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[arch-general] DE
by Sergi Pasoev 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Does anyone have installed LXDE on Arch Linux?

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[arch-general] Problems with most recent gstreamer updates
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hey everybody, I was wondering whether anybody else had trouble since the update to extra/gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins 0.10.14-1 and extra/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.16-1 using applications that make use of gstreamer. A couple of people including me seem to have issues with it that cause all gstreamer applications to fail. I'm bringing this up on the mailing list because I can't seem to find the root cause of the problem by myself and because gstreamer is a critical part of any Gnome setup (gnome-settings-daemon fails without it, for example). The problem on running gstreamer applications is this: Error re-scanning registry , child terminated by signal Even gnome-settings-daemon in debug mode has little more relevant info than this error message. Since gstreamer itself probably doesn't provide detail logs of what went wrong, I'm having trouble finding the cause. The gstreamer bug tracker doesn't have a bug filed on this so I don't know whether this is an Arch problem or an upstream problem. The Arch bug report is here: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16060 Can you guys try to help out debugging? -- Sven-Hendrik

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Re: [arch-general] New user
by Sergi Pasoev 10 Sep '09

10 Sep '09

The only problem I had, was installing Video controller, But I compiled at last... I like it too. Thanks for reply. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Jozsef <jozefk(a)gmx.com> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Sergi Pasoev wrote: > > > Hello! I am new here and new to Arch Linux too.... I have been using > Debian > > GNU/Linux before. I am posting this mail just for saying hello! > > Hello Sergi and welcome to Arch world :) > I used SuSE for couple of years, then Debian a few months after that and > up to date I'm on Arch and will never look for any other distro in Linux > world. > Have a nice time with Arch Linux! > > -- > Best, > Jozsef Kurucity | Web & Graphic Designer > +971 50 6783113 | jozefk(a)gmx.com >

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[arch-general] KDE packages orphaned?
by David Rosenstrauch 10 Sep '09

10 Sep '09

Just wondering: It looks like many of the KDE packages are now orphaned. e.g.: kdebase-dolphin, kdebase-konsole, etc. Anyone know why and/or if there's any plans for someone else to adopt them? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] How to specify configure options with makepkg
by Nigel Henry 10 Sep '09

10 Sep '09

I'm trying to install psychosynth from AUR. Ogre is one of the deps, but the comments on the psychosynth page say to compile Ogre with devIL, not freeimage, which is the default image loader. Configure says that I can set an option, --disable-freeimage, but where do I set this option when using makepkg to build Ogre? I have installed devil, so it's ready to be used by the configure script, which includes instructions for both freeimage, and devIL. Thanks for any help with this. Nigel.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.27.33-1
by Andreas Radke 10 Sep '09

10 Sep '09

New LTS kernel. No changes to the config, no further patching. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/887240 and because of a build issue http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/887529 I'd like to move it soon to core. Please give signoffs. If you don't use it try it out if it works for you as fallback and can boot into shell with a clean dmesg. Thanks. -Andy

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[arch-general] Konsole problems
by Lars Tennstedt 10 Sep '09

10 Sep '09

Hello, I searched the forum and the bug database for this and did not find anything about it. I have a problem with Konsole. I am using KDE and the binary nvidia driver. The composite effets are enabled and my system is up to date. Sometimes Konsole's window disappears partially. Then I have to minimize and maximize the window to renew it. I did not recognize this behaviour when KDE 4.2 was installed on my system. Does anybody have similar problems? It is not a big problem at all. But it is a little bit annoying. Thanks for your help! Bye, Lars Tennstedt

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Re: [arch-general] Anyone else who has alsa issues?
by Johannes Held 10 Sep '09

10 Sep '09

Hi. Tobias Powalowski <t.powa(a)gmx.de>: > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16094 No, I can't have two apps play at the same time. I'm not using KDE or Gnome at all - but it's more a gtkish system :) But perhaps a restart will fix this. I don't know. lsmod | grep snd* snd_seq_dummy 3540 0 snd_seq_oss 36224 0 snd_seq_midi_event 8592 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 64640 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 8324 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 47328 1 snd_mixer_oss 20976 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_hda_codec_realtek 278132 1 snd_hda_intel 31208 1 snd_hda_codec 82128 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 9976 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm 90872 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_timer 25344 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 76744 11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 8576 2 snd snd_page_alloc 10784 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm lspci -v 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device a022 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22 Memory at fa200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. Mast und Schotbruch mit dem http://segelsport-blog.de.

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[arch-general] IPv6 Support
by Sascha Siegel 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

Hi there :) I searched the web but I can't find any about IPv6 in rc.conf. I saw in Debian you can put some v6 stuff in /etc/network/interfaces. So I thought maybe I can do the v6 stuff in rc.conf but how? And can I use v4 and v6 at the same time in the same rc.conf? Next question is can I put multiple IPv6 addresses in rc.conf? So for all of you who don't know about IPv6. You can handle a lot of IPv6 addresses at one interface. Can someone help, please? Thanks a lot! King regards, Sash aka hardcore ______________________ You live in a fabricated world. Regulated by complex laws. Controlled by national governments. Governments restrained by international authorities, Watched by enforcers that are controlled. Controlled by controllers that ironically enough Are also controlled. CTRL.ALT.DELETE

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[arch-general] Maximum JFS file (not filesytem) size
by Dwight Schauer 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

Dear fellow Archers, I tarred up a couple filesystems and piped the tar stream through ssh to a remote computer where I dd'ed it to a file. This a common backup method I've been using for a few years now if I'm going to wipe a system and start over. I'm using JFS on the arch linux system that was being copied to. The resulting file ended up being 137G (which is about right based on the source filesystem usage). du --human --total a4b4.tar 137G a4b4.tar 137G total However, I can only restore from 63G of the tar ball, so I attempted to see how much could be read. dd if=a4b4.tar of=/dev/null dd: reading `a4b4.tar': Input/output error 123166576+0 records in 123166576+0 records out 63061286912 bytes (63 GB) copied, 1193.69 s, 52.8 MB/s There were no critical files in that tar ball that are not kept elsewhere, that is not the issue. At this point I can consider what is past the 63G point in the tarball to unrecoverable, which is fine. I tried skipping the first 63GB, but that does not work. dd if=a4b4.tar skip=123166576 of=/dev/null dd: reading `a4b4.tar': Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 27.2438 s, 0.0 kB/s It seems like it took a while to figure out that it could not perform this operation. The box in question is running an OpenVZ patched 2.6.27 kernel, but that might not have anything to do with it. Yeah, I know, I could have used bzip and made 2 separate files, I could have used rsync -av, I could have checked tarball before wiping the source files systems, etc, that is not the point here. Now that I know that JFS on my setup has a 63GB file size limit, I know now to accommodate for that in the future. I'm mainly just curious on how the system could write a larger file than it can read. Dwight

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