Re: [arch-general] Boot Device Didn't Show Up

2010-01-23 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Sonntag 24 Januar 2010 schrieb Carlos Williams: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > The other machines you're talking about, do they too have SATA DVD-ROM > > drives ? If yes, then try out with USB install image, provided it is > > supported by your $1000 PC. Most

Re: [arch-general] initramfs: execute own script

2010-01-23 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > On 01/23/2010 08:01 AM, Allan McRae wrote: >> >> On 23/01/10 20:39, Alexander Duscheleit wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:25:16 -0600 >>> Aaron Griffin  wrote: >>> > Did you mean ulibc? No, not uClibc either. We're

Re: [arch-general] Two tiny patches for archweb_dev's ToDo lists

2010-01-23 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > I tested both patches locally and they appear to work. They are really > tiny and straightforward so they should be safe to apply to the live dev > site with little/no further testing. > > (I'm not sure who is maintaining the web interfac

Re: [arch-general] Boot Device Didn't Show Up

2010-01-23 Thread Carlos Williams
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > The other machines you're talking about, do they too have SATA DVD-ROM > drives ? If yes, then try out with USB install image, provided it is > supported by your $1000 PC. Most modern boxes after around 2005 do. The machines that they

Re: [arch-general] Boot Device Didn't Show Up

2010-01-23 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 01/24/2010 07:13 AM, Carlos Williams wrote: Every time I try and install Arch Linux 2009.08 Netinst .ISO disk on my newly built PC hardware, I get the following error: Waiting for boot device... Error: Boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds... Falling back to interactive prompt. You can

Re: [arch-general] Confusion About /etc/hosts File

2010-01-23 Thread Carlos Williams
I looks like the best result I get from the following: 127.0.0.1localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.2mail.iamghost.com mail 192.168.0.100 " "

[arch-general] Boot Device Didn't Show Up

2010-01-23 Thread Carlos Williams
Every time I try and install Arch Linux 2009.08 Netinst .ISO disk on my newly built PC hardware, I get the following error: Waiting for boot device... Error: Boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds... Falling back to interactive prompt. You can try and fix the problem manually, log out when yo

[arch-general] [PATCH 2/2] Fix indentation so ToDos get marked as "Complete"

2010-01-23 Thread Evangelos Foutras
The list() view was incorrectly returning from the loop that marks ToDos as complete and thus allowing only the first ToDo to be processed. --- todolists/views.py |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/todolists/views.py b/todolists/views.py index 72fed16..fb03

[arch-general] [PATCH 1/2] Exclude repos ending with "Testing" from ToDos

2010-01-23 Thread Evangelos Foutras
This should fix the issue with Community-Testing packages appearing in ToDo lists. After this change has been applied, simply edit and save a ToDo list to make its Community-Testing packages go away. --- todolists/views.py |3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a

[arch-general] Two tiny patches for archweb_dev's ToDo lists

2010-01-23 Thread Evangelos Foutras
I tested both patches locally and they appear to work. They are really tiny and straightforward so they should be safe to apply to the live dev site with little/no further testing. (I'm not sure who is maintaining the web interface nowadays, so I'm sending the patches to this ML.)

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.32.5-1

2010-01-23 Thread Ignacio Galmarino
On 01/23/2010 08:55 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi guys, bump to latest bugfix version. Please signoff both arches, Signoff x86_64

Re: [arch-general] unclean filesystem

2010-01-23 Thread christopher floess
Okay, so I got smart an realized that this whole time I'd assumed that the fault was with Arch, simply because it detected the error. False. Windows was set to the wrong time zone, so when I booted into it, it set the to that time zone time, and a subsequent reboot by Arch was then seen as th

Re: [arch-general] Confusion About /etc/hosts File

2010-01-23 Thread Snarkout
On 01/22/2010 01:51 PM, Carlos Williams wrote: # 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost mail 10.1.1.200 mail.iamghost.com mail I have seen multiple styles of hosts file, but I tend to set mine up like so: # 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain local

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.32.5-1

2010-01-23 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, bump to latest bugfix version. Please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] initramfs: execute own script

2010-01-23 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
On 01/23/2010 08:01 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 23/01/10 20:39, Alexander Duscheleit wrote: On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:25:16 -0600 Aaron Griffin wrote: Did you mean ulibc? No, not uClibc either. We're actually using glibc itself. Other distros do this as well, as it DOES add a lot of flexibility

Re: [arch-general] Confusion About /etc/hosts File

2010-01-23 Thread Adrian C.
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Carlos Williams wrote: I have never understood Arch's approach to properly setting a FQDN on a server. According to the Wiki...and I will quote: There are no guarantees for the wiki, you should never expect some. There are a lot of "experts" out there today... The above

Re: [arch-general] unclean filesystem

2010-01-23 Thread christopher floess
On 01/23/2010 09:47 AM, Sébastien Leblanc wrote: Are you using automatic time synchronisation (NTP) on any of the systems? This might be the problem. Sébastien Leblanc Yes I am. How does this have an affect? -- Chris

Re: [arch-general] initramfs: execute own script

2010-01-23 Thread Allan McRae
On 23/01/10 20:39, Alexander Duscheleit wrote: On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:25:16 -0600 Aaron Griffin wrote: Did you mean ulibc? No, not uClibc either. We're actually using glibc itself. Other distros do this as well, as it DOES add a lot of flexibility Just out of curiosity. Was eglibc considere

Re: [arch-general] initramfs: execute own script

2010-01-23 Thread Alexander Duscheleit
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:25:16 -0600 Aaron Griffin wrote: > > Did you mean ulibc? > No, not uClibc either. We're actually using glibc itself. Other > distros do this as well, as it DOES add a lot of flexibility Just out of curiosity. Was eglibc considered? Why? Why not? I can see, that maintaing

Re: [arch-general] limited softraid support in AIF (WAS:Why Is My RAID Installing Failing?)

2010-01-23 Thread Alexander Duscheleit
Sorry for the late reply, RL obligations caught up with me in a pretty intrusive way :/ On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:06:38 +0100 Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:51:32 +0100 > Alexander Duscheleit wrote: > > > (..) > > okay so long story short, you only want the mdadm.conf updating

Re: [arch-general] unclean filesystem

2010-01-23 Thread Sébastien Leblanc
Are you using automatic time synchronisation (NTP) on any of the systems? This might be the problem. Sébastien Leblanc

Re: [arch-general] unclean filesystem

2010-01-23 Thread christopher floess
Usually you set your system clock to 'localtime' for your unix install since windows only uses localtime. If you have your unix install using gmt, then on every reboot (at least those where the reboot occurs within a timeframe less than your localtime offset from gmt), fsck can get called becaus