Re: [arch-general] Executing a command of a chroot outside of the chroot

2012-12-06 Thread Δημήτρης Ζέρβας
the main system is android and the chroot is Arch linux, so I have no ldd nor readelf...

Re: [arch-general] Executing a command of a chroot outside of the chroot

2012-12-06 Thread Martin Panter
On 6 December 2012 15:07, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας <01tto...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a chroot environment on /data/workbench/mnt and I want to execute a > binary which is inside the chroot environment (for example > /data/workbench/mnt/bin/bash). I added the chroot library path to > $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and

[arch-general] the media keys doesn't work in the login screen

2012-12-06 Thread José Vilmar Estácio de Souza
Hi all. First of all, forgive my bad english. This is my first message to the list, forgive me if I am sending to the incorrect place. I installed arch in my laptop, a Dell vostro 3300. I am using gnome as my desktop and gdm to manage my login. Since I am blind I use orca as my screen reader i

Re: [arch-general] harddisk suspending far to often

2012-12-06 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 6 December 2012 17:05, G. Schlisio wrote: > Am 06.12.2012 21:07, schrieb Jonathan Steel: > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 10:59:27AM +0100, G. Schlisio wrote: >> >>> after updating my laptop today [0] (no testing enabled) i notice that my harddisk keeps spinning down and up every 10 seconds o

Re: [arch-general] harddisk suspending far to often

2012-12-06 Thread G. Schlisio
Am 06.12.2012 21:07, schrieb Jonathan Steel: On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 10:59:27AM +0100, G. Schlisio wrote: after updating my laptop today [0] (no testing enabled) i notice that my harddisk keeps spinning down and up every 10 seconds or so. might this be related to the update or where can i stop t

Re: [arch-general] dbus update - /etc/passwd merge question

2012-12-06 Thread Daniel Micay
You can use vipw and vigr to safely edit the passwd and group files with your editor of choice, and make the changes (or use the cli utilities instead). There's no need to manually edit shadow/gshadow, you can update them by running pwconv and grpconv which will generate them by merging passwd with

Re: [arch-general] Escape sequences instead of colors in terminal

2012-12-06 Thread Marcel Korpel
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Martin Panter wrote: > On 5 December 2012 23:14, Dave Reisner wrote: >> Your pager is to blame. Assuming you're using less, you need to pass the -R >> option. You can add: >> >> export LESS=-R >> >> To your shell rc file. > > As far as I can tell, Git seems to be a

Re: [arch-general] harddisk suspending far to often

2012-12-06 Thread Jonathan Steel
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 10:59:27AM +0100, G. Schlisio wrote: > > >after updating my laptop today [0] (no testing enabled) i notice > >that my harddisk keeps spinning down and up every 10 seconds or > >so. > >might this be related to the update or where can i stop this? > > somehow it resolved its

[arch-general] Executing a command of a chroot outside of the chroot

2012-12-06 Thread Δημήτρης Ζέρβας
I have a chroot environment on /data/workbench/mnt and I want to execute a binary which is inside the chroot environment (for example /data/workbench/mnt/bin/bash). I added the chroot library path to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and I just did /data/workbench/mnt/bin/bash. I get a very strange error: No such f

Re: [arch-general] dbus update - /etc/passwd merge question

2012-12-06 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Curtis Shimamoto < > sugar.and.scru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Setting a users shell to /sbin/nologin or /bin/false achieves the same > > thing. > > > > [pedantic] > > Actually, there is a difference between `no

Re: [arch-general] dbus update - /etc/passwd merge question

2012-12-06 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Curtis Shimamoto < sugar.and.scru...@gmail.com> wrote: > Setting a users shell to /sbin/nologin or /bin/false achieves the same > thing. > [pedantic] Actually, there is a difference between `nologin` and `false`: `nologin` will print a polite message explaining th

Re: [arch-general] dbus update - /etc/passwd merge question

2012-12-06 Thread mike cloaked
Thanks for the reply and from Curtis - at least I can feel safe rebooting now! I will merge the uid change for uuidd just in case in the future the 999 uid is wanted by another package.. On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 06.12.2012 18:15, schrieb Curtis Shimamoto:

Re: [arch-general] dbus update - /etc/passwd merge question

2012-12-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.12.2012 18:15, schrieb Curtis Shimamoto: > Also, I jsut looked at my passwd file and apparently I had merged my > pacnew files to reflect the changed uid for uuidd. So mine is 68:68 and > I have no issues. None of this really matters - the only place where uuidd is used is here: $ cat /usr

Re: [arch-general] dbus update - /etc/passwd merge question

2012-12-06 Thread Curtis Shimamoto
On 12/06/12 at 04:55pm, mike cloaked wrote: > Having read the available postings in arch-dev-public as well as those on > this subject in the arch forums I am somewhat confused as to how to > complete the merge for /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group and /etc/gshadow > for the new entries in the .pa

[arch-general] dbus update - /etc/passwd merge question

2012-12-06 Thread mike cloaked
Having read the available postings in arch-dev-public as well as those on this subject in the arch forums I am somewhat confused as to how to complete the merge for /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group and /etc/gshadow for the new entries in the .pacnew files. For example in my old /etc/passwd I hav

Re: [arch-general] harddisk suspending far to often

2012-12-06 Thread G. Schlisio
after updating my laptop today [0] (no testing enabled) i notice that my harddisk keeps spinning down and up every 10 seconds or so. might this be related to the update or where can i stop this? somehow it resolved itself today. now hdd is running continuously again.