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[arch-general] kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds
by Caleb Cushing 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Does anyone know if the workarounds are still needed or if that was a fixed bug? I read the changelog but was unable to discern whether or not these were on the list of fixed kwin bugs. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.com

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[arch-general] HAL .fdi files stopped working
by Linus Eklöf 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

After an upgrade in the beginning of summer (don't remember what was updated) my hal fdi files in /etc/hal/fdi/policy stopped working, I had to change the keyboard mapping in the xfce settings and haven't been able to use my joypad since. I can't find anything on it with google and I've upgraded my system a couple of times since, but it still isn't working. Anybody who knows what might cause this?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins
by Evangelos Foutras 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On 18/08/10 01:46, Allan McRae wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have pushed the new python (3.1) and python2 (2.7) packages to the new >> [staging] repo so rebuilds can start there. Remember the staging repo >> should never be used outside a build chroot... If you do, everything >> python related will break on your system. >> >> TUs will not be able to start uploading rebuilds yet as they do not have >> a staging equivalent, but we will sort something out for them once we >> get all the db-scripts/devtools changes tested for the main one first. >> The package pool is going to save us a heap of issues when this gets >> moved so it is worth the wait. >> >> >> The key things to remember with the rebuild are: >> >> - build in clean chroots. Most packages will detect "python2" or >> "python-2.7" once they see no "python" and use that. Some will need >> simple patching. >> >> - change your dependencies to python2 >> >> - check files for #!'s with "/usr/bin/python" or "/usr/bin/env python". >> If you have those you will need to do a sed to change them to python2. >> >> >> If you come across a package that you can not easily fix, add it to >> >> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Python_Todo_List#Packages… >> and I will take a look at it. >> > > Just a reminder for people to look at their packages and rebuild them for > this. We seem to of stalled majorly... > > Allan Any updates regarding the creation of a [community-staging] repository?

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[arch-general] cannot run pacman in different operating system
by Łukasz Nowak 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hello Dear Archians, I need to install arch from existing operating system. This is Mandriva 2010.0 64 bit: uname -a Linux luker500 2.6.33.5-server-2mnb #1 SMP Thu Jun 17 21:11:54 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I am using (and contributing to): http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_From_Existing_Linux Let me show you which steps I have done so far: $ ARCH=`uname -m` $ echo $ARCH x86_64 $ pwd /home/luke/archtest $ wget -q http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/pacman/download/ http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/pacman-mirrorlist-201008… http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/libfetch/download/ http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/libarchive/download/ http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/openssl/download/ http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/xz/download/ $ ls libarchive-2.8.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz openssl-1.0.0.a-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz pacman-mirrorlist-20100825-1-any.pkg.tar.gz libfetch-2.33-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz pacman-3.4.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz xz-4.999.9beta-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz $ for f in *.tar.gz ; do tar xzf $f ; done $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/luke/archtest/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH $ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH /home/luke/archtest/usr/lib: $ ls -d /home/luke/archtest/usr/lib /home/luke/archtest/usr/lib/ $ export PATH=/home/luke/archtest/usr/bin:$PATH $ which pacman /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman So now it is time to try to run pacman: $ pacman --help -bash: /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman: No such file or directory I checked, this file really exists: $ file /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped But I cannot even do ldd: $ ldd /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman /usr/bin/ldd: line 119: /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman: No such file or directory So additionally I checked strace output: $ strace /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman execve("/home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman", ["/home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacm"...], [/* 78 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) dup(2) = 3 fcntl(3, F_GETFL) = 0x8002 (flags O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 33), ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f3180b61000 lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) write(3, "strace: exec: No such file or di"..., 40strace: exec: No such file or directory ) = 40 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x7f3180b61000, 4096) = 0 exit_group(1) = ? And now I am really stuck. Is it related to my configuration or glibc incompatibility? What more information you need to track this issue? What shall I try, maybe compiling pacman from source? Regards, Luke

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.21-1
by Tobias Powalowski 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Am Montag 30 August 2010 schrieb Andreas Radke: > Am Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:03:05 +0200 > > schrieb Tobias Powalowski <t.powa(a)gmx.de>: > > Latest kernel is in testing, > > please signoff for both arches. > > > > greetings > > tpowa > > signoff x86_64 > > -Andy anyone i686? -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Pacman wants to install older xf86-video-ati
by Damjan Georgievski 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

I've installed the new X stuff from the [testing] repo including the xf86-video-ati-6.13.1-2 Since that, I've commented out [testing] since I don't want other things from it, but now on each "pacman -Syu" it wants to install the older package from extra xf86-video-ati-6.13.1-1. Is something forcing this package and how can I find what? -- damjan

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[arch-general] 3 minutes and 12 seconds Youtube video of My Arch Linux
by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

I have just uploaded a Youtube video of my Arch Linux which was installed on an external 2.5" USB harddrive December last year (2009). The length of the video is only 3 mins and 12 secs. My Arch Linux is essentially a Linux from Scratch (LFS) 6.5 which I have compiled and installed from scratch, following the LFS 6.5 Handbook very closely. After finishing the basic LFS 6.5 installation, I have installed the pacman package manager from Arch Linux, essentially making the LFS 6.5 installation an Arch Linux installation. With the pacman package manager in place, I was able to install the X.org X Windowing Server and the GNOME Desktop Environment with ease. Please check out my Youtube video at the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If9TifbQVmQ At the time of this writing, there are 23 uploaded videos in my Youtube account. Yours sincerely, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Citizenship: Singapore Citizen/Singaporean Facebook account: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Facebook link:http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982 Facebook photos: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982#!/profile.php?id=100… <http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982#%21/profile.php?id=1…> Facebook videos: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982&v=app_2392950137 <http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000750083982&v=app_2392950137> Mobile Phone (Starhub pre-paid): +65-8369-2618 Windows Live Messenger: teoenming at hotmail.com Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore ZIP: 470103 My Open Letter (Plea for Medical Help/Assistance) to World Leaders:- http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/mpich-discuss/2010-August/007811.html http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2010-August/295952.html http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-August/015849.html Photo of Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore: http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/5052/mrteoenmingzhangenmingo.jpg

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[arch-general] Do formulas work in Go-Openoffice?
by Alexander Lam 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hi all, Are formulas working properly for anybody else using extra/go-openoffice? I can create formulas just fine, but when I try to copy-paste them, the copy doesn't show up correctly (it just shows a picture of a plug and the text Object <some number>). The same thing happens to all the formulas if I save the document (as odt) and try to reopen it. Is this happening to anybody else? -- Alexander Lam

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[arch-general] [signoff] tcp_wrappers-7.6-12
by Tobias Powalowski 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hi guys, signoff for both arches please fixes: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16048 #ipv6 support greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] sound intel hda problem
by kuba guzik 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

od kuba guzik <kuba.g4(a)gmail.com> do arch-general(a)archlinux.org data 30 sierpnia 2010 01:17 temat sound intel hda problem wysłana przez gmail.com ukryj szczegóły 01:17 (2 godz. temu) Hi! Yesterday I've istalled arch linux on my hp laptop. Earlier I've used debian with the same kernel and alsa ver . I copied my sound configs from debian to /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf but they didn't work. I have also used alsaconf.. configs: alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1 model=hp-m4 OR hp-dv5 I have already tried different sound.conf configurations but they didn't work... I have also followed every step on alsa-arch wiki site. There are no errors at all, everything looks fine in alsamixer in sound.conf and rc.conf. Any suggestions? Thanks for help

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