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[arch-general] Install problem
by Fons Adriaensen 03 Jan '13

03 Jan '13

Hello, today I did a fresh install using the december release of the install media. Everything done 'to the book' (the install guide wiki page). Bootloader is syslinux. When booting the freshly installed system, I get the syslinux menu, select Archlinux or fallback, things seem to be normal for a few seconds then everything stops. After some time I get a message that /dev/sda3 (which is the / partition) can't be found and I'm dropped into an emergency shell. No LVM or RAID, just a single SATA disk with sda1 = /boot (100M, ext2) sda2 = swap (2G) sda3 = / (~250G, ext4) Partioning done with cfdisk. The mkinitcpio.conf used is the default one, which seems to have all required hooks. Everything in /boot/syslinux looks ok. Any hints ?? Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)

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[arch-general] Protect a cron job from systemd
by Dimitrios Apostolou 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

Hello list, among various tasks, I also run "sysstat" for monitoring my server's load. The way it runs by default is via the hourly cron, as a job that lasts exactly one hour. Sometimes I need to stop crond (systemctl stop dcron) to perform some short maintainance, and restart it a minute later that I'm done. Previously the "sadc" monitoring process of sysstat wasn't being killed, since it double forked and stayed up as a daemon. Unfortunately now systemd kills the whole cgroup, and in this manner it's possible to lose up to one hour of accounting logs. Any ideas on how to instruct systemd to not kill it when terminating crond? Thanks in advance, Dimitris

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.6.11-1
by Tobias Powalowski 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

Hi guys, please signoff 3.6.11 series for both arches. package is not in testing, please grab it from here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ This will move to [core] directly, because 3.7.1 is in [testing]. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] Plasma-desktop in KDE 4.7 can not start up
by Chao Feng 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Hey there! i had the smae problem,,, i tried all the things mentioned... but didn't work then i tried installing ttf-dejavu font... which helped me... It is this bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289427 I just create a patch to fix it. Hopefully, it will be fixed the next release. Chao Feng

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[arch-general] Troubles with ALSA
by Jack Stanek 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Hello all, I've been having problems with ALSA recently. Whenever I reboot my computer or wake it up from sleep, ALSA sets the volume of the speakers (and only the speakers) to zero. The headphones and master volume remain normal, but no sound will come from the speakers until I manually go into alsamixer and turn up the speaker's individual volume. I have an Intel integrated audio card, the 82801H HD Audio Controller. This only started recently and I am at a loss as to what is going on. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, J. Stanek

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[arch-general] Combining package deltas and signing?
by Magnus Therning 31 Dec '12

31 Dec '12

Do these two features play nice together? /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] Pidgin voice/video support
by Scott Lawrence 30 Dec '12

30 Dec '12

Hey all, The pidgin package in extra appears to be compiled without voice/video support (`--disable-vv`). Is this ommission intentional? -- Scott Lawrence Linux baidar 3.6.10-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 11 09:40:17 CET 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] bluetooth audio adapter without playback
by Nelson Marambio 28 Dec '12

28 Dec '12

Merry Christmas to all Archer's out there ! :) Sadly enough I recognized a problem with my Logitech bluetooth adapter on Christmas Eve. This adapter connects my laptop with my stereo system so I can use the speakers of the stereo system wireless. This has worked for several months. But with the last update of pulseaudio (GNOME as DE) this connection broke permanently and I realized it the first time just when I wanted to play some Christmas music. :( :) The adapter indicates that a connection has been established, I also see the bluetooth adapter in the mixer but when I start to play some music again the internal laptop speaker are used for output. This is not related to the question if I started the music player before or after pairing with the adapter. A look in /var/log/messages.log for useful messages leads me to this line: moria pulseaudio[1480]: [pulseaudio] module-bluetooth-device.c: Profile has no transport Is this caused by this bug [1] - or not, because the description relates to pa 2.99.2, and I have 3.0.2 installed ? Anyone with a hint for me ? Kind regards, Nelson. [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57239

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[arch-general] List of mirrors with signed databases?
by Magnus Therning 28 Dec '12

28 Dec '12

Hi all, I'm late to the party of signing packages and databases, but was a little surprised to find this statement on the pacman-key wikipage[1]: Although all official packages are now signed, as of June 2012 signing of the databases is a work in progress. Is there a list of mirrors where the databases *are* signed already? (The ones I'm using are not.) /M [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman-key -- 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] [cups-filters] adds cups-browserd.service - please test
by Andreas Radke 28 Dec '12

28 Dec '12

New cups-filters 1.0.26 brings back browsing remote shared printers using the new cups-browserd. This requires a running a local cupsd instance and avahi on the client system. Please test the included cups-browserd.service file and check if browsing now works as expected and described in /usr/share/doc/cups-filters/README. -Andy

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