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

11 Feb '09

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

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

11 Feb '09

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

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[arch-general] xorg package not found...
by Preston C. 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

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

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

10 Feb '09

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

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

10 Feb '09

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

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Maintainer wanted for ruby
by Johannes Held 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org>: > I think very little in [extra] depends on ruby (needed plugins mainly), > but the is quite a bit in [community]. I thought BaSh used to maintain > some of them so perhaps he wants to be the maintainer. Anyway, the > transition to the 1.9 series in not minor (as in plug-ins need ported) > so if no-one volunteers, I will just continue with the 1.8 series until > such a time as something in our repos really needs 1.9. > > Allan I did an update via abs right know and ran into some smaller problems: - Ruby 1.9.1 now includes rubygems, so I had to remove that first. - /usr/bin/rake wasn't owned by any package. - vim (compiled with --enable-rubyinterp) won't work (and compile) However, ruby 1.9.1 is really faster than old 1.8.7. I'll test further for some shortcomings with the new ruby. -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version

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[arch-general] smbmount: command not found
by Strika 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

Greetings to all, When i try to mount a remote Windows share with smbmount i have this error: smbmount: command not found. yaourt -Qi samba Name : samba Version : 3.2.7-1 URL : http://www.samba.org Licenses : GPL3 Groups : None Provides : None Depends On : db>=4.7 popt libcups acl libldap smbclient=3.2.7 libcap heimdal>=1.2-1 pam fam gnutls>=2.4.1 tdb=3.2.7 Optional Deps : None Required By : None Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Installed Size : 55671.00 K Packager : Tobias Powalowski <tpowa(a)archlinux.org> Architecture : i686 Build Date : Wed 14 Jan 2009 08:51:31 AM CET Install Date : Sun 08 Feb 2009 09:14:35 PM CET Install Reason : Explicitly installed Install Script : No Description : Tools to access a server's filespace and printers via SMB Does someone knows what the problem is? Thanks, Nebojša Stričević

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Re: [arch-general] new here and need some help, please...
by Jeffrey Parke 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

You shouldn't really have to mess with that file. Your repository list is kept in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. Maybe you could explain a bit more of what environment in particular you want. ----- Original message ----- Hi, I am very new to AL. I heard about it today and just finished the basic installation. Now, I am ready to get to the GUI. The problem I am having is where to find the repositories for the /etc/pacman.conf file? It would be helpful if someone explained how to place the repos in the .conf file? I am using the Beginners Guide, and am starting to have a little trouble. Thanks, Preston

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[arch-general] new here and need some help, please...
by Preston C. 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

Hi, I am very new to AL. I heard about it today and just finished the basic installation. Now, I am ready to get to the GUI. The problem I am having is where to find the repositories for the /etc/pacman.conf file? It would be helpful if someone explained how to place the repos in the .conf file? I am using the Beginners Guide, and am starting to have a little trouble. Thanks, Preston

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.4-1
by Tobias Powalowski 08 Feb '09

08 Feb '09

Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - bump to latest version fixed: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13146 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13150 please signoff for both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] imagemagick without X dependency
by Damjan Georgievski 08 Feb '09

08 Feb '09

Is it possible to have an imagemagick package without it depending on xt and libx11? -- damjan

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[arch-general] Arch Linux at the Southern California Linux Expo
by Joe Smith 07 Feb '09

07 Feb '09

Greetings, The Southern California Linux Expo, a community run conference taking place in Los Angeles on February 20th to 22nd, is offering a 50% discount to the Arch Linux community. When you go to register[1], just enter the promo code: ARCH7. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks! Joe Smith Southern California Linux Expo [1] https://socallinuxexpo.org/reg7/

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[arch-general] Perhaps a bug on the dependences of KDE 4.2
by Christian Leng 07 Feb '09

07 Feb '09

Greetings to all. Last night I tried to install KDE on my system. I had not had any version of KDE installed before. I simply used "pacman -S kde" to install the complete KDE from the REPO. Of course, "kde" was a package group: [rookie@DROWNWESTLAKE ~]$ pacman -Qg kde kde kdeaccessibility kde kdeadmin kde kdeartwork kde kdebase kde kdebase-runtime kde kdebase-workspace kde kdeedu kde kdegames kde kdegraphics kde kdelibs kde kdemultimedia kde kdenetwork kde kdepim kde kdepimlibs kde kdeplasma-addons kde kdesdk kde kdetoys kde kdeutils kde kdewebdev After the installation, I edited /etc/rc.conf and added the kdm to the daemons. Then I was desperated to find that KDM couldn't be launched correctly(but "startkde" worked well). A message box was displayed on the screen, saying "can't open file: /usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/archlinux-soft-grey". Then I searched the packages and installed the package 'archlinux-themes-kdm' and everything went well. It seems that the default kdm theme is set to 'archlinux-soft-grey' but the proper package can't be retrieved and installed automatically, i.e. a bug on the dependences of kde.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Official Installation guide needs your help!
by Grigorios Bouzakis 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:33:49PM -0500, Dusty Phillips wrote: > 2009/2/6 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com>: > > Hey guys, > > I wanted to make you aware of the following: > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13140 > > > > The "Official Installation Guide" is severely outdated (the wiki page > > still mentions "i686 optimized"). > > As one of the two people who was once on Arch's only attempt at an > official documentation team, and as one of several people who > contributed many of the first articles to the wiki, I have this to say > on the topic: > > Drop the official install guide. > > We know our wiki is well-maintained and well organized, and it seems > to do that by itself without much developer interference. Go wiki! > Originally, when we first set the wiki up Dennis, Judd, and I felt > that the official install guide should be more... well... official. > But its out of date, its always out of date, and there are wiki texts > that are not out of date. Now, seeing how our wiki experiment has > exceeded our hopes and expectations, I'd say that the install guide > (drop the 'official') should be community maintained as are all our > wiki pages. It will improve. When its time for a release, "somebody > official" should read through it, ensure its accurate, convert it to > plaintext and put it on the iso. > > Dusty I agree with the above for the most part. The only "problems" with the Beginners Guide, which is the only up to date and worth of being included anywhere guide is that its too "wikified". eg. references "go here" with a link to another wiki page. It would definately take less time to convert it into something less dependant on the wiki than refactoring the official guide. Also theres references to eg. like Loui said yaourt which should probably go (?) Also the official guide is linked from all over the place. archlinux.org wiki.archlinux.org + its part of the iso. Should those change to link the beginners guide? Should the Beginners Guide change its name to the Arch Linux Handbook for example? FTR I had always been in favour of maintaining 1 guide from the beginning. -- Greg what to do and what not to do in public :o) http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php

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[arch-general] FSC Amilo Pro 2030 - Fan control
by Strika 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

Greetings to all, I found a way to control fan speed on FSC Amilo Pro 2030. I found some articles on Ubuntu forum, and I used some stuff from arch wiki. Should I put solution on forum or on wiki, maybe? I will anyway put it on my blog. I'm new in this way of contributing, so I'm asking this so I would now what to do with similar stuff in future. Thanks for answer, Nebojša Stričević

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[arch-general] hwdetect with kernel upgrade?
by Shridhar Daithankar 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Hello, A long time ago, I posted that with kernel upgrade, the module insertion hangs till I hit enter. I ran hwdetect and updated the modules array, sans the standard acpi modules and it now works reliably every time. It can boot unattended now. AFAIK, the module-names and functionality is prone to changes from kernel to kernel. Should we automatically run hwdetect or advise users to check it in case of kernel upgrade? -- Shridhar

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - bump to latest version - changed to new btusb - removed buggy-acpi-patch please signoff for both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] lvm2 2.02.44-1 & device-mapper 1.02.30-1
by Eric Bélanger 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

Hi, Updated packages for lvm2 and device-mapper are now in testing. The changes are: * lvm2 2.02.44-1 * Upstream update * Added bash depends * device-mapper 1.02.30-1 * Upstream update * Added readline depends * Added pkgconfig file Please signoff. Two signoff for i686 would be nice has I don't use lvm2 on my i686 system so I could only do some simple sanity tests. As very few devs uses this, signoffs from users would be appreciated. Eric

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[arch-general] Having trouble compileing a2ps
by Baho Utot 01 Feb '09

01 Feb '09

Using: gcc version 4.3.2 default build falgs in makepkg pkgname=a2ps pkgver=4.13c pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="a2ps is an Any to PostScript filter /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DSYSCONFFILE=\"/etc/a2ps/a2ps.cfg\" -I. -I.. -I.. -I../intl -I. -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -MT hashtab.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/hashtab.Tpo -c -o hashtab.lo hashtab.c libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DSYSCONFFILE=\"/etc/a2ps/a2ps.cfg\" -I. -I.. -I.. -I../intl -I. -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -MT hashtab.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/hashtab.Tpo -c hashtab.c -o hashtab.o mv -f .deps/hashtab.Tpo .deps/hashtab.Plo /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DSYSCONFFILE=\"/etc/a2ps/a2ps.cfg\" -I. -I.. -I.. -I../intl -I. -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -MT path-concat.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/path-concat.Tpo -c -o path-concat.lo path-concat.c libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DSYSCONFFILE=\"/etc/a2ps/a2ps.cfg\" -I. -I.. -I.. -I../intl -I. -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -MT path-concat.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/path-concat.Tpo -c path-concat.c -o path-concat.o In file included from path-concat.c:30: /usr/include/string.h:234: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'void' /usr/include/string.h:234: error: expected ')' before '(' token make[3]: *** [path-concat.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/srv/http/Build/BUILD.i686/extra/a2ps/src/a2ps-4.13/lib' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/srv/http/Build/BUILD.i686/extra/a2ps/src/a2ps-4.13/lib' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/srv/http/Build/BUILD.i686/extra/a2ps/src/a2ps-4.13' make: *** [all] Error 2 ==> ERROR: Build Failed. Is this a gcc issue?

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[arch-general] Lancelot in KDE 4.2
by Leonid Grinberg 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

Hi all, It appears that Lancelot (http://lancelot.fomentgroup.org/main) is broken in Arch. Running "lancelot" opens no menu. According to [1], this is caused by a lack of /usrshare/dbus-1/services/org.kde.lancelot.service However, I have that file in the directory. Moreover, I discovered that lancelot seems to be provided by two different packages. One of them is "kdeplasma-addons". The other is "lancelot". Both, I think, are maintained by Pierre. Reinstalling kdeplasma-addons doesn't seem to fix the problem, and installing lancelot without --force is impossible, since it tries to create files that are already there (this is despite the fact that lancelot and kdeplasma-addons are not marked as conflicting with each other). If you do include --force, it gives you missing library errors, but this seems like a bad approach anyway. Does anyone know what can be done about this? -- Leonid Grinberg [1] http://lancelot.fomentgroup.org/faq#menu-doesnt-open

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[arch-general] State of bluetooth (bluez4 in Arch)
by Damjan Georgievski 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

What's the status about the bluez4 packages in Arch? Especially since the new KDE4 should be released soon. Also the new kdebluetooth4 is out [1], and it seems to require bluez4 and "the latest kdebase4-workspace package is needed (solid-bluetooth with bluez4 support)" I've continued to maintan my bluez4 packages here [2] but further work is needed by KDE and Gnome packagers to integrate this. Also .. does anyone know if obex-data-server and the bluez project obexd are interchangeable? [1] http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kdebluetooth4?content=84761 [2] http://damjan.softver.org.mk:8080/git/arch-bluetooth/ -- damjan

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[arch-general] Garbled Text in KDE 4.2
by Leonid Grinberg 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hi everyone, I have recently upgraded to KDE 4.2 (vanilla, not kdemod) and have noticed an odd glitch. Every once in a while, with no pattern I can discern, the font in the title bar of a window will have garbled text in it [1]. When I took that screenshot and was about to save it, I noticed that the file chooser dialogue also had the glitch, as did the text in the dialogue [2]. The fonts are Sans Serif 10 bold. Does anyone know why this would happen? -- Leonid [1] http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/998/garbledzr9.png [2] http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/2577/garbled2sw8.png

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[arch-general] kernel oops after recent upgrade
by Ryan Sims 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Just upgraded to kernel26 2.6.28.2-1, and now I get an oops when trying to mount my ntfs drive at boot. After boot, I could manually mount everything else, but "mount /mnt/ntfs" hangs unkillable. Since /mnt/ntfs was first in fstab, nothing else mounted; I have since commented out that line and everything's fine. Attached relevant kernel dmesg...can anyone shed any light on this, or should I open a bug? -- Ryan W Sims

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Re: [arch-general] Garbled Text in KDE 4.2
by Robert Howard 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Have you tried playing with the GlyphCache settings to the driver? This used to be a solution to some similar troubles in the past. -----Original Message----- From: Leonid Grinberg <lgrinberg(a)gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:20 PM To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Garbled Text in KDE 4.2 > This seems to be a bug with the nvidia drivers. You might want to try 180.25. Hmm, it seems to only be in AUR? Do you know when the nvidia package in the repos will be updated? -- Leonid

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[arch-general] phonon: gstreamer support will be dropped
by Alberto Gonzalez 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Hi, [ This is in response to the thread in arch-devel here: http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2009-January/009971.html ] Regarding gstreamer support in phonon I'd like to add my 2 cents: When you install KDE, you get the xine-phonon backend (and only the xine-phonon backend) by default. If someone wants to use gstreamer he must explicitly install it and then go to KDE control center and choose gstreamer. So it's not so much that you're dropping support for it (it is not supported by default anyway), it's rather the ability for anyone who wants to use it to be able to do it what you're removing. What's the advantage of that? Some people like xine better, some don't. If you use a laptop and care about battery life you have to dislike xine for sure. In KDE3 I had to disable the sound system. In KDE4 I had to switch to gstreamer backend. At least in KDE 4.2 they have fixed this to certain extent (i.e., no more 100's of CPU wakeups per seconds on an idle desktop). However, I encourage you to simply open Dragon player and leave it there idle while looking at powertop (and compare the same while using gstreamer backend). You can also play an mp3 in a phonon-based player and see the difference between xine and gstreamer. By the end of the day, discussing the strengths of each backend is not so interesting. Xine is the default and that's good. But why remove the freedom to change it to gstreamer for those who want it? As far as I know, allowing to use gstreamer doesn't affect in any way to those using xine, does it? Gstreamer has its problems, but it's used by all the gnome people (most Ubuntu/Fedora users and more) so it's can't be that bad. Not as to not allow users to use it if they want to. Thanks, Alberto.

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