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[arch-general] [OT][kde-announce] KDE SC 4.4.2 Released
by Gaurish Sharma 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Hi, Just wanted to share new version 4.4.2 KDE Upstream is out. Its mainly a bug fix realease and no features are added. All users are expected to update as it would improve over stability of system. -- Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com

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[arch-general] /etc/rc.local: "chown user: /dev/sda10" /etc/fstab: "defaults, owner, noauto"
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

/etc/rc.local: "chown user: /dev/sda10" /etc/fstab: "defaults,owner,noauto" Or more accurately: /etc/rc.local: "chown jtwdyp: /dev/disk/by-label/j10_lap-10" I've been allowing only my normal user account to mount 3 such user "owned" partitions in various distros this way {without needing to use sudo} for years. I know that ever since USB devices made static /dev/* lists unusual, the ownership of any partition gets set to root during root. But I've always been able to count on my root script to chown them back, returning ownership to the data owner, if {depending on the distro} I either sourced it in some rc.local file, OR if some debian based distro didn't like rc.local script's I'd just symlink it with something like: ln -s /root/bin/fix_dev /etc/rcS.d/S38fix_dev I only needed to take care that my root script 'chown'ed the partitions AFTER the device names in /dev had been dynamically created. And it worked. I was pleased to note that Arch evidently does think a rc.local is an appropriate place for local initialization stuff to happen. However it's come to my attention that about 5 out of the last 25 times I've booted Arch only 2 of the 3 partitions 'chown'ed in my /root/bin/fix_dev script can be mounted by my user account. (unless I use root account to manualy rerun the /root/bin script...) On the occasions when a user script's attempt to mount the 3rd such partition fails {with an error message telling me that only root can do that} the other two such partitions mount just fine. Is there something special I need to do to get Arch to *_consistently_* respect all three chown commands??? I really dislike the idea of changing the fstab entry from "owner" to "user" even if since the mountpoint is in a subdir of /home/jtwdyp, I could just rely on: cmod 700 {the mount points parent dir} along with the file permisions within the partition itself, to keep the data private. Somehow it just wouldn't feel right to extend the mount permisions to just any user even though this multi-boot linux box is my personal computer that nobody else uses... Recommendations anyone? -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>>

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] grep-2.6.1-1
by Xavier Chantry 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >> On Friday 26 March 2010 13:57:08 Allan McRae wrote: >>> Upstream bug fix release. >>> >>> Signoff both, >>> Allan >> I got a segfault when I do: >> $ grep -qrl --include "desc" "^pacman$" "/var/lib/pacman/local/" >> >> x86_64 >> >> -- >> Andrea >> > > Same here, not surprisingly. If someone wants to compile with debug > symbols, they'd probably have more of an idea than this: > > $ gdb --args grep -qrl --include "desc" "^pacman$" "/var/lib/pacman/local/" > A very quick look at the git repo : http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=54d55bba41f2ff31682fe6… I just love these easy to browse web interface :)

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[arch-general] preserve db tarballs
by Caleb Cushing 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

when the files like core.db.tar.gz are downloaded they aren't preserved right? is there any way to configure pacman to preserve them? my problem is that I've switched to using wget and that now these are always downloaded... out of date or not. I imagine it's because wget doesn't actually have a file to check because they aren't preserved. I use wget because I throttle the download, I can easily fill my ADSL. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] Pulseaudio doesn't see the correct sound card.
by "Jérôme M. Berger" 28 Mar '10

28 Mar '10

Hi, I have two "sound cards": one is the integrated sound card on my motherboard and the other is the HDMI output from my video card. The integrated sound works fine with ALSA, but when I tried using pulseaudio, it only sees the HDMI card (according to pactl list). I tried changing /etc/pulse/default.pa: - First, I tried replacing module-udev-detect with module-detect. This resulted in pulse seeing the integrated sound card, but only the S/PDIF output, not the speakers; - Then I tried removing autodetection and using module-alsa-sink directly, but the pulse daemon failed to load the module. Anybody knows how I can get pulse to see my alsa sound card? Thanks, Jerome -- mailto:jeberger@free.fr http://jeberger.free.fr Jabber: jeberger(a)jabber.fr

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[arch-general] The libgmp update
by Hilton Medeiros 27 Mar '10

27 Mar '10

Hello, just to confirm, all the packages linked against the new libgmp should follow 'coreutils' example and use 'gmp>=5.0', right? I just saw that gnunet didn't. Cheers, Hilton

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] grep-2.6.1-1
by Guillaume Brunerie 27 Mar '10

27 Mar '10

2010/3/27 Jan de Groot <jan(a)jgc.homeip.net> > On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 22:57 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > Upstream bug fix release. > > > > Signoff both, > > Allan > > Signoff x86_64. > > On my computer (x86_64), "grep -r a ." segfault, with grep 2.6.1-1. "echo a | grep a" works without problems.

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[arch-general] cups - dependency breaks upgrade "/etc/cups/subscriptions.conf exists"
by David C. Rankin 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Guys, A cups check on /etc/cups/subscriptions.conf is stopping an update from completing: samba-3.5.1-1-i686.... 10.3M 129.5K/s 00:01:21 [########################################################] 100% ttf-junicode-0.6.17... 910.0K 127.3K/s 00:00:07 [########################################################] 100% vim-bufexplorer-7.2... 16.9K 54.5K/s 00:00:00 [########################################################] 100% xine-lib-1.1.18.1-1... 2.7M 126.6K/s 00:00:22 [########################################################] 100% :: Retrieving packages from community... keepassx-0.4.3-1-i686 1076.7K 128.9K/s 00:00:08 [########################################################] 100% checking package integrity... (247/247) checking for file conflicts [########################################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) cups: /etc/cups/subscriptions.conf exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Do you want me to open a ticket? I've just move subscriptions.conf as a work around. Shouldn't this situation just result in a .pacnew file instead of stopping the update? -- 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] Dirty fonts in Chromium
by Nilesh Govindarajan 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Appearance of sites in Chromium is very dirty, though I didn't change the default font settings. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] Firefox Spellcheck Missing
by Carlos Mennens 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

I just installed Firefox from Pacman repositories and noticed that I don't have the default add-on spell checker for Mozilla Firefox. I was afraid to download some crappy 3rd party spell checker add-on for Firefox and just wanted a plain English spell checker since I am the worst speller. Can anyone please help me and tell me how I can install / download the default Firefox English spell checker?

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