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[arch-general] Linuxtag 2008 Berlin
by Didi 15 May '08

15 May '08

Hey Is anyone going to the Linuxtag in Berlin http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/home/welcome.html Would be cool to meet up, as fellow archers, and have a beer or something. Cheers Didi ---- www.cern.ch/ribalba / www.ribalba.de Email / Jabber: ribalba(a)gmail.com Phone (Work) : +41 22 7679376 Skype : ribalba Address : CERN / IT-FIO-FS / GENEVE 23/ SCHWEIZ

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[arch-general] Postgres failure after system upgrade
by richard terry 15 May '08

15 May '08

Yesterday upgraded my system which happened to include I think from memory as well as postgres 8.3 , php. Not a technical person unfortunately, but my postgres has died with the message below. I wonder if some kind soul could give me some help in tracking down the problem. I've tried looking at the below mentioned files and can't see anything wrong . Perhaps something got overwritten? An help appreciated. Richard The server doesn't accept connections: the connection library reports could not connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running on host "127.0.0.1" and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432? If you encounter this message, please check if the server you're trying to contact is actually running PostgreSQL on the given port. Test if you have network connectivity from your client to the server host using ping or equivalent tools. Is your network / VPN / SSH tunnel / firewall configured correctly? For security reasons, PostgreSQL does not listen on all available IP addresses on the server machine initially. In order to access the server over the network, you need to enable listening on the address first. For PostgreSQL servers starting with version 8.0, this is controlled using the "listen_addresses" parameter in the postgresql.conf file. Here, you can enter a list of IP addresses the server should listen on, or simply use '*' to listen on all available IP addresses. For earlier servers (Version 7.3 or 7.4), you'll need to set the "tcpip_socket" parameter to 'true'. You can use the postgresql.conf editor that is built into pgAdmin III to edit the postgresql.conf configuration file. After changing this file, you need to restart the server process to make the setting effective. If you double-checked your configuration but still get this error message, it's still unlikely that you encounter a fatal PostgreSQL misbehaviour. You probably have some low level network connectivity problems (e.g. firewall configuration). Please check this thoroughly before reporting a bug to the PostgreSQL community.

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[arch-general] digikam beta4 and gcc 4.3.0
by waldek 14 May '08

14 May '08

Hi, first of all I'm out of my depth here so be gentle, I was trying to compile digicam beta4 and the compilation process hangs. I found this thread that describes it: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/7917 the answer in digikam forum was: "I have reported this problem to CImg author (David Tschumperlé). After investiguations, he said than all come from an uncompatibilty with gcc 4.3.0 and CImg code. Note than using Gcc 4.2.3 digiKam compile fine." so I asked on CImg forums: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2036591&forum_id=423277 and the reply was: "Anyway, this is not a bug related to CImg or GREYCstoration, since it compiles fine if you don't set the optimizations with g++ 4.3.0. Also it compiles fine with older versions of g++ (4.2.3 for instance). I suspect some bugs in the compiler optimization procedure which causes the process to hang. I admit this is very annoying, but I can't do anything to solve it, since it is clearly a problem related to the compiler." could somebody take a look at it? What do you think? Cheers waldek

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[arch-general] filelists for packages
by Abhishek Dasgupta 14 May '08

14 May '08

Thanks to Pierre, we have filelists for all packages at http://dev.archlinux.org/~pierre/test-repo/ [1] I made a small script which downloads the *gz from his repo and allows one to find out which package has a particular file: #!/bin/bash store="$HOME/.local/share/pac-file" # default location repos=(core extra community) a=$(uname -m) url="http://dev.archlinux.org/~pierre/test-repo" if [ -f $HOME/.config/pac-file.conf ];then . $HOME/.config/pac-file.conf fi case $1 in sync) echo "synchronising file cache" cd $store for i in ${repos[@]} do rm files.db.tar.gz rm -rf $i; mkdir $i wget $url/$i/os/$a/files.db.tar.gz tar zxf files.db.tar.gz -C ./$i done echo "sync complete." ;; search) cd $store grep -R $2 . | sed "s/\.\/$.*$\/files:/\1 /g" ;; *) echo "usage: $0 {sync|search}" esac exit 0 Thanks Pierre! [1]: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-May/006124.html -- Abhishek Dasgupta

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] policy on desktop files?
by Grigorios Bouzakis 14 May '08

14 May '08

Hi, i wanted to note that there is http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_Project maintained by bardo a TU, which mentions absolutely nothing about upstream. Instead it says "I (bardo) will write/modify the necessary files and notify the corresponding maintainers so they can be added to the packages." Additionally there are links to the bug tracker. I have no idea if bardo submitts them upstream as well but i doubt it. Greg

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[arch-general] keyboard indicator lights not working
by Scott Weisman 13 May '08

13 May '08

Hello, At some point, the keyboard indicator lights stopped working. I know they aren't broken (and I've even used three separate keyboards). They used to work, but stopped at some point, but I don't remember when. Does anyone have any suggestion for this? Thanks, Scott

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[arch-general] Mirror: please remove locke.suu.edu
by Gerhard Brauer 13 May '08

13 May '08

Hello, mirror is down since March 30. Could someone assign the ticket #9678 to Dale or Eliott to kick this mirror? Regards Gerhard -- Don't drink and root!

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[arch-general] netcfg2: background running
by gan lu 11 May '08

11 May '08

Do your great devs plan to add support of background running capability (adding @ like in the rc.conf daemon section) for netcfg2 (net-profile), I have set a ethernet-static and adsl internet connection when booting up, but if adsl got some trouble to connect, which makes my computer waiting for it like ages. Thanks.

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[arch-general] Compiling my own kernel: IDE, SATA...
by Carotinho 10 May '08

10 May '08

Hi! I'm sure this is an already answered question, but the problem is that I don't know which could be the question whose answer I'm in need of:) After this prologue, the problem is: The currently running system, with the Arch-supplied 2.6.24 kernel, has the disk devices all mapped to a /dev/sd* scheme, even if 3 are IDE and another is SATA. When I compile myself the kernel, I get the "traditional" /dev/hd* scheme, which is in contrast with the content of /etc/fstab. The main question is: how can I obtain the "right" behaviour from my own compiled kernel? Is this due to some misconfiguration of the kernel at compile-time, or is it obtained through some other kind of magic? The real problem here is that I cannot give a name to this problem, hence being unable to search for it!:) I've always used a Slack system with traditional disk mapping, it's the first time I come across this problem:) Thanks in advance! Carotinho Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com

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[arch-general] Xorg & network problem
by Lin, Zihui 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hi, Arch install is graceful.After "pacman -S xorg gnome", the startx brought me to gnome. everygthing seem fine till I quited X by Ctrl+Alt+BackSpace, After a while i tried to re-startx and just had no response. No message is shown and the X won't show up.The .xinitrc is clean, and the xorg.conf is allright, and I don't have any special hardware. About the netowkr, The networking is configured in rc.conf, and I believe it's clean. after i swift my laptop to office, I can't reconfigure networking by execute "/etc/rc.d/network restart". :: Starting Network [BUSY] SIOCADDRT: No such process Any solution? -- Best regards, Zihui

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