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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.33.2-1
by Tobias Powalowski 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Latest kernel is in testing since weekend, please signoff for both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

I'm no longer a kde fan, I used to be until almost everything they changed for kde4 ticked me off... Over all I'm just as glad they did because otherwise I wouldn't have discovered E17 (or XFCE) which are currently my two main desktop environments. However, kde has some apps that I'm still addicted to: One of them is the old kde3x version of kaffiene for playing my music files. I never really embraced most of it's advanced features, and frankly I dislike using playlist files. What attracted me to kaffeine was when I discovered that with the kde3x version I could use the keyboard to do an: File->Open URL->PathToMusicDirTree Where PathToMusicDirTree is the top most directory of a multi directory structure that contains only music files and directories to more music files. And kaffeine would open not only any music files within "PathToMusicDirTree" but recursively any music files in any of it's subdirectories. I could add and delete files to and from this directory tree and know that the next "File->Open URL->PathToMusicDirTree" would result in kaffeine playing all of them. At most all I needed to do was to set shuffle and repeat options to enjoy my background music for as long as I wanted it. That is all I ever wanted of a music player... Since kde4 I've learned that I really need to build a playlist by repetitively using "File->Open URL-> NonRecursiveDir" until I've added each and every subdir of "PathToMusicDirTree" one at a time. Worse, I need to rebuild the playlist file every time I want to add or remove music from my files... But every time I've tried an alternative it either insists on making me work with playlists, or only wants me to control it via the {many expletives deleted}rodent pointing device. or both. Worse still with the version I added to my Arch install (extra/kaffeine 1.0pre3-1) the command "Playlist ->Save As" doesn't work. So I have to work with playlists I create from one of my other distros. Another odd thing about this version of kaffeine is that "File ->Play Audio CD" only likes to play the first track... Could somebody recommend another media player I could try that will let me create temporary music lists on the fly by typing the path to a parent dir containing multiple music directories??? One that understands keyboard commands for it's functions??? And hopefully one that doesn't force me to break out a microscope to read any displayed text or labels on some prettified gui representation of some livingroom sound system where I don't even know which knob or button it wants me to click on is supposed to do what??? -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>>

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[arch-general] Failed installation - part 2
by fons＠kokkinizita.net 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Hello all, I retried the installation that failed last week, with the same result. But this time I found this: 3 packages were reported to be 'corrupted': gettext-0.17-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz perl-5.10.1-5-i686.pkg.tar.gz man-pages-3.24-1-1-any.pkg.tar.gz I could well have missed this last time as to see the error you have to scroll down the page instead of just hitting RETURN to continue. I tried again twice using different mirrors, same result. All this with the 2009.8 install images, and run with LC_COLLATE=C. Then I tried the new one. This time all packages downloaded without errors, but the install failed at the 'Install GRUB' stage with on tty7 the messages that neither of /boot/grub/stage1 /grub/stage1 did exist. So now I'm really lost... The only real difference between this install and all the previous ones is that this time I have to go via an http proxy. Any help will be appreciated ! -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !

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[arch-general] testing xorg-server 1.8 [xorg18]
by Marek Otahal 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Thank you for a great job, Jan. I can confirm the xorg-server 1.8 works great for me! :) I'm running on [testing], i686, kernel 2.6.33.2, xf86-video-intel, touchpad(synaptics), keyboard, usb keyb/mouse hotpluging works as well, sound(intel hda) & guvc video webcam .... just upgraded and voila, works like a charm! :) Happy Easter to all of you! Marek ...well, here's an update after a deeper tryout :) *touchpad(synaptics) - issues with tapping which does not work /buttons do/ *a note for testers, one can disable !hal from rc.conf but make sure to include dbus instead(hal used to start it up) otherwise policykit fails *I have troubles with resuming from suspend/black screen/ but have to make sure if it is not a problem of kernel. *as I'm using kde, here's a problem: battery monitor is disabled and i'm not sure if cpu freq scaling under kde works(probably problem of kde?, acpi command shows correct info), also there is a dependency on hal- pacman -Rcsn hal would remove a great bunch of packages(including kde), how do I figure, whats the dep.? Thanks once again, Mark PS: I would reply to arch-dev-public thread but i don't have write access to it -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] F@H Group Logo Missing
by James Corley 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

The Folding@Home Arch Linux group logo is missing. http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=45032

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssl, heimdal and icu rebuilds
by Flavio Costa 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Andreas Radke <a.radke(a)arcor.de> wrote: > > OpenOffice related packges: > > > > OpenOffice-base is done. > > Go-OpenOffice i686 done, x86_64 failed due to a smp related issue. Will > > build it over night non-smp. > > > > Openoffice-base- beta/devel are missing and both are no stoppers to > > me and will be build with updated versions within a few days. We can > > leave them out for now. > > > > > > Xorg-server depends on OpenSSL. So we need to move it along with > > OpenSSL/Heimdal/Icu rebuild. Means also to move the kernel and other > > related Xorg packages from testing (not the Xorg18 repo). > > > > So far now further issues. Signoff x86_64. > > I had good luck with everything yesterday on both my i686 and x86_64 > boxes. pacman-git hiccuped a bit but that is my own fault (so had to > do some reinstalling when vercmp was failing due to linking issues). > openoffice-base was also working fine last night on my x86_64 box. > > Thanks to everyone who chipped in here, this was a big update that got > done really quickly. I'll signoff for both architectures on just about > everything (i686 is a headless, no-X box, x86_64 is my desktop). > > -Dan > I had some 'vercmp' linking issues when upgrading to kernel26 (2.6.33.1-1 -> 2.6.33.2-1) and system-tools-backends (2.8.3-1 -> 2.10.0-1), so I guess it is not an isolated problem. After the complete -Suy, I manually -S'ed kernel26 and system-tools-backends and they ran smoothly. -- Flávio Coutinho da Costa

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[arch-general] Some icons don't work anymore since update to Gnome 2.30
by Karol Babioch 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

Hi, I've upgraded to Gnome 2.30 today, which worked quite great so far. I'm astonished by the speed such updates get into the repositories, you are doing a great job! However I've experienced a strange issue. Whenever I try to click on some of my icons on the desktop (e.g. "Computer", "Home", "Trash"), the desktop seems to get refreshed, and nothing happens. Other icons (text files, movies) work just like expected, so I don't know what the issue could be. When I start Nautilus from the menu, it works also just great, so there has to be something with the icons wrong? Can anyone reproduce/confirm this? Seems really odd! -- Best regards, Karol Babioch <karol(a)babioch.de>

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[arch-general] Sign-offs for community-testing?
by Ng Oon-Ee 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Hi all, I noticed a new pulseaudio in [community-testing], do request for sign-offs for that come to [arch-dev-public] as well? Or the AUR ML (which I'm not on)?

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[arch-general] new netinstall image required ?
by fons＠kokkinizita.net 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Hello all, I wanted to do a new install today, using netinstall on an USB stick which has worked at least 5 times before, the last time less than two weeks ago. Things failed in the 'Configure System' phase, seems I didn't have an /etc under /mnt (and yes I did have a '/' partition and it was mounted on /mnt !). Do I need a new /arch/setup ? Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !

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[arch-general] heimdal-1.3.2-1 (from testing) still linked against openssl 0.9.8
by Chris Brannon 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Hi, According to ldd, the heimdal package in [testing] is still linked against openssl 0.9.8. This shouldn't be the case, should it? -- Chris

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