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[arch-general] [signoff] reiserfsprogs 3.6.21-4
by Pierre Schmitz 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

hi all, there is a simple rebuild waiting for signoffs in testing. As this packages does not have a single signoff since two weeks I am calling out to everybody (Dev, TU and users) using it. Just let me know if the package still does its intended job. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, http://pierre-schmitz.com

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[arch-general] Vim with X
by Manolo Martínez 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

Hello everyone, As it is now, the standalone vim cannot copy to and from the X clipboard. For a vim that does this, one needs to install gvim, which pulls a number of dependencies that you don't really need if you don't use the GUI. I guess the rationale for this is that people using vim in console have no use for X support, and the rest will be happy to use gvim. But I think many people -- at any rate, I'm one of them -- use vim in a terminal emulator in X. We don't want gvim, but we find copying and pasting to and from the clipboard useful. Any chance that the policy on compile flags to use for vim could be revised? Thanks Manolo --

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[arch-general] coreutils fails "make check"
by Garry Roseman 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

I tried to compile coreutils-8.14-1 from abs, with standard Arch CFLAGS. It fails the "make check" in one test, test-parse-datetime. I found a recent reference<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-10/msg00099.html>to a patch needed to avoid false failures in this test caused by incorrect handling of DST. (I'm not on DST right now). Shouldn't the coreutils in abs be passing this test during the build? Is it safe to ignore the failure? [BTW, coreutils fails to compile with "-march=native" on an i5-2405s (native translates to corei7-avx plus a bunch of flags for sse4 etc.) but succeeds (except for that one test) by adding "-mno-avx" to CFLAGS. "Fails to compile" is an understatement. While compiling coreutils I briefly saw what looked like an old ROM debugger screen and then my display came back but all of my file systems were read-only. I think folks might want to add the "-mno-avx" flag to "-march=native" on most Sandy Bridge builds unless you know that the package can take advantage of the avx instruction set. Firefox has been known to fail at run time when compiled for "native" on Sandy Bridge.] -- sitquietly

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[arch-general] Dynamic Titles in urxvt (bash) Without Side Effects?
by Bastien Dejean 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

Hey, I've added the following lines to my .bashrc: case "$TERM" in rxvt*|xterm*) set -o functrace trap '[ -z "$BASH_SOURCE" ] && printf "%b" "\e]0;$BASH_COMMAND\a"' DEBUG >& /dev/null ;; esac (It sets the current title of the current window according to the last ran command.) But alas, it generates side effects, if I issue this: ls "$(ls -1 | head -1)" I get: ls: cannot access foo.bar: No such file or directory Strange or trivial? Cheers, -- Bastien

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.1.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hi guys, please signoff 3.1 series for both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Problems with alsamixer after system update
by Daniel Hilst Selli 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

I have made a system update today with pacman -Syu.. After that I'm facing problems with alsamixer. It works o tty but not on xterm or gnome-terminal Here is the error: [geckos@archlinux ~]$ alsamixer alsamixer: hcontrol.c:574: snd_hctl_load: Assertion `list_empty(&hctl->elems)' failed. Aborted Any idea? Thanks, []'s

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[arch-general] LinuxCon Brazil
by Albino Biasutti Neto 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hi people. Among some day it will be the second LinuxCon Brazil in São Paulo - SP. Someone will attend the Arch Linux project? PS.: I will not be this year. Last year I attended the event. Sorry my english. Cheers, -- Albino Biasutti Neto www.tux-es.org www.binoinformatica.com <http://blog.binoinformatica.com/> "A mente que se abre a uma nova idéia jamais volta ao seu tamanho original". Albert Einstein Chave GPG: 1A867107

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[arch-general] Wiki
by Albino Biasutti Neto 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hello. The problem in Wiki ? No acess. wiki.archlinux.org Cheers, -- Albino Biasutti Neto www.tux-es.org www.binoinformatica.com <http://blog.binoinformatica.com/> "A mente que se abre a uma nova idéia jamais volta ao seu tamanho original". Albert Einstein Chave GPG: 1A867107

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[arch-general] how to give Date&Time root priviledge
by adrian sun 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hi all, I use kde4.7. As the time zone does not set correctly, I tried to change the timezone as "America/Toronto" in rc.conf. it did work but the time still not right. So I used date&time --KDE control module to adjust time, it said 'System policies prevent you from saving the date/time setting', and asked me input the password for root. The authentication failed, I am quite sure the password was correct. I guess I didn't add time in user group. Any solution about this? Thanks a lot. Adrian

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[arch-general] Where has my /etc/networks gone?
by Magnus Therning 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

I'm playing around with schroot and when creating a chroot with "type=directory" I at first failed to start it. The reason seems to be the lack of the file "/etc/networks". I created an empty one, and that was accepted by schroot. However, the man page (networks(5)) is rather cryptic, so what is this file for? Would it not be better to always have one (albeit empty) by default? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus

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