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[arch-general] [patch] AIF, partition table compatibility with grub2.
by Mark Pustjens 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Hi list, The attatched patch adds the `-D' option to the sfdisk call. This causes some extra space to be saved for the MBR, which is needed for grub2 in some cases. Please let me know what you think. Greetings/Groetjes Mark Pustjens -- I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted. (alt.fan.pratchett)

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[arch-general] [signoff] util-linux-ng-2.17.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Hi major changes: - removed loop aes crypt support please signoff, 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] Fwd: Re: [arch-dev-public] monotone needs botan 1.8.x
by Andrea Scarpino 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

forwarded to arch-general ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] monotone needs botan 1.8.x Date: Friday 05 March 2010, 17:48:28 From: Marq Schneider <queueram(a)gmail.com> To: Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org>, Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org>, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> I'm emailing you guys directly since i don't think i have access to this mailing list. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 08:34, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Looking at the release notes, monotone appears to ship with an internal version of botan. > Can you just use that rather than making an additional package? I have never heard of or seen this in the monotone source. If you want to build botan 1.8.x and statically link it in as part of the monotone PKGBUILD. See my attached PKGBUILD on FS as an example (the 2nd one) [0] On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 08:34, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I think I dragged this into the repos a few years ago when it appeared > it might become one of the big DVCS tools. This one stayed under the > radar compared to git and mercurial, however. Pidgin does use it for > what it is worth to manage their codebase. I've been following this discussion on arch-dev-public and the FS [0]. I work on pidgin from time to time, so this is a must have for me to continue development. I wanted to ask: why did botan get updated to using the development (1.9.x) branch instead of the stable (1.8.x) branch? Arch jumped from 1.8.5 to 1.9.3 back in November. I am all for keeping packages up-to-date, but i am not sure that i agree with hopping to the development branch. I don't follow the botan mailing list at all, but the stable branch is still worked on (now up to 1.8.8). If nothing requires 1.9.x, would it do any harm to revert botan to 1.8.x? Regards, Marq [0] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17297 [1] http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/botan/trunk/PKGBUILD?op=log&rev=0&… ----------------------------------------- -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[arch-general] Automounting internal devices in Gnome
by Flavio Costa 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Hi, Before Gnome 2.28 (I've been using Arch since 2.22, I guess), Gnome used to be able to mount my internal devices (in this case some NTFS partitions I have, and yes use Windows sometimes...) automatically (I just had to grant a permission on a neat GTK interface). I guess that magic used to happen due to a set of softwares working together, those being HAL, DBus, PolicyKit and Gnome. When Gnome 2.28 came out (and also devicekit-*, the replacement of policykit with polkit and the deprecation of HAL) this neat magic dissapeared and I've looked for many solutions in the forums or in others places but I couldn't found one. Everytime I want to use those extra NTFS partitions, I have to manually click one the "Places" menu and select the device, after clicking I'm prompted for my root password. I type it and the disk is mounted. But that's boring (all my musics are stored on the NTFS partition, so everytime I want to listen to them I have to do this). I even managed to supress the prompting for the password but I believe that due to some update that stopped working. $ cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/61-custom.conf [Automount Devices] Identities=unix-group:storage Action=org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.* ResultActive=yes ResultAny=no ResultInactive=no The above doesn't work anymore (I have to enter the password everytime). So despite of fstab, does anyone knows the solution or a workaround for this problem? -- Flávio Coutinho da Costa

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[arch-general] Crazy cursor with Linux Wacom on Tablet PC
by Sachiel 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Hi All, I have a Lenovo X200 Tablet PC, and I've been using Linux Wacom drivers from AUR [1] with no problems. A few weeks ago, I decided to check for new drivers, and I not only found that I wasn't using the last linuxwacom drivers, but that they have been changed to xf86-input-wacom [2]. Ok, I removed the linuxwacom paquet, and compiled & installed the new ones. But I discovered that the pen has gone crazy, as you can see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGCjuniMYbY . Sorry for the video, but I didn't know how to explain the problem with just words. Touching with finger works ok, it just needs calibration to correct a little displacement. The PC is a Lenovo X200 Tablet, I've tried xf86-input-wacom and xf86-input-wacom-git [3], I've tried with no xorg.conf file (auto configuration), and using an xorg.conf file as commented in ThinkWiki [4], and the behaviour is always the same. I've tried to recompile the old linuxwacom, but the current version in AUR doesn't compile, and I don't have a copy of the previous version I was using. Of course, I've also tried googling, but no results with "Linux Wacom flickering cursor" or similar wording. Any hint? Maybe this doubt is more suited for Linux Wacom developers that General Arch Linux? Regards, Sergi [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16912 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28999 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32033 [4] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

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[arch-general] weird network issues
by David Rosenstrauch 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Normally the nm-applet puts me online automagically. Not today. :-( nm-applet showed up as disconnected when I booted up and logged in today. (Only time I've ever seen that happen before is when I had accidentally turned off the wireless switch on the laptop.) Looking through the logs showed this: Mar 4 11:11:13 daroselin kernel: hald-probe-inpu[5326]: segfault at 2 ip 00007f52cac12559 sp 00007fff5fec02b0 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[7f52cab9c000+14d000] Mar 4 11:11:13 daroselin kernel: hald-probe-inpu[5327]: segfault at 2 ip 00007f6f0c274559 sp 00007fff58dc1420 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[7f6f0c1fe000+14d000] Mar 4 11:11:13 daroselin kernel: hald-probe-inpu[5328]: segfault at 2 ip 00007f54140b8559 sp 00007fffb42a2c30 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[7f5414042000+14d000] Restarting hal generates more of the same messages. I was finally able to get online manually using netcfg, but I'd like to get this up and running again. Anyone have any idea what's going on? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] kernel 2.6.33-1
by Tobias Powalowski 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Hi guys, kernel 2.6.33 first test run ... Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Arch Linux bugfixes/feature requests: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18249 # added HPET http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17970 # added CONFIG_USB_GSPCA_PAC7302 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17791 # added UTS_NAMESPACE http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17756 # added CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER for WCHAN http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16715 # added Linux Container support - added jfs and reiserfs statistics Arch Linux changes: - changed radeon kms enabled by default - merged ext2/ext3 support into ext4 module - nouveau module is still provided as out-of-tree module, it's more up to date. Broken binary modules: - lirc,fcpcmcia,madwifi,tiacx though no fix available yet. Needs to rebuild: - 686 modem binary modules Enjoy have fun and give me feedback, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Weird group: rtkit
by Magnus Therning 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

I was just poking around in my /etc/groups when I found rtkit:x:99: I suspect this belongs to rtkit in some way. However, this group id conflicts with nobody:x:99: Looking at the rtkit.install I notice that the group id isn't hardcoded, so I don't quite know how this could have happened. Is there likely to be any harm in renumbering the rtkit group to some unused id? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] kde4.4 upgrade and nvidia
by richard terry 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

I noticed mention was made about 'bitmap fonts like terminus will be broken. Does that mean that nvidia driver won't work? or is it still safe to upgrade. Regards Richard

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[arch-general] Tired of being asked for a password for "su"? Arch has the solution
by David C. Rankin 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

Guys, Working through the setup of my new server, I rad across a wonderful hidden time-saver in /etc/pam.d/su. If you have configured sudo in the normal way by providing sudo access to members of the 'wheel' group, you can avoid having to type the root password to 'su' by uncommenting the following line in /etc/pam.d/su: auth sufficient pam_wheel.so trust use_uid As the comment says, the entry causes pam to implicitly trust members of the wheel group. Eliminating the need to type a 14 char pw 10 times a day is a time-saver. My only concern is how secure it is to allow pam to do this? I'd welcome any thoughts by those that understand whether this causes a concern. Thanks and thanks to whoever put this little gem in /etc/pam.d/su -- 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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