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[arch-general] Kernel LTS won't boot properly
by Nilesh Govindarajan 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

I installed kernel26-lts. It will boot properly upto Udev then screen will flicker and then nothing shows up, but it seems like the boot is going on. Its just after when INIT changes the screen font. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] Issue with man
by Damien Churchill 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

I've got a rather confusing issue with man. Whenever I try and view a man page I just end up with a blank screen. http://www.imagebam.com/image/41dd5973332829 This occurs for any page, even for local ones. I was wondering if anyone would be able to shed any light on why this is occuring? Thanks, Damien

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[arch-general] upcoming Xiph releases
by Ray Kohler 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Just a heads-up to package owners that there will be several xiph.org releases very soon now. libao appears to be the only thing with a soname bump (2.1.3 -> 4.0.0). I don't think the rebuild list for it should be very long. See below. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <xiphmont(a)xiph.org> Date: Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [Vorbis-dev] upcoming releases (was: adding directory contents to ogg123 playing in sorted order?) To: Ray Kohler <ataraxia937(a)gmail.com> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Can I take it that the releases of libao and vorbis-tools are > imminent, then? The doc updates from the last day have that feel to > them also. > > I ask because I'd like to give a heads-up to the Arch devs since the > libao release will have a soname bump, and thus they'll have some > rebuilding to plan. (And is libvorbis getting a release soon as well?) I will be releasing libogg, libvorbis, libao and vorbis-tools by the end of the week (I hope). Schedule is actually 'tomorrow', but some small amount of slippage is traditional. Monty

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[arch-general] New Using AUR
by Carlos Mennens 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

I had two questions about using the AUR. I have never done it before and read of the How-To on the Wiki but could someone please answer the following two questions I have: 1. If I build a tarball on 'PC1' downloaded from AUR with the 'makepkg -s' command, can I then transfer the created tarball to 'PC2' and install it even though PC2 didn't have any of the required packages used to create the tarball from the AUR? 2. Once a package is installed from the AUR, when I do a system upgrade via Pacman, will outdated packages I installed via AUR get automatically upgraded or do I have to do all my AUR packages manually?

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[arch-general] Chromium default browser
by Nilesh Govindarajan 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

How to make Chromium as default browser ? I'm using KDE. But I'll like to have the same setting in GNOME too. I changed the command at systemsettings from 'firefox' to 'chromium' It although opens chromium, but doesn't open the link in it. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dbus-core 1.2.24
by Ng Oon-Ee 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 12:43 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote: > Following the crasher release of 1.2.22, this should fix FS#18796. > Please test and signoff. > User signoff x86_64, I reported that bug. 1.2.24 does not show the specific issue reported in FS#18796.

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[arch-general] Battery Monitor Applet (kde4) hangs after s2ram
by Markus Golser 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hi, after I resume from s2ram my battery monitoring applet does not refresh anymore. It shows 100% loaded and plugged in all the time. I have to kill plasma every time in order to get the current charge. cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_now <- shows the correct charge. Maybe someone can help me. Notebook = Dell Inspiron 9400

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[arch-general] MySQL Starts But Fails to Restart
by Carlos Mennens 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

I don't understand this issue so I am posting this here. I noticed today that I had an issue with restarting MySQL on my server: 1. I verify MySQL is not running: Code: [root@ghost /]# ps -ef | grep -i "mysqld" root 1706 1216 0 16:45 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i mysqld 2. I start the 'mysqld' service: Code: [root@ghost /]# /etc/rc.d/mysqld start :: Starting MySQL Server [DONE] 3. I verify that the daemon is running: Code: [root@ghost /]# ps -ef | grep -i "mysqld" root 1715 1 0 16:45 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql mysql 1813 1715 0 16:45 pts/0 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --log-error=/var/lib/mysql/ghost.err --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/ghost.pid --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock --port=3306 4. I then run the command to restart the daemon for MySQL and it fails... Code: [root@ghost /]# /etc/rc.d/mysqld restart :: Stopping MySQL Server [DONE] :: Starting MySQL Server [FAIL] I can use the 'start' and 'stop' commands for /etc/rc.d/mysqld but 'restart' for some reason fails and this concerns me. Can anyone help me understand what is wrong?

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[arch-general] Unable To Rendor PHP Pages in Apache
by Carlos Mennens 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

I today installed Apache on my Arch Linux server. I did the following: # pacman -S php apache php-apache mcrypt pcre Then I edited the /etc/php/php.ini file & un-commented the following: [...] extension=mcrypt.so extension=mysql.so extension=mysqli.so ;extension=odbc.so ;extension=openssl.so ;extension=pdo.so ;extension=pdo_mysql.so [...] I then restarted the 'httpd' service and when I try to render a HTML page with PHP code, it wont rendor the code properly and just looks like a script / code. I don't understand why I can't get Apache to render PHP pages. Does anyone know what I am missing? This is only a problem for me on Arch. RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu. and Slackware all work out of the box. Any suggestions?

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[arch-general] PyPy Build
by Vivek Ayer 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hi guys, I'm having a little bit of trouble building pypy and pypy-svn from AUR. Any chanced someone has a prebuilt arch package for i686 already? If so, may I download it? My X41 only has a 1GB of RAM and the HD on it has degraded. I started the build for pypy on it last Thursday and it's still building! It's using all my RAM and ~400 MB of Swap space. I'd really appreciate any help. Thanks, Vivek

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