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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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[arch-general] [signoff] ar9170-fw-1.0-2-any
by Giovanni Scafora 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Hi guys, please signoff. ar9170-fw-1.0-2-any After signoff, I will be moving it from testing to core. Note: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16837 I have got already a signoff by Martin Dratva (raqua). -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

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[arch-general] Please update boost from [extra] - PKGBUILD attached
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Boost in [extra] has been out-of-date since 1830 (and marked as such) and even though I mailed the maintainer two weeks ago no update happened. Here is my updated PKGBUILD for 1.41.0 which is actually a bit neater than before since no silly patches are required anymore. I'm currently running this package and see no trouble. Please use this to update boost in [extra] :). -- Sven-Hendrik # $Id: PKGBUILD 47703 2009-07-25 14:37:19Z giovanni $ # Maintainer: kevin <kevin(a)archlinux.org> # TU: Kritoke <kritoke(a)gamebox.net> # Contributor: Luca Roccia <little_rock(a)users.sourceforge.net> # Contributor: Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh(a)lutzhaase.com> pkgname=boost pkgver=1.41.0 _boostver=${pkgver//./_} pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries." arch=(i686 x86_64) url="http://www.boost.org/" depends=('python>=2.5' 'bzip2' 'zlib') source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/${pkgname}/${pkgname}_… license=('custom') options=(!ccache) md5sums=('8bb65e133907db727a2a825c5400d0a6') build() { cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver} #export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fno-strict-aliasing" #export CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -fno-strict-aliasing" # build bjam cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver}/tools/jam/src ./build.sh cc || return 1 _bindir="bin.linuxx86" [ "${CARCH}" = "x86_64" ] && _bindir="bin.linuxx86_64" install -m755 -d ${pkgdir}/usr/bin install -m755 ${_bindir}/bjam ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/bjam || return 1 # build bcp cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver}/tools/bcp ../jam/src/${_bindir}/bjam || return 1 install -m755 ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver}/dist/bin/bcp \ ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/bcp || return 1 # build libs cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver} # default "minimal" install: "release link=shared,static # runtime-link=shared threading=multi" # --layout=tagged will add the "-mt" suffix for multithreaded libraries # and installs includes in /usr/include/boost. # --layout=system no longer adds the -mt suffix for multi-threaded libs. ./tools/jam/src/${_bindir}/bjam \ release debug-symbols=off threading=single,multi \ runtime-link=shared link=shared,static \ cflags=-fno-strict-aliasing \ --prefix=${pkgdir}/usr \ -sPYTHON_ROOT=/usr \ -sPYTHON_VERSION=2.6 \ -sTOOLS=gcc \ --layout=tagged \ install || return 1 # --with-wave install || return 1 # -d2 <- debug cflags=-fno-strict-aliasing \ # build pyste cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver}/libs/python/pyste/install python setup.py install --root=${pkgdir} || return 1 # license install -m755 -d ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname} install -m644 ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver}/LICENSE_1_0.txt \ ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/ || return 1 }

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[arch-general] [signoff] mdadm-3.1.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi Changelog: http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm;a=blob;f=ANNOUNCE-3.1.1;h=9e480dc0e31582… Please update and recreate your initcpio after upgrading. Moved udev rule for md devices to mdadm package. In case of moving, both need to be moved simultaniously. Still an issue in initscripts: One thing i observed, when using a custom /etc/mdadm.conf file our rc.sysinit will run mdadm --assemble --scan, which will always give exit code 2, due to devices busy. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] usable browser?
by Robert Howard 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

I don't understand why people want to use software that has no features. If something has more than one feature, people bitch about bloat. FF is not that bad nor is Seamonkey or any of the webkit stuff. On Nov 26, 2009 9:52 PM, "Thomas Bewick" <tombewick(a)gmail.com> wrote: Tobias Kieslich wrote: > > dillo, simplistic, bone simple, limitations on the functionality > Bottom... Seamonkey is quite fast. Although I am not using it now I have in the past and I know it is used extensively in Puppylinux because it is full featured and light weight, even including a mail client. Since it is developed by Mozilla it is very similar to FF in functionality but does not have all the extras that slow FF down. I agree that FF has gotten very bloated in the last few years, I think to compete with and explorer and make windows users happy. But as a result the browser is not what it used to be. I currently use chrome both on windows and in Arch and it runs the fastest of any others for me.

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[arch-general] Upgrading libwebkit finds conflict between udev and initscripts
by Samuel Baldwin 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

I have no idea why this happens, and I'm too afraid to let udev clobber initscripts to let this go through. Should I just let it go? What's up with this? arrakis^~# pacman -Sy libwebkit :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: udev conflicts with initscripts. Remove initscripts? [Y/n] n error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: udev: conflicts with initscripts -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

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