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It appears that this problem has now been patched in the kernel in current. Thank you for your patience.

Kernel 3.6.2, which is only in current, has an ext4 data corruption bug. It was only recently discovered, and was not found by routine testing on our end. Upstream is working on a resolution, which will be pushed out to current as soon as they have an official fix that has made it into a new patch level. The bug is rare, and is reported to manifest only during two

If you are using current and you have a GeForce 4 graphics card (this is a lot of laptops), please do not do a system upgrade until the nvidia-96xx package is available tomorrow. Once it is available, install it. The latest version of nvidia removes support for GeForce 4 cards. As a side note, the Frugalware developer team would like to wish all our users a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

If you find any apps that don’t start with a message about libdbus-1.so.2 not found, we want to know about it now! Just submit a report with the package’s name to the Bug Tracker. Thanks!

We’ve upgraded to DBUS 0.9x in -current, meaning that some apps will be broken. We currently don’t want any reports on any broken apps so that we don’t get flooded by bug reports! We have a very big list of things that need rebuilding, so we’ll probably cover most apps over this week. We’ll post a note when we want your bug reports again! Thanks!

Before upgrading to 8.2 version of postgresql, dump your databases. The new version is incompatible with the older one.

It was a trouble for several users to upgrade the old nvidia package (locally-compiled at install) to the new, binary one. Here is the solution (provided that the database and the other packages are up-to-date): pacman -Sfd nvidia --noconfirm (No, it does not mean that we dislike the Software Freedom Day…)