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[arch-general] ffmpeg-23619-1-x86_64 corrupted?
by F. Gr. 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

Hi, I've been updating my ArchLinux system and have getting the following: " fgr@babili ~ % sudo reflector -l 6 -r -o /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist && sudo clyde -Syyu -a :: Synchronizing package databases... core 35,4K 80,9K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100% extra 452,9K 79,4K/s 00:00:06 [######################] 100% community 377,3K 81,8K/s 00:00:05 [######################] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Synchronizing AUR database... aur 33/ 33 [#########################################] 100% resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (1): ffmpeg-23619-1 Total Download Size: 0,00 MB Total Installed Size: 16,35 MB ==> Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y checking package integrity... :: File ffmpeg-23619-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted. Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] " Is there any problem with it?

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[arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL
by Nilesh Govindarajan 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

I have made a patch for /usr/share/hal/fdi/20-storage-methods.fdi to force async file transfer for vfat filesystems by commenting out flush and sync as valid options from the list. I checked the thing, now I'm getting the old high speed USB transfer. Do take a look at it, and comment. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] Totem leaves dvd mounted after quitting
by David C. Rankin 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

Guys, This may be normal, but I thought we had moved beyond having to manually unmount CD/DVDs after use -- so I have either messed something up or there is a lingering problem. The setup - new i686 install updated through today. I never watch DVDs on the computer, but my son wanted to watch one and his sister had my laptop watching another movie on it, so I set his box up to watch DVDs using totem in gnome. After gathering all the dvdread/nav/etc.. all played just fine on his nvidia 9600 card and the nvidia 256.35-1 module. The problem occurred after I stopped the dvd and then exited totem. When I tried to eject the DVD, it wouldn't -- the drive was still mounted (confirmed with mount). Unmounting the drive fixed the problem, but I was left wondering --> surely we shouldn't be still stuck with manually unmounting DVDs in Gnome?? This being the first DVD I've tried to play, I didn't know, so I thought I would put it out to the community for a quick answer and try to figure out if this was something that needs reporting. Bug? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Bash Tcp
by Nilesh Govindarajan 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

Hi, After writing my skypechecker bash daemon which restarts skype if it crashes while pidgin is running or closes skype if pidgin crashes, I want to play with bash more, but this time using TCP connections :D But it seems /dev/tcp is not enabled on bash ??? How do I enable that ? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e

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[arch-general] Kernel panic after installing avr tools
by John Black 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

Maybe someone could help me out. I would like to report a bug but I am not quite sure what happened. I made a parallel port micro controller programmer on Sunday. Since my desktop system does not have a parallel port anymore [noticed this after I was done :( ] I connected the programmer to my server which is/was running a couple month old version of ARCH i686. I proceeded to install these packages: avr-libc avrdude binutils-avr gcc-avr I *think* that (this was late at night) one of the dependencies was new linux-headers but no kernel. I answered all with yes and the installation started. As soon as it was done I could no longer execute commands and my system would only return "Illegal instruction". I restarted using the reset switch and was greeted by a kernel panic. All options on the grub boot menu will result in a kernel panic. I tried to follow this guide http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Panics but when I want to chroot I get "Illegal instruction". The file system is mountable and everything appears to be fine. I searched around a bit and it appears that this sort of thing happens when you use an i686 kernel with a i386 computer but this system used to run fine. I was about to reload this machine but maybe someone could help me figure out what happened exactly so that this can be prevented in the future? Here are the machine specs: OS: Arch i686 (2-3 months old) Mainboard: VIA EPIA-M (I think this has a 1GHz CPU) RAM: 1GB Storage: LVM 2x 250GB special configuration: grub2, /boot on LVM installed: apache2, php5, mysql, samba, sshd Any takers :) ? -- John Wo Unrecht zu Recht wird, wird Widerstand zur Pflicht. [Bertolt Brecht]

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[arch-general] perl help missing DateTime::Format::ISO8601
by Ionuț Bîru 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

Hi guys, i was working on updating mythtv and i have a problem finding the proper perl package. I'm not a perl guy myself and i found in aur perl-date-iso8601. The problem is that is not installed in the proper place. /usr/share/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/Date/ISO8601.pm and the check is done in DateTime/Format/ISO8601.pm check_pl_lib DateTime::Format::ISO8601 perl -e use DateTime::Format::ISO8601; Can't locate DateTime/Format/ISO8601.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 /usr/share/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1. the building is done with: perl Build.PL ./Build --installdirs=vendor ./Build test ./Build install destdir=$pkgdir is this not the package that i need or the building is wrong? -- Ionuț

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[arch-general] [signoff] udev-158-1
by Tobias Powalowski 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

Hi guys, udev 158 ======== Bugfixes. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] (no subject)
by Calvin McAnarney 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

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[arch-general] Deletion request
by Lukáš Jirkovský 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

Hello, please remove package pmt (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22689) which I maintain. There are several reasons for it: 1) I don't want to maintain it anymore 2)A little background is needed here. pmt used to be a part of [extra] but because of lack of interest it was moved to AUR where I adopted it. It contains several png handling tools (pngcrush, png2bmp, bmp2png, pngmeta) but only one is really maintained – it's pngcrush. As time gone by it was more and more difficult to keep all tools working with new libraries in Arch. Then I found out someone packaged pngcrush itself (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22877) and now it has much more votes than pmt ever had. png2bmp/bmp2png can be easily replaced with imagemagick convert. I'm not sure about pngmeta, but it didn't have a release since 2001 so I guess this one would be a big loss either. Thanks, Lukas

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[arch-general] devtmpfs
by Damjan Georgievski 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

Now that DEVTMPFS is enabled by default in the Arch configuration, what are its benefits? Can I make an initramfs without udev now? And if I do will I be able to use root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/xx-yy-zz-etc or any of the similar kernel command line options? -- damjan

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