Re: [arch-general] TeXlive 2012 packages

2012-06-26 Thread Rémy Oudompheng
On 2012/6/27 Genes MailLists wrote: > Update: > >        After installing and getting errors - I re-installed all the texlive > 2012 packages again - this time there are no errors - and now I can use > texlive (it was totally broken before the second install). > >  gene I would have needed the lo

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] TeXlive 2012 packages

2012-06-26 Thread Vladimir Lomov
Hello, ** Rémy Oudompheng [2012-06-26 22:10:11 +0200]: [I don't have permission to post on arch-dev- ML, so I reply to general hoping that Rémy will see it] > Hello, > I am going to put Texlive 2012 packages in [testing]. Texlive 2012 is > not yet released, but it is frozen, so I do not expect c

Re: [arch-general] TeXlive 2012 packages

2012-06-26 Thread Genes MailLists
Update: After installing and getting errors - I re-installed all the texlive 2012 packages again - this time there are no errors - and now I can use texlive (it was totally broken before the second install). gene

Re: [arch-general] TeXlive 2012 packages

2012-06-26 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/26/2012 04:10 PM, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: ... Please try them and complain on mailing lists. Don't hesitate to compile your own theses, memoirs or books. Getting several errors some similar to others some different gene/ === recreating all formats...Error: `pdftex -ini -jobnam

[arch-general] Server space to host Arch TDE binaries for testing?

2012-06-26 Thread David C. Rankin
All, (kaiting), Does anyone have server space available to host Trinity binaries for Arch for testing? Currently the size requirements for TDE binaries is ~270 Meg per architecture (~540 M for both i686 & x86_64). The package list currently building on Arch is here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/i

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 06/26/12 at 09:19pm, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > If it wasn't huge before then you were either running nouveau or vesa > framebuffer on the console and Nvidia in the desktop. This warning is > likely due to the fact that running a framebuffer and Nvidia used to > crash linux. It can probably? be ign

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/26/2012 01:19 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Putting GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text in my default grub, then running a new grub.cfg. Reboot and the message went away, though in the console the text is huge. I have seen no actual "fix" for this and have read that Nvidia is not even sure how or why it

[arch-general] icedtea-web should have provides (?)

2012-06-26 Thread Marek Otahal
Hi, for bloom-facebook package I need to ensure a dependency that runs java applets and WebStart. This is provided by icedtea-web-java7 (for openjdk7), icedtea-web (openjdk6) and probably part of JRE (Oracle/Sun Java). Could there be some provides say 'java-webstart' for these packages so I

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> Putting GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text in my default grub, then running a > new grub.cfg. Reboot and the message went away, though in the console > the text is huge. I have seen no actual "fix" for this and have read > that Nvidia is not even sure how or why it broke. If it wasn't huge before the

[arch-general] TeXlive 2012 packages

2012-06-26 Thread Rémy Oudompheng
Hello, I am going to put Texlive 2012 packages in [testing]. Texlive 2012 is not yet released, but it is frozen, so I do not expect changes to these packages except to fix packaging errors. Please try them and complain on mailing lists. Don't hesitate to compile your own theses, memoirs or books.

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/26/2012 09:42 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/26/2012 12:31 PM, Arno Gaboury wrote: dear list, After a few months of running Arch, I am now fine tuning everything (or at least trying). I discovered this error message in *kernel.log* file. NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/26/2012 12:31 PM, Arno Gaboury wrote: dear list, After a few months of running Arch, I am now fine tuning everything (or at least trying). I discovered this error message in *kernel.log* file. NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console NVRM: on the primary

[arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Arno Gaboury
dear list, After a few months of running Arch, I am now fine tuning everything (or at least trying). I discovered this error message in *kernel.log* file. NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/26/2012 10:49 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Have you considered flavours like mail, web. A recent thread showed atleast one person who probably would have liked an out of the box web arch? Sorry Kevin, I don't follow you. probably because it's completely off the radar and probably proj

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > > > > > Have you considered flavours like mail, web. > > > > A recent thread showed atleast one person who probably would have liked > > an out of the box web arch? > > > > > Sorry Kevin, I don't follow you. probably because it's completely off the radar and probably projects in themselves

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread Martin Cigorraga
> > > Have you considered flavours like mail, web. > > A recent thread showed atleast one person who probably would have liked > an out of the box web arch? > > Sorry Kevin, I don't follow you. -- -msx

[arch-general] k3b/cdrecord problem burning dual layer disc

2012-06-26 Thread gt
Hey folks A few days ago i was trying to burn an iso to a dual layer dvd, but i got an i/o error. Thankfully though the burn failed, but it spared the disc :) I tried downgrading cdrtools but that didn't fix it either. I found out that the iso was about 4200 MB in size and apparently trying to bu

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> Ensuring users can add keys and allowing multiboot and reasonably easy > usage of livecds without disabling secureboot all together should be > the current campaign. And openbios installation. I wonder if Dell will only allow Dell Windows? -- ___

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Having looked again at the fsfs campaign. We, the undersigned, urge all computer makers implementing UEFI's so-called "Secure Boot" to do it in a way that allows free software operating systems to be installed. To respect user freedom and truly protect user security, manufacturers must either al

Re: [arch-general] INSANELY OT: and nothing to do with the Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:02 -0700, Don deJuan wrote: > The border is the rules of the board you're posting to. If you don't > like them, start your own board. But again this is an Arch board and > your points and rambles do nothing to solve, help or further educate > people about Secure Boot, le

[arch-general] update of chroot fails - error: cannot remove file '/sys/': Read-only file system

2012-06-26 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Attempting to update an arch chroot (only a couple days old), I have run into the following error: sudo mkarchroot -u $CHROOT/root :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date local is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade..

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> idea of having a server edition of AL ready to deploy and forgot about it > because Arch rocks Have you considered flavours like mail, web. A recent thread showed atleast one person who probably would have liked an out of the box web arch? -- _

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> I understand that given Microsoft's record in the past, some of you are > worried, but when looking in the specifications (as Thomas already > pointed out) it is quite clear that Microsoft wants to do the right > thing here. > > Personally I couldn't come up with a better way/infrastructure than

[arch-general] soft_irq_pending

2012-06-26 Thread Arno Gaboury
Dear list, I boot in runlevel 3, *Kernel 3.4.4-2*. When I am at the login prompt, I can see this: magnolia login [ here is a number] NOHZ= *local_softirq_pending 08*. Pressing Enter give me back the login prompt, and then I can log and startx. I find this message in my *var/log/kernel.log* f

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread d4n1
I'm has used the archlinux in all. My servers are running firewall, web, bd, proxy, DNS, dhcp and others. I'm used politics of update/upgrade, and mark some packages to not update/upgrade. I'm used only the oficial mirror in the pacman. I'm removed compilers and run hardenings. On Jun 26, 2012 9:31

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread Martin Cigorraga
Hi guys, may be you'll find ArchServer an interesting project, you'll find more here: www.archserver.org. The idea behind this project is to create a rock-solid, server-oriented Arch flavor ready for mass deployment with all the pros we love about Arch -easy to maintain, lightweight, ultra-stable,

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-26 Thread Lars Madson
And remember one day when the "Disable Secure Boot" button is not present. Well we have right to not allow that too. 2012/6/26 Lars Madson > Karol ... don't ever accept the unacceptable because it's shaped as the > best proposition ever. Make your own. Microsoft should not ask people to > pay an

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-26 Thread Lars Madson
Karol ... don't ever accept the unacceptable because it's shaped as the best proposition ever. Make your own. Microsoft should not ask people to pay anything for a technology they impose, the new economy is about giving what you produce, I guess we'll receive a lot and lower down the quantity of sh

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-26 Thread Karol Babioch
Hi, Am 26.06.2012 04:29, schrieb Manolo Martínez: > Just for clarification: you seem to be endorsing a model in which > organizations (linux distros?) pay Microsoft for the right to install > non-Microsoft software in PCs. Is that correct? Yeah, I see that this creeps the shit out of some of you.

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 10:28 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 22:29 -0400, Manolo Martínez wrote: > > On 06/26/12 at 12:55am, Karol Babioch wrote: > > > I have only the following criticism: Given the relatively low cost of > > > getting a signed certificate from Microsoft (to my kn

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 22:29 -0400, Manolo Martínez wrote: > On 06/26/12 at 12:55am, Karol Babioch wrote: > > I have only the following criticism: Given the relatively low cost of > > getting a signed certificate from Microsoft (to my knowledge it will > > cost about 100 USD), it might fail to achie