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[arch-general] xf86-input drivers in xorg group
by Luštický Josef 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

Is anyone still using xf86-input-mouse or xf86-input-keyboard driver? These packages are member of xorg group in repos but http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-mouse/tree/README says: "This driver is mainly used on non-Linux operating systems such as BSD & Solaris, as modern Linux systems use the xf86-input-evdev driver instead."

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[arch-general] Amarok fails to start after upgrade
by Dominik Cermak 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

Hi list, after upgrading amarok today I get following error after trying to start it: Amarok could not find any collection plugins. It is possible that Amarok is installed under the wrong prefix, please fix your installation using: $ cd /path/to/amarok/source-code/ $ su -c "make uninstall" $ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` && su -c "make install" $ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental $ amarok More information can be found in the README file. For further assistance join us at #amarok on irc.freenode.net. Can anyone confirm this? Is this one considered a packaging bug? Greetings Dominik

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[arch-general] Is 'network' daemon needed when using netcfg?
by XeCycle 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

I recently tried netcfg, and have setup automatic connection at boot. However during the startup, it says something like "This functionality is deprecated". In my /etc/rc.conf, I have these for networking: > HOSTNAME="XeCycle" > NETWORK_PERSIST="no" > NETWORKS=(profile) > DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus network net-profiles netfs crond sensors \ > sshd hddtemp dictd cdemud) So, should I remove 'network' from the 'DAEMONS'? Thank you. PS. Is the process of starting daemons logged? When I ran into problems about daemons, usually I can't know exactly what had happened, because before I could read the error messages, they disappeared.

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[arch-general] Makepkg. Disabling automatically aborting on any errors during packaging
by Joker-jar 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

Hello. As you know makepkg since 3.4.0 has feature "automatically aborting on any errors during packaging". Sometimes this feature makes me cry, for example, if build() function has: rm [non-existent file] 2> /dev/null This problem is not critical if you are author of the build()'s code (you can adapt code for the capricious makepkg). But i encountered the following situation: i maintain psi-plus aur package. This project has bash library libpsibuild.sh for making (because it is a complex process). I use this library in the build() function of the PKGBUILD. If i run build() function just under the bash, program builds great, but with makepkg it falls with error. I can do patch for this library, but it is not good solution, because of this library updates literally every day. So i requesting something like boolean variable in the PKGBUILD, which can switch automatically aborting. If author preferred to disable this feature, he will take care of error handling in the code directly. As i know, gentoo portages has somesing like this.

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[arch-general] Should ctrl_interface in /etc/wpa_supplicant be changed?
by Oon-Ee Ng 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

Hi all, wondering if ctrl_interface in /etc/wpa_supplicant needs changing to /run instead of /var/run. See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=952351#p952351

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[arch-general] Anything to manage user daemons?
by XeCycle 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

Hello. I need to start several programs after login and after startx. Now I write these directly in my .bash_profile and .xinitrc; but I'm not satisfied with this. They cannot be easily stopped after logout. To do that I think I'd record their PID and kill them in .bash_logout, also need to take care when they're manually stopped, and all these related problems. So I think a set of scripts like the daemon managing from initscripts will be nice. But I can't write /etc/rc.d daemons, as they must be executed by a normal user. Has anyone written such a tool? Thank you. -- 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 Facebook: Carl Lei Twitter: XeCycle Blog: http://xecycle.blogspot.com Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:04:17 +0800

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[arch-general] Systemd! [WAS: arch-dev-public] Welcoming Dave Reisner to the dev staff
by Oon-Ee Ng 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Please welcome Dave to our development team. He has been a frequent > contributor (and reviewer of patches!) to Pacman, has been a TU for a > little bit, and has taken initiative on a lot of > initscripts/mkinitcpio/systemd type stuff. I think I've given him all > the right permissions and such, and signed him up for the relevant > mailing lists. > > -Dan > Systemd to come? =)

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[arch-general] 2011.06-1 archboot "2k11-R3" ISO hybrid image released
by Tobias Powalowski 21 Jun '11

21 Jun '11

Hi Arch community, Arch Linux (archboot creation tool) 2011.06-1, "2k11-R3" has been released. To avoid confusion, this is not an official arch linux iso release! Homepage and for more information on archboot: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archboot Forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121338 Summary: - bump to latest kernels and introduce pacman 3.5.3 Hybrid image file and torrent is provided, which include i686 and x86_64 core repository. Please check md5sum before using it. Hybrid image file is a standard CD-burnable image and also a raw disk image. - Can be burned to CD(RW) media using most CD-burning utilities. - Can be raw-written to a drive using 'dd' or similar utilities. This method is intended for use with USB thumb drives. Please get it from your favorite arch linux mirror: - https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/archboot/2011.06/ - <yourmirror>/iso/archboot/2011.06/ Have fun, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Anybody else have problems with the new Nvidia drivers (275.09.07-1)
by Pico Geyer 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Hi all, As the title of this email suggests I'm having trouble with the new Nvidia driver. I've attached my Xorg log, as I'm sure that there are a log of people who understand the ouput better than I do. I've had to revert to the previous driver (270.41.19-3) to get my system up and running again. What seems odd to me from the log is that it doesn't even try to load the nvidia driver. I'm using Xorg without any explicit configuration. My card is a GeForce 210 and I'm running a 32 bit arch. Did I forget something? Anybody have any suggestions? Regards, Pico

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[arch-general] [netcfg] Getting rid of wireless_tools
by Rémy Oudompheng 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Hello, wpa_supplicant is supposed to provide most of the wireless_tools functionality. I have set up a branch of netcfg that replaces all uses of wireless_tools by wpa_supplicant. http://projects.archlinux.org/users/remy/netcfg.git/log/?h=no-iwconfig iwconfig is still used by the deprecated IWCONFIG option, but there is still one thing I don't really understand. In src/connections/wireless, there is block that calls "iwconfig mode Managed" before starting wpa_supplicant. The log is not really explicit about why this was added (it merely says it was necessary for iwl3945), and wpa_supplicant man page only says it's necessary for the hostap driver, which we do not use. Does anybody knows the reason why it is needed? Rémy.

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