[SOLVED] Totem missing settings on 64 Arch with Gnome 3.6

Hi all,
after clean install Arch 64 with Gnome 3.6.2 I cant find settings in default video player Totem to set my subtitles encoding (East Europe - Windows 1250).
Can anybody tell me, how or where can I set subtitles encoding in new version of Totem?
Thank you!
Last edited by shmakky (2012-11-24 16:45:57)

You can access "Preferences" in "Application menu"
Look at this screen: https://live.gnome.org/Design/HIG/Appli … s-menu.png

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Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012]
============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================
=> Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 1 of
the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
in partition 99 for .
=> Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb and looks at sector 1 of
the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
in partition 99 for .
sda1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD
sda2: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 7
Boot files: /Windows/System32/winload.exe
sda3: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed: mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted or sda3 busy
sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 12.10
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab
sdb2: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files:
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Drive: sda _____________________________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
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Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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/dev/sda1 * 2,048 206,847 204,800 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
/dev/sda2 206,848 178,466,084 178,259,237 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
/dev/sda3 * 178,466,085 234,440,703 55,974,619 83 Linux
Drive: sdb _____________________________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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/dev/sdb1 * 63 20,948,759 20,948,697 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 20,964,824 976,771,071 955,806,248 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
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/dev/sda1 CA6A20CC6A20B75B ntfs System Reserved
/dev/sda2 1EE242D5E242B137 ntfs
/dev/sda3 65db0c59-9f04-46f1-975d-8a4c28132137 ext4
/dev/sdb1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed ext4
/dev/sdb2 3C2E3A4E2E3A0206 ntfs
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Device Mount_Point Type Options
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set vt_handoff=vt.handoff=7
else
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insmod ext2
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=============================== sdb1/etc/fstab: ================================
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
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UUID=bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
=================== sdb1: Location of files loaded by Grub: ====================
GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
4.564525127 = 4.901121536 boot/grub/grub.cfg 1
5.130507946 = 5.508840960 boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-29-generic 2
5.851592541 = 6.283099648 boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-21-generic 2
6.317649364 = 6.783524352 boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-29-generic 1
4.965751171 = 5.331934720 boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-21-generic 2
5.851592541 = 6.283099648 initrd.img 2
5.851592541 = 6.283099648 initrd.img.old 2
4.965751171 = 5.331934720 vmlinuz 2
4.965751171 = 5.331934720 vmlinuz.old 2
I tried adding nomodeset and acpi=off to the boot parameters, but the boot process still hangs. Please let me know if I should provide any other information.
Last edited by dhavalparmar (2012-12-30 11:45:25)

Ok.. So my Arch Linux randomly decided to work. I'm sure I didn't do anything between my last "not working" state and my current "working" state. Below are a few things I tried:
I thought of trying an earlier build of ArchLinux, and downloaded archlinux-2012.11.01-dual.iso and made a bootable USB out of it. It still hung.
I was getting error messages during Arch boot that the last access time for the disks was at a future date. I found out that Ubuntu was using localtime instead of UTC and screwing up my hardware clock. I fixed it, and thought maybe the time issues were causing the boot problem. But fixing time didn't solve my problem.
I chrooted into Arch from my Ubuntu install, ran 'sudo pacman -Syyu' and updated my Arch install.
I thought maybe GDM isn't starting up. I re-enabled the service using 'systemctl enable gdm.service'.
I removed OpenNTPd and installed NTPd. Enabled the daemon using 'systemctl enable ntpd'
None of the above solved the problem, and rebooting to Arch still hung the system. So I stopped fiddling with it yesterday. Today, as usual, I just tried logging into Arch.. And it just worked out of the blue. The solution to me is as mysterious as the problem.
I told this to my friend who introduced me to Arch, and this is what he said:
Damn it computers, you were supposed to be deterministic!

HT204318 Copied my iTunes from my Mac to my Windows 7 laptop, now there are thousands of songs missing on the Windows copy with the exclamation point.

Copied my iTunes from my Mac to my Windows 7 laptop, now there are thousands of songs missing on the Windows copy with the exclamation point. everything shows up, playlists and tracks, there are just a bunch of songs with exclamation points. how can i properly sync my iTunes from my Mac to my PC? using iTunes

Moving a library: Quick answer if you use iTunes' default preferences settings: Copy the entire iTunes folder (and in doing so all its sub-folders and files) intact to the other drive. Hold down the option (alt) key (shift on Windows) and open iTunes. At the prompt to create or choose a library choose the copied iTunes folder.

[SOLVED] MacbookPro 8,1 13" - Dual boot with Mac OS X #rEFIt

Hi everyone, I want to share my experience and request for help regarding my attempt to install Arch on my MBP 8,1. I can't count the times I've tried to install it this week.
What have I done?
So I followed the Beginner's Guide to aid me in the installation, with some exceptions:
* I used Linux Mint 14 to use GParted. The reason I used it is because rEFIt won't sync the GPT and MBR tables properly when I try and use `mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdaX` inside the Archiso. With Archiso, the filesystem types are considered to be "Unknown" (#wtf no. 1), whereas with Mint that doesn't happen.
* In fstab I had something like:
# /dev/sda4
UUID=c35d9121-a3f1-4cd6-ab53-61fe0f474eee / ext4 rw,noatime 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=390185f6-6d55-430c-a9ba-d3d0b4c7798b /home ext4 rw,relatime,codepage=437 0 2
The wiki mentioned the noatime and codepage flags for the respective partitions and so I complied.
One thing to notice is I have no /boot mount because syslinux apparently doesn't like that.
* Installing syslinux (along with gptfdisk), I issued:
syslinux-install_update -iam
, and reviewed /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg like this:
LABEL arch
MENU LABEL Arch Linux
LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
----APPEND root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/c35d9121-a3f1-4cd6-ab53-61fe0f474eee ro----
APPEND root=/dev/disk/by-partuuid/c35d9121-a3f1-4cd6-ab53-61fe0f474eee ro **still doesn't work, it's not found**
INITRD ../initramfs-linux.img
LABEL archfallback
MENU LABEL Arch Linux Fallback
LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
----APPEND root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/c35bod9121-a3f1-4cd6-ab53-61fe0f474eee ro----
APPEND root=/dev/disk/by-partuuid/c35d9121-a3f1-4cd6-ab53-61fe0f474eee ro **still doesn't work, it's not found**
INITRD ../initramfs-linux-fallback.img
I used UUID's to avoid the mess on sdaX discrepancies.
Results
* rEFIt correctly shows Arch as a boot option. It boots correctly to Syslinux.
* The kernel load fails due to something like:
Unknown filesystem 'vfat'
... and/or ...
Waiting 10 seconds for /dev/sdaX ...
This stroke me as #wtf no.2. VFAT?? Has anyone experienced this before?
For now this is all I have. I was hoping the community could give me helpful pointers on solving this as I intend to contribute with documentation on this setup in the wiki.
I'll be updating this post with newer information. Thanks for helping!
Last edited by josemota (2012-12-31 18:05:09)

I don't have much experience with SYSLINUX or booting a Mac in BIOS mode, but I can help answer a couple of your questions and offer some alternative approaches....
josemota wrote:
Hi everyone, I want to share my experience and request for help regarding my attempt to install Arch on my MBP 8,1. I can't count the times I've tried to install it this week.
What have I done?
So I followed the Beginner's Guide to aid me in the installation, with some exceptions:
* I used Linux Mint 14 to use GParted. The reason I used it is because rEFIt won't sync the GPT and MBR tables properly when I try and use `mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdaX` inside the Archiso. With Archiso, the filesystem types are considered to be "Unknown" (#wtf no. 1), whereas with Mint that doesn't happen.
This issue is a limitation of the "gptsync" program that's included with rEFIt, not with rEFIt itself. It's also not caused by mkfs; gptsync doesn't even look inside the partitions, AFAIK. Instead, it looks at partition type codes. It understands just a few of them, including the one that all but the very latest versions of libparted use on Linux filesystem partitions. The trouble is that the libparted developers long ago "borrowed" that code from Windows, but they shouldn't have done so. That's being corrected, and gdisk can use the correct code for Linux ("8300" in gdisk). In the future, libparted will use this code, too; the support is already present but isn't yet widely distributed. You could have set the type code to "0700" in gdisk from Arch and gptsync would have worked.
You may be interested to know that gdisk can do the same job that gptsync does, and gdisk can do so much more flexibly. You can read more in the gdisk hybrid MBR documentation. Be aware that hybrid MBRs (which is what gptsync creates) are ugly and dangerous hacks. Sadly, they're necessary to dual-boot Windows and OS X on Macs, but you may be able to dual-boot OS X and Linux without a hybrid MBR. The trick here is to install an EFI boot loader for Linux rather than a BIOS boot loader for Linux. Macs use EFI natively, so this is the superior way to get started, at least theoretically.
The Arch wiki has a number of pages on EFI issues, such as:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Un … _Interface
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI_Bootloaders
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB_EFI_Examples
The main problem with booting a Mac in EFI mode is that some systems won't activate all their hardware in this way, so with some models you can end up with a network adapter or video display or sound that doesn't work. Other models are fine, though; you'll just have to give it a try and see if it works.
Personally, I think the best way to do it is to use the kernel's EFI stub loader in conjunction with an EFI boot manager like rEFInd or gummiboot. Both are available as Arch packages, but it's better to install from OS X, and that process is much better documented for rEFInd than for gummiboot (although you could adapt the rEFInd documentation for gummiboot, if you liked). rEFIt can work, too, but only if the kernel includes built-in command-line options and is renamed with a ".efi" extension. These are awkward requirements, and since rEFInd is a continuation of rEFIt development, there's not much point in trying to get rEFIt to do the job.

[Kinda solved] "Oh no! Something has gone wrong." with gnome-fallback

After some upgrades today, I got with an unusable gnome. On every startx it failed with the window "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occured and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again." (forcing you to close the session, just to reappear on restart)
After ~6 hours on this, and downgrading several packages to no avail, I discovered that the file /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-fallback.session had been removed.
As I use gnome-fallback, the dconf key “org.gnome.desktop.session” contains “gnome-fallback”, and that apparently requires such file to exist
If you need to change the key with command-line:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session session-name gnome-fallback
I finally got a working system by copying /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome.session to /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-fallback.session and changing -use a text editor- its line "RequiredComponents=gnome-shell;gnome-settings-daemon;" to "RequiredComponents=metacity;gnome-settings-daemon;gnome-panel"
I hope this serves others to fix this issue.
I still miss the upper applet bar (although perhaps due to uninstalling then reinstalling gnome-panel), and key shortcuts (such as Alt-tab) are not working, but most functionality is there.
If you end up at a desktop with no menus, a way to work is to make in the desktop a symlink to /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.

I apologize for my post above....it's misleading. The bug in question is regarding a similar failure with gnome, but involving the standard session, not fallback. The fallback issue may be one of deprecation, I've read that gnome was no longer supporting it as software rendering was considered 'good enough'.
So if you are having the issue described in the OP you may want to file a separate bug. I posted my bug here as a result of a quick skim of the post and replies to it. After re-reading it, I see they are separate issues.

Arch with Xen-server patch

Okey, here's my problem:
I want to run Arch with the Xen patch, unfortunatly the latest version if it only supports kernel 2.6.13.x.
This means that I somehow need to get udev to work with this kernel setup, my problem right now is that downgradeing udev to a version that doesn't require 2.6.15 reaks havoc over my system since it seems the initscripts are not adjusted to handle this. I tried downgradeing udev resulting in a machine that went ballistic whenever I booted it.
Does anyone have a nice, simple and good solution on how to make Archlinux run with 2.6.13, the Xen patch and a udev version that's satisfactory by todays standards and requirements?
PS. I heard a rumor about a patch that gave the 2.6.13 kernel the uevent stuff needed for running newer versions of udev, is this just a rumor or is there acctually such a patch? (And ofcourse I've googled around quite abit before I asked here) DS.

Hi!
I might have an answer to your problem, but not exactly what you are expecting.
- I found on xen newsgroups that as soon as the kernel 2.6.16 is available they will update their binary packages, so you can wait for this one to happen.
- I modified xen-unstable package from AUR, so it compiles Xen kernel 2.6.15 in the process and one does not have to change almost anything (one has to rename /lib/tls to improve Xen performance).
If you have time give a try to the following package (maintainer is the name of the guy who put it in AUR - don't ask him for help please). As you can see I'm building full kernel with /usr/src/ stuff so one can compile modules for Xen. I have not tested it fully, I compiled it, booted and started creating virtual machine and then went snowboarding and came back last weekend. I give absolutely no warranty that it will work it did for me though:
PKGBUILD
# $Id$
# Maintainer: Charles Mauch <[email protected]>
pkgname=xen
pkgver=unstable
pkgrel=3
pkgdesc="Enterprise Open-Source Virtualization, unstable branch"
url="http://www.xensource.com/"
depends=( 'iproute' 'bridge-utils' 'zope' 'python' 'twisted-web' )
source=(http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/downloads/$pkgname-$pkgver-src.tgz xend xen_Makefile.patch vsyscall-note-xen.S.patch)
install=('xen.install')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
# patch to build full xen kernel with all modules
patch < ../xen_Makefile.patch
# patch vsyscall-note-xen.S to get it working with ArchLinux
patch -p0 < ../vsyscall-note-xen.S.patch
make world
cp -a $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/dist/install/* $startdir/pkg
mv $startdir/pkg/etc/init.d $startdir/pkg/etc/rc.d
mv $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/python $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/python2.4
install -m0755 $startdir/src/xend $startdir/pkg/etc/rc.d/xend
_kernver=`find . -name linux-2.6.*-xen | sed 's|./linux-||'`
mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}
# copy files necessary for later builds, like nvidia and vmware
cp $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/linux-${_kernver}/Module.symvers $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/
cp -a $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/linux-${_kernver}/scripts/ $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/
mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/.tmp_versions
mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/i386/kernel
cp $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/linux-${_kernver}/arch/i386/Makefile $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/i386/
cp $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/linux-${_kernver}/arch/i386/Makefile.cpu $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/i386/
cp $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/linux-${_kernver}/arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/i386/kernel/
# add headers for lirc package
mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/video
cp $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/video/*.h $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/video/
# add dm headers
mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/md
cp $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/md/*.h $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/md/
# add inotify.h
mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include/linux
cp $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/linux-${_kernver}/include/linux/inotify.h $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include/linux/
# copy in Kconfig files
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/linux-${_kernver}/
for i in `find . -name "Kconfig*"`; do
mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/`echo $i | sed 's|/Kconfig.*||'`
cp $i $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/$i
done
cp $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/linux-${_kernver}/Makefile $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/
cp $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/linux-${_kernver}/.config $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/
cd $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include && ln -s asm-i386 asm
chown -R root.root $startdir/pkg/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}
md5sums=('b6ae36dcdc74c0810c0c0defaaddad9c'
'9c6b2a6dd88e4ca68689dd063ff51a72' '00dd41afa731a0f6a1bbc4cb90e75b02')
I created 2 patches to have usable package. The source code from the xen website builds linux-2.6-xen0 and linux-2.6-xenU which are development kernels - they have almost no modules except for the basic ones. One should build the kernel linux-2.6-xen that can work as xen0 or xenU and has all modules.
take a look here
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Insta … 2.6-xen%29
under "Using the -xen kernel rather than -xen0/U"
xen_Makefile.patch
--- Makefile 2006-03-03 05:58:36.000000000 +0100
+++ Makefile.new 2006-03-09 09:17:01.000000000 +0100
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
# Grand Unified Makefile for Xen.
-KERNELS ?= linux-2.6-xen0 linux-2.6-xenU
+KERNELS ?= linux-2.6-xen
# You may use wildcards in the above e.g. KERNELS=*2.6*
XKERNELS := $(foreach kernel, $(KERNELS), $(patsubst buildconfigs/mk.%,%,$(wildcard buildconfigs/mk.$(kernel))) )
the second patch is to solve this problem:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/htm … 00023.html
vsyscall-note-xen.S.patch
--- linux-2.6-xen-sparse/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note-xen.S 2006-03-09 06:15:52.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-xen-sparse/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note-xen.S.new 2006-03-09 09:47:37.000000000 +0100
@@ -27,6 +27,6 @@
.byte bit; .asciz name
#define NOTE_KERNELCAP_END ASM_ELF_NOTE_END
-NOTE_KERNELCAP_BEGIN(1, 1)
-NOTE_KERNELCAP(1, "nosegneg") /* Change 1 back to 0 when glibc is fixed! */
-NOTE_KERNELCAP_END
+#NOTE_KERNELCAP_BEGIN(1, 1)
+#NOTE_KERNELCAP(1, "nosegneg") /* Change 1 back to 0 when glibc is fixed! */
+#NOTE_KERNELCAP_END
besides of that you need 2 more files: xend and xen.install form AUR
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=0&SeB=nd
waldek

Artwork Missing from Front Row 2 with Shared iTunes

From what I can see this is not solved in X.6.5
This topic is closed:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1195773&start=0&tstart=0
I suggest to reopen one here. Cool if all affected users send the following message to Apple via the feedback form (http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html):
+Dear Apple dev team,+
+I would like to know what is the status in resolving the original Bug ID# 3792802 "Artwork Missing from Front Row 2 with Shared iTunes".+
+This issue has been around since Mac OS X.5.2, and is to my knowledge, still not resolved in X.6.5+
+Thank you in advance for your answer.+
Post your progress here. Thanks.

This issue is still not solved in X.6.6,...
By the way, no one has bothered answering to this topic. I'm saying sending feedback to Apple is a good idea, but that is the only way I could figure. Any other ideas from your side?
Has anyone sent feedback to Apple? If not, please give their dev team some feedback about this issue.
Thanks. Comments appreciated.

A VERY Easy Tutorial on doing a clean install of Arch Linux with Gnome

is there anyone who could help me test Arch Linux with Gnome DE?

The pacman bit is new, and has already been solved: [SOLVED] pacman update fails: gcc requires gcc-libs=4.7.0-3
Just press "N" and you'll see that pacman will be on the list.
Welcome to the forums.
Edit:
Shahe1993 wrote:is there anyone who cou...
Oh. Feeling a bit busy there, huh? Nevermind.
Last edited by DSpider (2012-04-12 17:28:18)

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