Re: [arch-general] pacman reset procedure

2020-11-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
Failed to synchronize all error failed to update each database and finally error failed to synchronize all data bases. On Fri, 27 Nov 2020, Nate DeMare via arch-general wrote: > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:23:55 > From: Nate DeMare via arch-general > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > Cc:

[arch-general] pacman reset procedure

2020-11-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
The pacman data bases I have apparently got broken and will not update. Connection to the internet is good. What is the procedure to have pacman reset itself and clear out any broken parts so it becomes able to update? -- United States has 633 Billionaires with only 10 doing any annual signifi

Re: [arch-general] cd/dvd burning software

2020-10-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, mick howe via arch-general wrote: > Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 22:27:46 > From: mick howe via arch-general > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > Cc: mick howe > Subject: [arch-general] cd/dvd burning software > > I'm chasing a simple program to burn CD/DVD and print a sim

Re: [arch-general] old archlinux instance repositories progress

2020-08-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
ce repositories progress > > That sould usually be in the error message. Something like "could not > lock database" so in the future it might be helpfull to post the error > message that way you can get better help from this list. > > Regards > Schtiehve > > Am 2

Re: [arch-general] old archlinux instance repositories progress

2020-08-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
ance repositories progress > > ??? Original Message ??? > On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 8:21 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring returns error cannot update core among > > other repositories and pacman -Ss archlinux-keyring shows the keyring to > > be ins

Re: [arch-general] old archlinux instance repositories progress

2020-08-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
enelle > Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > Cc: arch-gene...@lists.archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] old archlinux instance repositories progress > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 2:14 PM Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > &

Re: [arch-general] old archlinux cannot now update

2020-08-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
Discussion about Arch Linux > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > Cc: mar...@protonmail.ch > Subject: Re: [arch-general] old archlinux cannot now update > > ??? Original Message ??? > On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 5:53 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > Is a

[arch-general] old archlinux instance repositories progress

2020-08-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
I found and downloaded a current mirrorslist file and selected servers to use. pacman cannot update though and I suspect this is because the necessary ssh keys have to be imported. How is this done using pacman facilities in such a situation? --

[arch-general] old archlinux cannot now update

2020-08-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
Is a link in the archwiki on the process to point archlinux at all of the new repositories and import all of the ssh keys? I hadn't been able to access my computers while this move happened so wasn't able to do the necessary steps to change where archlinux finds all of its updates. --

Re: [arch-general] a couple foldingathome problems

2020-07-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
el modules: r8169 On Mon, 6 Jul 2020, Lone_Wolf wrote: > Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 02:39:19 > From: Lone_Wolf > Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > To: arch-general@archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] a couple foldingathome problems > > > On 06-

Re: [arch-general] a couple foldingathome problems

2020-07-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
If I run clinfo -l what returns is: Platform #0: Clover Platform #1: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing Going deeper with clinfo there's lots of devices not found. --

[arch-general] a couple foldingathome problems

2020-07-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
One of these would be unique, the package is complaining my video drivers aren't up to date. I don't even know what video drivers should be on this machine and haven't got local linux support to clue me in on this one and me being totally blind I don't usually touch or have any interest in video d

Re: [arch-general] wierdest kernel crashes when playing movies via plex

2020-06-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
With the latest kernel update I did yesterday espeak was stuttering and it is a kernel-based application. So I got curious and tried running speaker-test. Speaker-test announced itself but was unable to play any static over the default speaker jack. Pulseaudio was running during all of this too.

[arch-general] need to run previous kernel

2020-06-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
With grub what should be done when grub boots to run the kernel used before the current default kernel? On the older amd machine I have I tried installing linux-amd and the git site timed out on me twice. I think that was during that last ddos attack though. The newer machine has linux-amd insta

Re: [arch-general] dash as default shell?

2020-06-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
Another proper consideration is continuity of development. If a death causes a shell to become abandonware as a result of a developer failing to arrange for another to take the project on updates if they happen at all will take some time. On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Piscium via arch-general wrote: > Da

Re: [arch-general] what's wrong with my alsa configuration?

2020-06-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
Solved. Turns out either alsa oand/or vlc get very upset when pulseaudio isn't installed and running. I installed pulseaudio-alsa then ran pulseaudio --start in user account and errors disappeared. --

[arch-general] what's wrong with my alsa configuration?

2020-06-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
I'm using vlc to play a stream and got the same error when trying to play an mp3 file earlier. The stream and the file play eventually. I searched for this one using duckduckgo and got one result in german which I do not speak and certainly do not do technical german which is why I'm asking here.

Re: [arch-general] foldingathome-beta setup

2020-05-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
I gave up on foldingathome-beta and installed the foldingathome package. A little more information was in that package for setup. The client was able to find an nvidia GEFORCe gpu on the machine so I enabled the foldingathome-nvidia service and afterwards ran systemctl status foldingathome and no e

[arch-general] foldingathome-beta setup

2020-05-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
Is foldingathome-beta looking for the gpu on the motherboard or video card in my computer? When I searched this machine I got an intel with a 9 series number after it along with nvidia nouveau and radeon graphics if memory serves. The radeon graphics would have come up since the video monitor is

Re: [arch-general] Graceful shutdown Arch Linux

2020-05-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Not knowing the system in question a guess would be a .bash_logout file if bash is the shell being used is needed to have sysctl stop networkmanager.service in it, and may need more similar commands in it too. On Thu, 7 May 2020, Ram Kumar via arch-general wrote: > Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 11:10:32

[arch-general] foldingathome-beta almost working

2020-04-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
The beta runs and complains it can't find opencl driver running on slot 1. Entirely reasonable since the computer foldingathome uses is running on slot 2. Does a way exist to redirect opencl to run on slot 2 where foldingathome can use it and return a status report with no failures and no errors i

[arch-general] foldingathome-beta fails

2020-04-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
The packagebuild does not download and install all dependencies for foldingathome-client so cannot operate on systems that have used foldingathome predecessor software like foldingathome-noroot. I figured it might work since I had configured foldingathome-client earlier and had a valid configurati

Re: [arch-general] changing nickname on arch infrastructure

2020-04-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
If those are irc channels it's entirely possible to have an unregistered nickname stolen. It happened to me very shortly after connecting to irc for the first time. On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, Alexander Epaneshnikov via arch-general wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 10:15:05 > From: Alexander Epaneshniko

Re: [arch-general] teapot package could be improved

2020-04-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
It's all good, man page has it listed as teapot but actual program is run as teapot-planner and it runs too. --

Re: [arch-general] teapot package could be improved

2020-04-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
he AUR page. > > If you want to try my PKGBUILD, see: http://ix.io/2hkp| > > Em qua., 8 de abr. de 2020 ?s 20:45, Jude DaShiell > escreveu: > > > > that package won't even build with libtirpc though it got a little > > further this time. I was curious about this

Re: [arch-general] teapot package could be improved

2020-04-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
that package won't even build with libtirpc though it got a little further this time. I was curious about this package but can use it on another version of Linux I run to check it out. On Wed, 8 Apr 2020, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 19:21:37 > From: Jude DaShiell

Re: [arch-general] teapot package could be improved

2020-04-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
gt; > > Maybe https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sc-im/? is an alternative ? > > It's a ncurses spreadsheet / calculator . > > > Lone_Wolf > > > On 08-04-2020 23:26, brent s. wrote: > > On 4/8/20 17:24, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> which package has the

[arch-general] teapot package could be improved

2020-04-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
which package has the version of rpc.h teapot needs to build? Whichever package that is, the dependency is missing from the build script. --

Re: [arch-general] Time stamps are in 24 hour format how can you change this.

2020-04-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
That may be adjustable in orca settings if thunderbird respects orca settings. I think it's general and then date format and time format. On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Matthew dyer via arch-general wrote: > Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 13:57:46 > From: Matthew dyer via arch-general > To: 'General Discussion abo

Re: [arch-general] latest kernel update surprise

2020-03-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
Somehow /etc/asound.conf got broken on my system. Once I used a rescue disk and updated /etc/asound.conf with a valid copy created using the rescue disk and espeakup and pick-speaker script on the rescue disk espeakup now works again. No idea how that happened since I hadn't edited /etc/asound.co

Re: [arch-general] latest kernel update surprise

2020-03-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
Problem solved, kernel was not responsible for speaker-test and espeakup failures. As near as I can figure it, my /etc/asound.conf file got corrupted somehow and that was enough to temporarily break the system. After having used the rescue disk and having selected my preferred speaker set and havin

Re: [arch-general] latest kernel update surprise

2020-03-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
> > On 3/22/20 8:28 AM, Piscium via arch-general wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 11:03, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> 5.59-10 on the machine I use. I'm using a different version of linux on > >> another disk to write this message. > >> Strangely, both

Re: [arch-general] latest kernel update surprise

2020-03-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
gt; To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > Subject: Re: [arch-general] latest kernel update surprise > > On 3/22/20 2:28 PM, Piscium via arch-general wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 11:03, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> > >> 5.59-10 on the machine I use. I'm

Re: [arch-general] latest kernel update surprise

2020-03-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
e: > Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 09:28:13 > From: Piscium via arch-general > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > Cc: Piscium > Subject: Re: [arch-general] latest kernel update surprise > > On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 11:03, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > 5.59-10 o

[arch-general] latest kernel update surprise

2020-03-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
5.59-10 on the machine I use. I'm using a different version of linux on another disk to write this message. Strangely, both speaker-test and espeakup no longer work. The speaker-test failure would of course cover espeakup since espeakup uses sound card resources to do screen reading. Was anything

[arch-general] post-install dependencies check

2020-02-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
Can pacman be used to find which packages are missing which optional dependencies after an install? --

Re: [arch-general] A few out of date packages

2020-02-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
tintin-alteraeon can be added to that list since it no longer builds. On Wed, 12 Feb 2020, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 03:27:45 > From: Jelle van der Waa > Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > Subject: Re: [arch-general

Re: [arch-general] omega won't build

2020-02-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Correction, it was the ncurses-5-compat package with the missing gpg key not ncurses-6. I found that out by ignoring all gpg checks and the other thing with pikaur is it didn't keep the gpg key that was unknown on the screen long enough for me to check with gpg2 and possibly import it. --

[arch-general] omega won't build

2020-02-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
the reason omega won't build will effect every package that has ncurses 6 as a dependency since the ncurses 6 public gpg key is unknown. I could ignore the key for now, but this isn't the best security practice on my part so I aborted the build for now. --

Re: [arch-general] too many brick walls for graphical archlinux install

2020-01-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
ndings here and if it does write something for the wiki a little later. On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 12:55:59 > From: Jude DaShiell > Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > To: arch-gene...@lists.archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-gen

Re: [arch-general] too many brick walls for graphical archlinux install

2020-01-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
I commented some lines out in /etc/pulse/client.conf and /etc/pulse/daemon.conf. Next thing to try is install speech-dispatcher and festival and voices for festival and see if I can get spd-say talking. If so, that will mean the edits on those pulse files were adequate and then gnome and orca theo

[arch-general] too many brick walls for graphical accessible environment on archlinux

2020-01-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Without pulseaudio installed, I was able to choose festival for speech output and alsa for output device when running spd-conf inside speech-dispatcher on archlinux. This is necessary to have speech from orca in any graphical user interface. Since espeak-ng and espeak conflict I loose speech in the

[arch-general] community/espeak-ng

2020-01-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
Does this package need some systemd additions like service files? If not, how can espeak-ng be configured so it starts up whenever a computer is booted? It's got no page in the archwiki and if I can get a replacement of espeak done speech-dispatcher will work with it and if speech-dispatcher work

[arch-general] rclone and dropbox

2019-12-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
did anyone ever manage to link their computer to a dropbox account using rclone? The package returns a bogus url to open that's supposed to finish the linking but that url always returns error 404. --

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 5.3.5 and Kernel 5.3.6 perl warnings

2019-10-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
. > > On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 07:16, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > If you start getting warnings that perl failed to set locale that didn't > > happen on earlier versions of the kernel I know how to fix that. > > First you have to have everything correct in /etc/locale.

[arch-general] Kernel 5.3.5 and Kernel 5.3.6 perl warnings

2019-10-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
If you start getting warnings that perl failed to set locale that didn't happen on earlier versions of the kernel I know how to fix that. First you have to have everything correct in /etc/locale.conf. If that's the case, add to your ~/.bash_profile file source /etc/locale.conf then save the edit a

[arch-general] interesting /etc/locale.conf situation

2019-10-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
Kernel in use is 5.3.5 with I think all of the current systemd stuff installed last night. when I run cpanp I get warnings from perl stating setting locale failed and listing variables that are unset. However if I run source /etc/locale.conf then run cpanp, no warnings appear. What did I do wrong w

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
This will need checking into by screen reader experts, this change for probably more than one unknown reason not only broke accessibility, it made a system that did the grub beep and then had grub go spastic and the system could do nothing else. I have most of a braille page of pacstrap commands I

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
One dependency that exists is netctl and dialog. You can't use wifi-menu unless dialog is pre-installed and wifi-menu if I'm not much mistaken is a part of netctl. --

Re: [arch-general] Time and date in 24 hour time can this be fixed?

2019-09-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
For us command line users the date command has lots of parameters, and bash can do aliases to save a date and/or time format you like when you get it just right. The info date command get anyone interested started. On Sat, 14 Sep 2019, matthew dyer via arch-general wrote: > Date: Sat, 14 Sep 201

Re: [arch-general] script talkingarch

2019-08-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
probably not. If you want that kind of hand-holding the urls were already sent to this list for Jenux which has several scripts though even with them they're not like the Javelin Missile which is a fire and forget system (you do have to answer some questions). On Sat, 3 Aug 2019, ad?rito wrote:

Re: [arch-general] talkingarch

2019-07-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux , > Jude DaShiell , > Rafael Fontenelle , aderito.carva...@sapo.pt > Subject: Re: [arch-general] talkingarch > > Hey Jude. > > > I receive the following error when I clicked the link: > > The requested URL was not found

Re: [arch-general] talkingarch

2019-07-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
another way can be done with: https://nashcentral.duckdns.org/projects/Jenux-2019.07.29-x86_64.iso https://nashcentral.duckdns.org/projects/Jenux-2019.07.29-x86_64.iso.sha512 On Tue, 30 Jul 2019, Jos? Vilmar Est?cio de Souza wrote: > Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 06:22:32 > From: Jos? Vilmar Est?cio de S

Re: [arch-general] talkingarch

2019-07-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Not useable since speech is too fast and first language of would-be installer is portugese and nobody translated that tutorial for portugese yet. On Sun, 28 Jul 2019, Justin Capella via arch-general wrote: > Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 16:27:21 > From: Justin Capella via arch-general > To: General Di

Re: [arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?

2019-06-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
The last standard the United States Navy used before it migrated to smartcards was 16 characters with at least two digits; at least two upper-case, at least two lower-case, and at least two special characters. A slight improvement on that would have been to insure the pass phrase started and ended

Re: [arch-general] package contents on fresh Arch install, like python etc...

2019-06-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Fri, 21 Jun 2019, mpan wrote: > Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 00:38:12 > From: mpan > Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > To: arch-general@archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] package contents on fresh Arch install, > like python etc... > > > A day back, i made a fresh install

[arch-general] lynx and lynx-current packages start up error message

2018-04-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
I take it since the following message goes out over stderr it's some kind of error. sh: line 0: test: .: binary operator expected This error happens after makepkg gets used to make and install lynx-current and happened earlier with lynx. To clear this error, do I need to adjust some configurat

Re: [arch-general] deluge post-install

2018-03-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
Interesting pip and pip3 found nothing. pypi though found a bunch of packages. Now I need to learn how to use pypi since when I did a search with the package I got into an unfamiliar interface and further with it than had been the case previously. On Sat, 24 Mar 2018, Jude DaShiell wrote

Re: [arch-general] deluge post-install

2018-03-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
/20/2018 02:55 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: A warning about a missing service_identity module comes up when deluge-console is used and I am probably not taking all correct steps to install that module to clear this warning.? Is this something that can be left alone or has to be left alone?? If I

[arch-general] deluge post-install

2018-03-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
A warning about a missing service_identity module comes up when deluge-console is used and I am probably not taking all correct steps to install that module to clear this warning. Is this something that can be left alone or has to be left alone? If I found the right module when it installs it

Re: [arch-general] archlinux install bottleneck

2018-02-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
I'll try that iso next and see if I get lucky. On Mon, 19 Feb 2018, LoneVVolf wrote: Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 06:17:16 From: LoneVVolf Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux To: arch-general@archlinux.org Subject: Re: [arch-general] archlinux install bottleneck On 18-02-18 13:27,

Re: [arch-general] archlinux install bottleneck

2018-02-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
t: Re: [arch-general] archlinux install bottleneck On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 07:27:11 -0500 Jude DaShiell wrote: After having run arch-chroot /mnt /usr/bin/bash one of the things I do is to run alsactl store. alsactl store returns error 125 /var/lib/alsa/asound.state no such file or directory. Certainly

[arch-general] archlinux install bottleneck

2018-02-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
After having run arch-chroot /mnt /usr/bin/bash one of the things I do is to run alsactl store. alsactl store returns error 125 /var/lib/alsa/asound.state no such file or directory. Certainly there's no such file since when alsa was run before arch-chroot got run on system boot /mnt/var/lib/als

Re: [arch-general] lftp bug

2018-02-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks, this is good to know. On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote: Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:23:55 From: Doug Newgard via arch-general To: arch-general@archlinux.org Cc: Doug Newgard Subject: Re: [arch-general] lftp bug On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:12:02 -0500 Jude DaShiell

[arch-general] lftp bug

2018-02-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
I don't know which is responsible for what. I put together an lftp script and tried running the script to download a torrent and am getting strange output. Script started on 2018-02-07 10:35:38-0500 [jude@taf ~]$ cat debian.lftp echo "downloading debian buster torrent" #mget https://cdimage.de

[arch-general] lftp: what happened with 4.83?

2018-02-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
I can't download and validate torrents with this package any longer. Also unless I'm misunderstanding the man page, jobs once backgrounded are left stopped with lftp and not continued in the background. The final problem I've found so far which is a real confidence shaker is transfer percentag

[arch-general] offlineimap wiki page

2018-01-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
I found IMAP: offlineimap is a syntax violation in my .muttrc file. I am trying to set up offlineimap to sync my gmail account though I already have mutt able to read and write my gmail though not with encryption yet. I have nmh installed and ran install-mh in my user directory. Eventually

Re: [arch-general] Why there is no NetworkManager in ArchISO

2018-01-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
I can't use mouse-driven tools due to total blindness and a fine motor deficit. However, that in no way stops me from using networkmanager. I just use nmtui and if you want to set up most systems like debian or slint and slint has good accessibility nmtui brings up my wifi connection up nicel

Re: [arch-general] what is happening here?

2017-11-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
Linux Cc: Guus Snijders Subject: Re: [arch-general] what is happening here? Op 29 nov. 2017 15:25 schreef "Jude DaShiell" : [ 491.146655] INFO: task systemd-udevd:128 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [ 491.147874] Tainted: G C Wild guess; any i/o errors in dmesg? Udev

[arch-general] what is happening here?

2017-11-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
[ 491.146655] INFO: task systemd-udevd:128 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [ 491.147874] Tainted: G C 4.13.12-1-ARCH #1 [ 491.149295] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. --

Re: [arch-general] Perl Help?

2017-11-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
unter Jozwiak To: Jude DaShiell , Hunter Jozwiak via arch-general , Joey Pabalinas Subject: Re: [arch-general] Perl Help? On Sat, 2017-06-24 at 11:51 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: What were all packages you reinstalled after deleting /usr/lib/perl5/ and /usr/share/perl5/? On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, H

Re: [arch-general] gnome fix needed

2017-09-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
x.org Subject: Re: [arch-general] gnome fix needed Op 10 sep. 2017 11:41 schreef "Jude DaShiell" : I discovered this and was able to recover, and think gnome could do with a fix. You do sound a bit mysterious here :). Apparently you discovered something, but don't tell what it is.

[arch-general] gnome fix needed

2017-09-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
I discovered this and was able to recover, and think gnome could do with a fix. I put together a script to completely erase gnome from this system and for the most part that script worked really well. The exception was that it also removed wpa_supplicant since I had cascading and recursive and

Re: [arch-general] Cinnamon desktop and keybindings

2017-08-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
stumpwm was written entirely in lisp and is text-oriented. I almost got that talking earlier though. Mate I got talking on archlinux and tried to get gnome talking once installed too but that didn't work. If I find out how to get gnome talking using archlinux and orca after a basic command l

Re: [arch-general] Increase console size regardless of screen size

2017-08-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
I thought that was rows and cols for the variable names to do this, but could be wrong. On Sun, 27 Aug 2017, Storm Dragon via arch-general wrote: Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 10:14:10 From: Storm Dragon via arch-general To: Arch Linux General Cc: Storm Dragon Subject: [arch-general] Increase cons

[arch-general] pacman man page needs at least one update

2017-08-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
pacman -g and pacman --groups both appear no longer working. Neither in that form generates a current list of groups. --

Re: [arch-general] tclx upgrade failure

2017-08-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks much. On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, beest wrote: Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 22:50:51 From: beest Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] tclx upgrade failure On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:34:30PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote

Re: [arch-general] package upgrade failure

2017-08-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
I decided to try removing tclx from the system and once that got done it broke no other dependency and the upgrade went off without a hitch. That tclx package had 8.4 for a version number so wasn't keeping up with the rest of tcl. --

[arch-general] tclx upgrade failure

2017-08-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have the tcl and tclx packages installed since those are emacspeak dependencies and I use emacspeak for now. Earlier today I had this upgrade failure: error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: tclx: installing tcl (8.6.7-1) breaks dependency 'tcl=8.6.6' Do I nee

Re: [arch-general] unresolveable dependencies

2017-08-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
The problem library is used by mbrola and I had never managed to get that package working so removing it along with support files got me about 35mb of disk space freed up. On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, Jude DaShiell wrote: Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 11:00:12 From: Jude DaShiell Reply-To: General

[arch-general] unresolveable dependencies

2017-08-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
resolving dependencies... warning: cannot resolve "glibc>=2.26", a dependency of "lib32-glibc" :: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies: lib32-glibc :: Do you want to Is it reasonable to add libc32-glibc to my ignore packages list? I could also remove a

Re: [arch-general] Why there is no NetworkManager in ArchISO

2017-07-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
Probably sed could be used to plug that router password into wpa_supplicant.conf very quickly. I think I can probably figure what may be a one-liner script to do that. On Tue, 25 Jul 2017, Jo?o Miguel via arch-general wrote: Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:11:31 From: Jo?o Miguel via arch-general

Re: [arch-general] (Off-topic) Command-line torrent download tool

2017-07-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
lftp with torrent command used inside has been known to work too. On Mon, 24 Jul 2017, Jan Koppe wrote: Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 16:43:28 From: Jan Koppe Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux To: arch-general@archlinux.org Subject: Re: [arch-general] (Off-topic) Command-line torrent dow

Re: [arch-general] Why there is no NetworkManager in ArchISO

2017-07-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
yeed Ahnaf Subject: Re: [arch-general] Why there is no NetworkManager in ArchISO How can I install dialog when I don't have wifi? Sent from BlueMail<http://www.bluemail.me/r?b=10066> On Jul 24, 2017, at 5:17 PM, Jude DaShiell mailto:jdash...@panix.com>> wrote: try the -o switch wi

Re: [arch-general] Why there is no NetworkManager in ArchISO

2017-07-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
try the -o switch with wifi-menu is helpful and make sure you already have the dialog package installed before you run wifi-menu. On Mon, 24 Jul 2017, Junayeed Ahnaf via arch-general wrote: Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 03:54:02 From: Junayeed Ahnaf via arch-general To: "arch-general@archlinux.org"

Re: [arch-general] systemd on bios computer

2017-07-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
It turns out that package was installed, thanks for the info and help. On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, Jude DaShiell wrote: Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 21:36:37 From: Jude DaShiell Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux To: Eli Schwartz via arch-general Subject: Re: [arch-general] systemd on bios

Re: [arch-general] systemd on bios computer

2017-07-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
To: arch-general@archlinux.org Cc: Eli Schwartz Subject: Re: [arch-general] systemd on bios computer On 07/04/2017 02:52 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: When doing a systemd upgrade I get: (3/7) Upgrading systemd-boot... Couldn't find EFI system partition. It is recommended to mount it to /boot

[arch-general] systemd on bios computer

2017-07-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
When doing a systemd upgrade I get: (3/7) Upgrading systemd-boot... Couldn't find EFI system partition. It is recommended to mount it to /boot. Alternatively, use --path= to specify path to mount point. error: command failed to execute correctly Are either of the above alternatives even viable f

[arch-general] anyone using flyspray app?

2017-06-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
If so, can the lynx browser run setup and then run flyspray after setup or is this going to need a g.u.i. browser? --

[arch-general] lynx update incorrect

2017-06-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
Line 93 of /etc/lynx.cfg was incorrectly reverted. The real home page for lynx is at: http://lynx.invisible-island.net/ The lynx.isc.org site got taken down in I think June of 2016. --

Re: [arch-general] Perl Help?

2017-06-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
n. I figure with the two of those perl installation and update programs working should a problem arise in the future I'll probably be able to fix it with one of the utilities. On Sat, 24 Jun 2017, Jude DaShiell wrote: Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 11:51:12 From: Jude DaShiell Reply-T

Re: [arch-general] Perl Help?

2017-06-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
What were all packages you reinstalled after deleting /usr/lib/perl5/ and /usr/share/perl5/? On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, Hunter Jozwiak via arch-general wrote: Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 10:20:42 From: Hunter Jozwiak via arch-general To: Joey Pabalinas , General Discussion about Arch Linux Cc: Hunt

Re: [arch-general] Perl Help?

2017-06-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
One of the comments I read on a few perl packages being updated by amish was to update to pgrel=2 to force a recompile. That may have been pgrel=3. I'd like to know how to do that with perl myself. Maybe that will help. On Fri, 9 Jun 2017, Hunter Jozwiak via arch-general wrote: Date: Fri,

Re: [arch-general] [Questions] Questions from past project and ideas fomr -dev-public that get silence.

2017-04-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
Sent from BlueMail for iPhone On Apr 30, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Alexander Harrigan wrote: I think the problem is lack of information about statuses of various projects. Users can't disticnt between something that is being worked on slowly because of lack of time of dev or technical difficulties and

Re: [arch-general] systemd latest upgrade

2017-02-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
about Arch Linux To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] systemd latest upgrade On 01/31/17 at 04:18pm, Jude DaShiell wrote: For the last several systemd upgrades an error complaining about a missing uefi directory has come out when those upgrades were being inst

[arch-general] systemd latest upgrade

2017-01-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
For the last several systemd upgrades an error complaining about a missing uefi directory has come out when those upgrades were being installed. Today that happened too. However any package install now finishes with the message: Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate This system is an old x86-64 sy

Re: [arch-general] Basic questions about Linux's sound system

2017-01-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
27;s sound system On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:29:12 -0500 (EST), Jude DaShiell wrote: The consortium is freedesktop.org No, I was thinking about 2 very selfish coders with very contemptuous, bad manners, one is a "special" friend of Linus Torvalds, IOW Mr. Torvalds is very upset, the other code

Re: [arch-general] Basic questions about Linux's sound system

2017-01-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
The consortium is freedesktop.org and it also made wifi-menu. However, in terms of pulseaudio I think in many instances it's more trouble than helpful. For one thing, the terminology in the software is alien to alsa and sometimes pulseaudio gets confused and I have to use a script to correct

Re: [arch-general] mysql_secure_installation

2017-01-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] mysql_secure_installation On 01/28/2017 06:47 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: I now have mariadb installed and working. Another internet site gave an example /root/.my.cnf file of about 3 lines that has to be read-only and I was able to do it with that file

Re: [arch-general] mysql_secure_installation

2017-01-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
I now have mariadb installed and working. Another internet site gave an example /root/.my.cnf file of about 3 lines that has to be read-only and I was able to do it with that file. The thing is when you hit enter and the error 1045 (28000) error comes up, hit enter again and you go right past

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