[arch-general] How did spyder/python-spyder-kernels downgrade version?

2020-03-07 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
I've got spyder-4.0.1-2 and python-spyder-kernels-1.8.1-1 installed. They're not self-compiled, they just came in as regular repo updates (on 22nd February 2020). However the current repo version of both is 3.3.6-2 and 0.5.2-4. Looks like a rollback of spyder related packages took place? Shouldn't

Re: [arch-general] openVDB

2020-02-14 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 9:26 AM John Briggs wrote: > Just recently rebuilt my system and after rebuild I noticed "doc" > directory directly under /usr directory. Further investigation reveals > it belongs to the OpenVDB package. Should not this directory be > /usr/share/doc/OpenVDB? > > Regards >

Re: [arch-general] Firefox-71.0-1 breaks WhatsApp Web

2019-12-08 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
After more investigation and travelling back and forth, it appears the issue had at least 2 roots. One is that the update process somehow broke my existing profile. A new profile solves that. The second is that the latest version of firefox seems to not be able to authenticate with an NTLM proxy sp

Re: [arch-general] Firefox-71.0-1 breaks WhatsApp Web

2019-12-04 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 9:11 PM Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > Em dezembro 4, 2019 1:28 Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general escreveu: > > After the update I can't seem to load WhatsApp Web. > > > > If I already logged in (using the QR code) it just doesn't load and > > e

Re: [arch-general] Firefox-71.0-1 breaks WhatsApp Web

2019-12-03 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
It's not on by default. Enabling/disabling doesn't help. Another website (discordapp.com) also has certain pages not working with this update. On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 2:23 PM Genes Lists via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > I wonder if turning off DOH helps. i.e. in firefox:

Re: [arch-general] Firefox-71.0-1 breaks WhatsApp Web

2019-12-03 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 12:32 PM Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 12:28 PM Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > >> After the update I can't seem to load WhatsApp Web. >> >> If I already logged in (using the QR code) it just doesn't load and >> eventually displ

Re: [arch-general] Firefox-71.0-1 breaks WhatsApp Web

2019-12-03 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 12:28 PM Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > After the update I can't seem to load WhatsApp Web. > > If I already logged in (using the QR code) it just doesn't load and > eventually displays the 'connecting to WhatsApp' message which typically > happens

[arch-general] Firefox-71.0-1 breaks WhatsApp Web

2019-12-03 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
After the update I can't seem to load WhatsApp Web. If I already logged in (using the QR code) it just doesn't load and eventually displays the 'connecting to WhatsApp' message which typically happens when the phone is offline. If I haven't logged in it will try to load the QR code for authentica

Re: [arch-general] Keyboard shortcuts which change based on current app

2019-02-15 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
-Y to re-do and some use Ctrl-Shift-Z. Not that all apps support re-assigning such basic shortcuts anyway On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 8:20 PM Damjan Georgievski via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 05:12, Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general < >

Re: [arch-general] Keyboard shortcuts which change based on current app

2019-02-15 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
> > https://askubuntu.com/questions/97213/application-specific-key-combination-remapping > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 12:12:17PM +0800, Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general wrote: > >Before I try to hack together a solution, are there any existing > >apps/frameworks which allow for t

[arch-general] Keyboard shortcuts which change based on current app

2019-02-13 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
Before I try to hack together a solution, are there any existing apps/frameworks which allow for the same key/button to do something different based on the currently focused app (in X)? My intended use-case is to use the additional buttons on my drawing tablet to do various functions, but dependin

Re: [arch-general] mesa-18.0.0 (currently in [testing]) graphics corruption?

2018-03-28 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:51 PM, freq via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > I'm on 17.3.7-1 and have some issues with screen refresh being slow. I > run the Minnowboard Turbot and really never had this issue before. There > were also font issues causing letters to overlap and go

[arch-general] mesa-18.0.0 (currently in [testing]) graphics corruption?

2018-03-28 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
Any other [testing] users getting severe graphics corruption on mesa-18.0.0? I'm on Intel graphics. Bug report already made https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/58012 but I'm worried this is something unique to my system (unlikely maintainer of mesa would NOT have noticed the symptoms I'm getting...)

Re: [arch-general] systemd permissions on run?

2018-02-01 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > Did something change recently w.r.t this? I have smbd, postgresql, and > squid all failing on me with the following error:- > > systemd[1]: smbd.service: Permission denied while opening PID file or > unsafe symlink chain: /v

[arch-general] systemd permissions on run?

2018-02-01 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
Did something change recently w.r.t this? I have smbd, postgresql, and squid all failing on me with the following error:- systemd[1]: smbd.service: Permission denied while opening PID file or unsafe symlink chain: /var/run/smbd.pid systemd[1]: postgresql.service: Permission denied while opening PI

Re: [arch-general] Handling python venv packages breaking on glibc update

2017-08-21 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Damjan Georgievski via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > I use psycopg2 for postgres access in my pyramid web-app, and like most > > (all?) python developers all the dependencies are in a virtualenv, > > including psycopg2 itself. > > > > This m

Re: [arch-general] Handling python venv packages breaking on glibc update

2017-08-21 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
So reinstalling psycopg2 with `pip install --no-binary :all: psycopg2` works. Still wondering whether this is an issue to raise upstream. On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > I use psycopg2 for postgres access in my pyramid web-app, and like most > (all?) python develope

[arch-general] Handling python venv packages breaking on glibc update

2017-08-21 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
I use psycopg2 for postgres access in my pyramid web-app, and like most (all?) python developers all the dependencies are in a virtualenv, including psycopg2 itself. This means, of course, that the psycopg2 wheel is precompiled. With the recent glibc-2.26 update, I can no longer import psycopg2.

Re: [arch-general] sysdig downgraded without adding a new era?

2017-04-24 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Have you ever considered to make use of professional psychological help? > Nearly each of your replies, whomsoever you answer, has got a > condescending tone. It's funny for the reader, if you make a fool of > yourself, but I suspect being

Re: [arch-general] arch health

2017-04-21 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 12:05 AM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > Yes it's easy to downgrade manually on a single machine, but my > suggestion is about repo maintainers having a mechanism to force > a downgrade via the index. This is less of an issue for L

Re: [arch-general] Suppressing specific pacman warnings

2017-04-02 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 6:17 AM, João Miguel via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > > > > > I'd like there to be an option to quiet these, possibly in pacman.conf: > > > > > > QuietWarning = NewerThanRepo | IgnoredUpdate | ... > > > (...) > > > > If pacman is going to output such

[arch-general] Leftover kde4 stuff

2017-02-17 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
I just hit a bug with okular (rarely used it and just got surprised by this) https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53003 After more investigation I realized the kactivites was being provided by kactivities4 (which no longer exists). Further investigation showed that I had a bunch of old kde4 packages (

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Moving arduino into [community] important notes

2016-11-28 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Antonio Rojas wrote: > > I thought AUR packages were unsupported. Sure, it is nice to give them a > higher version number when they are moved to the official repos to allow > for a smooth upgrade, but that shouldn't be an enforced rule IMO. And > removing epoch is

Re: [arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?

2016-09-21 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Francis Gerund via arch-general wrote: > Where have the the most recent versions of the "real" Beginner's Guide been > saved? And how can they be retrieved (maybe using git, for example)? That would not be useful because wiki instructions go out of date over tim

Re: [arch-general] Strange file in home directory

2016-09-17 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 7:48 PM, Sławek Kapłoński wrote: > Hello, > > I found recently strange (for me) file in my home directory. Name of > this file is "on": > > [13:45:14] slawek@dell:~$ file on > on: GNU dbm 1.x or ndbm database, little endian, 64-bit > > I think that it is created by Mutt bec

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

2016-07-25 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
As Florian just sent out the arch-dev-public email on this topic (and I can't reply there), I have a couple of questions. 1. What exactly can these users do? I assume simply sign-off as 'works for me' 2. Is there any hard deadline? 3. (related to above) is there any policy as to what specifically

Re: [arch-general] time setting problem after installing.

2016-07-03 Thread Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general
Part of the beginner's guide tells you exactly how to do this. How did you install Arch? On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 6:24 AM, matthew dyer via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > > The date is set fine it is just the time that is off.. > > > Matthew > > > > > > On 07/03/16 20:56, Kenneth B. Jensen via arch-

[arch-general] version bumps on -dkms

2016-04-21 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
I don't believe a version bump is required for -dkms (e.g. nvidia-dkms in [testing] just got bumped to -4 due to new kernel in [testing])? I understand this is because the nvidia packages use a split PKGBUILD, but it still seems something could be done a bit better here. Perhaps a way for split PK

Re: [arch-general] What jobs/tasks is arch the best at?

2016-04-14 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 4:21 AM, wrote: > For example non OS: > > A hammer is the best to get in a nail. Could use a screw driver, but > that is not the best tool for the job/task. > > Comparing ARCH to other distros in the SAME CATEGORY (not for example > against pfSense - one of many distros de

Re: [arch-general] System like glue, High IO Wait.

2016-04-04 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Tobias Hunger wrote: > Maybe something is dumping core a lot? > > Systemd insists on chewing through each coredump as it comes in and that > takes a lot of resources in my experience. > > Best regards, > Tobias That would show on iotop though.

Re: [arch-general] Experiences with SELinux on Arch

2016-01-21 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 4:59 AM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > since I won't get an answer on the forum except "Read the Wiki" which > isn't helpful, I ask here. > Is here anybody with real world experiences with SELinux on Arch? The > forum states the userland tools as "work in progress" which does

Re: [arch-general] suckless-terminal (st) in community - is there an issue with st-255color terminfo and tmux?

2015-11-26 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Christian Hesse wrote: > >> Anyway, on the upgrade my terminal would not start, and I tracked that >> down to the default config.h setting termname to 'st-256color' >> >> Changing that to 'stterm-256color' means it doesn't crash on startup >> anymore. It's because

[arch-general] suckless-terminal (st) in community - is there an issue with st-255color terminfo and tmux?

2015-11-25 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
I'm really glad st is now in community, though I find it slightly odd its orphaned even though it's just been moved. Anyway, on the upgrade my terminal would not start, and I tracked that down to the default config.h setting termname to 'st-256color' Changing that to 'stterm-256color' means it do

Re: [arch-general] Mouse buttons not working in X

2015-11-16 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 11:31:27AM -0600, Doug Newgard wrote: >> On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 17:56:30 +0100 >> Magnus Therning wrote: >> >> > I've just updated a sligtly neglected machine I have (not upgraded >> > since mid-September). Thanks to t

Re: [arch-general] Long-term offline Arch system

2015-11-06 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Aron Widforss wrote: > Hi, > > I'm going out for a four month hike next spring, and will not bring my > loved XPS with me. It struck me yesterday that being offline for four > months is something pacman and yaourt might not like. How do these > programs handle long-

Re: [arch-general] glibc-2.22-4?

2015-10-12 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Jens Adam wrote: > Sun, 11 Oct 2015 19:17:53 -0700 > "Ian D. Scott" : > >> I had a fun time fixing that by scp'ing a staically linked busybox over >> using another system, decompressing the old package with that, using >> machinectl shell to gain root access, and

[arch-general] glibc-2.22-4?

2015-10-11 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Was just doing an update, and saw glibc-2.22-4. Updating that gave the following error:- [2015-10-12 07:43] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] bash: loadlocale.c:130: _nl_intern_locale_data: Assertion `cnt < (sizeof (_nl_value_type_LC_COLLATE) / sizeof (_nl_value_type_LC_COLLATE[0]))' failed. This totally hosed my

[arch-general] pulseaudio 6.99 in [testing], daemon can't start, chokes on module-native-protocol-unix

2015-09-20 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Anyone else seeing this? My default.pa is stock (it wasn't before, but I reverted the minor changes and no change in behaviour), and the daemon just won't start. If I comment out module-native-protocol-unix it will, but of course it's not usable that way. Reported it as a bug on freedesktop[1], b

Re: [arch-general] Additional mouse (Lenovo N700) gesture binding

2015-08-06 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: >> >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Map_scancodes_to_keycodes >> use the hwdb (udev) way. you can set a scancode to reserved to ignore it > > Thanks,

Re: [arch-general] Additional mouse (Lenovo N700) gesture binding

2015-08-06 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > On 6 August 2015 at 03:42, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> Anyone have any idea on this? Been months and I've looked into it on >> and off, but always been frustrated =( >> >> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Oon-

Re: [arch-general] Additional mouse (Lenovo N700) gesture binding

2015-08-05 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Anyone have any idea on this? Been months and I've looked into it on and off, but always been frustrated =( On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:q > >> Firstly, regarding the gestures, here's what I obta

Re: [arch-general] zynaddsubfx shouldn depend on jack, not jack2

2015-07-08 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > There might be reasons for some users to prefer zynaddsubfx over > yoshimi, but following several audio related Linux mailing list, I got > the impression that most musicians are in favour of yoshimi. Btw. I'm > one of them, but I guess I still

Re: [arch-general] Debugging third-party library's segfault if its caused by system update?

2015-06-15 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > I use the openni2 library to access an Asus Xtion Pro Live camera, > installed from the AUR and working fine up till 2+ weeks ago. > > After a 2 week holiday, the most recent system update caused segfaults > to happen within th

Re: [arch-general] Debugging third-party library's segfault if its caused by system update?

2015-06-15 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Neven Sajko wrote: > On 10 June 2015 at 03:12, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Anatol Pomozov >> wrote: >>> >>> Do you use Intel CPU? Try to setup microcode and see if it helps >>> https://wiki.ar

Re: [arch-general] Debugging third-party library's segfault if its caused by system update?

2015-06-14 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Lars Seipel wrote: > > Try running a small program using the library in valgrind. The output > should provide you with some hints. GDB (like Florian suggested) is also > an option but, personally, I find valgrind a bit more convenient for > such first quick checks.

Re: [arch-general] Debugging third-party library's segfault if its caused by system update?

2015-06-09 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Anatol Pomozov wrote: > > Do you use Intel CPU? Try to setup microcode and see if it helps > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microcode I do, but that has not changed, and as CPU problems would likely affect the whole system rather than a specific library I'm

Re: [arch-general] Debugging third-party library's segfault if its caused by system update?

2015-06-09 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Florian Pelz wrote: > On 06/09/2015 09:26 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> How do I track down the issue? The library's source code is available, >> but without knowing it well I'm unsure where to even begin. >> >> Normally I'd

[arch-general] Debugging third-party library's segfault if its caused by system update?

2015-06-09 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
I use the openni2 library to access an Asus Xtion Pro Live camera, installed from the AUR and working fine up till 2+ weeks ago. After a 2 week holiday, the most recent system update caused segfaults to happen within the library (both before and after rebuilding it), without any change to the code

Re: [arch-general] Additional mouse (Lenovo N700) gesture binding

2015-05-15 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Christian Demsar wrote: >> >>Does anyone have any idea what could be going on? Could this all just >>be a limitation of trying to use xkb with a bluetooth mouse? > > I can't help you, but I am very interested in this problem. I have an old > gaming mouse with addi

Re: [arch-general] Additional mouse (Lenovo N700) gesture binding

2015-05-14 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:q > Firstly, regarding the gestures, here's what I obtain from xinput > test. I've also listed which keys these correspond to. > > Left swipe:- > key press 22 Backspace > key press 133

[arch-general] Additional mouse (Lenovo N700) gesture binding

2015-04-21 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
I just got the above bluetooth and/or wireless (dual-mode) mouse for my work, as the presenter laser looked pretty useful. 3 basic buttons (1, 2, 3) worked out of the box. So did the touch-scrolling (up/down). So I'm looking for advise for the remaining 3 inputs supported. This mouse has a 'Windo

Re: [arch-general] Qt Creator black window on designer

2015-03-10 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 5:02 AM, Sadika Sumanapala wrote: > Today I installed qtcreator 3.3.2 from qt.io but it didn't solve the > problem. following output prints on terminal when ui.qml file is open, then > application crashes. Just to note, I use qtcreator with the embedded qt designer daily a

Re: [arch-general] [extra] package depending on [community] package

2015-02-13 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
> > TUs can create rebuild todo lists the same as devs can. In this case, > it was simply missed. It happens. > Thanks, does the final move from [testing] and [community-testing] need to be done by a dev though?

Re: [arch-general] [extra] package depending on [community] package

2015-02-12 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Marko Hauptvogel wrote: > There is afaik no > rule that prevents /extra packages from depending on /community, but the > number should be kept small. As long as there is no rule (and don't get me wrong, I'm not in favour of unnecessary bureaucracy) then there's no

[arch-general] [extra] package depending on [community] package

2015-02-10 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Wasn't there a guideline somewhere against this? Should I raise bugs when I see this is taking place? Specific example that I just noticed is mpd, because libnfs in community updated. Of course, mpd was updated within 12 hours or so, and I understand packages are mostly best maintained by those wh

Re: [arch-general] Help diagnosing kworker 'bug'

2014-08-24 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Anatol Pomozov wrote: > Hi > > Another way to get more information about this problem is to use > kernel traces. Let's enable block and writeback events: > > sudo su > cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing > echo 1 > events/writeback/enable > echo 1 > events/block/enable >

Re: [arch-general] Help diagnosing kworker 'bug'

2014-08-08 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Anatol Pomozov > wrote: >> 'perf' is a great and very powerful tool that allow to debug problems >> like this. Run '# perf top -g -p $PID' and it will show where the >&g

Re: [arch-general] Help diagnosing kworker 'bug'

2014-08-06 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Anatol Pomozov wrote: > Hi > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> This is after roughly 6-7 seconds, and 65 MB has already been written >> by that kworker thread. > > How long this IO activity takes? Could i

Re: [arch-general] Help diagnosing kworker 'bug'

2014-08-05 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > Any ideas on how to proceed? Next thing I'm going to try is > downgrading linux to 3.15, but I thought I'd post this here first in > case I don't make it back. And I made it back alive. 3.15.8-1 does not have the same

[arch-general] Help diagnosing kworker 'bug'

2014-08-05 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Yesterday night I noticed (just before performing an update my conky showing high continuous writing to root. iotop -Pa shows this:- Total DISK READ : 0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE : 8.93 M/s Actual DISK READ: 0.00 B/s | Actual DISK WRITE: 11.06 M/s PID PRIO USER DISK

Re: [arch-general] Why is it dangerous to run makepkg as root?

2014-05-17 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Bigby James wrote: > On 05/17, Dimitris Zervas wrote: >> On May 17, 2014 5:22:32 PM EEST, Roland Tapken wrote: >> >> BTW: Another good idea that would be helpful is add comments on installed >> packages on pacman. e.g. why did you install them. But that's anothe

Re: [arch-general] GIMP odd behaviour - left-click not registering?

2014-04-08 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Nowaker wrote: >>> And python-setuptools/python2-setuptools just updated, fixing it for >>> me. That was fast. > > >> I don't think your problem was related to setuptools though. The recent >> two >> version bumps are only for patching its tests against python 3.1,

Re: [arch-general] GIMP odd behaviour - left-click not registering?

2014-04-08 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > Got this odd behaviour today, and I use GIMP fairly frequently so this > only turned up in the past 3-4 days I think. I can't seem to > left-click in the image itself (left-clicking on menus registers), so > I can't, for e

[arch-general] GIMP odd behaviour - left-click not registering?

2014-04-08 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Got this odd behaviour today, and I use GIMP fairly frequently so this only turned up in the past 3-4 days I think. I can't seem to left-click in the image itself (left-clicking on menus registers), so I can't, for example, paint anything. Is this specific to my machine, or can someone else confir

Re: [arch-general] Audio distro

2013-10-17 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:56 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Since Ubuntu for my taste made a big step in the wrong direction, I'm > thinking about an Arch audio distro that can be used by inexperienced > users. > Isn't it to hard for inexperienced users, musicians who aren't > interested in computer

Re: [arch-general] System-Wide Pulseaudio

2013-09-09 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On 9 Sep 2013 17:17, "Dennis Lange" wrote: > > On 08.09.2013 21:36, Guus Snijders wrote: > > > Notice that the consequent updates may overwrite that file and thus undo > > your change... > > Ok for this and the unneeded pactl usage it is better to change the > permission of the whole file: > > chm

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Community on Gittip

2013-09-05 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On 6 Sep 2013 08:58, "Allan McRae" wrote: > > On 06/09/13 05:14, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > > I asked about this before: > > https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2013-May/033590.html > > but now Dusty wants to make it official (or "official") > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.p

[arch-general] libreoffice in [testing] - file conflicts between -en-GB and -common

2013-08-29 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Filed bug report here - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36732 Just so anyone reading this knows its already been filed and doesn't need to search =)

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [FYI] systemd 205, cgroup attribute changes

2013-07-04 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Dave Reisner wrote: > On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 02:44:12PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 12:48:49PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: >> > Hey all, >> > >> > systemd 205 was just tagged, and brings some major, promised, cgroup >> > changes >> > [1].

Re: [arch-general] Fn-F{5, 6} keys for backlight - how to disable native handling?

2013-06-27 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Martín Cigorraga wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Leonardo Dagnino wrote: > >> 2013/6/25 Oon-Ee Ng >> >> > I have an ASUS N56V where the Fn-F{5,6} keys do not work natively (no >> > output in xev when pressed). Thi

[arch-general] Fn-F{5, 6} keys for backlight - how to disable native handling?

2013-06-25 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
I have an ASUS N56V where the Fn-F{5,6} keys do not work natively (no output in xev when pressed). This is very easily worked-around using acpi_os="!Windows 2012". The resulting control is something along the 3-10 range (10 being brightest and 0 being off, these are not the actual numerical values

Re: [arch-general] Crashing in libreoffice on certain .odp (Impress) files

2013-06-04 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > > On 4 Jun 2013 09:56, "Oon-Ee Ng" wrote: >> >> Yesterday I used libreoffice to present a lecture from 3-4pm. Today >> morning I tried to open the exact same file and got immediate >> crashing. 2 of my le

Re: [arch-general] Crashing in libreoffice on certain .odp (Impress) files

2013-06-03 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On 4 Jun 2013 09:56, "Oon-Ee Ng" wrote: > > Yesterday I used libreoffice to present a lecture from 3-4pm. Today > morning I tried to open the exact same file and got immediate > crashing. 2 of my lecture slides have this problem, 2 do not. > > In between, I updated

[arch-general] Crashing in libreoffice on certain .odp (Impress) files

2013-06-03 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Yesterday I used libreoffice to present a lecture from 3-4pm. Today morning I tried to open the exact same file and got immediate crashing. 2 of my lecture slides have this problem, 2 do not. In between, I updated to [testing] (this is a new laptop) and did quite a few installs, but none (except t

Re: [arch-general] zsh-history-substring-search with grml-zsh-config

2013-04-28 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: >> [2013-04-09 09:21:24 +0200] f gr: >> I hope you both realize that this discussion is quite pointless without >> specific version numbers, and will provide more

Re: [arch-general] zsh-history-substring-search with grml-zsh-config

2013-04-09 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2013-04-09 09:21:24 +0200] f gr: > I hope you both realize that this discussion is quite pointless without > specific version numbers, and will provide more context in the future... > > -- > Gaetan Sorry, my bad. Using the latest version of

[arch-general] zsh-history-substring-search with grml-zsh-config

2013-04-08 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
I use grml-zsh-config and after a recent update zsh-history-substring-search seems to have stopped working (up and down no longer search for the substring). Anyone with the same experience, or an a alternative? I really don't grok zsh =(

Re: [arch-general] file-5.14 - change in how information is read from vmlinuz?

2013-04-02 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
ue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> Hi, I previously used the output from `file /boot/*` on the various >> vmlinuz files in /boot/* to detect what kernels were installed on a >> machine. As of file 5.14 this no longer works[1]. >> >> I'm not sure what

[arch-general] file-5.14 - change in how information is read from vmlinuz?

2013-04-02 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Hi, I previously used the output from `file /boot/*` on the various vmlinuz files in /boot/* to detect what kernels were installed on a machine. As of file 5.14 this no longer works[1]. I'm not sure what's changed, perhaps the magic.mgc file? When I copy the magic.mgc file from previous (5.13) ver

[arch-general] Suggestions wanted: nvidia + nouveau in AUR PKGBUILD

2013-02-26 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
I'm an nvidia user who finally decided to try out nouveau and currently have it working, but want to keep nvidia installed just-in-case. I also maintain nvidia-beta/lib32-nvidia-utils-beta/nvidia-utils-beta in the AUR. As far as I can see, keeping both nouveau and nvidia installed and usable is no

Re: [arch-general] Audio distro based on Arch Linux

2013-02-12 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 22:15 +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: >> On 12 February 2013 20:05, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> > Hi :) >> > >> > is there an audio distro based on Arch Linux, that already is rawly set >> > up for audio studio production

Re: [arch-general] How to wait efficiently for a package to update?

2013-02-07 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: >> [2013-02-08 15:28:06 +1100] Gaetan Bisson: >>> [2013-02-08 12:14:25 +0800] Oon-Ee Ng: >>> > So I'm checking out python-sympy for some calculations in the

Re: [arch-general] How to wait efficiently for a package to update?

2013-02-07 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2013-02-08 15:28:06 +1100] Gaetan Bisson: >> [2013-02-08 12:14:25 +0800] Oon-Ee Ng: >> > So I'm checking out python-sympy for some calculations in the Robotics >> > subject I teach and realized that

Re: [arch-general] How to wait efficiently for a package to update?

2013-02-07 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 08/02/13 14:14, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> So I'm checking out python-sympy for some calculations in the Robotics >> subject I teach and realized that a bug was recently fixed in git >> which is crucial to what I hope t

[arch-general] How to wait efficiently for a package to update?

2013-02-07 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
So I'm checking out python-sympy for some calculations in the Robotics subject I teach and realized that a bug was recently fixed in git which is crucial to what I hope to use it for. python-sympy-git in the AUR and that's settled. Then I got to wondering, I only really want to use the -git versio

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Add Wayland/Weston

2013-02-07 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2013-02-08 01:23:30 +0100] Sébastien Luttringer: >> [4] I'm already existed by arch-general be closed again > > I cannot make sense of that sentence... > s/existed/excited then it makes much more sense =)

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] network interface naming with systemd 197

2013-01-07 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Dave Reisner wrote: > > *** Why are you still reading this? > > If you made it this far, you might be as crazy as I am, so here's Pinkie > Pie dressed as a chicken: > > http://i.imgur.com/DDukE.png I'm suing for damages, that image has permanently scarred my poor

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] network interface naming with systemd 197

2013-01-07 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Leonid Isaev wrote: >> Hi Tom, what about netcfg users. I assume we'd need to change >> INTERFACE in all our netcfg profiles, but would simply renaming the >> /etc/network.d/interfaces/{eth,wlan}0 files to the unique names work? > > Yes, in /etc/network.d/interfaces

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] network interface naming with systemd 197

2013-01-07 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Sander Jansen wrote: >> uessing for users of NetworkManager there shouldn't be any change. > > Yeah, NM won't care at all. > >> And people using 'systemctl enable dhcpcd@eth0' will have to change the >> device

Re: [arch-general] Unable to contact D-Bus session bus [testing]

2012-12-05 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> I downgraded immediately due to having some things to finish off. At >> that time dbus was at 1.6.8-4, now its 1.6.8-5 (just updated again as >> today I have a

Re: [arch-general] Unable to contact D-Bus session bus [testing]

2012-12-05 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > Hi all, started having this problem a couple of days back with the > dbus-core removal move (and corresponding filesystem update). > > http://pastebin.com/JKMN58jP is the result of journalctl -b > > A whole bunch of my applicati

[arch-general] Unable to contact D-Bus session bus [testing]

2012-12-05 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Hi all, started having this problem a couple of days back with the dbus-core removal move (and corresponding filesystem update). http://pastebin.com/JKMN58jP is the result of journalctl -b A whole bunch of my applications cannot contact dbus. Firefox is one, even pulseaudio complains (though soun

[arch-general] Nouveau and nvidia simultaneously - is this still a good idea?

2012-12-01 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Referring to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=92530 Basically the idea was to have nvidia-utils and libgl packages which do not conflict (and don't contain the libgl.so, and, I suppose, the libglx.so symlinks). The user would then have to change symlinks manually (see [1]) to use either

Re: [arch-general] Deleting fontconfig symlinks

2012-11-28 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Martin Panter wrote: > On 28 November 2012 15:49, Lewis Pike wrote: >> >> 3. If /dev/null is used as a target what will pacman do when >>fontconfig is upgraded? > > I expect it would be overwritten again with whatever target is > specified by the new package,

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

2012-11-19 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Nov 19, 2012 10:27 AM, "Oon-Ee Ng" wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Jan Steffens >wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Oon-Ee Ng > wrote: > > > > H

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

2012-11-19 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > > Hi, Pulseaudio from [testing] just updated to 2.99.2-1, now mpd audio > > output (running mpd as my own user) fails with the following:- > > > > Nov 19 14:45

[arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

2012-11-18 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Hi, Pulseaudio from [testing] just updated to 2.99.2-1, now mpd audio output (running mpd as my own user) fails with the following:- Nov 19 14:45 : output: Failed to enable "MPD Pulse Output" [pulse]: pa_context_connect() has failed: Connection refused Nov 19 14:45 : player_thread: problems openin

Re: [arch-general] libtirpc from testing breaks login

2012-10-30 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Arthur Titeica wrote: >> It seems that the upgrade to libtirpc 0.2.2-3 from testing breaks systemd- >> logind/pam and logging in to the system is not possible except in rescue >> mode. > > Thanks, I'll have

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:49 AM, wrote: > > Neither of these things would stop a truly determined government-level > attacker (unencrypted mail is still vulnerable in-flight for instance), > but it would be useful if you have not yet been identified as someone of > interest. > > guns Being O

Re: [arch-general] Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-30 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Guus Snijders wrote: > > There are sometimes quite interesting details mentioned in the OT threads. > A -discuss list would be a good place for those, without cluttering > -general. > (yes, i'm being an optimist here ;-). > > Opening dev-public would take some serio

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