Re: [arch-general] systemd sessions, su -l, and access to /dev/

2012-11-25 Thread Genes MailLists
On 11/25/2012 12:38 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: Same developers? Not really[0]. Same company? Sure, Red Hat gets their paws on a lot of widely used Linux software (including being the largest corporate contributor to the kernel, at least in 2011). [0] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/ConsoleKit/log/ d

Re: [arch-general] systemd sessions, su -l, and access to /dev/

2012-11-25 Thread Genes MailLists
Just to be clear, this isn't something the systemd developers came up with. ConsoleKit was responsible applying the same ACLs for local sessions before. To give credit where it's due thoough I could me misremembering, but don't CK and systemd share the same developers? CK was their first

Re: [arch-general] LibreOffice 3.6.3-2 in testing is awfully broken.

2012-11-17 Thread Genes MailLists
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:15:31 +0100 fredbezies wrote: I noticed that last testing version of LibreOffice simply doesn't start. Works fine for me too (testing fully updated - kde). gene

Re: [arch-general] immediate sleep after resume

2012-11-15 Thread Genes MailLists
Forgot to mention in original post - it seems well understood that the window managers may or may not play nicely with systemd - as to who will do power management. If a user is not logged in - it is still nice to have systemd sleep system on lid close for example - and for this reason

[arch-general] immediate sleep after resume

2012-11-15 Thread Genes MailLists
This started happening sometime after I switched to systemd (tho I am not finger pointing). Upon resume - the laptop immediately sleeps - the second resume is fine. Not every time either. Fresh boot - sleep - resume cycle seems to work fine. Googling suggested putting this in /etc/systemd/lo

Re: [arch-general] kernel oops on resume: 3.6.2-1+systemd+kde

2012-11-08 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/16/2012 10:36 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: I have started getting kernel oops yesterday. This started after fully updated testing repo and switch to systemd over last weekend. I'm running kde. Testing repo fully updated as of today. This oops is still happening with 3.

Re: [arch-general] autofs issue after location change

2012-10-23 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/22/2012 08:29 PM, Martin Panter wrote: That fix (“diskspace: only load filesystem info on demand”) is not in the 4.0.3 release; I think it’s probably waiting for a 4.1 release because it’s on the master branch. Ah thank you - good to know. As for the rest of your problems I have no

[arch-general] autofs issue after location change

2012-10-22 Thread Genes MailLists
I had used one of my autofs mounts last night on my laptop. This morning I put it to sleep and moved to a different location where that nfs server is not available. I am fully updated to testing repo (as of last night anyway :-) ). (i) pacman hung (tho I understand from

Re: [arch-general] boot problem with missing root fs solved or not

2012-10-20 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/13/2012 09:17 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: With recent kernels & udev + initscripts I started having warm boot problems with one of my desktops. Fully updated testing repo (3.6.2). Cold boot works fine. The boot console looks very similar to these: https://bbs.archlinux

Re: [arch-general] kernel oops on resume: 3.6.2-1+systemd+kde

2012-10-16 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/16/2012 10:36 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: ... https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32014 Attachments worked this time ... sorry for noise on that. gene/

[arch-general] kernel oops on resume: 3.6.2-1+systemd+kde

2012-10-16 Thread Genes MailLists
I have started getting kernel oops yesterday. This started after fully updated testing repo and switch to systemd over last weekend. I'm running kde. Bug is filed as shown below with screenshot which I managed to capture of the OOPS from today's crash. Laptop is sandy bridge i7 (leno

Re: [arch-general] KDE mail popup notification immediately after login starts - how to remove?

2012-10-15 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/15/2012 10:40 AM, mike cloaked wrote: In the past few days after a KDE update immediately after KDE login starts from the KDM login greet screen. I get a small mail notification popup window before the normal KDE login completes ... Bug is logged here https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31

[arch-general] boot problem with missing root fs solved

2012-10-13 Thread Genes MailLists
With recent kernels & udev + initscripts I started having warm boot problems with one of my desktops. Fully updated testing repo (3.6.2). Cold boot works fine. The boot console looks very similar to these: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142052 http://serverfault.com/questions

[arch-general] syetemd + crypttab - question

2012-10-13 Thread Genes MailLists
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 a bit less than ideal - at boot - the prompt for luks password

[arch-general] Epson USB scanner / new problem

2012-10-08 Thread Genes MailLists
I have a new problem with a usb scanner - testing repo - fully updated + kde + initscripts (not yet converted to systemd). This was working fine when last tried 3-4 weeks ago The scanner is not being initialized correctly somehow, daemon log shows this upon plugging scanner into USB port:

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.6 feedback

2012-10-04 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/04/2012 05:10 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: ... Arch is not affected as we revert the udev commit. Tom Great to know - thanks Tom.

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.6 feedback

2012-10-03 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/03/2012 08:52 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: ... https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/194 For those not following the entire thread - there seems to be some debate about firmware loading in udev vs in kernel space and some recent changes leading to some problems. Best I can tell, while there

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.6 feedback

2012-10-03 Thread Genes MailLists
There is also some noise around udev as well and firmware loading: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/194 (it's a bit of a long thread) gene

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.6 feedback

2012-10-03 Thread Genes MailLists
I have not been hit by this - but there is some buzz around the symlink security addition - see this thread for more details: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/473 gene

[arch-general] kernel 3.6 feedback

2012-10-03 Thread Genes MailLists
kernel 3.6-1 testing report: I am running 3.6 from testing on 3 machines. 1 laptop and 2 desktops. All are fully updated from testing repo. 1 of the desktop didn't come up right - seemed to have trouble with root filesystem (initiscripts still not systemd). On second reboot it came up

Re: [arch-general] sleep + lid events + kde => new problem - solved

2012-09-21 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/21/2012 10:39 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > > Any chance you may have a setting that could be changed in the KDE > power management settings window to get this working again? > Spot on - in the KDE power management - there was a section called 'activities' - it was selected - deselecting and

Re: [arch-general] sleep + lid events + kde => new problem

2012-09-17 Thread Genes MailLists
Seems other events have stopped being processed as well - e.g. unplugging a/c and going to battery - laptop beeps - but screen no longer dims - Again - I can dim screen by hand by doing something like this: echo '11' > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness This has been flaky a while

Re: [arch-general] sleep + lid events + kde => new problem

2012-09-17 Thread Genes MailLists
On 09/17/2012 11:13 AM, mike cloaked wrote: Does running acpi_listen and closing then reopening the lid gives an indication that the lid open/close is being seen - just to check if there is any switch failure? Tried this - I note that acpid was not running and it is needed for acpi_listen

[arch-general] sleep + lid events + kde => new problem

2012-09-17 Thread Genes MailLists
Using fully updated testing repo - starting 'recently' - I notice that lid close no longer sleeps my laptop. Kde power is configured to sleep on lid close. If i click the menu and choose sleep manually - it sleeps fine - and subsequently wakes fine on lid-open. I can confirm with this l

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-intel-2.20.5

2012-08-28 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/28/2012 02:43 PM, Jameson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Neil Perry wrote: >> It seems to be SNA causing the problem. I have swapped over to UXA for the >> time being, been stable for the like 3 hours. > > Yep. UXA is working fine for me, also. For what its worth - i still hav

Re: [arch-general] Personal note

2012-08-15 Thread Genes MailLists
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: ... As most devs have done already, I'm going to change my relationship with arch-general. Tom please stay engaged with user community. May I suggest instead the creation of a new list (something like): arch-users-technical

Re: [arch-general] ip addr show doesn't show my ipv4 address after update, is this expected behaviour?

2012-08-13 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/06/2012 06:07 PM, Myra Nelson wrote: This may be resolved upstream[1]: gene === From lkml == I'm re-releasing the iproute2 tools for 3.5.0 kernel. There were a couple of bugs (one serious) in the 3.5.0 version. ... Mike Frysinger (1): Fix regression

Re: [arch-general] Something wrong with firefox/thunderbird driving X cpu usage -> 100%

2012-08-10 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/10/2012 12:41 AM, gt wrote: Why don't you guys try something like claws or sylpheed, if you are having problem with thunderbird. I have used claws a couple of times and I can say that it consumes minimal resources (for a graphical client). Unless lots has changed recently, Claws is n

Re: [arch-general] migrating crypttab to new way / luks swap problem

2012-08-01 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/01/2012 07:23 AM, Geert Hendrickx wrote: The "swap" example reinitializes the encrypted block device at boot and does mkswap on that. You want neither, just use "luks" as for your other partition. Geert Ah that makes complete sense - thank you. I'll test shortly. gene/

Re: [arch-general] migrating crypttab to new way / luks swap problem

2012-08-01 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/01/2012 02:00 AM, Aurko Roy wrote: If you do man crypttab, there's an example for swap at the bottom. It is swap /dev/sda7 /dev/urandom swap Thanks, I am aware of that, but I have luks on my swap partition so that won't work. I want to be prompted for a password. luks is also re

Re: [arch-general] linux-3.5.0-1 enters [testing]

2012-08-01 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/01/2012 05:38 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: There seem to be no serious regression, any objections if 3.5.0-2 move to [core] ? greetings tpowa I am noticing some network hangs with my Intel N6300 wifi using iwlagn driver. No problems under 3.4, but now I get hangs. I connect fine and

[arch-general] migrating crypttab to new way / luks swap problem

2012-07-31 Thread Genes MailLists
I am fully up to date on testing repo. I have a laptop with encrypted /home and swap. Both are luks. When I convert /etc/cryptab /home works fine but swap fails at boot time with Unlocking of swap failed. Legacy /etc/cryptab (works but get legacy warnings) home /dev/sda5

[arch-general] X server crash

2012-07-30 Thread Genes MailLists
The last couple of weeks I have started to get random crashes of the X server - it dies with SEGV. It occurs every few days or so and has no obvious trigger. I think it started about the same time as the update to 3.5 kernel (tho may be unrelated). Bug filed here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/

Re: [arch-general] rc.local.shutdown equivalent in systemd

2012-07-24 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/24/2012 06:38 AM, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: Shouldn't it be just [Unit] Description=Unload module before shutdown [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/usr/bin/rmmod modulename [Install] WantedBy=shutdown.target Without multi-user.target or Before=? In this above approach - can you be cert

Re: [arch-general] rc.local.shutdown equivalent in systemd

2012-07-23 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/23/2012 09:10 PM, Manolo Martínez wrote: Hence my question: what's the systemd native way to do stuff (in my case, remove a module) before shutdown? You might try something like this (untested as I am not currently using systemd)- I'm not sure if you need the Before= since your "stu

Re: [arch-general] linux-3.5.0-1 enters [testing]

2012-07-23 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/23/2012 08:57 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi guys, Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Please report any issues that arise. Thanks. Thank you for getting this to us so quickly :-) 1 machine in testing so far - ecnrypted home/swap - intel graphics, iwlagn wirel

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [arch-commits] Commit in util-linux/trunk (PKGBUILD util-linux.install)

2012-07-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/12/2012 04:35 PM, Cody Maloney wrote: > I just managed to hit it on one of my arch boxes: > > (24/26) upgrading util-linux > > > [] > 100% > rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/hwclock’: No such file or

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] final leg of /lib removal

2012-07-09 Thread Genes MailLists
On 07/09/12 07:48, Dave Reisner wrote: You need to regenerate your locales with 'locale-gen'. Thank you both - that fixed it (I needed to uncomment en_US_xxx in /etc/locale-gen first. thanks again gene

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] final leg of /lib removal

2012-07-09 Thread Genes MailLists
After the latest glibc update in testing I found the following issue. The udpate to glibc 2.16.0-2 went well - and /lib is now a soft link to /usr/lib. Things seemed to be fine - I was using computer with no problems, then after a sleep/resume cycle my kde session logged me out. I re

Re: [arch-general] update of chroot fails - error: cannot remove file '/sys/': Read-only file system

2012-06-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/29/2012 06:25 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: ... error: cannot remove file '/sys/': Read-only file system error: could not commit transaction error: failed to commit transaction (transaction aborted) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. I may be off base but can you check if your

Re: [arch-general] TeXlive 2012 packages

2012-06-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/27/2012 02:18 AM, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: I would have needed the logs of failed format generation to debug. Smooth upgrade paths have always been an issue with Texlive packages. I'll try a bit more. 1) Yes - a fresh install may well have no issues. 2) Thank you for doing this :-) 3)

Re: [arch-general] TeXlive 2012 packages

2012-06-26 Thread Genes MailLists
Update: After installing and getting errors - I re-installed all the texlive 2012 packages again - this time there are no errors - and now I can use texlive (it was totally broken before the second install). gene

Re: [arch-general] TeXlive 2012 packages

2012-06-26 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/26/2012 04:10 PM, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: ... Please try them and complain on mailing lists. Don't hesitate to compile your own theses, memoirs or books. Getting several errors some similar to others some different gene/ === recreating all formats...Error: `pdftex -ini -jobnam

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] grub/grub2 final

2012-06-25 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/24/2012 03:51 PM, Ronald van Haren wrote: .. I'll be pushing grub2 rc1 to [testing] in a moment if you want to give it a try. Final 2.00 release should be in one of the next days. Cheers, Ronald [replying in arch-general] Is there anything special that users of [testing] need to do

Re: [arch-general] Chromium browser does not follow the proxy settings

2012-06-23 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/23/2012 04:45 AM, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > Hi, > > I am using chromium with KDE, and whenever I open Chromium proxy > settings, I get KDE proxy settings. I have already enabled my KDE proxy > settings, so the proxy should work right? > There was an issue with some earlier chrome version

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux 3.4.1 ready for [core]?

2012-06-11 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/11/2012 10:25 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 08.06.2012 21:54, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: >> Hi guys, >> signoffs are done, anything that stops us from moving to new kernel series? >> >> greetings >> tpowa >> > > Considering the number of problems that still exist, let's wait until > the NFS

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux 3.4.1 ready for [core]?

2012-06-10 Thread Genes MailLists
> On 06/10/2012 09:01 AM, Florian Pritz wrote: >> On 08.06.2012 21:54, Tobias Powalowski wrote: >>> Hi guys, >>> signoffs are done, anything that stops us from moving to new kernel series? >> >> My nfs problems (bad file contents) seem to be fixed with 3.4.2. >> It seems some may still be having

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.4.2 (was NFS etc)

2012-06-09 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/09/2012 02:26 PM, Ike Devolder wrote: > > can you confirm the problem is fixed, i got it tested with the 3.4.2-rc1 > kernel briefly and it did seem ok Sorry, I have not tested this kernel - just sharing that it is out. gene

[arch-general] kernel 3.4.2 (was NFS etc)

2012-06-09 Thread Genes MailLists
Sorry I lost the thread about NFS issues on 3.4.1 ... anyway 3.4.2 is now out upstream. Gene

Re: [arch-general] virtualbox-bin aur - vboxdrv -> dkms -> confusion...

2012-06-05 Thread Genes MailLists
... > > virtualbox-bin is an AUR package, discution should take place in aur-general. > ... Is there a benefit to the AUR version over the Community version? They should be feature equivalent now. gene

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-05 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/05/2012 11:25 AM, Calvin Morrison wrote: > > Just wondering - why does it have to be Microsoft's Key to used? Could > there be an Arch Linux provided key that would allow a Secure Boot? > > Thanks > > calvin > To be a bit more precise - the key belongs to the owner as always. It's the

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-04 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/04/2012 04:44 PM, Alexandre Ferrando wrote: ... > > Arch doesn't seems to have the same kind of user than fedora, Arch if > I don't remember it wrong, tends to be aimed for a competent user. > Such a competent user can disable secure boot in x86 devices. ... Yep - I agree about technica

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-04 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/04/2012 02:55 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >>Do you think Arch should follow suit or require instead that Secure >> Boot is disabled? > > No. > > 1) Do not buy locked down hardware if possible. All new hardware (x86 anyway) will have this enabled by default best I can tell, (1) is pr

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-04 Thread Genes MailLists
Just to add another fedora link: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pjones/Features/SecureBoot Sounds like they till plan to make use of the UEFI CA $99 signing service from Microsoft. Do you think Arch should follow suit or require instead that Secure Boot is disabled? gene/

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-05-31 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/31/2012 10:48 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > > [1] Also discussed some in fedora ML > FYI - The fedora dev discussion is titled : *countable infinities only .. gene

[arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-05-31 Thread Genes MailLists
Matthew Garret(Redhat) has written[1] an updated and interesting blog on this topic; which of course will impact arch too ... sharing in case anyone hasn't seen it: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html gene/ [1] Also discussed some in fedora ML

Re: [arch-general] linux-3.4.0-1 enters [testing]

2012-05-22 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/21/2012 09:21 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, ... > > Please report any issues that arise. > Thanks. Testing on Gen 1 i7 desktop - no problems at all so far. Testing on Gen 2 i7 lenovo W520 laptop - a few hours of use (including sleep / wake cycles) - all running smoothly. Bluetoo

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux-3.4.0-1 enters [testing]

2012-05-21 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/21/2012 09:21 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > ... > Please report any issues that arise. > Thanks. > > greetings > tpowa Just a thank you ... for getting this available so quickly - its impressive and much appreciated. gene

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Dropping squirrelmail

2012-05-05 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/05/2012 10:32 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hi all, > > FYI: I plan to drop squirrelmail from [extra]. It is orphaned and it > wont work with PHP 5.4. (According to pkgstats it has no users anyway) > > Greetings, > > Pierre > Actually just fyi - according to their website it will work wit

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.3.1-1

2012-04-08 Thread Genes MailLists
On 04/06/2012 02:41 PM, Richard Schütz wrote: > Am 06.04.2012 12:54, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: >> Hi guys, >> please signoff 3.3 series for both arches. >> >> Upstream changes: >> http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges >>... > Since 3.3.0 suspend isn't working on my desktop computer anymore. Looks

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.3.1-1

2012-04-06 Thread Genes MailLists
On 04/06/2012 06:54 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > please signoff 3.3 series for both arches. > First off thank you arch devs. I am newish to arch (was with fedora/redhat since about RH 3). I am very happy with the arch - huge thank you. On 3.3.1, obviously I can't sign off - b

Re: [arch-general] problem with linux-3.3.1 install & /usr move

2012-04-03 Thread Genes MailLists
On 04/03/2012 09:03 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: I must have been a minute or 2 ahead of the fixed mkinitcpio 0.8.6 hitting my mirror ... thanks for quick come back and fix! gene/

Re: [arch-general] problem with linux-3.3.1 install & /usr move

2012-04-03 Thread Genes MailLists
On 04/03/2012 08:56 PM, Karol Błażewicz wrote: ... > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29229 ? > > Next time please post version numbers instead of writing "from test repo > - running pacman -Syu". > Sorry about that - yes same as above bug thanks - I missed it somehow. linux 3.3.1-1 mkinitcp

[arch-general] problem with linux-3.3.1 install & /usr move

2012-04-03 Thread Genes MailLists
From test repo - running pacman -Syu, I get this error >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ... >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait... ==> Building image from preset: 'default' -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/init

Re: [arch-general] htaccess password

2012-03-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/29/2012 05:16 PM, pete wrote: > > Maybe i should correct that slightly i need to generate .htpasswd > file with 150 user password pairs .. > > Pete . > > If you have a file with usernames then something like this may work for you. ufile=/tmp/xxx pfile=/tmp/yyy result=/tmp/upfi

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.3 & khubd problem/freezing failed

2012-03-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/27/2012 08:22 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > Yes, there is some oops concerned with bluetooth at shutdown. I get so > many small bugs, that we should absolutely wait for 3.3.1 before pushing > any further. > Yes definitely agreed.

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.3 & khubd problem/freezing failed

2012-03-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/21/2012 11:56 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42975 > To add to this - I get an oops on shutdown as well. Fresh boot and sleep/shutdown is not a problem. It seems to need aging and oddly happens only at work (so far). Work has 802.11

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.3 & khubd problem/freezing failed

2012-03-21 Thread Genes MailLists
I filed a bugzilla here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42975 gene/

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.3 & khubd problem/freezing failed

2012-03-21 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/21/2012 06:53 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > Followup with another crash: Today when I closed laptop lid to sleep it - I got an oops. Appears this is really from bluetooth not usb. I took a pic of the oops which starts with: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging requ

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.3 & khubd problem/freezing failed

2012-03-21 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/21/2012 06:37 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > There is also a known problem with btrfs (where your fs sometimes > appears to be out of space, even though it is not). There is also a reported issue with ASPM - I seem not to have a problem even tho lspci -vvv | egrep ASPM shows it enabled fo

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.3 & khubd problem/freezing failed

2012-03-21 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/21/2012 12:14 AM, Mr Destruction wrote: > I've not upgraded to this kernel yet, waiting for it to go into core. But > is it infact working other than this issue? > Yes its working very well (aside from this one issue). testing on 3 desktops and 1 laptop ... gene

[arch-general] kernel 3.3 & khubd problem/freezing failed

2012-03-20 Thread Genes MailLists
linux 3.3 from testing - fully updated from test repo. I had plugged my cell phone in to usb - a few times in and out. After unplugging, I closed laptop lid - the sleep light which normally flashes then goes steady to indicate laptop is sleeping did not. I opened lid - and found khubd process

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/20/2012 11:38 AM, gt wrote: That's the whole discussion of the thread. I did have dvd+rw-tools > installed, but after Joerg insisted that they are not necessary, i > removed them. And it seems the k3b warning is superficial, it works fine > without dvd+rw-tools. > ah sorry for noise ...

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/20/2012 10:30 AM, gt wrote: perhaps you also need dvd+rw-tools?

Re: [arch-general] How can I change thunderbird profile dir form .thunderbird to .mozilla/thunderbird?

2012-03-10 Thread Genes MailLists
On 03/10/2012 09:10 PM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote: > Is there any compile flag or something I could alter? I think that > would be easy to do. I just want to clean my home folder, backup > firefox and thunderbird data. I only want to backup a .mozilla > directory and not .mozilla and .thunderbird t

Re: [arch-general] dovecot.conf moved to dovecot.pacsave - why?

2012-02-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/27/2012 06:51 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, > > Why does the new dovecot package move the dovecot.conf to > dovecot.conf.pacsave? The same 2.0 configuration works with 2.1, why leave the > user without any dovecot.conf at all? > For me when I updated to dovecot 2.1.1-3 it was even

Re: [arch-general] Scripting assistance

2012-02-23 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/23/2012 03:25 AM, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote: > Something like > > if `ip link show eth0 | grep -q 'state UP'`; then > you mount command hete > fi > > in /etc/rc.local maybe You could also use 'arp' to check for your NAS mac address on the interface before issuing the mount command. g

[arch-general] apache 2.4

2012-02-22 Thread Genes MailLists
Hi Does anyone know what the plans might be for apache 2.4 in testing? Thanks! gene

Re: [arch-general] NAS drive read ok cant write

2012-02-20 Thread Genes MailLists
Looks like you're mounting a cifs filesystem. So you may need fstab options something like uid=,forceuid to allow your to write to it. see man cifs.mount for more info. I haven't tried this ... as my windows filesystems are long gone :-) gene

Re: [arch-general] Intel AES-NI module doesn't get loaded automatically

2012-02-16 Thread Genes MailLists
Also, ff you're using 32bit system this may or may not be relevant ... https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/16/100 gene

Re: [arch-general] Intel AES-NI module doesn't get loaded automatically

2012-02-16 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/16/2012 03:05 AM, Christoph Vigano wrote: > On 02/16/2012 02:15 AM, Karol Babioch wrote: >> my hardware supports the AES-NI instruction set, which is a performance >> boost. >> >> I'm pretty sure that the appropriate module (aesni_intel) was loaded >> automatically in the past, which seems n

Re: [arch-general] kde 4.8 and syaptiks

2012-02-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/12/2012 04:31 PM, Jekyll Wu wrote: > 于 2012年02月13日 05:25, Jesse Juhani Jaara 写道: > >> O_o the verison in AUR is 0.8.1 Also I don't see any text >> telling it is included in KDE 4.8 > > That's because it is not part of KDE, and its version is basically > non-related with the version

Re: [arch-general] kde 4.8 and syaptiks

2012-02-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/12/2012 04:25 PM, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote: > sunnuntai, 12. helmikuuta 2012 16:20:55 Genes MailLists kirjoitti: >> Thanks - unfortunately thats an ancient version (0.3) - and as per the >> URL its supposed to be in KDE 4.8 (version 0.8) > > O_o the verison in AUR

Re: [arch-general] kde 4.8 and syaptiks

2012-02-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/12/2012 04:19 PM, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote: > sunnuntai, 12. helmikuuta 2012 16:17:14 Genes MailLists kirjoitti >> However I cannot find it on my desktop - I have the kde meta group >> installed. Anyone know where synaptiks is - is it available? > > Its in AUR: > h

[arch-general] kde 4.8 and syaptiks

2012-02-12 Thread Genes MailLists
If I understand correctly there is a tool to configure touchpads is now available in kde 4.8.0 http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=114270 However I cannot find it on my desktop - I have the kde meta group installed. Anyone know where synaptiks is - is it available? Thanks!

Re: [arch-general] Xorg 1.12 moves soon to testing for stabilization phase

2012-02-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/12/2012 01:10 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > Synaptics 1.5.99-1 is completely fucked for me. > > 1) Circular scrolling direction is reversed. This can't be a feature, > really. > 2) Speed/acceleration behaviour changed, my touchpad is now much faster > than it should be (I could reconfigure

[arch-general] thinkpad_acpi out of date?

2012-02-11 Thread Genes MailLists
Hi: (1) Fully updated with test repos. Thinkpad W520. I have kernel 3.2.5-1. I see this in logs: lap3 kernel: [282571.053156] thinkpad_acpi: unknown possible thermal alarm or keyboard event received lap3 kernel: [282571.053160] thinkpad_acpi: unhandled HKEY event 0x6040 lap3 ke

[arch-general] KDE crash after latest updates

2012-02-04 Thread Genes MailLists
Using testing repos - I just got 3.2.4 kernel and latest glibc (2.15-5 ) After rebooting to pick up new kernel - after I login via kdm to KDE desktop I get a crash from 'kdeinit4': Application: KDE Daemon (kdeinit4), signal: Aborted Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". [Cur

Re: [arch-general] Gtk update messed up thunderbird thread marker triangles??

2012-02-01 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/01/2012 01:01 AM, Алексей wrote: > 2012/1/31 David C. Rankin : >> Guys, >> >> It seems one of the latest updates did something to the little triangle >> thread markers in thunderbird that show when a thread has responses. Now the >> triangles for collapsed threads look like little squiglies.

[arch-general] couple of log messages from kernel 3.2.2

2012-01-30 Thread Genes MailLists
I noticed a couple of messages booting the new 3.2.2 kernel: (I) watchdog: - [287247.568009] NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. [287248.814530] watchdog: INTCAMT: cannot register miscdev on minor=130 (err=-16). [287248.814536] watchdog: error registering /dev/wa

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]

2012-01-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/29/2012 11:11 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > Lots of great info here .. doh me .. > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CPU_Frequency_Scaling > Morris - The change to your script to use cpupower is trivial: cpupower frequency-set -g $AC_GOVERNOR to

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]

2012-01-29 Thread Genes MailLists
> After installing cpupower package - (thanks wiki :-)) and modprobing acpi_cpufreq cpufreq_ondemand and starting the cpopower "daemon" it seems that the screen dimming is working correctly now in KDE - I will check the cpupower frequency state to confirm - and check and check that it cont

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]

2012-01-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/28/2012 03:26 AM, Morris wrote: > I have a W520 too and I can share what I did for power management in KDE: > > - first of all, I suggest you to install tlp [1] from aur > - I wrote a little bash script [2] to set cpufreq's governor and lcd's > brightness, located in /root/governor.sh > - e

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]

2012-01-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/29/2012 11:04 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > I need to read more ... to get the right driver installed first I guess. > Lots of great info here .. doh me .. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CPU_Frequency_Scaling

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]

2012-01-29 Thread Genes MailLists
cpupower followup: I installed cpupower but a short test for me didn't work .. 1) ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreqy Is empty .. 2) cpupower -c 0 frequency-set -g ondemand Setting cpu: 0 Error setting new values. Common errors: - Do you have proper administration rights? (super-us

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]

2012-01-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/28/2012 03:26 AM, Morris wrote: >> > Hello Gene, > > I have a W520 too and I can share what I did for power management in KDE: ... > using these settings my laptop correctly switches profile on AC->BAT (and > viceversa) events > > Cheers, > Morris > > > [1] - https://aur.archlinux.org

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]

2012-01-29 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/27/2012 01:55 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: I confirm that after a few sleep cycles - when I pull A/C on laptop while its awake, the power applet does not put the laptop into battery mode. I filed a bug here since this is clearly an upstream issue. https://bugs.kde.org

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]

2012-01-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/27/2012 01:40 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > Welcome! Thank you! > >> (2) One smallish potential problem zone on laptop is the new power >> applet - profiles are gone and it is no longer possible to choose a >> 'powersave' vs 'performance' via a toggle. > > This seems to be working as int

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]

2012-01-27 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/27/2012 09:21 AM, Timothée Ravier wrote: > Le 26/01/2012 08:24, Andrea Scarpino a écrit : >> Hi all, >> overnight the mirrors synced the latest stable release of KDE. >> >> I had no many time to work on it, so I pushed it in [testing] just to be >> sure >> everything's ok. > As I can't send

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.2-1

2012-01-05 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/05/2012 09:19 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > please signoff 3.2 series for both arches. > New arch user for a month (cannot sign off so just offering feedback) No problems so far on a couple of computers including lenovo laptop w520 (gen 2 sandybridge i7, iwlwifi etc).

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