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[arch-general] 2010.05 iso images problem?
by didier gaumet 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Hi guys, I have downloaded a 2010.05 x86_64 core iso image from http://mir.archlinux.fr/iso/ and verified its sha1sum. After installation, I end up with a 2.6.37 kernel (out in 2011.01) with no modules (2.6.27 and 2.6.33 modules are available). http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/iso/ has the same sha1sum for this iso. Is there not a problem with these images? Right now I am updating this Archlinux installation from a Debian chroot, so it is not a blocking problem, but out of curiosity, I would like to know. Thanks, Didier.

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[arch-general] knotify4 is eating 90%+ of the CPU in gnome - can it be reniced or something?
by David C. Rankin 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Guys, Running Gnome, knotify 4 is killing my system. From top, it is taking over 90% of the cpu: 13123 david 20 0 155m 40m 17m S 91 1.3 60:06.32 knotify4 Can this 'feature' be turned off when I'm in a desktop other than kde4? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] audio skipping frequently with vlc
by Matthew Monaco 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

I recently noticed then when playing DVDs and other audio files through VLC that the audio skips frequently. It doesn't get out of sync, just goes mute for a split second. I tried the past few versions of VLC but it still happens, so I guess it's one of the dependencies, but I'm not sure which. Has anyone noticed/fixed this?

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[arch-general] New repository locations for Trinity svn
by David C. Rankin 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

All, Just an update on the repo locations for Trinity svn. Kaiting has provided space outside of /home for the packages. The new urls are: http://www.kiwilight.com/trinity/i686/ http://www.kiwilight.com/trinity/x86_64/ Please update your pacman.conf if you have added the repositories. Let me know if you have any problems with the new locations. Thanks. I have updated the locations on the wiki. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts - 2.6.32.30-1
by Andreas Radke 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Upstream update with security fixes. Breaks build on x86_64. I had to revert one single patch for x86_64. more about the breaker: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1107677 Please give signoffs quickly. -Andy

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[arch-general] qemu-kvm vs. qemu upstream
by C Anthony Risinger 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > If this is virtualbox specific, I'd try qemu-kvm. hey, i was just trying to get a concrete answer about this the other day, so maybe you can clarify because i keep reading conflicting and/or outdated information. AFAICS, qemu-kvm is still _different_ from upstream kvm support in qemu, correct? i tried rebuilding qemu several times, ensuring i had all the options i wanted (SPICE/kvm/etc) and i was getting absolutely <expletive deleted> performance -- switch to qemu-kvm and she's blazing again, yet many places seem to suggest they are one and the same. i see they definitely have different sources, but would you/anyone care to elaborate on the relationship? C Anthony

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[arch-general] Contributing to netcfg
by Ng Oon-Ee 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Hi all, I'm not a coder, but I've written up .service files (for systemd) for netcfg, specifically for net-auto-wired and net-auto-wireless. I have not done the same for net-profiles and net-rename. I was thinking to submit those two files upstream to netcfg development, but I can't seem to find the appropriate place. Should I just make a bug report? For clarification, having these .service files just enables netcfg to be run natively on a systemd system, does not affect the system otherwise (they'd never be called).

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] ncurses-5.8-1
by Loui Chang 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

On Sun 27 Feb 2011 12:01 -0600, Dan McGee wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > On 27/02/11 10:40, Allan McRae wrote: > >> > >> Major upstream update. > >> > >> Test well. There is no soname bump, but experience tells me that some > >> rebuilds will probably be required to fix minor issues. > >> > > > > I have rebuilt community/stfl to fix a crash (used by newsbeuter). > > > > I will start a TODO list to keep track of packages that require moved with > > ncurses. If you do any rebuilds, please add the package to the list. > > $ tig > tig: Failed to create status window > > I added it to the list (but didn't rebuild it). Rebuild won't do it. tig wants to create zero sized windows which newwin() doesn't allow anymore. We could patch it with some arbitrary size which kind of works, but I emailed the developer to ask how he would deal with it.

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 77, Issue 2
by fredbezies 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

> Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 16:30:45 +0700 > From: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e(a)gmail.com> > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Bug 22828 makes me "kill" my archlinux > installation > Message-ID: > <AANLkTin1r2J7wMiP0mn7YNKT7FMb9vit=e4sRKYO0LB5(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:24 PM, fredbezies <fredbezies(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I'm kinda unlucky. I reported bug 22828, having lot of problem with >> gdm which cannot be "killed" at shutdown time. >> >> This morning, before going to work, I faced again this bug. >> >> I had to switch to a tty (using ctrl + alt +F2). >> >> I typed halt to stop my computer, but it won't shutdown properly. >> >> I have to shutdown on my computer, using power button. >> >> When I wanted to boot it again, it is stopped at the start of boot process. >> >> I only get "linux:(none)" prompt and nothing more. >> >> Any idea to avoid a full reinstall ? > > are you sure it's the same issue? if you're using [testing], you most > likely got hit by the bash/readline bug. chroot into your install (see > chroot in archwiki) and downgrade those packages (bash-4.2.005 and > readline-6.2.001) to their former version. > Indeed. It was this broken version. I updated at a bad time. Anyway, downgrading works. Too bad this broken update happened just before I have to go to work :( -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] bash-4.2.005 and readline-6.2.001
by Evangelos Foutras 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Another -1. I would recommand everyone to downgrade to the previous > versions before rebooting or halting their systems. I had to boot from > a live CD in order to downgrade them. > > When shutting down, the following was printed: > > INIT: Switching to runlevel: 6 > INIT: Sending process the TERM signal > INIT: no more process left in this runlevel. > > And then it just hangs. > > On bootup, i got a message about rc.sysinit getting a segfault in > bash. Then some errors about not finding the qingy libraries (I use > qingy as login manager) probably related to the mount issue that Angel > mentionned. Then it hangs. `unset TZ' is the simplest test case that causes a segmentation fault on my system. The culprit appears to be the chkexport function introduced in patch bash42-005 [1]. From the backtrace [2], I gather it should probably check that find_variable returns a non-NULL value. Changing the line after the find_variable call to read "if (v && exported_p (v))" fixes the issue for me. I've sent a bug report to bug-bash(a)gnu.org using the neat bashbug command. :p [1] http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.2-patches/bash42-005 [2] http://ompldr.org/vN20yYg

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