Re: [arch-general] Debugging kernel panics (ATI Catalyst related?)

2012-10-14 Thread Martín Cigorraga
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Robbie Smith wrote: > After the last updates, I was getting a kernel panic at reboot; > hard-resetting and then powering on again and it seems to boot fine. > > I suspect the problem has to do with the ATI Catalyst driver, as the > panics occurred when rebooting a

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3.6, No logout entry? (Gnome-unstable and testing)

2012-10-14 Thread André Prata
s2disk? On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote: > On 14 October 2012 18:03, Adriano Moura wrote: > > 2012/10/14 甘露(Gan Lu) : > >> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:53 AM, martin kalcher > >> alternative-status-menu doesn't work, it just adds suspend. > > > > And it's also missing hibe

Re: [arch-general] systemd units order

2012-10-14 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Arno Gaboury wrote: > Dear list, > > I automatic login with systemd. I recently added 2 services, and they > start AFTER the login prompt, so I lost it. Not a big deal, as pressing > gives it back. > I tried with no sucess playing with the After and Before optio

Re: [arch-general] Password expiring and encryption

2012-10-14 Thread Christoph Vigano
On 10/14/12 at 06:03pm, Rafael Beraldo wrote: > Hello all, > > I have my passwords set to expire every 30 days. When they expire, I am > asked to input a > new, different password. > > It turns out that I recently noticed I had to input only the first 8 > characters of my password to > be able to

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3.6, No logout entry? (Gnome-unstable and testing)

2012-10-14 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 14 October 2012 18:03, Adriano Moura wrote: > 2012/10/14 甘露(Gan Lu) : >> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:53 AM, martin kalcher >> alternative-status-menu doesn't work, it just adds suspend. > > And it's also missing hibernate now... How am I supposed to hibernate now? I can't figure it out on my de

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3.6, No logout entry? (Gnome-unstable and testing)

2012-10-14 Thread Adriano Moura
2012/10/14 甘露(Gan Lu) : > On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:53 AM, martin kalcher > alternative-status-menu doesn't work, it just adds suspend. And it's also missing hibernate now...

[arch-general] Password expiring and encryption

2012-10-14 Thread Rafael Beraldo
Hello all, I have my passwords set to expire every 30 days. When they expire, I am asked to input a new, different password. It turns out that I recently noticed I had to input only the first 8 characters of my password to be able to log in. I discussed this with Hlao-ru on #archlinux and, thanks

[arch-general] Debugging kernel panics (ATI Catalyst related?)

2012-10-14 Thread Robbie Smith
After the last updates, I was getting a kernel panic at reboot; hard-resetting and then powering on again and it seems to boot fine. I suspect the problem has to do with the ATI Catalyst driver, as the panics occurred when rebooting after upgrading or downgrading the driver. I originally upgra

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video ***

2012-10-14 Thread gt
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 02:41:23PM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > > Hi . > > What is the easiest way to stop pacman trying to update all the > xf86-video* drivers for cards i do not have the system uses the > xf86-video-nouveau driver perfectly well but tries to install sis ati > sirrus trident a

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] consolekit dependencies?

2012-10-14 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:34:04 +0200 Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Thomas Bächler > wrote: > > Most (all?) of our login manager still depend on consolekit. However, > > since consolekit support will be stripped from polkit when > > gnome-unstable goes to testing (soon?),

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video ***

2012-10-14 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:41 AM, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > > Hi . > > What is the easiest way to stop pacman trying to update all the > xf86-video* drivers for cards i do not have the system uses the > xf86-video-nouveau driver perfectly well but tries to install sis ati > sirrus trident and more > >

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video ***

2012-10-14 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 3:41 PM, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > What is the easiest way to stop pacman trying to update all the > xf86-video* drivers for cards i do not have the system uses the > xf86-video-nouveau driver perfectly well but tries to install sis ati > sirrus trident and more Why not just r

[arch-general] xf86-video ***

2012-10-14 Thread P .NIKOLIC
Hi . What is the easiest way to stop pacman trying to update all the xf86-video* drivers for cards i do not have the system uses the xf86-video-nouveau driver perfectly well but tries to install sis ati sirrus trident and more I know about adding files at the command line --exclude and abo

[arch-general] systemd units order

2012-10-14 Thread Arno Gaboury
Dear list, I automatic login with systemd. I recently added 2 services, and they start AFTER the login prompt, so I lost it. Not a big deal, as pressing gives it back. I tried with no sucess playing with the After and Before options for one unit file (netcfg). I would like to have a clean boot bu

Re: [arch-general] Introduction from a blind arch user

2012-10-14 Thread Øyvind Heggstad
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:36:33 -0500 kendell clark wrote: > Hi all: > I've just recently begun tentatively using arch on a usb thumb drive. > I am blind, so I use the arch linux for the blind image to install. > I'm writing to ask what other blind arch linux users as a desktop, > since that's what

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-14 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2012-10-14 10:19:10 +0200] Menachem Moystoviz: >> So in essence, what you're proposing is to only upgrade from VPS to private >> hosting when the resiliency of my private server is good enough - i.e. not >> most >> naive setups? It does ma

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] consolekit dependencies?

2012-10-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.10.2012 17:40, schrieb Gerhard Brauer: > What are the way for people which ex. use fluxbox via > ck-launch-session and thunar as a filemanager (for > dbus/polkit/udisks things) AND NOT systemd-logind ? As Tom pointed out, it was an upstream decision by polkit to require logind - without fork

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3.6, No logout entry? (Gnome-unstable and testing)

2012-10-14 Thread Gan Lu
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:53 AM, martin kalcher wrote: > Am 13.10.2012 19:00, schrieb Brandon Watkins: > >> I've just upgraded my arch install to [testing] and [gnome-unstable]. >> Almost everything works fine, except there is no entry for logout in the >> gnome-shell user menu. I disabled all my

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-14 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-10-14 10:19:10 +0200] Menachem Moystoviz: > So in essence, what you're proposing is to only upgrade from VPS to private > hosting when the resiliency of my private server is good enough - i.e. not > most > naive setups? It does make sense, and would make backups more urgent > and important.

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-14 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
>> > That's debateable, DOS sure, but you have much greater control and speed >> > of access with a local mail server and past mail will still be >> > accessible during any attack. >> I wasn't referring to DOS/DDOS-style reliability. In my mind, >> reliability ~= uptime > 99.999% >> Of course, you'

Re: [arch-general] syetemd + crypttab - question

2012-10-14 Thread narve
On 10/14/2012 at 3:13 AM, "Genes MailLists" wrote: > >I just converted a laptop with encrypted /home and /swap to >systemd - >initscripts has been removed. Luks via standard (new) /etc/crypttab > >Things went swimmingly well (thank you to those who contributed to >the >wiki). > >One thing is