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[arch-general] netcfg 2.1.1 problem
by Ondřej Kučera 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hello, after upgrading netcfg from 2.0.6 to 2.1.1 I can no longer connect to my wireless router (luckily downgrading back solves it). I know I should file a bug report and I will, I only wanted to ask what information is relevant, for output of which programs I should look, etc. Unfortunately I know almost nothing about wireless networks or how netcfg really works but when I was trying to manually do the interesting steps that I found in /usr/lib/network/wireless.subr, it seemed to me that the problem occurs in wpa_check() where wpa_cli status always returns SCANNING until it all times out. For some reason this doesn't happen with netcfg 2.0.6 so I suppose the previous steps that prepare everything do something in a different way. Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera

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[arch-general] pcmciautils
by Guillermo Leira 27 Sep '08

27 Sep '08

Hello! Since the last pcmciautils upgrade to version 15-1, my wifi card has stopped working. It is a very old Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B, but it was working fine until the upgrade, and it has worked again when I downgraded pcmciautils to previous version 14. I have included this package in IgnorePkg, but this is only a temporal solution. Does anybody know what can cause this problem? Do you need more information? Best Regards, Guillermo Leira

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[arch-general] probs. with easynews mirror
by David Rosenstrauch 27 Sep '08

27 Sep '08

Anyone know what's up with the easynews pacman mirror? Every file access that pacman attempts fails like this: error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from mirrors.easynews.com : Success Anyone know the cause and/or who to contact over there to get it fixed? It's usually a great mirror, and very reliable, and I use it as my primary. TIA, DR

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[arch-general] anyone had problems with archlinux-2008.06-ftp-i686.iso?
by Chris Brannon 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

Hi list, I'm new to Arch. The other day, I downloaded the ISO mentioned in the subject line. I remastered the image, because I needed some extra programs. I'm blind. I added a screenreader and a text-to-speech engine to the ISO, so that I could have spoken feedback during the install. I also added alsa-utils, alsa-lib, and a few miscellaneous packages. I burned the CD and booted the system. Arch started talking to me, and everything seemed ok. After a few minutes, I started noticing strange behavior. The system froze when I tried to execute a command. For instance, after typing "ps" at the bash prompt, the system locked up. It was unable to load the ps executable or one of its shared libraries from the CD. Sometimes, it would print the message "input-output error", and return to a working bash prompt. I could hear my CD-ROM drive clicking whenever it tried to load the executable. It just sat there for five or more minutes, spinning and clicking. I also noticed that Arch is writing data to its unionfs. Most of the data seems to be written to /var/log. Should a live CD be writing to logfiles? My problems could be caused by one of several things. 1. A broken CD-ROM drive. (I doubt it, because the drive is 3 weeks old). 2. A mistake while remastering the ISO. 3. Some sort of error from the original ISO. Has anyone else had trouble with this image? If not, then the issue must be caused by my hardware or personal configuration. Regards, -- Chris

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[arch-general] GTK+-2.14.3，xfce4-session hard to quit
by 无可救药 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

every time i logout , i have to wait long time until xfce4-session to quit. do you guys have such problem?

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[arch-general] community/qmc2 broken
by Lyman 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

Hi, This package contains no executable file. community/qmc2 0.2.b3-1 Qt 4 based UNIX MAME frontend supporting both XMAME and SDLMAME. -- Lyman Li 苦水潭(主站): http://lymanrb.blogspot.com 苦水潭(国内): http://lymanrb.spaces.live.com

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[arch-general] Arch-Sheriff - A script to match NetBSD vulnerability database against Arch Linux packages
by Hugo Doria 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Hi everyone, Some time ago Paulo Matias [1] (member of Arch Linux Brazil) started a very nice project to help improve Arch's security. Paulo created a python script to automatically test Arch's packages against the NetBSD vulnerabilities database. The script can run automatically and generates a text file with the details of all vulnerabilities found. This project is now called Arch-Sheriff (the source is available here [3]) and me and Kessia Pinheiro [2] began to help Paulo in the development. Arch-Sheriff now generates a html page with all vulnerabilities details and a link to them. The page can be found here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~hugo/sheriff/ The idea now is to create a way to notify a package maintainer about the vulnerability and add a way to mark it as fixed in Arch. We also want to create a login so the maintainers can mark all the vulnerabilities that they fixed and a rss feed. Arch-Sheriff is still experimental and there are some things that needs to be fixed. But i think that you guys can see what we pretend and where we are going. :) And, please, tell me what you think about this. Any suggestion is welcome. [1] http://matias.archlinux-br.org [2] http://even.archlinux-br.org [3] http://code.google.com/p/arch-sheriff/ Oh! And BTW, can someone update pacman db in gerolde? I think its a bit old (sheriff got a older version of wireshark and opera, for example). -- Hugo

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[arch-general] VirtualBox-ose 2.0.2 broken
by Jaime Oyarzun Knittel 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

Hi! I (and some people too) have been experiencing problems with virtualbox-ose since it was upgraded to version 2.0.2. The problems are described here: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11528?project=5 and here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=55406&p=1 There is a workaround for this problem (I have not tried it), but does anybody know when will this be solved in the repos? Thank you! -- Jaime Jose Oyarzun Knittel Estudiante Ingenieria Civil Informatica Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria Valparaiso - Chile

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[arch-general] Is qt 4.4.2-1 broken?
by Lee MaRS 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Hi, all After upgrading to qt 4.4.2-1, I found that some qt4 program became broken, such as VirtualBox, and Qterm. All of these programs get a error like this: process 4272: 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 Aborted Is it really a bug of application, or just a bug of qt, or just a bug for this package?

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[arch-general] libmtp
by marc[î1] 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Hello, libmtp is flag out of date from too long time, someone can make a fresh package ? -- + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + + (o< -! marc[i1] + + //\ http://archlinux.fr + + \\/_ Linux for Free Generation + + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +

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