October 2008 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Missing Icons after Upgrade
by Slash 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

Comrades, With the recent gconf/gtk/etc update, all of my GTK2 apps do not have icons- With some exceptions. In pidgin, it shows the "Quit", "Add", and "Preference" icons. In Homebank, it shows the "Save" and "Open" icons. Other programs, like Sonata, do not run: $ sonata Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/sonata", line 48, in <module> app = main.Base() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sonata/main.py", line 1057, in __init__ self.albumpb = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file_at_size(self.find_path('sonata-album.png'), self.LIB_COVER_SIZE, self.LIB_COVER_SIZE) glib.GError: Unrecognized image file format gqview cannot view any images, although some of it's own icons are visible. Non-GTK2 apps, like feh can view all images fine. It seems like the only icons displayed are "stock" GTK2 icons. Anything else is unreadable to gtk2 / glib2 / gdk-pixbuf / something. At least one other person has this problem and they posted a screenshot on the forums. I also wrote a bit more information about my troubleshooting, as well: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=438688 Thanks, Slashbunny

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[arch-general] Sunplus (Philips) webcam problem
by Sergey Manucharian 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Hello, After the recent system update my webcam: 04fc:0561 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd Flexcam 100 stopped working properly. The driver "gspca_spca561" is loaded automatically, but works incorrectly, when trying to use "gspca_sunplus" the camera is not recognized. Unfortunately I did not pay attention to the driver used before I've updated to 2.6.27... Thanks for ideas. Sergey.

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[arch-general] font changes after system upgrade
by Scott Weisman 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Hello, I recently upgraded my system and the fonts are now being rendered differently. They looked great before but are now blurry. I don't think it's because anti-aliased fonts are enabled before whereas before they weren't, because they were enabled before and looked great. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, is there some way to change the font rendering configuration and have them re-rendered on the fly without restarting X? Thanks, Scott

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[arch-general] Gimp and gimp-devel
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 25 Oct '08

25 Oct '08

Hello, why are there two packages gimp and gimp-devel with exactly the same version number? Would one not be enough? Regards Stefan

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[arch-general] pacman -- force removal despite dependencies (libgl)
by Stephen Wilkinson 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

Hello All, I have both xf86-video-vesa and nvidia-96xx installed, but I have issues with the proprietary drivers, so I wanted to try out vesa with libgl. I can remove nvidia-96xx, but trying to remove nvidia-96xx-utils flags lots of conflicts. I was going to use pacman -Rc but that would mean uninstalling (and later reinstalling) lots of packages... and I'm thinking there must be a quicker and more elegant way about this. I was wondering if there's a way to force removal of nvidia-96xx-utils and ignore the dependencies since libgl will satisfy them anyway. (I know in general it would not be a good idea for pacman to allow this...) I tried pacman -R --force but that doesn't work (--force is not a removal option). I thought about forcing the installing of libgl with -f instead, but I thought it would be neater to remove nvidia-96xx-utils first (otherwise I will have problems later when it comes to delete either package?) Any thoughts on this would be appreciated! Steve

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[arch-general] System upgrade problems
by Louis Brazeau 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

Hi all, I have a problem upgrading my x86_64 system. It started a couple of days ago when my pacman -Syu reported that libxml2 could not be fetched. I decided to wait a while and try again. This morning I tryed again and when asked to replace gail with extra/gtk2 I accepted. Then I got an error message : error: failed to prepare transaction (package filename is not valid) I search google and the forums but didn't find anything. I tought gail was the problem so I removed it and the packages that required it on my system (libgnocanvas, libbonoboui, libgnomeui, etherape, gedit, gnome-desktop, gnome-panel and xfce4-xfapplet-plugin) Then I tried to install gtk2 and got the same error. Pacman -Syu doesn't either : # pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (package filename is not valid) What should I do ?

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[arch-general] Colin Pitrat is out of the office.
by Colin Pitrat 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

I will be out of the office starting 23/10/2008 and will not return until 28/10/2008. I will respond to your message when I return.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] archweb port essentially complete, please test
by bardo 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Dusty Phillips <buchuki(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Public Arch Linux site: > http://pub.playground.archlinux.ca/ I just gave a quick look around: - When browsing the repos I see two buttons (I think) I shouldn't see: adopt and disown. Disown doesn't do anything, adopt acts funny :-) - The newsletter page doesn't exist. I think it's intentional, but in the other cases there are links to the original external pages. HTH, bardo

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[arch-general] After installation of dbus-1.2.3-3: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
by Michael Schmarck 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

Hi. I'm using the core, extra, community and unstable repos on my ArchLinux i686 setup and just now did a "pacman -Syu". Since then, I cannot start Gnome (and other programs): --($ /Arch/Cache)-- avahi-browse avahi-browse: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory --($ /Arch/Cache)-- gnome-terminal gnome-terminal: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And indeed, there's no "libdbus-1.so.3" file on my system anymore. I updated the following packages: Pakete (8): bzr-1.8-1 [4.28 MB] dbus-1.2.3-3 [0.03 MB] fuse-2.7.4-1 [0.14 MB] libsigc++2.0-2.2.3-1 [4.43 MB] man-pages-3.11-1 [4.17 MB] openoffice-base-3.0.0-2 [140.99 MB] sdl-1.2.13-3 [0.60 MB] tzdata-2008h-1 [0.53 MB] I suppose the update of "dbus-1.2.3-3" caused the problem. Was it correct that libdbus-1.so.3 got deleted? FWIW, I also filed this as a bug -> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11831 Cheers, Michael -- GMX Kostenlose Spiele: Einfach online spielen und Spaß haben mit Pastry Passion! http://games.entertainment.gmx.net/de/entertainment/games/free/puzzle/61691…

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[arch-general] Missing dependency for git?
by Sébastien Mazy 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

Hi, When trying to commit to a subversion repository needing authentication using git, I got the following error: Password for 'username': Can't locate Term/ReadKey.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/share/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl /usr/share/perl5/core_perl /usr/lib/perl5/current /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/current .) at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 3071. The problem was solved by installing perl-term-readkey from extra, but this package is not listed as an optional dependency for "git svn" or did I miss something? Cheers, -- Sébastien Mazy

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