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[arch-general] [signoff] btrfs-progs
by Tom Gundersen 05 Aug '12

05 Aug '12

Hi guys, Seems not many of us yet use btrfs, I therefore would like to ask if any users can signoff on the btrfs-progs in testing (i.e. verify that the package appears to work). In particular, I'm interested to hear if someone who uses btrfs-progs and initscripts from testing could verify that the multi-device support still works? If you have the btrfs hook in your initramfs, then please enable udev too and regenerate the image to verify that that also still works. For those who are interested: the change we made was to scan btrfs devices for multi-device support using udev rules as the devices appear rather than doing it unconditionally after "all the devices should be ready". This approach should hopefully be more reliable than the old one. Cheers, Tom

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[arch-general] Makepkg's versioning for git packages
by Menachem Moystoviz 04 Aug '12

04 Aug '12

I am a bit confused regarding makepkg's versioning of packages. >From what Allan said on this mailing list a couple of days ago, custom support is being added to makepkg. In addition, from what I can see on the wiki and manpages, the only variable influencing the versioning is pkgver. However, from what I've heard, when running makepkg with _gitroot and _gitname set, makepkg will automatically set pkgver to the date of the last commit. Could someone clarify this? Also, the wiki pages regarding makepkg should mention this. Thanks, M

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[arch-general] [archboot] looking for 2012.08 beta testers
by Tobias Powalowski 04 Aug '12

04 Aug '12

Hi, please drop me an answer if you are interest in testing the next archboot release. Thanks greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] chromium crash when print dialog is invoked
by Scott Weisman 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

I started experiencing a severe problem with Chromium recently that makes web browsing a very tedious experience. It took a while to narrow it down, but it seems that whenever the print dialog is invoked, either manually (eg ctrl-P on the keyboard) or by a page when clicking on the "printer friendly format" link, the entire browser crashes. This happens on two separate Arch installs. I personally would love a method to disable the printer dialog from ever popping up anyway, since I don't even have one (so if someone can suggest a method, I'd love to hear it), but this bug is a serious problem, as the crash is unrecoverable. And if my session ends up with a page that invokes the dialog on its own, I have to clear out the entire session. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Can anyone suggest a solution?

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[arch-general] Build pacman statically
by Jack Silver 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

To exchange information I want to let know this list that I have filled a feature request form to ask for a statically builded pacman. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30993 Comments welcome in the bug manager. جاك الفضة

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[arch-general] gtk apps causing X cpu usage 85-100%
by David C. Rankin 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

Guys, Here is a new issue on the latest Arch with nvidia and any gtk app like Firefox or Thunderbird. When using Firefox or Thunderbird, X cpu usage skyrockets to 85+%, the Tbird cpu will be 20+%. Here is a top screenshot showing usage: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/arch/bugs/tbird-cpu.jpg Merely scrolling the new messages window or a web page causes X cpu usage to jump from a resting usage of 1-5% to over 30%. This is viewing all messages as plain text only. When tbird checks imap servers or sends messages both X and tbird CPU use goes way way up. Anybody else seeing something similar? gtk 1.2.10-11 gtk2 2.24.11-2 gtk3 3.4.4-1 linux 3.4.7-1 nvidia 302.17-4 firefox 14.0.1-1 thunderbird 14.0-1 xorg-server 1.12.3-1 xorg-server-common 1.12.3-1 It's like there is some very bad race condition created in X when using gtk apps with the nvidia driver? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Texlive package install
by Arno Gaboury 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

Dear list, I use Texlive + Texmaker to write some documents. I can't find an easy and solid way to install new packages from CTAN.Package tlmgr from AUR couldn't compil on my box and will not do the job.Installing manually new packages doesn't seem to be a good idea and is not very straightforward. Thank you for any advice.

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[arch-general] upower.service stop working
by Zhengyu Xu 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

Dear all, Today I suddenly found the battery-icon disappeared from my gnome-shell panel. When I checked the status of systemctl there is a failed item corresponding to upower.service. Followings are the output of "systemctl status upower.service": power.service - Daemon for power management Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/upower.service; disabled) Active: failed (Result: signal) since Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:48:40 +0900; 2min 57s ago Process: 4270 ExecStart=/usr/lib/upower/upowerd (code=killed, signal=SEGV) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/upower.service and relevant output from "journalctl": Aug 02 23:39:37 xzy3186-E420 systemd[1]: upower.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=11 Aug 02 23:39:37 xzy3186-E420 systemd[1]: Unit upower.service entered failed state. I don't know how to get more debug information to this problem. Is there anybody else who also has similar experience? I will appreciate very much if someone could give me any suggestion. Best regards, Zhengyu PS: My environment is upower-0.9.17-2 systemd-187-4

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[arch-general] pacman's default download manager?
by Oon-Ee Ng 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

On my personal machine I've long-since changed XferCommand, but on doing a new install on another machine with the latest iso (behind a proxy, which is a first for me), I figured out that a problem I was having was linked to pacman NOT using wget by default. Is it just me, or wasn't wget the default before? Just to be clear, I was getting proxy related errors even after changing /etc/wgetrc (as instructed in the beginner's guide). Does pacman use curl by default now (or something else)? Once I get confirmation, the Beginner's Guide section on proxies needs a bit of changing =).

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[arch-general] [arch-projects] [initscripts] [GIT] Arch Linux initscripts repository branch master updated. 2012.07.5-3-gf670511
by Myra Nelson 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Tom: >From your latest update to the initscripts in the git repo. This makes sure that systemd supports some initscripts API's. With this patch, systemd will: * Parse and use DAEMONS and MODULES from rc.conf * Run rc.local and rc.local.shutdown on boot and shutdown respectively I have everything working but my network with I load manually. I'm using journalctl etc instead of syslog Since systemd parses the rc.conf file now the only thing I should need in the daemons line is [ network ]. Is that correct? I tried to shoot the message below to you on the arch-projects list, but don't have access on that list to send you mail, so here it is. Tom: Good job. The one suggestion I have comes from my bent for making sure people don't miss things. I would estimate 90 to 95 percent of Arch users wouldn't miss and most others won't unless they are in a hurry (me). Would you consider it over the top to change the following line The local timezone is configured by symlinking /etc/localtime to the correct zoneinfo file under to The local timezone is configured by *symlinking* /etc/localtime to the correct zoneinfo file under making symlinking show up in bold text. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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