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[arch-general] CD eject as non-root user
by Norbert Zeh 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

Hi folks, I have a strange problem with ejecting CDs from my CD drive. As root: eject and eject -t work flawlessly eject -T gives ioctl: Input/output error As non-root user: eject -t closes the tray as expected eject gives eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device eject -T gives the same result as for root It doesn't matter whether I do or do not specify sr0 as the device to eject. The non-root user that I try to execute this command as is in the optical group. I have the same problem on two different machines: my trusty old desktop and a Dell Latitude E6510. Also, all this did work before and stopped working some time not so long ago. So, given that it did work before and happens on two rather different machines, I suspect it to be a result of some package upgrade. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly when this started happening. Does anybody else experience this type of problem? Does anybody have any pointers what may be wrong with my setup? Thanks, Norbert -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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[arch-general] Java 6 back in [community]
by Thomas Dziedzic 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

As a result of problems oracle has faced with java 7, it has marked it for developers only: http://java.com/en/download/faq/java7.xml This is why I have decided to bring back java 6 into [community] and it will coexist with java 7 for the time being. jre/jdk - java 7 jre6/jdk6 - java 6 java 6 packages conflict with java 7 packages, so you will not be able to have them both installed at the same time. Note, this is only temporary until Oracle announces yet again, that java 7 is available for general use. I expect this to be at around the time update 1 or 2 comes out for java 7. After they announce this, java 6 is going back into the aur. Happy hacking!

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.0.3-1
by Tobias Powalowski 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] unable to run emacs through VNC
by D. R. Evans 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

I have arch running on a machine that I access through vnc. I just installed and tried to run emacs on the arch machine in an xfce terminal window, but I get the following error: $ emacs logcfg.dat Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1.0". Undefined color: "black" $ Every other program I've tried (which admittedly is not many) has worked fine. What do I need to do to resolve this issue and run emacs? Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.45-1
by Tobias Powalowski 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

Latest LTS kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.0.2-1
by Tobias Powalowski 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] vpnc 0.5.3-4
by Thomas Bächler 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

Fix FS#25002 (add net-tools dep for now), FS#23452 (fix path, add optdepend) and FS#25095 (add supplied patch). Please sign off. I also want to mention that I don't use vpnc anymore, and haven't done so for years. I don't want to keep maintaining it, so if there are takers among the devs, please step up.

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[arch-general] Atheros WiFi only working after reboot from windows
by Vic Demuzere 15 Aug '11

15 Aug '11

Hi there, I have a really strange issue with my Atheros WiFi card since re-installing Arch. It doesn't manage to connect to my wireless AP, except when I first boot windows and then reboot to Arch. So it looks like Arch doesn't manage to start the card properly. Output from dmesg is the same in both cases, and the card correctly shows up in lspci. [sorcix@morpheus ~]$ dmesg | grep ath ath9k 0000:01:0b.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x30 ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map ath: Country alpha2 being used: AM ath: Regpair used: 0x30 ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'ath9k_rate_control' Registered led device: ath9k-phy0 I tried netcfg, networkmanager and manually using wpa_supplicant. When I didn't boot windows first, the card seems to connect to the AP, and then disconnect again. wlan0: deauthenticating from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx by local choice (reason=3) It then starts looping trying to reconnect. After first booting into windows, it simply connects and stays connected. Everything works fine then. Note that it always works fine in windows, so it isn't a hardware problem. Does anyone else have this problem, or knows how to fix it? -- vic(a)demuzere.be :: http://vic.demuzere.be :: PGP: 0x6690CF94 My software never contains bugs, it just develops random features.

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[arch-general] [signoff] Netcfg 2.6.8-1
by Rémy Oudompheng 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

Hello, netcfg 2.6.8 is released. It is a bug fix release for bugs FS#25514 [1], FS#25473 [2], FS#25530 [3]. Please sign it off and move it to [core] when possible. [1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25514 [2] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25473 [3] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25530 Regards, -- Rémy.

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[arch-general] lost+found is quite big, although I haven't lost anything?
by Karol Babioch 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

Hi, since the free space on my system is getting less and less, I was about to clean it up when realizing that my "lost+found" directory on this ext4 formatted partition is about 37G big. The system hasn't crashed so far, wasn't shutdown improperly (as it is attached to a UPS), so its seems quite strange to me. I immediately unmounted the partition and ran an fsck (both with and without the force parameter), but it hasn't reported anything wrong, nor cleaned up the directory. I'm now a little bit concerned as to why this happened and what to do about the directory. Can it be safely removed? Where do this 37G come from? Best regards, Karol Babioch

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