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lucas2365

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Registered: 2007-11-07

Posts: 7

A few annoying bugs to squash...

I've successfully setup Arch with GNOME and everything is working swimmingly, except for a few random glitches...
1) Sound defaults to mute on startup. I can unmute it via alsamixer, but it only lasts for that session. How can I set the default sound levels?
2) GNOME Menu editor won't open. I see "starting menu editor" in the taskbar, but the program crashes before displaying a window. Can this be fixed or is there a way to edit menus manually via config files?
3) I really need a decent bittorent client. I'd rather not use ktorrent and azureus as they are too slow (and not native GTK), and rtorrent/ntorrent doesn't show up in the repositories. I downloaded deluge but it behaves similarly to the GNOME menu editor - I see "starting deluge" in the taskbar but the program crashes before displaying a window. runing "deluge" from the terminal nets me this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/deluge", line 42, in <module>
    import deluge
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deluge/__init__.py", line 41, in <module>
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_MESSAGES, '')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 476, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: A few annoying bugs to squash...

1) Add "alsa" to your DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf
2) No comment (can't help, sry)
3) Maybe try transmission, in community?

lucas2365

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Registered: 2007-11-07

Posts: 7

Re: A few annoying bugs to squash...

Alsa is already listed under [daemons] in rc.conf... transmission is working great though, thanks.

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

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Re: A few annoying bugs to squash...

Try manually doing

sudo /etc/rc.d/alsa stop

after you get your volume levels set the way you want.

pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: A few annoying bugs to squash...

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/deluge", line 42, in <module>
    import deluge
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deluge/__init__.py", line 41, in <module>
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_MESSAGES, '')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 476, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

have you set your locale in /etc/locale.gen ?

About alsa, you did install alsa-utils for the daemon to function, didn't you ?

Last edited by pressh (2007-11-07 12:59:06)

nogoma

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From: Cranston, RI

Registered: 2006-03-01

Posts: 217

Re: A few annoying bugs to squash...

3) I really need a decent bittorent client. I'd rather not use ktorrent and azureus as they are too slow (and not native GTK), and rtorrent/ntorrent doesn't show up in the repositories. I downloaded deluge but it behaves similarly to the GNOME menu editor - I see "starting deluge" in the taskbar but the program crashes before displaying a window. runing "deluge" from the terminal nets me this:

Looks like you're already sorted w/ transmission, but rtorrent does live in [community]. I'm a huge fan; screen+rtorrent is a great combo.

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btartsa

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Registered: 2004-07-26

Posts: 222

Re: A few annoying bugs to squash...

On the alsa issue: try getting your levels unmuted and up and then run
$alsactl store

lucas2365

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Registered: 2007-11-07

Posts: 7

Re: A few annoying bugs to squash...

Cerebral: That fixed my alsa issue! Also, I fixed the gnome menu editor issue: alacarte was not installed. Thanks to everyone who posted help!