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[arch-general] should gawk be in group base-devel?
by Neil Darlow 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Hi, It is often quoted that, for package building purposes, it is assumed a user has packages in group base-devel installed. gawk is part of base but a user could deselect it within the Arch Installer. Does it make sense to add gawk to group base-devel so that its presence is mandated by the previous assumption? Should I raise a feature request for this? Regards, Neil Darlow

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[arch-general] Arch-graphics unofficial repository
by Lukáš Jirkovský 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Hi, I would like to announce my small unofficial Arch-graphics repository. It's aimed to provide some graphics-related packages (mostly 3D related graphics as renderers and so). Unfortunately there are only i686 packages, because I don't have any x86_64 machine. Why I've made my own repository? It's easy, I'm maintaining many packages on AUR and I use many other packages from AUR. I think it's good to share my packages, so other users of same programs doesn't have to compile everything themselves. I'm trying to keep every package really high-quality, but it's without any warranty. If it eats your pizza, I'll not be able to restore your pizza to the previous state. And one more thing. Please do not expect daily updates, even though there are some -svn and -cvs packages. I'm usually compiling when there are some cool new features or if I don't have anything better to do. And it also depends on compile time – I don't like building hugin, because it takes (on my PC) almost 2 hours. Homepage: http://arch-graphics.kx.cz/ I'hope it will help somebody. Regards Lukas '6xx' Jirkovsky

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[arch-general] For any users unable to send to the ML
by Daenyth Blank 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

I've had problems recently with all messages sent to the ML being dropped silently. With the help of cactus, I found that it was because I use "Daenyth+arch@" as my address, and I was sending mail from "Daenyth@". In Gmail, the fix is to go to settings -> accounts, and add a new account sending from "yourmail+comment(a)gmail.com", and to be sure to always send from that address when you post to the list. Hope this helps anyone else having issues. Thanks again cactus. --Daenyth

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[arch-general] Can't boot from /usr on LVM
by Michael Schmarck 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Hello. Last week, I installed Archlinux-i686-2007.08-2.ftp.iso on my system. I'd like to have / on /dev/sda3 (PATA) and /usr on /dev/sys/ArchUSR. "sys" is a LVM2 Volume Group, which I also use in my Gentoo Linux installation on the same system. I've read some installation guides on the Arch Wiki and changed USELVM=YES in /etc/rc.conf and have this in mkinitcpio.conf: HOOKS="base udev keymap autodetect pata lvm2 filesystems" After changing that line, I re-ran mkinitcpio and a new img was created; this image is loaded through grub; menu.lst has: title Arch kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 initrd (hd0,2)/boot/kernel26.img In /etc/fstab of the Arch installation, I've got: /dev/sda5 swap swap defaults proc /proc proc defaults usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults sysfs /sys sysfs defaults udev /dev tmpfs defaults,size=8m devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults devshm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec temp /tmp tmpfs defaults /dev/sda3 / ext3 noatime 0 2 /dev/mapper/sys-ArchArch /Arch ext3 noatime 0 2 /dev/sys/ArchUSR /usr ext3 noatime 0 2 When I boot the system, I see that the "sys" VG gets activated and fsck.ext3 is run for /dev/sys/ArchArch and /dev/sys/ArchUSR (messages to the effect that such-and-such fragmentation exists shows and before that, something like LVM [done]). BUT: I can't boot. Booting stops with: mount: special device /dev/mapper/sys-ArchArch does not exist mount: special device /dev/sys/ArchUSR does not exist This shows, that both "paths" are not accessible; neither the /dev/sys/* stuff (which on a Gentoo Linux installation contains symlinks to /dev/mapper), nor the "proper" /dev/mapper path can be accessed. Any ideas about why that happens, and, more importantly, how to fix that? Thanks a lot, Michael

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Repo cleanup / Package adoption
by Loui 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 14:52:15 -0400 (EDT) Eric Belanger <belanger(a)ASTRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Loui wrote: > > > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:51:43 -0400 (EDT) > > Eric Belanger <belanger(a)ASTRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote: > > > >> I can't move gtkglextmm to unsupported. I'm getting the famous "You are > >> not allowed to overwrite the gtkglextmm package." error. > > > > You could move them to unstable in the mean time maybe. > > > > Moving them to unstable would only be unnecessary work. Aaron has fixed a > similar problem for acroread so that problem can be fixed, at least on a > package-by-package basis. acroread7-chsfont depends on acroread but it doesn't show up on the page. It looks like the DB entry was clobbered. You'll need to retain the ID for those "Not allowed to overwrite" packages for a proper fix. Here are the proper mysql commands to fix this on a one off basis: USE AUR; # Or whatever the DB is called. UPDATE Packages SET DummyPkg = 0 WHERE Name = "pkgname"; UPDATE Packages SET LocationID = 2 WHERE Name = "pkgname"; The package should then be visible as an orphan from the web interface. Adopt it and upload your tarball. I posted the solution here as well: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8672

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[arch-general] Eclipse won't start any more
by Juergen Starek 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hello everybody, a few days ago, my Eclipse installation (which had worked fine for some months before that) stopped working. Eclipse will start, but only to the end of its initialization routine. The splash screen does not disappear. I realize this is no Eclipse support list, and hence will just point to my more detailed error description on Eclipse's newsgroups [1]. However, I'm out of ideas at the moment regarding possible causes for that error. So I'd like to ask here whether anyone thinks that any updates to Arch that appeared in the last three weeks or so might cause problems with Java programs in general, or more specifically with SWT. Perhaps someone even noticed the same problem? I'd be thankful for all hints. Regards, Jürgen [1] http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/article.php? id=23901&group=eclipse.newcomer

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[arch-general] Tool to stop and start services? (Don't Panic)
by Nigel Henry 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

On my Fedora installs there is a GUI for stopping and starting services, and also the option of using chkconfig on the CLI. On my Debian installs, I installed sysv-rc-conf, which runs on the CLI, and allows you to stop and start services. Is there anything similar that I could use on my Archlinux install? Thanks for any help. Nigel.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Repo cleanup / Package adoption
by Loui 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 22:47:46 +0300 Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Is cdtool part of the list? AFAI can see there is no maintainer listed. > Theres a bug report about it http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10558 but > it seems dead and needed only by tcdr which also looks like a dead > project. > 2 possible candidates for removal? > If not, then someone adopt cdtool so i can assign the bug report to > him :P cdtool is quite an awesome little set of apps that work quite well. I'd be glad to fix any issues with it.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Repo cleanup / Package adoption
by Loui 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 14:52:15 -0400 (EDT) Eric Belanger <belanger(a)ASTRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Loui wrote: > > > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:51:43 -0400 (EDT) > > Eric Belanger <belanger(a)ASTRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote: > > > >> I can't move gtkglextmm to unsupported. I'm getting the famous "You are > >> not allowed to overwrite the gtkglextmm package." error. > > > > You could move them to unstable in the mean time maybe. > > > > Moving them to unstable would only be unnecessary work. Aaron has fixed a > similar problem for acroread so that problem can be fixed, at least on a > package-by-package basis. Hmm looks like that wasn't done properly though. Check out acroread7-chsfont http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6398 Last Updated: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 acroread http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16980 First Submitted: Thu, 15 May 2008 acroread7-chsfont depends on acroread but it doesn't show up on the page. It looks like the DB entry was clobbered. You'll need to retain the ID for those "Not allowed to overwrite" packages for a proper fix. Just a 'heads-up' to the devs. Cheers.

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[arch-general] How do I configure my webcamera?
by Carlos A M Filho 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

Hi, everybody... I tried to configure my webcamera by following the instructions in: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Webcam_Setup However it isn't working at all; programs like Cheese and Spcagui do not recognize any device. Some information about this system: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-06-01 01:45 /dev/video -> v4l/video0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-06-01 01:45 /dev/video0 -> v4l/video0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 2008-06-01 01:45 /dev/v4l/video0 # hwdetect --show-modules AGP : agpgart via-agp ACPI : button dock processor thermal PATA : pata_acpi pata_via ata_generic SCSI : scsi_mod sd_mod sr_mod SATA : sata_via USB : usblp usbcore ehci-hcd uhci-hcd NET : mii ppp_generic slhc via-rhine INPUT : evdev gameport pcspkr psmouse serio_raw SOUND : ac97_bus snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-seq-oss snd-seq-device snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-rawmidi snd-timer snd snd-mpu401-uart snd-ac97-codec snd-via82xx-modem snd-via82xx soundcore VIDEO : compat_ioctl32 sn9c102 gspca v4l1-compat videodev nvidia OTHER : cdrom lp ppdev i2c-viapro i2c-core parport parport_pc lsusb pci_hotplug shpchp rtc-cmos rtc-core rtc-lib # lsusb Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0c45:602e Microdia Bus 001 Device 004: ID 03f0:7304 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 35xx Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Thanks In Advance.

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