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[arch-general] Mplayer and cdparanoia
by Leonid Isaev 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Hi, Currently cdparanoia is a dep. for mplayer, despite closed https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27970 and --disable-cdparanoia in PKGBUILD. Is there a reason for that? Thanks, -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] apparently bash export is broken for users
by Jude DaShiell 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

I tried setting up emacspeak and emacspeak needs two variables exported to the user's .profile file in order to work. The EMACSPEAK_DIR variable needs to point at the location of emacspeak and DTK_PROGRAM needs to point at the speech server you intend to use. The export commands did not create a .profile file for me nor did they update a .profile file for me with their contents in it. Using echo to create and populate the .profile also has no good effect. I'm about to use git to pull the current version of emacspeak down onto this system and try with that but I downloaded and built eflite and emacspeak that's on this machine from the aur repository. Fortunately, I can test emacspeak on debian without much difficulty and may need to check out where debian stores those export variables since the debian version I have made work in the past. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>

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[arch-general] export runs and emacspeak doesn't
by Jude DaShiell 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

Okay, changing DTK_PROGRAM=espeak produced identical results to DTK_PROGRAM=eflite which is process no speaker running as the final message in emacspeak. Apparently both servers need -Ltcl8.4. This is good to know since now I get some disk space back. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>

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[arch-general] export works, emacspeak doesn't
by Jude DaShiell 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

I think I know why too. emacspeak needs tcl8.4 library to even build the eflite server. I'll check and see if I can get the espeak server up without it next. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>

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[arch-general] Package signing: database signatures?
by Christian Hesse 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

Hello everybody, afaik, database files in official repositories are not signed yet. Are they? This forces one to set SigLevel to 'Optional' instead of 'Required'. Now if anybody wants to provide an infected package he/she only needs to provide no signature at all and the package is happily accepted, no? So when will database files from official packages be signed? And even more interesting: Does it make sense to add a new option 'PkgRequired'? This could force valid signatures for packages and make it optional for database files. -- Best regards, Chris O< ascii ribbon campaign stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

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Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend
by Thanasis Georgiou 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

> On Mar 10, 2012 2:34 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote: > At the beginning I only wanted to help, I didn't start that discussion > about PA for this thread, other people did start it. > > I hope we can stop it, thanx I can see your points and they are perfectly valid. I know how it feels to have hardware not working right with software, I was forced to dual-boot windows for 1 whole year until I finally made a TV tuner work in linux. But lets not create any more noise, the original problem is solved. -- Thanasis Georgiou

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[arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend
by XeCycle 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

Hello, I use pulseaudio on my laptop. I start it by `start-pulseaudio-x11` in something like .xinitrc (I use a standalone wm with lxdm). When I resume from pm-suspend, the system beeper issues several beeps; when I open a urxvt, a bash completion failure will issue a beep too. However when any program that talks to pulseaudio starts (or try again to talk to it), e.g. start pavucontrol, everything is normal again. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591

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[arch-general] 'Please enter summary' issue in our bugtracker
by Karol Blazewicz 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

I can assume that 'Please enter summary' text was included in the bug report template to remind people they should enter a summary of the bug they're reporting and not just "tag" it with e.g. '[arptables]'. I don't know when exactly was this introduced, but in the past month I've noticed several bug reports with titles like '[arptables] PLEASE ENTER SUMMARY'. The titles have sometimes been fixed by the person the reports got assigned to and 13 such reports out of over 500 is not bad: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28324 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28362 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28404 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28454 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28464 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28534 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28539 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28574 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28666 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28711 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28763 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28791 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28847 I think the design of our bug reports leaves something to be desired but upstream seems dead http://flyspray.org/ so we have to make do. Is it possible to put the cursor in the summary field to make it clear that this part should be edited? If such questions should be posted to the bugtracker and not the mailing list, should I file them under Arch Linux project in Web Sites category?

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[arch-general] Weird Konqueror quirk
by David Rosenstrauch 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

Been seeing a weird quirk with KDE's konqueror recently. Was wondering if this is something unique to my personal configuration, or if it's an upstream bug that needs to be filed. Can some KDE user confirm? 1) Launch konqueror in file manager mode. e.g.: [darose@daroselin ~]$ konqueror /tmp 2) Go to the right pane, which lists the files in /tmp. Find an empty area in the pane and right-click on it. (i.e., don't right-click on a file) That pops up a menu. 3) Select "Create New". That pops up a sub-menu. 4) Select "Text File ...". That pops up a box to enter the file name. 5) Enter a file name of (for example) "foobar.txt". 6) The file that gets created is "foobar.txt.desktop". 7) WTF?!?!?!?!?!? Anyone else seeing this behavior too? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] pacman: relocation error
by Sebastian Lipp 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Today I updated pacman to 4.0.2 and now I get errors I don't understand when trying to install anything: $ sudo pacman -S gpgme pacman: /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libalpm.so.7) resolving dependencies... [...] Proceed with installation? [Y/n] pacman: relocation error: /usr/lib/libalpm.so.7: symbol gpgme_check_version_internal, version GPGME_1.1 not defined in file libgpgme.so.11 with link time reference Searching the web revealed nothing and I've got no clue how to proceed in order to solve this. Any ideas? Thanks, basti

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