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[arch-general] Weird crash under gnome 3 with testing repo enabled...
by fredbezies 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Hello. Can't say if it is related to an extension, but since I upgraded xorg packages with testing versions (and nvidia packages related to them), I got gnome shell to crash when I type "cal" (without quotes) in order to launch calculator or libreoffice calc :( Weird :\ -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] [pkgbuild] Erlang R15B (new major release)
by Vedant Kumar 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Hello, I've attached an updated PKGBUILD for the new major release of erlang. The build runs well on my machine. Can a dev update the version of erlang in the repos? best, vedant

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[arch-general] ffmpeg and libav
by Andrea Crotti 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

I am not part of the libav team, but I know many developers and I followed the story of the fork. I then also noticed that my beloved arch is still using ffmpeg and libav is not even in the official repository (but only in AUR). Is there a reason for that? There are quite a few good reasons to switch over and many already did: - debian unstable (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2011-De…) - vlc (http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2011-August/081317.html) - gstreamer (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26497) (And I'm quite sure also gentoo and Ubuntu but I don't find a link).

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[arch-general] kde 4.8 and syaptiks
by Genes MailLists 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

If I understand correctly there is a tool to configure touchpads is now available in kde 4.8.0 http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=114270 However I cannot find it on my desktop - I have the kde meta group installed. Anyone know where synaptiks is - is it available? Thanks! gene/

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Re: [arch-general] Strange sound behavior in some games
by Northwoods 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Adding user to audio group do not solve this issue. These are my groups: lp wheel games audio optical storage power users Laurent Carlier <lordheavym(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm getting strange sound issues in games, well in fact it is one issue, I have no sound in Dungeons of Dredmor and Wesnoth, but when I run the game under sudo "gamename" the sound appears miraculously. Can somebody explain me this? Thank you >> >> > >Perhaps you should try: > >usermod -a -G audio YourUser > >ps: man usermod >

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[arch-general] LibreOffice Base errors
by F. Gr. 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Hi, I'm trying to create a new database by the Libreoffice Database Wizard. I'm getting three errors: 1. The connection to the data source "database" could not be established. 2. Error code: 1000 The driver class 'org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver' could not be loaded.The additional driver class path is 'file:///usr/share/java/hsqldb.jar vnd.sun.star.expand:$OOO_BASE_DIR/program/classes/sdbc_hsqldb.jar'. 3. Error code: -1 org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver I'm using LibreOffice 3.4.5-2, jre7-openjdk 7.b147_2.0-6.

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[arch-general] Strange sound behavior in some games
by Mountpeaks 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

I'm getting strange sound issues in games, well in fact it is one issue, I have no sound in Dungeons of Dredmor and Wesnoth, but when I run the game under sudo "gamename" the sound appears miraculously. Can somebody explain me this? Thank you -- Mountpeaks <mountpeaks(a)lavabit.com>

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[arch-general] Possible hard drive failure, DMA errors.
by Jordan Windsor 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Hello, I was downloading 3 movies via sabnzbd (~5GB each), after awhile I noticed the system wasn't responding as much, RhythmBox wasn't playing anymore, sabnzbd wasn't making progress and my broswer also was slowing down a bit. I then decided to restart thinking it would solve what ever problems sabnzbd brought along, when I did that it didn't reboot it just logged me out, I couldn't log back in, it would accept my password and username but after that nothing would happen, I then hard powered it off, on start-up it wouldn't get past the "mounting local filesystems" part of the boot process, it would just print DMA errors and more. I'm running PassMark's DiskCheckup on both my disks, on the first the quick self check completes quickly without error, but the second drive doesn't get past 10% (starts on 10%) and shows "The last self-test routine completed with a failure of the read element." I was wondering is my disk 100% gone? or is the some chance of getting my RAID0 data off? although 90% is easily replaceable (movies). Thanks. (I'll reply later with the details of the error messages displayed during boot.)

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[arch-general] update to cups 1.5.2 - test print OK, but nothing else prints - jobs just sit in que until canceled
by David C. Rankin 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Guys, Cups 1.5.2 update caused all user submitted jobs to stick in que and not print. However, if I use the web interface and print a test page or print a test page from kde print manager - everything works. I have been through the cupsd.conf page a cups.org and though my config and I can't find any reason jobs would just stop printing. Is anyone else having problems submitting jobs to a network cups server. With LogLevel set to debug, I get the following in error_log: D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdAcceptClient: 17 from 192.168.6.102:631 (IPv4) D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 17 GET /printers/LaserJet.ppd HTTP/1.1 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients and printing jobs", busy="Printing jobs" D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs", busy="Active clients and printing jobs" D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 17 WAITING Closing on EOF D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 17 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs", busy="Printing jobs" D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 15 POST /printers/LaserJet HTTP/1.1 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients and printing jobs", busy="Printing jobs" D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 15 1.1 Get-Job-Attributes 1 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] Get-Job-Attributes ipp://192.168.6.17:631/printers/LaserJet D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] Returning IPP successful-ok for Get-Job-Attributes (ipp://192.168.6.17:631/printers/LaserJet) from 192.168.6.102 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs", busy="Active clients and printing jobs" D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 15 POST /printers/LaserJet HTTP/1.1 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients and printing jobs", busy="Printing jobs" D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 15 1.1 Get-Printer-Attributes 1 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] Get-Printer-Attributes ipp://192.168.6.17:631/printers/LaserJet D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] Returning IPP successful-ok for Get-Printer-Attributes (ipp://192.168.6.17:631/printers/LaserJet) from 192.168.6.102 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs", busy="Active clients and printing jobs" Does this indicate an error to anyone familiar with cups output? Something changed, but what? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] DPMS
by P Nikolic 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

Morning folk Back to this one again i need to find a working position for "xset -dpms" i am getting sick and tired of every time i reboot i get the darn screens turning off i hate that with vengance if i wqnt them off i turn them off simples So where can i put the xset command for it to work correctly every time Thanks Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 7 08:34:36 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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