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[arch-general] Xorg 7.5 hits testing
by Andreas Radke 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

I've built the new Xorg 7.5 based on xorg-server 1.7.1rc1 and Mesa 7.6. Some very old drivers have been dropped because they are no more developed and won't build anymore. I hope I have updated all essential parts. Some Xorg fonts related packages still need a bump. Mesa 7.6 is built right now plain upstream. This means Gallium 3d stack for Nouveau and Intel. For Intel we might go back to old way DRI when we can't solve some existing issues. Radeon is built the old DRI way. Let's pray the update goes smooth. So far only Jan has played with Intel drivers. We will probably need some time until all important regressions and bugs have been solved. Good luck. -Andy

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[arch-general] Warning: dbmail is broken
by Sergej Pupykin 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Hi, dbmail package built with old gmime and broken with last update. It does not compile with current gmime, so do not wait update soon. Please keep old gmime. I do not want to put old gmime to community. Also any links and patches appreciated)

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[arch-general] wrong size.
by kurrata 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

I noticed that my conky hard drive free space reading dropped from 50+GB free on /home to under 10GB. I did "du /home/martins/ --max-depth=1 -h" and it showed that "48G /home/martins/.VirtualBox" is eating up all the space. After that I did "du /home/martins/.VirtualBox/ -h" Output was this: 48G /home/martins/.VirtualBox/Machines/win_xp/Logs 48G /home/martins/.VirtualBox/Machines/win_xp 48G /home/martins/.VirtualBox/Machines 48G /home/martins/.VirtualBox/ This output is showing something very wrong and I checked all my files with thunar. all files were small with hidden files shown. My virtual disk files(.vdi) are stored on /mnt/extra(other hard drive). I used virtualbox earlier today so it did something most likely Any ideas what could be wrong?

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[arch-general] Updated PKGBUILD for conky to show hwmon information after kernel upgrade
by Partha Chowdhury 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

I am pasting/attaching updated PKGBUILD for conky with reference to this bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16584 PKGBUILD: # $Id: PKGBUILD 50303 2009-08-25 11:05:41Z giovanni $ # Maintainer: Giovanni Scafora <giovanni(a)archlinux.org> # Contributor: James Rayner <james(a)archlinux.org> # Contributor: Partha Chowdhury <kira.laucas(a)gmail.com> pkgname=conky pkgver=1.7.2 pkgrel=2 pkgdesc="An advanced, highly configurable system monitor for X based on torsmo" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://conky.sourceforge.net/" license=('custom') replaces=('torsmo') depends=('alsa-lib' 'libxml2' 'curl' 'wireless_tools' 'libxft' 'glib2' 'libxdamage' 'imlib2') makedepends=('pkgconfig') source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/${pkgname}/${pkgname}/${pk… http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Enorsetto/%2Bjunk/conky/download/head%3A/fix_…) build() { cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver} #Apply patch to make conky look in right place in /sys/class/hwmon/ patch -Np1 < ../../fix_hwmon_for_2.6.31.patch || return 1 ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --enable-wlan \ --enable-rss \ --enable-ibm \ --enable-imlib2 \ --disable-lua make || return 1 make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install install -D -m644 COPYING ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE } md5sums=('cf6f5d45d42ad68c618c00271813b80d' 'efb3e188cd3879fc7b5af51b59d553ec')

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[arch-general] PKGBUILD
by Baho Utot 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

I am constructing a PKGBUILD for a package and I know some of the variables have been depreciated Has $startdir been removed if so what is it new equiv. Thanks

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[arch-general] dd and bash_completion
by Thomas Göbel 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hi all, i noticed that bash_completion and dd do not work together. Tiping dd if=/h<TAB> will not complete to if=/home. Without bash_completion everything works fine. Maybo someone knows how to fix this? Tom -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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[arch-general] Should samba be considered out-of-date?
by Ng Oon-Ee 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Currently samba has just been upped to 3.3.8. However the current 'stable' for samba according to their website is 3.4.2. As I'm sure the maintainer already knows about this, I'm wondering which of the changes in samba 3.4 (listed http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.4.0.html initially) is holding up adoption of the package. Is it (as I suppose) the changeover to tdbsam breaking current configs? My interest in this is that samba 3.4 has samba4 sources available which could potentially be used for a merged-build. Unfortunately the build process for samba (as seen in the samba 3.3 PKGBUILD) is really scary for me, so I'm hesitant to try it out, also I would have no way of knowing if any eventual samba 3.4 package would be able to replace samba 3.3 functionality. Basically this is something between a 'flag out-of-date' and a feature request.

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Re: [arch-general] confirm LTS kernel / usb printer permission issues
by Evangelos Foutras 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

Evangelos Foutras wrote: > Evangelos Foutras wrote: >> Andreas Radke wrote: >>> btw: do you have problems using an usb printer and "lp" group >>> permission like I posted to the mailing lists? I could only workaround >>> it. >>> >>> -Andy >> >> It happens here too. However, the printer device ends up in the >> vboxusers group, regardless of whether the printer is on during boot >> or started afterwards. >> >> /etc/udev/rules.d/10-vboxdrv.rules contains: >> >> KERNEL=="vboxdrv", NAME="vboxdrv", OWNER="root", GROUP="vboxusers", >> MODE="0660" >> SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", GROUP="vboxusers", MODE="0664" >> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", GROUP="vboxusers", >> MODE="0664" >> >> I'm not familiar with the way udev rules are evaluated, but it >> appears that the rule that's supposed to set the printer's group to >> "lp" isn't being applied, for some reason. > > I can further confirm that, after moving the 10-vboxdrv.rules file out > of the rules.d directory and starting the printer, it ends up in the > root group. If I then run `udevadm trigger' like you did, the printer > switches to the lp group. > > This is weird. :) One more thing I just noticed is that the output of `udevadm monitor' when starting the printer after boot on each kernel differs greatly. Output of main kernel: KERNEL[1255295569.533848] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3 (usb) UDEV [1255295569.537766] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3 (usb) KERNEL[1255295569.538878] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0 (usb) UDEV [1255295569.538904] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/usb_device/usbdev2.2 (usb_device) KERNEL[1255295569.538925] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/usb_device/usbdev2.2 (usb_device) UDEV [1255295569.580559] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0 (usb) Output of lts kernel: KERNEL[1255295761.541586] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3 (usb) KERNEL[1255295761.544490] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0 (usb) KERNEL[1255295761.544514] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.2_ep01 (usb_endpoint) KERNEL[1255295761.544533] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.2_ep82 (usb_endpoint) KERNEL[1255295761.544551] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/usb_device/usbdev2.2 (usb_device) KERNEL[1255295761.544568] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.2_ep00 (usb_endpoint) UDEV [1255295761.546607] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3 (usb) UDEV [1255295761.546639] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.2_ep00 (usb_endpoint) UDEV [1255295761.546819] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/usb_device/usbdev2.2 (usb_device) UDEV [1255295761.585708] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0 (usb) UDEV [1255295761.586338] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.2_ep01 (usb_endpoint) UDEV [1255295761.586368] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.2_ep82 (usb_endpoint) Not sure if the above is important, but it struck me as a bit strange. :> PS: Moving the discussion to the arch-general mailing list, in case anyone wants to chime in. :)

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[arch-general] confirm LTS kernel / usb printer permission issues
by Andreas Radke 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

I have a permission issue when using the kernel26-lts with my usb printer. The device doesn't always get "lp" group. Especially when I switch it off and on again. Then new cups 1.4.x can't find the printer. With kernel 2.6.30 and 2.6.31 the group is always set well. I already asked a few udev upstream devs without a solution so far. See http://www.spinics.net/lists/hotplug/msg02798.html It would be nice if some of you could try confirming my problem and maybe you can help me to find the reason why it fails on my server. Thanks. -Andy

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[arch-general] Defunct processes left behind for screen and firefox
by Ciprian Dorin, Craciun 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

Hello all! I'm having the following issue: after opening and closing some shells within the same screen session, I'm left with a bunch of defunct bash processes, that screen doesn't seem to wait for... Is there any issue with screen? Or is there any issue in general, as Firefox plugin FireGPG seems to do the same with gpg. (Which it didn't on Debian.) Thanks, Ciprian.

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