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[arch-general] "ArchLinux on Eeee PC 901" in "freiesMagazin 12/2008"
by Johannes Held 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Hey Folks! freiesMagazin 12/2008 [1] published an article about ArchLinux on Asus Eee PC 901. [1]: http://freiesmagazin.de/ -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version

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[arch-general] [Warning] Update your php installation
by Pierre Schmitz 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Hi all, I wrote this mail to avoid any confusion about the last two updates of the php package. For the lazy ones: Make sure to update to php-5.2.7-2 In detail: php-5.2.7-1 fixes some security issues. Imho the most serious one is the following described by Stefan Esser: http://www.suspekt.org/2008/12/05/php-527-and-ziparchiveextractto/ Other important changes are summarized in the official changelog which can be found at: http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_7.php Yesterday Jürgen Hötzel noticed that this new version of php breaks magic_quote_gpc. (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46759) Well, it does not quote anything when enabled. Even though magic_quotes are disabled by default and shouldn't be used at all, this is a serious bug for those who still use apps that rely on this feature. I fixed this bug with the php-5.2.7-2 package. Especially those who have magic_quotes enabled should update to this version. Maybe there will be another upstream release soon. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre(a)jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de

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[arch-general] Xorg change and intel drivers make me sad.
by Daniel Quinn 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

I'm not sure if the arch-general is the place to ask these kinds of questions, so if it is not, please redirect me to where this is more appropriate. The latest change to use Xorg-7.4 appears to have brought with it the requirement that I switch from the old xf86-video-i810 video drivers to the newer xf86-video-intel ones. Unfortunately, this introduces a number of serious for my Thnkpad (x41): Video (mplayer) in fullscreen is choppy and slow. Complaints of my hardware being too slow etc. All of my compiz-effects have suffered crippling performance losses. If left alone for about 15min, the screen blanks and cannot be-activated. Switches to the console fail and the box is non-responsive on the network. Basically the whole machine locks up. What is the "Arch way" out of this? I heard that the new kernel that isn't in the tree yet is supposed to fix this, and there's also the fact that the old config worked just fine. I'd like to go back, but I'm unsure as to how to do so without running into this same problem when I run "pacman -Syu" again. Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

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[arch-general] Offer help for our ISO building
by Gerhard Brauer 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Hi, i would like to offer my help to the ISO build and test procedure. I'm sure i have the time and skill to help on archiso and installer skripts. Currently i will look deeper to get the isolinux thing get running as a maybe alternative to grub-legacy. Also to get the keyboard/font selection and the time zone setting better integrated in the installer. Also if there are concrete things to do feel free to contact me. Regards Gerhard "gerbra"

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] libpcap, ppp
by Thomas Bächler 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Thomas Bächler schrieb: > I think all the libpcap rebuilds in core/extra are done now, so I need > signoffs for the core packages libpcap and ppp. > > I am signing off on libpcap x86_64, I have not tested ppp. Ping? Anyone using ppp on Arch (router box based on Arch, running testing)? Anyone tried tcpdump/wireshark from testing? At this point, I'd also accept signoffs from users, as no dev seems to have Arch on his router ...

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[arch-general] PKGBUILD and DOS line endings
by Alessandro Doro 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

I found in AUR a PKGBUILD with DOS line endings. See what happens: $ makepkg : command not found ==> ERROR: An unknown error has occured. Exiting... makepkg simply sources "$BUILDSCRIPT" and bash treats '\r' literally. The PKGBUILD maintainer is surely to be blamed and I don't think that `makepkg' should try to catch this error (sorry for some innocent user). Just wanted to expose this "feature". bye

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[arch-general] [arch-general@archlinux.org] Midori + sun jre plugin
by Javier Vasquez 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Hi, Does anyone know how to enable sun jre plugin within midori. Midori actually recognizes the flash plugin pretty well, but I can't get it to work on web pages requiring jre... I'm liking midori because of being lighter than seamonkey on my box, but I miss jre support... I was looking for a midori distribution list, but found none, so I was hoping someone under arch-general would know, :) Thanks, -- Javier

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[arch-general] state of archiso?
by Chris Brannon 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

I may have found an issue with the archiso scripts. The hooks /lib/initcpio/hooks/boot-cd and /lib/initcpio/hooks/boot-usb call on /sbin/udevsettle and /sbin/udevtrigger, but those binaries no longer exist. -- Chris

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[arch-general] extra = nessus-core & co.
by Amanai 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

can someone please update the 2006 nessus build to the latest stable 3.2.1 ;) thank's

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[arch-general] problems with ivman? hal? pmount?
by Ryan Sims 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

I'm working on switching from KDE to openbox, and I'm playing around with ivman automounting. After reading the wiki page[1] & following the instructions, I find that I still can't get USB devices to automount as a user. I can run ivman as a daemon, and it automounts just fine, except that it creates the mount points as root:root, so I can't access them. If I run ivman as a user, nothing gets automounted. When I run ivman -d, or when I run a pmount-hal '/path/listed/in/ivman/debug/output' I get a lot of these messages: process 17673: The last reference on a connection was dropped without closing the connection. This is a bug in an application. See dbus_connection_unref() documentation for details. Most likely, the application was supposed to call dbus_connection_close(), since this is a private connection. D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace Any help? [1]http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ivman PS. I've also been exploring automounting with udev, but I run into the same permissions problem with pmount: users can't access the file. I would also welcome advice in this direction, if anyone's interested. -- Ryan W Sims

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