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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts - 2.6.32.31-1
by Andreas Radke 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Minor upstream update fixing the build breaker in .30 the proper way. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/5576 Please signoff. -Andy

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[arch-general] Arch Translation Day, vol 2
by Dan Vrátil 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Hi, the Arch Translation Day was mentioned last month on arch-events ml [1], but really, who reads it :) And because last month not many people participated (because of exam period) we decided to give it another shot when more people might have time. Here in Czech republic we have quite a huge and strong community of Arch users and there is also considerable amount of people who don't speak English well enough to fully understand some articles. Thefore we decided to do Arch Translation Day and translate the most important articles to Czech. Of course, there's no need to make an event in order to create new translations and improve wiki, but massive action will probably attract more people and the result will be better. And when this action can help to improve Czech articles on wiki, why couldn't we call it for another languages too, huh? :) The idea is quite simple: pick an wiki page in whatever language you speak and translate it to your mother language (or any other language you speak too), primary focusing on pages about important issues (beginner's guide, official installation guide, articles about DEs, graphic drivers etc). The event will happen this weekend (5th-6th), and we hope that the result will be the Best Distribution Wiki(tm). Happy translating :)) PS: Pierre mentioned inter-wiki setup, but first someone would have to do it (and I belive only devs can?). When this is set up, it's no problem to migrate the articles to their respective wikis. Dan [1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-events/2011-January/000358.html

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[arch-general] 2010.05 iso images problem?
by didier gaumet 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Hi guys, I have downloaded a 2010.05 x86_64 core iso image from http://mir.archlinux.fr/iso/ and verified its sha1sum. After installation, I end up with a 2.6.37 kernel (out in 2011.01) with no modules (2.6.27 and 2.6.33 modules are available). http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/iso/ has the same sha1sum for this iso. Is there not a problem with these images? Right now I am updating this Archlinux installation from a Debian chroot, so it is not a blocking problem, but out of curiosity, I would like to know. Thanks, Didier.

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[arch-general] knotify4 is eating 90%+ of the CPU in gnome - can it be reniced or something?
by David C. Rankin 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Guys, Running Gnome, knotify 4 is killing my system. From top, it is taking over 90% of the cpu: 13123 david 20 0 155m 40m 17m S 91 1.3 60:06.32 knotify4 Can this 'feature' be turned off when I'm in a desktop other than kde4? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] audio skipping frequently with vlc
by Matthew Monaco 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

I recently noticed then when playing DVDs and other audio files through VLC that the audio skips frequently. It doesn't get out of sync, just goes mute for a split second. I tried the past few versions of VLC but it still happens, so I guess it's one of the dependencies, but I'm not sure which. Has anyone noticed/fixed this?

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[arch-general] New repository locations for Trinity svn
by David C. Rankin 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

All, Just an update on the repo locations for Trinity svn. Kaiting has provided space outside of /home for the packages. The new urls are: http://www.kiwilight.com/trinity/i686/ http://www.kiwilight.com/trinity/x86_64/ Please update your pacman.conf if you have added the repositories. Let me know if you have any problems with the new locations. Thanks. I have updated the locations on the wiki. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts - 2.6.32.30-1
by Andreas Radke 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Upstream update with security fixes. Breaks build on x86_64. I had to revert one single patch for x86_64. more about the breaker: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1107677 Please give signoffs quickly. -Andy

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[arch-general] qemu-kvm vs. qemu upstream
by C Anthony Risinger 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > If this is virtualbox specific, I'd try qemu-kvm. hey, i was just trying to get a concrete answer about this the other day, so maybe you can clarify because i keep reading conflicting and/or outdated information. AFAICS, qemu-kvm is still _different_ from upstream kvm support in qemu, correct? i tried rebuilding qemu several times, ensuring i had all the options i wanted (SPICE/kvm/etc) and i was getting absolutely <expletive deleted> performance -- switch to qemu-kvm and she's blazing again, yet many places seem to suggest they are one and the same. i see they definitely have different sources, but would you/anyone care to elaborate on the relationship? C Anthony

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[arch-general] Contributing to netcfg
by Ng Oon-Ee 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Hi all, I'm not a coder, but I've written up .service files (for systemd) for netcfg, specifically for net-auto-wired and net-auto-wireless. I have not done the same for net-profiles and net-rename. I was thinking to submit those two files upstream to netcfg development, but I can't seem to find the appropriate place. Should I just make a bug report? For clarification, having these .service files just enables netcfg to be run natively on a systemd system, does not affect the system otherwise (they'd never be called).

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] ncurses-5.8-1
by Loui Chang 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

On Sun 27 Feb 2011 12:01 -0600, Dan McGee wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > On 27/02/11 10:40, Allan McRae wrote: > >> > >> Major upstream update. > >> > >> Test well. There is no soname bump, but experience tells me that some > >> rebuilds will probably be required to fix minor issues. > >> > > > > I have rebuilt community/stfl to fix a crash (used by newsbeuter). > > > > I will start a TODO list to keep track of packages that require moved with > > ncurses. If you do any rebuilds, please add the package to the list. > > $ tig > tig: Failed to create status window > > I added it to the list (but didn't rebuild it). Rebuild won't do it. tig wants to create zero sized windows which newwin() doesn't allow anymore. We could patch it with some arbitrary size which kind of works, but I emailed the developer to ask how he would deal with it.

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