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[arch-general] Plasma-desktop in KDE 4.7 can not start up
by Leon Feng 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hi, After upgrade to KDE 4.7, plasma-desktop can not start anymore. Login in from kdm will stop at the splash screen. Switch to console by ctrl + alt + F1 and then run "top" plasma-desktop is using 100% CPU. Run "pkill plasma-desktop" , Login continue. But screen is black. I check .xsession-error file and found nothing special. Does anyone encounter the same problem? How to find more info to track down this problem? Thanks.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Installation of libreoffice
by Heiko Baums 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Am Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:09:06 +0200 schrieb Jan de Groot <jan(a)jgc.homeip.net>: > As pacman will happily install multiple replacement packages, I would > suggest removing the provides= line from libreoffice-common and adding > replaces=libreoffice to the split packages that should get installed > when upgrading. And 'libreoffice-langpack' needs to be removed from depends of libreoffice-common. It doesn't make much sense to have it in depends and in optdepends anyway. I think it's better to keep it in optdepends, maybe with a post install note that no language package has been installed. Because of this someone got his language pack been uninstalled and replaced by a different one by pacman -Syu. See the bug report I have mentioned earlier. Heiko

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[arch-general] tunneling help needed (ssh?)
by Philipp 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Hi there, I know this isn't very arch specific but I lack ideas on where else to ask. Problem: A server situated in a network that can't be reached from the outside, all ports are blocked. I want to give specific outside users simple ftp access to a directory on this server (password protected). I'm in control of the server inside the network. I'm in control of another server inside this network that can be reached (at least port 80) but I'd like to avoid using this server. I may have some control over outside servers. So, what can I do?

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[arch-general] finger error
by sacarde 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Hi, I am trying out "finger" command I have an error when I run: finger sacarde I have: finger: /dev//лM-^D: No such file or directory Login: sacarde Name: (null) Directory: /home/sacarde Shell: /bin/bash On since Wed Jul 27 08:12 (CEST) on :0 (messages off) On since Wed Jul 27 08:12 (CEST) on pts/0 from :0 12 hours 17 minutes idle On since Wed Jul 27 08:13 (CEST) on лM-^D from :0 (messages off) No mail. but I dont understand the first line : .... /dev//лM-^D ecc...... for other users it does not appear thank you sacarde(a)tiscali.it

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[arch-general] xinetd services
by sacarde 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

hi, I found in my arch64, into xinetd package, 2 daemon: "servers" and "services" they are using 9098 and 9099 port, and are disabled I dont understand what they are for thank you

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[arch-general] New cron hourly messages as of 8/1 - Usage: /usr/sbin/run-cron crondir ??
by David C. Rankin 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Guys, Beginning 8/1 at 01:59, I began getting emails regarding "cron for user root job sys-hourly" that contain: Usage: /usr/sbin/run-cron crondir Looking at the logs, I haven't had any cron updates since: [2011-05-04 14:34] upgraded dcron (4.4-2 -> 4.5-2) The cron log shows the system is just mailing the hourly output like it should: Aug 1 23:06:01 phoenix crond[797]: FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root PID 24811 job sys-hourly Aug 1 23:06:01 phoenix crond[797]: exit status 1 from user root job sys-hourly Aug 1 23:06:01 phoenix crond[24812]: mailing cron output for user root job sys-hourly But for some reason it is now telling me that it gets an exit status of 1 from the fetchmail script that calls spamassassin (which is normal): "fetchmail: normal termination, status 1" Which I confirmed with: 09:34 phoenix:~> spam-cron 09:39 phoenix:~> echo $? 1 The script is a very minimal fetchmail script: #!/bin/bash ## Retrieve and Process Spam & Ham from 'spam-learn' & 'spam-unlearn' folders /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -s -n --folder spam-learn -m '/usr/bin/vendor_perl/sa-learn --spam' &>/dev/null sleep 2 /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -s -n --folder spam-unlearn -m '/usr/bin/vendor_perl/sa-learn --ham' &>/dev/null I didn't make any changes to cron or the fetchmail script to generate the hourly message. The script still runs exactly like it always has, but now I'm getting messages from cron each hour. Anybody know what changed to cause this or how to stop the hourly notifications? The only thing in the pacman.log that looks possibly relevant is: [2011-08-01 22:32] warning: /etc/rc.conf installed as /etc/rc.conf.pacnew [2011-08-01 22:32] VERBOSE= in rc.conf no longer has any effect. [2011-08-01 22:32] Please append 'quiet' to your kernel command line. but I have appended quite to the kernel line in menu.lst, and that hasn't solved it. What say the gurus? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] mpop & msmtp
by Bastien Dejean 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Hello, Why is there an official arch pkg for msmtp but not for mpop? -- Bastien

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Re: [arch-general] recording video with ffmpeg
by Buce 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:24 PM, 清显 <bfsc.yb(a)gmail.com> wrote: > it's working well for normal uses, just want to ask is there any way > to record the sound of the microphone as well as the sound that the computer > is playing at the same time? > thanks a lot. > ps: i'm using alsa as my sound system. > > I stumbled across this link a few months back. Never did anything with it, didn't even test it, but saved it for future reference. Maybe it will help. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=554d2eb653caed029802217ffa97e849&t… Looks like it uses pulseaudio, but read through the entire discussion, I think a few people offered alternate implementations towards the end. Don't recall if they were specifically alsa.

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[arch-general] extra/libkipi conflicts with Trinity libkipi - How? (one is in /usr one in /opt/kde)
by David C. Rankin 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Guys, The kde4 updates today conflict with Trinity libkipi. I can't figure out why? :: libkipi and kdemod3-libkipi are in conflict. Remove kdemod3-libkipi? [y/N] error: unresolvable package conflicts detected Trinity 3.5.12 installs libkipi in /opt/kde, while KDE4 (ABS-extra/libkipi) installs in /usr -- so why is pacman throwing a conflict? 15:03 providence:~> pmql kdemod3-libkipi /opt/ /opt/kde/ /opt/kde/include/ /opt/kde/include/libkipi/ /opt/kde/include/libkipi/batchprogressdialog.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imagecollection.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imagecollectionselector.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imagecollectionshared.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imagedialog.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imageinfo.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/imageinfoshared.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/interface.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/libkipi_export.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/plugin.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/pluginloader.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/uploadwidget.h /opt/kde/include/libkipi/version.h /opt/kde/lib/ /opt/kde/lib/libkipi.la /opt/kde/lib/libkipi.so /opt/kde/lib/libkipi.so.0 /opt/kde/lib/libkipi.so.0.1.1 /opt/kde/lib/pkgconfig/ <snip> [15:11 providence:/home/david/tmp/libkipi] # cat PKGBUILD # $Id: PKGBUILD 132586 2011-07-25 00:13:06Z andrea $ # Maintainer: Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org> pkgname=libkipi pkgver=4.7.0 <snip> build() { cd "${srcdir}" mkdir build cd build cmake ../${pkgname}-${pkgver} \ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr make } [15:11 providence:/home/david/tmp/libkipi] # cat libkipi.install post_install() { xdg-icon-resource forceupdate --theme hicolor &> /dev/null } <snip> Anybody see where the conflict could be? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] blacklisting issue, perhaps initscripts or kernel 3.0 related
by Heiko Baums 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Am Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:30:27 +0200 schrieb Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalowski(a)googlemail.com>: > In the past people had more than one soundcard in the pc, the problem > by autoloading modules with udev, could change the order of this > sounddevices. This is not that much a problem anymore, modern systems > mostly have only one soundcard installed. At least regarding soundcards this is not true. Also loading the soundcard modules by using the MODULES array can lead to different orders. The only way of having them loaded in a specific order is to using the index parameter in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf. I don't know how it is for other modules like network cards. There are several modules which don't have an index parameter. Heiko

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