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[arch-general] Brasero Wont Copy Disks
by Carlos Mennens 04 May '10

04 May '10

I just installed Brasero to burn / copy disks. I first added my user 'carlos' to the 'optical' group. However when I try and copy a disk on my machine, I get an immediate error that says it fails. Then when I save the log, it's blank. It has no details as to why the copy failed. Anyone know what I can do to resolve this and allow my machine to burn / copy disks? I know my optical drive is running fine because I booted from Ubuntu Live CD and was able to copy a disk fine. Thanks for any help!

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[arch-general] What is Arch doing vis-a-vis MySQL v. MariaDB?
by David C. Rankin 04 May '10

04 May '10

Guys, Ran into a shock this morning when on one of my 2 lingering suse boxes updates replaced MySQL with MariaDB. After a brief bit of research, it seems that Monte (one of the MySQL devs) forked mysql into mariadb from the mysql code base in the 12/2009 timeframe when Oracle bought Sun to preserve MySQL and prevent against any funny business by Oracle in the future. According to statements made by Oracle, it is under an obligation to the EU to continue mysql largely in its present form and continue to enhance and make it freel available as part of the purchase. (See Oracle Statement): http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/042364 Suse evidently went with MariaDB and it was somewhat disconcerting to learn about the switch during an update. Has Arch considered what it will do in this situation, MariaDB?, MySQL? -- 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] New device-mapper, lvm2 and cryptsetup packages in testing
by Thomas Bächler 03 May '10

03 May '10

I put updated device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.64 and cryptsetup 1.1.1-rc2 packages to testing. These packages enable udev synchronization to finally get rid of all race conditions related to udev rules. I also cleaned up the PKGBUILDs massively and removed all static binaries and libraries from the packages. Before cryptsetup can move to core, we obviously need to wait for the final 1.1.1 release, and libpopt, libgcrypt and libgpg-error need to move from /usr/lib to /lib, so that initscripts are able to open encryption even if /usr isn't available yet. Pleae give feedback on these packages.

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[arch-general] kernel26-2.6.33.3-1, nut (upsd) is dead. It's either the kernel or nut 2.4.3
by David C. Rankin 03 May '10

03 May '10

Guys, After update to 2.6.33.3-1, network-ups-tools (nut/upsd) starts, but cannot communicate with itself on localhost or across the network anymore. The default abs configuration was used so it isn't with one of my famous configure strings. It starts fine, but then here is what I get in my logs: May 3 00:23:17 nirvana upsd[27067]: listening on 192.168.6.17 port 3493 May 3 00:23:17 nirvana upsd[27067]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 May 3 00:23:17 nirvana upsd[27068]: Startup successful May 3 00:23:17 nirvana upsmon[27070]: Startup successful May 3 00:23:17 nirvana upsmon[27072]: Communications with UPS archangel_ups(a)archangel.3111skyline.com lost May 3 00:23:17 nirvana wall[27074]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (70 chars) May 3 00:23:22 nirvana upsmon[27072]: UPS archangel_ups(a)archangel.3111skyline.com is unavailable May 3 00:23:22 nirvana upsmon[27072]: Communications with UPS nirvana_ups@localhost lost May 3 00:23:22 nirvana wall[27077]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (60 chars) May 3 00:23:22 nirvana wall[27079]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (52 chars) May 3 00:23:27 nirvana upsmon[27072]: UPS nirvana_ups@localhost is unavailable May 3 00:23:27 nirvana wall[27084]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (42 chars) May 3 00:28:23 nirvana upsmon[27072]: UPS archangel_ups(a)archangel.3111skyline.com is unavailable May 3 00:28:23 nirvana wall[27104]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (60 chars) May 3 00:28:28 nirvana upsmon[27072]: UPS nirvana_ups@localhost is unavailable May 3 00:28:28 nirvana wall[27108]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (42 chars) and every few minute or two, this gets dumped to the terminal: [00:25 nirvana:/home/david] # Broadcast message from nut (Mon May 3 00:28:23 2010): UPS archangel_ups(a)archangel.3111skyline.com is unavailable Broadcast message from nut (Mon May 3 00:28:28 2010): UPS nirvana_ups@localhost is unavailable and on the second Arch box [00:24 archangel:/home/david] # Broadcast message from nut (Mon May 3 00:28:41 2010): UPS archangel_ups@localhost is unavailable Broadcast message from nut (Mon May 3 00:28:41 2010): UPS nirvana_ups(a)nirvana.3111skyline.com is unavailable (I have two CyberPower AVRLCD 1000 ups'es that have always done fine. They use the usbhid-ups interface through /dev/hiddev0 and each monitor each other over the LAN. ) The abs package is network-ups-tools with abs updated and built against the nut-2.4.3.tar.gz source to make network-ups-tools-2.4.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz. To solve the problem, I dropped back to the abs network-ups-tools-2.4.1 PKGBUILD that I still had laying around and rebuilt against the new kernel and all is working as it should. So there is either a kernel error or error in the 2.4.3 nut package. Let me know if you want me to open a ticket. Thanks. -- 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] Firefox graphics licensed under MPL
by Denis Kobozev 03 May '10

03 May '10

Hi archers, If you believe the comment on Mozilla's bugtracker [1] and the change to the license file [2], the previously non-free Firefox graphics are now licensed under the MPL. Does that mean that we'll be able to have official logo in the supported Firefox package? [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541761#c3 [2]: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/99d80bc3f18b Denis.

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[arch-general] Fresh Install - kde4 filling up .xsession-errors 300M + in 48 hours - "Invalid iterator."
by David C. Rankin 03 May '10

03 May '10

Guys, This is a new one. I replaced one of my last suse boxes with arch at work a couple of days ago. I ssh'ed into the box tonight to get a few files and noticed my .xsession-errors file well over 300M - huh? -rw------- 1 david david 341482832 Apr 26 22:54 .xsession-errors Wanting to get a feel for what was up, I just tailf'ed and watched. Every few seconds it would dump a bunch of stuff to the file in somewhat of a loop of messages starting and/or ending with the 'invalid iterator .' line. I'm at a loss as to what is causing it. My rc.conf daemons setup is: DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network hal @netfs @ntpd @sshd @crond @avahi-daemon @mysqld !postfix @cups) with kdm being started in inittab: x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon This was the first or second time kde4 was started to akonadi/nepomuk was still churning away, but had evidently completed several hours after I had left. I'm sure I have probably done this to myself, but I did a fairly standard install. I'm currently crunching the .xsession-errors file down with xz to see how small I can get it in case anybody wants to see it. 'xz -z9e' Amazingly it crunched it down to a little over 500k: http://www.rbpllc.com/download/arch/bugs/xsession-errors.xz Let me have your thoughts on this. The error message 'loop' seems to be something like what follows: "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "Invalid iterator." [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" [/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject - No such object path '/org/soprano/Server/models/main'" "/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub(1804)" Error in thread 3009424240 : "Invalid iterator." -- 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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] b43-fwcutter-013-1
by Tobias Powalowski 02 May '10

02 May '10

Am Freitag 30 April 2010 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > Hi > bumped to latest version, please signoff both arches. > > greetings > tpowa anyone? -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] iso's
by Caleb Cushing 02 May '10

02 May '10

why is it the new iso's never made the download page? -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] gambas2 splitted package
by Laurent Carlier 01 May '10

01 May '10

Attached is a source package for a gambas2 splitted package. The PKGBUILD is pretty huge due to some workaround, and to the fact that it produce several gambas2* packages, following recommendations from http://www.gambasdoc.org/help/howto/package A meta package is produced too, for migration facility from the monolitic package. Of course, comments are welcome, as it's my first officially proposed PKGBUILD. Regards, Laurent Carlier

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[arch-general] A good twitter client for KDE
by Nilesh Govindarajan 01 May '10

01 May '10

Yeah I'm reopening this topic because I'm yet to find any good twitter client for KDE. I was using choqok till now and loved it but recently an update to it broke it, now it would show read tweets as unread when I quit and launch it again. Qwit isn't that much impressive because it doesn't show me number on the systray. So there isn't anything except the plasmoid, firefox-echofon or chrome-chromed bird ? PS: GNOME isn't installed on my machine so give clients which don't need GNOME libs. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु !

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