Re: [arch-general] Kopete and Yahoo

2010-03-10 Thread Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)
On 03/11/10 at 10:23am, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Hi, > Yahoo is not working with Kopete 1.0.0 > Any ideas ? > > -- > Nilesh Govindarajan > Site & Server Administrator > www.itech7.com Ask in the forums --

[arch-general] Kopete and Yahoo

2010-03-10 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Hi, Yahoo is not working with Kopete 1.0.0 Any ideas ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-03-10 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > > Not really... > > The problem is that pacman does not clean up packages installed as a > dependency for a package that are no longer needed due to an update which > removed that dep. > And by the way, we cannot be 100% sure that the 'no lon

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-03-10 Thread sand_man
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:45:17 +1000 Allan McRae wrote: > On 11/03/10 08:22, Daenyth Blank wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 16:54, clemens fischer > > wrote: > >> I always use "pacman -Rs". It's a wrapper script, I normally > >> don't use a bare "pacman", so there's not even neglect at play. >

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-03-10 Thread Allan McRae
On 11/03/10 08:22, Daenyth Blank wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 16:54, clemens fischer wrote: I always use "pacman -Rs". It's a wrapper script, I normally don't use a bare "pacman", so there's not even neglect at play. That's the problem. You want to add -c. -s removes in one direction, -c

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-03-10 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 16:54, clemens fischer wrote: > I always use "pacman -Rs".  It's a wrapper script, I normally don't use > a bare "pacman", so there's not even neglect at play. > That's the problem. You want to add -c. -s removes in one direction, -c removes in the other.

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-03-10 Thread clemens fischer
Nathan Wayde wrote: > On 10/03/10 20:03, clemens fischer wrote: > >> Ironically, if pacman was such a tidy package manager and devs were >> so keen to keep things that way, why is there ever any output in >> "pacman -Qdt"? > > Could it be because you explicitly requested that? i.e `pacman -R > pkg

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-03-10 Thread Nathan Wayde
On 10/03/10 20:03, clemens fischer wrote: [...] Ironically, if pacman was such a tidy package manager and devs were so keen to keep things that way, why is there ever any output in "pacman -Qdt"? clemens Could it be because you explicitly requested that? i.e `pacman -R pkgname` which remove

Re: [arch-general] imap-login: Fatal: Dovecot version mismatch - Is this a bug, or do I just override with ignore?

2010-03-10 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/10/2010 06:13 AM, Florian Pritz wrote: > On 10.03.2010 05:53, David C. Rankin wrote: >> Guys, >> >> I'm finishing the mail server setup and I've run into a problem with >> dovecot. >> It looks like one part of dovecot doesn't match the other??? Here is what >> everything log says: >> >>

Re: [arch-general] RAID Configuration & Swap Space

2010-03-10 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/10/2010 08:37 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I wanted to know if I configure my three identical disks as followed: > > - sda1 = /boot @ 4GB > - sda2 = RAID @ 300GB > > - sdb1 = Swap @ 4GB > - sdb2 = RAID @ 300GB > > - sdc1 = Swap @ 4GB > - sdc2 = RAID @ 300GB > > Now when I am done configuri

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-03-10 Thread clemens fischer
f...@... wrote: > But then doing a full system upgrade (as advised on this list) > completely locked up the machine - frozen screen, dead capslock led > etc. No other choice but a power cycle, broken filesystems, and hours > of work repairing them and putting bits and pieces back in place. > I sti

Re: [arch-general] DR - Other dark theme aficionados - "just black" for FF 3.6, simple & clean

2010-03-10 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/10/2010 12:11 PM, pyther wrote: > Hey David it is great that you want to share these with us, but I think > the forums might be a better place to put stuff like this. Theme > discussions is off topic for this list, in my opinion. > http://bbs.archlinux.org > > Also linking directly to the th

Re: [arch-general] RAID Configuration & Swap Space

2010-03-10 Thread Louis Brazeau
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: --snip-- > Yes I am very familiar with that Wiki article but find Swap on RAID is > useless, no? For my scenario I was going to do the following and > please correct me if you think this is wrong: > > - sda1 = 100MB > - sda2 = 1GB > - sda3 =

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh 5.4p1-2

2010-03-10 Thread Linas
Byron Clark wrote: Unfortunately that only works if there is only one sshd process returned by pidof. Here's the case I'm worried about: /var/run/sshd.pid: 343 pidof sshd: 3433 And the case where add ^$ around the pid breaks: /var/run/sshd.pid: 343 pidof sshd: 343 2452 2453 Yes of

Re: [arch-general] DR - Other dark theme aficionados - "just black" for FF 3.6, simple & clean

2010-03-10 Thread pyther
On 03/09/2010 06:23 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: DR, list: I stumbled across another neat dark theme for firefox that I thought I would pass along to the group. The following is the download URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/82476/just_black__a_cylence_theme_fo

Re: [arch-general] Howto handle poppler conflict with poppler-qt3

2010-03-10 Thread Snarkout
On 03/10/2010 10:37 AM, Daenyth Blank wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:34, Laurie Clark-Michalek wrote: Good for you :) I'm satisfied with my KDE 4.4, and though I realise not everyone can be, I shan't be loosing too much sleep over it :) FUD and Unsubstantiated claims however... Well th

Re: [arch-general] Howto handle poppler conflict with poppler-qt3

2010-03-10 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:34, Laurie Clark-Michalek wrote: > Good for you :) I'm satisfied with my KDE 4.4, and though I realise > not everyone can be, I shan't be loosing too much sleep over it :) > > FUD and Unsubstantiated claims however... Well they're a worry :) I really have to agree here.

Re: [arch-general] Howto handle poppler conflict with poppler-qt3

2010-03-10 Thread Laurie Clark-Michalek
On 10 March 2010 03:48, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 03/09/2010 05:02 PM, Allan McRae wrote: >> On 10/03/10 08:58, David C. Rankin wrote: >>> Guys, >>> >>>     Latest updates to poppler require the removal of poppler-qt3 which >>> fails due to >>> kdemod3-kdegraphics-pdf (kpdf) dependencies. How do

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh 5.4p1-2

2010-03-10 Thread Byron Clark
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:24:10AM -0700, Byron Clark wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 06:15:32PM +0100, Linas wrote: > > Byron Clark wrote: > > >On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:32:15AM -0700, Byron Clark wrote: > > >>if pidof sshd | grep -q $(cat /var/run/sshd.pid); then > > >> echo "pid in /var/ru

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh 5.4p1-2

2010-03-10 Thread Byron Clark
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 06:15:32PM +0100, Linas wrote: > Byron Clark wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:32:15AM -0700, Byron Clark wrote: > >>if pidof sshd | grep -q $(cat /var/run/sshd.pid); then > >> echo "pid in /var/run/sshd.pid is valid" > >>else > >> echo "invalid pid" > >>fi > >Ign

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh 5.4p1-2

2010-03-10 Thread Linas
Byron Clark wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:32:15AM -0700, Byron Clark wrote: if pidof sshd | grep -q $(cat /var/run/sshd.pid); then echo "pid in /var/run/sshd.pid is valid" else echo "invalid pid" fi Ignore that, it isn't entirely safe. You may want grep -q "^$(cat

Re: [arch-general] RAID Configuration & Swap Space

2010-03-10 Thread Linas
Carlos Mennens wrote: Yes I am very familiar with that Wiki article but find Swap on RAID is useless, no? For my scenario I was going to do the following and please correct me if you think this is wrong: It is useful if you want to continue running the system even with a failed disk (witho

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh 5.4p1-2

2010-03-10 Thread Byron Clark
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:32:15AM -0700, Byron Clark wrote: > if pidof sshd | grep -q $(cat /var/run/sshd.pid); then > echo "pid in /var/run/sshd.pid is valid" > else > echo "invalid pid" > fi Ignore that, it isn't entirely safe. -- Byron Clark

Re: [arch-general] RAID Configuration & Swap Space

2010-03-10 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Louis Brazeau wrote: > You can use the RAID/LVM article on the wiki : > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_with_Software_RAID_or_LVM#Partition_the_Hard_Drives > > I used it in the past to setup a few systems with RAID and with or > without LVM. So its

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh 5.4p1-2

2010-03-10 Thread Byron Clark
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 05:16:10PM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 17:08:45 schrieb Pierre Schmitz: > > Am Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 16:36:15 schrieb Pierre Schmitz: > > This is really not my day and I already regret touching this package. :-) > > The problem with using read

Re: [arch-general] RAID Configuration & Swap Space

2010-03-10 Thread Louis Brazeau
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Louis Brazeau wrote: >> You are aware that if sda breaks, you loose the /boot partition and >> you can't boot anymore ? I would suggest creating a 100MB /boot >> partition on all 3 disks as a RAID 1 (4GB fo

Re: [arch-general] RAID Configuration & Swap Space

2010-03-10 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Louis Brazeau wrote: > You are aware that if sda breaks, you loose the /boot partition and > you can't boot anymore ? I would suggest creating a 100MB /boot > partition on all 3 disks as a RAID 1 (4GB for boot is over kill IMHO). > That way you can loose any disk a

Re: [arch-general] LVM/MDADM and GRUB2

2010-03-10 Thread Robert Howard
Yes. My current desktop does this. It was very simple, just requiring that I run grub-install on /dev/md0 and then adding insmod lvm and mdraid to grub.cfg. You also must ensure that you have a partition that is flagged bootable with some BIOSs. On Mar 10, 2010 1:48 AM, "Tobias Powalowski" wrote:

[arch-general] Bad attitude in flyspray again!

2010-03-10 Thread Heiko Baums
Hi devs, I just wanted to ask if it will become common practise to close bug reports at once as "Works for me" and to imply the reporter that he hasn't done his "homework" like searching the forums and using "wrong" software and that the reported bug is just a configuration issue? Meanwhile this

Re: [arch-general] RAID Configuration & Swap Space

2010-03-10 Thread Louis Brazeau
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I wanted to know if I configure my three identical disks as followed: > > - sda1 = /boot @ 4GB > - sda2 = RAID @ 300GB > > - sdb1 = Swap @ 4GB > - sdb2 = RAID @ 300GB > > - sdc1 = Swap @ 4GB > - sdc2 = RAID @ 300GB > > Now when I am done con

[arch-general] RAID Configuration & Swap Space

2010-03-10 Thread Carlos Mennens
I wanted to know if I configure my three identical disks as followed: - sda1 = /boot @ 4GB - sda2 = RAID @ 300GB - sdb1 = Swap @ 4GB - sdb2 = RAID @ 300GB - sdc1 = Swap @ 4GB - sdc2 = RAID @ 300GB Now when I am done configuring RAID, will Arch Linux show I have 8GB of Swap space total under a t

Re: [arch-general] A good twitter client

2010-03-10 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Sebastian Matias Alvarez wrote: > At the moment I'm developing http://bitbucket.org/aseba/tnt/ with a > friend. Is a simple twitter client for for using in console, we have a > normal client and an urwid one. There's no intention to have an X > client at the moment

Re: [arch-general] imap-login: Fatal: Dovecot version mismatch - Is this a bug, or do I just override with ignore?

2010-03-10 Thread Florian Pritz
On 10.03.2010 05:53, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > I'm finishing the mail server setup and I've run into a problem with > dovecot. > It looks like one part of dovecot doesn't match the other??? Here is what > everything log says: > > Mar 9 22:48:37 nirvana dovecot: imap-login: Fatal:

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] openssh 5.3p1-4: sshd script kills all sshd processes??

2010-03-10 Thread Florian Pritz
On 10.03.2010 00:03, Thomas Bächler wrote: > What did whoever commited this smoke? It must have been very good: > http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/?op=comp&compare[]=%2fopenssh%2ftr...@59462&compare[]=%2fopenssh%2ftr...@60182 > > Whenever you want to do /etc/rc.d/sshd restart remotely, it