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[arch-general] Conflict with Mesa
by Dario 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Hi! Sorry if this has already been asked or if its solution is trivial. I got this conflict error from pacman -Syu: mesa: /usr/include/GL/glew.h è già presente nel filesystem mesa: /usr/include/GL/glxew.h è già presente nel filesystem mesa: /usr/include/GL/wglew.h è già presente nel filesystem è già presente nel filesystem = "already present in filesystem" Should I happily force the update, or should I do something different? I'm using Nvidia binary drivers, if that matters (since it has to do with GL:)) thanks in advance! Carotinho Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com

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[arch-general] Request for hpacucli output from people running HP Smart Array controllers
by RedShift 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Hello all I'm gathering the output of the hpacucli program from as much configurations as possible. If you can find some free time for me, can you send me the output of: hpacucli ctrl all show detail hpacucli ctrl slot=1 show config hpacucli ctrl slot=1 array all show hpacucli ctrl slot=1 array A show hpacucli ctrl slot=1 physicaldrive all show hpacucli ctrl slot=1 physicaldrive 2I:1:1 show hpacucli ctrl slot=1 logicaldrive all show hpacucli ctrl slot=1 logicaldrive 1 show Replace the slot=, array, physicaldrive and logicaldrive entries with what matches your specific setups (if possible, for all slots, arrays, physical and logical drives). I need as much as possible, normal working configurations and exotic setups like failed drives, arrays in rebuilding or failed state, hot-spares, etc... Much appreciated! Thanks, Best regards, Glenn

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[arch-general] LDIF to abook
by Jozsef 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

I have my contacts from Thunderbird in .ldif format and my abook doesn't want to import from that file. Same with .csv This is the message I'm getting: Error occured while opening the file Any idea? I had some names written in cyrilic but I edited them with vim to latin and still no difference. -- Best, Jozsef Kurucity | Web & Graphic Designer +971 50 6783113 | jozefk(a)gmx.com

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[arch-general] offlineimap went crazy
by Jozsef 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

Everything worked fine until I changed the .offlineimaprc to fetch mails from multiple accounts. Here is my .offlineimaprc : http://pastie.org/private/mlskz0tkpf6jgytj9d5q I comment out some lines because I thought they cause the problem. But now I see they don't. And this is what's happening after I run offlineimap in console : http://pastie.org/private/uaedovqzmbglgzlthnj4zg It works for a while and then crashing. What can be a problem then? Any suggestion? My .muttrc : http://pastie.org/private/aeke8sfcezwzfq0i1yrmg Google didn't help me. I tried. Thanks for all replies in advance! -- Best, Jozsef Kurucuty | Web & Graphic Designer +971 50 6783113 | jozefk(a)gmx.com

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[arch-general] LaTeX problems ?
by Piyush P Kurur 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

Hi, latex which was fine till last update is having an unmet libpoppler dependency. When I tried to install libpoppler then the complaint was that they are not in the correct format. So I guess the following needs to be done. 1) Add libpoppler as a dependency to latex 2) recompile libpoppler with latest gcc which ever it is. I can file a bug report but since the server is down I will wait. Meanwhile did any one else also notice this problem ? Regards ppk

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[arch-general] A little weirdness at boot time
by Andre Ramaciotti da Silva 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Hi all! This email is divided in two parts: a curiosity and a problem. They are somewhat related, so I'm writing both together. The curiosity: Since I've installed Arch Linux in this notebook (in March), the time it takes to load the modules highly varies. With the current archinit scripts, it ranges from incredible 150ms to incredible 10 000ms. With the older archinit scripts, the time weren't exactly the same, but it did vary a lot, too. At first I thought a "cold boot" would take more than a reboot, but both things are completely unrelated: a cold boot can take only 150ms and a reboot 9 500ms and vice versa. I don't see this as a big problem, I'm just curious to know why. If anyone thinks I should report a bug, tell me what other kind of piece of information would be useful and I'll do it. The problem: Completely unrelated to the question above, the wireless card sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. It's unrelated because if the boot takes 150ms, the wireless may or may not work. The same applies if the boot takes 10 000ms. When I say it doesn't work, I mean that netcfg will fail and print an error: 'eth0: interface doesn't support scanning' Yes, I know it's weird, but I'm using the broadcom-wl module, and it sets eth0 as the wireless card. My cards: 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 12) 0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01) and my MODULES array in /etc/rc.conf: MODULES=(!b43 lib80211_crypt_tkip wl ...) TIA, Andre

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[arch-general] Howto adjust font scaling in Arch? All fonts look a bit big and fat?
by David C. Rankin 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Listmates, I'm looking for a way to adjust the font size scaling (no not the control center font size) so all the fonts in my kde4 desktop look right. Basically, in Arch kde4 on my laptop, all fonts look 1pt too big. Case in point, on suse, I have all my desktop fonts set to 9pt, but with Arch, I have the size set at 8pt and they still look bigger than the suse fonts (same fonts of course, same subpixel hinting setting, etc...). Is there somewhere that some type of scaling is done that I can tweak to try and fix this? The effect of the larger scaling makes everthing from the kmail message list to the basket notepad fonts look cramped. Any thoughts? -- 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] Integrity Check i686 of core, extra 28-08-2009
by Henning Garus 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 01:57:19PM +0200, Xavier wrote: > > Maybe there should be a separate simple tool comparing pkgbuild tree > vs pacman databases (vs packages on ftp/rsync) to make sure everything > is in sync. > But I will need some more details about what the information we > currently have to make this possible. > Afaik ftpdir-cleanup already takes care of the pacman databases vs ftp > packages part so we really just need the pkgbuild tree vs pacman > databases part to fill the gap. > Something like this? Generated from a recently synced ABS tree and latest DBs from ftp.archlinux.org . ================================================================================ Results for core ================================================================================ ================================================================================ Results for extra ================================================================================ Found in PKGBUILD tree, but not in DB: daemontools kdemultimedia-strigi-analyzer pwlib ================================================================================ Results for community ================================================================================ Found in DB but not in PKGBUILD tree: klogwatch png2ico urlgrabber Found in PKGBUILD tree, but not in DB: audacious-itouch-control cairo-docs clearlooks courier-pythonfilter dbus-glib-docs dillo-i18n ec-fonts-mftraced ftpmonitor kpacman nautilus-audio-convert perl-extutils-parsexs php-xdebug pyclamav pydns pyspf rkhunter syncekonnector tracker-gnome-search-tool twisted-words

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.27.31-2
by Andreas Radke 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

This is our new Long Time Supported Kernel recommended for server usage and our general fallback kernel that already made it into the distrowatch news section :) It should now be ready to move into the repos. Please install it along the kernel26 and add it to your grub/lilo section. Give it a try but don't expect any 3rd party modules or late grafics stuff for desktops. Only full Ext4 support has been added for fallback reasons. Please report if you can boot well and if dmesg is clean. Choice of repo. Most devs say it belongs to core. I'm fine with that. Is it safe to push it to core? Some people have concerns about the iso image size. -Andy

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Re: [arch-general] offlineimap
by Daenyth Blank 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:08, <jozefk(a)gmx.com> wrote: > @ Loui Chang > What was wrong with my signature? :) Anyway thanks for suggestion. It's only > 2 lines now :) If your sig is longer than your actual message...

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Re: [arch-general] offlineimap
by Andrea Scarpino 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

On 31/08/2009, jozefk(a)gmx.com <jozefk(a)gmx.com> wrote: > I can't find out the way to start offlineimap automatically each time I > start KDE. I tryed with ./kde4/Autostart and shell script but it didn't > work. > Is there any other way to run in autoamtiaclly in KDE or I must to > always start it manually? Hi, $ ln -s /usr/bin/offlineimap ~/.kde4/Autostart/ doesn't work? -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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Re: [arch-general] offlineimap
by Loui Chang 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

On Mon 31 Aug 2009 18:22 +0400, jozefk(a)gmx.com wrote: > I can't find out the way to start offlineimap automatically each time I > start KDE. I tryed with ./kde4/Autostart and shell script but it didn't > work. > Is there any other way to run in autoamtiaclly in KDE or I must to > always start it manually? > Thanks! > > > -- > _ __ > | | / _| > | | ___ _______ ___| |_ > _ | |/ _ \_ / __|/ _ \ _| > | |__| | (_) / /\__ \ __/ | > \____/ \___/___|___/\___|_| > > > ''' > (O O) > +----oOO--(_)----------+ > | Have a great day! | > +--------------oOO-----+ > |__|__| > || || > ooO Ooo I'm sorry I don't have any help to offer you about kde4, but I would highly recommend that you do not post that signature in any mailing list ever again. Keep it down to four lines. Thank You. Have a great day!

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[arch-general] offlineimap
by jozefk＠gmx.com 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

I can't find out the way to start offlineimap automatically each time I start KDE. I tryed with ./kde4/Autostart and shell script but it didn't work. Is there any other way to run in autoamtiaclly in KDE or I must to always start it manually? Thanks! -- _ __ | | / _| | | ___ _______ ___| |_ _ | |/ _ \_ / __|/ _ \ _| | |__| | (_) / /\__ \ __/ | \____/ \___/___|___/\___|_| ''' (O O) +----oOO--(_)----------+ | Have a great day! | +--------------oOO-----+ |__|__| || || ooO Ooo

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Re: [arch-general] Problem with udev 145?
by Sebastian Schwarz 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

Hello, Replying here, as users cannot post to arch-dev-pubilc, IIRC. On 2009-08-28 at 09:30 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Exactly one of the many LUKS devices doesn't show up in > /dev/disk/by-uuid/ anymore since an update of initscripts, udev and > glibc this week. The other LUKS devices are still there, exactly that > one is missing. cryptsetup displays the correct UUID and the device > can be unlocked fine. I can also confirm this. I have exactly the same problem here. One of my two external encrypted USB drives doesn't have a /dev/disk/by-uuid symlink with udev-145-1. However all other /dev/disk/by-* links for this drive are present. It is always the same drive that is affected. And it is only the by-label link for this drive which is missing. > I am lost here, does someone have ideas? Not really. Just that downgrading to udev-141-5 helps here. Regards.

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[arch-general] subversion package newer than testing ??
by David C. Rankin 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

Listmates, For the past several days I have gotten the warning on pacman -Syu that: :: Synchronizing package databases... testing is up to date kdemod-legacy is up to date core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date archlinuxfr is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: subversion: local (1.6.5-1) is newer than testing (1.6.4-2) local database is up to date I thought this might be just an ordering issue of my repositories in /etc/pacman.conf, but then looking at the packages with -s it's right, the subversion in extra is newer than the subversion in testing: testing/subversion 1.6.4-2 Replacement for CVS, another versioning system (svn) extra/subversion 1.6.5-2 Replacement for CVS, another versioning system (svn) What's up? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] mpc upgrade?
by Ray Kohler 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

I hate to beg for favors from people who are already doing plenty for me for free, but could some kind dev update the mpc package? It's now two major versions (or what passes for "major" at musicpd) out of date, and only a simple pkgver / md5sum change. I'd ask its maintainer (pizzapunk) directly, but I remember him being pointed out as an absentee in a recent thread anyway.

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[arch-general] lm_sensors
by ponto 29 Aug '09

29 Aug '09

i've used sensors-detect and it gave me: Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done. Just press ENTER to continue: Driver `coretemp': * Chip `Intel Core family thermal sensor' (confidence: 9) Do you want to overwrite /etc/conf.d/lm_sensors? (YES/no): Copy prog/init/lm_sensors.init to /etc/rc.d/lm_sensors for initialization at boot time. You should now start the lm_sensors service to load the required kernel modules. and sensors started to give me: sensors coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Core 0: +56.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) coretemp-isa-0001 Adapter: ISA adapter Core 1: +60.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +60.0°C (crit = +94.0°C) was not suppose to give the fan's rpm's and so and so? oh, pwmconfig does outputs me this: pwmconfig # pwmconfig revision 5630 (2009-01-29) This program will search your sensors for pulse width modulation (pwm) controls, and test each one to see if it controls a fan on your motherboard. Note that many motherboards do not have pwm circuitry installed, even if your sensor chip supports pwm. We will attempt to briefly stop each fan using the pwm controls. The program will attempt to restore each fan to full speed after testing. However, it is ** very important ** that you physically verify that the fans have been to full speed after the program has completed. /usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed as this have to do with the supose missing values on lm sensors?

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[arch-general] "hardware clock" on a VPS
by Pierre Chapuis 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

Hi everybody, I was wondering if there's a means to specify, in rc.conf or somewhere else, that you never want to set your hardware clock. That's because, on Xen-based VPS, the hardware clock is handled on the hypervisor level, and /etc/cron.hourly/adjtime gives warnings such as: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access method. An easy workaround is to delete this file but it will come back after each initscripts update. Does anybody know a solution to prevent that? -- catwell

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[arch-general] 404 on 'view svn entries' in package details on archlinux.rog
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

hello, when you click on 'View svn entries' on quite a few package in details on archlinux.org, you end up on 404 page. is it a side effect of the massive package deletion reported some time ago ? is it another quirk or hiccup, or server migration ?

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[arch-general] PKGBUILD for updated libldap
by ludovic coues 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

I've see that libldap is version 2.3.43 on arch, and the last release on there website is 2.4.17 . I attach the PKGBUILD with this mail.

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[arch-general] server with an encrypted non-root disk
by Dieter Plaetinck 27 Aug '09

27 Aug '09

Hi, I have a little server at home which has an encrypted disk mounted at /home/media/1tbdisk I added it to crypttab and the decrypted dm device to fstab, but i have the following problems: 1) the keymap upon luksOpen is qwerty, even though i have my keymap set in rc.conf and added 'keymap' to hooks in rc.conf I ran `mkinitcpio -p kernel26` in the shell that the init(script) gave me when it tried to mount /dev/mapper/decrypted (after i mounted -o remount,ro /). Do i really have to run mkinitcpio again from the real system and reboot? (i can do it, but would like to know what might have gone wrong here) 2) even when i'm sure i'm typing correct pass (in qwerty) it doesn't unlock. i added dm_crypt to modules in rc.conf but no change. it asks the pass 3 times and then fstab tries to mount the nonexisting device and i get the shell If i comment out the entries in crypttab and fstab and unlock+mount myself after boot, it works fine. 3) even if for some reason one fails to unlock the volume, it would be nice that the boot process can continue. maybe there could also be a timeout: not unlocked within 60s, continue boot process. is this possible to do or would it make things too complicated? 4) suppose one can fix the stuff in the shell that you get from the fstab hook, is it possible to just resume boot instead of rebooting? 5) any other thoughts about this kind of setup? I know it's possible if you have IPMI to do serial over lan and type your password from anywhere around the globe during bootup. but i don't have ipmi, so if no-one can unlock the volume in x seconds, it can continue booting. Dieter

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[arch-general] which package provides ifup & ifdown command ?
by Partha Chowdhury 27 Aug '09

27 Aug '09

i cannot find ifup and ifdown in any of the paths- not as a normal user nor as root user. only command i can use is ifconfig. so i was wondering which package provides these two binaries ?

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[arch-general] arch-release
by richard terry 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

/etc/arch-release Anyone know what is meant to be in this file The guys on the gambas user list are writing some sort of script so users can identify details of their system in case of bugs etc, and i was asked if this file exists, which is does, but it is empty? ?any other unique arch identifiers.

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[arch-general] introducing kernel26-lts
by Andreas Radke 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

Today I've added a 2nd kernel to our svn called "kernel26-lts". It should help to make you less caring about kernel updates. The intention is to 1) have a 2nd choice for the kernel pkg that suits better in certain situations and 2) it can be a fallback when a reboot after updating the core "kernel26" fails more detailed: 1) pkgdesc="The Linux Kernel and modules - stable longtime supported kernel package suitable for servers" The current longtime supported kernel version is 2.6.27.xx, right now we are at 2.6.27.31. The pkgdesc should clearly say what it should become in the future. Server systems won't be forced to take the risk to fail on the next boot after each kernel update. Modifications will be very small in the future within its lifecycle. The kernel configuration is based on the last .27.x config form our core pkg with small changes it has become in later versions + optimizations for server usage taken from here: http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3715071/Ubuntu-Server--Ker… main changes are: 100Hz, no preempt, deadline I/O schedular. There will be no 3rd party modules. And no further patching. 2) a fallback kernel für almost everybody: a long requested feature. Everybody can install it along the core "kernel26" pkg and add lilo/grub entries for the "lts" kernel. Whenever an update of a future kernel26 will fail you won't be forced to boot with a rescue stick or cd. This should help a lot. attention: 2.6.27 kernel haven't had full ext4 support. I myself run a desktop with an ext4 / partition created with a later kernel version. the "lts" kernel is not capable to boot into this filesystem! But on real servers I guess everybody will wait a bit longer to use ext4. For the future it is planned to probably add Xen support to this or an outsplitted pkg. I will upload packages for both architectures to testing over the next days. Please discuss when you want see changes to the config file (x86_64 is done, i686 is not ready so far). -Andy

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[arch-general] How to choose which grub entry boots next from the cli via ssh in Arch?
by David C. Rankin 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

Listmates, How do I choose which grub entry will boot the next time the machine is rebooted from the command line? In suse there is a package called 'grubonce' which you issue from the command line giving the grub entry you want to boot next. Example, if your menu.lst looks like: # (0) Arch Linux - The Ferarri of Distros title Arch Linux on SuperSFF root (hd0,7) kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6 ro vga=0x317 initrd /boot/kernel26.img # (1) Arch Linux title Arch Linux Fallback root (hd0,7) kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6 ro initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img # (2) Arch Linux LTS title Arch Linux LTS on SuperSFF root (hd0,7) kernel /boot/vmlinuz26-lts root=/dev/sda6 ro vga=0x31a initrd /boot/kernel26-lts.img I could issue: # grubonce 2 and Arch Linux LTS would be booted next. I thought the grubonce package was part of grub, but it isn't. Also, I don't need it for a local machine (obviously), but I need something I can use via ssh. What do we use here? -- 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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