Re: [arch-general] Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-28 Thread 1007380
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 02:16:23AM +0800, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2012-09-28 12:01:01 +0200] Nicolas Sebrecht: > > The 28/09/12, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > > > > > We have recently seen on this very mailing list that for every person > > > posting considerate opinions, there are dozens who just pollut

Re: [arch-general] Updating iputils over NFS

2012-09-28 Thread Bryan Schumaker
On 09/28/2012 11:19 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > I'm having an issue updating a system that boots over NFS. Attempting to > upgrade the iputils package results in the following: > > ---8<--- > (1/1) upgrading iputils > [##

Re: [arch-general] Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-28 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-09-28 12:01:01 +0200] Nicolas Sebrecht: > The 28/09/12, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > > > We have recently seen on this very mailing list that for every person > > posting considerate opinions, there are dozens who just pollute threads > > with fear, uncertainty, doubt, and just sheer incompetence.

Re: [arch-general] Newly installed system without uuidd user

2012-09-28 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: > Hello all! > > I know, this should go to the bugtracker, but I couldn't find the > `arch-install-scripts` anywhere... so I'm bringing it here. > > I've just installed a new Arch in a VM using the new & improved > `archlinux-2012.09.07-dual.is

Re: [arch-general] Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-28 Thread Leonidas Spyropoulos
On 28 Sep 2012 11:34, "Tom Gundersen" wrote: > > An option could be to enable moderation on dev-public, still defaulting to > rejecting everything, but allow through high-quality contributions from the > outside. > I concur this idea, but who's is going to moderate it? You should consider that als

Re: [arch-general] Unable to add fonts to X

2012-09-28 Thread j . c . coleman
Did you have any luck solving this? I am having a very similar problem. Fonts that loaded at one time, no longer load. JC

Re: [arch-general] Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-28 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sep 28, 2012 12:01 PM, "Nicolas Sebrecht" wrote: >> >> The 28/09/12, Gaetan Bisson wrote: >> >> > We have recently seen on this very mailing list that for every person >> > posting considerate opinions, there are dozens who just pollute

[arch-general] Updating iputils over NFS

2012-09-28 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
I'm having an issue updating a system that boots over NFS. Attempting to upgrade the iputils package results in the following: ---8<--- (1/1) upgrading iputils [###] 100% Failed to set capabilities on file `usr/bin

[arch-general] task #31424: User git has home set to /

2012-09-28 Thread coderkun
According to this bug https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31424 I lost all my files yesterday. So this is a warning to all users who are wondering about the “git daemon user” – that is really a demon!

Re: [arch-general] Bug with procps-ng or systemd?

2012-09-28 Thread Simon Perry
Apologies, Just noticed the "[arch-general] utmp MIA" thread and FS#31705 as pointed out by Tom in said thread. (I blame Friday night boozing) -- Simon Perry (aka Pezz) pgpY0g4mmRY5T.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Bug with procps-ng or systemd?

2012-09-28 Thread Karol Blazewicz
ri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Simon Perry wrote: > /var/log/utmp is not being used. > > Updated procps-ng on the 24th, systemd 192 update on the 27th, but have > only just noticed this. > > Running a "w" command no longer shows current logged in users. > > An strace of /usr/bin/w shows: > > access(

[arch-general] Bug with procps-ng or systemd?

2012-09-28 Thread Simon Perry
/var/log/utmp is not being used. Updated procps-ng on the 24th, systemd 192 update on the 27th, but have only just noticed this. Running a "w" command no longer shows current logged in users. An strace of /usr/bin/w shows: access("/var/run/utmpx", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) o

[arch-general] Re: Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-28 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 28/09/12, Tom Gundersen wrote: > An option could be to enable moderation on dev-public, still defaulting to > rejecting everything, but allow through high-quality contributions from the > outside. > > I agree that we should create a venue for would-be contributors to engage > with us, but i a

Re: [arch-general] Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-28 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sep 28, 2012 12:01 PM, "Nicolas Sebrecht" wrote: > > The 28/09/12, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > > > We have recently seen on this very mailing list that for every person > > posting considerate opinions, there are dozens who just pollute threads > > with fear, uncertainty, doubt, and just sheer incom

Re: [arch-general] utmp MIA

2012-09-28 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sep 28, 2012 12:12 PM, "Jorge Almeida" wrote: > > Sounds like FS#31705. > Thank you. J.

Re: [arch-general] utmp MIA

2012-09-28 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sep 28, 2012 12:12 PM, "Jorge Almeida" wrote: > > I ran pacman -Syu yesterday, and now on boot the file /run/utmp is not > created. Anyone else with this problem? (Yes, /var/run is a symlink to /run) > > (I also changed from grub2 to syslinux, but I suppose this has nothing to do > with the pro

[arch-general] utmp MIA

2012-09-28 Thread Jorge Almeida
I ran pacman -Syu yesterday, and now on boot the file /run/utmp is not created. Anyone else with this problem? (Yes, /var/run is a symlink to /run) (I also changed from grub2 to syslinux, but I suppose this has nothing to do with the problem; it boots fine. This is the only difference in installed

[arch-general] Re: Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-28 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 28/09/12, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > We have recently seen on this very mailing list that for every person > posting considerate opinions, there are dozens who just pollute threads > with fear, uncertainty, doubt, and just sheer incompetence. I'm very confident that an open dev mailing list with

Re: [arch-general] Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-28 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-09-28 11:38:13 +0200] Nicolas Sebrecht: > What you're calling crap are all technical content that could gain with > direct emulation with official maintainers. We have recently seen on this very mailing list that for every person posting considerate opinions, there are dozens who just pollut

Re: [arch-general] Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-28 Thread Allan McRae
On 28/09/12 19:38, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > BTW, what a wonderfull attitude from you to non official people. Highly > contructive and motivating. Thanks. Thanks.

[arch-general] Re: Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-28 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 28/09/12, Allan McRae wrote: > If all that crap went to arch-dev-public, I would have to unsubscribe > there too. What you're calling crap are all technical content that could gain with direct emulation with official maintainers. BTW, what a wonderfull attitude from you to non official peopl

Re: [arch-general] Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-28 Thread Allan McRae
On 28/09/12 19:01, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > The 27/09/12, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > >> Can you give some examples of discussions you would see moving to >> archlinux-dev? > > Sure. > > Subject: [arch-general] Modifying archiso > From: Robbie Smith > Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:47:11 +1000

[arch-general] Re: Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-28 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 27/09/12, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > The 27/09/12, Tobias Frilling wrote: > > > > The problem is not at the general mailing list but at the dev mailing > > list side. > > archlinux-dev is for contributors and as long somebody is just