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[arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 20 May '09

20 May '09

Listmates, I'm building a local repo for boxes to update via the lan instead of redownloading. I have my repo on my local server as: arch/ x86/ x86_64/ I have moved all files for my two x86_64 boxes to the arch/x86_64 dir and I am filtering with a script to eliminate dups by moving the lesser numbered packages to arch/x86_64/oldpkgs. Testing the script before the actual move of packages, I ran across this anomaly in some filenames: (script output) [1] <snip> ttf-isabella-1.003-3.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs ttf-isabella-1.003-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz tunepimp-0.5.3-5.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs tunepimp-0.5.3-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz tzdata-2009f-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs tzdata-2009g-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz unrar-3.8.5-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs unrar-3.9.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz <snip> As shown above, there are multiple packages where the earlier version did *not* contain the x86_64 designation where the current package now does. Are these the same packages? If so why did earlier packages not have the x86_64 and when was the architecture added? Are all packages now going to have the architecture specified? Footnotes: [1] Filtering done by a simple look ahead and the output created as follows: PKGFILES=( $(ls -1 /home/backup/archlinux/x86_64) ) for ((i=0;i<${#PKGFILES[@]}-1;i++)); do if [[ ${PKGFILES[$i]%%-[[:digit:]]*} == ${PKGFILES[$i+1]%%-[[:digit:]]*} ]]; then echo -e "${PKGFILES[$i]} -> oldpkgs\n${PKGFILES[$i+1]}\n" fi -- 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] broken john package
by Sébastien Duquette 19 May '09

19 May '09

The package for john is broken, it is missing files that make it unusable. I filled a bug report (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14422) a month ago and other users complained about this issue. The current maintainer is andrea and the package was last updated on april 8th. Can someone please fix this ? Thanks, Sébastien

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[arch-general] netcfg SCAN patch
by Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi, a typing error on src/connections/wireless. [ ]s -- Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto Robinho robsonpeixoto(a)gmail.com Telefone: (19) 8821-0396 Computer Science Master's degree student, University of Campinas Archlinux-br Developer Team - http://archlinux-br.org Linux Counter #395633

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[arch-general] error dumped to terminal: kdeinit4: ... /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 on kdemod3?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 18 May '09

18 May '09

Listmates, Here is a curious one. I am getting KDE4 errors dumped back to the screen on my KDE3 (kdemod3) screen hours after kdiff3 was run from the terminal? Here is what is getting dumped back to my terminal through stderr on my x86_64 install: kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KBuildServiceFactory::createEntry: Invalid Service : "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" kbuildsycoca4(25149) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/opera.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/scribus.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KBuildServiceFactory::createEntry: Invalid Service : "/usr/share/applications/scribus.desktop" Anybody ever seen something like this before. It looks like it will be a kdemod issue related to the fact that kdiff3 was built against the kde4 runtime, but I thought I would ask hear to see if anyone else has seen something like this before? I have a bug open with kdemod: http://www.chakra-project.org/bugs/showreport.php?bugid=271 where additional details can be found. The times associated with running kdiff3 and then the above error messages have me confused. Specifically I ran kdiff3 and got the following output on stdout at 2:12 am: 02:12 alchemy:~/tmp/cursor/xcursorgen-1.0.2/mycursors> kdiff3 QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kded4 kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(16647) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/opt/kde/share/applications/kde/k3b.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). kbuildsycoca4(16647) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/opt/kde/share/applications/kde/filelight.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). <snip> Then hours later, I received the stderr messages: [05:15 archangel:~/tmp] # kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kconf_update kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4 (21983)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line <snip> [09:05 archangel:~/tmp] # kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line Now I'm not trying to run kdeinit4, that just what is coming back trough stderr and my prompt just happens to have a timestamp in it to help gage time. Is there anything I can do with kdiff3 to prevent the call to kdeinit4? -- 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] Howto create initial xorg.conf for intel 915?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 18 May '09

18 May '09

Listmates: I have been throught http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_Graphics, and even added the section on howto calculate your VideoRam value, but I didn't find anything about generating an initial xorg.conf for the intel card. Currently I have no xorg.conf and things are working, but not as fast as they could. I would like to configure the card to use UXA accell, but I need an xorg.conf to tweak. Anybody know a quick way to create one? 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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[arch-general] Xpdf pl3 PKGBUILD
by Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto 18 May '09

18 May '09

PKGBUILD for xpdf pl3 [ ]s -- Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto Robinho robsonpeixoto(a)gmail.com Telefone: (19) 8821-0396 Computer Science Master's degree student, University of Campinas Archlinux-br Developer Team - http://archlinux-br.org Linux Counter #395633

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[arch-general] AARG! kinit: cannot open dev(8,7) kernel panic
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 17 May '09

17 May '09

Listmates, I am in a fist-fight with grub again most likely due to /dev/disk/by-uuid and I'm losing the battle. First, the situation. I'm moving and resizing partitions from an 80G drive to a 500G drive. No issues there. The partitions setup is: /dev/sda1 WinXP /dev/sda2 Extended /dev/sda5 /home /dev/sda6 / /dev/sda7 swap /dev/sda8 /boot After moving and resizing the partitions windows boot fine and Arch boots until it gets to kinit and then throws a kernel panic. I have updated the disk/by-uuid labels in /boot/grub/menu.lst and in /etc/fstab, but still the kinit error. As far as my grub install goes, the system boot to the grub menu and it is reading /boot/grub/menu.lst because I can boot XP from the grub menu, but not boot Arch. Gurus... What to check? Throw a brother a bone.... Where else is the disk by-uuid stuff hidden? -- 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] Bugs again
by Damjan Georgievski 17 May '09

17 May '09

Sorry to bring this again, but something has to change in the way bugs are handled in Arch. I've open this bug report http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13905 about the awesome package in community. The package maintainer just closes the bug, not solving it, claiming it's upstream, and not even investigating the problem. He suggests I ask upstream. Ok, I play a good citizen, I do ask upstream, we find the problem, a sollution is found - it turns out the PKGBUILD was wrong from the begining - but still I submit a patch to awesome so that building it is much easier. I request reopening the bug .. it's a small text-area, not very usable, so I just write "New information" .. since the bug was closed with "You may want to ask upstream why they install those files by default.". And then I get the answer: Reason for denial: You need to be more specific that "New information" in a reopen request... Now, it's not like I enjoy hanging out in the bug system opening bugs, investigating them, hoping to improve ArchLinux's packages.. and I don't see how I could've deserved this behaviour. The bug report shouldn't have been closed in the first place, since the problem was not even solved. -- damjan

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[arch-general] Setting up print to postscript in openoffice 3
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 16 May '09

16 May '09

Listmates, While I was on the subject, I thought I would pass this tip along. Let me know if this should go to forums instead of here. Printing to pdf is no problem in ooo3, just hit the button, but if you want to print to postscript, then things take a little more work. Printing to kprinter is nebulous in ooo3, so there has to be another way -- and there is. The simplest way I have found is to: (1) install cups & cups-pdf from extra; (2) start cups with /etc/rc.d/cups (Add to deamons line in /etc/rc.conf to start automatically at boot) (3) access the cups print manager: http://localhost:631 and select: Administration -> Find New Printers Select CUPS-PDF (Virtual PDF) Make: Generic Driver: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer Done! Now to print to postscript, just print as usual, choose "CUPS-PDF" as the printer and then select the checkbox for "print to file", hit print and enter the filename.ps and 'print' Handy for faxes, etc... Since cups pdf uses the ps2pdf utility as the background, you are simply stopping the process with "print to file" before the ps2pdf utility is called. -- 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] gparted dependency failure `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 16 May '09

16 May '09

Listmates, Attempting to run gparted from the local drive (after installing all listed optional dependencies of gparted) to resize a partition on a usb drive disclosed a dependency failure: [09:33 supersff:/home/david/linux/partition-copy] # gparted /usr/sbin/gpartedbin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found (required by /usr/sbin/gpartedbin) Hmm should this be reported as a bug or chocked up to stupidity on my part? -- 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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