Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

2009-09-29 Thread Santhosh Joseph
I had the same issue with another package (gnokii I think). I removed the partially downloaded file, changed mirrors and then the updates went through. See if that works for you. Thanks Santhosh Joseph On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: > I had problems with ocaml yesterday. A

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-29 Thread David Houston
Can I give the Toshiba NB100 a shout... another one that is very well built (imho better built than the ASUS ones, which I have broke 2 of) Nice keyboard, 1gb, largish hard disk for a netbook. On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:57 PM, James Rayner wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Aaron Griffin

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-29 Thread James Rayner
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > So in the next few weeks, I would like to buy a netbook. The market is > saturated, so I'd like to ask for some advice here. > > What do you guys think of the current offerings? What's considered > "the best" now-a-days? What kinds of netbook

Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

2009-09-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 21:19, Xavier wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Nigel Henry > > wrote: > > Thanks for the link to the bug. > > > > Just after I posted the problem, I tried reverting to the earlier pacman > > package "pacman-3.3.0-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz" , which works with no proble

[arch-general] Transmission PKGBUILD updates

2009-09-29 Thread Sean
The Transmission PKGBUILDs are behind again. I've updated them with the proper version number and checksums. transmission-cli: http://www.pastie.org/635557.txt transmission-gtk: http://www.pastie.org/635562.txt Thanks :-) -- The internet says I'm normal.

Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

2009-09-29 Thread Xavier
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: > > Thanks for the link to the bug. > > Just after I posted the problem, I tried reverting to the earlier pacman > package "pacman-3.3.0-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz" , which works with no problems. Then > upgraded to pacman-3.3.1-1, where the problem retur

Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

2009-09-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 19:26, Xavier wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Nigel Henry > > wrote: > > I had problems with ocaml yesterday. After the machine locked up during > > the updates, I did a hard reset, and ran pacman -Su again. It continued > > downloading ocaml, but when all th

Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

2009-09-29 Thread Xavier
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: > I had problems with ocaml yesterday. After the machine locked up during the > updates, I did a hard reset, and ran pacman -Su again. It continued > downloading ocaml, but when all the updates were downloaded, it failed to > install them, claimi

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.1-1

2009-09-29 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 26 September 2009 04:21:45 am Thomas Bächler wrote: > Kernel is in testing for both architectures, please sign off (at least > one for x86_64, two for i686). > > I think tpowa had the kernel all ready to move to core, except he was > waiting for the .1 release, which is there now. > >

[arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

2009-09-29 Thread Nigel Henry
I had problems with ocaml yesterday. After the machine locked up during the updates, I did a hard reset, and ran pacman -Su again. It continued downloading ocaml, but when all the updates were downloaded, it failed to install them, claiming that ocaml was corrupted. I removed the corrupted ocam

Re: [arch-general] Opinion: What do you think about Lenovo IdeaPad Y450?

2009-09-29 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
Thanks, guys! I'll go for it, then. =] -- Guilherme M. Nogueira "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-09-29 Thread Roman Kyrylych
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 08:31, wrote: > Thank you for the openhosting link . They only charge for the bandwidth used > and that's > cool . They also charge for RAM and HDD used (RAM is the most expensive). The interesting thing is that they use KVM, which is quite rare yet (found only a couple

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-29 Thread Rafa Griman
Hi :) On Monday 28 September 2009 19:16:04 Aaron Griffin wrote: > So in the next few weeks, I would like to buy a netbook. The market is > saturated, so I'd like to ask for some advice here. > > What do you guys think of the current offerings? What's considered > "the best" now-a-days? What kinds