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by xq 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

-- Yogi Berra - "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."

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[arch-general] [signoff] mdadm-2.6.9-1
by Tobias Powalowski 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hi http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10651 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9122 both states raid is broken for more complex setups. According to my earlier mail about assembling raid arrays i wrote a new hook and install file. It uses mdassemble.static from mdadm tarball which is smaller than mdadm.static and does the assembling job and loading of the needed raid module. How does it work: - If a an array is defined on users system /etc/mdadm.conf, the file will be added to initramfs and used for the assembling things. - If no array was defined it falls back to commandline assembling and a madm.conf file will be created on the fly during bootup. Old command line syntax wasn't changed, uuid support is added (eg. md=0,0900878d:f95f6057:c39a36e9:55efa61b) Last Fix: -fixed booting from partitionable raid, by loading md_mod before assembling. Passed Tests: - Tested normal raid 1 setup with and without mdadm.conf modified. - Tested raid1 partitionable raid with extended and without extended partition. - Tested uuid assembling from commandline I think this is ready to move to core, please signoff. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] /etc/fstab :no ext. hdd
by Preston C. 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

I hope that this is not to much of a noob question, but since I started using Arch I haven't been able to access my external hard drive through KDE. I posted on the forums about the problem but it seems that the other people who had the problem, had the problem in a different way. My problem is I can access my cdrom drive through the desktop but cannot access my external hdd. When I try to I get an error message concerning HAL Permission Policy. So I read back through The Beginners Guide and two things came to mind- user 'groups' and /etc/fstab. In /etc/fstab these are the devices that show: /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /media/cdrom1 auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 No external hdd? Also, why are there two cdrom devices when I only have 1 cd drive and 1 dvd drive? I was wondering if the external hdd doesn't exist in /etc/fstab because I did not add it as a 'group' (which I think I did) or for some other reason? Supposedly I could use HAL, in some way- although I would rather have the external hdd in /etc/fstab. How do I get the external hdd to exist in /etc/fstab , which I think it should? Thanks, Preston

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[arch-general] aufs2 patch to work for archlinux kernel
by Christopher Rogers 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

I fixed aufs2 to work in archlinux kernel. I had to remove some patches to aufs2-standalone.patch you guys made so it would work. This will mean we have to drop unionfs for this to work. http://arch-live.isawsome.net/devel/aufs2-standalone.patch patch for aufs2 to work with kernel 2.6.29 http://arch-live.isawsome.net/devel/aufs2-linux-2.6.29.patch Unionfs need do_splice_to and do_splice_from to be vfsub_splice_to and vfsub_splice_from. Problem was that those functions are in fs/aufs/vfsub.c file. Anyways I fixed the error since we are not using unionfs anymore if aufs2 is added in. I hope this helps.

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[arch-general] Gnome package list
by Baho Utot 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

I don't have gnome currently installed on any of my desktops I would like to list the packages that would be installed _if_ I did a pacman -S gnome Is there ant way to list packages in the gnome group prior to installation ? Presently pacman -Qg gnome returns nothing Thanks

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[arch-general] pacman bug? (can't replace dir with file)
by Damjan Georgievski 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

Is this a known pacman bug (or a feature)? I tried to upgrade python-fuse and it errored out. /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/fuse_python-0.2-py2.6.egg-info is a directory in the old package, but a file in the new package. # pacman -S python-fuse resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (1): python-fuse-20090321-1 Total Download Size: 0,00 MB Total Installed Size: 0,15 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] checking package integrity... (1/1) checking for file conflicts [#####################################################] 100% error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) python-fuse: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/fuse_python-0.2-py2.6.egg-info exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. -- damjan

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[arch-general] File notification question
by richard terry 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

Is it possible to set up a process( which notifies me via some sort of icon on taskbar try like email alert does) which monitors a particular directory on my computer and if a new file is added to that directory, triggers the alert? If so, if anyone can point me in the direction it would be appreciated. Thanks in advance Richard

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[arch-general] why QT-4.5.0-4 is compiled with exceptions?
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

Hi I see that QT is now compiled with exceptions enabled. There is a reason for it? Searching in the forum, looking for why this change, I encountered only one old topic(2005) [#1]. (A discussion about it between phrakture and vicious) the C++ exception handling has been improved since those days? Thanks, [#1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=8998 -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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[arch-general] id3tag pkgconfig: unrecognized option '-zf'
by hollunder＠gmx.at 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

Hi there, I'm investigating an error when attempting to build sonic visualiser 1.5 and we narrowed it down to the -zf option in the pkgconfig. Is this a bug in libid3tag or in my arch? This is the error at compiletime: g++ -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -o sonic-visualiser tmp_obj/main.o tmp_obj/OSCHandler.o tmp_obj/MainWindow.o tmp_obj/PreferencesDialog.o tmp_obj/moc_MainWindow.o tmp_obj/moc_PreferencesDialog.o tmp_obj/qrc_sonic-visualiser.o -L../view -L../layer -L../data -L../widgets -L../transform -L../plugin -L../base -L../system -L../framework -L../audioio -L../rdf -L/usr/lib -lsvframework -lsvaudioio -lsvview -lsvlayer -lsvrdf -lsvtransform -lsvwidgets -lsvdata -lsvplugin -lsvbase -lsvsystem -lbz2 -L/home/hollunder/builds/vamp-plugin-sdk/pkg/usr/lib -lvamp-hostsdk -loggz -lfishsound -lvorbisenc -lspeex -lvorbis -logg -lmad -zf -lid3tag -lrubberband -lfftw3 -lfftw3f -lsndfile -lsamplerate -llrdf -lrdf -lrasqal -lraptor -lportaudio -ljack -llo -Wl,-Bdynamic -lQtXml -L/usr/lib -pthread -pthread -lQtGui -L/usr/X11R6/lib -pthread -lpng -lfreetype -lgobject-2.0 -lSM -lICE -pthread -pthread -lXrender -lfontconfig -lXext -lX11 -lQtNetwork -lssl -lcrypto -pthread -pthread -lQtCore -lz -lm -pthread -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0 -lpthread -ldl g++: unrecognized option '-zf' This is the pkgconfig file including the -zf prefix=/usr exec_prefix=/usr/bin libdir=/usr/lib includedir=/usr/include Name: ID3TAG Description: libid3tag - ID3 tag manipulation library Version: 0.15.0b Libs: -L${libdir} -lid3tag -zf Cflags: I wrote to the mad user list as well, so far without answer. Thanks in advance for your help Philipp

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[arch-general] Seamonkey + Openjdk
by Javier Vasquez 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Hi all, I have seamonkey installed, and its browser works great with the sun java plugin (the oji). I recently tried to migrate to openjdk, and I even installed xulrunner (I read somewhere it was a dependency although one could install openjdk without it). Seamonkey doesn't seem to recognize the IcedTeaPlugin.so plugin (about:plugins), whether xulrunner is installed or not. I've tried using different link names, and that doesn't work... Any hints (bellow I add the packets present, and the links)? Thanks, local/openjdk6 1.5-0.1 local/xulrunner 1.9.0.7-1 local/seamonkey 1.1.15-1 % ls -l /usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.15/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 2009-03-23 19:33 /usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.15/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so -> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so % ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 61 2009-03-06 14:34 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so % ls -l /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 249K 2009-03-06 14:34 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so -- Javier

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