Re: [arch-general] multiple i586 update segfaults during pacman -Syu on 2/2/10 (corrected i686)

2010-02-03 Thread David C. Rankin
On 02/03/2010 03:54 PM, pyt...@pyther.net wrote: > On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:46:48 -0600, "David C. Rankin" > wrote: >> On 02/03/2010 11:13 AM, pyther wrote: >>> On 02/03/2010 09:37 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 02/03/2010 12:39 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > During u

Re: [arch-general] kde44beta - Arch needs to disable powerdevil suspend default -> very hard shutdown...

2010-02-03 Thread David C. Rankin
On 02/03/2010 01:53 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 3. Februar 2010 19:02:18 schrieb David C. Rankin: >> Any feature that can damage a system (ext4 >> hard shutdown corruption) should be disabled by default thus requiring the >> user to "pick his poison" rather than having it slipped into

Re: [arch-general] Setting global environment variable

2010-02-03 Thread Ty John
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 11:03:01 +0100 Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > Install the foxy-proxy extension for Firefox, it'll allow you to > quickly change the proxy > > > Thanks, I'll give it a crack

Re: [arch-general] multiple i586 update segfaults during pa cman -Syu on 2/2/10 (corrected i686)

2010-02-03 Thread pyther
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:46:48 -0600, "David C. Rankin" wrote: > On 02/03/2010 11:13 AM, pyther wrote: >> On 02/03/2010 09:37 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: >>> On 02/03/2010 12:39 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: >>> Guys, During update tonight, I received multiple segfaults during system >

Re: [arch-general] Server Space for Arch Downloads / AUR / ABS for small X additions the Arch Community might enjoy?

2010-02-03 Thread Ray Rashif
On 4 February 2010 02:08, David C. Rankin wrote: >        I'll take a look at AUR for the current naming convention. One other > issue I > need to figure out is whether there is any way I can publish a screenshot in > AUR, etc. so users can easily identify which packages that might interest > th

Re: [arch-general] kde44beta - Arch needs to disable powerdevil suspend default -> very hard shutdown...

2010-02-03 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Mittwoch, 3. Februar 2010 19:02:18 schrieb David C. Rankin: > Any feature that can damage a system (ext4 > hard shutdown corruption) should be disabled by default thus requiring the > user to "pick his poison" rather than having it slipped into his glass. Suspend is not broken by itself, it's

Re: [arch-general] kde44beta - Arch needs to disable powerdevil suspend default -> very hard shutdown...

2010-02-03 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 13:02, David C. Rankin wrote: > [stuff] The bug tracker is probably a more appropriate place for all this.

Re: [arch-general] Server Space for Arch Downloads / AUR / ABS for small X additions the Arch Community might enjoy?

2010-02-03 Thread David C. Rankin
On 02/03/2010 11:05 AM, Jens Kleikamp wrote: > Hey David, > > regarding gtk2 themes, there are already a few themes published on AUR. > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=gtk2-theme > > Today they all have a common package name scheme, gtk2-theme-. > I think it would be a good idea to

Re: [arch-general] kde44beta - Arch needs to disable powerdevil suspend default -> very hard shutdown...

2010-02-03 Thread David C. Rankin
On 02/03/2010 11:44 AM, pyther wrote: > On 02/03/2010 12:42 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> Devs, >> >> I don't know whether this is something Arch can set or if it is >> kde that sets >> the powerdevil suspend default. We need to see if it is possible to >> disable the >> 'suspend' after 30 minu

Re: [arch-general] parted 2.1.1 busts mounting of USB volume of less than 4 GiB

2010-02-03 Thread kludge
On 02/03/2010 12:44 AM, Frederic Bezies wrote: > Hello. > > This morning, I was unable to get my USB key (4 GiB) to be read. After I > downgrading to parted 1.9.0, all was working back. I opened bug 18137. > > Did anyone see this too ? > > Thanks for your answer ;) err, last i checked, parted i

Re: [arch-general] multiple i586 update segfaults during pacman -Syu on 2/2/10 (corrected i686)

2010-02-03 Thread David C. Rankin
On 02/03/2010 11:13 AM, pyther wrote: > On 02/03/2010 09:37 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> On 02/03/2010 12:39 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> >>> Guys, >>> >>> During update tonight, I received multiple segfaults during system >>> update >>> package installation. Given the kde44beta packages invol

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

2010-02-03 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Thomas Bächler [03.02.2010 11:12]: > Am 03.02.2010 10:32, schrieb Uli Armbruster: > > uresume is needed for uswsusp (from [community]) > > Good to know. This hook used glibc anyway, so there is no adjustment > needed to the new initramfs. Less work for me. > > > In the wiki, it says that all o

Re: [arch-general] i586 phonon/qt dependency conflict (i686 corrected)

2010-02-03 Thread David C. Rankin
On 02/03/2010 11:12 AM, pyther wrote: > On 02/02/2010 09:05 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> On 02/02/2010 04:32 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> >> > Arch does have any i586 packages... > Sorry - Yes it is an i686 box -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Naco

Re: [arch-general] kde44beta - Arch needs to disable powerdevil suspend default -> very hard shutdown...

2010-02-03 Thread pyther
On 02/03/2010 12:42 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Devs, I don't know whether this is something Arch can set or if it is kde that sets the powerdevil suspend default. We need to see if it is possible to disable the 'suspend' after 30 minutes on the first page of the powerdevil settings beca

[arch-general] kde44beta - Arch needs to disable powerdevil suspend default -> very hard shutdown...

2010-02-03 Thread David C. Rankin
Devs, I don't know whether this is something Arch can set or if it is kde that sets the powerdevil suspend default. We need to see if it is possible to disable the 'suspend' after 30 minutes on the first page of the powerdevil settings because many machines (mine included) do not suspend

Re: [arch-general] multiple i586 update segfaults during pacman -Syu on 2/2/10

2010-02-03 Thread pyther
On 02/03/2010 09:37 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 02/03/2010 12:39 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, During update tonight, I received multiple segfaults during system update package installation. Given the kde44beta packages involved, I suspect kde will be dead. Follow-up: x86_64, 36

Re: [arch-general] i586 phonon/qt dependency conflict

2010-02-03 Thread pyther
On 02/02/2010 09:05 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 02/02/2010 04:32 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 02.02.2010 23:10, schrieb David C. Rankin: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-February/015269.html I guess I could be helpful and actually respond with Pierre's p

Re: [arch-general] Server Space for Arch Downloads / AUR / ABS for small X additions the Arch Community might enjoy?

2010-02-03 Thread Jens Kleikamp
On 03.02.2010 16:40, David C. Rankin wrote: On 02/03/2010 09:01 AM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: Hi, I have seen your themes, they are very nice. There are lot of options for Hosting Open Source software, have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_faciliti

[arch-general] Great job with kde44beta

2010-02-03 Thread David C. Rankin
Arch devs, Great job with kde 4.4 beta. Unlike suse's attempt at 4.4, most of Arch's implementation -- Works :p That says a lot... Who'd a thunk, little 'ole Arch with its limited resources is putting out a polished distro that's putting the big boys to shame. You guys do some a

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-03 Thread Florian Pritz
On 02/03/2010 03:12 PM, Lee Burton wrote: > As for push mirroring, http://www.debian.org/mirror/push_server is a > decent example > An identity file with > no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-pty,command="/path/to/mirror/script",from="IPADDRESS" > &" > Is fairly decent.. I'v

Re: [arch-general] Server Space for Arch Downloads / AUR / ABS for small X additions the Arch Community might enjoy?

2010-02-03 Thread David C. Rankin
On 02/03/2010 09:01 AM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: > Hi, > I have seen your themes, they are very nice. > There are lot of options for Hosting Open Source software, have a look here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities > > Also, If you want something sim

Re: [arch-general] Server Space for Arch Downloads / AUR / ABS for small X additions the Arch Community might enjoy?

2010-02-03 Thread Gaurish Sharma
Hi, I have seen your themes, they are very nice. There are lot of options for Hosting Open Source software, have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities Also, If you want something simple. then try dropbox.com. its also available in aur. http

Re: [arch-general] multiple i586 update segfaults during pacman -Syu on 2/2/10

2010-02-03 Thread David C. Rankin
On 02/03/2010 12:39 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > During update tonight, I received multiple segfaults during system update > package installation. Given the kde44beta packages involved, I suspect kde > will > be dead. Follow-up: x86_64, 364 packages updated without error. The issue se

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-03 Thread Lee Burton
This order can be accomplished by first running rsync without the delete flag. Then rsync over the DB. Then re-run the original rsync with --delete or --delete-after. You could also google for 'atomic rsync' First hit is http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/rsync/rsync-35.2/rsync/support/atomic-

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

2010-02-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.02.2010 13:52, schrieb Damjan Georgievski: >>> [kill-klibc] >>> Server = http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/kill-klibc/i686/ > >> Bump! Virtually nobody has performed any testing (except the people I >> poked about it). > > If it matters to anyone, It does to me. > the new mkinitcpio also

Re: [arch-general] Vertical Quicklaunch on the Desktop in KDE4 - It's a Winner

2010-02-03 Thread David C. Rankin
On 01/31/2010 07:58 AM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 7:39 PM, David C. Rankin > wrote: >> > > Man, your desktop theme is _slick_... What is its name? > Dunno, Most of the themes I've just created by taking bits and pieces ideas from different ones I li

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

2010-02-03 Thread Damjan Georgievski
>> [kill-klibc] >> Server = http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/kill-klibc/i686/ > Bump! Virtually nobody has performed any testing (except the people I > poked about it). If it matters to anyone, the new mkinitcpio also works just fine while resuming my TuxOnIce kernel, and I do use /dev/disk/by-uu

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-03 Thread Gaurish Sharma
Hi Allan, I am holding the upgrade till now on your advice. Total Download Size:679.66 MB Total Installed Size: 1811.77 MB Is it safe to Upgrade now? Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 02/02/10 13:01, Steve Holmes wr

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

2010-02-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.02.2010 10:32, schrieb Uli Armbruster: > uresume is needed for uswsusp (from [community]) Good to know. This hook used glibc anyway, so there is no adjustment needed to the new initramfs. Less work for me. > In the wiki, it says that all of these udev rules don't work, because > there's no

Re: [arch-general] Setting global environment variable

2010-02-03 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> Taking another look at this. It doesn't really work the way I had > hoped. I can set the $http_proxy variable when connecting to the VPN > but the variable is only valid from the bash shell it was called from. > Is there no way to make existing processes acknowledge the variable? no, environment

Re: [arch-general] multiple i586 update segfaults during pacman -Syu on 2/2/10

2010-02-03 Thread David C. Rankin
On 02/03/2010 02:37 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 02/03/2010 02:01 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> On 02/03/2010 12:39 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> > > Whew almost 3G! Can't wait to see what we get :-) I'll report back if the same > segfaults occur during the upgrade. > > On the second box,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

2010-02-03 Thread Uli Armbruster
2010/2/2 Thomas Bächler : > Am 02.02.2010 22:51, schrieb Uli Armbruster: >> I use your kill-klibc repo on i686 and I just want to confirm, that it works >> with >> >> % cat /etc/mkinitcpio.conf >> MODULES="" >> HOOKS="base udev pata uresume filesystems" > > Just out of curiosity, where's the uresu

Re: [arch-general] Server Space for Arch Downloads / AUR / ABS for small X additions the Arch Community might enjoy?

2010-02-03 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 12:31:13 David C. Rankin wrote: > I have several good collections of miscellaneous kde themes, kdm/gdm > themes, metacity, gtk-2, xcursors, etc.. that I would like to find how > best to contribute them to the community. The color-schemes, gnome and kde > layou

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and security - it needs some work

2010-02-03 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 12:56:57 Robert Howard wrote: > suppose my problem with all the Arch security/insecurity talk is that it > assumes that Arch users are not more than capable of reading lists and > discovering bug and holes in software that we use daily. I don't think > there has ever

Re: [arch-general] multiple i586 update segfaults during pacman -Syu on 2/2/10

2010-02-03 Thread David C. Rankin
On 02/03/2010 02:01 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 02/03/2010 12:39 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > God, I knew this upgrade was going to cause me to lose sleep :p I decided to upgrade another i586 box to compare how the upgrade went on box 2. The boxes are essentially identical. There w

Re: [arch-general] multiple i586 update segfaults during pacman -Syu on 2/2/10

2010-02-03 Thread David C. Rankin
On 02/03/2010 12:39 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I've done additional testing and the original failures must have something to do with the order pacman tries to install the packages in. I was able to reinstall the packages by naming the failed packages specifically in a second upgra