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[arch-general] Adobe-air
by Madhurya Kakati 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

HI all, I tried all arch packages of adobe-air from AUR and also bin32-adobe-air without success. So i went to their website and downloaded the .bin file for linux. So i ran chmod a+x AdobeAirInstaller.bin to make it executable and then ran sudo ./AdobeAirInstaller.bin. I remember i did this and successfully installed adobe air on Ubuntu but now in arch it throws an error. Error loading the runtime (libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64). I am using 64 bit arch. Please help. Thanks

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Re: [arch-general] [signoff] udev 157-1, initscripts 2010.06-1, mkinitcpio 0.6.5-1
by Attila 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

At Donnerstag, 3. Juni 2010 14:57 Thomas Bächler wrote: > udev is an upstream update with mostly bugfixes, but some changes in > behaviour. Most importantly, NAME= rules are being ignored now, you can > not change the kernel's predefined device name anymore. Is there a hope to get "NAME= rules" back in the future or is there a nice upgrade path for at example network rules? I can't believe this because i do this for my usb sticks too. Can i replace this KERNEL=="eth*", ATTR{address}=="MAC", NAME="lan", OPTIONS="last_rule" with a Symlink KERNEL=="eth*", ATTR{address}=="MAC", SYMLINK="lan" and would this works in the rc.conf? See you, Attila

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[arch-general] 2nd partition for bootable USB flash drive
by Sergey Manucharian 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

Hi folks, Of course, it's very convenient to install Archlinux using a bootable USB flash putting the corresponding .iso file in it (e.g. archlinux-2010.05-core-i686.iso). But it's not convenient to keep a separate flash drive for it. The natural solution is to create another partition at the same jump drive for regular file transfers etc. Linux has no problem working with multiple partitions, but not M$ Windows. It principally recognizes only the 1st partition. Some flash drives can be hacked with toggling so called Removable Media Bit, but most cannot. I realized that the easiest way is to "manually" change the partition number of the bootable image before writing it into a flash drive. The script below does it rewriting the partition record from the first line to the second one. (Alternatively you can rework it to read back the MBR from the bootable drive, hack it and write back). Then with fdisk you can create another partition with number 1 - and voilà - it will be recognizable even by M$. Cheers, Sergey (the script is far from being perfect, just illustrates the idea) ----------------------------------8<------------------------------ #!/bin/bash # changes the partition number of bootable image from 1 to 2 # accepts a bootable image file as argument BLOCK=1 COUNT=16 PARTTBL_OFFSET=446 TEMP_FILE=/tmp/part_table dd if=/dev/zero of=$TEMP_FILE bs=$BLOCK count=$COUNT dd if=$1 of=$TEMP_FILE bs=$BLOCK skip=$PARTTBL_OFFSET seek=$COUNT count=$COUNT dd if=$TEMP_FILE of=$1 bs=$BLOCK seek=$PARTTBL_OFFSET conv=notrunc count=$((COUNT*2)) ----------------------------------8<------------------------------

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[arch-general] Xorg18 status and Gnome
by Keith Hinton 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Hi, Why is it that Arch seems to take longer than say other distros such as Ubuntu, Debian, etc, to support newer versions of Xorg and Gnome? I was curious about that process. While Debian/Ubuntu/etc distros seem to be supporting the Gnome desktop just fine, it appears that others most noticeably that of Gentoo and other such similar distros, mask or test out Gnome/Xorg, rather than releasing it strate away into say in Arches case, the extra/core repos. I had another question, relating to that of Arch, some webpages I have found compare Arch to Debian Cid/Unstable. How true is this, and exactly in what way is Arch Linux itself, like that of Debian Cid? Thanks! Regards, --Keith Skype: skypedude1234 MSN Messenger: keithint37(a)hotmail.com Yahoo messenger /AIM: keithint1234

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[arch-general] Broken kwallet after kde 4.4.4 update
by Marek Otahal 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Hello, anyone else experiencing issues with kwalletmanager after the upgrade? I upgraded during the kdelibs 4.4.3 issue, but that's fixed now. I don't know if it was a buggy upgrade or the release but the new kde sucks on my machine. Keybindings, such as alt+f2, volume up/down, alt+tab, etc., don't work and my main problem is Kwalletmanager. It runs in tray ok, but my wallet is missing, settings don't react,... I've filed a bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19678 . I did even try yaourt -Rcsn kde and yaourt -S kde but bugs still persist. Any ideas on fixing this? Advice to rm .kde4 is the solution I'd like to avoid. Thank you in advance. Regards, Mark -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] change user and group in env in PKGBUILD
by Caleb Cushing 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

so i'm trying to update the oracle pkgbuild on AUR. oracle's installer won't run as root, but it thinks that it's running as root. how can I change this? I believe it is supposed to be run as the user and group that it gets installed as what's the best way to add those in the pkgbuild? -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] perl-5.12
by Caleb Cushing 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

so what's holding back the rebuilds? outside of rebuilds I have no problems. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cryptsetup 1.1.2-1
by Thomas Bächler 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Am 02.06.2010 19:40, schrieb Roman Kyrylych: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 20:46, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >> Another minor upstream update. From the upstream announcement: >> >> === changes since version 1.1.1 === >> >> * Fix luksFormat/luksOpen reading passphrase from stdin and "-" keyfile. >> * Support --key-file/-d option for luksFormat. >> * Fix description of --key-file and add --verbose and --debug options >> to man page. >> * Add verbose log level and move unlocking message there. >> * Remove device even if underlying device disappeared (remove, luksClose). >> * Fix (deprecated) reload device command to accept new device argument. >> >> For changes in previous version please see Cryptsetup 1.1.1 Release Notes >> http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/Cryptsetup111 > > Signoff x86_64. > Anyone for i686 (users too)?

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[arch-general] synergy-plus
by Caleb Cushing 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

I suppose this could be filed as a bug... but since extra/synergy has long been unmaintained upstream. I recently found a fork http://code.google.com/p/synergy-plus/ for which there is already a pkgbuild on AUR. perhaps we should consider relegating the original synergy to AUR and moving synergy-plus into extra (or community) -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.15-1
by Andreas Radke 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

next one: 2.6.32.15-1, added some TCP modules requested in #19604 please signoff. .Andy

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[arch-general] [testing] news
by Jeroen Op 't Eynde 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

I would like to support Arch by going into testing and report bugs. Is there a specific place were important news is posted about [testing]? I follow the main RSS feed [1] and check the forums regularly. [1] http://www.archlinux.org/feeds/news/ -- To read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Bottom-posting

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[arch-general] Lost Sound Today
by Carlos Mennens 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

I did a update / upgrade today and noticed that there was a new kernel installed so I rebooted my Arch workstation. Sadly I no longer have any audio in Gnome via flash plugin. I checked and made sure I am a member of the 'audio' group if that matters...I am. I don't know if sound was broken before or after the upgrade but I can't listen to Pandora or any streaming audio via the web. I checked my sound properties and everything appears to be normal. Please help! -Carlos

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[arch-general] VirtualBox kernel modules do not match version ???
by Nilesh Govindarajan 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

I am getting this error - http://simplest-image-hosting.net/i0-plasma-desktopya3163-jpg.jpg after the recent virtualbox-ose upgrade. Please help me, I have to browse some sites which completely depend on IE :)^ -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] getting fed up with gnome's fast-user-switching experience
by Matthew Monaco 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Maybe some of you have had similar problems, maybe some have fixed them, seen them vanish with updates, or are still dealing with them. On pretty much every computer I interact with that uses Gnome (Arch, et al.) there is always one problem or another trying to log out, switch users, or resume from suspend. The symptom is usually a blank screen (with or without the backlight), or a blank screen with just the mouse. I'm not sure which combination of programs is to blame. But I've suspected (in no particular order): gdm gnome-session pm-utils gnome-screensaver kernel/xorg drivers for nvidia/ati/intel When encountered with a blank screen, sometimes the solution is as simple as ctrl+alt+f# to find the right tty. Sometimes ctrl+alt+backspace will work if DontZap is disabled. Sometimes I can ssh from another computer and do an (tel)init 3; (tel)init 5. And many unfortunate times I either can't log in remotely or the init trick doesn't work - I'm forced to do a hard reboot. The worst part is, it is really beginning to feel completely random. Or difficult to pinpoint, like special combinations of users that are logged and the user that is initiating the logout/suspend/etc (corrupted gconf?) *sigh* Do any of you have a multi-user gnome system with no problems at all here?

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[arch-general] pacgraph
by Andre "Osku" Schmidt 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Hello, blah blah, yada yada... didn't see any real use case for it, so didn't finish (rewrite/polish) it, sorry. (and i just wanted to see how it would look like;) nice looking package: pacgraph tkabber | dot -Tsvg > test.svg color shows which repo... disclaimer, i'm no "real" coder, and this was my first script in perl! cheers .andre ps. in reality i just got bored to code more complicated things, looping through all repos was annoying enough ;)

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[arch-general] Google-Chrome
by Madhurya Kakati 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Hi. I want the latest version of Google-chrome. Saw it on AUR but some on #archlinux told that i need gcc 4.4 to compile it successfully for 64 bit arch. Just wanted to know if anyone ran into any problems while compiling it. Thanks

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[arch-general] Anybody attending LinuxTag 2010?
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 31 May '10

31 May '10

I was wondering whether anybody else was going to attend LinuxTag 2010? It seems that this event hasn't even been discussed in arch-events and Arch Linux sadly doesn't hold a booth there this year. If anybody wants to do greet and meet, I'll be at the Linux-Gaming booth. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[arch-general] Compiling Firefox
by Nilesh Govindarajan 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hi, In order to improve firefox's reponse time, I'm thinking of compiling firefox with gcc's -O3 and -march settings from the ABS. Any tips on that matter, about updates, etc. ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] PulseAudio Equalizer not persistent
by Nilesh Govindarajan 31 May '10

31 May '10

Guys I have a problem with the pulseaudio equalizer. I have checked EQ Enabled & Keep Settings. But I have to click apply settings everytime mplayer (cli) changes track. How do I solve this ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] Equalizer
by Nilesh Govindarajan 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hi, I am looking for a global sound equalizer. It seems there is one for pulseaudio, but does it work fine if anybody is using it on this list ? Also, any other alternatives because I am using ALSA. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] Running Mozilla Prism?
by Magnus Therning 31 May '10

31 May '10

Has anyone managed to get Mozilla Prism to run properly? The behaviour I see is that a .desktop file and a file in ~/.webapps are created. Both look all right to my untrained eye. The behaviour when double-clicking the .desktop file is as expected though. I never end up where I intended, but always at the default startpage (http://www.google.com/firefox) You can find a screenshot of what I got after creating a webapp for youtube (URL http://www.youtube.com/) and ran it for the first time here[1]. Has anyone had any success with it? /M [1]: http://therning.org/magnus_files/prism.png -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] Games for Linux !
by Nilesh Govindarajan 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hi all, It seems there are lot of games for Linux we're not aware of because most of the times we stick to our distribution's repository. I remembered mario that I used to play on console about 8 years ago, so a Google search revealed megamario. All who wish to play games for entertainment check this - http://linux.softpedia.com/get/GAMES-ENTERTAINMENT/ This should suffice for normal gamers. For hard core gamers, it won't. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] Corrupted low memory error
by Gaurish Sharma 30 May '10

30 May '10

Hi, I am getting the following error while resuming from suspend2ram. Its a fully updated x86_64 machine. I tried the default ARCH + ck kernel, occurs on both. Is it a hardware or software problem? any fixes for this? Corrupted low memory at ffff88000000d278 (d278 phys) = 400000000000 ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/check.c:134 check_for_bios_corruption+0xe5/0xf0() Hardware name: G31M-ES2L Memory corruption detected in low memory Modules linked in: rfcomm sco bridge stp llc bnep l2cap usbhid hid btusb bluetooth rfkill cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_ondemand snd_hda_codec_realtek acpi_cpufreq freq_table snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec vboxnetflt snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_timer ppdev uhci_hcd parport_pc snd soundcore snd_page_alloc processor thermal button sg vboxdrv led_class ehci_hcd nvidia(P) evdev usbcore iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support intel_agp r8169 mii pcspkr fuse lp parport i2c_i801 i2c_core rtc_cmos rtc_core rtc_lib ext4 mbcache jbd2 crc16 sd_mod sr_mod cdrom ata_generic pata_acpi ata_piix libata scsi_mod Pid: 7, comm: events/0 Tainted: P 2.6.33-ck #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81048126>] warn_slowpath_common+0x76/0xb0 [<ffffffff810481bc>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x3c/0x40 [<ffffffff8102dbd5>] check_for_bios_corruption+0xe5/0xf0 [<ffffffff8102dbe0>] ? check_corruption+0x0/0x30 [<ffffffff8102dbe9>] check_corruption+0x9/0x30 [<ffffffff81063873>] worker_thread+0x173/0x320 [<ffffffff81068a10>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 [<ffffffff81063700>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x320 [<ffffffff8106849e>] kthread+0x8e/0xa0 [<ffffffff8100ad24>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [<ffffffff81068410>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0 [<ffffffff8100ad20>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10 ---[ end trace bfe1355d41729abc ]--- Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com

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[arch-general] Kudos - kernel handling of radeon driver getting much better
by David C. Rankin 30 May '10

30 May '10

Guys, Here is one worth noting. The radeon driver has come a long way in the past couple of kernels or Xorg packages. I know the driver itself hasn't changed since 11/2009 (ver. 1.3.0-1), but my desktop is working much better than the last time I updated. I have switched all 12 or so of my boxes to Arch (work and home included). The only two that are still suse are my laptops due to the fglrx driver. I have 2 spare drives for each laptop and on one drive for each laptop I did a complete wipe and then installed Arch. I did this about 14 months ago and I update the spare drives every month or two. The only reason I haven't moved my laptops to Arch is solely the gpu kernel module issue. ( to complicate matters, both laptops use the 'legacy' driver as a result of ATI screwing its customer base and dropping all support for linux for all pre-2400 series chipsets) This hit laptops hard. The last laptop I bought was 2008 and it is now a 'legacy' box The benefits that the fglrx driver provide over either the radeon or radeonhd drivers are primarily 2-fold, speed (obvious) and most important gpu clock powerdown (idling unneeded parts of the gpu) while running with massively reduces the gpu heat load. (and fan noise, etc..) On update tonight. I stared the box, fired up gnome, started compiz and Wow! It was working fine. I was actually 'smooth'. Much improved over the old jerky behavior that existed when I last updated at the end of Feb. It's not as fast as the fglrx driver, but it is no longer a sticking point on moving the box to arch. Cooling is also improved. The heat is still an issue as heat drives fan noise. However, I have been able to work in Arch for the past several hours and my palm-rest is not on fire! And when I'm idling the box, the fan noise is down to a soft hum -- workable. Much improved over the XB-70 sound with all 6 afterburners lit ;-) So to whoever the kudos go -- job well done! I never thought I would see an open-source radeon driver work as well... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] [signoff] device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.66 and cryptsetup 1.1.1
by Thomas Bächler 29 May '10

29 May '10

I put updated device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.66 and cryptsetup 1.1.1 packages to testing. These packages enable udev synchronization to finally get rid of all race conditions related to udev rules. I also cleaned up the PKGBUILDs massively and removed all static binaries and libraries from the packages. Dynamic lvm and cryptsetup now run entirely from /{bin,lib}, without the need for /usr. Please sign off.

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