHz ModeLine "1400x1050" 155.85 1400 1496 1648 1896 1050 1051 1054 1096 -HSync +Vsync # 1400x1050 @ 85.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 93.76 kHz; pclk: 179.26 MHz ModeLine "1400x1050" 179.26 1400 1504 1656 1912 1050 1051 1054 1103 -HSync +Vsync # 1400x1050 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 111.20 kHz; pclk: 214.39 MHz ModeLine "1400x1050" 214.39 1400 1512 1664 1928 1050 1051 1054 1112 -HSync +Vsync # 1600x1200 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 127.10 kHz; pclk: 280.64 MHz ModeLine "1600x1200" 280.64 1600 1728 1904 2208 1200 1201 1204 1271 -HSync +Vsync EndSection # Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "intel" VendorName "All" BoardName "All" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultColorDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 32 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection #Section "DRI" # Mode 0666 #EndSection And my log file is this X.Org X Server 1.5.3 Release Date: 5 November 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.27-ARCH i686 Current Operating System: Linux myhost 2.6.24-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 30 11:40:06 CEST 2008 i686 Build Date: 17 December 2008 08:20:05PM 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 Feb 4 21:50:33 2009 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (==) ServerLayout "Xorg Configured" (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0" (**) | |-->Device "Card0" (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0" (**) |-->Input Device "PS/2 Mouse" (**) Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true" (**) Option "AutoAddDevices" "False" (**) Not automatically adding devices (==) Automatically enabling devices (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/PEX" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic". Entry deleted from font path. (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"). (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/CID" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (==) Including the 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. (**) FontPath set to: /usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/misc, /usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/75dpi, /usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/100dpi, /usr/share/fonts/misc, /usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/TTF, /usr/share/fonts/Type1 (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) (II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel (II) Loader magic: 0x81d5fe0 (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4 X.Org Video Driver: 4.1 X.Org XInput driver : 2.1 X.Org Server Extension : 1.1 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.6 (II) Loader running on linux (--) using VT number 7 (--) PCI:*(0@0:2:0) Intel Corporation 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller (CGC) rev 2, Mem @ 0x44000000/0, 0x40300000/0 (II) System resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B] (WW) "dri" will not be loaded unless you've specified it to be loaded elsewhere. (II) "extmod" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) "dbe" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) "glx" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) "freetype" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) "dri" will be loaded even though the default is to disable it. (II) LoadModule: "ddc" (II) Module "ddc" already built-in (II) LoadModule: "dbe" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdbe.so (II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1 (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER (II) LoadModule: "extmod" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so (II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1 (II) Loading extension SHAPE (II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD (II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS (II) Loading extension SYNC (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (II) Loading extension XC-MISC (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension (II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA (II) Loading extension DPMS (II) Loading extension TOG-CUP (II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (II) Loading extension X-Resource (II) LoadModule: "glx" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1 (==) AIGLX enabled (==) Exporting typical set of GLX visuals (II) Loading extension GLX (II) LoadModule: "type1" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module type1 (II) UnloadModule: "type1" (EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0) (II) LoadModule: "freetype" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts//libfreetype.so (II) Module freetype: vendor="X.Org Foundation & the After X-TT Project" compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 2.1.0 Module class: X.Org Font Renderer ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.6 (II) Loading font FreeType (II) LoadModule: "record" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module record (II) UnloadModule: "record" (EE) Failed to load module "record" (module does not exist, 0) (II) LoadModule: "intel" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//intel_drv.so (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 2.4.3 Module class: X.Org Video Driver ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 4.1 (II) LoadModule: "kbd" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//kbd_drv.so (II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.4.2, module version = 1.3.1 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.0 (II) LoadModule: "mouse" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//mouse_drv.so (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.4.2, module version = 1.3.0 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.0 (II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G, E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, 965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33, Mobile IntelÂ® GM45 Express Chipset, Intel Integrated Graphics Device, G45/G43, Q45/Q43 (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00@00:02:0 (II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call: [0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B] (II) resource ranges after probing: [0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] 0 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B] [5] 0 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B] [6] 0 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B] [7] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [8] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B] [9] 0 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B] [10] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B] (II) Loading sub module "vgahw" (II) LoadModule: "vgahw" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so (II) Module vgahw: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 4.1 (**) intel(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16 (==) intel(0): RGB weight 565 (==) intel(0): Default visual is TrueColor (II) Loading sub module "xaa" (II) LoadModule: "xaa" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so (II) Module xaa: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.2.1 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 4.1 (II) Loading sub module "vbe" (II) LoadModule: "vbe" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvbe.so (II) Module vbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.1.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 4.1 (II) Loading sub module "int10" (II) LoadModule: "int10" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so (II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 4.1 (II) intel(0): initializing int10 (II) intel(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (II) intel(0): VESA BIOS detected (II) intel(0): VESA VBE Version 3.0 (II) intel(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 1024 kB (II) intel(0): VESA VBE OEM: Intel(R) 815 Chipset Video BIOS (II) intel(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 4.1 (II) intel(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: Intel Corporation (II) intel(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: Intel(R) 815 Chipset (II) intel(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: Hardware Version 0.0 (II) Loading sub module "ddc" (II) LoadModule: "ddc" (II) Module "ddc" already built-in (II) intel(0): VESA VBE DDC supported (II) intel(0): VESA VBE DDC Level 2 (II) intel(0): VESA VBE DDC transfer in appr. 1 sec. (II) intel(0): VESA VBE DDC read successfully (II) intel(0): Manufacturer: PBR Model: 304 Serial#: 305200627 (II) intel(0): Year: 2003 Week: 19 (II) intel(0): EDID Version: 1.1 (II) intel(0): Analog Display Input, Input Voltage Level: 0.700/0.300 V (II) intel(0): Sync: Separate (II) intel(0): Max Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 30 vert.: 22 (II) intel(0): Gamma: 1.27 (II) intel(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend Off; RGB/Color Display (II) intel(0): redX: 0.618 redY: 0.349 greenX: 0.280 greenY: 0.605 (II) intel(0): blueX: 0.152 blueY: 0.063 whiteX: 0.281 whiteY: 0.310 (II) intel(0): Supported VESA Video Modes: (II) intel(0): 720x400@70Hz (II) intel(0): 640x480@60Hz (II) intel(0): 640x480@75Hz (II) intel(0): 800x600@60Hz (II) intel(0): 800x600@72Hz (II) intel(0): 1024x768@60Hz (II) intel(0): 1024x768@75Hz (II) intel(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0 (II) intel(0): Supported Future Video Modes: (II) intel(0): #0: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 60 vid: 32897 (II) intel(0): #1: hsize: 1024 vsize 768 refresh: 85 vid: 22881 (II) intel(0): #2: hsize: 800 vsize 600 refresh: 85 vid: 22853 (II) intel(0): Supported additional Video Mode: (II) intel(0): clock: 40.5 MHz Image Size: 300 x 220 mm (II) intel(0): h_active: 640 h_sync: 656 h_sync_end 720 h_blank_end 800 h_border: 0 (II) intel(0): v_active: 480 v_sync: 481 v_sync_end 484 v_blanking: 506 v_border: 0 (II) intel(0): Supported additional Video Mode: (II) intel(0): clock: 56.2 MHz Image Size: 300 x 220 mm (II) intel(0): h_active: 800 h_sync: 832 h_sync_end 896 h_blank_end 1048 h_border: 0 (II) intel(0): v_active: 600 v_sync: 601 v_sync_end 604 v_blanking: 631 v_border: 0 (II) intel(0): Ranges: V min: 50 V max: 150 Hz, H min: 30 H max: 70 kHz, PixClock max 110 MHz (II) intel(0): 010003085 (II) intel(0): EDID (in hex): (II) intel(0): 00ffffffffffff0040520403f3fd3012 (II) intel(0): 130d0101081e161be85c119e59479b27 (II) intel(0): 10484fa58a0081806159455900000000 (II) intel(0): 000000000000d20f80a020e01a101040 (II) intel(0): 13002cdc10000018f91520f830581f20 (II) intel(0): 204013002cdc1000001e000000fd0032 (II) intel(0): 961e460b000a202020202020000000fe (II) intel(0): 003031303030333038350a20202000c3 (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "PBR", prod id 772 (II) intel(0): Using hsync ranges from config file (II) intel(0): Using vrefresh ranges from config file (II) intel(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines: (II) intel(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0 40.50 640 656 720 800 480 481 484 506 -hsync -vsync (50.6 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0 56.25 800 832 896 1048 600 601 604 631 +hsync +vsync (53.7 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0 31.50 640 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync (37.5 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0 25.20 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "720x400"x0.0 28.32 720 738 846 900 400 412 414 449 -hsync +vsync (31.5 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0 78.80 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.1 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0 65.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0 50.00 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync (48.1 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x60.0 108.88 1280 1360 1496 1712 1024 1025 1028 1060 -hsync +vsync (63.6 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "1024x768"x85.0 94.39 1024 1088 1200 1376 768 769 772 807 -hsync +vsync (68.6 kHz) (II) intel(0): Modeline "800x600"x85.0 56.55 800 840 928 1056 600 601 604 630 -hsync +vsync (53.5 kHz) (--) intel(0): Chipset: "i815" (--) intel(0): Linear framebuffer at 0x44000000 (--) intel(0): IO registers at addr 0x40300000 (II) intel(0): Kernel reported 37888 total, 1 used (II) intel(0): I810CheckAvailableMemory: 151548k available (==) intel(0): Will alloc AGP framebuffer: 16384 kByte (==) intel(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (II) intel(0): Monitor0: Using hsync range of 28.00-96.00 kHz (II) intel(0): Monitor0: Using vrefresh range of 50.00-54.00 Hz (II) intel(0): Monitor0: Using maximum pixel clock of 110.00 MHz (II) intel(0): Clock range: 9.50 to 163.00 MHz (II) intel(0): Not using mode "640x350" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "640x400" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "720x400" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1024x768" (unknown reason) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1024x768" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1024x768" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1024x768" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1024x768" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1152x864" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1280x960" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1280x960" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1280x1024" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1280x1024" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1280x1024" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1600x1200" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1600x1200" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1600x1200" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1600x1200" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1600x1200" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1792x1344" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1792x1344" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1856x1392" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1856x1392" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1920x1440" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1920x1440" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1800x1440" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1800x1440" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "768x576" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "768x576" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "768x576" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "768x576" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "768x576" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1024x768" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1152x864" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1152x864" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1152x864" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1280x960" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1280x960" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1280x960" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1280x1024" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1400x1050" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1400x1050" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1400x1050" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1400x1050" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1400x1050" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using mode "1600x1200" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "320x175" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "320x200" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "360x200" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "512x384" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "512x384" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "512x384" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "512x384" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "512x384" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "576x432" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "896x672" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "896x672" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "928x696" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "928x696" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "960x720" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "960x720" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "832x624" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "416x312" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "576x432" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "576x432" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "576x432" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "576x432" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "576x432" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "576x432" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1360x768" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "680x384" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1360x768" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "680x384" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "700x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "700x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "700x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "700x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1440x900" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "720x450" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1600x1024" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "800x512" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "840x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "840x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "840x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "840x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "840x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1920x1080" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "960x540" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1920x1200" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "960x600" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "960x720" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) intel(0): Not using driver mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using driver mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using driver mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using driver mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using driver mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using driver mode "720x400" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using driver mode "1024x768" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using driver mode "1024x768" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using driver mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using driver mode "1280x1024" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using driver mode "1024x768" (vrefresh out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using driver mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (WW) intel(0): Mode pool is empty (EE) intel(0): No valid modes found (II) UnloadModule: "intel" (II) UnloadModule: "int10" (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so (II) UnloadModule: "vbe" (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvbe.so (II) UnloadModule: "xaa" (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so (II) UnloadModule: "vgahw" (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found The dri module is disable because i've found that ir could be the problem (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7658) but it didn't resolve anything. I try the i810 driver and the log says it doesn't find the device. I don't know what else to do. Thanks for advice. PD: I'm sorry if my english wasn't good enough.

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[arch-general] Wrong keyboard layout in GDM since upgrade
by Sébastien Mazy 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Hi all, Since about a week and a recent upgrade which didn't involve gdm, GDM has been using the US qwerty, even though the default X.org layout is french, variant oss (and it's the layout used by other DMs like Slim, which I don't want to use because of gnome-keyring and other reasons). I've been using X.org input hotplug without glitches until now, with three keyboard layouts defined through HAL: fr, de, us. Not only chooses GDM the US layout as default, but it prevents me from changing it using the alt+shift toggle (which I configured in HAL and works in every application but GDM). How should I tell GDM to stop trying to be smart and use X.org primary layout instead? Does anyone know how GDM find/is provided the keyboard layout to use? Some configuration data follows. I start GDM in the runlevel 5 using /etc/inittab. /etc/X11/xorg.conf: (yes that's all) Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" Option "NoLogo" "1" Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0" EndSection /etc/hal/fdi/policy/information/10-keymap.fdi: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>  <deviceinfo version="0.2"> <device> <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard"> <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">fr,de,us</merge> <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string">oss,,</merge> <merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">grp:alt_shift_toggle</merge> </match> </device> </deviceinfo> Relevant (?) extract from /etc/rc.conf: KEYMAP="fr-latin9" Cheers, -- Sébastien Mazy

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[arch-general] new archlinux mirror
by AlexanderS 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Hi, I created a new archlinux mirror available under: http://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/archlinux/ and ftp://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/archlinux/ It currently syncs (like suggested in the wiki) at 3:00AM. The Server is located in Germany, Berlin and has 2x100MBit Uplink. Hope that this is okay and this could become an official mirror. Do you need any further information? Alex

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Re: [arch-general] Common Lisp packaging
by Leslie P. Polzer 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

> There is this wiki page that has (or started?) put together guidelines > for the packaging of lisp packages. Interesting, thanks. This page is a bit eclectic right now. Gentoo has an excellent one in its Wiki: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/common-lisp/guide.xml In my opinion the first essential step is defining a common location for all packages and a framework for having user- and implementation-specific locations for the compiled binaries. I also wonder whether all people interested in Arch and Common Lisp are reading this, or whether some are only active in the forums. Leslie -- LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/polzer Xing Profile: https://www.xing.com/profile/LeslieP_Polzer Blog: http://blog.viridian-project.de/

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[arch-general] libxxx.so.yy not found
by Alexey Ramodin 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

Hi all, Once i've upgraded some pkgs I have some errors that a program cannot start because a lib is not found. For example I need libkrb5.so.22 but: $ ls /usr/lib/libkrb5.so lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 17 2009-01-08 02:40 /usr/lib/libkrb5.so -> libkrb5.so.25.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2009-01-08 02:40 /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.25 -> libkrb5.so.25.0.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 471594 2009-01-08 02:41 /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.25.0.0 So, I have the lib but a little bit newer. Making a link on libkrb5.so.25.0.0 solves the problem. At least it looks so. lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 17 2009-01-08 02:40 /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.22 -> libkrb5.so.25.0.0 I've done the same for some other libs (ut to 10... ) The question is simple, is it a way or i'll have my arch unworkable in the future? (i know about pacman -Syu ....) -- Thanks, Alex

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Changing raid/raid-partitions initcpio hooks
by Michal Soltys 22 Feb '09

22 Feb '09

Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > while experimenting with different raid setups in kvm, i found out our raid > support is not really ideal. > > The status now: > - raid hook(inlcuded in mkinitcpio package) does assemble normal raid: > but if a drive fails it will fail to boot after it. > i'm not 100% sure if it can handle all types of raid levels, partitionable > mdp raid doesn't work at all with this hook for sure. > - raid-partitions(included in mdadm package) can only assemble 1 raid > partition array, which is imho bad you should be able to assemble more than > one raid partition device from commandline, if you wish to do so. > - UUID is not supported in any of both. > A few notes, as I have mentioned it a few times in the past year(s) regarding the hooks you use. Why to rely on kernel commandline and in-kernel detection ? This is kinda legacy and deprecated (as far as I know) approach. IIRC in-kernel assembly also has problems with 1.x md superblocks, recalling mailing list - but I'm not sure as I never really use kernel assembly. Having initramfs generator like mkinitcpio, just make sure proper /etc/mdadm.conf is included into generated image through install part of the hook. In most systems I use, I have root on lvm on raid. Regardless of what is used for initramfs image, the part responsible for md basically requires module loading (if necessary) and mdadm -As. Mdadm doesn't need any manual device nodes creation, neither does mdassemble.auto. Udev rules in the background do the rest, so one can have e.g. root=/dev/disk/by-..... should it be needed. I described the general idea in http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9122 It also tries to dynamically create mdadm.conf in case one doesn't exist (going from mdadm -Es, instead of parsing kernel commandline). And it detects required modules as well. Also, as of current kernel and mdadm, each md raid is partitionable by default. Old naming scheme for partitionable raids remained for backwards compatibility. Remarks, as the above is already 1+ year old: Device access is still needed to trigger partition uevents. Future mdadm (3.x) will work with udev properly, recalling long discussion about it on linux-raid. Some of the simple changes to udev ruels I suggested made it into upstream as well. Most generic one (including scanner helper for custom raid names and etc., not mentioned in the above bugreport) didn't, being too hackish. Still - simple naming, once you decide on single arch preferred standard is pretty trivial without any external helpers. The only "drawback" is having libc or static mdadm / mdassemble.auto in the image Unless someone is trying to boot Arch on machine with incredibly low amount of ram (even for P2 ages), this is hardly any problem. On a related note - arch's udev rules (81-...) still have entry for md, which should likely be removed, as 64-... takes care of it. Current udev also allow overriding NAME in further rules, should that matter for arch. FYI. Sorry for crossposting, no other way though :)

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.7-1
by Tobias Powalowski 22 Feb '09

22 Feb '09

Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - bump 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] [signoff] pptpclient 1.7.2-2
by Daniel Isenmann 22 Feb '09

22 Feb '09

Hi, please signoff for both architectures. I can't test it because I don't use it. Following bug was fixed: [pptp-1.7.2-1] try to use /bin/ip instead of /usr/sbin/ip FS#11939 (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11939) Cheers, Daniel

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[arch-general] arch way for ip aliasing
by Adam Stokes 22 Feb '09

22 Feb '09

Does one exist or are we still putting them in rc.local? Thanks -- ( adam stokes ) || ( adam.stokes(a)gmail.com )

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[arch-general] how to mount external hdd
by Preston C. 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

I think that this is a simple question. How do I mount an external hard drive before I log into my desktop? Thanks

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[arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?
by Damjan Georgievski 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

I find it pretty frustrating that once bugs are closed in http://bugs.archlinux.org/ you can no longer add comments. The only option you have is request re-opening of the bug, which, I guess, would then frustrate the maintainer who closed the bug. Adding comments to already closed bugs makes sense to me, since the *discussion* is almost always not over when it's (too hastily?) closed. Sometimes you want to add comments that strengthens the case for closing the report, which also means the report will not be re-opened in the future. Sometimes you need to supply more information. -- damjan

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[arch-general] Guest speaker
by Colin Conrad 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

Hello, I am writing on behalf of the Dalhousie University OSUM (http://studentdevelopers.ning.com/group/dalosum) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. We are having an Linux "Infofest" on March 14th, 2009 from1PM to 4PM, where by the general public could come out and hear why they should try Linux instead of Windows. This will be followed by an Installfest two weeks later. We would like someone from the ArchLinux team to come out and talk for an around 45 minutes about ArchLinux and what advantages it has over the commercial OSs out there. The person who is willing to do so can e-mail me directly at: cmconrad79(a)gmail.com Cheers, Colin

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[arch-general] xterm and xorg-apps
by Andrew Przepioski 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

How come xorg-apps is a dependency for xterm? Been a lil' curious for awhile and have tried figuring it out, but found nothing so I figured I would ask here.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-db 2.5.3-2 replacing man
by Alessandro Doro 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

Andreas Radke wrote: > Anything else to improve? Replacing man with man-db will leave the old whatis databases on the system, with no package owning them. On my system: /opt/java/jre/man/whatis /opt/java/man/whatis /usr/local/man/whatis /usr/man/whatis /usr/man/it/whatis /usr/share/man/whatis /usr/share/man/it/whatis A warning about the issue? A solution could be a man package update with an uninstall script that take care of this, then go on with man-db.

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[arch-general] About: size of the "display"...
by Alessandro Doro 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

On Feb 19, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Loui Chang wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 02:52:17PM +0100, Gerhard Brauer wrote: >> For us maybe a grub entry with parameter vga=ask is the best, so >> users >> could select their resolution. >> But IMHO we should "design" our bash dialogs in a way that they >> also be >> usable on a normal 80x25 console.. > > Yeah I agree we should design things to fit within 80 columns. > I find longer lines are generally harder to read and edit than shorter > lines as well. > The dialogs should also be resolution agnostic. And if the installer will be internationalized, dialog design will be trickier. A hard job indeed.

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[arch-general] Ruby 1.9 upgrade and some more
by Kessia 'even' Pinheiro 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

Hi all, I'm doing a recompile of ruby for version 1.9. The needed are, in that order: - recompile ruby to version 1.9 (no change) - recompile vi and vim [applying the new patch's until version 108, arch today only apply 65] and applying a patch for make compatible with ruby1.9, it's done already. - move rails to community - removing rake and rubygems dependency - drop rake and rubygems from community to /dev/null [ruby now provides both] - verify which packages needed ruby and check compatibility -- Kessia Pinheiro Computer Science Student - Brazil, UFBa Linux System Administrator Arch Linux Trusted User Linux User #389695 http://even.archlinux-br.org --- X Fórum Internacional Software Livre - fisl10 24 a 27 de junho de 2009 PUCRS - Porto Alegre - Brasil

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[arch-general] Weird acpid issue
by Leonid Grinberg 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

Hello, My laptop has ACPI running to detect, among other things, the lid state, so that it can shut off the screen if it is closed. However, every once in a while, the functionality simply doesn't work -- I close the lid and the computer doesn't respond. Running /etc/rc.d/acpid restart makes it work again, only to fail again in a few days. I am running ACPI 1.2 on 2.6.28. Any ideas? -- Thanks, Leonid Grinberg lgrinberg(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] [ARCH-GENERAL] alsaplayer gtk2 interfacelost?
by Javier Vasquez 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

My alsaplayer configuration file includes: % cat ~/.alsaplayer/config # # alsaplayer config file # # Only edit this file if the application is not active. # Any modifications might (will!) be lost otherwise. # http.buffer_size=1048576 main.default_interface=gtk2 main.default_output=alsa main.fallback_interface=text main.period_count=8 main.period_size=4096 main.play_on_start=false But when I run alsaplayer with verbosity I get: % alsaplayer --verbose AlsaPlayer 0.99.80 (C) 1999-2004 Andy Lo A Foe <andy(a)alsaplayer.org> and others. Output plugin: ALSA output v1.9.0beta12 Loading reader plugin: HTTP reader v1.3 Loading reader plugin: File reader v1.1 Loading Input plugin: MikMod player v1.0 Loading Input plugin: WAV player v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Ogg Vorbis player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: CDDA player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: flac player v1.1.3/1.1.4/1.2 Loading Input plugin: libsndfile plugin v0.1 Loading Input plugin: MAD MPEG audio plugin v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Audio File Library player v0.2.1 Interface plugin: TEXT interface v1.1 Nothing to play. I'm not sure why the text interface was started. I tried changing the fallback interface to gtk2, and things fail like: % alsaplayer --verbose AlsaPlayer 0.99.80 (C) 1999-2004 Andy Lo A Foe <andy(a)alsaplayer.org> and others. Output plugin: ALSA output v1.9.0beta12 Loading reader plugin: HTTP reader v1.3 Loading reader plugin: File reader v1.1 Loading Input plugin: MikMod player v1.0 Loading Input plugin: WAV player v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Ogg Vorbis player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: CDDA player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: flac player v1.1.3/1.1.4/1.2 Loading Input plugin: libsndfile plugin v0.1 Loading Input plugin: MAD MPEG audio plugin v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Audio File Library player v0.2.1 Failed to load text interface. This is bad (gtk2,gtk2,/usr/lib/alsaplayer) Any idea why gtk2 alsaplayer interface doesn't seem to work? The package is i686: % pacman -Qs alsaplayer local/alsaplayer 0.99.80-1 ... Thanks, -- Javier

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.6-1
by Tobias Powalowski 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - bump 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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Re: [arch-general] cdrecord instead of wodim
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

Joerg Schilling wrote: > dev=ATAPI is a dirty trick that was needed in 2001 because the linus kernel > guys have been unable to fix their kernel panics with PC-Card connected writers. > > Just use the _official_ SCSI address syntax. There is no need to specify > anything additional. dev=1,0,0 or similar is sufficient. > > Jörg > > OK Jörg thanks. Something that I was unclear, because the documentation does not talk about the devices names /dev/sr0 (SCSI CDROM) Seems that for use this sintax official sintax (n,n,n) the sg (SCSI generic) module needs to be loaded, unlike the use of _bad_ sintax /dev/sr0 not need the sg module is loaded cdrecord -scanbus (without sg module don't work) I am interested not load the module sg, sg as the module not only enables access to the cd-roms, but also hard drives ##For example without "sg" (only "sr_mod") # cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a57 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2009 Jörg Schilling ... ##Using the cdrecord -scanbus -dev=ATAPI work # cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a57 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2009 Jörg Schilling ... scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRAM GH20NS15 ' 'IL00' Removable CD-ROM scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD-ROM GDR8163B' '0L23' Removable CD-ROM # cdrecord dev=/dev/sr0 -checkdrive #*Works* (remember only sr_mod is loaded) ##Now with sg module loaded... # cdrecord -scanbus | grep "0,0" Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34 0,0,0 0) 'ATA ' 'WDC WD6400AAKS-6' '01.0' Disk 1,0,0 100) 'ATA ' 'WDC WD6400AAKS-0' '01.0' Disk 2,0,0 200) 'ATA ' 'WDC WD5000AAKS-0' '12.0' Disk 3,0,0 300) 'ATA ' 'WDC WD5000AAKS-0' '12.0' Disk 4,0,0 400) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRAM GH20NS15 ' 'IL00' Removable CD-ROM 6,0,0 600) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD-ROM GDR8163B' '0L23' Removable CD-ROM and this is what we do not want to, I see the hard drives here, so I avoid using the module sg. Then my last question is, and I will be more than grateful: Is there any way to use the syntax dev=n,n,n without using the module sg, and only with the sr_mod module? Many thanks Jörg for the support, will not give personalized support to the public, thanks for the exception :) PS (for Jörg): I hope not to be annoying. PS (for Arch ML): Apologize to the list, but I think this is interesting that they can read it publicly. -- 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] cdrecord instead of wodim
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

Joerg Schilling wrote: > Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386(a)yahoo.com.ar> wrote: > > >> Now i tested the latest alpha version of cdrecord ( >> cdrtools-2.01.01a57.tar.gz ) and its work perfect without the DMA problem. >> The version that failed was <= cdrtools-2.01.01a55.tar.gz, with these >> versions i need to set very low write speed (when i upgraded my DVD >> writer from PATA to SATA, both LG) >> > > There always was the documented way to set the environment variable > "CDR_FORCESPEED" and setting "burnfree" also disables the speed limit. > > Now > > Ohh OK. Yes, I was aware of the variable "CDR_FORCESPEED" but not actually used by the warning given by the manual about it. But now it seems this behavior is by default, am I right? Was unaware of the option burnfree enable this feature, thanks;) >> Now inform this: "cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been >> skipped." http://djgera.pastebin.com/m35195bbe >> >> I prefer to use cdrecord, is the soft that i used for 7 years with my >> previus distribution (Slackware Linux) and as you said, is updated very >> often. >> >> Thanks for the work! :) >> > > Thank you > > >> I take this message to make a consultation, this was one of the major >> topics of discussion between you and some Linux developers. Does >> cdrecord: allowing access through dev=/dev/xyz, or as the message says: >> "Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported". will be >> removed in future versions? >> > > If currently works, but this is not a supported feature and thus it may > stop working at any time. > > I recommend to use the official syntax that is used by libscg since August 1986. > Note that if you only have one drive, there is no need to specify dev= at all. > > It seems to me or I'm wrong?. This syntax requires to work properly generic scsi module and via /dev/sr0 don't need it?. I did not compile this (sg) on my system. But for example if execute: $ cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a57 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2009 Jörg Schilling scsidev: 'ATAPI' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: dev=ATA: is preferred over dev=ATAPI:. Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. This Warning appears. That's why I prefer to use it that way and avoid problems, and I prefer not to load the module sg, because it loads the SATA hard drives as generic devices, adding this to the already loaded scsi disks sd) Apparently, I have to load the module sg ATA mode to work. Thanks for the help Jörg. :) > Jörg > > Greetings from Argentina. -- 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] Common Lisp packaging
by Leslie P. Polzer 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

I've noticed that the Arch Haskell community has made astonishing progress with their packages. I think it would be nice to have the same for Common Lisp. Would anyone be interested in devising a packaging system that works with multiple Lisps? Cheers, Leslie -- LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/polzer Xing Profile: https://www.xing.com/profile/LeslieP_Polzer Blog: http://blog.viridian-project.de/

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[arch-general] ndiswrapper problem
by Avramucz Péter 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

Hi! I have a Broadcom 4312 (rev 01). It seems to be, the best method is ndiswrapper using it. However, when I use it, wpa_supplicant can associate with the ap, but dhclient/dhcpcd can't get a dhcpoffer. Using the wl driver, there is no problem. Here is the interesting thing: using sysrescueccd (2.6.27 kernel, 1.53 ndiswrapper ebuild: http://gentoo-portage.com/AJAX/Ebuild/49806/View) I can simply get a dhcpoffer, so there is something with the ndiswrapper of Arch Linux. Any ideas?

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[arch-general] Problems with Bluetooth packages
by Ricardo Hernandez 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

Greetings, i write about this right here because i can't file a bug report for an outdated package. Bluetooth in Arch is in a developing process and for that some apps are broken. For example, obexftp 0.22 can't be builded and don't seem to work with bluez 4.x. I build 0.23-alpha and compiled perfectly. Maybe i put it in AUR but i think is worth a dicussion for inclusion in Arch if is decided to use bluez 4.x and don't use bluez 3.x at all. Also, bluez 4.29 have some real big bug, it simply can't pair almost any device (not mine at least). That's reflected in the bluez page and there's a new version 4.30 that address this issues. One more time i know i can build my own packages but as i said it needs to be updated. I said all this because i think that for now is better to support bluez 3.x and 4.x. For example in gentoo, bluez 4.x is hard-masked, it has very little documentation, and the api and configs files change a lot, so for now adding support for bluez 3.x i think is not a bad idea. BTW, bluez 4.x don't include a passkey-agent (at least not with that name), i suggest to include in the pkgbuild to install test/simple-agent, like is mentioned here: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12851?string=passkey

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[arch-general] Upgrade to Kde 4.2 > nothing but blank desktop
by richard terry 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

I upgraded from 4.0 (which was sort-of-functional) to 4.2 this morning and on loading the kde desktop has nothing on it, dosn't respond to any keypresses. I created a new user, tried again> same thing. Any clues for a clueless user as to where to start? Regards Richard

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[arch-general] mpd 0.14 requires curl, glib && glib seems to be outdated
by Vincent Van Houtte 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Dear ML, mpd has been flagged out-of-date, so I'm encouraged to post my problem here instead of on the bugtracker. Installing mpd on a bare system does not resolve all dependencies, since I had to install: - curl (libcurl-*.so missing) - glib (libgthread-*.2.0.0.so missing) Next problem: glib installs both libgthread-*.1.2.0.so and libgthread.so, but mpd required v2.0.0 specificly. So: mpd needs to be rebuilt requiring another version of libgthread or glib needs to be updated (IMVHO). Possibly mpd has other dependencies - I will report them later. Vincent

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[arch-general] Acer Aspire One Instalation Issues
by Chris Wilson 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Hey all I'm having a major issue with the installation on my Aspire One. I've used unetbootin to create the USB startup disk and I've succesfully booted from it, but a few seconds into the startup process, I get the following: /sbin/hwdetect: line 336: 506 Segmentation fault modprobe $i > /dev/null 2>&1 ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. ath_hal: 0.9.30.13 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133) wlan: trunk ath_pci: trunk I've also tried this as well: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=283021 but when I come to reboot, I'm not presented with the menu that was mentioned and the thing just boots normally. I've tried it with the Fedora installation and it works fine there, so there just seems to be a problem with the Arch version. Thanks in advance for any help offered Chris

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[arch-general] Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
by Grigorios Bouzakis 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

I got Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender for both of these: http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2009-February/003630.html http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2009-February/003631.html hence the 2nd email. I assume you got the emails, and that i will get a delivery failure for this email too. Anyone else getting that? -- Greg

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Re: [arch-general] cdrecord instead of wodim
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

Joerg Schilling wrote: > Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386(a)yahoo.com.ar> wrote: >> ong discusion. But for example in my system can't write DVD because >> "DMA speed check fail" with cdrecord, and with cdrkit (the wodim) can >> record without problems. >> > > Rants without a proof do not help in case you really have a problem. > > There is no known problem in cdrecord related to the DMA test. > There are many known problems in the fork.... > > If you _really_ believe you found a problem in cdrecord, why don't you make a > bug report? Note that you of course need to verify that there is a problem > with the latest version. > > All known problems in the original software are fixed in typically much less > than two weeks. More than 95% of the bugs in the fork have not been fixed after > more than two years. Why do you like to use the fork if there is working > original software _with_ maintanance? > > Hi Jörg, Now i tested the latest alpha version of cdrecord ( cdrtools-2.01.01a57.tar.gz ) and its work perfect without the DMA problem. The version that failed was <= cdrtools-2.01.01a55.tar.gz, with these versions i need to set very low write speed (when i upgraded my DVD writer from PATA to SATA, both LG) Now inform this: "cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped." http://djgera.pastebin.com/m35195bbe I prefer to use cdrecord, is the soft that i used for 7 years with my previus distribution (Slackware Linux) and as you said, is updated very often. Thanks for the work! :) I take this message to make a consultation, this was one of the major topics of discussion between you and some Linux developers. Does cdrecord: allowing access through dev=/dev/xyz, or as the message says: "Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported". will be removed in future versions? PS: I apologize if my message was a bit confusing. -- 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] [PATCHES] About /var/run/ and /var/lock/ checks in daemons
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

Hi people! I interested to make Arch Linux suitable for use with a /var/run and /var/lock that are mounted as tmpfs. But this also helps, in the case that not mounted as tmpfs, to make more simple "purge function" for these directories at rc.sysinit step. In my case this is "just for fun!", but other users can be benefited by this, for example "netbook users". OK, i initially created rc-script patches for the packages in the extra repo that use /var/run/program-name-directory and fails if not exists. (these list was obtained with """ for x in $(find /usr/share/pkgtools/lists -type f); do egrep -l "var/run/.+" $x;done """ @@NOTE@@: I will send the patches to the FL individualy per package now, reference to this email in FL, and then copy the links to response in this email. ;) Please review it, thanks in advance. :) ** Actually work OK (/var/run) core/openswan-2.4.11-1 core/dbus-core-1.2.4-1 core/netcfg-2.1.2-1 extra/consolekit-0.3.0-3 ** Patched RC files (/var/run) extra/apache-2.2.11-2 extra/bind-9.5.0.P2-1 extra/clamav-0.94-1 extra/courier-imap-4.4.1-1 extra/courier-mta-0.60.0-1 extra/cyrus-sasl-2.1.22-10 extra/fetchmail-6.3.8-4 extra/hal-0.5.11-7 (patched for policykit) extra/laptop-mode-tools-1.47-1 extra/lighttpd-1.4.20-2 extra/mpd-0.14.1-3 extra/policykit-0.9-7 (no rc-script here, patched in hal) extra/samba-3.2.7-1 extra/wicd-1.5.8-1 ** Researched (/var/run) extra/iptraf-3.0.0-2 (Trivial patch for iptraf.c or using a profile.d/iptraf for creating a "iptraf()" or another solution) * Apparently these don't use /var/run/program-name-directory, but maybe a simple "mkdir" to rc-script for precaution. extra/bftpd-2.3-1 (The daemon uses directly /var/run/bftpd.pid) extra/networkmanager-0.7.0-1 (The daemon uses directly /var/run/NetworkManager.pid) extra/wesnoth-1.4.7-1 (this game don't have a rc-script for the daemon, if run the /usr/bin/wesnothd without /var/run/wesnothd it fails, solution: provide a rc-script) ** Pending for research (/var/run) community/pulseaudio-0.9.14-1 community/ultimate-ircd-3.0.2-1 community/xen-3.3.1-1 community/wdm-1.28-2 community/dspam-3.8.0-2 community/inn-2.4.5-3 community/gpsd-2.37-2 community/apache13-1.3.41-3 community/freeradius-2.1.3-1 community/lastfmsubmitd-0.35-1 community/selinux-pam-1.0.1-1 community/fail2ban-0.8.3-1 community/ircservices-5.0.62-3 community/p3scan-2.3.2-2 community/bind-geodns-9.4.1-1 community/jabberd14-1.6.1.1-3 ** Pending for research (/var/lock) core/dmraid-1.0.0.rc14-2 extra/sane-1.0.19-2 -- 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] alsaplayer gtk2 interface lost?
by Javier Vasquez 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

Hi, My alsaplayer configuration file includes: % cat ~/.alsaplayer/config # # alsaplayer config file # # Only edit this file if the application is not active. # Any modifications might (will!) be lost otherwise. # http.buffer_size=1048576 main.default_interface=gtk2 main.default_output=alsa main.fallback_interface=text main.period_count=8 main.period_size=4096 main.play_on_start=false But when I run alsaplayer with verbosity I get: % alsaplayer --verbose AlsaPlayer 0.99.80 (C) 1999-2004 Andy Lo A Foe <andy(a)alsaplayer.org> and others. Output plugin: ALSA output v1.9.0beta12 Loading reader plugin: HTTP reader v1.3 Loading reader plugin: File reader v1.1 Loading Input plugin: MikMod player v1.0 Loading Input plugin: WAV player v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Ogg Vorbis player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: CDDA player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: flac player v1.1.3/1.1.4/1.2 Loading Input plugin: libsndfile plugin v0.1 Loading Input plugin: MAD MPEG audio plugin v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Audio File Library player v0.2.1 Interface plugin: TEXT interface v1.1 Nothing to play. I'm not sure why the text interface was started. I tried changing the fallback interface to gtk2, and things fail like: % alsaplayer --verbose AlsaPlayer 0.99.80 (C) 1999-2004 Andy Lo A Foe <andy(a)alsaplayer.org> and others. Output plugin: ALSA output v1.9.0beta12 Loading reader plugin: HTTP reader v1.3 Loading reader plugin: File reader v1.1 Loading Input plugin: MikMod player v1.0 Loading Input plugin: WAV player v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Ogg Vorbis player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: CDDA player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: flac player v1.1.3/1.1.4/1.2 Loading Input plugin: libsndfile plugin v0.1 Loading Input plugin: MAD MPEG audio plugin v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Audio File Library player v0.2.1 Failed to load text interface. This is bad (gtk2,gtk2,/usr/lib/alsaplayer) Any idea why gtk2 alsaplayer interface doesn't seem to work? The package is i686: % pacman -Qs alsaplayer local/alsaplayer 0.99.80-1 ... Thanks, -- Javier

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[arch-general] HTML email will be rejected
by Aaron Griffin 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

Hello all, I am writing to inform you that I have changed all the Arch lists to reject HTML formatted email. Please send messages in plain text only. Note: This is true of all lists, but I am only sending this message to the higher trafficked lists. Cheers, Aaron

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[arch-general] HAL issues
by Leonid Grinberg 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

Hello, I just upgraded to networkmanager 0.7, which comes with a hal upgrade. Following this new upgrade, I am unable to mount devices from Dolphin as I used to be able to -- it now gives me a "PermissionDeniedByPolicy mount-removable-extra-options no" error. I followed the instructions on [1] but it did not help. Can someone help me? -- Thanks, Leonid [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#Permission_Denied_with_automounter

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.5-1
by Tobias Powalowski 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - bump to latest version fixed: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13232 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12361 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] which video card driver- proprietary...
by Preston C. 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

I have a GeForce 7600 GS. I do not know which command to run because I do not know which driver to use. Should I use nvidia-96xx or nvidia-173xx or nvidia ? Thanks.

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[arch-general] foomatic 4.0.0 hits testing
by Andreas Radke 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

New Foomatic 4.0.0 has hit the testing repo. The ppd pkg got dropped, a new nonfree package has been added. See the announcement for major changes, esp. pdf printing workflow. http://forums.linux-foundation.org/read.php?21,8139,8139#msg-8139 Please report if you can still print with your favorite spoolers and drivers/ppds. -Andy

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[arch-general] kernel-2.6.28 & pccard problem
by Rumen Yotov 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Hi, Recently installed archlinux so this is my first email here. Can't configure the network (no eth0), dmesg gives me errors while initializing pccard services (a laptop with pcmcia lan card). A search in Bugzilla doen't result in something relevant (USB-issues mostly). Thanks for any suggetions how to proceed. Rumen PS:plan to boot with another kernel (with net-support) but it's using hda instead of sda (fstab), but will try anyway.

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[arch-general] Step 3: Configure X- B: Input hotplugging
by Preston C. 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

I am working on the beginners guide and have read some information on input hotplugging, and was wondering if it was really necessary to do Step 3- section B in the Beginners Guide? If so, I don't really understand exactly what commands to run and which order to run them? Thank you for any help.

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[arch-general] (no subject)
by Zack 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Downloading xorg-server xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-synaptics xf86-input-keyboard xf86-video-intel xorg-xinit ttf-dejavu and xterm used to be about a 30 mb download, with 91 packages to install. I just did it today, and it the download was in the low 20s, and there were only about 60 packages. Did anything change, or am I just crazy. Zack

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[arch-general] configuring ALSA...
by Preston C. 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

Hi again. I am writing this time because I am not exactly sure where to put a line in a file? -first I run this: nano /etc/modprobe.conf -then I need to add this: options snd-pcsp index=2 I am not sure where to put this- options snd-pcsp index=2 ? When I open the file using nano there are only three lines and it looks like this: # # /etc/modprobe.conf (for v2.6 kernels) # Yes I am somewhat new at this, :-). Thanks again.

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[arch-general] cdrecord instead of wodim
by Avramucz Péter 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

Hi! What would you say to a wodim -> cdrecord transition? I have a bug here: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13181 . And Joerg Schilling wrote me, that cdrecord is still developed. So, what do you say?

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[arch-general] exists in filesystem...
by Preston C. 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

I am following the Beginner's Guide to try and get AL installed, and have come across a problem. I made it to the part about updating the system, before the installation of ALSA and X. Here is the problem: Two nights ago I ran pacman -Syu . For some reason it did not install properly, possibly because I did not have the network setup right at the time, because of an update to pacman. Nevertheless, I finally got around to trying again tonight, and the update this time was not 100+ MB it was 27 MB. I imagine this is because Arch Linux saved the updates downloaded the other night. Now tonight, when I ran the command pacman -Syu, after downloading 27 MB of updates, pacman was in the process of installing them and then, at the very beginning, pretty much on every package downloaded, it said that the files "exists in filesystem". Any help on fixing the exists in filesystem problem on pretty much every package, I think, would be very helpful. Thanks, Preston

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[arch-general] [signoff] ndiswrapper / ndiswrapper-utils 1.54-1
by Tobias Powalowski 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

Hi 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] xorg package not found...
by Preston C. 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

I ran the command, pacman -S xorg , and it tells me that it is not found. It then asks if I want to install the whole group, which consists of around 10 xorg and xf86 packages. Thanks for any help.

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[arch-general] Xorg MTRR error in ASUS eee pc 900ha
by Ricardo Hernandez 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

Hi , i have a problem with starting Xorg in an asus EEE PC 900HA (solid hardrive). It has intel 945gme for video chipset and i use xf86-video-intel driver i start xorg with xinit and no WM or DE in xinitrc, only the default xterm. When i type xinit the screen flick and the server suddenly shutdown and appears this error: waiting for X server to shut down error setting MTRR (base = 0x0000000, size = 0x10000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22) I try to found the solution but had not luck. Xorg.0.log don't show anything special, at least nothing with (EE) error Thanks in advance

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[arch-general] lxc containers in kernel
by Shridhar Daithankar 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

Hello, lxc containers(krb5_get_init_creds_password) will be the first mainline containers to offer functionality similar to solaris zones. They aim to go mainline completely in 2.6.29 and lot of code is already is place. See http://lxc.sourceforge.net/lxc.html. Although lot of functionality is already in the current kernel, the options are not configured. $ zgrep -i namespace /proc/config.gz CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y $ uname -a Linux presario 2.6.28-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 25 09:43:53 UTC 2009 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-57 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux Will it be possible to add relevant kernel options? There are userspace tools available as well, which could go in another package. Is this the right way to ask for new functionality or a new ticket is required? -- Shridhar

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