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[arch-general] Package search problem on the website
by David Raphaël 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

Hi, I was looking for a specific package at https://www.archlinux.org/packages/ and I noticed something weird under the filter repository: there is no entry called 'any'. Thus, if we select one entry, we cannot undo it for a next search. I had to modify the parameters manually in the address bar. Who should I contact to correct this problem? And also, is there a specific reason why there is no category filter like on AUR? Cheers, Raphaël

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[arch-general] New version of "top"?
by Vladimir Nikšić 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

I noticed that after a last "$pacman -Syu" that I got a pretty different version of the utility top in the package procps-ng. What exactly happened, how can I get the old-style one back? Thanks. :)

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[arch-general] Wrong screen resolution after xorg shutdown
by Yamakaky 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Hi I have a problem with my screen resolution. When I close xorg, the console uses only 1/4 of the screen (1280x800). I have in intel HD3000, with the intel driver. I couldn't find anything related to my problem in the wiki. [This solution](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel#KMS_Issue:_console_is_… didn't work. Any idea ? Yamakaky

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[arch-general] genfstab, fstab, seclabel, UUID vs. PARTUUID, and Arch Wiki
by vixsomnis 17 Nov '14

17 Nov '14

tl;dr - genfstab causes problems on my system, PARTUUIDs may lead to non-booting systems when used instead of UUIDs I had a problem installing Arch Linux on my box earlier this week, although I managed to resolve it. I was installing from the latest fedora live usb image, since my motherboard refuses to boot into efi mode with the Arch ISOs. Weird issues with genfstab: - When I run with the -U option, no UUIDs are placed in fstab. With the -L option, no labels. Am I correct in thinking that the "/dev/sdX" should be replaced with UUIDs and labels, respectively? - My first and second attempts both ended up with an fstab option called "seclabel" that I couldn't find any documentation for. The boot process stalled, saying it didn't understand "seclabel" or "seclabel" was missing an option, and kicked me to recovery. After removing "seclabel" that problem no longer occurred. Hopefully it's not too important... - I had duplicate entries, even running it only once on a clean installation. I started from scratch twice, and duplicated this problem. I cleaned the file up manually, but it was still odd. Possibly related to the fedora live usb. However, no drives were mounted twice and the blkid / lsblk output didn't show any problems. Also, on following the Arch Wiki's advice in the beginner's guide: I used PARTUUIDs in my fstab and gummiboot entries. My system wasn't able to boot with these, which I had gotten from "blkid". When I switched them out for regular UUIDs, I had no problems, and my system booted flawlessly. If someone could confirm that we should be using UUIDs, I'll change this on the wiki. If PARTUUIDs *should* work, can someone please explain why? Or maybe just vouch that they work on your system? I've never had success with them. I'll edit the wiki once this is verified, or otherwise resolved. Lastly, I'd like to introduce myself. I'm Christian Demsar. I'm currently studying CS at Georgia Tech. I dabbled in linux a bit back in high school (only ubuntu and mint -- so not very deeply), but gave up until about last summer, and I've been mostly successful in learning the basics. -- vixsomnis

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[arch-general] ca-certificate-utils in testing gives error upon upgrade
by Savya 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

This happens when I try upgrading, and pacman says that ca-certificates-java needs to be replaced with ca-certificate-utils error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) ca-certificates-utils: /etc/ca-certificates/extracted/java/cacerts exists in filesystem ca-certificates-utils: /etc/ca-certificates/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Should I force it? -- Cheers! Savya

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[arch-general] ncurses 5.9_20141101 no longer available
by Karol Blazewicz 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

I've installed it via the usual 'pacman -Syu' https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/trunk/PKGBUILD?h… now I get a warning warning: ncurses: local (5.9_20141101-1) is newer than core (5.9-6) and this version isn't listed in the online package database: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=ncurses What happened and how should I proceed?

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[arch-general] Preferred CHOST
by Ralf Mardorf 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hi :) why is the wanted default CHOST ARCHITECTURE-unknown-linux-gnu instead of ARCHITECTURE-arch-linux-gnu? $ grep CHOST /etc/makepkg.conf CHOST="x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" I wasn't aware of this, until I started testing Claws [1], [2]. Other distros usually prefer self-promotion. Regards, Ralf [1] http://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2014-November/011307.html [2] The following task is now closed: FS#42659 - [claws-mail] X-Mailer feature request Reason for closing: Not a bug Additional comments about closing: check the wanted Arch Linux default CHOST in /etc/makepkg.conf ;)

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[arch-general] Firefox 33, Intel GPU and latest "flashplayer": No animations but white area.
by Manuel Reimer 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hello, can someone reproduce the following on an Intel GPU with Firefox 33 and Flash? If I open a website with "Flash media", then the plugin loads (the context menu is the one that gets created by Adobe Flash) but I can't see anything. The area, where the "animation" should be is just white. I've downgraded to the latest Firefox 32 and my Flash content immediately worked again. Am I the only one with this problem or can someone reproduce this? Thanks in advance. Greetings, Manuel

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Fwd: Arch Continuous Integration
by Florian Pritz 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

On 10.11.2014 12:37, Allan McRae wrote: > I think this is something we need to bring on board as an official > project at some stage! +1, I'd love to see this data get merged into our main site (especially a "not-building" table in the dev dashboard). To Joel: Only issue I've noticed so far is that multilib is apparently not enabled and therefore virtualbox, chromium and syslinux fail because they can't find lib32 dependencies. What kind of hardware backs this and how long does a full rebuild of all packages take? Apart from that, awesome idea and nice interface (maybe missing a maintainer filter, but you don't really have that data I guess). PS: I'm sending this to arch-general so discussion can continue on one list (if you want that).

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] GSoC 2015
by Darshit Shah 09 Nov '14

09 Nov '14

On 11/06, Allan McRae wrote: >Hi all, > >Is there interest in Arch participating in GSoC for 2015? > I would like to see Arch (+ pacman) participate in GSoC 2015 >To get a GSOC proposal together Arch would need 2 or more admins, some >mentors, and a list of projects. > >See http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2014 for >the variety of projects accepted in 2014. > >Some descriptions that caught my eye: > >"Short description: The objective of this proposal is to improve the >quality of the packages present in Debian, by identifying possible >improvements using debci." > >"Short description: Package elementary's Pantheon shell, GUI framework >(Granite), applications, icon theme, and gtk theme." > >"Short description: Rebuild the Debian archive with the clang compiler." > > >So there are a range of tasks that would be useful to Arch that could be >accepted. For example, I have wanted a continuous build to check for >packages that no longer build due to updates. There are also ideas >over at >https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:TheBigIdeaPage and I >guess pacman development would be useful. > When it comes to ideas, I think pacman is still looking to complete support for hooks. I'm also always in favor of increasing the adoption of Delta packages. Maybe there's some work there which could be turned into a project? >Some of the folks over at Arch Women have offered to help us get this >off the ground. > >Is any one interested in helping get this going or being mentors for a >project? > Over the last two years I've been participated in GSoC under the GNU Project, first as a student and later as a mentor. I'm no Arch Developer or TU but would be happy to volunteer and help out as need be. -- Thanking You, Darshit Shah

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