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[arch-general] What is Arch doing vis-a-vis MySQL v. MariaDB?
by David C. Rankin 04 May '10

04 May '10

Guys, Ran into a shock this morning when on one of my 2 lingering suse boxes updates replaced MySQL with MariaDB. After a brief bit of research, it seems that Monte (one of the MySQL devs) forked mysql into mariadb from the mysql code base in the 12/2009 timeframe when Oracle bought Sun to preserve MySQL and prevent against any funny business by Oracle in the future. According to statements made by Oracle, it is under an obligation to the EU to continue mysql largely in its present form and continue to enhance and make it freel available as part of the purchase. (See Oracle Statement): http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/042364 Suse evidently went with MariaDB and it was somewhat disconcerting to learn about the switch during an update. Has Arch considered what it will do in this situation, MariaDB?, MySQL? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] New device-mapper, lvm2 and cryptsetup packages in testing
by Thomas Bächler 03 May '10

03 May '10

I put updated device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.64 and cryptsetup 1.1.1-rc2 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. Before cryptsetup can move to core, we obviously need to wait for the final 1.1.1 release, and libpopt, libgcrypt and libgpg-error need to move from /usr/lib to /lib, so that initscripts are able to open encryption even if /usr isn't available yet. Pleae give feedback on these packages.

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[arch-general] kernel26-2.6.33.3-1, nut (upsd) is dead. It's either the kernel or nut 2.4.3
by David C. Rankin 03 May '10

03 May '10

Guys, After update to 2.6.33.3-1, network-ups-tools (nut/upsd) starts, but cannot communicate with itself on localhost or across the network anymore. The default abs configuration was used so it isn't with one of my famous configure strings. It starts fine, but then here is what I get in my logs: May 3 00:23:17 nirvana upsd[27067]: listening on 192.168.6.17 port 3493 May 3 00:23:17 nirvana upsd[27067]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 May 3 00:23:17 nirvana upsd[27068]: Startup successful May 3 00:23:17 nirvana upsmon[27070]: Startup successful May 3 00:23:17 nirvana upsmon[27072]: Communications with UPS archangel_ups(a)archangel.3111skyline.com lost May 3 00:23:17 nirvana wall[27074]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (70 chars) May 3 00:23:22 nirvana upsmon[27072]: UPS archangel_ups(a)archangel.3111skyline.com is unavailable May 3 00:23:22 nirvana upsmon[27072]: Communications with UPS nirvana_ups@localhost lost May 3 00:23:22 nirvana wall[27077]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (60 chars) May 3 00:23:22 nirvana wall[27079]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (52 chars) May 3 00:23:27 nirvana upsmon[27072]: UPS nirvana_ups@localhost is unavailable May 3 00:23:27 nirvana wall[27084]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (42 chars) May 3 00:28:23 nirvana upsmon[27072]: UPS archangel_ups(a)archangel.3111skyline.com is unavailable May 3 00:28:23 nirvana wall[27104]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (60 chars) May 3 00:28:28 nirvana upsmon[27072]: UPS nirvana_ups@localhost is unavailable May 3 00:28:28 nirvana wall[27108]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (42 chars) and every few minute or two, this gets dumped to the terminal: [00:25 nirvana:/home/david] # Broadcast message from nut (Mon May 3 00:28:23 2010): UPS archangel_ups(a)archangel.3111skyline.com is unavailable Broadcast message from nut (Mon May 3 00:28:28 2010): UPS nirvana_ups@localhost is unavailable and on the second Arch box [00:24 archangel:/home/david] # Broadcast message from nut (Mon May 3 00:28:41 2010): UPS archangel_ups@localhost is unavailable Broadcast message from nut (Mon May 3 00:28:41 2010): UPS nirvana_ups(a)nirvana.3111skyline.com is unavailable (I have two CyberPower AVRLCD 1000 ups'es that have always done fine. They use the usbhid-ups interface through /dev/hiddev0 and each monitor each other over the LAN. ) The abs package is network-ups-tools with abs updated and built against the nut-2.4.3.tar.gz source to make network-ups-tools-2.4.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz. To solve the problem, I dropped back to the abs network-ups-tools-2.4.1 PKGBUILD that I still had laying around and rebuilt against the new kernel and all is working as it should. So there is either a kernel error or error in the 2.4.3 nut package. Let me know if you want me to open a ticket. 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] Firefox graphics licensed under MPL
by Denis Kobozev 03 May '10

03 May '10

Hi archers, If you believe the comment on Mozilla's bugtracker [1] and the change to the license file [2], the previously non-free Firefox graphics are now licensed under the MPL. Does that mean that we'll be able to have official logo in the supported Firefox package? [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541761#c3 [2]: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/99d80bc3f18b Denis.

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[arch-general] Fresh Install - kde4 filling up .xsession-errors 300M + in 48 hours - "Invalid iterator."
by David C. Rankin 03 May '10

03 May '10

Guys, This is a new one. I replaced one of my last suse boxes with arch at work a couple of days ago. I ssh'ed into the box tonight to get a few files and noticed my .xsession-errors file well over 300M - huh? -rw------- 1 david david 341482832 Apr 26 22:54 .xsession-errors Wanting to get a feel for what was up, I just tailf'ed and watched. Every few seconds it would dump a bunch of stuff to the file in somewhat of a loop of messages starting and/or ending with the 'invalid iterator .' line. I'm at a loss as to what is causing it. My rc.conf daemons setup is: DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network hal @netfs @ntpd @sshd @crond @avahi-daemon @mysqld !postfix @cups) with kdm being started in inittab: x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon This was the first or second time kde4 was started to akonadi/nepomuk was still churning away, but had evidently completed several hours after I had left. I'm sure I have probably done this to myself, but I did a fairly standard install. I'm currently crunching the .xsession-errors file down with xz to see how small I can get it in case anybody wants to see it. 'xz -z9e' Amazingly it crunched it down to a little over 500k: http://www.rbpllc.com/download/arch/bugs/xsession-errors.xz Let me have your thoughts on this. The error message 'loop' seems to be something like what follows: "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "Invalid iterator." [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "Invalid iterator." -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] b43-fwcutter-013-1
by Tobias Powalowski 02 May '10

02 May '10

Am Freitag 30 April 2010 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > Hi > bumped to latest version, please signoff both arches. > > greetings > tpowa anyone? -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] iso's
by Caleb Cushing 02 May '10

02 May '10

why is it the new iso's never made the download page? -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] gambas2 splitted package
by Laurent Carlier 01 May '10

01 May '10

Attached is a source package for a gambas2 splitted package. The PKGBUILD is pretty huge due to some workaround, and to the fact that it produce several gambas2* packages, following recommendations from http://www.gambasdoc.org/help/howto/package A meta package is produced too, for migration facility from the monolitic package. Of course, comments are welcome, as it's my first officially proposed PKGBUILD. Regards, Laurent Carlier

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[arch-general] A good twitter client for KDE
by Nilesh Govindarajan 01 May '10

01 May '10

Yeah I'm reopening this topic because I'm yet to find any good twitter client for KDE. I was using choqok till now and loved it but recently an update to it broke it, now it would show read tweets as unread when I quit and launch it again. Qwit isn't that much impressive because it doesn't show me number on the systray. So there isn't anything except the plasmoid, firefox-echofon or chrome-chromed bird ? PS: GNOME isn't installed on my machine so give clients which don't need GNOME libs. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु !

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[arch-general] Free Arch Linux Shell Account
by Kaiting Chen 01 May '10

01 May '10

Hi, I posted this in the forums a couple weeks ago, just thought that I would copy it here in case anyone was still interested. Hi, I've a couple of Linode's with spare resources so I thought that I would offer some free shell accounts. There are three servers in total each running Arch Linux hosted in a Newark, New Jersey datacenter. The following packages are installed: abs 2.3.4.1-1, alpine 2.00-9, anyterm 1.1.29-1, apache 2.2.15-2, aria2 1.9.2-1, aspell 0.60.6-4, bash-completion 1.1-3, bc 1.06-7, bitlbee 1.2.6a-1, boost 1.41.0-1, cabal-install 0.8.0-2, cairo 1.8.10-1, ccache 2.4-5, centerim 4.22.9-3, certificates 2010-1, cherrypy 3.1.2-1, clisp 2.48-1, cpulimit 1.1-1, cuneiform 0.9.0-1, curl 7.20.1-1, darcs 2.4.1-1, dictionaries 2010-1, distcc 3.1-3, documentation 2010-1, dovecot 1.2.11-2, ecl 10.4.1-1, elinks 0.11.7-3, emacs-full 23.1-5, erlang R13B04-3, fish 1.23.1-2, fontforge 20090923-2, fortune-mod 1.99.1-4, freeimage 3.13.1-1, freetalk 3.2-4, gdb 7.1-2, ghc 6.12.1-4, ghostscript 8.71-3, git 1.7.1-1, gnupg 1.4.10-2, gnupg2 2.0.15-1, gnuplot 4.2.6-1, graphicsmagick 1.3.12-1, gtk2 2.20.0-2, guile 1.8.7-2, htop 0.8.3-1, icecast 2.3.2-3, imagemagick 6.6.1.4-1, intltool 0.41.1-1, ipsec-tools 0.7.3-2, iptables 1.4.7-1, irssi 0.8.15-1, libcups 1.4.3-2, lilypond 2.12.3-2, links 2.2-4, lua 5.1.4-4, lynx 2.8.7-2, maxima 5.20.1-3, mcabber 0.10.0-2, memcached 1.4.5-1, mercurial 1.5.1-1, monit 5.0.3-2, mysql 5.1.46-2, naim 0.11.8.3.2-1, nano 2.2.4-1, ne 2.0.3-1, nethack 3.4.3-4, nfs-utils 1.2.2-2, ngspice 20-1, nss_ldap 264-2, ntp 4.2.6-3, ocaml 3.11.2-1, octave 3.2.3-3, openldap 2.4.21-2, openssh 5.4p1-4, openvpn 2.1.1-2, pacman 3.3.3-5, pam_ldap 184-3, pango 1.28.0-1, parrot 2.3.0-1, perl 5.10.1-5, php-full 5.3.2-6, postfix 2.7.0-2, postgis 1.5.1-1, postgresql 8.4.3-2, python 2.6.5-3, python-jinja 2.4.1-1, python3 3.1.2-3, quota-tools 3.17-1, r 2.10.1-1, rpcbind 0.2.0-1, rsync 3.0.7-1, rsyslog 5.4.0-1, rtorrent 0.8.6-2, ruby 1.9.1_p378-2, rxvt-unicode 9.07-1, sbcl 1.0.37-1, screen 4.0.3-8, slrn 0.9.9p1-6, sphinx 0.9.9-1, spidermonkey 1.7.0-3, subversion 1.6.9-5, system 2010-1, tcl 8.5.8-1, tcsh 6.17.00-1, tesseract 2.04-3, texlive 2009-1, tin 1.8.3-7, tk 8.5.8-2, tmux 1.2-2, toolchain 2010-1, tree 1.5.3-1, ttf-dejavu 2.30-2, unzip 6.0-5, valgrind 3.5.0-3, vifm 0.5-2, vim-full 7.2.411-1, vixie-cron 4.1-11, vsftpd 2.2.2-3, w3m 0.5.2-5, weechat 0.3.2-1, xinetd 2.3.14-5, xorg-xauth 1.0.4-1, zsh 4.3.10-3 I've omitted most dependencies to shorten that list. If a package is requested I'll be happy to install it as long as it is reasonable and secure. You'll be free to run web applications in Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, etc. You will automatically have a PostgreSQL account with the ability to create databases and if requested you will also be given your own LDAP tree. In addition you'll also have an email account that can be forwarded or accessed via IMAP or POP3. Feel free to compile software. There's also a whole slew of mathematical, statistical, and scientific software installed so feel free to run mathematical simulations etc. Each server has a 3GB /tmp partition of which most likely 2.8GB will be accessible to users who need the space temporarily (for compilation, etc.). I'm thinking right now that I'd like to allocate 256MB to each users to start off with and see how things work out from there. Uptime so far hasn't been fantastic but the servers have been undergoing a lot of changes lately so once everything is set I'm anticipating pretty good uptime. Basically all I'm asking for in return is that if you see a security hole or something stupid to let me know. I don't expect anyone to look for anything at all but if something happens to catch your attention please forward your concerns to me. Thanks. I am offering 24MB, 96MB, and 256MB accounts. Please make a reasonable estimate as to how much disk space you will use. You will be able to "upgrade" or "downgrade" later but please make a reasonable estimate now because changing that option later is a lot of work for me. Remember that /tmp has 2.8GB and is the recommended place to do compiling and such. If you'd like an account please reply on the list or email me at kaiting.chen(a)kiwilight.com. I need your first and last name as well as your email address. I also need to know whether or not you would like LDAP access. When your account is created you'll receive an email with your temporary password and the instructions for SSH'ing into your server. Please read the information in that email carefully. Also note that the servers have a first.last name username scheme which I really like so unfortunately I can't accommodate custom usernames. If you have a serious problem with this please email me and we can discuss a solution. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

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[arch-general] Time for an arch-security mailing list?
by Ananda Samaddar 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Does anyone agree with this? If so how do I go about requesting the creation of such a list? The list would be for discussion around security in Arch, implementations and user/dev input etc. It seems like package signing has moved up the agenda now and I've also got a few things I'd like to suggest but I feel we'd be better served by a separate mailing list for security. Ananda

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[arch-general] Crisp Rendering Fonts
by Carlos Mennens 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Is there any suggestion on Arch Linux running Gnome 2.6.30 to improve the crisp / clearness of my fonts? I installed the latest available nVidia drivers & under 'Appearance' > 'Fonts' > 'Details', I show the following: * Resolution: 98 dots per square inch. * Smoothing: Subpixel (LCD) * Hinting: Slight * Subpixel Order; RGB It just never seems as clear and crisp when I compare side by side to Ubuntu or Windows 7. The font clarity is notable difference beween Arch and I would like to change this. Any help and or tips would be greatly appreciated! -Carlos

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[arch-general] perl prereleases request to make official decision to deviate from general guidleines
by Caleb Cushing 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

I'm working on a PKGBUILD for perl 5.12 and I notice that it's providing 20 some odd prerelease modules. I'm annoyed but I can't do anything about it. The general PKGBUILD guidelines say use the same as upstream unless there is a hyphen. so for a perl prerelease of 0.90_1 that guideline follows to release it as exactly the same. However 0.90_1 is == 0.90.1 and greater than 0.90 which it is a prerelease for on cpan. I'd like to suggest that for perl the official guideline be to make the version 0.90_pre1 Dist::Zilla a release automation tool also allows for using a format _TRIAL which is not yet popular on cpan but does happen should pacman add a _trial ? to the list of options? I think we could just use _pre here too. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] 4k sector drives
by Caleb Cushing 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

has anyone installed arch on one of these drives? thinking about buying a pair and running them mirrored... but not sure if everything will be working optimal. note: since I'll have to migrate off an existing drive I can use the tools installed on that to partition it first. Is there anything I should know first? -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-atm 2.5.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

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

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[arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?
by Nilesh Govindarajan 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hi, I want to impress my friend by showing them the Windows 7 Look on Linux and persuade them to ditch Windows and use Linux. I have enabled compiz and some effects. Anybody knows how to take screenshot of the Ring Switcher ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु !

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[arch-general] Package signing
by Aleksis Jauntēvs 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hello, The idea is to implement package signing for Arch similar to rpm GPG package signing. Short description follows. Use case for developers: 1. Dev bulds package with f.e. "-sign" switch. 2. Dev enters passphrase. 3. makepkg builds the package and creates detached signature (now we have 2 files *.tar.xz and *.sig). 4. The two files togeather are distributed to the repos as package with signature. Package installation: Pacman additionally downloads the signature the signature file and verifies the package. Problems: 1. Where to store the package signature file? It is more convenient and logical to keep the package as a single file. Rpm packages uses binary format and the signatures are stored inside. 2. GPG key sharing. Rpm-like distros like fedora and RHL use a single key for signing all their stable packages, but I think their build system is centralised. Is it safe to share one key among all package developers? 3.. Implementation: 1. Add package verification suport in lipalpm (using gpgme or gpg executable as rpm does). 2. Add package signing in makepkg script 3. Patch pacman, add option to turn the package signing ON or Off. 4. Add support for signed package distribution if needed (see Problems #1) 5. Include Arch public pgp key in /etc/pacman.d/..(??) Discussion about this and also other ways for package signing(md5,..) are welcome! -- Alekss

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[arch-general] dual ISP: 1)cable broadband (DHCP) 2){shudder} dial-up (ppp?) Please help!
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hi. It's been so long since I've bothered with dial-up that I'm not sure where to begin. But so that I can bring my laptop with me to check my mail etc... when I'm visiting my sister I need to get it working. Without messing up my 'working' broadband set-up. It looks like my best bet is to use wvdial. I'm hoping that the actual use will be as simple as unplugging the Ethernet cable from my laptop & plugging a 'live' modular phone cord into the laptops built in modem and following the instructions for using wvdial... My biggest concern is that everything I've found so far for getting Arch (or other Linux) to connect via dialup all appear to assume that there isn't an available broadband connection. (why else would I bother with dial-up after all...) But I want to confirm that setting up wvdial to use a dial-up ISP won't mess with reestablishing a broadband connection by simply reconnecting the 'live' Ethernet cable... Preferably without having to reboot. (Though I shudder to think what would happen if I goofed and plugged in the broadband during an active dial-up session, or initiated a dialup session without disconnecting the broadband.) http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide_Appen… says: "There are quite a few dialup related documents in the Arch Linux Wiki" But when I search the wiki for "dialup" it mostly lists in various languages, references to the install guide or the document "Dialup without a dialer HOWTO" But I like the idea that wvdialconf is supposed to automatically detect and configure for most modems. And I like that wvdial is supposed to be able to automatically detect pap vs chap etc and generally establish ppp with less requirement for me to micromanage the process... I searched the wiki for wvdial and all I got was instruction for configuring non-root access (which is the last thing I want. When/if connected via dialup, I'll be paying by the connected hour, so I don't want anyone I don't trust with the root password to be able to use it... I'm hoping that All I'll need to do is open a terminal window, su to a root shell, type wvdial Then open a browser or email client in another window. And to be able to quickly pull the plug on the connection (stopping the ISP's connect time clock) by switching back to the root shell that started wvdial and hitting ^C... (that is of course after a root shell runs wvdialconf and then edits the wvdial.conf to include the appropriate DNS server, user and password data etc...) Do I need to worry about wvdial and/or other dial-up ppp connection messing with the broadband Ethernet setup? Could someone point me at the URLs of the other 'dialup' related documents that are supposed to be in the Arch Linux Wiki (since searching for 'dialup' didn't help me)? Thanks! -- | ~-~ ~-~ Guess I just don't know. | <?> <?> Joseph (the Wordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ___ <jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net> <sigh>

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Chasing various signoffs
by Allan McRae 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

On 24/04/10 11:09, Allan McRae wrote: > These are signoffs I need and the dates they were requested: I am still looking for these signoffs: > 2010-04-18 > cracklib (i686) > ed (i686) > inetutils (i686) > rp-pppoe (i686) > > 2010-04-19 > bridge-utils (i686) > ndiswrapper-utils (both) User signoffs are fine. Allan

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[arch-general] Remove Epiphany Browser
by Carlos Mennens 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

I just installed a fresh system today with Gnome 2.6.30. It automatically installed Epiphany & Epiphany Web Bookmarks too. I would like to know if I remove both of these applications, will I effect Gnome or any of it's dependancies? I wont ever use Epiphany and I don't like useless applications lingering on my system? Is there a way to purge all of it's installation existance off my new machine without messing up Gnome?

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[arch-general] kernel 2.6.33.3 freezes on boot
by didier gaumet 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

Hi list, Since todays's update of the kernel (2.6.33.2 -> 2.6.33.3) my Dell inspiron 1012-9118 (new mini 10) netbook freezes on boot (after displaying "loading modules". I have to poweroff. It is an Atom N450 proc and an x86_64 Archlinux (up-to-date). Has anyone a similar problem?

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[arch-general] Nvidia Driver Installed But Not Running
by Carlos Mennens 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

I recently installed the nvidia driver from 'Pacman' and rebooted. I have not since updated / upgraded the kernel. I notice that when I try and open my 'nVidia X Server Config' window and it tells me: You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file. I looked in /etc/X11/ directory and don't see xorg.conf file. Does anyone know how I can get my nVidia drivers working on Arch Linux? It installed fine however it's not running for some reason. -Carlos

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[arch-general] Kopete auto reply
by Nilesh Govindarajan 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

Does anyone know how to setup kopete so that it can autoreply when away like it is with pidgin (purple-plugin-pack) ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु !

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] xorg18 repository moves to testing
by Ray Kohler 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Jan de Groot <announce(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Jan de Groot wrote: > > The xorg18 repository has been cleared out, all packages have been moved to > testing. A lot of users have been testing this xorg18 repository with success, > so it's time to move it to testing. This means all testing users who haven't > tried the xorg18 repository yet will have to reconfigure their input devices on > the next upgrade. The original announcement for the xorg18 repository can be > found here: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev- > public/2010-April/016387.html Nouveau should get an upgrade to go with this. I was able to run the existing xf86-video-nouveau from [extra] by setting IgnoreABI. I wasn't able to get the source of that snapshot to compile against the current X stack. A current snapshot built with no problem and the server loaded, though I couldn't test if it actually worked properly (I started that X server on a remote machine).

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.33.3-1
by Thomas Bächler 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

This is an upstream kernel release, including security fixes. Packages will enter testing within the next hour. We had a gcc 4.4 -> 4.5 version bump, so the external modules are still compiled with 4.4, while the kernel is compiled with 4.5. If any external modules break (usual candidates are nvidia and aufs2), we will have to rebuild them with 4.5 as well. Please test this update thoroughly and sign off. Please provide feedback about the state of our nvidia and aufs2 (or other external) builds, so we know whether we require a rebuild.

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