Re: [arch-general] Startup scripts

2010-01-17 Thread Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > On 18/01/2010 12:42 πμ, Tom wrote: >>> >>> That code is here: >>> >>> http://projects.archlinux.org/initscripts.git/tree/rc.sysinit?id=2009.08-1#n266 >>> >>> Looks correct to me. >> >> Thanks, >> >> but then it doesn't skip fsck when hitt

Re: [arch-general] Re-installing whole system without touching configs.

2010-01-17 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
This one time I accidentally removed my /etc (never login as root to solve a problem when you're half the way onto Morpheus' land) and I created the package listing with pacman and reinstalled everything. Had to reconfigure things back, but it was all fine by the end.

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] wicd-1.7.0-1

2010-01-17 Thread Ignacio Galmarino
On 01/17/2010 04:28 AM, Daniel Isenmann wrote: Hi, there is a new version of wicd in [testing]. In the past there were always problems in upgrading wicd, so I have decided to put it in [testing] first. Please test it and give me some signoffs. Working fine here. Signoff Ignacio

Re: [arch-general] Startup scripts

2010-01-17 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On 18/01/2010 12:42 πμ, Tom wrote: That code is here: http://projects.archlinux.org/initscripts.git/tree/rc.sysinit?id=2009.08-1#n266 Looks correct to me. Thanks, but then it doesn't skip fsck when hitting control-c but drops to /sbin/sulogin ? Maybe fsck doesn't return 32 as it's supposed

Re: [arch-general] Startup scripts

2010-01-17 Thread Tom
> That code is here: > http://projects.archlinux.org/initscripts.git/tree/rc.sysinit?id=2009.08-1#n266 > > Looks correct to me. Thanks, but then it doesn't skip fsck when hitting control-c but drops to /sbin/sulogin ?

Re: [arch-general] Startup scripts

2010-01-17 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On 17/01/2010 11:42 μμ, Tom wrote: All this aside, rc.sysinit is SUPPOSED to handle user cancellation. Remember fsck returns 32 if the user cancels it. if [ ${fsckret} -gt 1 -a ${fsckret} -ne 32 ]; then Could you perhaps post all of the relevant code, because I don't see it skipping the s

Re: [arch-general] Startup scripts

2010-01-17 Thread Tom
> All this aside, rc.sysinit is SUPPOSED to handle user cancellation. > Remember fsck returns 32 if the user cancels it. > > if [ ${fsckret} -gt 1 -a ${fsckret} -ne 32 ]; then Could you perhaps post all of the relevant code, because I don't see it skipping the su-login part!?

Re: [arch-general] Re-installing whole system without touching configs.

2010-01-17 Thread Ray Rashif
2010/1/18 Xavier Chantry : > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: >> >> Often times it's the user configuration files that mess up a system, >> so keep that in mind unless you're really confident it's all in the >> packages themselves. >> >> And if you're thinking of reinstalling a l

[arch-general] new Allegro

2010-01-17 Thread Matěj Týč
Hello, there is new Allegro version out and I have modified abs's PKGBUILD to fit. They use cmake now, so it looks different. The new version should be 100% compatible with the current one. Cheers, Matej PKGBUILD Description: Binary data

Re: [arch-general] Re-installing whole system without touching configs.

2010-01-17 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 1/17/10, Xavier Chantry wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: >> >> Often times it's the user configuration files that mess up a system, >> so keep that in mind unless you're really confident it's all in the >> packages themselves. >> >> And if you're thinking of reinstal

Re: [arch-general] Re-installing whole system without touching configs.

2010-01-17 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: > > Often times it's the user configuration files that mess up a system, > so keep that in mind unless you're really confident it's all in the > packages themselves. > > And if you're thinking of reinstalling a la pacman -S $(comm -3 > <(pacman -Q

Re: [arch-general] Re-installing whole system without touching configs.

2010-01-17 Thread Ray Rashif
2010/1/18 Alberto Bonacina : > 2010/1/17 Javier Vasquez : >> I don't want to do a install from scratch, just want to re-install >> everything, but not touching the configuration files.  Still I want to >> re-install all packages already installed in the system. >> Is there a way to do such re-insta

Re: [arch-general] Re-installing whole system without touching configs.

2010-01-17 Thread Alberto Bonacina
2010/1/17 Javier Vasquez : > I don't want to do a install from scratch, just want to re-install > everything, but not touching the configuration files.  Still I want to > re-install all packages already installed in the system. > Is there a way to do such re-install through pacman?  If so, please l

[arch-general] Re-installing whole system without touching configs.

2010-01-17 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, Some time back, while xscreensver was running the system got locked, so that I couldn't log back neither under X, neither under the console. The only solution at hand was to do a hard reset. After such hard reset, the partition for /tmp got corrupted and it had to be repaired. However ever

Re: [arch-general] dmraid wiki wrong on chroot proceedure??

2010-01-17 Thread Damjan Georgievski
>        I was helping someone on installing grub and I noticed the following > on: > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_with_Fake_RAID > > under "Install Grub" that does not look correct: > > # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev > # mount -t proc none /mnt/proc > # mount -t sysfs none /mnt

Re: [arch-general] dmraid wiki wrong on chroot proceedure??

2010-01-17 Thread RedShift
On 01/17/10 09:54, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I was helping someone on installing grub and I noticed the following on: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_with_Fake_RAID under "Install Grub" that does not look correct: # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev # mount -t proc none /m

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] wicd-1.7.0-1

2010-01-17 Thread Jaroslav Lichtblau
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:28:27AM +0100, Daniel Isenmann wrote: > Hi, > > there is a new version of wicd in [testing]. In the past there were > always problems in upgrading wicd, so I have decided to put it in > [testing] first. Please test it and give me some signoffs. > > > Daniel > Sta

[arch-general] [signoff] wicd-1.7.0-1

2010-01-17 Thread Daniel Isenmann
Hi, there is a new version of wicd in [testing]. In the past there were always problems in upgrading wicd, so I have decided to put it in [testing] first. Please test it and give me some signoffs. Big changelog: 1.7.0: Changes for Packagers: - Wicd now supports a -k option, which

[arch-general] dmraid wiki wrong on chroot proceedure??

2010-01-17 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, I was helping someone on installing grub and I noticed the following on: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_with_Fake_RAID under "Install Grub" that does not look correct: # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev # mount -t proc none /mnt/proc # mount -t sysfs none /mnt/sys # chr