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[arch-general] Can't mount a certain type of ISO CDs
by Bastien Dejean 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Hi, I can't mount a whole bunch of CDs/DVDs I've burned back in the days I was using Mac OS X. They've been burnt with the 'Hybrid Mac/PC' scheme of the following program: http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html isoinfo -d dev=/dev/sr0 Gives the following output: CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format System id: APPLE COMPUTER, INC., TYPE: 0002 Volume id: MY_CD Volume set id: NOT_SET Publisher id: Data preparer id: Application id: TOAST ISO 9660 BUILDER COPYRIGHT (C) 1997-2005 SONIC SOLUTIONS - HAVE A NICE DAY Copyright File id: Abstract File id: Bibliographic File id: Volume set size is: 1 Volume set sequence number is: 1 Logical block size is: 2048 Volume size is: 2275987 Joliet with UCS level 1 found NO Rock Ridge present Unfortunately, mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd responds: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so and generates the followings dmesg entries: attempt to access beyond end of device sr0: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=sr0, iso_blknum=16, block=16 Regards, -- Bastien

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[arch-general] lxde + fluxbox.
by Javier Vasquez 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Hi, I'm not a DE (desktop environment) user, and I'm not planning to become one. I'm pretty comfortable with plain fluxbox... However when people wonders about how to start on a linux kernel based OS, specially to be able to run on old or low end machines, they really expect a DE, not knowing that both major ones (gnome and kde) are really bloated and they better stay out of their way, :-) So LXDE sounds like the DE I'd like to experiment with, but I'd like to use fluxbox instead of openbox. I'm not familiar with LXDE, so perhaps a pointer to a tutorial or howto for this WM switch might be useful. I'd guess is not just calling startfluxbox in some configuration file (like ~/.xinitrc), but some care is required for keyboard management as well since fluxbox offer its own keybinding, :-) Also I'd liek to know what problems are to be faced because of using fluxbox before hand if possible... Any help will be greatly appreciated, :-) Thanks, -- Javier.

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[arch-general] Recently orphaned [community] packages, TUs should take a look if they might be interested in adopting them.
by Thomas Dziedzic 02 Oct '11

02 Oct '11

Hi, I recently went over all my packages in community, and have decided to orphan the following due to lack of interest and because I haven't used them in a long time celt - Low-latency audio communication codec extrema - Extrema is a powerful visualization and data analysis tool. ghdl - A complete VHDL simulator, using GCC technology. gnofract4d - A fractal browser with PyGTK gui grass - Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization. gtkwave - A wave viewer which reads LXT, LXT2, VZT, GHW and VCD/EVCD files gts - GNU Triangulated Surface Library. luakit - luakit is a highly configurable, micro-browser framework based on the WebKit web content engine and the GTK+ toolkit."Stable" release mpdscribble - An mpd client which submits track info to last.fm netbeans - Netbeans IDE development platform. protege - Free, open source ontology editor and knowledge-base framework wordpress - Blog Tool and Publishing Platform All of them are working as far as I know, and they have no outstanding bugs except a couple which are in the list of pushing the .desktop file upstream https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23387 (already reported) and luakit has an extremely minor upstream bug https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25761 which is also reported. Cheers!

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[arch-general] remove grub from base group?
by Ray Kohler 02 Oct '11

02 Oct '11

Since aif now supports syslinux and grub equally, does it make sense that grub no longer needs to be in the base group? syslinux isn't in base. I'll open an FS for this if that's wanted.

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Re: [arch-general] xmodmap
by Jorge Almeida 01 Oct '11

01 Oct '11

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 4:15 PM, marshall <marshall(a)mcleave.orangehome.co.uk> wrote: > > Hopefully this time I'll make the list. > > My enviroment file. > > setxkbmap gb > xmodmap /home/marshall/.Xmodmap > > I used run xmodmap from ~/.config/openbox/autostart > but that ceased to work after the openbox 3.5 upgrade. I then tried to > run it from my .xinitrc file, this also fails to work as expected. > OK, I found it. The problem was "setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" _after_ xmodmap! As I use setxkbmap just to recover the traditional Ctrl-Alt-Backspace behavior that Xorg developers decided to drop, it didn't occur to me that it might interact with xmodmap. I changed the places of both commands and it works now. It works regardless of whether it is run before the openbox binary (via environment file, or equivalent) or after openbox (via --startup flag). It is also independent of the fact that I'm using a non-standard setup. Thanks Jorge

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[arch-general] xmodmap
by Jorge Almeida 01 Oct '11

01 Oct '11

I have a very annoying problem with xmodmap: Inside X, in an xterm: $ echo $DISPLAY :1 In console (agetty1): $ echo $DISPLAY $ xmodmap .Xmodmap xmodmap: unable to open display '' $ xmodmap -display :2 .Xmodmap xmodmap: unable to open display ':2' Until now, everything as expected. The problem is: $ xmodmap -display :1 .Xmodmap $ echo $? 0 So, everything seems fine, but switching to the vt where X is I find that xmodmap didn't load anything. Note that if running "xmodmap .Xmodmap" from X it works. In console, I tried also setting the env variable DISPLAY (the only one relevant to xmodmap, according to the manual), to no avail. You might wonder why is this a problem, since it works from X. I have a xmodmap command in the startup file of the window manager (openbox). Other X related commands work, only xmodmap fails. It seems that xmodmap requires being run from an emulator inside an X session, which it's not supposed to. Any help about this essentially undocumented piece of software would be appreciated. Alternatively, anyone knows whether there is some alternative to xmodmap? xkb doesn't seem to be able to replace it, judging by what poor documentation there is out there. TIA Jorge Almeida

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [prerelease] initscripts-2011.09.2-1
by Oon-Ee Ng 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On 30/09/11 00:00, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> Towards read only /etc: >> * /etc/profile.d/locale.sh is now a static file, rather than being >> generated on every boot (this means we need to use -f when updating) > Please do not encourage using -f when updating (people will use "pacman > -Syuf", which is evil...). Instead, "mv /etc/profile.d/locale.sh{,.bak}" > and then update. I presume the new local.sh will be generated in exactly the same way, and hence there's no real need for *.bak?

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[arch-general] [signoff] nfs-utils 1.2.5-1
by Tobias Powalowski 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Hi guys, please signoff nfs-utils, upstream release - enabled now libmount support https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26129 greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Enable FLTK Octave backend?
by Stefano Avallone 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Hi, I read in the Octave documentation [1] that a newer (than gnuplot) plotting capability is provided by the FLTK/OpenGL backend. This new backend is not available in the current octave arch package, because the fltk library is required to be installed at build time. I read that the FLTK backend is rather faster (for 3d plots) than the gnuplot backend, and also some options (e.g., Postscript level 3 or pdflatex outputs of the print command) are only available with the new backend. I installed fltk from extra and recompiled octave. The new backend seems to work fine and it is also enables to zoom (or rotate) and pan the current plot. I don't know if the addition of the FLTK backend has been discussed in the past and abandoned for some reasons, but I see no issues in including it, since the default backend seems to still be gnuplot. So, adding the support for the FLTK backend would be as simple as putting fltk in makedepends and optdepends. Should I open a bug to track this feature request? regards, Stefano [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Introduction-to- Plotting.html#Introduction-to-Plotting

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[arch-general] Setting Computer Hostname via DHCP Server
by Thomas Misilo 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to have archlinux set it's hostname based on what the DHCP server tells it is? As I noticed while using a CentOS Server, that it does do this by default. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction on enabling this, as I searched around and was unable to find anything. Thanks for your time, Tom

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