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[arch-general] leafnode-svn and zoneminder
by Geoffrey Lane 02 Dec '09

02 Dec '09

I'm having two seperate issues here, one is simply a question or request for an AUR, but the other is dependancy hell and I can't resolv without removing some components. For several reasons I'd like to try leafnode 2 (beta), they have a git repo which should be easy enough - But I'd like to make a pkg out of THAT so it can be removed in future. Anybody know of a repo or a template for making a arch package out of a svn/git repo? zoneminder is kind of a security application, it allows you to monitor webcam over the net or record pictures/video. If I try to install the package it says it requires mmpeg-svn and a few others. mmpeg-svn also requires x264-git, which will remove x264, mmpeg (reg), and vlc. Vlc has no package that seems to depend on mmpeg-svn so if I remove it I get rid of my favorite video player. I'd appreciate the help getting fustrated on the second Geo -- "'Bill Gates can't guarantee Windows, so how in the HELL can you guarantee our safety!' --John Crichton (Farscape)"

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[arch-general] packages installed to /usr/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu and x86_64-unknown-uclibc -- broken??
by David C. Rankin 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Guys, Picking though /usr/ (because I've nothing better to do...) I ran across two directories that look like they do not belong where they are. The directories are: 02:19 alchemy:/usr> find x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/ -type d x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/ x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/arm-elf x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/arm-elf/lib x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/arm-elf/include x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/i486-mingw32 x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/i486-mingw32/lib x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/i486-mingw32/include 02:20 alchemy:/usr> find x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/ -type d x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/ x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/lib x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/lib/ldscripts x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/bin x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/include x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/include/net x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/include/sys x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/include/neteconet x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/include/bits x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/include/arpa x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/include/netinet x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/include/netipx x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/include/netpacket x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/include/rpc x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/include/scsi x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/include/netax25 x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/include/protocols I have an understanding of the files in x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, but I don't know what the uclibc files are specifically (I mean I know libc, just not the uc part). There are a large number of files here: 02:20 alchemy:/usr> find x86_64-unknown-linux-uclibc/ -type f | wc -l 367 Full file list at: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/usr-x86-64-unknown.txt The file dates on the files are November 5th. These directories look like they should be somewhere else, so I'm putting it to the brain-trust, bug or feature?? -- 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] SBCL orphaned for i686?
by Leslie P. Polzer 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Hi, I'm part of the Paktahn development team; Paktahn is a yaourt-like frontend to Arch package management written in Common Lisp. At the moment SBCL is our main deployment Lisp, and we depend on the 1.0.32 release of SBCL because this release includes a critical patch. We have noticed that SBCL i686 in extra is now marked as "orphaned". If this is true, what are the implications of it? Will SBCL for i686 move to AUR/Community? And can we do anything to remedy this situation in order to get SBCL 1.0.32/.33 in soon? Thank you! Leslie -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/polzer

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[arch-general] usable browser?
by Arvid Picciani 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Hi, ever since ff3 turned firefox into unusable, i'm on the quest to find a usable browser. Chromium was quite decent for a while (after fixing the dbus dependency) despite it deadlocks when you mouse-move tabs (fortunately i dont do that anyway), but recently it started timing out on every second request. The answer from google was: deactivate your windows firewall, so well.. back to searching a browser. Basicly each and every firefox clone/fork/based browser has the same issues as firefox (100% disk i/o all the time even when idle), so those don't work. webkit based browsers can't render half of the internet properly. i wonder if somone cloned chromiums webkit thing and made a brwoser of it? uzbl is quite decent, i wish they'd use chromes rendering. opera would be awesome if it didn't have billions of popups and their "Upgrade to opera10" popup really made me uninstall opera. any options left? -- Arvid Asgaard Technologies

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[arch-general] Single Person ISP?
by Brendan Long 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

So recently Verizon has stopped letting me do free tethering and I've been looking for a replacement. Apparently all of the free ISPs I can find all require that you use their shitty Windows program to connect, so I decided, "I have a phone line, a modem and an internet connection, maybe I can make my own ISP". Basically, I want to take a computer with a dialup modem and an ethernet connection to a cable modem and make it so whenever someone calls, the computer picks up and acts like an ISP (requests username/password, then forwards all requests to the cable modem). Obviously, it wouldn't be that great (added latency, phone line won't work while it's active), but it's at least theoretically possible. I'm just wondering if there's software designed to do it. -Brendan Long

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[arch-general] Pretty Cool Dark Blue Arch Linux kdm/xdm greeter theme for your box
by David C. Rankin 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Guys, I cannibalized a cool dark blue gradient kdm/xdm greeter theme for Arch from kubuntu (it's GPL). Works great. Just unzip the file (it has full path information to /usr/share/apps/kdm/themes). Then I just used kde systemsettings -> System -> login manager -> themes to select it and then log out and you should have it looking at you. Enjoy: (~401k due to the svg dialogs..) http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kdm/ArchSpotLight.tar.gz -- 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] kmail spellcheck reporting no errors when there plainly are errors - can someone confirm?
by David C. Rankin 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

Guys, With KMail Version 1.12.3 Using KDE 4.3.3 (KDE 4.3.3), kmail isn't catching any spelling errorssss. Eggsample: lsdfjhosijg Spellcheck with kmaaail: "Spell check complete." WTF?? If you can confirm, I'll bug it. -- 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] Frustrating Dependencies
by Phillip Smith 29 Nov '09

29 Nov '09

Hi all, So, there's currently a frustrating chain of dependencies: digikam -> kdepimlibs -> akonadi -> mysql So to manage my digital photos, I need a relational database system...! On a desktop system that I don't use for development, it's a bit annoying to have to have mysql taking up space, downloads during updates etc. Is there anyway we can get around this particular chain of deps? It's not a major issue, but just "one of those things" ;) Cheers, ~p

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[arch-general] leafnode not allowing connection (connection refused)
by Geoffrey Lane 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

I'm just playing around a bit with leafnode. It installed ok, and no dependancy crud. But I cannot connect to it The FQDN is set to my dynamic dns server my leafnode config file has been setup with user/pass, server, port my hosts.allow/deny are actually removed for now, and there is no firewall running I can run the leafnode program/daemon and it shows it is running // 200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.11.7 running at [dns] (my fqdn: [dns]) // I should be able to use slrn or even telnet to connect but it says connection refused. I looked in the logs for refusal or error msg and all I found was in News.log -- and there didn't seem to be problems. Here's the output, it seems to say the connection to x-privat was successfull: // Nov 26 23:06:11 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: news.x-privat.org: connected to 194.177.98.144:119, reply: 200 Nov 26 23:06:12 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: news.x-privat.org: 0 articles posted. Nov 26 23:06:13 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: news.x-privat.org: getting all newsgroups (debug: active: nil, forceactive: true) Nov 26 23:06:19 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: <215 list of newsgroup names follow Nov 26 23:06:28 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: news.x-privat.org: reading server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.x-privat.org Nov 26 23:06:28 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: wrote active file with 22485 lines Nov 26 23:06:28 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: child has process ID 6070 Nov 28 16:23:26 Desktop leafnode[30420]: connect from (local file) (no IP) to [dns] (no IP) (my fqdn: [dns]) // Oh and initial fetch does work: // [root@Desktop log]# sudo fetchnews -vvv -n alt.os.linux.ubuntu -x 2000 leafnode 1.11.7: verbosity level is 3, debugmode is 0 Don't automatically unsubscribe unread newsgroups. try_lock(timeout=5), fqdn="[fqdn]" news.x-privat.org: connecting to port nntp... news.x-privat.org: connected to 194.177.98.144:119, reply: 200 news.x-privat.org: connected. news.x-privat.org: using STAT <message-ID> command. news.x-privat.org: authenticated as [user] news.x-privat.org: 0 articles posted. news.x-privat.org: getting new newsgroups news.x-privat.org: got 0 new newsgroups. news.x-privat.org: reading server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.x-privat.org news.x-privat.org: conversation completed, disconnected. wrote active file with 22485 lines Started process to update overview data in the background. Network activity has finished. // Anybody have any ideas why the connection is refused? I'm not sure which avenue to follow now since it won't even allow localhost. I saw no howto for arch so not sure if there are any additional steps needed. I've more or less followed the howto for ubuntu here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=676837 I'd appreciate any help at all thankies Geo -- "'Bill Gates can't guarantee Windows, so how in the HELL can you guarantee our safety!' --John Crichton (Farscape)"

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[arch-general] Can`t post on bbs
by Dimytch 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Hi all I can`t register on archlinux bbs - site say "your email was banned". (yandex.ru) What did I do??? I`ve never been registered on this site, and I use my email about 4 years, so nobody did`nt used my email for something wrong. Also it says the same for address on mail.ru. Ppl, do you hate russian? //Dimytch

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