November 2011 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] No FFMPEG/LibAV for Audacity?
by Jonathan E. Brickman 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

I tried every combination of repo and AUR versions of Audacity, FFMPEG, and LibAV libraries, and I was not able to find a way to give Audacity the file named libavformat.so.52 which it wants to much. So far as I have been able to tell, all of the versions of FFMPEG and LibAV either don't compile or produce libavformat.so.53, which the available versions of Audacity won't touch. Anyone have a solution? I would try Ubuntu deb's, but I am concerned with introducing more conflicts instead of eliminating just one! -- Jonathan E. Brickman /Ponderworthy Music/ <http://ponderworthy.com> 805 SW Jewell Ave Topeka KS 66606-1610 jeb(a)ponderworthy.com <mailto:jeb@ponderworthy.com>

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[arch-general] No consoles with NVIDIA
by Karol Babioch 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Hi, I've recently installed Arch on my laptop, which basically runs good so far. However I've got a really annoying problem, which I couldn't find a solution so far. My laptop has a dedicated graphics card (GeForce 310M). I would like to have the best performance and battery life. This unfortunately excludes the nouveau driver at the moment. So I've installed the nvidia package according to the wiki. But now I've got the problem that as soon as I start the X server, I've got a blank screen whenever switching back to the consoles (tty1-tty6). This consoles stay blank even when killing the X server, which basically means that I can't use any consoles anymore. I've found a reference to that error in the Gentoo wiki [1], however there seems to be no good solution so far :(. Now I'm asking you whether some of you have experienced the same issue, and maybe know of some work-around? What could possibly mess things so up? Best regards, Karol Babioch [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Nvidia#Blank_Screen_When_Switching_From_X_to…

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[arch-general] No more display settings dialog when open/close laptop lid
by David Rosenstrauch 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

Used to be (up until about a few weeks ago) that when I close or open my laptop lid, xfce executes "xfce4-display-settings --minimal". That seems to have stopped recently, though. Anyone have any idea what might have changed? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] 2011.11-1 archboot "2k11-R7" ISO hybrid image released
by Tobias Powalowski 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

Hi Arch community, Arch Linux (archboot creation tool) 2011.11-1, "2k11-R7" has been released. To avoid confusion, this is not an official arch linux iso release! Homepage and for more information on archboot: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archboot Forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130747 Summary: - Plain bugfix release. Hybrid image file and torrent is provided, which include i686 and x86_64 core repository. Please check md5sum before using it. Hybrid image file is a standard CD-burnable image and also a raw disk image. - Can be burned to CD(RW) media using most CD-burning utilities. - Can be raw-written to a drive using 'dd' or similar utilities. This method is intended for use with USB thumb drives. Please get it from your favorite arch linux mirror: - https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/archboot/2011.11/ - <yourmirror>/iso/archboot/2011.11/ Have fun, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Fwd: udev events and /usr not mounted
by Myra Nelson 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Myra Nelson <outerrimlogging(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 15:45 Subject: udev events and /usr not mounted To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> No gripes, complaints, or rants, just a question about udev rules. This is one of those /usr not mounted things that's broken. Fri Nov 25 12:06:54 2011: :: Loading User-specified Modules [BUSY] udevd[398]: failed to execute '/usr/sbin/alsactl' '/usr/sbin/alsactl restore 0': No such file or directory It's easy to work around but I was wondering, is it possible to move 78-sound-card.rules and/or 90-alsa-restore.rules to say /etc/udev/rules.d then source them, myself, after /usr is mounted? Or would that cause other unwanted and unnecessay problems, security issues, or just plain not work? Currently I don't want to try to migrate /usr to /. / is only 4 GB and /usr is 8+ GB and everything works to well so I'll just do a fresh install later. Otherwise sudo /usr/bin/alsactl start works well. Myra Brain Dead -- Chaos! Panic! Disaster! (My work here is done) -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] Localization issues (Attention Developers)
by atilla ontas 27 Nov '11

27 Nov '11

Hi. I' m an experienced translator from Turkey. Contributing Arch turkish translations for a while. I have noticed today; some strings in pacman-scripts are very hard to translate. You see, Turkic languages are very differ from Latin origin languages; structure of sentence is almost reversed. So, using multiple "%s" variables in source string makes a lot of trouble. It is hard to translate and translated strings are hard to understand for native Turkish speakers. For example; "Running %s as an unprivileged user will result in non-root\nownership of the packaged files. Try using the %s environment by\nplacing %s in the %s array in %s." will translated into turkish properly, if second, third, fourth and fifth %s variables are supposed to %d, %n, %f, %z : "%s uygulamasını yetkisiz kullanıcı olarak çalıştırmak paketlenmiş dosyaların kök olmayan sahiplik almasına yol açacaktır. %z dosyası içindeki %f satırına %n değerini yerleştirerek %d ortamını kullanmayı deneyin." You see, how variables reversed? So if you, developers, mind to and if it is possible use only one %s in a string it will be much appreciated. Also, if you, developers, mind to add comments what is %s (a command, an application, what??) it will be great help to translators. Greetings...

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[arch-general] Automatic File Associations Alloting
by Jayesh Badwaik 27 Nov '11

27 Nov '11

Hi, Whenever I install a new text editor, it will "hijack" the files without notifying me. My .tex files were associated with Kile and when I recently installed emacs, it hijacked the file associations. This happens quiet often. Going by the Archway, I guess this is unwarranted. The system is doing something automatically without asking me first and I wish it didn't happen. I understand that when I installed Kile, it also automatically took up .tex for its use. But then I guess, .tex was not allocated to anything (excpet may be the default text editor for that env). What I wish is, by default all applications should be allocated to a text editor for that DE. (For example, Kwrite for KDE, Gedit for Gnome and so on.) But as the programs get installed, the programs should check whether there is a file association. If it is just to the text editor, then they can take over. However, if it is to some other program, then they should not do anything instead leave a message during installation that these file types were not changed because they are otherwise associated and then the user can change some if he wants. I know I can edit my custom preferences in ~/.local/share/mime folder or /usr/share/application/defaults.list. But still I was wondering about the default behaviour. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Vinay Badwaik Electronics and Communication Engineering VNIT, INDIA -

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[arch-general] Application stability problems (kernel 3.1, Intel hardware)
by Ciprian Dorin Craciun 26 Nov '11

26 Nov '11

Hello all! I'm encountering some very strange problems with my ArchLinux lately... And I was wondering if someone has similar problems? Context: switched to 3.1.1 kernel, all packages are updated. I have a Lenovo X1 Thinkpad -- mainly everything is Intel based. Strange behaviour: * Firefox crashes randomly (or takes the CPU to 100%); (no error on stderr;) * All OpenSSL based programs complain from time to time of invalid received data; * Flash makes strange noises, strange display artefacts, usually just crashes; * mouse jumps in the upper left corner (or sometimes just stays at top or left); * nothing strange in dmesg; Observations: * it doesn't happen with a custom built kernel 2.6.38.x; * it does happen with either custom 3.1.1 kernel or ArchLinux built one; * it seems that when I'm at the office (with a LAN connection) it doesn't happen as often; * it seems that at home (with a Wifi WLAN) it does happen a lot; Thanks, Ciprian. P.S.: At the moment I don't have time to diagnose better the problem...

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[arch-general] Fwd: Re: Avantfax 3.3.3 Stopped Working? require_once(): Failed opening required 'NULL.php' line 22 classes.php
by David C. Rankin 26 Nov '11

26 Nov '11

Guys, If you use the Avantfax fax server, you will have problems with the recent versions of PHP. The follow is the fix implemented by the Avantfax developer which you will need to incorporate until a new version of Avantfax is released: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Avantfax 3.3.3 Stopped Working? require_once(): Failed opening required 'NULL.php' line 22 classes.php Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:36:59 +0100 From: David Mimms To: David C.Rankin J.D.P.E. Hi David, It's an issue with PHP 5.3. I logged in and changed the following in includes/classes.php: function __autoload($class_name) { if (file_exists($class_name.'.php')) // <------ require_once $class_name.'.php'; } And added " & ~E_DEPRECATED" to the error_reporting function in config.php to stopped all of the warnings about deprecated code from appearing. I need to get a new release out for all of the new PHP 5.3 users! Please let me know if you have any other problems. Thanks! David -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] [mkinitcpio] release 0.8.0
by Dave Reisner 26 Nov '11

26 Nov '11

Hi all, I've tagged mkinitcpio 0.8.0, which came a little earlier than I would have liked, but there's still fun things to talk about. The major point of interest is the addition of fsck functionality. The logic in init is triggered by the addition of the 'fsck' install hook. If added after the autodetect hook, only the necessarily helper for the root FS will be added. Eventually, there may be reason to add fsck prior to this hook, but probably not yet. Operation is hands off until something blows up, at which point we follow similar logic to that of rc.sysinit. I'll explicitly call out that if you're using this hook, make sure you have a useful keyboard -- this probably means adding the usbinput hook. Other than fsck, there's were lot of cleanup efforts in the early userspace init to modularize the functionality, but it generally remains the same. Everything remains largely the same functionally, but I'll point out that if you pass a major/minor pair as your root device or don't use udev, you will likely no longer see root mounted as /dev/root, but as a more descriptive block device. As always, this has stood up to my army of VMs, but nothing's better for finding bugs than real world testing. Thanks for Gerardo and Tom for their contributions to this release. The full shortlog is below. Dave Reisner (15): mkinitcpio: dereference symlinks when resolving kernver update bash completion Makefile: install binaries to /usr/bin init: don't tell the kernel about the path to modprobe init: create /run/initramfs after mounting /run init_functions: refactor poll_device autodetect: store rootfstype for use by other hooks init: use util-linux's /bin/mount init_functions: move root resolution to separate function init_functions: generalize resolve_device init_functions: resolve M:m to device file fsck: implement basic fsck support install/fsck: new install hook to add fsck and helpers init_functions: simplify parse_cmdline use util-linux's switch_root binary Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (5): hooks/resume: Remove unused function hooks/resume: Remove grep usage init: Remove grep usage init: Remove sed cmd usage init: Remove unneeded test Tom Gundersen (1): add_symlink: fix argument ordering and add_dir call

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