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[arch-general] Crashing in libreoffice on certain .odp (Impress) files
by Oon-Ee Ng 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

Yesterday I used libreoffice to present a lecture from 3-4pm. Today morning I tried to open the exact same file and got immediate crashing. 2 of my lecture slides have this problem, 2 do not. In between, I updated to [testing] (this is a new laptop) and did quite a few installs, but none (except the big [testing] update for the /usr/bin move) seem related. See [1]. I have tried deleting ~/.config/libreoffice, to no avail. No error logs that I can see on the terminal (does libreoffice spit out errors anywhere?). Backups of the lecture slides (before small modifications which I may/not have made also exhibited the same behaviour. Googling shows various unrelated (I think) problems which seem to already be fixed in the latest libreoffice, mainly solved by deleting the .config/libreoffice folder (which I've tried). Suggestions please. [1] - http://pastebin.com/P4XE1uea

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[arch-general] Rivendell PKGBUILD
by Sébastien Leblanc 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

Hey folks! I updated my PKGBUILD file and submitted it to the Arch User Repository, if anyone is interested. It is the 2.5.1 version of Rivendell https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rivendell/ Let me know if you are having any issues. For now, I am having trouble with rdcartslots: it will not run at all. Maybe someone can help me out. I have not done thorough testing, but most everything else should work correctly. -- Sébastien Leblanc

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Re: [arch-general] [pacman-dev] Please make the colourised output exactly like that of "pacman-color"
by Genes Lists 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Curious if these colorization effects are aware whether terminal pacman is running in has light or dark background and adjust accordingly - or do they rely on some other setting to accommodate? Thanks for any insight. Gene

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[arch-general] About /usr/local/sbin -> bin move
by Rodrigo Rivas 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Dear ArchGeneral List, First of all, congratulations for another brave step forward with the /*bin -> /usr/bin move. All my Arch boxes upgraded with no pain. But I've noticed that there has been some discussion about moving /usr/local/sbin -> /usr/local/bin. Beware! There are packages out there that are distributed as tarballs and install themselves on /usr/local. I don't know how frequent they are, but I've seen them. And if they happen to contain any file in /usr/local/sbin, when untarring, it will silently overwrite the symbolic link with the real directlry breaking any application that depends on it, and making future upgrades to `filesystem` impossible. Yes, it can be fixed simply running tar with the -h (--dereference) flag, but who will remember that? Just my 0.02€. Best regards. -- Rodrigo

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[arch-general] Systemd screen brightness
by Michael Nawrocki 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Hey everyone, I'm trying to get my laptop backlight keys (fn+f6/f7) to adjust the brightness of my toshiba laptop backlight. Previously, I had entered the following in my /etc/acpi/handler.sh to handle the acpi events generated when those keys were pressed: video/brightnessdown) echo $(($(cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness) -1)) > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness ;; video/brightnessup) echo $(($(cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness) +1)) > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness ;; However, as I am working on migrating to systemd, acpid no longer runs and hence does not handle these events. How can I write a similar handler into systemd? Thanks, Mike

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[arch-general] [FYI] On ardour 3.1.10 and jack2-multilib 1.9.9.5
by Rashif Ray Rahman 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '13

Hello folks This is just a note so that you don't have to flag these packages unnecessarily: * ardour 3.1.10 is _not_ a source release It is a binary-only update from upstream. "The source code release remains unchanged (since translations are generated during the build process)." [1] :: Therefore extra/ardour 3.1-1 is current. * jack2 1.9.9.5 does not support mixed mode The 1.9.8 release is the last version of jack2 that supports the --mixed flag for direct 32-bit support on 64-bit. [2] A move to a traditional lib32 package is planned. :: Therefore community/jack2-multilib 1.9.8-4 is as current as possible. [1] https://community.ardour.org/node/7020 [2] https://github.com/jackaudio/jack2/issues/21 -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] /usr move - update instructions
by David Benfell 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm assuming I can't post to arch-dev-public since I'm not a developer: On 06/01/2013 05:34 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > > 5) Update your system. # pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem,bash # > pacman -S bash # pacman -Su I'm wondering if this bit assumes that bash is the shell in use (I happen to prefer zsh). Thanks! - -- David Benfell / benfell(a)parts-unknown.org Please see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 for GnuPG information (or the attachment you don't understand) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRqwCIAAoJELJhbl/uPb4SfHYQALHOgU4uKYKFTxIHkVCswtGV vhvZ/gP1Rw4nA8jap7K/XRuPMpdEdOWTSF9QpUTed7M2aucwvw7RGPLLTP/G8Dpw Y1pDqB9d2WHqP4HrMem7lDCH4+Aoy5zqoMQzd+/xZnT7BDOi0cEgNGDmfHDxPWxm UQH8dl+aBpGx3/+GBxnQEyIupxu44R/UAadVuYWD7sAR1E13etnHngJ8e+XiB1sP ZBcpBYdXAuD+JGmHtUSBqXxwYW629CN0cJ6MWCWh9EuWyvglhZY8U1Wrw4Y8Nxum fGkt9p3qNeumrD+nSxjFB+CgNOKXPxMieDdB8sheHgvs+X69p4W9hIddqR2t8o34 RGHIhunwJI8MuwQN8rExbD+EhhDHijOjpxyLxyM5adxxSzrJ0UT5m2fmnQ5IzcDc 4TQcT+/cr01JbuaH1N3jB+solzSvdrMi9GV0cbLDJst1FSSNSaNP0egvzkAAwmz+ iIjnoGk0fpmzVbwf3VLJDsIdPHoZtiyGha7naN96qRUv93QuHa3Ri0oF6zis3ogt QM0U0eGoWIDjc/jjkOsazRDUMXuki1CAVHVaCYpVIPKv4PKrz1+pgsQoAdGWbMzM IQITB6Q5dyj1niwKtHTfwvmAq7hqAW2/sHBgQ8ngnwNuNf1S+3VE3UE173/kxozb HQncuzFEwiLDSfEZXQAV =SIRe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-notifications] Orphan Extra package [perl-net-server] marked out-of-date
by Florian Pritz 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '13

On 30.05.2013 23:18, Arch Website Notification wrote: > Insecure dependency in unlink while running with -T switch at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/Server/Daemonize.pm That has nothing to do with Net::Server, it's a bug in the code initially setting the variable used there. I have no idea why tainting behaviour seems to have changed with perl 5.18 (perldelta doesn't mention anything), but the only place I hit this problem was in spampd and there the variables were clearly tainted so I don't consider it a regression. If you are using that, please upgrade to the new version in AUR where I fixed those bugs. For more information about tainting please take a look at perlsec[1]. [1]: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html CC'ing arch-general since this might be interesting to someone.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] /usr move - update instructions
by Karol Blazewicz 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '13

On 01/06/13 16:00, Allan McRae wrote: <snip> > 1) Fix any non-official packages with files in /bin, /sbin or /usr/sbin > to put those files in /usr/bin. The list of packages that are not in a > repo that need to be fixed can be generated using: > $ pacman -Qo /bin /sbin /usr/sbin | pacman -Qm - <snip> It should say $ pacman -Qqo /bin /sbin /usr/sbin | pacman -Qm -

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[arch-general] DKIM signed messages to mailing list - issue
by Genes Lists 01 Jun '13

01 Jun '13

Each time I send to the arch list I get a postmaster complaint about DKIM from postmaster(a)bctpe4hbiu.org My domain DKIM signs all mail - however my DKIM signature is passed through by the mail list package and of course now the message will fail DKIM check as the header has been modified and is no longer coming from my domain. I guess the list should remove incoming DKIM headers? gene

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