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[arch-general] "vi" just terminates on a 32bit machine
by Manuel Reimer 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Hello, if I access one of my systems via "ssh" and try to use "vi" there, then it immediately returns with exit status "1". System is an up-to-date 32bit ArchLinux system. I've attached the strace output of my try to run "vi" to this mail. Can someone see there what could have happened? Reinstalling "vi" didn't fix this for me... Thank you very much in advance Yours Manuel

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[arch-general] Libreoffice Beta builds
by Jelle van der Waa 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

If anyone wants to test out the new Libreoffice beta release. Add the folowing to your pacman.conf [libreoffice] Server = http://pkgbuild.com/~jelle/libreoffice SigLevel = Optional pacman -S libreoffice/libreoffice -- Jelle van der Waa

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[arch-general] getting updates for offline computer
by Lieven Moors 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

Hi, I'm using the internet connection at home to update a computer without internet. I use a script to get the updates for the offline computer, and to install them on that computer. To get a list of updated packages on the offline computer, I use the command: pacman -Sup --noconfirm Recently the package webkitgtk3 was moved to webkitgtk. But in the process, it also pulls in a new dependency harfbuzz-icu. No when I use the command above against the new sync database, harfbuzz-icu is not present in the list of packages. My question is, whether this would be considered a bug in pacman, or if this would be an expected limitation. Or maybe there is something else I don't understand... Thanks for your help, lieven

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[arch-general] [procps-ng] archlinux default sysctl.conf
by Leonid Isaev 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

Hi, After reading sysctl-related manpages in systemd, I started to wonder about the logic behind /etc/sysctl.conf shipped with core/procps-ng. If one follows systemd's conventions, this file should be in /usr/lib/sysctl.d and mnemonically called something like "100-archlinux-default.conf". Also note, that systemd currently doesn't document /etc/sysctl.conf at all... So is there any reason for having an Arch default sysctl.conf in /etc ? Thanks, -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] The Linux Way: Rebuilding The Unix Way for a New Era Webcast by O'Reilly
by Myra Nelson 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

To all. If any one is interested this is tomorrow at 10AM PT, San Francisco 6pm - London | 1pm - New York | Sat, Jun 15th at 3am - Sydney | Sat, Jun 15th at 2am - Tokyo | Sat, Jun 15th at 1am - Beijing | 10:30pm - Mumbai http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2714 The speaker is from Redhat. There is a link for registration and it's free. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] Fluxbox lost windows decorator
by Alex Sla 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

Hi guys, I currently have some issue with my Fluxbox. After some time running, new WIndows don't own a Windows decorator. This affecting Qt in same way as GTK+ apps. I do run fluxbox 1.3.5-2 Any suggestion? so far 4k3nd0

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[arch-general] Arch, IBus, and Rime: IBus engines are not switched
by Julius Adorf 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

Hi, I stumbled over odd behaviour after installing ibus-rime on a rather fresh Arch installation. Switching between my two configured input methods (German, Chinese) works nicely both by keystroke or the menu in the systray of my Gnome Shell. I expected that this will make IBus change to an appropriate engine. However, whenever I switch between the Chinese and German input methods (I can observe the systray icon change from de to zh or the other way round), IBus always reports the following: $ ibus engine xkb:us::eng Chinese input does not work (the keyboard changes to US though). When switching to German, then everything works as expected, even though IBus still reports xkb:us::eng as the engine in use. I found this workaround $ ibus engine rime $ ibus engine rime By manually setting the IBus engine, Chinese input works as expected. Do you have a clue how to make IBus change to the right engine after switching input methods? Or is it likely to be misconfiguration in my locale settings? Cheers, Julius

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[arch-general] Super weird dd problem.
by Alfredo Palhares 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Hello, So I was creating a archlinux usb bootable drive: [root@masterkorp-laptop Downloads]# dd bs=4M if=archlinux-2013.06.01-dual.iso of=/dev/sdb 130+1 records in 130+1 records out 548405248 bytes (548 MB) copied, 0.964976 s, 568 MB/s I was like WOW, this was too fast! But nothing ever gets written to the pen drive. To add to the weird factor, a dd to dev/sdb1 (partition) works as it should, slowly. But then ofcourse the iso gets unbootable. The md5sum on the iso is correct. I tried with diferent pen drives. Please, any suggestions is welcome. -- Regards, Alfredo Palhares

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[arch-general] uml_utilities dropped?
by Brock Zheng 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Hi, all I found that uml_utilities vanished in the repo. It can't be found in core/extra/communit repo, and also AUR . I need the command "tunctl" to install tap0 NIC, which is used to setup my qemu virtual machine. Any comment? -- Brock Zheng <goodmenzy(a)gmail.com> 郑祎 Software Enginner GnuPG key ID : 90C99215 GnuPg key fpr : EF09 4CD7 A64A 1034 4C6C 0078 EC76 1286 90C9 9215 Key Server : http://pgp.mit.edu

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[arch-general] Is erlang-nox dropped?
by XeCycle 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Hello, On yet another -Syu this morning I was asked whether to replace erlang-nox by erlang. Are we dropping the -nox variant? I'm using -nox for I don't need GUI in erlang now; also wxgtk pulls in gstreamer as a dependency, which I don't like. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics and Astronomy, SJTU OpenPGP public key: 7795E591

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