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[arch-general] Help with wav files
by pete 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

Hi . A little off subject but hope someone can help . I have some cd copies of albums ( i do actually own the albums) the cds are just 2 tracks one per side i have no way to play vynl albums right now i need to split these 2 tracks into their seperate tracks as per the LP's i have tried Audacity with out much luck is there a command line utility that i can give the start and finish positions and it wil do the cutting and saving for me as i hope this will be simpler and quicker Thanks for any suggestions ( i will be away for a week from sunday ) so if i dont reply to suggestions it because i have no net access where i wil be . Pete .

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[arch-general] Audio output problem after a reboot (about earphone)
by Patrick Young 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

More details, see the link below. I use arch linux now, version 238. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/450156/debian-arch-audio-output-no…

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[arch-general] TexLive 2018 move in [extra] today
by Rémy Oudompheng 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

Hello, I will move Texlive 2018 packages to [extra] today, along with zathura and qpdfview which were rebuilt for libsynctex. Rémy.

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[arch-general] Is sftp_kio broken in latest Plasma updates?
by David C. Rankin 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

Can someone confirm whether the sftp_kio (used, e.g. in the file-open or file-save dialog in kate/kwrite to open/save files to a remote server) is working as of the latest Plasma updates? When I attempt to connect to my local server (tried both LAN and WAN connections), I get the error dialog: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The host key for this server was not found, but another type of key exists. An attacker might change the default server key to confuse your client into thinking the key does not exist. Please contact your system administrator. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have tried saving via the hosts in my QuickList (on the left side of the file-save dialog) and by manually entering sftp://host/path/to/file and the error is the same each time. I can ssh and sftp from konsole to all the host without any problem. If this is confirmed, should this bug be filed with arch or upstream? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] plasma-vault hard depends on networkmanager
by Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi 15 Jun '18

15 Jun '18

Hey plasma-vault seems to be using networkmanager to detect connectivity for a feature in plasma-vault that disables internet upon opening certain vaults. Although this feature can be useful, not everyone uses networkmanager and it already caused an issue when I rebooted after installing updates. networkmanager seems to be enabled by default and conflicted with my current setup. I tried to build plasma-vault without networkmanager-qt but it failed. For now I am removing plasma-vault but can this be considered a bug since plasma-workspace by itself doesn't need networkmanager but it is only a optional dependency. -- Regards Jagan

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[arch-general] xdm killed after 90 seconds
by Fons Adriaensen 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

Hello all, I've got a strange problem on a newly installed system. About 90 seconds after it is started, xdm (or xdm-archlinux) and any login session is killed. Apparently by systemd, because of a timeout. What's happening here ? TIA, -- FA

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[arch-general] [Classroom] Python for Beginners - Part 1
by fsckd 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Hello, The class Python for Beginners - Part 1 will be held on Wednesday, October 04, 2017 at 16:00 UTC in the channel #archlinux-classroom on the freenode network. The class is expected to run for about 2 hours. This class will introduce you to programming with Python and how to use IPython with an editor/IDE. Commonly used built-in functions and libraries will be explained. Other topics will explored based on participant interests. The class will be screen-shared live (via YouTube), and later archived with subtitles. Questions and some discussion on IRC is expected, however the main part will be video and audio. In preparation for the class, install the Jupyter notebook. ``pacman -S jupyter`` or, in a Python 3 virtualenv, ``pip3 install jupyter``. Also check out the python-beginners git repository on Arch Classroom's GitHub[1] where you will find IPython notebooks and links to useful resources on learning Python: https://github.com/archclassroom/python-beginners pulec is an Arch Linux user since 2012, gamer and gardener. He makes a living using Linux and Python since 2013 and recently joined Red Hat. He hopes to spread IT knowledge and open source ideas to the general populace. Some code - https://github.com/Pulecz

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[arch-general] Alternating colors in thunar?
by Peter Nabbefeld 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Hello, I was used to see every second line in Thunar having a grey background - after updating, this has gone, every line now has white background. BTW, after some searching, it seems to be a GTK problem, probably not specific to Thunar. I'd guess, I haven't found the correct config, yet. How can I get the alternating background colors back? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Upgrading mlocate: /var/lib/mlocate/ Permissions Warning.
by Ralph Corderoy 10 Jun '18

10 Jun '18

Hi, This morning's `pacman -Su' encountered (10/13) upgrading mlocate [######################] 100% warning: directory permissions differ on /var/lib/mlocate/ filesystem: 750 package: 755 (11/13) upgrading xkeyboard-config [######################] 100% when upgrading from version 0.26-6 to 0.26.git.20170220-1. Sure enough, afterwards drwxr-x--- 2 root locate 4096 Jun 10 00:01 /var/lib/mlocate -rw-r----- 1 root locate 16287372 Jun 10 00:01 /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packa… seems to take care that /var/lib/locate is 750 on line 58, but that's `locate', not `mlocate', so perhaps `mlocate' needs a similar set up? $ zcat /var/lib/pacman/local/mlocate-0.26.git.20170220-1/mtree | > grep '^\./var/lib' ./var/lib time=1528233128.0 mode=755 type=dir ✓ ./var/lib/locate time=1528233128.0 mode=750 gid=21 type=dir ✗ ./var/lib/mlocate time=1528233128.0 mode=755 type=dir $ $ tar tvf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/mlocate-0.26.git.20170220-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz \ > --warning=no-unknown-keyword var/lib drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2018-06-05 22:12 var/lib/ ✓ drwxr-x--- root/21 0 2018-06-05 22:12 var/lib/locate/ ✗ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2018-06-05 22:12 var/lib/mlocate/ $ -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy

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Re: [arch-general] Contents of arch-general digest: An old bug with primus reoccured again
by Patrick Young 10 Jun '18

10 Jun '18

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/58933 Confirmed this problem is caused by mesa upgrade (18.0.4-1 -> 18.1.+)

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