KDE dead mirrors on fink?

I have been trying to obtain KDE for some time now. I have had various problems within the last week ranging from all sorts of things. My latest problem is that fink is saying that it is unable to connect to the mirror and when given the option i try again on another mirror in my country. Again it is not able to make a connection to the mirror. So i choose the option to use another mirror (world) and any mirror outside of this country starts to download and then I get a message saying that the download was incomplete. I run around in these circles about 11 - 12 times before i just have to choose the "give up option. I'll post a section of the compiler output:
curl -f -L -O http://west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.93.1.tar.gz
curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
### execution of curl failed, exit code 7
Downloading the file "lame-3.93.1.tar.gz" failed.
(1) Give up
(2) Retry the same mirror
(3) Retry another mirror from your country
(4) Retry another mirror from your continent
(5) Retry another mirror
How do you want to proceed? [3]
curl -f -L -O http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.93.1.tar.gz
curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
### execution of curl failed, exit code 7
Downloading the file "lame-3.93.1.tar.gz" failed.
(1) Give up
(2) Retry the same mirror
(3) Retry another mirror from your country
(4) Retry another mirror from your continent
(5) Retry another mirror
How do you want to proceed? [3]
curl -f -L -O http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.93.1.tar.gz
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
100 4137 0 4137 0 0 3255 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 3255
100 12993 0 12993 0 0 8511 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 34729
The checksum of the file is incorrect. The most likely cause for this is a
corrupted or incomplete download
Expected: 1b79c08045eafc55e24ebd38d9e84329
Actual: 8f87e09684a6dfd27334fad287b725e4
Downloading the file "lame-3.93.1.tar.gz" failed.
(1) Give up
(2) Retry the same mirror
(3) Retry another mirror from your country
(4) Retry another mirror
I have had all sorts of trouble trying to get KDE (for my new iBook) in the past week including doing a 18 hour update - all. On my desktop system (running 10.3) i just did an apt-get for kde and that was all there was to it. Does anyone know what I can do to overcome this problem?
--Matt

Try what I suggested to you yesterday.

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Another dead mirror

Add the ftp://locke.suu.edu mirror to the list of dead ones, it's been unreachable for 24 hours here.
(On the other hand, the Gatech mirror is back up. Hurray.)
Last edited by Gullible Jones (2007-07-24 02:25:39)

Me too! Well, the "community" repo is dead. the current and extra seem to work. You can still FTP to the community one, but pacman can't seem to get it. It was the fastest for me too!

Mirrors - suggestions and frustrations

Dealing with mirrors is the one thing I hate about Arch. I am constantly changing my mirrors and wondering if I have the latest version of things. This is supposed to be a rolling release distro, but it is almost turned my system into an Ubuntu release cycle, as every few weeks I realize my mirrors are out of date, I fix the problem and I do a major update. At least with a release cycle, I am getting the version someone intentionally wanted on my system for a long time. With Arch, I get an arbitrary version that was meant to be replaced in a few days.
I realize I can just leave my machine pointed to the official repository. That is slow, and if that is what we tell everyone to do, it defeats the point of having mirrors.
Can we configure the mirror servers to go off line if they haven't synchronized in 24 hours? A completely dead mirror is much easier to deal with than one that is out of date.
Could pacman be changed to go to the official repository to decide what to update, and then go through the list of mirrors to find a place to download the latest version? If a mirror doesn't have the version pacman wants, it could go to the next mirror in the list.

hyness wrote:
Inxsible wrote:
hyness wrote:
You can use this link to see which are the most up to date mirrors...
https://www.archlinux.de/?page=MirrorSt … ync;sort=1
HTH
That website gives a SSL security warning ! Maybe their Verisign or Thawte..or whatever certificate expired or they never had one in the first place.
Yes, you caught me in the infamous german arch linux phishing scam where a site poses as the official german site for arch linux where they require you give your credit card information before telling you which are the most up to date mirrors
Whatever SSL warning you got yesterday is not there now, and why it would be important when you are just reading it baffles me.
Funny because I am still getting the SSL warning. Yeah I know it doesn't matter much since you are only reading the website. So no, don't get baffled.

Bye, bye KDE - standalone pkgs for non-kde WM users.

This thread is copied from here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=13227
iphitus wrote:.....do it properly, and write a full pkgbuild.
Here are the first packges:
http://user-contributions.org/users/inc … tandalone/
To avoid conflicts, they are all configured with "conflicts=()" and have extension "-sta".

Here ya go Rasat, just wanted to make sure which to list as depend first.
kview:
pkgname=kview
pkgver=3.4.1
kdever=3.4.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="simple kde image viewer"
url="http://www.kde.org"
conflicts=(kdegraphics)
depends=('kdelibs' 'xorg')
# for easier build, just uncomment the mirror you want to use
mirror="ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/KDE" # updated every 2 hours, very fast for Europe
# mirror="ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/" # main server
# mirror="ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/kde/" # ibiblio mirror
source=(ftp://$mirror/stable/$kdever/src/kdegraphics-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
build() {
cd $startdir/src/kdegraphics-$pkgver
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde --disable-debug --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-kpdf-drm --enable-final
# --enable-final # remove this if you build with < 512mb ram.
cd kview
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
md5sums=('d91ef530a416bd8407abb28103bc049c')
ksnapshot:
pkgname=ksnapshot
pkgver=3.4.1
kdever=3.4.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="KDE screenshot catcher"
url="http://www.kde.org"
conflicts=('kdegraphics')
makedepends=()
depends=('kdelibs' 'xorg')
# for easier build, just uncomment the mirror you want to use
mirror="ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/KDE" # updated every 2 hours, very fast for Europe
# mirror="ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/" # main server
# mirror="ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/kde/" # ibiblio mirror
source=(ftp://$mirror/stable/$kdever/src/kdegraphics-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
build() {
cd $startdir/src/kdegraphics-$pkgver
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde --disable-debug --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-kpdf-drm --enable-final
# --enable-final # remove this if you build with < 512mb ram.
cd ksnapshot
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
md5sums=('d91ef530a416bd8407abb28103bc049c')
kolourpaint:
pkgname=kolourpaint
pkgver=3.4.1
kdever=3.4.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="KDE Simple Paint Program"
url="http://www.kde.org"
conflicts=('kdegraphics')
makedepends=()
depends=('kdelibs' 'xorg')
# for easier build, just uncomment the mirror you want to use
mirror="ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/KDE" # updated every 2 hours, very fast for Europe
# mirror="ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/" # main server
# mirror="ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/kde/" # ibiblio mirror
source=(ftp://$mirror/stable/$kdever/src/kdegraphics-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
build() {
cd $startdir/src/kdegraphics-$pkgver
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde --disable-debug --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-kpdf-drm --enable-final
# --enable-final # remove this if you build with < 512mb ram.
cd kolourpaint
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
md5sums=('d91ef530a416bd8407abb28103bc049c')

Kdelibs-noarts -- help please, doesn't work [solved]

I'm a xfce user and just want amarok and sometimes k3b and k9copy from kde. I don't want any konqueror, kwrite, arts or any other bloated stuff in my machine. So, i modified the kdelibs PKGBUILD to suit my needs -without arts nor avahi dependency/support.
It builds and runs fine, but when restarting my system (or installing it without having official kdelibs package previously installed) i have no symlinks to the bins. I also have no menu items for kde-apps. If i try to run amarok (for example) from terminal giving the whole address (/opt/kde/bin/amarokapp) it runs ok giving no error, so i guess the problem is just that my kdelibs pkg isn't making the appropriate symlinks during boot?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Here is the PKGBUILD:
pkgname=kdelibs-noarts
pkgver=3.5.6
kdever=3.5.6
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="KDE Core Libraries klein"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
url="http://www.kde.org"
provides='kdelibs'
conflicts='kdelibs'
replaces='kdelibs'
groups=('kde')
depends=('db' 'libxslt' 'pcre' 'libart-lgpl' 'openexr'
'jasper' 'fam' 'bzip2' 'openssl' 'libidn' 'perl'
'aspell' 'heimdal' 'acl' 'libtiff' 'qt>=3.3.7')
makedepends=(pkgconfig cups)
# for easier build, just uncomment the mirror you want to use
# mirror="ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/KDE" # updated every 2 hours, very fast for Europe
mirror="ftp.kde.org/pub/kde" # main server
# mirror="ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/kde/" # ibiblio mirror
source=(ftp://$mirror/stable/$kdever/src/kdelibs-$pkgver.tar.bz2
#http://www.archlinux.org/~jgc/kdnssd-avahi-20060319.tar.bz2
applications.menu.patch
kdeprintrc.patch
fileshareset-wrapper.c
kde-menu.patch
xdg-icon-lookup.patch
kicker-crash.patch
inotify.patch
qxembed.cpp.patch)
build() {
# Source the QT and KDE profile
[ "$QTDIR" = "" ] && source /etc/profile.d/qt.sh
[ "$KDEDIR" = "" ] && source /etc/profile.d/kde.sh
# start building
cd $startdir/src/kdelibs-$pkgver
patch -Np1 -i $startdir/src/kde-menu.patch || return 1
# patch -Np0 -i $startdir/src/xdg-icon-lookup.patch || return 1
patch -Np0 -i $startdir/src/applications.menu.patch || return 1
patch -Np0 -i $startdir/src/kicker-crash.patch || return 1
patch -Np0 -i $startdir/src/inotify.patch || return 1
patch -Np4 -i $startdir/src/qxembed.cpp.patch || return 1
# Replace dns-sd implementation with avahi implementation
# rm dnssd/*
# cp -r ${startdir}/src/kdnssd-avahi-20060319/* dnssd/
# rm dnssd/configure{,.in}
# sed -i -e 's/kdnssd-avahi/dnssd/g' dnssd/configure.in.in
# sed -i -e 's|ksocketaddress.h|network/ksocketaddress.h|' dnssd/publicservice.cpp
#Needed for updated kdnssd-avahi and inotify patch
make -f admin/Makefile.common dist
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde --with-distribution="Arch Linux" --with-alsa
--disable-dependency-tracking --disable-debug
--disable-dnotify --enable-inotify --enable-sendfile --x-libraries=/usr/share
--without-lua-dir --without-lua-includes --without-lua-libraries
--without-hspell --enable-gcc-hidden-visibility --without-arts --enable-final
--enable-new-ldflags LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L/opt/qt/lib"
# --enable-final # remove this if you build with < 512mb ram.
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install || return 1
# Set cups as default printing system
cd $startdir/pkg/opt/kde/share/config
patch -Np0 -i $startdir/src/kdeprintrc.patch || return 1
# fix that stupid fileshareset suid problem
mv $startdir/pkg/opt/kde/bin/fileshareset $startdir/pkg/opt/kde/bin/fileshareset.pl
gcc -Wall $startdir/src/fileshareset-wrapper.c -o $startdir/pkg/opt/kde/bin/fileshareset
chmod 0755 $startdir/pkg/opt/kde/bin/fileshareset.pl
chmod 4755 $startdir/pkg/opt/kde/bin/fileshareset
rm $startdir/pkg/opt/kde/bin/filesharelist
cd $startdir/pkg/opt/kde/bin/
ln -s fileshareset.pl filesharelist
md5sums=('f2da82c44b8a4e177018732e64a83a36' #'b7b98e965960f2d55741a10070aa943d'
'a66270abcdd0dcb2e28d3b2464927ff6' '6061c259247f56f0ede21deabfad2732'
'60ab1a486895d6c18ef334ec958c48d6' 'e94aef45b5a59fe58c7cc085ab1dd3ae'
'f7abfe849e5122dd01d6b8a884999da0' '091d05a08330372ddbaf5ef9d426be53'
'42d288e71fa0a886bc8882c198a27f2e' 'b697d458119880d0333dd368304e30aa')

I fixed it. The problem was so stupid, i forgot to add kde-common as dependency... however, it is working now. I cleaned the PKGBUILD a little and uploaded it to AUR.

Kdelibs with avahi

I have modified the kdelibs PKGBUILD from abs to use avahi instead of mdnsresponder, it anyone wants it.
Just place this in the abs dir for kdelibs:
# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.53 2006/01/27 15:56:49 tpowa Exp $
# Contributor: Roman Kreisel <[email protected]>
# Maintainer: Tobias Powalowski <[email protected]>
pkgname=kdelibs-avahi
pkgver=3.5.1
kdever=3.5.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="KDE Core Libraries"
url="http://www.kde.org"
groups=('kde')
depends=('arts>=1.5.1' 'db' 'libxslt' 'pcre' 'libart-lgpl' 'openexr' 'avahi' 'jasper'
'fam' 'bzip2' 'openssl' 'libidn' 'perl' 'aspell' 'heimdal' 'acl' 'libtiff' 'qt>=3.3.5')
makedepends=('cups')
provides=('kdelibs')
conflicts=('kdelibs')
# for easier build, just uncomment the mirror you want to use
mirror="ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/KDE" # updated every 2 hours, very fast for Europe
# mirror="ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/" # main server
# mirror="ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/kde/" # ibiblio mirror
source=(ftp://$mirror/stable/$kdever/src/kdelibs-$pkgver.tar.bz2
applications.menu.patch kdeprintrc.patch fileshareset-wrapper.c kde-menu.patch xdg-icon-lookup.patch
html_misc.patch
http://helios.et.put.poznan.pl/~jstachow/pub/kdnssd-avahi_0.1.2.orig.tar.gz)
build() {
# Source the QT and KDE profile
[ "$QTDIR" = "" ] && source /etc/profile.d/qt.sh
[ "$KDEDIR" = "" ] && source /etc/profile.d/kde.sh
# start building
cd $startdir/src/kdelibs-$pkgver
patch -Np1 -i $startdir/src/kde-menu.patch || return 1
patch -Np0 -i $startdir/src/xdg-icon-lookup.patch || return 1
patch -Np0 -i $startdir/src/applications.menu.patch || return 1
# fix for kdebindings
patch -Np4 -i ../html_misc.patch || return 1
#automake
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde --with-distribution="Arch Linux" --with-alsa
--disable-dependency-tracking --disable-debug
--enable-dnotify --enable-sendfile --without-hspell
--enable-gcc-hidden-visibility --enable-final --disable-dnssd
# --enable-final # remove this if you build with < 512mb ram.
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install || return 1
# Hack-ish way to get Avahi support
cd $startdir/src/kdnssd-avahi-0.1.2
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde
cd kdnssd-avahi && make mocs && make
cd ../
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
# Set cups as default printing system
cd $startdir/pkg/opt/kde/share/config
patch -Np0 -i $startdir/src/kdeprintrc.patch || return 1
# fix that stupid fileshareset suid problem
mv $startdir/pkg/opt/kde/bin/fileshareset $startdir/pkg/opt/kde/bin/fileshareset.pl
gcc -Wall $startdir/src/fileshareset-wrapper.c -o $startdir/pkg/opt/kde/bin/fileshareset
chmod 0755 $startdir/pkg/opt/kde/bin/fileshareset.pl
chmod 4755 $startdir/pkg/opt/kde/bin/fileshareset
rm $startdir/pkg/opt/kde/bin/filesharelist
cd $startdir/pkg/opt/kde/bin/
ln -s fileshareset.pl filesharelist
md5sums=('2a22193ae7c23f3759b02723dab02d30' 'a66270abcdd0dcb2e28d3b2464927ff6'
'6061c259247f56f0ede21deabfad2732' '60ab1a486895d6c18ef334ec958c48d6'
'e94aef45b5a59fe58c7cc085ab1dd3ae' '3627a48526fefa2fe2beeff43f35ac0f'
'ac1421ba31fe20e8108b5ffb509b11b0' '36e7073d39d692c9f45b22c1044eb563')

Well, I got one report claiming this as a success, you just need avahi started before getting into kde or else kicker will go bonkers

KDevelop 3.1.0 (for KDE3.3)

I couldn't get the kdevelop 3.0 in current to work or the -devel version. The -devel cvs build doesn't appear to be the latest version anyway.
This is just the current KDevelop 3.0 PKGBUILD modified for the latest and greatest. I have a pre-built binary package but I'm not sure if that's appropriate to put in incoming since eventually (I assume) the package maintainer will do an update.
# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.11 2004/06/11 17:00:08 lou Exp $
# Maintainer: damir <[email protected]>
# Committer: Judd Vinet <[email protected]>
pkgname=kdevelop
pkgver=3.1.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A C/C++ development environment for KDE"
depends=('kdebase>=3.3.0' 'kdesdk>=3.3.0' 'graphviz' 'flex>=2.5.4' 'gcc' 'perl' 'make' 'automake>=1.6' 'autoconf>=2.52' 'gettext' 'db' 'cvs')
url="http://www.kdevelop.org/"
replaces=('kdevelop3-cvs') # compatibility reasons
conflicts=('kdevelop-devel')
# for easier build, just uncomment the mirror you want to use --- remember: source is about 7MB!
# mirror="ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/KDE" # updated every 2 hours, very fast for Europe
mirror="ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/" # main server
# mirror="ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/kde/" # ibiblio mirror
source=(ftp://$mirror/stable/$pkgname-latest/src/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
build() {
cd ${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde --disable-debug
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
rm -f ${startdir}/pkg/opt/kde/bin/extractrc

no need to upload to incoming - i'll update asap
i was away about a day - kdevelop is on the way :-)
(quanta too :-) )

Perl Pacman Ping

I am writing a Perl utilty to check for dead mirrors in the pacman mirrorlist.
The Net::Ping module seems to be working, but due to some symantics the live servers are being labeled dead.
http://hastebin.com/torekataci.pl
(sorry for the ugly formatting, it was rushed)

What is your question? Your script appears to have larger problems than live servers being labelled as dead. For starters, on my machine it truncates the hostnames:
Use of uninitialized value $1 in string at ./test.pl line 15, <LIST> line 1.
dead mirror:
Use of uninitialized value $1 in string at ./test.pl line 15, <LIST> line 2.
dead mirror:
Use of uninitialized value $1 in string at ./test.pl line 15, <LIST> line 3.
dead mirror:
Use of uninitialized value $1 in string at ./test.pl line 15, <LIST> line 4.
dead mirror:
Use of uninitialized value $1 in string at ./test.pl line 15, <LIST> line 5.
dead mirror:
Use of uninitialized value $1 in string at ./test.pl line 15, <LIST> line 6.
dead mirror:
dead mirror: on.net/pub
dead mirror: net.au/pub
dead mirror: edu.au/pub
dead mirror: edu.au
EDIT:
Consider using Regexp::Common
use warnings;
use strict;
use Net::Ping;
use Regexp::Common qw /URI/;;
my @servers;
my $serverso = 0;
my $mirror;
my $p = Net::Ping->new();
open LIST, "/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" or die "Mirrorlist not found. Is pacman properly installed?";
while(<LIST>)
m|Server = $RE{URI}{HTTP}{-keep}|i or next;
$mirror = $3;
print "dead mirror: $mirror\n" unless $p->ping($mirror);
die;
close(LIST);
Last edited by fukawi2 (2013-05-13 02:20:25)

KDE and GNOME install no found smbclient from all mirrors?

I met this issue when try to install KDE and GNOME. It is not found even in Arch's ftp and many mirrors.
Who can help me this?
Thanks in advance,
Mike

do pacman -Sy before. smbclient was updated yesterday and maybe you forgot to sync the database.

Mirrors which contain kde 4.4

I have removed kdemod 4.3 in order to try out kde4.4 but I have no luck. It seems that all the servers I tried don't have kde 4.4 so has anyone successfully installed kde4.4 then can they give me the server? I don't care what country it is from or the speed just as long as it has kde 4.4.

You cn find which mirrors synced here and browse to see if they have the packages.
https://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html

KDE 4.4 Mirrors

Hi all,
Been using Arch for a while now, just haven't needed to ask anyone for directions yet.
I know that this was a hot topic yesterday, but I think I've waited long enough. The mirrors that I currently use (Waterloo, Canada and Virgina Tech, US) haven't even updated any one of their packages to KDE 4.4; also kernel.org is still missing the akonadi package. I don't really want to use the archlinux.org server and hog bandwith if any of the other mirrors are updating.
Are there any people getting the update who live in western Canada? If so, which mirror did you use?
Thanks!

thestinger wrote:
I live in Toronto so I use the Waterloo server all the time (mmm 1700KB/s) but I can't stand the rate it syncs at (waiting 2 days for upgrades? pfft) so I just use it for installing new software most of the time.
You should install reflector and try something like:
reflector --latest 10 -r > outputfile
that will get you the 15 most up-to-date mirrors and rank them by speed, which should get you what you need.
Thanks, but it still only returned kernel.org, the rest were overseas. I'll try updating from there, but it looks like I'd have to remove kdepim for now.
makrin wrote:You can check on
https://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html
I looked at it last night, and was utterly confused by it, reflector is much easier.

Dead LCD, Any file I can modify to force Extend Desktop/Mirror?

The LCD has died on my G5 iMac so I have no way to enable Extend Desktop to allow me to continue using the iMac with an external monitor. I still can access the hard drive via the network.
Does anyone know a specific file I could modify to enable Extend Desktop by modifying the file from a computer connected over the network?
Thanks,

Hope the information did the job. However, be aware that you might also tick off some users that do not like default settings others like. I would suggest you consider your reason to override the user setting is good before you do it. If you really want a full screen view, maybe a landscape mode might be preferred. In that case, I suspect users would not mind the forcing of a full page.
You can also force full screen viewing, but such is confusing to some folks that don't think of hitting the ESC key to get out.

Starting KDE?

I know that there has been a million discussion topics on starting KDE or GNOME but I have edited my .xinitrc file in my home directory to:
source /sw/bin/init.sh
/sw/bin/startkde >/tmp/kde.log 2>&1
and it just makes my xdarwin automatically quit. If I try to manualy start kde through the xterm by typing "startkde" it says that there is no such command. I have also tried to edit my .xinitrc file to several other things that people have said to do and nothing works at all. The only way that I can get XDarwin to start and run is by having an .xinitrc file that reads:
#!/bin/sh
# $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $
userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
# merge in defaults and keymaps
if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi
if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi
if [ -f $userresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $userresources
fi
if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
xmodmap $usermodmap
fi
# start some nice programs
twm &
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
xterm -geometry 80x5049451 &
xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
exec xterm -geometry 80x6600 -name login
I have had trouble trying to get kde for some time now. For a while, I was having trouble compiling kde through fink because fink couldn't connect to any mirrors. I was able to get through the compile process today or at least that is what I think because after compiling for a while, I get a message at the bottom of fink commander saying, "done" but it is not saying "current" in the status column. Does anyone know how I could check to see if I have it? I am very confused right now, I am pulling my hair out trying to figure this out. On my desktopp running 10.3 I was able to just install kde through fink, edit my .xinitrc file and I was starting kde without a problem. Now when I try and put it on my ibook, first I have trouble finding it through fink, then I have trouble getting dependencies through fink, then I have trouble with the mirrors and now I'm stuck on the .xinitrc file (thats even if I have installed kde properly at all). I have no hair left to pull out anymore! Can someone please help me?
p.s. Bill Scott, I have followed all of the directions on your site, can you tell me what that was?
--Matt

Hi Thierry,
   I wasn't saying that it doesn't work. I don't use KDE so there are plenty of things I don't know about it. Is it it's own window manager or do you also run a window manager? What do you exec in your ~/.xinitrc?
   If that's what's recommended then definitely include the redirection of output to the log. That's why I said "something like ...". I wasn't trying to dictate the form of the startkde part of the line. I was only suggesting that it be "execed". That way, when you logout of KDE, X11 quits, which is why the writers of X11 substituted the execution of the xinitrc script for the main process. You certainly wouldn't want X11 to quit when you exited an xterm.
   I apologize for not discussing the flexibility of process. Explaining the need for the "exec" command is a fairly lengthy discourse already and I didn't want to write a book. However, it is still necessary to have an "exec" command at the end of the xinitrc and the reasons I gave for what to "exec" are still valid. You could certainly exec a window manager instead of KDE but I would think that you'd want KDE to have control over whether X11 is running.
   Of course the situation is more flexible with Mac OS X because there are other ways of stopping X11, like with the menu. On other flavors of UNIX, when you logout of KDE, you probably want to logout of the computer altogether. The command I provided is essentially what is used on Red Hat Linux if Gnome isn't installed so I didn't just make it up. Anyway, I hope the explanation of how the xinitrc works benefits some.
Gary
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   Never let your schooling interfere with your education.

AirPlay Screen Mirroring (Mavericks) disconnects frequently with "Feedback taking too long to send" message

My company has several TVs with AppleTVs (3rd generation units) connected in our conference rooms so we can "Screen Mirror" our Mac laptops via AirPlay during meetings. Many employees have complained that AirPlay Screen Mirroring drops frequently during meetings for no apparent reason.
In attempts to determine the cause of the issue, I removed the AppleTV units from Wi-Fi and hard-wired them all to the LAN (100Mbps/Full duplex, no switchport errors seen on the Cisco switch). I upgraded the AppleTVs to the latest firmware. I had our AppleTV users ensure they were running MacOS Mavericks with the latest software updates installed. I had the Mac laptops hard-wired into the LAN during meetings in the conference rooms. None of these changes resolved the AirPlay issue.
I reviewed the MacOS "/var/log/system.log" file from the laptops of several users that reported issues. I found a pattern that seemed to indicate that the "coreaudiod" process reported "Feedback taking too long to send" several times before the AppleTV connection was terminated. Also, from a network trace (using "tcpdump") taken during an unexpected AirPlay Screen Mirroring disconnection, I could see that the Mac laptop sent a TCP FIN packet to the AppleTV unit (this would indicate that the MacOS laptop initiated the closing of the AirPlay connection).
I have included the relevant log file entries below. Please note that the LAN internal to our company is "solid" and there have been no connectivity issues detected or reported during the times the AirPlay sessions were disconnected.
I believe I have found a workaround to this issue. By going into "System Preferences", "Sound" and then changing the "Output" device BACK to the "Internal Speakers" (rather than the AirPlay destination), the AirPlay Screen Monitoring connection seems to remain stable.
My questions are:
- is anyone else experiencing this type of problem? any other solutions recommended?
- is there a way to change the AirPlay defaults so that Screen Mirroring only sends the video (not audio)?
- does anyone know what the log file entries indicate (like, what does "Feedback taking too long to send...." mean)?
- any fix planned for this issue?
From: "/var/log/system.log":
Jan 16 10:50:16 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:16.454404 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (1 seconds, 1 total)
Jan 16 10:50:18 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:18.524517 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (4 seconds, 2 total)
Jan 16 10:50:20 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:20.533639 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (6 seconds, 3 total)
Jan 16 10:50:22 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:22.548168 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (8 seconds, 4 total)
Jan 16 10:50:24 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:24.554522 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (10 seconds, 5 total)
Jan 16 10:50:24 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:24.554809 AM [AirPlay] ### Report network status (3, en0) failed: 1/0x1 kCFHostErrorHostNotFound / kCFStreamErrorSOCKSSubDomainVersionCode / kCFStreamErrorSOCKS5BadResponseAddr / kCFStreamErrorDomainPOSIX / evtNotEnb / siInitSDTblErr / kUSBPending / dsBusError / kStatusIsError / kOTSerialSwOverRunErr / cdevResErr / EPERM
Jan 16 10:50:26 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:26.545531 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (12 seconds, 6 total)
Jan 16 10:50:28 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:28.559050 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (14 seconds, 7 total)
Jan 16 10:50:30 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:30.628868 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (16 seconds, 8 total)
Jan 16 10:50:32 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:32.655638 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (18 seconds, 9 total)
Jan 16 10:50:34 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:34.641952 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (20 seconds, 10 total)
Jan 16 10:50:36 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:36.659854 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (22 seconds, 11 total)
Jan 16 10:50:38 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:38.653594 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (24 seconds, 12 total)
Jan 16 10:50:40 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:40.659279 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (26 seconds, 13 total)
Jan 16 10:50:42 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:42.745549 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (28 seconds, 14 total)
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.532853 AM [AirPlay] ### Endpoint "AppleTV" feedback error: -6722/0xFFFFE5BE kTimeoutErr
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.533151 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback failed: -6722/0xFFFFE5BE kTimeoutErr
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.533273 AM [AirPlay] ### Error with endpoint "AppleTV": -6722/0xFFFFE5BE kTimeoutErr
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.533427 AM [BonjourBrowser] Reconfirming PTR for AppleTV._airplay._tcp.local. on en0
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.533588 AM [BonjourBrowser] Reconfirming PTR for 9C207BBD8EA1@AppleTV._raop._tcp.local. on en0
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.533839 AM [AirPlay] ### AirPlay report: Network dead for 10+ seconds after 159 seconds, screen, nm "AppleTV", tp WiFi, md AppleTV3,1, sv 190.9, rt 0, fu 0, rssi -54
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.534104 AM [AirPlay] ### Report network status (5, en0) failed: 1/0x1 kCFHostErrorHostNotFound / kCFStreamErrorSOCKSSubDomainVersionCode / kCFStreamErrorSOCKS5BadResponseAddr / kCFStreamErrorDomainPOSIX / evtNotEnb / siInitSDTblErr / kUSBPending / dsBusError / kStatusIsError / kOTSerialSwOverRunErr / cdevResErr / EPERM
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.534315 AM [AirPlay] Deactivating virtual display stream for quiesce
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.543682 AM [AirPlayScreenClient] Stopping session
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.543815 AM [AirPlay] Quiescing endpoint 'AppleTV'
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.543907 AM [AirPlayScreenClient] Stopping session internal
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.544218 AM [AirPlayScreenClient] Stopped session internal
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local AirPlayUIAgent[985]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.544266 AM [AirPlayAVSys] ### Quiesce AirPlay
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local SystemUIServer[159]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.544297 AM [AirPlayAVSys] ### Quiesce AirPlay
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local SystemUIServer[159]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.553084 AM [AirPlayAVSys] ### Quiesce AirPlay
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local AirPlayUIAgent[985]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.554904 AM [AirPlayAVSys] ### Quiesce AirPlay
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local SystemUIServer[159]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.557604 AM [AirPlayAVSys] Ignoring route away when AirPlay not current
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local AirPlayUIAgent[985]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.560307 AM [AirPlayAVSys] Ignoring route away when AirPlay not current
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local WindowServer[89]: Display 0x04280880: GL mask 0x21; bounds (0, 0)[1920 x 1080], 62 modes available
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local WindowServer[89]: GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x01022727, GL mask 0x0000001f, accelerator 0x00004ccb, unit 0, caps QEX|MIPMAP, vram 2048 MB
I am happy to provide more information if needed.
Thank you.
-Tim

I'm currently still experiencing this as well. I've confirmed it occurs on 10.9.1, 10.9.2, and 10.9.3 on MacBook Pro Retina's, Mid-2012 and 2013 MacBooks. It happens on multiple ATV's not just one, all are updated to 6.1.1 and a simple reboot seems to fix it temporarily but it does come back. All the ATV's are connecting to the network via Wireless not Ethernet. These are 3rd Gen ATV's but I checked the serial number and these do not match the bad batch of Apple TV's from 2013 that were offered up for Replacement for Apple due to the bad firmware update. None of the computers have the Firewall turned on. Here's the two logs that we always find after the issue occurs (logs are recent, happened this morning):
5/30/14 8:57:36.017 AM coreaudiod[183]: 2014-05-30 08:57:36.016946 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (30 seconds, 17 total)
5/30/14 8:57:36.332 AM coreaudiod[183]: 2014-05-30 08:57:36.331492 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback failed: -6723/0xFFFFE5BD kCanceledErr
The user will get disconnected from Airplay anywhere between 30 seconds to 3 minutes after logging on and can reconnect but then once again get disconnected after the same time period. One interesting thing to note is that when the Feedback Taking Too Long to send error starts occuring and the countdown to disconnect start ticking down to 30, its solely referring to Audio not being sent over the network and Video is working just fine. If I try to play sound I get another log and the sound doesn't play through the speakers. After a reboot, sound works fine and the Feedback Error's do not show up. I've also tried switching to Internal Speakers (since it defaultly switches to Airplay Speakers) after connecting to Airplay and seeing the Feedback timer start in the Console Logs but even after that the log continues to saw its taking too long to send and disconnects in 30 seconds.
This issue has been ongoing for months, I've got a ticket logged as far back as January with this occuring but its infrequent enough that we've just restarted and moved on. I'd say its an issue that occurs to about 5%-10% of meetings but that's an entire meeting that doesn't have the ability to Airplay until someone comes down and reboots it.
I don't often post in this forum but its still an active issue with no resolution, proof that its occuring on other people's systems, and no firmware updates having been released to correct it. It'd be nice to know of any workarounds other than having to buy some lamp timers for each conference room just to get a functional ATV or putting up a sign that says hey if you get disconnected every 3 minutes, reboot the ATV. The whole reason we're using Apple products is for ease of use otherwise I'd put together a much cheaper solution myself. Any help or recommended troubleshooting steps would be fantastic at this point.

How can I get a MacBook with a dead display to display to an HDMI monitor upon bootup?

I have a MacBook with a dead display that I'd like to use as a desktop. I also have a 23" monitor with VGA and HDMI input. I am using the DVI adapter on the MacBook, and a DVI to HDMI converter to connect to the monitor. The problem is that when it boots, it's extending the desktop over onto the monitor rather than mirroring or using that as the primary display, which is unhelpful.
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Do I need to buy a mimi-DVI to VGA adapter to accomplish this?
I know this works if I connect the MacBook to a monitor with DVI input. The problem is that my only options are VGA or HDMI for my current monitor.
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