Re: [arch-general] Change UUID

2009-03-15 Thread Guillermo Leira
It was working, but not very well... When I gave up and tried to reboot, the partition was in an inconsistent state. I had to run fsck -f, and then the UUID was changed. Anyway, I was wrong. I was trying to change the UUID of a vmware virtual disk, and this operation made no difference. Thanks

[arch-general] ArchLinux install CD for the blind, version 2!

2009-03-15 Thread Chris Brannon
I am proud to announce the second release of a modified ArchLinux install CD that includes spoken output for blind users. It is mostly equivalent to the official "ftp CD", but the system should start speaking as soon as you boot with it. Speech is provided via the sound card, using the eSpeak softw

[arch-general] cpu usage very high after update...

2009-03-15 Thread Preston C.
My cpu monitor is almost reading 100%, right after I updated today. It was a very large update because I hadn't updated in about a month. Here is what "$top" gives me: top - 16:22:55 up 9 min, 2 users, load average: 1.36, 1.32, 0.68 Tasks: 99 total, 3 running, 96 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0

Re: [arch-general] cpu usage very high after update...

2009-03-15 Thread Chris Bannister
What got updated? 2009/3/15 Preston C. : > My cpu monitor is almost reading 100%, right after I updated today. It > was a very large update because I hadn't updated in about a month. > Here is what "$top" gives me: > > > top - 16:22:55 up 9 min,  2 users,  load average: 1.36, 1.32, 0.68 > Tasks:  

Re: [arch-general] cpu usage very high after update...

2009-03-15 Thread Xavier
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Preston C. wrote: > My cpu monitor is almost reading 100%, right after I updated today. It > was a very large update because I hadn't updated in about a month. > Here is what "$top" gives me: > > > top - 16:22:55 up 9 min,  2 users,  load average: 1.36, 1.32, 0.68

Re: [arch-general] cpu usage very high after update...

2009-03-15 Thread Bram Schoenmakers
On Sunday 15 March 2009 21:26:40 Preston C. wrote: Hi Preston, > My cpu monitor is almost reading 100%, right after I updated today. It > was a very large update because I hadn't updated in about a month. > Here is what "$top" gives me: > > > top - 16:22:55 up 9 min, 2 users, load average: 1.36

Re: [arch-general] cpu usage very high after update...

2009-03-15 Thread Preston C.
> What got updated? A lot, :-). I know KDE 4.2 -> 4.2.1. I searched the forum and wiki but could not figure out what file or command to pull up or use to show you what got updated?

Re: [arch-general] cpu usage very high after update...

2009-03-15 Thread Preston C.
Thanks for the replies. Bram, I did install KDE and I did restart after updating, although this is the first time I have logged into KDE since the update.. Xavier, that is interesting. It seems to be a problem with KDE 4.2, surely they would have fixed it with KDE 4.2.1? I never have had this pro

Re: [arch-general] cpu usage very high after update...

2009-03-15 Thread Alexander Kotlerman
Hello Preston, I have had this problem on occassion, but it only appears maybe 3 times. I do a killall kded4 and then krunner -> kded4. That seems to calm it down. I do not understand what it does exactly. http://api.kde.org/4.0-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kded/html/index.html Shura ___

Re: [arch-general] cpu usage very high after update...

2009-03-15 Thread Preston C.
I posted on the KDE forum, so I will see if they have any tips, before I try to do to much.

Re: [arch-general] cpu usage very high after update...

2009-03-15 Thread Preston C.
Interestingly, I rebooted again, this time not immediately after the update/upgrade, but after logging into KDE. Everything seems to be fine now, hopefully this problem will not come up again. Thanks for the help.

[arch-general] Xorg - Latest in repos

2009-03-15 Thread Baho Utot
I have just installed arch onto a new SATA drive and isused a pacman -Syu to fetch the latest updates. I then continued on with alsa-utils then onto xorg Used pacman -S xorg to install xorg I then ran Xorg -configure which produced xorg.conf.new Started X -config /root/xorg.conf.new X starte

Re: [arch-general] Xorg - Latest in repos

2009-03-15 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 17:19 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: > I have just installed arch onto a new SATA drive and isused a pacman > -Syu to fetch the latest updates. > > I then continued on with alsa-utils then onto xorg > > Used pacman -S xorg to install xorg > > I then ran Xorg -configure which prod

Re: [arch-general] Xorg - Latest in repos

2009-03-15 Thread Baho Utot
Jan de Groot wrote: On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 17:19 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: I have just installed arch onto a new SATA drive and isused a pacman -Syu to fetch the latest updates. I then continued on with alsa-utils then onto xorg Used pacman -S xorg to install xorg I then ran Xorg -configure

Re: [arch-general] Xorg - Latest in repos

2009-03-15 Thread Jakub Schmidtke
Baho Utot wrote: > Tried running X without a config file and it locked as well. How do you know if it locked?

Re: [arch-general] Xorg - Latest in repos

2009-03-15 Thread Baho Utot
Jakub Schmidtke wrote: Baho Utot wrote: Tried running X without a config file and it locked as well. How do you know if it locked? A black screen with an X in the middle and no response from the KBD until a hard reset. I think the x was looking for the kbd that never showed

Re: [arch-general] cpu usage very high after update...

2009-03-15 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
Preston C. wrote: > Interestingly, I rebooted again, this time not immediately after the > update/upgrade, but after logging into KDE. Everything seems to be > fine now, hopefully this problem will not come up again. Thanks for > the help. > > If you have problems again do a strace of the kded4

Re: [arch-general] Xorg - Latest in repos

2009-03-15 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
Baho Utot wrote: > > Ok i will see if that is what is going on. > > Is there a way to kill X if hal is not running other than a hard reset ? > > I am running jfs but I rather not test jfs ability to recover after a > hard reset :) > Enable sysrq magic kernel.sysrq = 1 @ /etc/sysctl.conf Then can

Re: [arch-general] cpu usage very high after update...

2009-03-15 Thread Preston C.
> If you have problems again do a strace of the kded4 process, this > process normaly do a poll() of some sockets and pipes. > > Also if appears again ensure that have a clean /tmp and /var/tmp/ ;) > > For example, in normal execution, the poll interval is 5 seconds ( see > http://djgera.pastebin.c

Re: [arch-general] cpu usage very high after update...

2009-03-15 Thread Alessandro Doro
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 09:34:21PM +0100, Xavier wrote: > A quick google gave me this : > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155904 > > The cpu usage mentioned are not anywhere near 99 though, but still > worth a try to add this to $HOME/.kde4/share/config/kdedrc: > [DirWatch] > PollInterval=600

Re: [arch-general] Xorg - Latest in repos

2009-03-15 Thread Jakub Schmidtke
Baho Utot wrote: > A black screen with an X in the middle and no response from the KBD > until a hard reset. I think the x was looking for the kbd that never > showed up. > was ignored as was Fx So if X didn't see the keyboard or mouse it would be the same? As Jan wrote, check if hal is running

Re: [arch-general] Xorg - Latest in repos

2009-03-15 Thread Paulo Santos
Baho Utot wrote: Jakub Schmidtke wrote: How do you know if it locked? A black screen with an X in the middle and no response from the KBD until a hard reset. I think the x was looking for the kbd that never showed up. was ignored as was Fx It does sound like you didn't include h