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[arch-general] famd problems
by _saiko 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Famd has always been more problematic then useful for me. On random occasions after i plugged a mp3 player or an external usb drive it would just start using cpu @ 100% and there was no change at all. I had to kill the process. Just now i plugged my USB drive and wanted to copy something. CPU usage was 100% and iostat reported <3MB/s rate non sequential! I checked the processes and as expected ntfs-3g driver was using most but famd was there too! So i nicely killed famd once again... and transfer rate went @ ~22MB/s as expected Is there a way to live without famd since all it brings are problems for me? It's required by many things so i can't just remove it. I'm doing a regular -Syu and this problem was present ... since like forever Any explanation to this? Also i'm using xfce, 2GB ram, separate physical system drive Many thanks

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra signoff] nvidia/nvidia-utils 169.07
by Jesse Young 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:11:34 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > I added new nvidia drivers 169.07 for i686 and x86_64 to testing. My > nvidia machine is out of order for now, so please sign off both > architectures and as many GPUs as possible. > > I am also interested in signoffs from users, so please don't hesitate to > reply to this message to the arch-general list! > everything looks fine on i686, except for this error on upgrade, I don't know how pacman lost track of it, unless I was installinng my own nvidia* a long time ago. nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1 exists in filesystem lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Status Report: 2008-01-07
by Loui 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

On Jan 7, 2008 11:39 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > * ArchCon 2009: Big Baaad Idea > > This is staying right here until someone decides to come to Chicago to visit 8) > No, the US is not dangerous! Hah. Chicago sounds good to me. :D

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[arch-general] forcing speed/duplex on Intel e1000 driver
by Chuck Remes 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

A service provider has forced all of their switch ports to 100/full. I need to do the same on a box running archlinux x86_64 w/kernel 2.6.22- ARCH and the Intel e1000 driver. I edited /etc/modprobe.conf to contain these lines: e1000 Speed=100,100,100,100 e1000 Duplex=2,2,2,2 However, the messages in /var/log/kernel.log indicate the interfaces are still coming up as 100/half which implies they are still attempting to autonegotiate and failing therefore defaulting to 100 (which can be sensed) and half-duplex (which can't be sensed, so this is the default). What's the best way to force the driver into 100/full on boot?

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[arch-general] iwlwifi in [testing] feedback
by Tobias Powalowski 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Hi just wanted to know if some user already tested the iwlwifi driver from [testing], if it works for you. thanks for feedback greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] should ecj say like this
by Karolina Lindqvist 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Look at this: $ ecj Unrecognized option : /usr/share/java/libgcj-4.2.jar I am not able to get any other respone from ecj, as intalled from the binary i686 distribution. Does it say the same for everone else? Is it supposed to say this? Karolina

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[arch-general] Depends loop in gcc-gcj and eclipse-ecj
by Karolina Lindqvist 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

gcc-gcj depends on eclipse-ecj which depends on gcc-gcj, making a dependency loop.

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[arch-general] Advanced pacman dependency functions
by bardo 30 Dec '07

30 Dec '07

Hi all. I was looking for a way to do a couple of things with pacman that may be useful, mainly for package maintainers. Maybe they can already be done and I just didn't find out how. I used to use pt-deptree, but it hasn't been working for quite some time now. The first one is finding all the packages that directly depend on a specific package, even if they're not installed. This came to my mind considering those upgrades which break other software, like x264 and tcl/tk (8.5 has just been released): it could be a lot easier to test if all packages work properly with the new version or if it is necessary to rebuild them. Second, I often find myself looking for package dependencies along the tree, because I need to know, given two packages, if one of the two depends on the other or not. This is good when I'm deciding which dependencies should be put in a package, becuase the cycle edit-makepkg-namcap is sometimes impractical when the package has a lot of dependencies. Is anybody able to help? TIA, Corrado

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[arch-general] azureus and avidemux, a note
by Alexandros K-K 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

azureus hasnt been updated for ages: the version on the repos is 3.0.1.6 and the newest one is 3.0.4.2 it has been flagged as out of date for quite a long time too avidemux on the other hand still lists spidermonkey as a dependency, maybe other unecessary stuff too http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/index.php?title=Compiling_Avidemux#Mandator… cheerio, aeolist

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[arch-general] IRC Spammer / Impersonator
by Matthew 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

This morning I was informed by a TU via Private Message on IRC that there were spammer impersonating me. He first ask what happened last night and as I had no idea what he was talking about this was when I first discovered what happened. There are some wonderful people (for lack of a nicer term) who think its funny to impersonate me and spam the channel. My hostname is almost always adsl-75-33-32-137.dsl.bcvloh.sbcglobal.net very rarely do I connect to IRC using a different net connection (usually just ssh into my home box). The ip is dynamic so it will change, but it should match with mezoko.net I think these spammers are ajnewbold and impl. They helped me out with some php coding about a year ago. They were nice people, but they slowly started pull crap on me and I didn't put up with so I think this their revenge. **Ajnewbold and impl (he was under the alias of "hary" something, I don't remember) spammed the channel about a week ago so I'm not sure if they'll stop, hence the reason for this posting. So basically I want to clear up a few things 1. The spammers last night were not me 2. If username mezoko does not have a host name similar to dsl.bcvloh.sbcglobal.net there is a good chance it is not me 3. To any TU/OP/Dev please do not ban my user name from IRC, please ban the hostname if the problem arises again. Thank you all for your understanding, -Mezoko

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