August 2010 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Updated tree years old archlinux
by Johannes Held 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Hi, during the last days I updated my old notebook. It wasn't updated since 2007. So you can imagine that the latest switch from tar.gz to tar.xz was a little problem. But a manual installation of the necessary packages and some rude untaring directly in / gave me the ability to update the whole system with pacman again. :-) That's awesome. However, some configs are borked, X refuses to start and booting won't work anymore due to some problems with the right rootfstype. That doesn't matter, because I don't need that notebook any more - it was simply amazing to see it getting updated. :-) -- Gruß, Johannes

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[arch-general] kernel 35.2-1 OK
by David C. Rankin 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Tobias, All, Just dropping a note to say that kernel26-2.6.35.2-1-x86_64 works fine on my box-from-hell that had the hardlock on boot problems with 2.6.34. Compiz works, Virtualbox works, so it looks good. (I'm on my test drive and my mail is on the drive I just took out, so sorry I couldn't simply reply to the [signoff] thread...) -- 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] lcms - needs upgrade because of security
by Kurt J. Bosch 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Hi, package lcms in extra is out of date for a long time now. Please upgrade at least to 1.19 to solve security issues: Multiple errors in LittleCMS allow for attacks including the remote execution of arbitrary code. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200904-19.xml -- kujub

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[arch-general] what about syntax error from bash_completion.d/git before entering X?
by PT M. 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Before entering X, I saw such error message since last git update: /etc/bash_completion.d/git: line 123: syntax error near unexpected token `<' /etc/bash_completion.d/git: line 123: ` done < <(git config -z --get-regexp '^(svn-remote\..*\.url|bash\.showupstream)$' 2>/dev/null | tr '\0\n' '\n ')' (also in ~/.xsession-errors i suppose.) $ pacman -Qo /etc/bash_completion.d/git /etc/bash_completion.d/git is owned by git 1.7.2.1-1 I don't use git much but a little not comfortable seeing this. Should I just remove this file ? -- Arch Linuxer, Pythoner, Geek --> Blog: http://apt-blog.net

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[arch-general] [signoff] udev-161-1
by Tobias Powalowski 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Hi guys, udev 161 ======== Bugfixes. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] my intro
by Jude DaShiell 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

I install chris brannon's talking arch linux a little earlier this weekend. It was not the first Linux I've installed either. I use the talking version since I can't see anything at all. For as small a Linux as this is it's impressive. We need a foomatic-rip package though because my parallel printer probably won't work well otherwise and that makes it difficult for those helping me shop to read my grocery lists. I have already built and got astrolog running on archlinux and for free accurate horoscopes that's a good choice. I could probably package it for this Linux if there's enough interest. Another problem probably of interest to a larger audience is no command line spreadsheet programs are yet available. I can probably put some things together for that too. I'll definitely do that for myself and again if there's enough interest I can probably build something and make it available. I do use orca and gnome a little, but the graphical user environment isn't my normal living space while at home. I'm required to use Windows at work so I figure while I'm at home I get to choose my operating systems and my operating system interfaces. I don't want the two environments getting confused with each other.

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[arch-general] Kopete Google Talk Invisible Hack
by Nilesh Govindarajan 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

Hi, Most of us, Google Talk users know that invisible mode doesn't work with third party clients. Hence I decided to find out a hack for it and found it. I have tested it many times and it really works. I've written the article at my site: http://www.itech7.com/Internet/Kopete-Google-Talk-Invisible Try using that, and let me know if you liked it. *Please do not consider this a spam* -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps

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[arch-general] Help with backtrace from kcmshell crash - changing icons.
by David C. Rankin 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

Guys, I have a problem with kdemod3. It is really still in quite fantastic shape. When I try to switch icons to the 'iceglass' icons theme (or Azenis theme, etc..) kcmshell crashes starting with ? "strlen() from /lib/libc.so.6" ?? Hopefully it isn't something like the std c libraries now being incompatible with kcmshell?? I'm guessing that there is something in the icon file like an extra space or a long filename that is causing Appearance -> Icons (change theme). The crash occurs the moment I click on the theme to get a preview, so it might be something related to the preview and not the icon set itself. I have used this save icon theme with kde3 many times on SuSE, so I guess some file has been patched to get around whatever is causing this to choke. My immediate problem is I suck at reading backtraces. Can you help a brother out and give it a once-over and see if a specific file or problem stands out? If I can figure out what package started the crash, I can go look for an update or patch in AUR or with google generally. But I can't tell what package to start looking for. Thanks. The backtrace is: 18:38 alchemy:~/dt/icons/coolicons> cat ~/arch/bugs/icons-iceglass.kcrash [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [KCrash handler] #5 0x00007f62ee19c642 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6 #6 0x00007f62ef030cb0 in gz_open () from /usr/lib/libz.so.1 #7 0x00007f62f1d74e37 in KSVGIconEngine::load(int, int, QString const&) () from /opt/kde/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #8 0x00007f62eb1e6616 in IconThemesConfig::themeSelected(QListViewItem*) () from /opt/kde/lib/kde3/kcm_icons.so #9 0x00007f62eb1ead00 in IconThemesConfig::qt_invoke(int, QUObject*) () from /opt/kde/lib/kde3/kcm_icons.so #10 0x00007f62f05753cf in QObject::activate_signal(QConnectionList*, QUObject*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #11 0x00007f62f088ec00 in QListView::selectionChanged(QListViewItem*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #12 0x00007f62f064d1d2 in QListView::setCurrentItem(QListViewItem*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #13 0x00007f62f06537ac in QListView::contentsMousePressEventEx(QMouseEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #14 0x00007f62f25e707f in KListView::contentsMousePressEvent(QMouseEvent*) () from /opt/kde/lib/libkdeui.so.4 #15 0x00007f62f067d61f in QScrollView::viewportMousePressEvent(QMouseEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #16 0x00007f62f067c4d0 in QScrollView::eventFilter(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #17 0x00007f62f064c91e in QListView::eventFilter(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #18 0x00007f62f057545c in QObject::activate_filters(QEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #19 0x00007f62f05754b7 in QObject::event(QEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #20 0x00007f62f05a9be3 in QWidget::event(QEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #21 0x00007f62f0517c75 in QApplication::internalNotify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #22 0x00007f62f0518feb in QApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #23 0x00007f62f1d0aee2 in KApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /opt/kde/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #24 0x00007f62f04b7858 in QETWidget::translateMouseEvent(_XEvent const*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #25 0x00007f62f04b6356 in QApplication::x11ProcessEvent(_XEvent*) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #26 0x00007f62f04c9022 in QEventLoop::processEvents(unsigned int) () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #27 0x00007f62f052e609 in QEventLoop::enterLoop() () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #28 0x00007f62f06e5480 in QDialog::exec() () from /opt/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #29 0x00007f62ebbe284a in kdemain () from /opt/kde/lib/libkdeinit_kcmshell.so #30 0x00000000004076e8 in ?? () #31 0x0000000000407e85 in ?? () #32 0x0000000000408562 in ?? () #33 0x0000000000408ea4 in ?? () #34 0x00007f62ee13fc4d in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 #35 0x0000000000404549 in ?? () #36 0x00007fff18e7cb18 in ?? () #37 0x000000000000001c in ?? () #38 0x0000000000000005 in ?? () #39 0x00007fff18e7da23 in ?? () #40 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () -- 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] Request to orphan package
by ptchinster 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

Hello, I am the maintainer of eclipse-android (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14544). One of the dependancies is eclipse-classic (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32314) (v3.5 as opposed to 3.6 in the main repos) which is NOT maintained by me. There are several issues with this PKGBUILD including being out of date, not having a working build(), and not offering a correct provides array. The first of which was brought to the current maintainers attention back on May 13th, and he hasn't touched it since. I am willing to adopt this package as soon as orphaned. Thanks, ptchinster -- "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." --Carl Sagan "Keep on rockin' in the free world." -- Neil Young

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[arch-general] Help me recover KDE-Plasma context menu
by Nilesh Govindarajan 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

I changed the plasma desktop behavior to show application launcher menu on right click. Now I'm unable to set wallpaper etc. How to revert to default setting if not by rm -r ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma* -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps

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