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[arch-general] PulseAudio in [extra]
by Jan Steffens 20 Jun '10

20 Jun '10

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > In this situation, we should go with a case by case approach. If > adding pulseaudio support to a package doesn't force the use of a > pulseaudio setup, then we build with it and add a pulseaudio > optdepends (or depends as required). In cases like gnome-media, we > provide a pulse and non-pulse version of the package. Having both of > these versions in extra would enable us to use split PKGBUILD to build > them. So it will add no extra work for you. > > Of course, we have to wait what the other devs have to say. IIRC the > past pulseaudio discussions, the main stumbling block (I don't recall > other issues) was that no dev wanted to maintain it. As you are > interested in it and with the jr dev scheme, that issue seem to be > resolved. I *am* interested in getting pulseaudio into [extra], and created a more detailed plan of what to do: http://gist.github.com/444917 Any comments are welcome. I am willing to apply as a junior dev to get this done, should it be approved.

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[arch-general] Slim login manager is logging everything
by Ananda Samaddar 20 Jun '10

20 Jun '10

I'm using Slim as my login manager and it's logging absolutely everything. Things like gstreamer and alsa errors. This is making the log file huge, of the order of 8 gb when compressed. Can anyone think of a solution? I could always use the hack of putting the logfile in /tmp but I don't want to do that. /var is not on a separate partition and I'm not prepared to re-partition my system. Obviously with such large logfiles I'm getting performance issues. I'm an XFCE user so I'd like to avoid kdm and gdm. Are are there any other alternative X11 login apps other than xdm that don't depend on GNOME or KDE if I can't fix my issue with Slim? thanks, Ananda

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[arch-general] Counting Lines of Code
by Gaurish Sharma 19 Jun '10

19 Jun '10

Hi, I am trying to get a rough idea on total line of code in my php project. Currently, I use this command. $ ( find ./ -name '*.php' -print0 | xargs -0 cat ) | wc -l But it empty lines/comments, hence the figure is huge. Any other Alternative? Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com

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[arch-general] gnome only install - installing compiz pulls in kde4-runtime?? Why?
by David C. Rankin 19 Jun '10

19 Jun '10

Guys, First install with the 2010-5 dual net install on an i686 box. Kudos, install was painless. Only issue was I had my pkg/ dir on a usb stick and I couldn't get the installer to use it for install. I mounted it where it was supposed to be mounted according to the installer (don't remember exactly /src/core/pkg or the like). It couldn't find the core.blah package... This is the first install where I haven't install kde/kdm. For this install, I only installed gnome/gdm. I don't want kde4 within 10 feet of this box. I do want compiz installed. When I installed compiz, it pulled in kde4 runtime, the compiz-decorator-kde, kdelibs, etc.. Why? Can't I just have a gnome box with compiz? Can I uninstall the kde4 mess? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Mysqld won't start
by Nilesh Govindarajan 19 Jun '10

19 Jun '10

I compiled mysqld from ABS with some flag modification. But it doesn't start and I see this in the error log: 00619 12:44:23 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql /usr/sbin/mysqld: Table 'plugin' is read only 100619 12:44:23 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it. 100619 12:44:23 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't create/write to file '/var/lib/mysql/s1.mrova.com.pid' (Errcode: 13) 100619 12:44:23 [ERROR] Can't start server: can't create PID file: Permission denied 100619 12:44:23 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/lib/mysql/s1.mrova.com.pid ended It complains about this pid file or the socket. For now I have configured no socket in my.cnf, so I get the pid-file error. Also I tried chmod 777 -Rf on /var/lib/mysql and /var/run/mysqld, but still its the same. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] Upgrading from Arch 0.8 O.o
by Nilesh Govindarajan 19 Jun '10

19 Jun '10

I recently got a VPS and installed arch from their control panel just to know that it was arch 0.8 !!! How do I upgrade from arch 0.8 to the latest ? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] perl-5.12
by Caleb Cushing 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

So is there anything I can do to help to get this in stable? I haven't had any problems personally in over a month. I think the only bug still open for rebuilds is the dbd* one. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] How do I get my Canon MP630 working under Arch?
by Jordan Windsor 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

I would like to get my Canon MP630 (all in one) printer working under Arch, I only need the printing abilities though. I have installed the following packages and read the Arch wiki CUPS article along with many other websites: cnijfilter-common 3.00-3 hal-cups-utils cups-canon cups libcups I've tried adding the printer with the following URI's: cnijusb:/dev/usb/lp2 hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_4a9_172e_30AFBE_if1_printer_noserial I've been unable to get it to print a test page. Thanks!

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[arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?
by Ananda Samaddar 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

On to the first order of business. As the subject says, what should security team be called. Hopefully we can get a few suggestions and then reach a consensus. Arch Linux Security Task Force just sounds like too much of a mouthful to me. I was brooding over this and I thought some sort of acronym that's an actual word would sound better, so I came up with this: 'Arch Response Team for Security' or ARTS. It's a bit cheesy and cheats a bit to get the acronym but is instantly memorable. I'm aware arts was also a KDE technology but it has long since been deprecated. Ideas? Ananda

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[arch-general] intel video & suspend
by Sergey Manucharian 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

Hi folks, Regularly I put my ThinkPad R61 into suspend twice a day, and everything worked perfectly until 2.6.32 and 2.6.33 kernels. Now from time to time (≈ once a week) when I wake it up, the screen remains black in both X and text console. Nothing can bring it back, but everything else works just fine. No errors in logs either. The suspend is done with: # echo -n mem >/sys/power/state (just the stock /etc/acpi/handler.sh of acpid package) I have Intel GM965 card and run xorg-server-1.7.6-3. Driver: xf86-video-intel-2.10.0-1 I found that there are a couple of patches [1,2] for i915 and intel bios were made in Nov-Dec 2009 to fix such problems, and they were supposed to be in 2.6.33, but my problem persists. Does anybody have ideas/info? Thanks, Sergey [1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87828 [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/62734/

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