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Re: [arch-general] Arch mailing list for subjective discussions
by phani 19 May '13

19 May '13

On Sun, 19 May 2013 18:29:48 +0530, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote: > I agree that fragmentation would be self-defeating. If you would be > willing to host a "real" list, free from Google, it would be great :). > Goggle IMO is a cut both ways thingy. apart from privacy issues, googlel groups isn't a real mailing list. i do manage one, and i hate that it's interface encourages people to use HTML and senseless quoting. i would use GNU's mailman, unless somebody else has a better idea. and i'm still not sure that another mailing list really is a good idea, because simply by existing it would contribute to fragmentation of the available knowledge base. [sorry for the unintended private reply earlier.] -- phani.

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Re: [arch-general] Sound broken, using pulse audio
by BlissSam 19 May '13

19 May '13

On Sat, 18 May 2013 13:03:19 -0500, <calegria(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks a lot for your reply, > > Unfortunately, that is not working. Have found a bug in the Kernel (from > another email here) that behaves in a similar way. Maybe having the same > issue (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58351) > > Also, I think it is an Alsa issue. I disabled PulseAudio and the audio is > still not working through Alsa. I am the submitter of that kernel bug. I am having Intel sound card and the problem only happened after upgrading to 3.9 kernel. That problem is in fact initialization failure for Conexant codec. Does your sound card use Conexant codec, too? You may get everything needed for troubleshooting by looking at [1] for alsa-info.sh scripts. Run it with --no-upload. If your sound works in 3.8 kernel, run it in both 3.8 and 3.9 kernel. That is useful if you really decide to submit a bug report or just wonder whether your problem is the same as mine. Hope to get your problem solved. Note: [1]: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Help_To_Debug_Intel_HDA#Reportin…

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Re: [arch-general] Sound broken, using pulse audio
by Carlos Alegria Galicia 18 May '13

18 May '13

> > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Hussam Al-Tayeb <hussam(a)visp.net.lb>wrote: >> >>> On Friday 17 May 2013 06:04:01 Carlos Alegria Galicia wrote: >>> > Hi all, >>> > >>> > After the last kernel upgrade, my sound is not working after weaking up >>> > from hibernate. >>> > >>> > The device "PulseAudio" is shown in alsamixer, PulseAudio is up and >>> > running, the channels are shown in pavucontrol and even the level >>> sound bar >>> > is showing the audio levels, but there is no sound. >>> > >>> > Everything works after shutting down - starting up again my system (not >>> > even using restart). I am using systemd to hibernate / restart my >>> laptop. >>> > >>> > Thanks in advance, >>> >>> A quick google search suggests you are fix that by restarting the pulse >>> audio daemon. >>> Try this in a terminal window: >>> pulseaudio -k >>> pulseaudio -D >>> >> Thanks a lot for your reply, Unfortunately, that is not working. Have found a bug in the Kernel (from another email here) that behaves in a similar way. Maybe having the same issue (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58351) Also, I think it is an Alsa issue. I disabled PulseAudio and the audio is still not working through Alsa.

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[arch-general] Fully wroking GTK3(+GTK2) theme for Gnome 3.8?
by Magnus Therning 18 May '13

18 May '13

It seems it's a rather common problem that GTK3 themes partly break Gnome3.8 by preventing having a nice desktop background while letting the file manager draw the background: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162204 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=161918 I've so far found only two (2!) GTK3 themes that work in this respect, the default theme Adwaita that ships with Gnome3.8 and Nokto3.8 (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=158033) I'm not particularly pleased with the aesthetics of either of them though. What's causing this behaviour in themes? (Hopefully it's easy to fix the broken themes I come across.) What other themes have you found that work properly? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus

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[arch-general] Problem with libimobiledevice, ifuse, and idevices
by Joaquin Villanova 17 May '13

17 May '13

Think something is broken in gvfs-afc, ifuse and friends while working with idevices. Nautilus shows me the devices in the right panel (the favorites one), both documentiation and the device itself and always show this error when trying to mont. <code>Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)</code> I think I've done my homework on bbs, #archlinux and googling, and found the only way peopple resolved this problem was with ppas in *buntus so i want to look deeper... Also i got this from dmesg output when trying to mount manually with ifuse: <code> [ 105.595108] ifuse[500]: segfault at 2dd0 ip 00007ff49b7efc05 sp 00007ff4998e5cd8 error 4 in libimobiledevice.so.4.0.1[7ff49b7e3000+1a000] </code> But the interesting part is that <b> Shotwell can import photos from the device </b>. Surprisingly Rhytmbox cannot play music from it. In an iPad2 ( i'm going to suggest to Apple to change its name to <b> iCrap </b>) neither Shotwell or Rhythmbox can get photos/music from the device. I'm running iOS 6.3 (latest version). Also for more info here is my uname -a, also i think is important to mention that i'm using GNOME (latest version from main repos). <code> Linux arch 3.9.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 11 20:31:08 CEST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux </code> I'm happy enough because i can retrieve at least the photos from the iPhone, but is annoying that this stopped to work.

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[arch-general] about the removal of that systemd symlink...
by David Benfell 17 May '13

17 May '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I was alarmed, I think unnecessarily, when I saw the message that a symlink for systemd was removed on an upgrade. As near as I can tell, the boot sequence still relies on init, which links to the right place. Is there a better way to keep track of changes like this so I'm not surprised? Thanks! - -- David Benfell / benfell(a)parts-unknown.org Please see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 for GnuPG information (or the attachment you don't understand) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRkHrTAAoJELJhbl/uPb4S6tcQAK/0+I/V2hLh94JZJG6XOgL7 FCgFxTz0SIm54xkiL+SeqI+6Zsf13eBneyf9udYqh9s08bSdHq+e9IgvrLkMVd3W vEu2uGN7tpB2zAvJVOxlplbTkDJzIh2C65KVlA8/4xhiGkhITtr/bdTflSxTG1Of dp3I+MDa1oE4HOQSXTtbnnFF6n1cnq94cGgGt7lFhds4yHaFNVkne1mGnoZ23mhp DJBKpIN+VM/rmFGnWjDHfW/LOE3Ic+UX5ClhcrnW1fT7U0GJuM2rrckYRl3HQ7/2 tRon9UDO7cmYNQG+E4TNH6fXAe3qT2/RLJkukIH4YikG5b51OPyh/MdV+I/j81sZ Wlh/duIVI7fhbRUdQUvhFPQ6VkTmnfzKHHwVXV0RoKdMCGn2mlifU3/ufBf56Lin D9adcI50RNN+uSTRclVSSZTP0RfgFulzCozZBYoAuNgbbhnPWTSFHNMygXQPieUc rbmg0/To9GCzRQ2IbCQiWBmEV5i+Pn7dFCphfApnk2/1NzpSFv1ieovRz0K0PgAd lYvtLkGT1JdDQAkoMTHnGPniF5oDXssQLoR+Zc+GYKVC49FmDttwItYmbQK4zuoN XUokpqOCy8WsllsZgq1yyjktkmymBYkU7Xa5s4NwzKLo/cdGGndqx5RgyQ/DtZDy dKTGByEE+J3UXG6JLxKm =QoPf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] Sound broken, using pulse audio
by Carlos Alegria Galicia 17 May '13

17 May '13

Hi all, After the last kernel upgrade, my sound is not working after weaking up from hibernate. The device "PulseAudio" is shown in alsamixer, PulseAudio is up and running, the channels are shown in pavucontrol and even the level sound bar is showing the audio levels, but there is no sound. Everything works after shutting down - starting up again my system (not even using restart). I am using systemd to hibernate / restart my laptop. Thanks in advance, -- Carlos Alegría Galicia,

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[arch-general] Broken sound with Linux 3.9.2 on Acer laptop
by BlissSam 17 May '13

17 May '13

After upgrading to 3.9.2 kernel, the sound did not work. However, the system CAN recognize my sound card, and my sound card appeared in `alsamixer` Downgrading the kernel can solve the problem. Providing more info: Acer Aspire laptop, with Intel i5 CPU, 2nd generation SandyBridge. `uname -a`: > Linux brilliant-laptop 3.9.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 11 20:31:08 CEST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux `lspci | grep Audio`: > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04) `dmesg`: > Pasted here: http://p.vim-cn.com/cbbcw `cat .pulse/daemon.pa`: > default-sample-rate = 48000 > alternate-sample-rate = 44100 > default-sample-format = float32le `cat /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf`: > options snd-hda-intel model=acer (This file aims to fix another bug. Trying to remove this file could not fix this problem. I paste this file only because it is related to sound.) `lsmod`: > Pasted here: http://p.vim-cn.com/cbbcx

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[arch-general] 'Check out-of-date packages' tool
by Anatol Pomozov 17 May '13

17 May '13

Hi everyone Per discussion in 'pacman-dev' maillist [1] I implemented a tool that tries to find Arch out-of-date packages. The tool scans PKGBUILD files is /var/abs directory, extracts download url and then tries to probe download urls for the next version. Next versions look like X.Y.Z+1 X.Y+1.0 X+1.0.0 If any of the new versions presents on the download server it reports to user as 'new version available'. Here is the tool sources https://github.com/anatol/pkgoutofdate To make its usage even more pleasant I added it to AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pkgoutofdate-git/ To use it please install pkgoutofdate-git package: $ yaourt -S pkgoutofdate-git Then update abs database and run tool itself: $ sudo abs && pkgoutofdate That's it. The result looks like ....... closure-linter: new version found - 2.3.8 => 2.3.9 perl-data-dump: new version found - 1.21 => 1.22 wgetpaste: new version found - 2.20 => 2.21 fillets-ng-data: new version found - 1.0.0 => 1.0.1 tablelist: new version found - 5.5 => 5.6 ...... There are some fals positive and negative results though, mostly because download servers return different sort of weird responses. I still work on work-arounds for all these cases. Hope you find this tool useful and it will help to make Arch software even more bleeding edge. [1] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2013-March/thread.html#1…

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[arch-general] libsasl issue today with pacman updates
by Mike Cloaked 15 May '13

15 May '13

There seems to have been a problem with pacman update today: :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: cyrus-sasl: requires libsasl=2.1.23 :: cyrus-sasl-gssapi: requires libsasl=2.1.23 Yet the current version is the above referred version but libsasl won't update on its own! [root@home1 ~]# pacman -Ss libsasl core/libsasl 2.1.26-2 [installed: 2.1.23-10] Cyrus Simple Authentication Service Layer (SASL) Library [root@home1 ~]# pacman -S libsasl resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: cyrus-sasl: requires libsasl=2.1.23 :: cyrus-sasl-gssapi: requires libsasl=2.1.23 I am confused! -- mike c

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