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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] grep-2.6.1-1
by Guillaume Brunerie 27 Mar '10

27 Mar '10

2010/3/27 Jan de Groot <jan(a)jgc.homeip.net> > On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 22:57 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > Upstream bug fix release. > > > > Signoff both, > > Allan > > Signoff x86_64. > > On my computer (x86_64), "grep -r a ." segfault, with grep 2.6.1-1. "echo a | grep a" works without problems.

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[arch-general] cups - dependency breaks upgrade "/etc/cups/subscriptions.conf exists"
by David C. Rankin 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Guys, A cups check on /etc/cups/subscriptions.conf is stopping an update from completing: samba-3.5.1-1-i686.... 10.3M 129.5K/s 00:01:21 [########################################################] 100% ttf-junicode-0.6.17... 910.0K 127.3K/s 00:00:07 [########################################################] 100% vim-bufexplorer-7.2... 16.9K 54.5K/s 00:00:00 [########################################################] 100% xine-lib-1.1.18.1-1... 2.7M 126.6K/s 00:00:22 [########################################################] 100% :: Retrieving packages from community... keepassx-0.4.3-1-i686 1076.7K 128.9K/s 00:00:08 [########################################################] 100% checking package integrity... (247/247) checking for file conflicts [########################################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) cups: /etc/cups/subscriptions.conf exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Do you want me to open a ticket? I've just move subscriptions.conf as a work around. Shouldn't this situation just result in a .pacnew file instead of stopping the update? -- 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] Dirty fonts in Chromium
by Nilesh Govindarajan 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Appearance of sites in Chromium is very dirty, though I didn't change the default font settings. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] Firefox Spellcheck Missing
by Carlos Mennens 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

I just installed Firefox from Pacman repositories and noticed that I don't have the default add-on spell checker for Mozilla Firefox. I was afraid to download some crappy 3rd party spell checker add-on for Firefox and just wanted a plain English spell checker since I am the worst speller. Can anyone please help me and tell me how I can install / download the default Firefox English spell checker?

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[arch-general] Vim Syntax Highlighter
by Carlos Mennens 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

I noticed today when editing a config file for Postfix in Vim that one value was listed in white text only and everything else was in color. This lead me to beleive the value or parameter was wrong or not being recognized by Postfix configuration but it is. I asked Postfix and the said: "Your VIM syntax highlighter is out of date" Can anyone tell me if there is a way to update this manually if I have the latest version of Vim in my Arch repo?

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Re: [arch-general] gsfonts - package is updated?
by Francois Charette 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

On 26/03/2010 11:18, Xavier Chantry wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Firmicus<Firmicus(a)gmx.net> wrote: > >> PS: Yes, the stupid version numbers for those fonts used upstream by the >> ghostscript project is also part of the mess I was referring to, but far >> worse it the fact that the fonts have not been released as a standalone >> tarball for so long. The fonts themselves (outlines and metrics) are of a >> very high quality, so there is no problem in that respect. It's just that >> the ghostscript project does not seem to care releasing them. The tarball >> was generated by Fedora from the ghostscript svn repo. The new version not >> only fixes the bug mentioned above, but also adds glyphs for Cyrillic. >> >> > Did you try to communicate with upstream ? It is not always bound to failures :) > It just takes a few minutes to write a mail. And sometimes there are results ! > > Done http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=687297#c31

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[arch-general] gsfonts - package is updated?
by Ng Oon-Ee 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Repository : extra Name : gsfonts Version : 1.0.7pre44-1 Installed : 8.11-5 URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/gs-fonts/ I'm assuming this is a simple mess upstream on non-consecutive version numbers? The linked sourceforge page still lists 8.11 as the stable version, while the one currently in extra is listed as 'pre' (and doesn't seem available in the sourceforge page?

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[arch-general] tmpfs
by Juan Diego 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Good day everyone, I want to delete the next two lines from my fstab: none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 however I would like to know the secondary effects of doing such thing, all the information I could get on the internet is that shm is for POSIX shared memory support and that almost any program actually use it, for devpts I couldn't find much information about it. does anyone knows if it is safe to remove those lines from my fstab? thank you.

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[arch-general] rankmirrors with arch-games
by Daenyth Blank 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

For some reason rankmirrors seems to really hate the arch-games mirrorlist. I don't know whether it's a bug or whether there's some sort of server misconfiguration. [root@Muspelheimr pacman.d]# rankmirrors -t archgames-mirrorlist Querying servers, this may take some time... * * * * Servers sorted by time (seconds): http://pseudoform.org/arch-games/games/i686 #(Nürnberg, Germany. Maintainer: svenstaro) : 1.01 http://repo.exigen.org/arch/games/i686 #(Düsseldorf, Germany. Maintainer: s4msung) : unreachable http://repo.archlinux-gaming.org/i686 #(Toronto, Canada. Primary mirror) : unreachable ftp://mirror.selfnet.de/arch-games/i686 #(Stuttgart, Germany. Maintainer: hrist) : unreachable All of the above servers respond to ping and their repos can be browsed manually and synced with using pacman.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] grep-2.6-1
by Xavier Chantry 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Upstream big update. > > Local changelog: > - Removed the multibyte locale speed-up patch (and all the patches to fix > the issues it created...) as it is now included upstream. > - Removed the other patches as it appears they are not being considered > upstream. > > Upstream NEWS: > * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6 (2010-03-23) [stable] > > ** Speed improvements > > grep is much faster on multibyte character sets, especially (but not > limited to) UTF-8 character sets. The speed improvement is also very > pronounced with case-insensitive matches. > That's awesome. After all these years, I thought this would never happen :) I did a quick benchmark before and after, and I got very similar results, so we are good. grep -i is still considerably slower than grep in UTF-8 (0.1 -> 1.5s , that is 15x slower), but IIRC it was MUCH worse with an unpatched grep 2.5, like hundred of times slower. With LANG=C , grep and grep -i are both at 0.1s.

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[arch-general] Kernel LTS won't boot properly
by Nilesh Govindarajan 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

I installed kernel26-lts. It will boot properly upto Udev then screen will flicker and then nothing shows up, but it seems like the boot is going on. Its just after when INIT changes the screen font. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] Issue with man
by Damien Churchill 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

I've got a rather confusing issue with man. Whenever I try and view a man page I just end up with a blank screen. http://www.imagebam.com/image/41dd5973332829 This occurs for any page, even for local ones. I was wondering if anyone would be able to shed any light on why this is occuring? Thanks, Damien

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[arch-general] upcoming Xiph releases
by Ray Kohler 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Just a heads-up to package owners that there will be several xiph.org releases very soon now. libao appears to be the only thing with a soname bump (2.1.3 -> 4.0.0). I don't think the rebuild list for it should be very long. See below. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <xiphmont(a)xiph.org> Date: Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [Vorbis-dev] upcoming releases (was: adding directory contents to ogg123 playing in sorted order?) To: Ray Kohler <ataraxia937(a)gmail.com> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Can I take it that the releases of libao and vorbis-tools are > imminent, then? The doc updates from the last day have that feel to > them also. > > I ask because I'd like to give a heads-up to the Arch devs since the > libao release will have a soname bump, and thus they'll have some > rebuilding to plan. (And is libvorbis getting a release soon as well?) I will be releasing libogg, libvorbis, libao and vorbis-tools by the end of the week (I hope). Schedule is actually 'tomorrow', but some small amount of slippage is traditional. Monty

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[arch-general] New Using AUR
by Carlos Mennens 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

I had two questions about using the AUR. I have never done it before and read of the How-To on the Wiki but could someone please answer the following two questions I have: 1. If I build a tarball on 'PC1' downloaded from AUR with the 'makepkg -s' command, can I then transfer the created tarball to 'PC2' and install it even though PC2 didn't have any of the required packages used to create the tarball from the AUR? 2. Once a package is installed from the AUR, when I do a system upgrade via Pacman, will outdated packages I installed via AUR get automatically upgraded or do I have to do all my AUR packages manually?

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[arch-general] Chromium default browser
by Nilesh Govindarajan 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

How to make Chromium as default browser ? I'm using KDE. But I'll like to have the same setting in GNOME too. I changed the command at systemsettings from 'firefox' to 'chromium' It although opens chromium, but doesn't open the link in it. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dbus-core 1.2.24
by Ng Oon-Ee 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 12:43 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote: > Following the crasher release of 1.2.22, this should fix FS#18796. > Please test and signoff. > User signoff x86_64, I reported that bug. 1.2.24 does not show the specific issue reported in FS#18796.

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[arch-general] Battery Monitor Applet (kde4) hangs after s2ram
by Markus Golser 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hi, after I resume from s2ram my battery monitoring applet does not refresh anymore. It shows 100% loaded and plugged in all the time. I have to kill plasma every time in order to get the current charge. cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_now <- shows the correct charge. Maybe someone can help me. Notebook = Dell Inspiron 9400

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[arch-general] MySQL Starts But Fails to Restart
by Carlos Mennens 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

I don't understand this issue so I am posting this here. I noticed today that I had an issue with restarting MySQL on my server: 1. I verify MySQL is not running: Code: [root@ghost /]# ps -ef | grep -i "mysqld" root 1706 1216 0 16:45 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i mysqld 2. I start the 'mysqld' service: Code: [root@ghost /]# /etc/rc.d/mysqld start :: Starting MySQL Server [DONE] 3. I verify that the daemon is running: Code: [root@ghost /]# ps -ef | grep -i "mysqld" root 1715 1 0 16:45 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql mysql 1813 1715 0 16:45 pts/0 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --log-error=/var/lib/mysql/ghost.err --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/ghost.pid --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock --port=3306 4. I then run the command to restart the daemon for MySQL and it fails... Code: [root@ghost /]# /etc/rc.d/mysqld restart :: Stopping MySQL Server [DONE] :: Starting MySQL Server [FAIL] I can use the 'start' and 'stop' commands for /etc/rc.d/mysqld but 'restart' for some reason fails and this concerns me. Can anyone help me understand what is wrong?

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[arch-general] Unable To Rendor PHP Pages in Apache
by Carlos Mennens 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

I today installed Apache on my Arch Linux server. I did the following: # pacman -S php apache php-apache mcrypt pcre Then I edited the /etc/php/php.ini file & un-commented the following: [...] extension=mcrypt.so extension=mysql.so extension=mysqli.so ;extension=odbc.so ;extension=openssl.so ;extension=pdo.so ;extension=pdo_mysql.so [...] I then restarted the 'httpd' service and when I try to render a HTML page with PHP code, it wont rendor the code properly and just looks like a script / code. I don't understand why I can't get Apache to render PHP pages. Does anyone know what I am missing? This is only a problem for me on Arch. RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu. and Slackware all work out of the box. Any suggestions?

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[arch-general] PyPy Build
by Vivek Ayer 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Hi guys, I'm having a little bit of trouble building pypy and pypy-svn from AUR. Any chanced someone has a prebuilt arch package for i686 already? If so, may I download it? My X41 only has a 1GB of RAM and the HD on it has degraded. I started the build for pypy on it last Thursday and it's still building! It's using all my RAM and ~400 MB of Swap space. I'd really appreciate any help. Thanks, Vivek

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[arch-general] libpng12 and libjpeg6 from AUR fix kdemod3 100%
by David C. Rankin 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Guys, Just dropping a note on the build and install of libpng12 and libjpeg6 from AUR to fix the problem I had with the kdemod3 install on my new arch box. After installing the two packages, kde3 seems to be 100% healthy. Immediately, all icons and graphic handling returned just like you would expect. Now if I could just figure out how to create a kde3 menu item in the kdm greeter, it would be perfect. Currently, I have to drop to tty1, kill kdm and then use startx with /opt/kde/bin/startkde specified in my ~/.xinitrc file to get kde3 started. How does one create a desktop entry in the kdm greeter scheme so I can launch kde3 from there? It can't be that hard, I have pekwm, blackbox, openbox and fluxbox and gnome entries in there along with kde4, but I don't know where the "magic switch" is so kde3 will appear. What's the trick? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Firefox 3.6 vulnerability
by Daniel Bumke 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Dear all, I'm not entirely sure whether this is an issue for Arch Linux, but I thought you should be aware of a critical security vulnerability reported for Firefox 3.6 (it seems earlier versions are not affected). The issue is fixed in version 3.6.2 for which a release candidate it available. The release is due later this month. Further info: http://secunia.com/advisories/38608 http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/03/18/update-on-secunia-advisory-sa38… Regards, Daniel

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[arch-general] CUPS working fine through 3/15 now won't print?
by David C. Rankin 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Guys, I have a love/hate relationship with cups. For the past eight years at least I have configured cups to share laserjet printers at both the office and home and 99.9% time, I never have to think about printing again. The other .1% is usually what seems like an effort in futility trying to get cups to print. I am having one of those .1% moments now. I enabled cups printing on my arch server about a month ago and it just printed without issue until my wife needed to print today. No cups is refusing to print at all. The strange part is that the cups daemon seems to be freezing or crashing requiring a kill -9 on cupsd to kill it and restart the process. For example, I can open the web interface of port 631 and I can change options, look at the printers and past jobs, etc..., but when I send a job to the server, the web interface freezes, nothing prints and I have to use 'kill -9 <cupsd pid>' to stop cups and restart it. For example: [00:46 nirvana:/var/log/cups] # /etc/rc.d/cups stop :: Stopping CUPS Daemon [DONE] [00:52 nirvana:/var/log/cups] # ps ax | grep cups 4618 pts/1 S+ 0:00 vi cupsd.conf 5052 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf 5128 pts/3 S+ 0:00 grep cups [00:52 nirvana:/var/log/cups] # kill 5052 [00:52 nirvana:/var/log/cups] # ps ax | grep cups 4618 pts/1 S+ 0:00 vi cupsd.conf 5052 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf 5131 pts/3 S+ 0:00 grep cups [00:52 nirvana:/var/log/cups] # kill -9 5052 Huh? I have debugging enabled and cups seems to be choking on ssl cert generation. That's strange, I just thought I was using basic authentication: I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Full reload complete. I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Cleaning out old temporary files in "/var/spool/cups/tmp"... I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Listening to 0.0.0.0:631 on fd 6... I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Listening to :::631 on fd 7... I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Listening to /var/run/cups/cups.sock on fd 8... I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Resuming new connection processing... D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] cupsdRegisterPrinter(p=0x7fca7bf68f00(LaserJet)) E [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Discarding unused server-started event... D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "lo" = localhost:631 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "eth0" = nirvana.3111skyline.com:631 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "lo" = localhost:631 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "eth0" = fe80::2e0:81ff:fe55:4e1d%eth0:631 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: clients=0 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: jobs=15 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: jobs-active=0 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: printers=1 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: printers-implicit=0 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: stringpool-string-count=285 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=6160 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=6192 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:59 -0500] cupsdAcceptClient: 12 from localhost (Domain) D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:59 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 12 WAITING Closing on EOF D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:59 -0500] cupsdCloseClient: 12 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:59 -0500] cupsdCloseClient: 12 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:59 -0500] cupsdAcceptClient: 12 from localhost (Domain) I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:59 -0500] Generating SSL server key... That where the process dies.... My cupsd.conf is simple, but maybe I have something that is killing me? It is available here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/Archlinux/cupsd.conf (note: I am a member of groups sys, lp and wheel) If anybody is smart on cups, I would appreciate a bit of help figuring out what is not working here. The printer itself is an old Laserjet_4 connected to the servers parallel port and its printer.conf is: # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.4.2 # Written by cupsd on 2010-03-21 14:13 # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING <DefaultPrinter LaserJet> Info Home Office Laserjet 4 Location nirvana MakeModel HP LaserJet Series PCL 4/5 DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0 State Idle StateTime 1267682110 Type 12356 Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 - Filter application/vnd.cups-raster 50 rastertohp Accepting Yes Shared Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer </Printer> Any help would be greatly appreciated. The current cups package is: cups 1.4.2-3. -- 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] Schroot no longer working?
by Ng Oon-Ee 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

Hi all, schroot stopped working with this error message today:- E: 10mount: E: boost::filesystem::create_directory: No such file or directory: "/var/lib/schroot/mount/Arch32-d43bee30-1708-4fd2-b087-346ae0f39b42/proc/bus/usb" E: Arch32-d43bee30-1708-4fd2-b087-346ae0f39b42: Chroot setup failed: stage=setup-start The following packages were upgraded (immediately following successful usage of schroot at 6.30 am). Any idea which of those could be the cause? At first I thought about the boost upgrade some time back, then realize I've been using schroot daily with no problems anyway... [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded cpio (2.10-1 -> 2.11-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded dbus-core (1.2.20-1 -> 1.2.22-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded dbus (1.2.20-1 -> 1.2.22-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded glib2 (2.22.4-1 -> 2.22.5-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded desktop-file-utils (0.15-1 -> 0.16-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded libtasn1 (2.4-1 -> 2.5-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded gnutls (2.8.5-1 -> 2.8.6-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded libxt (1.0.7-1 -> 1.0.8-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded ghostscript (8.71-2 -> 8.71-3) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded gtk2 (2.18.7-1 -> 2.18.9-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded gtk-sharp-2 (2.12.9-1 -> 2.12.10-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded hdparm (9.27-2 -> 9.28-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded nspr (4.8.3-1 -> 4.8.4-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded nss (3.12.4-2 -> 3.12.6-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded perl-xyne-arch (2010.03.20.1-1 -> 2010.03.21.1-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded usbutils (0.86-2 -> 0.87-1) For reference sake, using chroot works (am running am update of those very same packages right now).

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[arch-general] I'm having a brain far^Hilure... I can't find the XFCE control
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

I know it can be done. I've done it twice, once in Xubuntu, and once in PCLinuxOS... I've managed to turn off all the other annoying desktop icons. But I cant find the control to tell it to stop cluttering up my XFCE desktop up with iconic representations of my hard drive partitions. could somebody give me a clue how to disable them? Thanks! -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>>

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