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[arch-general] Web sites down?
by Cédric Girard 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Hi, I cannot access (timeout) any archlinux web site except AUR. Am I alone to have this problem? Regards, -- Cédric Girard

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[arch-general] unoffical package signing
by keenerd 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

So, I've decided to unofficially start signing my packages. We don't need pacman or namcap or support from other tools. Here is how it works. gpg --detach-sign foo.pkg.tar.xz scp foo.pkg.tar.xz.sig pkgbuild.com:~/public_html/sigs/ That is it. Mine are at http://pkgbuild.com/~kkeen/sigs/ Of course I only have one package to sign at the moment, but 0.02% coverage is better than none ;-) If you think this is a good idea, sign your packages too. (And share the link please.) -Kyle http://kmkeen.com

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[arch-general] Can't connect to WEP-protected network
by John Albright 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Hello. I just installed Arch last weekend and have gotten KDE and NetworkManager installed. I'm able to connect to unprotected and WPA-protected wireless networks, but when I try to use a WEP-protected one, the NetworkManager applet keeps prompting for the password. I'm sure I'm putting the right password in. Other computers are able to connect to the network. I've only been able to try one WEP-protected network so far. I have no idea what else could be wrong. Has anyone else had this problem?

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[arch-general] [PATCH] [initscripts] drop custom support for persistent net/cd symlinks
by Tom Gundersen 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hi all, As of the next udev release, /dev/.udev has moved to /dev/.run/udev. So, since we have to update this anyway, I thought this was a good opportunity to review our persistent net/cd rules functionality. If I understand correctly, udev allready has support for creating persistent net/cd symlinks (that we disable by default), and no other distro does anything beyond that. Furthermore, the udev devs explicitly say that /dev/.udev should only be used by udev itself. It is therefore not clear to me why we need this at all. The attached patch removes it alltogether. Any comments? Cheers, Tom

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[arch-general] MongoDB 1.8 released to [community]
by Thomas Dziedzic 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Overall a pretty big release with lots of new goodies. Release notes: http://blog.mongodb.org/post/3903149313/mongodb-1-8-released Tested and it works for me, so I pushed it immediately. Please file any bugs you might encounter. Cheers!

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[arch-general] xz compression in kernel 2.6.38
by KESHAV P.R. 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hi all, Now that kernel 2.6.38 supports xz (lzma2, not lzma), how about using it as the default compression for the kernel and initramfs. mkinitcpio simply requires COMPRESSION="xz" to generate lzma2 compressed initramfs. But xz compressed kernel requires change in the config option and once module-init-toools supports xz compressed modules we can say good bye to gzip. Related commits :- For kernel and initramfs xz support - http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdi… http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdi… http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdi… Squashfs xz support http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdi… http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdi… I think this option should be added to mkinitcpio to make users aware of this option. Not sure of the reduction in kernel and initramfs size though (compared to gzip and lzma). Regards. Keshav PS: Seems like I am actually late in conveying this since 2.6.38 kernel is now in testing. But atleast from pkgrel 2 onwards?

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[arch-general] xorg-font-utils package reorganization
by Grigorios Bouzakis 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hi, the previous xorg-font-utils package included 2 utilities that are not available anymore. fonttosfnt and ttmkfdir2 can not be found as split packages but AFAIK they are not part of any other joint packages either. What happens to them? Will they be available in the future or they're dropped completely? Thanks Greg

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[arch-general] Still seeing "spam" in /var/log/everything.log with Issuing auto-REQUEST_SENSE
by Frederic Bezies 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Hello. I'm using a fully up-to-date + testing archlinux. Since Linux 2.6.37, I've a lot of Issuing auto-REQUEST_SENSE spamming my /var/log/everything.log. Cf https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22690 I hoped that 2.6.38 fixed it, but not. My lsusb : [fred@fredo-arch ~]$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 004: ID 058f:6366 Alcor Micro Corp. Multi Flash Reader Bus 002 Device 002: ID 062a:0201 Creative Labs Defender Office Keyboard (K7310) S Zodiak KM-9010 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 045e:00cb Microsoft Corp. Basic Optical Mouse v2.0 My kernel version : [fred@fredo-arch ~]$ pacman -Qi kernel26 Nom : kernel26 Version : 2.6.38-1 URL : http://www.kernel.org Licences : GPL2 Groupes : base Any idea or tip to stop this ? Because I'm kinda fed up with this :( And I cannot unplug Alcor hardware, it is part of my computer. -- Frederic Bezies - fredbezies(a)gmail.com Weblog : http://frederic.bezies.free.fr/blog/

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[arch-general] Should package bug be sent here?
by 郑文辉 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

I have reported a bug report FS#23295[1] ,should I send an email in arch-general mailling list too? [1]:https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23295

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[arch-general] xorg group name messed up after latest xorg package update?? PKGBUILD depends=('xorg') triggering complete reinstall..
by David C. Rankin 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Guys, After the latest xorg updates, PKGBUILD scripts that include depends=('xorg') are triggering complete reinstalls of all xorg packages. This didn't happen before. When trying to build trinity with the following depends= line: depends=('python2-sip' 'libical' 'libxslt' 'avahi' 'dbus-qt3' 'pam-krb5' 'hal' 'xorg' 'trinity-qt3' 'trinity-pyqt3' 'trinity-tqtinterface' 'trinity-arts' 'trinity-kdelibs' 'trinity-kdebase') I get: ==> Installing missing dependencies... warning: xf86-input-acecad-1.4.0-4 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-input-aiptek-1.3.1-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-input-evdev-2.6.0-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-input-keyboard-1.6.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-input-mouse-1.7.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-input-synaptics-1.4.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-input-vmmouse-12.7.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-input-void-1.3.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-apm-1.2.3-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-ark-0.7.3-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-ast-0.91.10-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-ati-6.14.0-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-chips-1.2.4-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-cirrus-1.3.2-5 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-dummy-0.3.4-3 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2-3 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-geode-2.11.12-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-glint-1.2.5-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-i128-1.3.4-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-i740-1.3.2-5 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-intel-2.14.0-3 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-mach64-6.8.2-5 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-mga-1.4.13-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-neomagic-1.2.5-3 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-nv-2.1.18-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-r128-6.8.1-5 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-rendition-4.2.4-3 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-s3-0.6.3-4 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-s3virge-1.10.4-4 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-savage-2.3.2-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-siliconmotion-1.7.5-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-sis-0.10.3-3 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-sisusb-0.9.4-3 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-tdfx-1.4.3-5 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-trident-1.3.4-3 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-tseng-1.2.4-3 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-v4l-0.2.0-7 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-vesa-2.3.0-4 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-vmware-11.0.3-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-voodoo-1.2.4-3 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-xgi-1.6.0-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xf86-video-xgixp-1.8.0-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-bdftopcf-1.0.3-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-docs-1.6-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-fonts-100dpi-1.0.1-3 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-fonts-75dpi-1.0.1-3 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-iceauth-1.0.4-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-luit-1.1.0-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-mkfontdir-1.0.6-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-mkfontscale-1.0.8-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-server-1.9.4.901-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-sessreg-1.0.6-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-setxkbmap-1.2.0-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-smproxy-1.0.4-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-x11perf-1.5.3-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xauth-1.0.5-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xbacklight-1.1.2-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xcmsdb-1.0.3-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xcursorgen-1.0.4-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xdpyinfo-1.2.0-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xdriinfo-1.0.4-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xev-1.1.0-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xgamma-1.0.4-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xhost-1.0.4-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xinput-1.5.3-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xkbcomp-1.2.1-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xkbevd-1.1.2-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xkbutils-1.0.3-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xkill-1.0.3-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xlsatoms-1.1.0-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xlsclients-1.1.1-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xmodmap-1.0.5-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xpr-1.0.3-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xprop-1.2.0-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xrandr-1.3.4-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xrdb-1.0.8-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xrefresh-1.0.4-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xset-1.2.1-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xsetroot-1.1.0-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xvinfo-1.1.1-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xwd-1.0.4-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xwininfo-1.1.1-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: xorg-xwud-1.0.3-2 is up to date -- reinstalling resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (83): xf86-input-acecad-1.4.0-4 xf86-input-aiptek-1.3.1-2 xf86-input-evdev-2.6.0-2 <snip> Total Download Size: 0.00 MB Total Installed Size: 46.94 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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