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[arch-general] pacman ignore packages by pattern?
by XeCycle 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Hello, Is it possible for pacman to ignore packages by a pattern like --ignore xorg-*? I remember the painful days I've spent when using catalyst, so I switched to xf86-video-ati, so as not to be bothered by xorg packages. --ignoregroup xorg won't work perfectly, since not all xorg packages belong to that group. But some packages do need to be in sync with xorg-server, e.g. xorg-server-common. It will be handy if I can just put "IgnorePkg = xorg-*" in my /etc/pacman.conf. Thank you. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591

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[arch-general] Why has the version numbering of gnome-desktop package changed?
by Hector Martinez-Seara 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Hi, I find weird the new version of gnome-desktop my system wants me to upgrade: "extra/gnome-desktop 3.2.1-1 -> 1:3.2.1-1" It is just a typo or the change was on purpose. Hector -- Hector Martínez-Seara Monné mail: hseara(a)gmail.com Tel: +34656271145 Tel: +358442709253

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[arch-general] Start a daemon, show a syntax error
by 大熊 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

No matter I manual start any a daemon, I always see a error shown on console: /etc/rc.d/functions: line 506: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /etc/rc.d/functions: line 506: ` done < <(findmnt -mrunRo TARGET,FSTYPE,OPTIONS /) But it seem that the daemon can run correctly, so should I need to fix it and how to fix it ?

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[arch-general] Can't boot, root device not found
by Josh Silard 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Hi list, I recently performed an update of udev and my kernel and after this I am unable to boot the normal kernel or the fallback. When I try I get this error: ERROR: Unable to find root device '/dev/disk/by-uid/03619a2f-908f-4724-ba4b-1fb3985e382b' You are being dropped to a recovery shell Type 'exit' to try and continue booting sh: can't access tty; job control turned off Typing exit results in me dropping to another shell and if done repeatedly a kernel panic. I attempted to boot via the grub console using the sda device block but I came up with the same error. When I look in /dev through the recovery console that comes up the sda* blocks aren't present. I need to know if there is a way to do this without entirely reformatting my system, I also don't have easy access to another computer but I have an android phone. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Josh

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[arch-general] ../libtool: line 2083: ark_part.cpp: command not found?
by David C. Rankin 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Guys, I need help, or a link, to find out why libtool isn't working. libtool is attempting to use an undeclared variable as a command. The libtool file generated includes (beginning at line 2071): # func_to_tool_file ARG LAZY # converts the file name ARG from $build format to toolchain format. Return # result in func_to_tool_file_result. If the conversion in use is listed # in (the comma separated) LAZY, no conversion takes place. func_to_tool_file () { $opt_debug case ,$2, in *,"$to_tool_file_cmd",*) func_to_tool_file_result=$1 ;; *) $to_tool_file_cmd "$1" func_to_tool_file_result=$func_to_host_file_result ;; esac } # end func_to_tool_file The tdeutils build fails at make on the very first file (ark_part.cpp). The line that fails is line 2083: 2083| $to_tool_file_cmd "$1" The problem is '$to_tool_file_cmd' is never declared in 'libtool' resulting in the error: ../libtool: line 2083: ark_part.cpp: command not found Basically, libtool is trying to execute 'ark_part.cpp' as the command since '$to_tool_file_cmd' is never declared or initialized and is just blank in the command '$to_tool_file_cmd "$1"'. What I need to learn is whether this is a libtool problem or whether it is a tdeutils problem. tdeutils from the same source builds fine on slack, debian, etc.., so I wonder if this is a libtool version problem or something similar. I am building in an arch chroot and he PKGBUILD file used does: cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname#*-} cp /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 ./admin cp /usr/share/libtool/config/ltmain.sh ./admin make -f admin/Makefile.common ./configure \ --prefix=${TDEDIR} \ --with-qt-dir=${QTDIR} \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var \ --enable-debug=full \ --enable-closure make The complete error, which I don't fully understand is: /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -I/opt/trinity/include -I/opt/tqt3/include -I. -include tqt.h -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -fno-builtin -g3 -fno-inline -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -I/usr/include/tqt -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -MT ark_part.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/ark_part.Tpo -c -o ark_part.lo ark_part.cpp ../libtool: line 2083: ark_part.cpp: command not found I have also tried 'make SHELL=/bin/bash' after googling that the environment could cause shell extension issues if part was done with bash and make was using sh, but that made no difference. Anybody familiar with libtool know if this is a libtool problem or if this is a problem with the tdeutil code? If it is libtool, any work-arounds? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] An empty /etc/crontab file maybe needed bo be add in to package filesystem.
by 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Due to cronie doesn't contain an /etc/crontab anymore, there are losts of msgs of missing crontab as shown below in errors.log. > /usr/sbin/crond[1236]: (root) CAN'T OPEN (/etc/crontab): No such file or directory

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Re: [arch-general] mach64 "undefined symbol: xf86MapDomainMemory" fix
by Ionut Biru 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

On 03/19/2012 05:41 AM, Daniel F. Savarese wrote: > > Anyone using the xf86-video-mach64 package who has had their X server > fail after updating to xorg-server 1.12, reporting > "undefined symbol: xf86MapDomainMemory", you can get it working again > by applying the following patch (I've inlined it because I don't know > if the mailing list accepts attachments). This is an upstream issue > fixed in revision control, so there's no point opening a bug report. > It will be resolved when a new release of xf86-video-mach64 becomes available. > report a bug report. > --- src/atividmem.c.orig 2012-03-18 23:01:56.666029002 -0400 > +++ src/atividmem.c 2012-03-18 23:03:28.809154407 -0400 > @@ -84,7 +84,11 @@ > if (!pATI->pBank) > return; > > +#ifndef XSERVER_LIBPCIACCESS > xf86UnMapVidMem(iScreen, pATI->pBank, 0x00010000U); > +#else > + (void) pci_device_unmap_legacy(pATI->PCIInfo, pATI->pBank, 0x00010000U); > +#endif > > pATI->pBank = NULL; > } > @@ -219,9 +223,14 @@ > * No relocation, resizing, caching or write-combining of this > * aperture is supported. Hence, the hard-coded values here... > */ > - pATI->pBank = xf86MapDomainMemory(iScreen, VIDMEM_MMIO_32BIT, > - Tag, 0x000A0000U, 0x00010000U); > - > +#ifndef XSERVER_LIBPCIACCESS > + pATI->pBank = xf86MapDomainMemory(iScreen, VIDMEM_MMIO_32BIT, > + Tag, 0x000A0000U, 0x00010000U); > +#else > + (void) pci_device_map_legacy(Tag, 0x000A0000U, 0x00010000U, > + PCI_DEV_MAP_FLAG_WRITABLE, > + &pATI->pBank); > +#endif > if (!pATI->pBank) > return FALSE; > > > -- Ionuț

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[arch-general] package information error
by Auguste Pop 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

hi, somtimes the installed size information is simply wrong.e $ pacman -Si thunderbird Repository : extra Name : thunderbird Version : 11.0-1 ...... Download Size : 15409.89 KiB Installed Size : 7968.00 KiB Architecture : x86_64 $ xz -l thunderbird-11.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Strms Blocks Compressed Uncompressed Ratio Check Filename 1 1 15.0 MiB 40.0 MiB 0.376 CRC64 thunderbird-11.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz $ mkdir thunderbird && tar xf thunderbird-11.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -C thunderbird && du -sh thunderbird tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags' 41M thunderbird the installed size should be around 40M while pacman and the package website show only about 8M. best regards,

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[arch-general] Erlang R15B
by Kevin Arthur 18 Mar '12

18 Mar '12

Hello! I noticed that Erlang recently got moved from extra to community, and was flagged as out-of-date. I think someone mentioned R15B, the latest release, on this list about a month ago, but it doesn't look like it went anywhere. I've attached a patch that will update the PKGBUILD to the latest version. The ejabberd package will need to be rebuilt, but doesn't require any other changes (I've tested it, and it's working fine). The couchdb and yaws packages will probably have to be rebuilt too, although they've both been marked out-of-date as well. Could one of the developers update the package? Thanks! Kevin Arthur

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[arch-general] spamd failure
by pete 17 Mar '12

17 Mar '12

Hi just noticed that that spamd has failed reporting /usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory but locate libperl.so gives /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/CORE/libperl.so but there is no libperl.so in /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/CORE/ this was working fine untill yesterdays pacman -Suy which completed without a reported problem Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 1 09:31:13 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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