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[arch-general] Eclipse won't start any more
by Juergen Starek 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hello everybody, a few days ago, my Eclipse installation (which had worked fine for some months before that) stopped working. Eclipse will start, but only to the end of its initialization routine. The splash screen does not disappear. I realize this is no Eclipse support list, and hence will just point to my more detailed error description on Eclipse's newsgroups [1]. However, I'm out of ideas at the moment regarding possible causes for that error. So I'd like to ask here whether anyone thinks that any updates to Arch that appeared in the last three weeks or so might cause problems with Java programs in general, or more specifically with SWT. Perhaps someone even noticed the same problem? I'd be thankful for all hints. Regards, Jürgen [1] http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/article.php? id=23901&group=eclipse.newcomer

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[arch-general] Tool to stop and start services? (Don't Panic)
by Nigel Henry 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

On my Fedora installs there is a GUI for stopping and starting services, and also the option of using chkconfig on the CLI. On my Debian installs, I installed sysv-rc-conf, which runs on the CLI, and allows you to stop and start services. Is there anything similar that I could use on my Archlinux install? Thanks for any help. Nigel.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Repo cleanup / Package adoption
by Loui 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 22:47:46 +0300 Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Is cdtool part of the list? AFAI can see there is no maintainer listed. > Theres a bug report about it http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10558 but > it seems dead and needed only by tcdr which also looks like a dead > project. > 2 possible candidates for removal? > If not, then someone adopt cdtool so i can assign the bug report to > him :P cdtool is quite an awesome little set of apps that work quite well. I'd be glad to fix any issues with it.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Repo cleanup / Package adoption
by Loui 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 14:52:15 -0400 (EDT) Eric Belanger <belanger(a)ASTRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Loui wrote: > > > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:51:43 -0400 (EDT) > > Eric Belanger <belanger(a)ASTRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote: > > > >> I can't move gtkglextmm to unsupported. I'm getting the famous "You are > >> not allowed to overwrite the gtkglextmm package." error. > > > > You could move them to unstable in the mean time maybe. > > > > Moving them to unstable would only be unnecessary work. Aaron has fixed a > similar problem for acroread so that problem can be fixed, at least on a > package-by-package basis. Hmm looks like that wasn't done properly though. Check out acroread7-chsfont http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6398 Last Updated: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 acroread http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16980 First Submitted: Thu, 15 May 2008 acroread7-chsfont depends on acroread but it doesn't show up on the page. It looks like the DB entry was clobbered. You'll need to retain the ID for those "Not allowed to overwrite" packages for a proper fix. Just a 'heads-up' to the devs. Cheers.

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[arch-general] How do I configure my webcamera?
by Carlos A M Filho 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

Hi, everybody... I tried to configure my webcamera by following the instructions in: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Webcam_Setup However it isn't working at all; programs like Cheese and Spcagui do not recognize any device. Some information about this system: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-06-01 01:45 /dev/video -> v4l/video0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-06-01 01:45 /dev/video0 -> v4l/video0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 2008-06-01 01:45 /dev/v4l/video0 # hwdetect --show-modules AGP : agpgart via-agp ACPI : button dock processor thermal PATA : pata_acpi pata_via ata_generic SCSI : scsi_mod sd_mod sr_mod SATA : sata_via USB : usblp usbcore ehci-hcd uhci-hcd NET : mii ppp_generic slhc via-rhine INPUT : evdev gameport pcspkr psmouse serio_raw SOUND : ac97_bus snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-seq-oss snd-seq-device snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-rawmidi snd-timer snd snd-mpu401-uart snd-ac97-codec snd-via82xx-modem snd-via82xx soundcore VIDEO : compat_ioctl32 sn9c102 gspca v4l1-compat videodev nvidia OTHER : cdrom lp ppdev i2c-viapro i2c-core parport parport_pc lsusb pci_hotplug shpchp rtc-cmos rtc-core rtc-lib # lsusb Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0c45:602e Microdia Bus 001 Device 004: ID 03f0:7304 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 35xx Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Thanks In Advance.

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[arch-general] poll: udev uevents settle wait time
by Dimitrios Apostolou 31 May '08

31 May '08

Hello list, I have recently seen the new feature of the initscripts, where the waiting time for uevents settling is being reported. So since we are all interested in booting speed, what are the times being reported for your computer? Let me start with a P3 800MHz I have running arch. Normal wait time: ~11.5s acpi=off wait time: ~5s What about yours? Dimitris

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[arch-general] Kernel upgrades question, as can't revert to earlier kernel
by Nigel Henry 30 May '08

30 May '08

I've noticed for some time now that some distros are upgrading the current running kernel, rather than installing a new kernel version, which if there are problems with the new kernel, you could boot the earlier kernel, which you know was working ok. I'm currently updating my Don't Panic install, and there is a kernel update to 2.6.25.4-1 , and 21% done so far. Is there some way that this latest kernel version can be installed as a new kernel, and leave the existing one alone? I don't like this way of updating the kernel, as you have no way of booting to the earlier one if the latest version is problematic. 26% done now. Nigel.

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Re: [arch-general] netcfg and atheros or where to set the ap mac
by dennisjperkins＠comcast.net 30 May '08

30 May '08

I have the same problem. I haven't traced the problem to the source yet but to get a wireless connection, I need to do "iwpriv authmode 2" on the command line, then kill and restart dhcpcd for ath0. I have an older laptop with an Atheros chip, and it doesn't seem to need this step for some reason. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Arvid Ephraim Picciani <aep(a)ibcsolutions.de> > Hi, > netcfg is quite what i need for my laptop. unfortunatly i can't get it to > work with the built in atheros card. The errror is "wireless association > failed". > Well obviously atheros doesnt associate automaticly. you have to do it > manually. not a problem, i just set an ap via iwconfig and it works. > netcfg has an option IWOPTS. the docs claim this will be passed to iwconfig. > unfiortunatly that is not the case. > > so where can i set the ap? > > -- > best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen > Arvid Ephraim Picciani >

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[arch-general] iproute and linux-atm
by Michal Soltys 29 May '08

29 May '08

Hello It's pretty minor thing actually - still, since linux-atm is in core, iproute can benefit a bit from it, as atm qdisc requires it. So - linux-atm could be added as dependency to iproute2. Cheers

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[arch-general] New nvidia drivers in testing
by Thomas Bächler 29 May '08

29 May '08

The new nvidia drivers have finally been released. They are in testing now for both architectures. I upload them completely untested, as my desktop is unaccessible until tomorrow. I dropped the libnvidia-wfb from the package, as it does the same as Xorg's libwfb and our xorg-server is sufficiently new (at least as far as I was told). Please report and working/non-working GPUs, I hope we can move this to extra soon.

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