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[arch-general] Kernel 3.2.1
by Myra Nelson 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

This update seems to work fine. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] Need a little help getting started with contributing
by Göran Gustafsson 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

Hello everyone! I got a few small patches related to esthetical issues that i would like to send upstream so everyone else can enjoy them. I'm a little bit lost on how i should do this. The packages i've edited is initscripts, mkinitcpio and filesystem. When it comes to initscripts and mkinitcpio i've just cloned the git repositories but i'm not sure how i should send the commits upstream. git push doesn't work since i don't have the right permissions. I've only used github to send pull request before so i'm not that confident in git yet. Can i do the same thing with just the git command? Also, does the filesystem package have a git repository i can use too? Any help getting started would gladly be appreciated! :)

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[arch-general] Newbies in Arch [WAS: Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver]
by Oon-Ee Ng 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jonathan Vasquez <jvasquez1011(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I've been doing things to attract users to Arch. Whether they are > newbs or not, because I want people to learn. As long as you have > willingness and determination to learn, that is the important thing. > The resources are out there, people just need to look, and I'm willing > to add to those resources. > > You aren't adding anything beneficial by telling others that their > comments are equal to troll statements, when this is clearly not true. Attracting users to Arch is not a stated goal, this has been repeated many times in various fora. Arch is only for a certain type of users, those who are willing and able to learn. I'm not knocking your effort, but a quick glance at those resources you've provided indicate that you're trying to make it very easy to get to using Arch, and I don't think that's beneficial for Arch or its community. There are other distributions for 'easy-to-use', Arch should not be that. Not because of any type of elitism, but because Arch's niche is about control and simplicity, and making it 'newbie-friendly' (whatever that means) would compromise that. Splitting the thread (sorry I use gmail, so it won't split for you guys on mutt or whatever) to reduce the 'corruption' of original thread, not that I think it'll make a difference though.

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[arch-general] archiso rebuild
by gt 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

Hello folks I was wondering if there is a way to rebuild a custom live disc, using archiso, without having to download all the packages over again. The problem is that after making a few changes to the configuration, mainly inside root-image directory, i want to rebuild the iso. But, running build.sh says that everything is up-to-date. Alternatively, i tried removing the root squashfs file, and ran build.sh again. But, it started downloading ~500MB of packages all over again :( I'll probably have to do some more fine tuning before finalising the iso, and i don't want this to repeat itself. Please help. -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

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[arch-general] System a bit broken pacman -Syu exists in filesystem
by Lars Madson 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

Hi, My system has two hard drive, one SSD with / and /home/user on two partitions and a HDD mounted on /opt and /var. The HDD failed, and the system works with only the SSD as it was installed like this and then extended to the HDD. Only 3 or 4 weeks of update make a difference between the content of /var and /opt on the SSD and the HDD. Now I'm performing an upgrade of the whole system to get back to normal but all files in /usr are making conflict as the /opt and /var are older and trying to install files that are already there. So I could - but it seems really painful - rename all the conflicting files (they are a lot), if anyone as an idea how to automatize this. Or maybe I would love some kind of option in pacman that would overwrite or ignore those conflicts, I know that's against how pacman is build so I'm asking here. Hope I make sens. thx Laurent

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[arch-general] Battery question about a Firmware Bug in logs.
by Don Juan 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

I am running Arch on a Toshiba Qosmio x505-q887. I have tried everything I can find online and in the wikis in setting things up but no matter what I have tried I can not get rid of the message in the logs, though my battery life seems semi reasonable, roughly 1.75hrs on average so far with not much tweaking being done to help extend. Error: [Firmware Bug]: battery: (dis)charge rate invalid. Is this something I should be worried about? Will it screw up my battery in charging and use right now as is? I am not really finding much online in relation to this actual error in the logs. Mostly its people saying that the logs report that the discharge rate is 0% and mine just says discharging and gives no rate or anything. I am fully updated currently, not on testing repos. I also do get 2 other messages in the logs that I am not sure if they are related. [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored From what I read and understand online, is this is of no real concern and I don't need to worry about it. Is this correct in my thinking and understanding? PCI: Using host bridge windows from ACPI; if necessary, use "pci=nocrs" and report a bug. I have tried doing what it says in the Kernel boot args but it just gives me the same message but saying to do the reverse and use pci=crs. I have not looked much into this one, but don't want to leave out something that may be causing what I am asking. I can send any configs if needed Thanks for anyone's time and effort in helping.

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[arch-general] Bluetooth Ralink
by Paulo Roberto P. Evangelista 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Hi, someone could help me with my bluetooth? Bus 007 Device 002: ID 148d:1000 Ralink Technology, Corp. Follow the steps in the link below,When I try to pair with any device not find anything https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth $hcitool scan Scanning ... $ #hcitool scan Scanning ... # Already restarted the service someone could help me? Atts, Paulo Roberto

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[arch-general] Seemingly archlinux specific problem with logkeys
by SanskritFritz 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

I started a topic on the forum, but we didnt reach to any solution: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129528 In hope for a more competent audience, I repost my question now here: It looks like there is an archlinux specific problem with logkeys: http://code.google.com/p/logkeys/issues/detail?id=60 I also am hit by this, and would like to ask for your help guys. Any idea what could cause this? In a nutshell: strace -f logkeys -s shows that the logfile could not be written for some reason: [pid 10516] write(1, "Logging started ...\n\n2011-11-02 "..., 48) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) The comments all have in common that they use archlinux, hence I dared to post here.

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[arch-general] Terrible flash performance
by Vladimir Nikšić 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

I have an ongoing problem with flash performance. I tried installing flashplugin-11.1.102.55-1 from the pacman repositories. The videos on youtube for example, works fine as long as I don't turn on fullscreen. The video gets really choppy and the CPU usage spikes to 100% (one core). I have a Core2Duo on 2ghz. A couple of months ago I switched from Ubuntu where youtube was working essentially flawlessly, fullscreen or not. The same issue occurs on manually downloaded the latest 64bit libflashplayer.so from adobe's site. Does anyone have similar issues? I also have an Nvidia card which unfortunately does not support GPU acceleration.

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[arch-general] Totem is broken by last libarchive update on testing.
by Frederic Bezies 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Hello. After I upgraded libarchive a few hours ago, I noticed totem was not working anymore. Reported bug #27824 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27824 And when I tried to build it using PKGBUILD : /usr/bin/ld: warning: libarchive.so.2, needed by /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.2/../../../../lib/libtotem-plparser.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.2/../../../../lib/libtotem-plparser.so: undefined reference to `archive_read_finish' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.2/../../../../lib/libtotem-plparser.so: undefined reference to `archive_entry_pathname' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.2/../../../../lib/libtotem-plparser.so: undefined reference to `archive_read_open_filename' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.2/../../../../lib/libtotem-plparser.so: undefined reference to `archive_read_data_skip' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.2/../../../../lib/libtotem-plparser.so: undefined reference to `archive_read_support_compression_all' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.2/../../../../lib/libtotem-plparser.so: undefined reference to `archive_read_next_header' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.2/../../../../lib/libtotem-plparser.so: undefined reference to `archive_read_support_format_all' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.2/../../../../lib/libtotem-plparser.so: undefined reference to `archive_read_new' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [totem-video-thumbnailer] Erreur 1 make[3]: *** Attente des tâches non terminées.... make[3] : on quitte le répertoire « /home/fred/totem/src/totem-3.2.1/src » make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[2] : on quitte le répertoire « /home/fred/totem/src/totem-3.2.1/src » make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[1] : on quitte le répertoire « /home/fred/totem/src/totem-3.2.1 » make: *** [all] Erreur 2 Just a little warning :D -- Frederic Bezies - fredbezies(a)gmail.com Blog : http://frederic.bezies.free.fr/blog/

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