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[arch-general] KDE 4.7 hits [testing]
by Andrea Scarpino 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Hi arKers, KDE 4.7 has been released[1] and our packages are ready in [testing]. As you already know KDE is (slowly) moving to GIT. With this transition some KDE module has been splitted into subprojects, and the remaining modules should be splitted before KDE 4.8. The result of this is that some package (e.g. kdegraphics-libs) is now splitted in several packages and each new package conflicts with the old kdegraphics-libs, so you have to remove it when pacman asks for its removal during the update. Here some info about the splitted modules: - KDE Workspace: wallpapers are now in a separate package named kde-wallpapers, this reduced the kdebase-workspace package download size by 70%. - KDE Graphics: kdegraphics-libs is now splitted in kdegraphics-ksaneplugin, kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer, kdegraphics-svgpart, kdegraphics-thumbnailers, libkdcraw, libkexiv2, libkipi, libksane. Our official packages which depends on kdegraphics-libs have been updated to depend on the new libraries; the upgrade should work without any issue, otherwise please report it to our bug tracker. - KDE Edu: kdeedu-libkdeedu and kdeedu-data have been dropped and libkdeedu will replace them. - KDE Bindings: every subproject has been splitted in two parts: one for the qt bindings and one for the KDE bindings. The old packages have been remove and the new one are: kdebindings-kimono, kdebindings-kross-java, kdebindings-kross-python, kdebindings-korundum, kdebindings-perlkde, kdebindings-perlqt, kdebindings-qtruby, kdebindings-qyoto, kdebindings-smokegen, kdebindings-smokekde, kdebindings-smokeqt. - KDE Accessibility: kdeaccessibility-colorschemes and kdeaccessibility-iconthemes are dropped and replaced. Have a nice update! [1] http://kde.org/announcements/4.7/ -- Andrea

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[arch-general] shouldn't the java-sun package be named java-oracle?
by Auguste Pop 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

hi, the binaray version of java has been in repo with the name jre and jdk for a long time. i noticed that a split package of java-sun is now in the community repo. i don't know if java-sun is newly created or has been there also for a long time. anyway, the -sun suffix is not appropriate as the upstream java is branded oracle now. i have been using openjdk since the beginning. so, basically, i pointed this out just for curiosity's sake. best regards,

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[arch-general] pulse audio auto stop
by Juan Diego Tascón 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Good day, Does anyone knows why is pulseaudio being shut down every time X is shut down? why cruel world? why? PS: I don't want to use pulseaudio system-instance Thank you

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[arch-general] bad login attempts not written to /var/log/btmp
by Renato 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Hello, maybe I don't understand how the command "lastb" should work, but no matter how many times I try to login inputting a wrong password I still get nothing but this: $ sudo lastb btmp begins Fri May 6 23:40:14 2011 cheers renato

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[arch-general] kdeartwork-wallpapers --- Why i686 and x86_64 seperated ?
by goodmenzy＠gmail.com 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

Hi, all I don't understand kdeartwork-wallpapers pkg are in different arch ? It should be a pkg with "-any" arch suffix, in my opinion.

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[arch-general] Installed 3Com 3c595 rate dropped from 11.59MB/s to 3.27MB/s -- howto fix?
by David C. Rankin 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Guys, This is a new one on me. I have been using the onboard LAN (RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)) for several years and always got great transfer rates: 01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VM400M/7VT600 Motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 I/O ports at 8000 [size=256] Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: 8139too Kernel modules: 8139too, 8139cp 10:02 providence:~/arch/pkg/new-110718/virtualbox_bin> rsync -uav --progress virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz phoenix:/srv/http/dl/arch/i686 sending incremental file list virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz 55685508 100% 11.59MB/s 0:00:04 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1) sent 55692427 bytes received 31 bytes 10125901.45 bytes/sec total size is 55685508 speedup is 1.00 I was having intermittent lockups during large file transfers (memtest is fine), so I thought I would change the NIC. I installed a 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex] card and tested the throughput. The throughput is 1/3 what I was getting with the Realtek card: 01:07.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 248 (750ns min, 2000ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19 Region 0: I/O ports at 8000 [size=32] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 80000000 [disabled] [size=64K] Kernel driver in use: 3c59x Kernel modules: 3c59x 12:47 providence:~/arch/pkg/new-110718/virtualbox_bin> rsync -uav --progress virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz phoenix:~/tmp sending incremental file list virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz 55685508 100% 3.27MB/s 0:00:16 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1) sent 55692427 bytes received 31 bytes 3182426.17 bytes/sec total size is 55685508 speedup is 1.00 I searched the forums and I've tried ethtool in setting speed, duplex and autoneg, but it makes no difference. i.e.: ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off What else can I try to get this card working correctly? All light indications on the card and the switch it is connected to show a 100TX connection is being made. What say the gurus? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Installed 3Com 3c595 rate dropped from 11.59MB/s to 3.27MB/s -- howto fix?
by David C. Rankin 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Guys, This is a new one on me. I have been using the onboard LAN (RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)) for several years and always got great transfer rates: 01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VM400M/7VT600 Motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 I/O ports at 8000 [size=256] Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: 8139too Kernel modules: 8139too, 8139cp 10:02 providence:~/arch/pkg/new-110718/virtualbox_bin> rsync -uav --progress virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz phoenix:/srv/http/dl/arch/i686 sending incremental file list virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz 55685508 100% 11.59MB/s 0:00:04 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1) sent 55692427 bytes received 31 bytes 10125901.45 bytes/sec total size is 55685508 speedup is 1.00 I was having intermittent lockups during large file transfers (memtest is fine), so I thought I would change the NIC. I installed a 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex] card and tested the throughput. The throughput is 1/3 what I was getting with the Realtek card. I searched the forums and I've tried ethtool in setting speed, duplex and autoneg, but it makes no difference. i.e.: ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off What else can I try to get this card working correctly? All light indications on the card and the switch it is connected to show a 100TX connection is being made. What say the gurus? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] CD / DVD Drive - Issues and a really sloppy solution
by Zanterian 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Hello fellow arch enthusiasts, I had a friend who wanted me to burn an audio disk for him. What I thought would have been an easy task turned into a nightmare. I use Brasero on Gnome 3. Everything I tried would end in disaster, and nothing would get written. Then it would give me a log saying could not find burn:// directory After looking around, I noticed I don't have a /dev/cd or a /dev/dvd Finding that strange, I did the command dmesg | grep ide with this as the result [ 5.287548] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray So this is where I made the sloppy solution: I manually made two symlinks (/dev/cd & /dev/dvd) that point to /dev/sr0. This gave me back the ability to burn disks. So my main question is what do I do from here? Is this a bug? I don't want to have this solution as it was just me writing educated-guesses-for-links and then trying to burn a disk with my fingers crossed. My arch system is up to date and does not use any of the [testing] repositories. Thanks, - Eric

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.07.1-1
by Damjan 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Evangelos Foutras: > I'd say in initscripts, because before that only the kernel prints > messages. When initscripts kicks in, its output gets combined with the > kernel messages and creates a visually unappealing result. :p You should also be aware of this development: http://karelzak.blogspot.com/2011/07/dmesg1-changes-for-util-linux-220.html there are new features in dmesg that'll help you filter out (or in) needed information. -- дамјан

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[arch-general] X terminal redraw problem
by Jon Gjengset 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Hi fellow archers! This is my first post to this mailing list, so please excuse my behavior if I have picked the wrong list =) For a couple of months now, I have been experiencing occasional "flickering" in my terminal emulator (urxvt, but also happens with xterm, roxterm and gnome-terminal). There are several forum threads on the same issue: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=118648 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117202 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117423 The latter seems to be the biggest one... The problem is that every now and then, the terminal seems to "forget" to draw some of the text on the screen, leaving a mangled output consisting of some stale text cells (as in the character that was previously in that position is still visible) and some empty cells (the previous character was a space, and the new character was not printed). The problem seems to occur sporadically, but happens often enough to be a real nuissance. Highlighting any text in the terminal window causes the text to be immediately corrected. The problem also appears when using vim or terminal-based emacs (i.e. curses interfaces). Seems the problem is quite widespread, and affects both nVidia, AMD/ATI and Intel graphics drivers.. A bug in X perhaps? Could someone with a bit more know-how than me please have a look? Any help is greatly appreciated, Jon

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