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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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[arch-general] System Upgrade - networkmanager conflicts with libnetworkmanager
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 16 May '09

16 May '09

Listmates, I don't know how to handle this dependency error and I want to make sure I don't break my kdemod3 install by replacing libnetworkmanager with extra/networkmanager. I presume it would be a 1-for-1 drop-in replacement, but I thought I would ask first. Anybody know? :: Synchronizing package databases... kdemod-legacy is up to date core 33.5K 104.4K/s 00:00:00 [#############################################] 100% extra 384.2K 127.0K/s 00:00:03 [#############################################] 100% community 361.9K 132.0K/s 00:00:03 [#############################################] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace libnetworkmanager with extra/networkmanager? [Y/n] n resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: networkmanager conflicts with libnetworkmanager. Remove libnetworkmanager? [Y/n] n error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: networkmanager: conflicts with libnetworkmanager -- 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] problem while bridging network
by ludovic coues 16 May '09

16 May '09

hi listmate, I'm posting 'cause I have some problem when I bridge a connexion. I wanna set up a virtual machine with windws 7 to play eve online (no support for linux at this time, and I can't make it run on wine). So I've follow the wiki for setting up network with the virtual machine. But now, I'm starting my computer with eth0 and vbox0 bridged, but I can't use my wifi connexion on wlan0. If I delete the bridge with a «brctl delbr br0», I can connect to the wifi through wlan0, but my VM haven't any network. To be exact, I can connect me to my personnal network, but this have no internet connexion. Weird. If any one might help me with this, it would be nice. -ludovic

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[arch-general] Themes for Gnome
by S Andrews 16 May '09

16 May '09

Where can I find themes for gnome, I am looking for Graphite theme

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[arch-general] Did new kernel version removed vesa FB?
by Javier Vasquez 16 May '09

16 May '09

Hi, I few minutes ago I upgraded a arch box (x86_64), and to my surprise, something that was working before, loading the kernel with parameter "vga=0x37D" is no longer working (nothing happens). The new version is 2.6.29.3-1. The resolution for nvidia quadro fx 570m is "1920x1200", but the nvidiafb module has never worked, so I need to use the vesa FB... Well I tried a other vga modes, like 0x31B, 0x307, and then the screen goes blank and freezes... I don't know what happens, but it seems like the vesafb which used to be compiled built-in, is not longer working properly... Thanks, -- Javier

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[arch-general] Running setserial from rc.local
by Sergi Pons Freixes 15 May '09

15 May '09

With the new Xorg, I need to run the command: setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x0200 irq 5 autoconfig At every boot to get the stylus working in a Tablet PC. I have put the line in /etc/rc.local, as it contains "all the things which are not daemons that you want to run at boot". But it is not working. KDM (therefore, X) starts without using the stylus. If I switch to a terminal, run the command, and the return to X, the stylus is recognised. Any clue about what is I am doing wrong? I know that the command can not be executed from an X terminal (this is why I switch to a "normal" terminal), but running it from rc.local should work, right?

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