[arch-general] Unable to mount external USB HD from two of my USB ports

2012-10-18 Thread Robbie Smith
I've been having troubles mounting an external USB HDD to two of the three USB ports on my laptop. dmesg reports a timeout connecting to the device; plugging in other devices to the same ports works fine with no errors. I've attached the log here[1]. The drive in question is a Seagate 1.5 TB Expan

Re: [arch-general] Leafnode and Systemd

2012-10-18 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> Thanks for the pointers; something for another evening This bug has attached sysemd service files for leafnode. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24530

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] iproute2 to base

2012-10-18 Thread Greg Bouzakis
Leonid Isaev wrote: > On 10/16/2012 08:21 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: >> [2012-10-16 10:41:09 -0500] Leonid Isaev: >>> I fully support having netcfg in base (and as a default network backend >>> in arch) because it is far better than the alternatives :) I don't think >>> that wpa_supplicant/crda be

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] iproute2 to base

2012-10-18 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-10-18 15:15:02 -0400] Leonid Isaev: > On 10/16/2012 08:21 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > > > >Since routers do not need netcfg any more than they do wpa_supplicant, > >with your reasoning, it should not be in base either... > > > > YMMV apparently, but in my experience a router needs: > (1) Some

[arch-general] pambase and LDAP

2012-10-18 Thread Thiago Kenji Okada
I am trying to figure the best way to do LDAP authentication (using a customized version of nss-pam-ldapd from AUR) on my laboratory, but I am having some problems. Since Arch now have a pambase package that should be imported on every pam configuration files (instead to relly on using old *.so for

Re: [arch-general] Leafnode and Systemd

2012-10-18 Thread Whiskers
On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:55:30 -0400 Dave Reisner wrote: [...] >Use inetd-style activation via systemd. See sshd@.service and >sshd.socket as an example. xinetd is redundant. Thanks for the pointers; something for another evening! -- -- ^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~

[arch-general] neo - german keyboard layout

2012-10-18 Thread G. Schlisio
hi list, i played around with neo2, an alternative kbd layout optimized for german. in my kde environment. the main concept of neo is using meta keys to shift between layers. for me, the meta4 key is not working on either side. i found some suggestions to solve this problem, but nothing worked

Re: [arch-general] Leafnode and Systemd

2012-10-18 Thread Dave Reisner
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 08:26:16PM +0100, Whiskers wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:03:57 +0200 Thomas Bächler > wrote: > > >Am 17.10.2012 21:29, schrieb Whiskers: > >> Rather than install tcp-wrappers on my Arch system, I'd like to use > >> whatever the proper "server" is nowadays instead of /usr

Re: [arch-general] Leafnode and Systemd

2012-10-18 Thread Whiskers
On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:03:57 +0200 Thomas Bächler wrote: >Am 17.10.2012 21:29, schrieb Whiskers: >> Rather than install tcp-wrappers on my Arch system, I'd like to use >> whatever the proper "server" is nowadays instead of /usr/sbin/tcpd - but >> what is it? > >Why would you replace tcpd with any

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] iproute2 to base

2012-10-18 Thread Leonid Isaev
On 10/16/2012 08:21 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2012-10-16 10:41:09 -0500] Leonid Isaev: I fully support having netcfg in base (and as a default network backend in arch) because it is far better than the alternatives :) I don't think that wpa_supplicant/crda belongs in base (for instance routers d

Re: [arch-general] is mesa, glproto, dri2proto not needed by intel video driver anymore?

2012-10-18 Thread Jan Steffens
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Thanos Zygouris wrote: > Hi, > If i run 'pacman -Qdt' (search for not needed installed packages) i got: > dri2proto 2.8-1 > glproto 1.4.16-1 > mesa 9.0-1 > > If i remember right, these were intalled by xf86-video-intel, or > intel-dri in the past. > So, my question

[arch-general] is mesa, glproto, dri2proto not needed by intel video driver anymore?

2012-10-18 Thread Thanos Zygouris
Hi, If i run 'pacman -Qdt' (search for not needed installed packages) i got: dri2proto 2.8-1 glproto 1.4.16-1 mesa 9.0-1 If i remember right, these were intalled by xf86-video-intel, or intel-dri in the past. So, my question is: can i remove these packages safely? My video card is: 'Intel Corpora

Re: [arch-general] permissions mismatch error while upgrading the system

2012-10-18 Thread Martín Cigorraga
Thank you very much! I will be informing some friends who asked the same to me :)

Re: [arch-general] permissions mismatch error while upgrading the system

2012-10-18 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 17.10.2012 20:42, schrieb Martín Cigorraga: > Hi! > I got this: > > ( 7/11) upgrading > nfs-utils > [--] 100% > warning: directory permissions differ on > var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/ > filesystem: 555 package: 755 > > It's safe to just chmod the /var/li

Re: [arch-general] permissions mismatch error while upgrading the system

2012-10-18 Thread Dave Reisner
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:46:36PM +1100, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2012-10-17 15:42:56 -0300] Martín Cigorraga: > > warning: directory permissions differ on var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/ > > filesystem: 555 package: 755 > > The difference between 555 and 755 is write permission for the owner... > So it