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[arch-general] latest xorg- significant slowdown
by Jonathan Brown 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Hi all Upon updating to the latest xorg/nvidia (Xfce), and rebooting, X seems to take about 4 times as long to start, and programs seem to take about 2-3 times as long to start up. Anyone else having similar issues? Not really sure how to run any metrics on this, but X is now significantly slower, including noticeable delays in switching between apps/windows.. I can even tell that weechat in urxvt is slower. -Jon

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[arch-general] xf86-video-intel very slow
by Jaime Oyarzun Knittel 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Hi! I have been experiencing slowdowns with the (new) xf86-video-intel driver (everything else updated). I had to move to xf86-video-intel-legacy driver because with this one I can play 1080p movies and enable desktop effects in KDE and play flash games and videos... which I couldn't with the newest driver. So xf86-video-intel is still buggy, I own a Thinkpad x61 with an Intel x3100 video card. How can I help in seeing what is the problem (logfiles, recompile with debug options, etc.)? Thank you very much! -- Jaime Oyarzun Knittel http://www.archlinux.cl/

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ttf-ms-fonts (WAS: Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] New feature: files verification)
by Loui Chang 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 04:39:23PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > > Am Montag, 30. März 2009 12:17:07 schrieb Thomas Bächler: > >> I say we drop it, as it does not meet Arch's packaging standards. > > > > Yes, if we cannot package it the way we want, lets drop it. > > Can we confirm that things look "nice" without these fonts? I remember > fonts being terribly ugly way back when without this package. Actually I would recommend that ttf-ms-fonts be made a depends, or at least an optdepends of wine. The text in some windows programs is unreadable without it.

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[arch-general] Wifi not working after kernel upgrade to 2.6.29
by Ondřej Kučera 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Hi, I've just upgraded kernel to 2.6.29.1-3 and since then I can't connect to my wireless network. netcfg times out and says "Wireless association failed". The driver is iwl3945, here is the profile's content: CONNECTION="wireless" INTERFACE=wlan0 SCAN="no" SECURITY="wpa" ESSID="foo" KEY="foobar" IP="dhcp" TIMEOUT=20 QUIRKS=(preessid wpaessid) If I correctly understand how it all works, wpa_supplicant is run and then "wpa_cli status" is saying "wpa_state=SCANNING" for the whole 20 seconds until netcfg gives up. Does anybody have similar problems or knows a solution? Perhaps also relevant lines from /var/log/everything.log: Apr 10 00:00:33 hermione kernel: iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 Apr 10 00:00:33 hermione kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0:radio Apr 10 00:00:33 hermione kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0:assoc Apr 10 00:00:33 hermione kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0:RX Apr 10 00:00:33 hermione kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0:TX Apr 10 00:00:33 hermione kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready Apr 10 00:00:55 hermione kernel: iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera

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[arch-general] Nautilus upgrade runs CPU at 100%
by Will Siddall 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

Hey everyone, I already sent a message about this earlier but no one replied. So, I'm giving this another try. My last message, I didn't know what exactly was going on, but I knew it happened since the last Gnome upgrade to 2.26. After searching around, it starts at the gnome-session call when it tries to load Nautilus. So, I downgraded nautilus back 2.24.2 and everything goes back to normal. Now that I've narrowed it down to Nautilus, can someone tell me what's going on so I know what to look forward to at the next nautilus upgrade, or what I should check so I can get nautilus back to 2.26. Thanks, Will

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[arch-general] mysql won't start after upgrade
by Scott Weisman 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

I just upgraded MySQL on my Arch box to the latest version (5.1.33-1), and all of a sudden, MySQL won't start. I get the following in my mysql.err file (in /var/lib/mysql): 090412 07:53:21 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql /usr/sbin/mysqld: Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist 090412 7:53:21 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it. InnoDB: Error: log file /var/lib/mysql/ib_logfile0 is of different size 0 5242880 bytes InnoDB: than specified in the .cnf file 0 16777216 bytes! 090412 7:53:21 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error. 090412 7:53:21 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed. 090412 7:53:21 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: unknown variable 'innodb_log_arch_dir=/var/lib/mysql' 090412 7:53:21 [ERROR] Aborting 090412 7:53:21 [Warning] Forcing shutdown of 2 plugins 090412 7:53:21 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete 090412 07:53:21 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/lib/mysql/humidor.pid ended I run mysql_upgrade, as instructed, but it also doesn't work. It expects a working daemon of MySQL, which as the above log output attests, isn't available. Can someone help?! Until this upgrade, MySQL has run flawlessly for years. Thanks, Scott

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[arch-general] namcap wiki page
by Abhishek Dasgupta 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

I made a wiki page on namcap: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Namcap Could someone go through the page and point out any errors or omissions, especially in the "Making a namcap module" section? It'd be nice if this page and the Arch Packaging Standards were listed on the main page of the wiki. That would help a lot of users in finding out about namcap which doesn't seem to be used as much as it should be. -- Abhishek

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[arch-general] no sound on thinkpad t61
by Adam Stokes 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

[root@shinzo ~]# head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 Codec: Analog Devices AD1984 kernel-doc/ALSA-configuration.txt AD1984 basic default configuration thinkpad Lenovo Thinkpad T61/X61 dell Dell T3400 [root@shinzo ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad [root@shinzo ~]# lsmod |grep '^snd' snd_seq_oss 35584 0 snd_seq_midi_event 9344 1 snd_seq_oss snd_hda_intel 531252 4 snd_seq 58336 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 9364 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_hwdep 10632 1 snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss 45440 0 snd_pcm 82952 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 24720 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11792 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm snd_mixer_oss 18944 1 snd_pcm_oss snd 65224 15 snd_seq_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss [root@shinzo ~]# ls -l /dev/snd total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 8 2009-04-10 17:14 controlC0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 7 2009-04-10 17:14 hwC0D0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 6 2009-04-10 17:14 pcmC0D0c crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 5 2009-04-10 19:01 pcmC0D0p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 4 2009-04-10 17:14 pcmC0D1p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 3 2009-04-10 17:14 seq crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 2 2009-04-10 17:14 timer everything is unmuted in alsamixer. what else am i missing? thanks -- ( adam stokes ) || ( adam.stokes(a)gmail.com )

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[arch-general] Bug reports for out of date packages?
by Ondřej Kučera 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

Hi, Arch's packages usually (almost always) get updated pretty fast and the system "don't create a bug report, just flag the package out of date to get dev's/TU's attention" works fine. But sometimes there exist packages both in community and in extra (I'm not sure about core but maybe even there) that don't get updated even after a significant time from the upstream's release (e. g. swt, amarok, jre or jdk from the nearest past). Shouldn't there be a time limit (two weeks? a month?) after which it would be OK to create a bug report? That way there could be a discussion about why that package hasn't/couldn't be updated and everyone would know where to look for the reasons without having to go through mailing list archives, bbs and so on. Just a thought though. Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera

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[arch-general] Problem with Realtek Ethernet and 2.6.29 Kernel
by Lukas Grässlin 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

Hi there, after the update to 2.6.29 the Network Controller of my secondary computer won't work. The problem is that I just have no connection, I can't ping anything. The network interface is listed normaly and has an IP, but it won't work. It's an "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL81111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 01)" I reinstalled 2.6.28 and it works. More information: on my Main pc I have the same Network controler _BUT_ rev 02 and it works with 2.6.29. Regards, Lukas (sorry if the mail reveices twice but I think my mailer did something wrong ;) )

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