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[arch-general] Amavisd-new Only in AUR?
by Carlos Mennens 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

I know I can download packages from AUR but I really could not believe that 'amavisd-new' is not in 'Community'. I would think this tool for email / virus scanning would be popular enough to be voted into 'Community' repo. Does anyone have any idea what is holding this software back from getting votes / moved into the 'Community? Is it considered buggy or just not widely used enough in the Arch community? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=573 Thanks for any input.

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[arch-general] KDE 4.4 + pnm2ppa + CUPS
by Lars Tennstedt 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

Hello and a happy new year, I have noticed print problems on my pc sine the release of KDE 4.0.0. I guessed that I had to wait that the KDE 4 or Qt 4 print backend got better. But at the moment I use KDE 4.3.4 on Arch Linux with pnm2ppa from AUR and CUPS. My box is up-to-date. I can print with Firefox, GIMP, OpenOffice and GNOME applications but I cannot still with KDE 4 or Qt 4 applications. I did not find anything about that issue. Can someone help me? Bye Lars

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[arch-general] Changed GNUstep directory in new windowmaker package
by Daniel Isenmann 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

Hi, today I have released a new release of the windowmaker package. The important change is the GNUstep directory. I have changed this to /usr/lib/GNUstep. It was requested as a bug report (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15301) and it’s now equal to Debian’s GNUstep directory location. That means, you have to change the directory for the WPrefs.App which has now the new location. All other things should be run without problems. If you have older GNUstep applications, you have to recompile them with the new location if they way located in the old GNUstep directory. -Daniel

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[arch-general] Messages from fcron
by Magnus Therning 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

I keep on getting messages from fcron along what can be found below. Does anyone know where I should look to fix this? /M -------- Original Message -------- Subject: fcron <systab@tatooine> /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.daily Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 08:58:09 +0000 From: <magnus.therning(a)ntlworld.com> To: magnus.therning(a)ntlworld.com error: syslog-ng:1 duplicate log entry for /var/log/crond.log error: found error in /var/log/messages.log /var/log/auth.log /var/log/mail.log /var/log/kernel.log /var/log/errors.log /var/log/daemon.log /var/log/user.log /var/log/iptables.log /var/log/everything.log /var/log/syslog.log /var/log/acpid.log /var/log/crond.log /var/log/lpr.log /var/log/uucp.log /var/log/news.log /var/log/ppp.log /var/log/debug.log , skipping

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[arch-general] xorg hotplug & openbox
by János Illés 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

Hi guys, I anyone still experience this[1], please reply to this thread. I think it is solved[2] and should be removed from the wiki but I thought I should doublecheck. Thanks. [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_input_hotplugging#Arrow_keys_don.2… [2] http://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3885 -- ijanos

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Fwd: nvidia oops
by Evangelos Foutras 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Just forwarding this on. Is this important enough to post a news item about? > Or should we just force-downgrade the affected drivers? This has been taken care of in http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18580 (the second option was selected). :)

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[arch-general] Ekiga on x64?
by Magnus Therning 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

Has anyone gotten Ekiga to work on x64? I can't seem to get a connection to the echo service. I believe I've eliminated all possible network issues by successfully running ekiga 3.0 on a x32 ubuntu machine. Any suggestions? /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] grub2 and xfs seems not to work :(
by Tobias Powalowski 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

Hi guys, i'm just trying to get grub2 support in archboot's setup. Now i have found an irritating thing it seems it doesn't like xfs and the ususal xfs_freeze hack from grub1 is not working anymore. Does anyone already use grub2 with xfs and if yes how did you solve this issue. Many thanks for input on this weird issue. greeings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Automatic LVM assembly - call for testers
by Thomas Bächler 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

Traditionally, LVM is assembled by running "vgchange -ay" manually. That has several problems, especially if one of the physical volumes is missing when the VG was supposed to be assembled. This has been experienced by people who use LVM on USB storage for their root device. I came up with a way of assembling LVM automatically through udev: A udev rule combined with a short shell script waits until all required physical volumes have been detected, then assembles the volume group in the background. This also works when adding a removable device to the system at any time. I'm asking anyone with LVM and a bit of spare time to test this. I'm especially interested in results from people who have a volume group on more than one hard drive. This is how it works: Get the package from: http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/lvm_autoassemble/ If you want to use this for detection of your boot device: Replace the "lvm2" hook with the "lvm_autoassemble" hook in mkinitcpio.conf and recreate the initramfs (make sure to keep a copy of the working one, as always). Possible side-effects: There may be some trouble when dealing with removable devices that contain LVM physical volumes: The volume groups are automatically activated, but have to be deactivated manually before removing the drive. Furthermore, when you remove a device and add it again later, the mechanism that detects whether all PVs have been found might fail and "vgchange -ay" may be run too often. Another side-effect is that I didn't add --ignoremonitoring to the script, so dmeventd may be started in initramfs (for mirror or snapshot volumes), which may not be desired. Any feedback is welcome.

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[arch-general] top posting
by Juan Diego 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

Hello listmates, is there any special reason of why top-posting is a bad thing?

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