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[arch-general] How best to downgrade gcc to 4.4 or 4.3?
by David C. Rankin 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

Guys, After running into a gcc 4.5.2 segfault, the trinity developer suggested a test to downgrade gcc to 4.4 or 4.3 and see if the gcc issue and issue concerning iccconfig.cpp go away. Looking through my old packages, the earliest I can find is 4.5.1. How best to downgrade?... and will I break everything if I do? My thought was just to pull the ABS pkgbuild and change pkgver back to 4.4.x, but I don't know if this will miss any patches, etc.. that may have been in place for earlier versions that are no longer there. Is there any old archive for pkgbuilds that would have an old gcc 4.4 or 4.3 in it? (obviously, if I knew the answers -- I wouldn't ask :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] netconf network configuration management system
by Dieter Plaetinck 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

anyone ever looked at http://netconf.alioth.debian.org/ ? looks interesting. I know a bunch of us are working on network management tools (like netcfg and replacements for it), but that one seems to have a good philosophy and should be distro independent. Dieter

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[arch-general] [signoff] udev-166-2
by Tobias Powalowski 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Hi guys. upstream release: udev 166 ======== Bugfixes. please signoff 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] Packages with update-desktop-database issues
by Matthias Dienstbier 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Hi, I recently found that wine doesn't run update-desktop-database (FS#22882) but that's not the only package with this issue. I tested all my installed packages with this command: for i in $(grep -Rl 'MimeType=.*/.*' /usr/share/applications/*); do pkg= $(LANG=C pacman -Qo "$i"); grep -L update-desktop-database /var/lib/pacman/local/$(echo $pkg | cut -d\ -f5)-$(echo $pkg | cut -d\ -f6)/install; done The result was that at least these packages don't run update-desktop-database although they install Mime associations: extra/chromium extra/evolution extra/mplayer extra/openjdk6 extra/qt extra/sound-juicer community/mplayer-vaapi community/shotwell community/virtualbox community/wine There are probably many more broken packages which I don't have installed. I tried to get these via pkgfile but didn't succeed. I really wonder why namcap doesn't do any checks on this. -- Matthias Dienstbier

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[arch-general] Package deletion request
by D. Can Celasun 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

I've adopted, updated and reuploaded the "ejecter"[1] package as "indicator-ejecter"[2] to follow the general naming convention regarding Ayatana packages [3] . Can someone please delete the original "ejecter" package? [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20493 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46497 [3] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=99746&p=1 Thanks.

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[arch-general] xf86-video-ati, xbrightness and KMS bug
by Fess 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Hi guys. I've switched to xf86-video-ati from fgrlx and have some troubles with changing brightness level. xbrightness tells me: "No outputs have backlight property". With fgrlx it worked like a charm. If anyone have a solution - it will be great. P.S. My keyboard dead now, so i have to use discrete, and have no FN buttons. I have asus x61s. Video: Ati Radeon HD4570 and enabled KMS. Without KMS X won't start. Kernel: 2.6.37-5 Driver: 6.14.0-1 xorg.conf.d file: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/338214/ -- With best wishes or hundreds of hate.

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[arch-general] util-linux 2.19 release
by Dave Reisner 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Attached is a changelog and a PKGBUILD for the recently released util-linux 2.19. Changes I've made to the PKGBUILD: - name change: the project is once again called util-linux. I've updated the conflicts accordingly, and removed the ancient reference to linux32. I think its worth keeping the versioned conflict with e2fsprogs. - remove install scriptlet: this info file is no longer provided - use autogen.sh script instead of manually invoking autotools - remove --enable-rdev flag. this has been non-existant since 2.17 - no need to rm stuff in package() -- these files are no longer part of util-linux Other thoughts: If we build this with --enable-libmount-mount, we can do away with /etc/mtab and make it a symlink to /proc/self/mounts. It is, however, marked as experimental in the release notes. I've been running the -git version of util-linux for about a month now, and have had no problems with low level functionality e.g. booting or mounting. thanks, dave

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[arch-general] gcc: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
by David C. Rankin 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

Guys, Has anyone else experienced a segmentation fault with the current gcc? I received the following: In file included from /home/david/tbld/kdebase/kcontrol/konq/fontopts.cpp:387:0: /home/david/tbld/kdebase/src/kcontrol/konq/fontopts.moc: In member function virtual void KonqFontOptions::load(bool): /home/david/tbld/kdebase/src/kcontrol/konq/fontopts.moc:136:93: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions. From the error, I take it this is a gcc issue and I'll submit it there, but I wanted to see if anyone else had seen it (or something like it) and what, if anything, else the Arch devs would like to see on the issue. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.28-4
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

Latest LTS kernel is in testing, - rebuild against latest binutils/glibc 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] streamtuner2 - python developers please have a look
by Andreas Radke 12 Feb '11

12 Feb '11

I'd like to replace streamtuner with streamtuner2 in extra. But there's one major bug that is a stopper to me. http://sourceforge.net/projects/streamtuner2/forums/forum/1173108/topic/377… Upstream is aware of it but seems unable to fix it. I know we have some python coders around. Maybe you can have a look at it. -Andy

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