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[arch-general] screen
by Juan Diego 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Hello everyone the screen applications had stopped working on my computer, I am experimenting this only during X sessions, I have the theory that it might be because of the recent tty changes, but Im not sure exactly which were the changes so I cant really tell the only way I can make it run is giving it a name to the screen session, something like this: screen -S term anyone got similar behaviour? any ideas of how to fix this? Good bye

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[arch-general] Drupal Packages
by David Campbell 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Greetings all, I am wondering if anyone would be interested in working with me to create a repository containing the most commonly used Drupal modules, themes, and installation profiles. I feel like a major lacking of Drupal is that it does not have a good way for managing its packages. Drush is a start, but being able to set up and maintain sites with something like pacman would be so much more powerful and useful. I also know there are some major hosting companies such as slicehost which support Arch servers/VPS which might be pleased to have good package manangement for a major CMS. The packages might also help to enforce good file structure practices etc.. Let me know what you think or if you know anyone who might be interested in working on the project (also, if I should be posting this somewhere else). -David Campbell

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[arch-general] OpenOffice Calc - Setting Cell Background Color does Not Display on Screen - prints OK
by David C. Rankin 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Guys, I'm having a problem with openoffice calc. When I highlight a few cells or few rows and then change the background color, no color is shown on the monitor for the cells. Moving the input box up/down across the rows or cells that the background color was set on, the color indication in the toolbar correctly changes showing where the color has been set, but still no background color is displayed in the cells on-screen. Oddly, when I print the spreadsheet, the background color is correctly printed?? Can some one confirm this on your install or let me know "works for me" so I can have some additional info before filing a bug report. Thanks. -- 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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] List of packages that could be rebuilt if you have nothing better to do...
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Allan McRae wrote: > Hi, > > I have created a list of packages the could use a rebuild but for > which there is no hurry. These include packages without the arch in > their filename, packages containing a .FILELIST file, packages with > man pages in /usr/man or uncompress man and info pages. See > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Unimportant_Rebuild_List > > Do people think this is useful and should I move it to the DeveloperWiki? > > Allan > Good job. And for "Packages that can be converted to arch=any" sometime ago I sended a list of tentative packages [#1]. Its old and some of listed packages [#2] are now "any" [#1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-July/005960.html [#2] http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/misc/any.txt -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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[arch-general] can't unlock a luks encrypted partition. (urgent).
by Hussam Al-Tayeb 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Hi, I'm having a problem with disk encryption using luks. I have my /home disk (on a separate disk 'sdb') encrypted using luks. I have this in /etc/cryptsetup home /dev/sdb1 ASK and this in /etc/fstab /dev/mapper/home /home ext4 defaults,user_xattr 0 1 Suddenly today, it won't accept the passphrase on boot. I'm sure that I'm entering it correctly. It took me 32 tries the first time and many more the second reboot after kernel 2.6.31.3 update. The annoying thing is that archlinux only takes three tries then fails and I have to reboot to try again. Any idea please? I'm 100% sure I'm entering the passphrase correctly. I don't have another operating system installed or anything and I go back to work in a few days so looking for a new distribution or operating system is not a favorable option. I really need help please :/ [root@LARS hussam]# cryptsetup status /dev/mapper/home /dev/mapper//dev/mapper/home is active: cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 keysize: 128 bits device: /dev/sdb1 offset: 1032 sectors size: 156295290 sectors mode: read/write

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[arch-general] makepkg git download agent
by Ciprian Dorin, Craciun 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Hello all! Just a small question: is there somewhare a download agent for makepkg that uses Git? Thanks, Ciprian.

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[arch-general] [signoff] openvpn 2.1_rc20-1
by Thomas Bächler 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Upstream update, please sign off (due to the low usage of this package among developers, I also ask users to sign off).

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[arch-general] kernel 2.6.31-4, conky and hwmon issue
by Partha Chowdhury 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Hallo all. here is my problem: last week when kernel was upgraded to 2.6.31, it broke conky and hwmon on some of the machines. So i opened FS#16584 and it was resolved in an update of conky . However it broke conky and hwmon on another set of machines as reported in this thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=82231 But as latest reported by Beini in FS#16650, the updated hwmon patch should work on both set of machines. Which is evident as me and another member with similar configuration have reported success in the ongoing thread. But the other side has yet to report anything. So i think that is blocking the update of conky. So in this situation, i am asking for your information and feedback about this issue, if you happen to be one of the affected users.

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[arch-general] [signoff] iw 0.9.17-1
by Thomas Bächler 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

Upstream update, please sign off (due to the low usage of this package among developers, I also ask users to sign off).

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[arch-general] How to get libasound_module_pcm_jack.so
by hollunder＠gmx.at 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

Any idea where to find libasound_module_pcm_jack.so or how to compile alsa to get it? It's probably of no use to the majority of arch users but it's a module that has to be enabled by hand in asoundrc anyway, so I think it wouldn't hurt to make it available for those that find it useful. Philipp

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