Re: [arch-general] Can't SSH into Arch VM until login screen is viewed

2014-07-07 Thread Ben Booth
On Jul 7, 2014, at 12:27 PM, LoneVVolf wrote: > Try adding console=ttyS0 as kernel parameter to the boot command. > > see http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html for details Thanks for the link! I did the following and that fixed the problem for me: # systemctl enable serial-getty

[arch-general] Can't SSH into Arch VM until login screen is viewed

2014-07-07 Thread Ben Booth
I can log in via SSH after reboot without having to run the XenCenter UI? Thanks, Ben Booth

Re: [arch-general] simple trick to make dealing with python 2/3 scripts easier

2012-08-23 Thread Ben Booth
Ben Booth wrote: > In case anyone's still interested in this, I found a pacman.conf option > called NoExtract, which lets you tell pacman not to overwrite certain > files and directories in the filesystem. So you could add the following > line to /etc/pacman.conf: > > NoEx

Re: [arch-general] simple trick to make dealing with python 2/3 scripts easier

2012-08-23 Thread Ben Booth
In case anyone's still interested in this, I found a pacman.conf option called NoExtract, which lets you tell pacman not to overwrite certain files and directories in the filesystem. So you could add the following line to /etc/pacman.conf: NoExtract = /usr/bin/python which would prevent pacman

Re: [arch-general] simple trick to make dealing with python 2/3 scripts easier

2012-08-18 Thread Ben Booth
Matthew Monaco wrote: > On 08/17/2012 04:14 PM, Ben Booth wrote: > > Don't know if you did this by accident -- and not a huge deal -- but you > shouldn't have included the vote action in the link. > Oops, my mistake. In any case, the request was rejected. :(

Re: [arch-general] simple trick to make dealing with python 2/3 scripts easier

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Booth
Ben Booth wrote: > > Maybe I'll submit a feature request to the python package maintainer to > see if they think it's a good idea. I submitted a feature request in case anyone's interested: https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do=details&action=details.addvote&task_id=31179

Re: [arch-general] simple trick to make dealing with python 2/3 scripts easier

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Booth
Ben Booth wrote: > Damjan wrote: > >>> The only problem with >>> this approach is that /usr/bin/python is owned by the python package, so >>> if you upgrade the python package it might create problems. Any one know >>> of some way to work around this pr

Re: [arch-general] simple trick to make dealing with python 2/3 scripts easier

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Booth
Damjan wrote: >> The only problem with >> this approach is that /usr/bin/python is owned by the python package, so >> if you upgrade the python package it might create problems. Any one know >> of some way to work around this problem? > > Just put your script in /usr/local/bin But then some scri

[arch-general] simple trick to make dealing with python 2/3 scripts easier

2012-08-17 Thread Ben Booth
Lots of python scripts still use #!/usr/bin/python instead of explicitly stating which version of python to use. Here's quick trick to make running various python version 2 or 3 scripts easier: remove the /usr/bin/python symlink and replace with this shell script: #!/usr/bin/env bash exec /usr/