Re: [arch-general] Super weird dd problem.

2013-06-10 Thread Anatol Pomozov
Hi On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 10.06.2013 05:18, schrieb Anatol Pomozov: > > "sync" is not a workaround, it is a right solution. > > You are wrong. > > > Under the hood copying in linux works following way. Every time you read > > something from disk the file infor

Re: [arch-general] uml_utilities dropped?

2013-06-10 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-06-10 23:16:02 +0800] Brock Zheng: > I found that uml_utilities vanished in the repo. It can't be found > in core/extra/communit repo, and also AUR . Next time, please do a simple search before putting questions to this list you could have easily answered yourself... https://en

[arch-general] uml_utilities dropped?

2013-06-10 Thread Brock Zheng
Hi, all I found that uml_utilities vanished in the repo. It can't be found in core/extra/communit repo, and also AUR . I need the command "tunctl" to install tap0 NIC, which is used to setup my qemu virtual machine. Any comment? -- Brock Zheng 郑 祎 Software Enginner GnuPG key

Re: [arch-general] Super weird dd problem.

2013-06-10 Thread Alfredo Palhares
Hello, > It would be good to know which usb drive we are talking about, if it has > any "features" such as U3 or if it was an offer and came with publicity > materials or something like that. It an old arse pen drive, but I tried with several devices, the problem is common to them. > On another

Re: [arch-general] Super weird dd problem.

2013-06-10 Thread Mauro Santos
On 09-06-2013 22:23, Alfredo Palhares wrote: > Hello, > > So I was creating a archlinux usb bootable drive: > > [root@masterkorp-laptop Downloads]# dd bs=4M if=archlinux-2013.06.01-dual.iso > of=/dev/sdb > 130+1 records in > 130+1 records out > 548405248 bytes (548 MB) copied, 0.964976 s, 568 MB

Re: [arch-general] Is erlang-nox dropped?

2013-06-10 Thread XeCycle
Alexander Rødseth writes: > Hi, > > erlang-nox maintainer (and erlang co-maintainer) here. I'm trying to > make it so that only erlang-nox is needed for erlang server packages, > while erlang can be installed for those who doesn't care about the > extra disk space requirements (and users of appli

Re: [arch-general] Is erlang-nox dropped?

2013-06-10 Thread Alexander Rødseth
Hi, erlang-nox maintainer (and erlang co-maintainer) here. I'm trying to make it so that only erlang-nox is needed for erlang server packages, while erlang can be installed for those who doesn't care about the extra disk space requirements (and users of applications like Wings 3D). I recently rece

Re: [arch-general] Super weird dd problem.

2013-06-10 Thread Alfredo Palhares
Excerpts from Pedro Emílio Machado de Brito's message of Mon Jun 10 02:53:22 +0200 2013: > I've been having this sort of problems with removable storage lately > (copying multiple GBs of songs in a few seconds, except not really). > The workaround I found out is to run the sync command after copyi

Re: [arch-general] Super weird dd problem.

2013-06-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 10.06.2013 05:18, schrieb Anatol Pomozov: > > "sync" is not a workaround, it is a right solution. > > You are wrong. > > > Under the hood copying in linux works following way. Every time you read > > something from disk the file information will stay cached in memory re

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] /bin/false exited with status 1

2013-06-10 Thread John Briggs
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 09:30:03AM +0100, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Martti Kühne wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Leonidas Spyropoulos > > wrote: > > [...] > >> Any other suggestion from someone ? > >> > > > > It is my intention to help you. Please b

Re: [arch-general] Super weird dd problem.

2013-06-10 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hi, > I always unmount my devices before unplugging, but I found out that > after writing a lot of data to a slow device (SD card in my case), > umount or udiskie-umount would block for a long time, then exit with > some weird error message and the data would have not been correctly > written. >

Re: [arch-general] Is erlang-nox dropped?

2013-06-10 Thread XeCycle
Karol Blazewicz writes: [...] > https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/erlang-nox/ > Provides: erlang > Conflicts: erlang > Reverse Conflicts: erlang > > You install one or the other: erlang conflicts with erlang-nox and vice versa. Yeah I know these; I'm just wondering if -nox wil

Re: [arch-general] Is erlang-nox dropped?

2013-06-10 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:56 AM, XeCycle wrote: > Karol Blazewicz writes: > > [...] > >> It's still here: >> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=erlang-nox&maintainer=&flagged= > > I'm aware of this --- but it's older than `erlang'. And `erlang' > stated it will replace `erlang-nox', so

Re: [arch-general] Is erlang-nox dropped?

2013-06-10 Thread XeCycle
Karol Blazewicz writes: [...] > It's still here: > https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=erlang-nox&maintainer=&flagged= I'm aware of this --- but it's older than `erlang'. And `erlang' stated it will replace `erlang-nox', so I'm wondering about this. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department o

Re: [arch-general] Is erlang-nox dropped?

2013-06-10 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:16 AM, XeCycle wrote: > Hello, > > On yet another -Syu this morning I was asked whether to replace > erlang-nox by erlang. Are we dropping the -nox variant? I'm > using -nox for I don't need GUI in erlang now; also wxgtk pulls > in gstreamer as a dependency, which I do

Re: [arch-general] Super weird dd problem.

2013-06-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.06.2013 05:18, schrieb Anatol Pomozov: > "sync" is not a workaround, it is a right solution. You are wrong. > Under the hood copying in linux works following way. Every time you read > something from disk the file information will stay cached in memory region > called "buffer cache". That

[arch-general] Is erlang-nox dropped?

2013-06-10 Thread XeCycle
Hello, On yet another -Syu this morning I was asked whether to replace erlang-nox by erlang. Are we dropping the -nox variant? I'm using -nox for I don't need GUI in erlang now; also wxgtk pulls in gstreamer as a dependency, which I don't like. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics and A