http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41496 <pre>Is there a problem with the mirrors and their synchronization or with the package database? Since a while pacman tells me that my package databases for all repos are up-to-date. The latest version of linux in those databases is linux 3.3.6-1 while the latest version in [core] should be 3.3.7-1 according to the online package database at https://www.archlinux.org/packages and the ABS. This happens with every mirror in my mirrorlist. According to the mirror status at https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/ they are all up-to-date and 100% complete. Of course, I already did a pacman -Syy, but this didn't help. Heiko </pre> Heiko Baums 2012-05-25T08:09:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41492 <pre>Hi folks, Since there is a python3 port fort pygame, maybe should we rename the package for python2 with the python version precision. What do you think ? </pre> nado< at >troglodyte.be 2012-05-24T12:00:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41487 <pre>This makes easytag compile against the newest version of libmp4v2. I haven't done extensive testing, but I have tried it on a number of files with adding/removing/changing tags and it seems to all work fine. Let me know if further updates/changes would be useful. Regards, Nick - Use new API functions - Actually remove tags when requested instead of setting to empty string - Report errors to log when errors occur in reading tags --- src/mp4_header.c | 6 +- src/mp4_tag.c | 189 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 2 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-) </pre> Nick Lanham 2012-05-24T09:44:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41467 <pre>Hi folks, Just noticed after the recent update to kernel 3.3.6, an attempt to remove a SATA HDD: # echo scsi remove-single-device 3 0 0 0 &gt; /proc/scsi/scsi takes very long time: $ dmesg sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache sd 3:0:0:0: timing out command, waited 360s sd 3:0:0:0: timing out command, waited 360s sd 3:0:0:0: timing out command, waited 360s sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x00 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Stopping disk then adding an another HDD to ANY scsi channel does not work anymore. I've checked three differeent HDDs with the same result. The controller is : $ lspci | grep SATA 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 01) I used to use the hot swapping frequently before, never had such a problem. Am I missing something? Thanks for advices/ideas. Sergey </pre> Sergey Manucharian 2012-05-22T22:05:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41464 <pre>Hi. Is there a way to capture a silverlight/moonlight video from a website? "DownloadHelper" firefox extension doesn't work. </pre> FGr 2012-05-22T11:04:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41460 <pre>Hello. Everything is in the subject, adding that I'm using gnome and its record tool. Got this in my .xsession-errors log file : Recording to /home/fred/Vidéos/Vidéo d'écran 22-05-2012 11:55:53.webm Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension ** Message: Error: Le flux ne contient aucune donnée. gsttypefindelement.c(954): gst_type_find_element_activate (): /GstPlayBin2:play/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstDecodeBin2:decodebin20/GstTypeFindElement:typefind: Can't typefind empty stream totem-video-thumbnailer couldn't process file: 'file:///home/fred/Vid%C3%A9os/Vid%C3%A9o%20d'%C3%A9cran%2022-05-2012%2011:55:53.webm' Reason: Took too much time to process. webm file is only 300 bytes. Any idea ? </pre> fredbezies 2012-05-22T10:00:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41456 <pre>Issues with usb devices: 0425:f102 Motorola Semiconductors HK, Ltd G-Tech U+P Wireless Mouse -does not work. An added logitech usb wireless mouse worked though. 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter -stops working after awhile, and after pm-suspend. Falling back linux, udev, mkinitcpio, nvidia makes devices work again. Xorg.0.log-no errors- says mouse was added: (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-4/1-4.1/1-4.1.1/1-4.1.1:1.0/input/input8/event8 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "G-Tech CHINA U+P Wireless Mouse " (type: MOUSE, id 8) kernel.log snippet, maybe of use: May 21 21:06:40 localhost kernel: [ 139.034500] ------------[ cut here ]------------ May 21 21:06:40 localhost kernel: [ 139.034513] WARNING: at net/mac80211/driver-ops.h:10 ieee80211_do_stop+0x694/0x6b0 [mac80211]() May 21 21:06:40 localhost kernel: [ 139.034515] Hardware name: Dell DM051 May 21 21:06:40 localhost kernel: [ 139.034517] Modules linked in: fuse aes_x8</pre> ashim acharya 2012-05-22T04:12:20 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41435 <pre>Hi .. I am still not able to write to my external NAS drive an iomega home media drive So lets approach it from a different angle we will say i have not done anything yet just plugged it into the network What packages am i looking to install and what configuration changes do i need to make . I am trying this way round as i am chasing my tail up somewhere dark and nasty right now . I know the drive works perfectly i have just tried it with an old Suse distro on the Laptop and instant read/write no problem now if it can work on there why wont it work on Arch .. Pete . </pre> P .NIKOLIC 2012-05-20T20:58:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41423 <pre>Hey archers, i am not sure if this topic belongs to aur-devel or arch-general so i will post it here, because i think the aur-devel readers will read this list too. I think rubygems is very nice. It makes it pretty easy to manage your gems and it doesnt conflict with the "Arch way" as long as you install your gems in your $HOME. But many users want system wide available gems. Hmm, no problem with the --no-user-install switch, pretty KISS. But it violates the "Arch way" at the point, that we want to use pacman to install software, because we know and trust pacman and we dont want to use random software to install/remove files at critical locations of our systems. There are some solutions. Many people uploaded ruby-* PKGBUILDs to the AUR. Great Idea. But they are constantly out of date, because it requires some work to keep on track with rubygems.org (I am not sure if this is a correct english sentence, but i think you will get it.). So somebody wrote pacgem, wich is a ok idea, but its a little</pre> martin kalcher 2012-05-19T17:26:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41414 <pre>Guys, Building a small app (GNU External Ballistic Calculator) for Arch. When the PKGBUILD goes to package the file it create both /pkg /pkgusr directories. It puts the .PKGINFO in /pkg and then the executable and libs under /pkgusr -- what is up with that?? Anybody seen this before? I've grepped the source (Makefiles, etc..) and there is no reference to "pkgusr" so what's up? Literally, the package part creates: 00:21 nirvana:~/arch/pkg/bld/tmp&gt; ls -l total 268 drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 4096 May 18 00:13 pkg drwxr-xr-x 4 david david 4096 May 18 00:13 pkgusr drwxr-xr-x 3 david david 4096 May 18 00:03 src -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 560 May 18 00:13 gebc-1.07-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 136471 May 17 23:58 gebc-1.07-src.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 107212 May 17 23:58 gebc.diff -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 904 May 17 23:58 gebc-fl_draw.diff -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 1393 May 17 23:57 PKGBUILD 00:21 nirvana:~/arch/pkg/bld/tmp&gt; l pkg total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 4096 May 18</pre> David C. Rankin 2012-05-18T05:26:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41409 <pre>Hi, Following a system update, I noticed that the console font is not set anymore (I can't tell how recent this is since I don't go to the console everyday). After some judicious editing of /etc/rc.d/functions (to remove a 2&gt;/dev/null and add a sleep so that I can see the error messages) and some googling, I found that the issue was due to the framebuffer not being initialized. I now have two issues: First issue: how can I find the right value for the vga= option? According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_resolution there are three ways, none of which work: - GRUB recognized value -&gt; does not list my monitor resolution (1920x1080) and the other 16:9 codes listed (1280x720) appear to be wrong since they result in a distorted display; - hwinfo --framebuffer -&gt; does not show anything. I looked through the full hwinfo output without options, but there didn't seem to be anything framebuffer related there; - vbetest -&gt; does not work in 64 bits. Second issue: when I activate the fram</pre> Jérôme M. Berger 2012-05-17T07:34:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41403 <pre>When I try to install k9copy, I receive the following error message: :: Retrieving packages from extra... error: failed retrieving file 'soprano-2.7.5-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz' from ftp.archlinux.org : Given file does not exist 1. Is this a packaging error of some kind (presumably in the k9copy package)? 2. Is there something I can do to allow me to avoid this problem and install k9copy? Doc </pre> D. R. Evans 2012-05-16T21:54:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41402 <pre>Hi, Couple of updates ago suspend to RAM stopped working. Looking at the pm-suspend.log (below) file shows that it gets stuck at unloading uhci_hcd? I can unload and load the module by hand just fine. Anyone else have this? Manne ------- Wed May 16 21:06:10 SAST 2012: Running hooks for suspend. Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend: Linux hanslaptop 3.3.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun May 13 09:59:18 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux Module Size Used by fuse 59284 2 vboxnetadp 6727 0 vboxnetflt 16787 0 hidp 11791 1 rfcomm 28730 8 bnep 7254 2 usbhid 31477 0 btusb 10047 4 bluetooth 150114 28 btusb,bnep,rfcomm,hidp hid 66633 2 usbhid,hidp uvcvideo 60797 0 videobuf2_vmalloc 1736 1 uvcvideo videobuf2_memops 1562 1 videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_core 18103 1 uvcvideo videodev </pre> Manne Merak 2012-05-16T21:50:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41397 <pre>Hi buddy, I am using fcitx for inputting chinese words. I got a problem. If I change my locale to en_US.UTF-8, I can not invoke FCITX by pressing the 'CTRL+Space'. After I changed my locale to zh_CN.UTF-8, FCITX worked well. The question is can I use FCITX under the english locale? if I can, how to configure it? I read the english wiki of fcitx and it says I should check my locale. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fcitx Well, only if I change locale to chinese, FCITX works. For some reasons, I dont want to work under a chinese environment. I find a little difference on wikis that chinese wiki says I can work under english locale, but the way I tried didn't work. Any idea or solution? Thanks!!! Adrian. </pre> adrian sun 2012-05-15T03:54:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41385 <pre>Dear list, after a whole bunch of fresh upgrades yesterday, 2012/05/12, I can not unzip with File Roller (default app), with expanding tar.gz still working. Here are the two error messages: */There is no command installed for Zip archive files. Do you want to search for a command to open this file?/* Then I click on search command button, it brings a new window: */There was an internal error trying to search for applications: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.PackageKit was not provided by any .service files/* I have no certitude, but I suspect the outdated polkit 0.104 could be the culprit. There is a new 0.105 version since a few weeks on the website: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/snapshot/polkit-0.105.tar.gz Following instructions, I was able to build it fine, but I don't want to make install on my system, as I understand it is a good way to break it. I decided to create a package following the Archwiki. Here is my PKGBUILD file : /*# $Id$</pre> Arno Gaboury 2012-05-13T07:52:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41381 <pre>Hello, Recently, I tried to automatically unlock an encrypted external USB hard drive on Arch Linux. I have done this by inserting an appropriate entry into /etc/crypttab. I chose the device to be unlocked by cryptsetup with a key file by UUID. Unfortunately, the unlocking failed at boot time ("device does not exist or access denied"). After some debugging via /etc/rc.sysinit, I found out that it is a timing issue and the USB drive which is a couple of years old was not ready yet at the time the /etc/crypttab was read and processed. A similar issue has been reported here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137467 For now, I have inserted a workaround into /etc/rc.local which unlocks the disk after an initial delay. This is still programming by coincidence; I wonder whether there is any better (i.e. reliable) solution to this problem? Best, Julius </pre> Julius Adorf 2012-05-12T14:47:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41375 <pre>I believe that there should be more comprehensive, clear, and explicit standards on what content is allowed to be installed by an AUR package. There already exist two guidelines [1]: 1. usefulness: "Make sure the package is useful. Will anyone else want to use this package? Is it extremely specialized? If more than a few people would find this package useful, it is appropriate for submission." 2. IP, content type (?) restrictions: "For most cases, everything is permitted, as long as you are in compliance with the licensing terms of the software..." The former is acceptable because "usefulness" is inherently subjective. The latter does state an important restriction regarding IP, but implicitly assumes that only software is permissible for AUR packages, when in fact there exist packages within the AUR which install only non-executable data. I believe that it is overall community consensus that such packages are permissible as long as they install documentation for a particular software package, a set of *</pre> Ruslan Nabioullin 2012-05-11T16:23:46 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41360 <pre>I am trying to build and burn the archboot iso file on my x86_64 Arch. *|[gabx&lt; at &gt;magnolia Desktop]$ sudo pacman -S archboot Password: resolving dependencies... warning: cannot resolve "procps&gt;=3.2.8-4", a dependency of "archboot" :: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies: archboot Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] n|* procps-ng 3.3.2-2 is installed on my box. ** From what I read and understand, Arch went recently from procps to procps-ng, so it is normal that my system doesn't have anymore the procps package listed as installed and I can safely ignore. Please can someone confirm? </pre> Arno Gaboury 2012-05-09T15:59:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41348 <pre>Hi, What is the status of netcfg 2.8.x? When will it hit [core] ? I have been using it succesfully on my workstation and on two VPS (static IPv4 + IPv6 profiles). Geert </pre> Geert Hendrickx 2012-05-09T11:16:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41337 <pre>Hey guys I am facing a strange issue. All qt applications have become black, making them impossible to use. Here's an example showing vlc and avidemux-qt https://imgur.com/a/PR5vH Anyone else facing this issue? The closest i found someone with a similar problem is: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/next-kde-4-8-2-regression-firefox-thunderbird-joined-the-all-blacks-942693/ But the guy is using kde, and i am using dwm + xf86-video-intel </pre> gt 2012-05-09T07:19:48 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/41335 <pre>Hi everyone. I've made this wallpaper http://borisln.deviantart.com/art/Archlinux-Wallpaper-1-300929958 since I didn't find any red wallpaper which pleased me, big enough for my screen in the official package, nor on Google images. It's licensed under creative commons BY-SA, so if one wants to put it in the official archlinux-wallpaper package, feel free to do so :) Also, if anyone has any remarks or anything to say about it, I'm all ears. Have a nice day! </pre> Boris Le Ninivin 2012-05-09T03:12:26 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.linux.arch.general