[arch-general] dmraid Partitions Lost - Recovered -> Howto

2009-06-25 Thread David C. Rankin
List, I thought I would pass this along should anyone else experience a loss of all partitions on a drive or array. May help somebody out someday: dmraid Partition Loss with dmraid-1.0.0rc15 Testing dmraid-1.0.0rc15 on a box with two separate dmraid arrays, I experienced the to

[arch-general] libtorrent-rasterbar PKBUILD patch

2009-06-25 Thread Damien Churchill
Here's a patch to upgrade the libtorrent-rasterbar package in extra. It's pretty simple, just increasing the pkgver to 0.14.4 and changing the md5sum. I've been using it for a number of weeks now without issue. Damien libtorrent-rasterbar-pkgbuild.patch Description: Binary data

Re: [arch-general] readline GPL violation on two pkgs?

2009-06-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 25 June 2009 11:01:18 am Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > To paraphrase what Thomas said to me: This is all free software, we > > should be able to use free software with other free software, damnit. > > And you are! You *are* free to use any free software with any other. > The only probl

Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates

2009-06-25 Thread Will Siddall
Thanks Thomas, I'll be sure to try that next time :P. Sorry to waste your time with this. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Will Siddall schrieb: >> >> Alright, after looking up the mirror's list >> (http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html), I pointed to one >> o

Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates

2009-06-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Will Siddall schrieb: Alright, after looking up the mirror's list (http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html), I pointed to one of the more recently updated mirrors and ran the update. This worked. I can download and upgrade my system. When I set my mirrors list back, and re-synchroni

Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates

2009-06-25 Thread Will Siddall
Alright, after looking up the mirror's list (http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html), I pointed to one of the more recently updated mirrors and ran the update. This worked. I can download and upgrade my system. When I set my mirrors list back, and re-synchronize, everything is back t

Re: [arch-general] readline GPL violation on two pkgs?

2009-06-25 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> To paraphrase what Thomas said to me: This is all free software, we > should be able to use free software with other free software, damnit. And you are! You *are* free to use any free software with any other. The only problem is with distribution of binary/compiled/linked packages :) Install ev

Re: [arch-general] sound busted after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30?

2009-06-25 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> My sound was busted yesterday when I upgraded from kernel 2.6.29 to 2.6.30. > I had to regenerate my asound.state. Was you only problem the asound.state (i.e. the saved mixer settings)? With different version of an ALSA driver, the way it sees the mixer might change, so that old saved settings

Re: [arch-general] readline GPL violation on two pkgs?

2009-06-25 Thread Andrei Thorp
Excerpts from Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi's message of Wed Jun 24 21:51:14 -0400 2009: > Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> And if we get in tight, there are conflicts between different versions > >> of the GPL, this is ugly. To this are the lawyers, who enjoy these > >> things, and not for us who are programme

Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates

2009-06-25 Thread Will Siddall
Thanks everyone for the responses. I can't be sure that it's the repository since I've been putting off upgrading my Amarok lately, so that's constantly in the list... and even that's gone now. And there is output from pacman, just 'No upgrades found' I just re-ran rankmirrors and tried again...

Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates

2009-06-25 Thread justin caratzas
I had this happen to me with the kernel upgrade, and its just the case of the repository mirror not being instantly updated. Thats how I learned to stop worrying and trust the pacman (and yaourt to some degree). justin On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Andrei Thorp wrote: > Excerpts from Will S

Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates

2009-06-25 Thread Andrei Thorp
Excerpts from Will Siddall's message of Thu Jun 25 09:33:40 -0400 2009: > I tried with 'sudo pacman -Su' and with 'yaourt -Su' and nothing. So... for the record, there is _no_ output from pacman? -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com) [...] or some clown changed the c

Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates

2009-06-25 Thread Xavier
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Will Siddall wrote: > Marco, > I'm not expecting anyone to be clairvoyant, that's why I'm asking for help :P > > - the disk has got 7G left on it > - the internet is working fine.  Like I mentioned, I'm able to > download the update lists, but from that point it won

Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates

2009-06-25 Thread Will Siddall
Marco, I'm not expecting anyone to be clairvoyant, that's why I'm asking for help :P - the disk has got 7G left on it - the internet is working fine. Like I mentioned, I'm able to download the update lists, but from that point it won't do anything else. Thanks, Will On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:4

Re: [arch-general] Not able to do system updates

2009-06-25 Thread Marco
> Anything any of you might want me to try to figure this out, it'll be > greatly appreciated. Any kind of error message? You know, I am not aware of clairvoyance capabilities showed by anyone on this list... Is your disk full (tried "df -h"?)? You can remove cached packages (downloaded and stored

[arch-general] Not able to do system updates

2009-06-25 Thread Will Siddall
I don't know what happened, but overnight, my system doesn't seem to allow me to update or install packages. I tried with 'sudo pacman -Su' and with 'yaourt -Su' and nothing. I know of at least 10 packages that need to be updated from yesterday. And on further testing, I can't install new package

Re: [arch-general] sound busted after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30?

2009-06-25 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
I had problems with alsa in Feb and I changed to OSSv4. The only think I miss is a simpler tray mixer just to control the virtual mixer vmix0-outvol. But sound itself is great! -- Malformed message exception => Guilherme M. Nogueira => http://nirev.org/

Re: [arch-general] sound busted after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30?

2009-06-25 Thread Juan Diego
I had it too but I ran alsaconf and problem fixed On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 07:59, Chris Brannon wrote: >> My sound was busted yesterday when I upgraded from kernel 2.6.29 to 2.6.30. >> I had to regenerate my asound.state. >> At first, I thoug

Re: [arch-general] sound busted after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30?

2009-06-25 Thread Roman Kyrylych
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 07:59, Chris Brannon wrote: > My sound was busted yesterday when I upgraded from kernel 2.6.29 to 2.6.30. > I had to regenerate my asound.state. > At first, I thought it was just my problem, because I use the softvol plugin. > This gave me trouble in the past. > A friend of

Re: [arch-general] sound busted after upgrade to kernel 2.6.30?

2009-06-25 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:11:03 +0200 Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009 schrieb Jozsef: > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Tobias Powalowski > > wrote: > > > Alsa tends to break for some people with every major release, so > > > manual fixing > > > is needed. > > > Alsa never