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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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[arch-general] Free Arch Linux Shell Account
by Kaiting Chen 01 May '10

01 May '10

Hi, I posted this in the forums a couple weeks ago, just thought that I would copy it here in case anyone was still interested. Hi, I've a couple of Linode's with spare resources so I thought that I would offer some free shell accounts. There are three servers in total each running Arch Linux hosted in a Newark, New Jersey datacenter. The following packages are installed: abs 2.3.4.1-1, alpine 2.00-9, anyterm 1.1.29-1, apache 2.2.15-2, aria2 1.9.2-1, aspell 0.60.6-4, bash-completion 1.1-3, bc 1.06-7, bitlbee 1.2.6a-1, boost 1.41.0-1, cabal-install 0.8.0-2, cairo 1.8.10-1, ccache 2.4-5, centerim 4.22.9-3, certificates 2010-1, cherrypy 3.1.2-1, clisp 2.48-1, cpulimit 1.1-1, cuneiform 0.9.0-1, curl 7.20.1-1, darcs 2.4.1-1, dictionaries 2010-1, distcc 3.1-3, documentation 2010-1, dovecot 1.2.11-2, ecl 10.4.1-1, elinks 0.11.7-3, emacs-full 23.1-5, erlang R13B04-3, fish 1.23.1-2, fontforge 20090923-2, fortune-mod 1.99.1-4, freeimage 3.13.1-1, freetalk 3.2-4, gdb 7.1-2, ghc 6.12.1-4, ghostscript 8.71-3, git 1.7.1-1, gnupg 1.4.10-2, gnupg2 2.0.15-1, gnuplot 4.2.6-1, graphicsmagick 1.3.12-1, gtk2 2.20.0-2, guile 1.8.7-2, htop 0.8.3-1, icecast 2.3.2-3, imagemagick 6.6.1.4-1, intltool 0.41.1-1, ipsec-tools 0.7.3-2, iptables 1.4.7-1, irssi 0.8.15-1, libcups 1.4.3-2, lilypond 2.12.3-2, links 2.2-4, lua 5.1.4-4, lynx 2.8.7-2, maxima 5.20.1-3, mcabber 0.10.0-2, memcached 1.4.5-1, mercurial 1.5.1-1, monit 5.0.3-2, mysql 5.1.46-2, naim 0.11.8.3.2-1, nano 2.2.4-1, ne 2.0.3-1, nethack 3.4.3-4, nfs-utils 1.2.2-2, ngspice 20-1, nss_ldap 264-2, ntp 4.2.6-3, ocaml 3.11.2-1, octave 3.2.3-3, openldap 2.4.21-2, openssh 5.4p1-4, openvpn 2.1.1-2, pacman 3.3.3-5, pam_ldap 184-3, pango 1.28.0-1, parrot 2.3.0-1, perl 5.10.1-5, php-full 5.3.2-6, postfix 2.7.0-2, postgis 1.5.1-1, postgresql 8.4.3-2, python 2.6.5-3, python-jinja 2.4.1-1, python3 3.1.2-3, quota-tools 3.17-1, r 2.10.1-1, rpcbind 0.2.0-1, rsync 3.0.7-1, rsyslog 5.4.0-1, rtorrent 0.8.6-2, ruby 1.9.1_p378-2, rxvt-unicode 9.07-1, sbcl 1.0.37-1, screen 4.0.3-8, slrn 0.9.9p1-6, sphinx 0.9.9-1, spidermonkey 1.7.0-3, subversion 1.6.9-5, system 2010-1, tcl 8.5.8-1, tcsh 6.17.00-1, tesseract 2.04-3, texlive 2009-1, tin 1.8.3-7, tk 8.5.8-2, tmux 1.2-2, toolchain 2010-1, tree 1.5.3-1, ttf-dejavu 2.30-2, unzip 6.0-5, valgrind 3.5.0-3, vifm 0.5-2, vim-full 7.2.411-1, vixie-cron 4.1-11, vsftpd 2.2.2-3, w3m 0.5.2-5, weechat 0.3.2-1, xinetd 2.3.14-5, xorg-xauth 1.0.4-1, zsh 4.3.10-3 I've omitted most dependencies to shorten that list. If a package is requested I'll be happy to install it as long as it is reasonable and secure. You'll be free to run web applications in Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, etc. You will automatically have a PostgreSQL account with the ability to create databases and if requested you will also be given your own LDAP tree. In addition you'll also have an email account that can be forwarded or accessed via IMAP or POP3. Feel free to compile software. There's also a whole slew of mathematical, statistical, and scientific software installed so feel free to run mathematical simulations etc. Each server has a 3GB /tmp partition of which most likely 2.8GB will be accessible to users who need the space temporarily (for compilation, etc.). I'm thinking right now that I'd like to allocate 256MB to each users to start off with and see how things work out from there. Uptime so far hasn't been fantastic but the servers have been undergoing a lot of changes lately so once everything is set I'm anticipating pretty good uptime. Basically all I'm asking for in return is that if you see a security hole or something stupid to let me know. I don't expect anyone to look for anything at all but if something happens to catch your attention please forward your concerns to me. Thanks. I am offering 24MB, 96MB, and 256MB accounts. Please make a reasonable estimate as to how much disk space you will use. You will be able to "upgrade" or "downgrade" later but please make a reasonable estimate now because changing that option later is a lot of work for me. Remember that /tmp has 2.8GB and is the recommended place to do compiling and such. If you'd like an account please reply on the list or email me at kaiting.chen(a)kiwilight.com. I need your first and last name as well as your email address. I also need to know whether or not you would like LDAP access. When your account is created you'll receive an email with your temporary password and the instructions for SSH'ing into your server. Please read the information in that email carefully. Also note that the servers have a first.last name username scheme which I really like so unfortunately I can't accommodate custom usernames. If you have a serious problem with this please email me and we can discuss a solution. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

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[arch-general] Time for an arch-security mailing list?
by Ananda Samaddar 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Does anyone agree with this? If so how do I go about requesting the creation of such a list? The list would be for discussion around security in Arch, implementations and user/dev input etc. It seems like package signing has moved up the agenda now and I've also got a few things I'd like to suggest but I feel we'd be better served by a separate mailing list for security. Ananda

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[arch-general] Crisp Rendering Fonts
by Carlos Mennens 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Is there any suggestion on Arch Linux running Gnome 2.6.30 to improve the crisp / clearness of my fonts? I installed the latest available nVidia drivers & under 'Appearance' > 'Fonts' > 'Details', I show the following: * Resolution: 98 dots per square inch. * Smoothing: Subpixel (LCD) * Hinting: Slight * Subpixel Order; RGB It just never seems as clear and crisp when I compare side by side to Ubuntu or Windows 7. The font clarity is notable difference beween Arch and I would like to change this. Any help and or tips would be greatly appreciated! -Carlos

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[arch-general] perl prereleases request to make official decision to deviate from general guidleines
by Caleb Cushing 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

I'm working on a PKGBUILD for perl 5.12 and I notice that it's providing 20 some odd prerelease modules. I'm annoyed but I can't do anything about it. The general PKGBUILD guidelines say use the same as upstream unless there is a hyphen. so for a perl prerelease of 0.90_1 that guideline follows to release it as exactly the same. However 0.90_1 is == 0.90.1 and greater than 0.90 which it is a prerelease for on cpan. I'd like to suggest that for perl the official guideline be to make the version 0.90_pre1 Dist::Zilla a release automation tool also allows for using a format _TRIAL which is not yet popular on cpan but does happen should pacman add a _trial ? to the list of options? I think we could just use _pre here too. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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